1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64] 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt | 4 copy_dsdt } 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64] 7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on 8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant. 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory 13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force" 14 are available 15 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi 17 18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC] 19 Format: <int> 20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 21 1,0: use 1st APIC table 22 default: 0 23 24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 25 acpi_backlight=vendor 26 acpi_backlight=video 27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver 28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 29 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 30 31 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr 32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 36 37 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 41 This option is useful for developers to identify the 42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 43 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 44 45 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 47 Format: <int> 48 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT 52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 55 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 56 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about 57 debug layers and levels. 58 59 Enable processor driver info messages: 60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages: 62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000 63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 64 object while interpreting AML: 65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 68 69 Some values produce so much output that the system is 70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 71 if you need to capture more output. 72 73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 74 { strict | lax | no } 75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 79 can interfere with legacy drivers. 80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 82 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 87 no further checks are performed. 88 89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI] 90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 92 size limitation. 93 94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 95 ACPI will balance active IRQs 96 default in APIC mode 97 98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 100 default in PIC mode 101 102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 103 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 104 105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 106 use by PCI 107 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 108 109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 113 the GPE dispatcher. 114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 115 GPE floodings. 116 Format: <int> 117 118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 122 auto-serialization feature. 123 This feature is enabled by default. 124 This option allows to turn off the feature. 125 126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 127 kernels. 128 129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] 130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 132 installed automatically and they will appear under 133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 134 This option turns off this feature. 135 Note that specifying this option does not affect 136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 138 139 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] 140 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 141 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 142 second kernel for kdump. 143 144 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 145 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 146 147 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 148 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 149 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 150 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 151 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 152 153 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 154 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 155 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 156 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 157 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 158 strings 159 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 160 strings 161 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 162 163 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 164 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 165 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 166 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 167 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 168 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 169 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 170 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 171 care about the state of the feature group strings which 172 should be controlled by the OSPM. 173 Examples: 174 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 175 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 176 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 177 178 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 179 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 180 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 181 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 182 multiple times through kernel command line is also 183 meaningless. 184 Examples: 185 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 186 FALSE. 187 188 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 189 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 190 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 191 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 192 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 193 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 194 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 195 there are quirks related to this string. This command 196 is useful when one want to control the state of the 197 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 198 the OSPM features. 199 Examples: 200 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 201 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 202 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 203 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 204 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 205 equivalent to 206 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 207 and 208 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 209 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 210 211 acpi_pm_good [X86] 212 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 213 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 214 and always returns good values. 215 216 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 217 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 218 219 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 220 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 221 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 222 223 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 224 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig, 225 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl } 226 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on 227 s3_bios and s3_mode. 228 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 229 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 230 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 231 used during resume from hibernation. 232 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 233 control method, with respect to putting devices into 234 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 235 of _PTS is used by default). 236 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 237 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 238 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 239 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 240 but some broken systems don't work without it). 241 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 242 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 243 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 244 245 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 246 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 247 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 248 249 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 250 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 251 252 agp= [AGP] 253 { off | try_unsupported } 254 off: disable AGP support 255 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 256 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 257 258 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 259 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 260 261 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 262 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 263 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 264 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 265 266 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 267 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 268 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 269 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 270 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 271 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 272 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 273 274 32: only for 32-bit processes 275 64: only for 64-bit processes 276 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 277 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 278 279 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 280 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 281 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 282 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 283 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 284 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 285 286 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 287 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 288 Possible values are: 289 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when 290 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are 291 flushed before they will be reused, which 292 is a lot of faster 293 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 294 the system 295 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 296 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 297 allowed anymore to lift isolation 298 requirements as needed. This option 299 does not override iommu=pt 300 301 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 302 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 303 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 304 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 305 IOMMU initialization. 306 307 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 308 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 309 remapping modes: 310 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 311 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 312 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 313 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 314 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 315 316 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 317 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 318 Format: <a>,<b> 319 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 320 321 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 322 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 323 connected to one of 16 gameports 324 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 325 326 apc= [HW,SPARC] 327 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 328 Format: noidle 329 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 330 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 331 APC and your system crashes randomly. 332 333 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 334 Change the output verbosity while booting 335 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 336 Change the amount of debugging information output 337 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 338 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 339 driver name. 340 Format: apic=driver_name 341 Examples: apic=bigsmp 342 343 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 344 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 345 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 346 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 347 backup of CPU 0 348 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 349 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 350 shot down by NMI 351 352 autoconf= [IPV6] 353 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 354 355 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 356 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 357 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 358 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 359 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 360 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 361 apic=verbose is specified. 362 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 363 364 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 365 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 366 367 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 368 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 369 370 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 371 372 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 373 374 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 375 EzKey and similar keyboards 376 377 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 378 379 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 380 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 381 382 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 383 keyboards 384 385 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 386 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 387 388 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 389 Use software keyboard repeat 390 391 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 392 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 393 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 394 enabled until the next reboot 395 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 396 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 397 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 398 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 399 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 400 userspace auditd. 401 Default: unset 402 403 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 404 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 405 Default: 64 406 407 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 408 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 409 Format: { "0" | "1" } 410 0 - Disable the BAU. 411 1 - Enable the BAU. 412 unset - Disable the BAU. 413 414 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 415 Format: <io>,<mode> 416 417 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 418 Format: <io>,<mode> 419 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 420 421 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 422 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 423 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 424 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 425 426 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 427 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 428 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 429 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 430 431 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 432 embedded devices based on command line input. 433 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt 434 435 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 436 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to 437 no delay (0). 438 Format: integer 439 440 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages. 441 442 bert_disable [ACPI] 443 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 444 445 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 446 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 447 kernel args too. 448 bttv.pll= See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst 449 bttv.tuner= 450 451 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 452 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 453 at a time. 454 455 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 456 457 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 458 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 459 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 460 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 461 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 462 This option provides an override for these situations. 463 464 carrier_timeout= 465 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 466 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 467 it waits 120 seconds. 468 469 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 470 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 471 trust validation. 472 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 473 474 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 475 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 476 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 477 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 478 others). 479 480 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 481 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 482 483 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller 484 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable} 485 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 486 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 487 a single hierarchy 488 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 489 subsystem 490 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 491 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 492 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 493 494 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 495 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 496 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 497 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 498 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 499 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 500 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 501 all v1 hierarchies. 502 503 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 504 Format: <string> 505 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 506 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 507 508 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 509 Format: { "0" | "1" } 510 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 511 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 512 any implied execute protection). 513 1 -- check protection requested by application. 514 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 515 Value can be changed at runtime via 516 /selinux/checkreqprot. 517 518 cio_ignore= [S390] 519 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 520 clk_ignore_unused 521 [CLK] 522 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 523 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 524 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 525 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 526 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 527 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 528 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 529 platform with proper driver support. For more 530 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 531 532 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 533 [Deprecated] 534 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 535 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 536 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 537 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 538 539 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 540 Format: <string> 541 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 542 with the name specified. 543 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 544 the platform: 545 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 546 [ACPI] acpi_pm 547 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 548 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 549 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 550 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 551 [MIPS] MIPS 552 [PARISC] cr16 553 [S390] tod 554 [SH] SuperH 555 [SPARC64] tick 556 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 557 558 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 559 [ARM,ARM64] 560 Format: <bool> 561 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 562 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 563 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 564 systems. 565 566 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86] 567 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 568 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 569 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily 570 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific 571 ones should be. 572 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 573 or using the feature without checking anything 574 will still see it. This just prevents it from 575 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 576 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 577 some critical bits. 578 579 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 580 [ARM,X86,KNL] 581 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 582 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 583 placement constraint by the physical address range of 584 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 585 altogether. For more information, see 586 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h 587 588 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 589 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 590 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 591 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 592 a hypervisor. 593 Default: yes 594 595 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 596 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 597 allocations, by default set to 256K. 598 599 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 600 Format: 601 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 602 603 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 604 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 605 606 com90xx= [HW,NET] 607 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 608 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 609 610 condev= [HW,S390] console device 611 conmode= 612 613 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 614 615 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 616 617 ttyS<n>[,options] 618 ttyUSB0[,options] 619 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 620 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 621 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 622 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 623 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 624 625 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 626 information. See 627 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an 628 alternative. 629 630 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 631 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 632 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 633 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 634 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 635 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 636 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 637 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 638 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 639 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 640 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 641 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 642 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 643 the h/w is not re-initialized. 644 645 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 646 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 647 648 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 649 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 650 console=brl,ttyS0 651 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 652 653 console_msg_format= 654 [KNL] Change console messages format 655 default 656 By default we print messages on consoles in 657 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 658 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 659 `printk_time' param). 660 syslog 661 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 662 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 663 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 664 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 665 from /proc/kmsg. 666 667 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 668 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 669 Defaults to 0. 670 671 coredump_filter= 672 [KNL] Change the default value for 673 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 674 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt. 675 676 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 677 [ARM,ARM64] 678 Format: <bool> 679 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 680 0: default value, disable debugging 681 1: enable debugging at boot time 682 683 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 684 disable the cpuidle sub-system 685 686 cpuidle.governor= 687 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 688 689 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 690 disable the cpufreq sub-system 691 692 cpu_init_udelay=N 693 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 694 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 695 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 696 Default: 10000 697 698 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 699 Format: 700 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 701 702 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 703 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 704 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 705 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 706 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 707 is selected automatically. 708 [KNL, x86_64] select a region under 4G first, and 709 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset' 710 hasn't been specified. 711 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 712 713 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 714 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 715 in the running system. The syntax of range is 716 start-[end] where start and end are both 717 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 718 Documentation/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 719 720 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 721 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 722 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 723 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 724 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 725 available. 726 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 727 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 728 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 729 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 730 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 731 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 732 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 733 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 734 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at 735 at least 256M below 4G automatically. 736 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G 737 for second kernel instead. 738 0: to disable low allocation. 739 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 740 or memory reserved is below 4G. 741 742 cryptomgr.notests 743 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 744 745 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 746 Format: <dma> 747 748 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 749 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 750 751 dasd= [HW,NET] 752 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 753 754 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 755 (one device per port) 756 Format: <port#>,<type> 757 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 758 759 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot 760 time. See 761 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for 762 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg. 763 764 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 765 766 debug_boot_weak_hash 767 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 768 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 769 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 770 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 771 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 772 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 773 774 debug_locks_verbose= 775 [KNL] verbose self-tests 776 Format=<0|1> 777 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 778 self-tests. 779 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to 780 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally 781 only useful to kernel developers. 782 783 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 784 785 no_debug_objects 786 [KNL] Disable object debugging 787 788 debug_guardpage_minorder= 789 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 790 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 791 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 792 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 793 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 794 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 795 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 796 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 797 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 798 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 799 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 800 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 801 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when 802 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 803 bypassed) which are not detectable by 804 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 805 tracking down these problems. 806 807 debug_pagealloc= 808 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 809 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 810 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 811 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 812 on: enable the feature 813 814 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 815 816 decnet.addr= [HW,NET] 817 Format: <area>[,<node>] 818 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt. 819 820 default_hugepagesz= 821 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default 822 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by 823 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and 824 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems. 825 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size 826 if not specified. 827 828 deferred_probe_timeout= 829 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 830 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 831 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 832 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0 833 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also 834 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 835 retrying. 836 837 dhash_entries= [KNL] 838 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 839 840 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 841 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 842 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 843 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 844 miss to occur. 845 846 disable= [IPV6] 847 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 848 849 hardened_usercopy= 850 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 851 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 852 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 853 from reading or writing beyond known memory 854 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 855 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 856 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 857 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 858 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 859 860 disable_radix [PPC] 861 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 862 863 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 864 Format: <int> 865 The number of initial APIC ID for the 866 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 867 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 868 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 869 causing system reset or hang due to sending 870 INIT from AP to BSP. 871 872 perf_v4_pmi= [X86,INTEL] 873 Format: <bool> 874 Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature. 875 The feature only exists starting from 876 Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer). 877 878 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 879 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if 880 to workaround buggy firmware. 881 882 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 883 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 884 885 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 886 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 887 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 888 entry later. This parameter disables that. 889 890 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 891 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 892 memory out of your available memory pool based on 893 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 894 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 895 896 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 897 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 898 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 899 900 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 901 902 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 903 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 904 905 dma_debug_entries=<number> 906 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 907 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 908 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 909 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 910 architectural default is too low. 911 912 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 913 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 914 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 915 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 916 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 917 driver later using sysfs. 918 919 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 920 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. 921 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 922 923 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 924 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 925 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 926 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 927 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 928 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 929 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 930 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 931 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 932 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 933 available in Documentation/EDID/howto.rst. An EDID 934 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 935 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 936 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 937 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 938 data set with no connector name will be used for 939 any connectors not explicitly specified. 940 941 dscc4.setup= [NET] 942 943 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 944 Format: {"off" | "known"} 945 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 946 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 947 exists). 948 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 949 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 950 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 951 952 dump_apple_properties [X86] 953 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 954 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 955 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 956 957 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 958 module.dyndbg[="val"] 959 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 960 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 961 for details. 962 963 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions. 964 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.rst for more 965 information about the feature. 966 967 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 968 in some Intel CPUs. 969 970 module.async_probe [KNL] 971 Enable asynchronous probe on this module. 972 973 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 974 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 975 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 976 which are not unmapped. 977 978 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 979 980 [ARM64] The early console is determined by the 981 stdout-path property in device tree's chosen node, 982 or determined by the ACPI SPCR table. 983 984 [X86] When used with no options the early console is 985 determined by the ACPI SPCR table. 986 987 cdns,<addr>[,options] 988 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 989 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 990 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 991 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 992 configured. 993 994 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 995 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 996 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 997 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options] 998 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 999 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1000 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1001 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1002 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1003 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1004 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1005 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1006 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 1007 1008 pl011,<addr> 1009 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1010 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1011 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1012 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1013 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1014 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1015 the device registers. 1016 1017 meson,<addr> 1018 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1019 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1020 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1021 supported. 1022 1023 msm_serial,<addr> 1024 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1025 port at the specified address. The serial port 1026 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1027 yet supported. 1028 1029 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1030 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1031 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1032 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1033 yet supported. 1034 1035 owl,<addr> 1036 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1037 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1038 specified address. The serial port must already be 1039 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1040 1041 rda,<addr> 1042 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1043 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1044 specified address. The serial port must already be 1045 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1046 1047 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1048 1049 s3c2410,<addr> 1050 s3c2412,<addr> 1051 s3c2440,<addr> 1052 s3c6400,<addr> 1053 s5pv210,<addr> 1054 exynos4210,<addr> 1055 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1056 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1057 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1058 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1059 Options are not yet supported. 1060 1061 lantiq,<addr> 1062 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1063 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1064 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1065 yet supported. 1066 1067 lpuart,<addr> 1068 lpuart32,<addr> 1069 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1070 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1071 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1072 port must already be setup and configured. 1073 1074 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1075 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1076 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1077 address. The serial port must already be setup 1078 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1079 1080 qcom_geni,<addr> 1081 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1082 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1083 specified address. The serial port must already be 1084 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1085 1086 efifb,[options] 1087 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1088 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1089 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1090 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1091 mapped with the correct attributes. 1092 1093 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1094 earlyprintk=vga 1095 earlyprintk=sclp 1096 earlyprintk=xen 1097 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1098 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1099 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1100 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1101 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1102 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1103 1104 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1105 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1106 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1107 1108 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1109 takes over. 1110 1111 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can 1112 be used at a time. 1113 1114 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1115 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1116 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1117 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1118 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1119 You can find the port for a given device in 1120 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1121 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1122 1123 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1124 very good. 1125 1126 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by 1127 the real console. 1128 1129 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests. 1130 1131 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1132 1133 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1134 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1135 UART class. 1136 1137 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1138 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1139 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1140 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1141 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1142 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1143 default: on. 1144 1145 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1146 ekgdboc=kbd 1147 1148 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1149 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1150 1151 edd= [EDD] 1152 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1153 1154 efi= [EFI] 1155 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" } 1156 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI 1157 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by 1158 default. 1159 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1160 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1161 firmware implementations. 1162 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1163 debug: enable misc debug output 1164 1165 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1166 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1167 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1168 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1169 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1170 1171 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1172 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1173 updating original EFI memory map. 1174 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1175 from ss to ss+nn. 1176 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1177 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1178 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1179 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1180 1181 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1182 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of 1183 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1184 doesn't support it. 1185 1186 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1187 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1188 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1189 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1190 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1191 1192 1193 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1194 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1195 1196 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1197 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1198 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1199 1200 elevator= [IOSCHED] 1201 Format: { "mq-deadline" | "kyber" | "bfq" } 1202 See Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt, 1203 Documentation/block/kyber-iosched.txt and 1204 Documentation/block/bfq-iosched.txt for details. 1205 1206 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1207 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1208 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1209 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1210 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1211 1212 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1213 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1214 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1215 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1216 1217 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1218 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1219 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1220 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1221 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1222 1223 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1224 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1225 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1226 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1227 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1228 Default value is 0. 1229 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce. 1230 1231 erst_disable [ACPI] 1232 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1233 support. 1234 1235 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1236 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1237 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1238 1239 evm= [EVM] 1240 Format: { "fix" } 1241 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1242 current integrity status. 1243 1244 failslab= 1245 fail_page_alloc= 1246 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1247 General fault injection mechanism. 1248 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1249 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1250 1251 floppy= [HW] 1252 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt. 1253 1254 force_pal_cache_flush 1255 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1256 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1257 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1258 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1259 1260 forcepae [X86-32] 1261 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1262 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1263 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1264 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1265 and may cause unknown problems. 1266 1267 ftrace=[tracer] 1268 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1269 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1270 boot debugging. 1271 1272 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1273 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1274 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1275 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1276 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1277 oops. 1278 1279 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1280 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1281 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 1282 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1283 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1284 tracing directory. 1285 1286 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1287 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1288 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1289 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1290 tracing directory. 1291 1292 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1293 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1294 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1295 function-list is a comma separated list of functions 1296 that can be changed at run time by the 1297 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1298 1299 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1300 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1301 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of 1302 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1303 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1304 1305 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1306 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1307 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1308 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1309 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1310 1311 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1312 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1313 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1314 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1315 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1316 1317 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1318 1319 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1320 Format: off | on 1321 default: on 1322 1323 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1324 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1325 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1326 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1327 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1328 1329 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1330 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1331 android emulator 1332 1333 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1334 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1335 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1336 GPT to be used instead. 1337 1338 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1339 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1340 Format: 0 | 1 1341 Default: 0 1342 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1343 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1344 Format: 0 | 1 1345 Default: 0 1346 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1347 Format: 0 | 1 1348 Default: 0 1349 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1350 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1351 Default: 1024 1352 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1353 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1354 Default: 1024 1355 1356 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1357 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1358 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1359 1360 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1361 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1362 backtraces on all cpus. 1363 Format: <integer> 1364 1365 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1366 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1367 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1368 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1369 1370 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1371 1372 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1373 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1374 1375 hest_disable [ACPI] 1376 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1377 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1378 logic will be disabled. 1379 1380 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1381 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1382 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1383 size on bigger boxes. 1384 1385 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1386 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1387 Default: "on" 1388 1389 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1390 1391 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1392 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1393 verbose } 1394 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1395 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1396 VIA, nVidia) 1397 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1398 1399 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1400 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1401 1402 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1403 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages. 1404 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified 1405 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve 1406 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on 1407 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G 1408 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag). 1409 1410 hung_task_panic= 1411 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1412 Format: <integer> 1413 1414 A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a 1415 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1416 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1417 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1418 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1419 1420 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1421 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1422 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1423 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1424 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1425 1426 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1427 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1428 guest on lock contention. 1429 1430 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1431 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1432 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1433 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1434 the real console. 1435 1436 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1437 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1438 registered from board initialization code. 1439 Format: 1440 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1441 1442 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1443 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1444 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1445 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1446 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1447 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1448 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1449 keyboard and cannot control its state 1450 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1451 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1452 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1453 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1454 for the AUX port 1455 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1456 controller 1457 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1458 controllers 1459 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1460 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1461 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1462 transitions, or never reset 1463 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1464 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1465 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1466 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1467 architectures force reset to be always executed 1468 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1469 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1470 1471 i810= [HW,DRM] 1472 1473 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1474 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1475 hardware. 1476 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature 1477 does not match list of supported models. 1478 i8k.power_status 1479 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1480 (disabled by default) 1481 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1482 capability is set. 1483 1484 i915.invert_brightness= 1485 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1486 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1487 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1488 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1489 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1490 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1491 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1492 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1493 value switches the backlight off. 1494 -1 -- never invert brightness 1495 0 -- machine default 1496 1 -- force brightness inversion 1497 1498 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1499 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1500 1501 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1502 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc 1503 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr 1504 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options 1505 See Documentation/ide/ide.rst. 1506 1507 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1508 Format: <int> 1509 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on 1510 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by 1511 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The 1512 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning. 1513 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the 1514 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which 1515 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value 1516 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it 1517 was 0x3. 1518 1519 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1520 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers. 1521 1522 idle= [X86] 1523 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1524 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1525 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1526 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1527 Not recommended. 1528 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1529 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1530 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1531 1532 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1533 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1534 Default: strict 1535 1536 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1537 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1538 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1539 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1540 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1541 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1542 encoding mode. 1543 1544 Available settings are as follows: 1545 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1546 supported by the FPU 1547 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1548 by the FPU 1549 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1550 by the FPU 1551 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1552 supported by the FPU 1553 1554 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1555 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1556 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1557 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1558 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1559 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1560 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1561 MIPS64 CPUs. 1562 1563 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1564 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1565 except where unsupported by hardware. 1566 1567 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1568 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1569 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1570 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1571 could change it dynamically, usually by 1572 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1573 1574 ignore_rlimit_data 1575 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1576 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1577 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1578 1579 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1580 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1581 1582 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1583 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1584 default: "enforce" 1585 1586 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1587 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1588 owned by uid=0. 1589 1590 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1591 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1592 measurements, instead of host native format. 1593 1594 ima_hash= [IMA] 1595 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1596 | sha512 | ... } 1597 default: "sha1" 1598 1599 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1600 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1601 1602 ima_policy= [IMA] 1603 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1604 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1605 fail_securely" 1606 1607 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1608 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1609 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1610 uid=0. 1611 1612 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1613 all files owned by root. 1614 1615 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1616 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1617 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1618 1619 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1620 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1621 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1622 flag. 1623 1624 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1625 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1626 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1627 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1628 opened for read by uid=0. 1629 1630 ima_template= [IMA] 1631 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1632 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" } 1633 Default: "ima-ng" 1634 1635 ima_template_fmt= 1636 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1637 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1638 1639 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1640 Format: <min_file_size> 1641 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1642 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1643 1644 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1645 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1646 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1647 1648 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1649 Format: <bufsize> 1650 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1651 1652 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1653 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1654 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1655 1656 init= [KNL] 1657 Format: <full_path> 1658 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1659 process. 1660 1661 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1662 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1663 startup. 1664 1665 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1666 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1667 modules and initcalls. 1668 1669 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 1670 1671 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 1672 zeroes. 1673 Format: 0 | 1 1674 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 1675 1676 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 1677 Format: 0 | 1 1678 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 1679 1680 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 1681 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 1682 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 1683 override in debugfs after boot. 1684 1685 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 1686 Format: <irq> 1687 1688 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 1689 1690 integrity_audit=[IMA] 1691 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1692 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 1693 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 1694 1695 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 1696 on 1697 Enable intel iommu driver. 1698 off 1699 Disable intel iommu driver. 1700 igfx_off [Default Off] 1701 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 1702 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 1703 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 1704 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 1705 DMA. 1706 forcedac [x86_64] 1707 With this option iommu will not optimize to look 1708 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual 1709 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater 1710 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look 1711 for translation below 32-bit and if not available 1712 then look in the higher range. 1713 strict [Default Off] 1714 With this option on every unmap_single operation will 1715 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed 1716 to batching them for performance. 1717 sp_off [Default Off] 1718 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 1719 has the capability. With this option, super page will 1720 not be supported. 1721 sm_on [Default Off] 1722 By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the 1723 hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable 1724 mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode 1725 will be used on hardware which claims to support it. 1726 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 1727 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 1728 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 1729 could harm performance of some high-throughput 1730 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 1731 mapping is enabled. 1732 Note that using this option lowers the security 1733 provided by tboot because it makes the system 1734 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 1735 1736 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 1737 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 1738 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 1739 1740 intel_pstate= [X86] 1741 disable 1742 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 1743 scaling driver for the supported processors 1744 passive 1745 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 1746 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 1747 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 1748 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 1749 feature. 1750 force 1751 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 1752 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 1753 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 1754 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 1755 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 1756 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 1757 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 1758 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 1759 no_hwp 1760 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 1761 if available. 1762 hwp_only 1763 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 1764 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 1765 support_acpi_ppc 1766 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 1767 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 1768 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 1769 then this feature is turned on by default. 1770 per_cpu_perf_limits 1771 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 1772 cpufreq sysfs interface 1773 1774 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 1775 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 1776 off disable Interrupt Remapping 1777 nosid disable Source ID checking 1778 no_x2apic_optout 1779 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 1780 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 1781 1782 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 1783 strict regions from userspace. 1784 relaxed 1785 1786 iommu= [x86] 1787 off 1788 force 1789 noforce 1790 biomerge 1791 panic 1792 nopanic 1793 merge 1794 nomerge 1795 soft 1796 pt [x86] 1797 nopt [x86] 1798 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 1799 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 1800 1801 iommu.strict= [ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 1802 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1803 0 - Lazy mode. 1804 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 1805 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 1806 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 1807 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 1808 the relevant IOMMU driver. 1809 1 - Strict mode (default). 1810 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 1811 synchronously. 1812 1813 iommu.passthrough= 1814 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 1815 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1816 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 1817 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 1818 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 1819 1820 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems 1821 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 1822 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 1823 1824 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 1825 0x80 1826 Standard port 0x80 based delay 1827 0xed 1828 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 1829 udelay 1830 Simple two microseconds delay 1831 none 1832 No delay 1833 1834 ip= [IP_PNP] 1835 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 1836 1837 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 1838 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 1839 1840 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 1841 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 1842 1843 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 1844 [ARM, ARM64] 1845 Format: <bool> 1846 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 1847 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 1848 exposed by the device tree is too small. 1849 1850 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 1851 [ARM, ARM64] 1852 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 1853 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 1854 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 1855 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 1856 LPIs. 1857 1858 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 1859 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 1860 requires the kernel to be built with 1861 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 1862 1863 irqfixup [HW] 1864 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1865 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1866 firmware running. 1867 1868 irqpoll [HW] 1869 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1870 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 1871 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1872 firmware running. 1873 1874 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 1875 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 1876 1877 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 1878 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 1879 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 1880 1881 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 1882 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 1883 1884 nohz 1885 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 1886 1887 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 1888 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 1889 workqueue's affinity configured via the 1890 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 1891 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 1892 1893 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 1894 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 1895 be configured manually after bootup. 1896 1897 domain 1898 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 1899 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 1900 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 1901 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 1902 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 1903 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 1904 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 1905 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 1906 1907 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 1908 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 1909 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 1910 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 1911 1912 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 1913 1914 1915 1916 iucv= [HW,NET] 1917 1918 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64] 1919 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 1920 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1921 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 1922 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 1923 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 1924 1925 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64] 1926 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 1927 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1928 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to 1929 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 1930 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 1931 1932 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64] 1933 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 1934 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1935 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 1936 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 1937 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 1938 1939 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 1940 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 1941 1942 nokaslr [KNL] 1943 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 1944 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 1945 Layout Randomization). 1946 1947 kasan_multi_shot 1948 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 1949 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 1950 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 1951 invalid access. 1952 1953 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 1954 1955 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 1956 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 1957 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 1958 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 1959 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 1960 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 1961 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 1962 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 1963 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 1964 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 1965 1966 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 1967 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 1968 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 1969 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 1970 zone if it does not. 1971 1972 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 1973 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 1974 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 1975 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 1976 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 1977 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 1978 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 1979 1980 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 1981 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 1982 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 1983 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 1984 optional and is the number seconds in between 1985 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 1986 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 1987 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 1988 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 1989 the kernel debugger. 1990 1991 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 1992 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 1993 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 1994 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 1995 keyboard only format: kbd 1996 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 1997 Optional Kernel mode setting: 1998 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 1999 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2000 2001 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2002 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2003 2004 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address. 2005 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2006 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2007 2008 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2009 Valid arguments: on, off 2010 Default: on 2011 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2012 the default is off. 2013 2014 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2015 and kernel address spaces. 2016 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2017 0: force disabled 2018 1: force enabled 2019 2020 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2021 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2022 2023 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2024 Default is false (don't support). 2025 2026 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit 2027 KVM MMU at runtime. 2028 Default is 0 (off) 2029 2030 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 2031 Default is 1 (enabled) 2032 2033 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 2034 for all guests. 2035 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 2036 2037 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2038 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2039 system registers 2040 2041 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2042 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2043 system registers 2044 2045 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2046 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2047 system registers 2048 2049 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2050 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2051 LPIs. 2052 2053 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 2054 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 2055 Default is 1 (enabled) 2056 2057 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2058 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states 2059 Default is 0 (disabled) 2060 2061 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2062 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 2063 Default is 1 (enabled) 2064 2065 kvm-intel.nested= 2066 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 2067 Default is 0 (disabled) 2068 2069 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2070 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 2071 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 2072 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 2073 2074 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2075 CVE-2018-3620. 2076 2077 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2078 2079 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2080 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2081 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2082 never: Disables the mitigation 2083 2084 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2085 2086 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 2087 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 2088 Default is 1 (enabled) 2089 2090 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2091 affected CPUs 2092 2093 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2094 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2095 2096 full 2097 Provides all available mitigations for the 2098 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2099 enables all mitigations in the 2100 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2101 2102 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2103 sysfs interface is still possible after 2104 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2105 when the first VM is started in a 2106 potentially insecure configuration, 2107 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2108 2109 full,force 2110 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2111 flush runtime control. Implies the 2112 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2113 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2114 2115 flush 2116 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2117 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2118 L1D flush. 2119 2120 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2121 sysfs interface is still possible after 2122 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2123 when the first VM is started in a 2124 potentially insecure configuration, 2125 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2126 2127 flush,nosmt 2128 2129 Disables SMT and enables the default 2130 hypervisor mitigation. 2131 2132 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2133 sysfs interface is still possible after 2134 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2135 when the first VM is started in a 2136 potentially insecure configuration, 2137 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2138 2139 flush,nowarn 2140 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2141 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2142 insecure configuration. 2143 2144 off 2145 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2146 emit any warnings. 2147 It also drops the swap size and available 2148 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2149 bare metal. 2150 2151 Default is 'flush'. 2152 2153 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2154 2155 l2cr= [PPC] 2156 2157 l3cr= [PPC] 2158 2159 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2160 disabled it. 2161 2162 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline 2163 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2164 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2165 2166 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2167 in C2 power state. 2168 2169 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2170 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2171 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2172 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2173 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2174 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2175 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2176 2177 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2178 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2179 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2180 2181 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2182 when set. 2183 Format: <int> 2184 2185 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma 2186 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is 2187 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers 2188 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches 2189 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If 2190 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE 2191 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the 2192 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices. 2193 2194 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2195 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2196 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2197 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2198 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2199 host link and device attached to it. 2200 2201 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2202 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed. 2203 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2204 The following configurations can be forced. 2205 2206 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2207 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2208 2209 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2210 2211 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2212 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2213 allowed. 2214 2215 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2216 2217 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM. 2218 2219 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft 2220 and both resets. 2221 2222 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during 2223 hot-unplug link recovery 2224 2225 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data. 2226 2227 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support 2228 2229 * disable: Disable this device. 2230 2231 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2232 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2233 2234 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 2235 2236 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy 2237 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 2238 2239 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2240 Format: <integer> 2241 2242 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2243 Format: <integer> 2244 2245 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2246 Format: <integer> 2247 2248 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2249 Format: <integer> 2250 2251 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2252 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2253 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2254 number of online CPUs. 2255 2256 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2257 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2258 2259 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2260 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2261 2262 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2263 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2264 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2265 2266 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2267 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2268 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2269 mode during the locktorture test. 2270 2271 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2272 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2273 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2274 2275 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2276 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2277 2278 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2279 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2280 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2281 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2282 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2283 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2284 2285 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2286 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2287 2288 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2289 Enable additional printk() statements. 2290 2291 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2292 Format: <irq> 2293 2294 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2295 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2296 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2297 loglevels are defined as follows: 2298 2299 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2300 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2301 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2302 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2303 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2304 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2305 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2306 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2307 2308 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2309 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2310 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2311 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2312 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2313 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2314 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2315 2316 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2317 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2318 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2319 kernel boot problems. 2320 2321 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2322 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2323 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2324 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2325 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2326 attached printers to be reset. Using 2327 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2328 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2329 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2330 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2331 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2332 port specification list means that device IDs 2333 from each port should be examined, to see if 2334 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2335 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2336 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2337 2338 lpj=n [KNL] 2339 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2340 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2341 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2342 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2343 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2344 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2345 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2346 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2347 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2348 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2349 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2350 hardware. 2351 2352 ltpc= [NET] 2353 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2354 2355 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 2356 2357 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 2358 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 2359 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 2360 2361 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2362 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2363 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb 2364 2365 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different 2366 yeeloong laptop. 2367 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2368 2369 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater 2370 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2371 2372 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2373 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2374 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2375 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2376 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2377 only takes effect during system bootup. 2378 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2379 which also disables the IO APIC. 2380 2381 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2382 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2383 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2384 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2385 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2386 /dev/loop-control interface. 2387 2388 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2389 2390 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 2391 2392 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2393 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2394 2395 mdacon= [MDA] 2396 Format: <first>,<last> 2397 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2398 2399 mds= [X86,INTEL] 2400 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 2401 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 2402 2403 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2404 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2405 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2406 2407 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2408 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2409 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2410 not have direct access. 2411 2412 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 2413 options are: 2414 2415 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 2416 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 2417 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 2418 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 2419 2420 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 2421 mds=full. 2422 2423 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 2424 2425 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2426 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able 2427 to see the whole system memory or for test. 2428 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 2429 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 2430 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 2431 belonging to unused RAM. 2432 2433 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 2434 memory. 2435 2436 memchunk=nn[KMG] 2437 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 2438 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 2439 2440 memhp_default_state=online/offline 2441 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 2442 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 2443 set according to the 2444 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 2445 option. 2446 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 2447 2448 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 2449 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 2450 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 2451 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 2452 option description. 2453 2454 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 2455 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 2456 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 2457 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 2458 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 2459 Multiple different regions can be specified, 2460 comma delimited. 2461 Example: 2462 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 2463 2464 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 2465 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 2466 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 2467 2468 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 2469 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 2470 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 2471 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 2472 memmap=64K$0x18690000 2473 or 2474 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 2475 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 2476 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 2477 will be eaten. 2478 2479 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 2480 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 2481 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 2482 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 2483 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 2484 2485 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 2486 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 2487 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 2488 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 2489 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 2490 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 2491 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 2492 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 2493 2494 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 2495 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 2496 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 2497 Setting this option will scan the memory 2498 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 2499 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 2500 from using the memory being corrupted. 2501 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 2502 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 2503 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 2504 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 2505 2506 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 2507 By default it checks for corruption in the low 2508 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 2509 use. Use this parameter to scan for 2510 corruption in more or less memory. 2511 2512 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 2513 By default it checks for corruption every 60 2514 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 2515 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 2516 2517 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest 2518 Format: <integer> 2519 default : 0 <disable> 2520 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 2521 performed. Each pass selects another test 2522 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 2523 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 2524 memory contents and reserves bad memory 2525 regions that are detected. 2526 2527 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 2528 Valid arguments: on, off 2529 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 2530 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 2531 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 2532 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 2533 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 2534 2535 Refer to Documentation/virtual/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst 2536 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 2537 2538 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 2539 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 2540 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 2541 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 2542 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 2543 2544 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 2545 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst. 2546 2547 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 2548 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 2549 platforms. 2550 2551 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 2552 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 2553 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 2554 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 2555 2556 mga= [HW,DRM] 2557 2558 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this 2559 physical address is ignored. 2560 2561 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 2562 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 2563 Default: "0tb" 2564 MINI2440 configuration specification: 2565 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 2566 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 2567 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 2568 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 2569 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 2570 unconfigured. 2571 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 2572 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 2573 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 2574 VGA shield. 2575 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 2576 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 2577 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 2578 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 2579 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 2580 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 2581 2582 mitigations= 2583 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 2584 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 2585 arch-independent options, each of which is an 2586 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 2587 2588 off 2589 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 2590 improves system performance, but it may also 2591 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 2592 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC] 2593 kpti=0 [ARM64] 2594 nospectre_v1 [PPC] 2595 nobp=0 [S390] 2596 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 2597 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 2598 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 2599 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 2600 l1tf=off [X86] 2601 mds=off [X86] 2602 2603 auto (default) 2604 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 2605 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 2606 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 2607 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 2608 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 2609 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 2610 2611 auto,nosmt 2612 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 2613 if needed. This is for users who always want to 2614 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 2615 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 2616 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 2617 2618 mminit_loglevel= 2619 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 2620 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 2621 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 2622 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 2623 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 2624 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 2625 2626 module.sig_enforce 2627 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 2628 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 2629 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 2630 is always true, so this option does nothing. 2631 2632 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 2633 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 2634 2635 mousedev.tap_time= 2636 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 2637 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 2638 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 2639 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 2640 Format: <msecs> 2641 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 2642 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2643 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 2644 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2645 2646 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2647 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 2648 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 2649 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 2650 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 2651 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 2652 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 2653 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 2654 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 2655 is not too small. 2656 2657 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 2658 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 2659 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 2660 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 2661 allocations. Use with caution! 2662 2663 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 2664 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 2665 2666 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 2667 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 2668 2669 mtdparts= [MTD] 2670 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c. 2671 2672 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 2673 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 2674 at a time. 2675 2676 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 2677 2678 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 2679 2680 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 2681 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 2682 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 2683 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 2684 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 2685 2686 mtdset= [ARM] 2687 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 2688 2689 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c 2690 2691 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 2692 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 2693 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 2694 2695 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2696 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 2697 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 2698 2699 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2700 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 2701 Default is 1. 2702 Large value could prevent small alignment from 2703 using up MTRRs. 2704 2705 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 2706 Format: <integer> 2707 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 2708 Default : 1 2709 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 2710 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 2711 2712 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 2713 2714 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 2715 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 2716 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 2717 something different and driver-specific. 2718 This usage is only documented in each driver source 2719 file if at all. 2720 2721 nf_conntrack.acct= 2722 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 2723 0 to disable accounting 2724 1 to enable accounting 2725 Default value is 0. 2726 2727 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 2728 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2729 2730 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 2731 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2732 2733 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 2734 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2735 2736 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 2737 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 2738 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 2739 requests. 2740 2741 nfs.callback_tcpport= 2742 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 2743 channel should listen. 2744 2745 nfs.cache_getent= 2746 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 2747 to update the NFS client cache entries. 2748 2749 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 2750 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 2751 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 2752 2753 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 2754 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 2755 entries. 2756 2757 nfs.enable_ino64= 2758 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 2759 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 2760 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 2761 of returning the full 64-bit number. 2762 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 2763 2764 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 2765 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 2766 slots the client will assign to the callback 2767 channel. This determines the maximum number of 2768 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 2769 a particular server. 2770 2771 nfs.max_session_slots= 2772 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 2773 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 2774 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 2775 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 2776 Note that there is little point in setting this 2777 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 2778 2779 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2780 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 2781 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 2782 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 2783 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 2784 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 2785 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 2786 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 2787 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 2788 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 2789 back to using the idmapper. 2790 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 2791 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 2792 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 2793 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 2794 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 2795 UUID that is generated at system install time. 2796 2797 nfs.send_implementation_id = 2798 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 2799 information in exchange_id requests. 2800 If zero, no implementation identification information 2801 will be sent. 2802 The default is to send the implementation identification 2803 information. 2804 2805 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 2806 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 2807 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 2808 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 2809 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 2810 after the locks are lost. 2811 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 2812 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 2813 parameter to '1'. 2814 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 2815 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 2816 2817 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 2818 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 2819 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 2820 2821 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 2822 whatever value is the default set by the layout 2823 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 2824 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 2825 2826 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2827 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 2828 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 2829 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 2830 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 2831 migration from NFSv2/v3. 2832 2833 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 2834 when a NMI is triggered. 2835 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 2836 2837 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 2838 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 2839 Valid num: 0 or 1 2840 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 2841 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 2842 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 2843 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 2844 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 2845 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 2846 please see 'nowatchdog'. 2847 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 2848 need the box quickly up again. 2849 2850 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 2851 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 2852 2853 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 2854 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 2855 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 2856 waits 4 seconds. 2857 2858 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 2859 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 2860 is present. 2861 2862 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 2863 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 2864 2865 no_console_suspend 2866 [HW] Never suspend the console 2867 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 2868 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 2869 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 2870 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 2871 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 2872 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 2873 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 2874 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 2875 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 2876 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 2877 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 2878 turn on/off it dynamically. 2879 2880 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 2881 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 2882 but will impact performance. 2883 2884 noalign [KNL,ARM] 2885 2886 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 2887 (CPU alternatives feature). 2888 2889 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 2890 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 2891 2892 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 2893 2894 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem 2895 on "Classic" PPC cores. 2896 2897 nocache [ARM] 2898 2899 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction 2900 2901 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting 2902 2903 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 2904 2905 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 2906 2907 noexec [IA-64] 2908 2909 noexec [X86] 2910 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels. 2911 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 2912 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings 2913 2914 nosmap [X86,PPC] 2915 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 2916 even if it is supported by processor. 2917 2918 nosmep [X86,PPC] 2919 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 2920 even if it is supported by processor. 2921 2922 noexec32 [X86-64] 2923 This affects only 32-bit executables. 2924 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 2925 read doesn't imply executable mappings 2926 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 2927 read implies executable mappings 2928 2929 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 2930 2931 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 2932 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 2933 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 2934 2935 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86,PPC] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 2936 2937 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 2938 Equivalent to smt=1. 2939 2940 [KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 2941 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 2942 via the sysfs control file. 2943 2944 nospectre_v1 [PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 (bounds 2945 check bypass). With this option data leaks are possible 2946 in the system. 2947 2948 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 2949 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 2950 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 2951 option. 2952 2953 nospec_store_bypass_disable 2954 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 2955 2956 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 2957 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 2958 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 2959 2960 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 2961 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 2962 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 2963 performance of saving the states is degraded because 2964 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 2965 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 2966 2967 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 2968 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 2969 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 2970 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 2971 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 2972 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 2973 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 2974 2975 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or 2976 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to 2977 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger. 2978 2979 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 2980 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 2981 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 2982 2983 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 2984 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 2985 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 2986 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 2987 in certain environments such as networked servers or 2988 real-time systems. 2989 2990 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 2991 2992 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 2993 Valid arguments: on, off 2994 Default: on 2995 2996 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 2997 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2998 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 2999 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3000 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3001 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3002 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3003 just as if they had also been called out in the 3004 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3005 3006 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3007 3008 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3009 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3010 3011 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 3012 broken timer IRQ sources. 3013 3014 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3015 3016 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3017 initial RAM disk. 3018 3019 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3020 remapping. 3021 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3022 3023 nointroute [IA-64] 3024 3025 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3026 3027 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3028 3029 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3030 3031 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3032 fault handling. 3033 3034 no-vmw-sched-clock 3035 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 3036 clock and use the default one. 3037 3038 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. 3039 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler 3040 behaviour 3041 3042 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3043 3044 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3045 3046 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel 3047 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx 3048 3049 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3050 3051 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3052 3053 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3054 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3055 3056 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3057 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3058 irq. 3059 3060 nomodule Disable module load 3061 3062 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3063 pagetables) support. 3064 3065 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3066 3067 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3068 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3069 3070 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3071 with UP alternatives 3072 3073 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and 3074 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported 3075 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still 3076 available to user space applications. 3077 3078 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3079 space. 3080 3081 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3082 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3083 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3084 3085 nosbagart [IA-64] 3086 3087 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. 3088 3089 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3090 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3091 3092 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3093 3094 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 3095 3096 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 3097 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 3098 3099 nowb [ARM] 3100 3101 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 3102 3103 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 3104 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 3105 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 3106 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 3107 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 3108 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 3109 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 3110 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 3111 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 3112 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 3113 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 3114 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 3115 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 3116 3117 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 3118 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 3119 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 3120 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 3121 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 3122 parameter's value. 3123 Format: integer between 1 and 255 3124 Default: 255 3125 3126 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 3127 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 3128 SAL PALO. 3129 3130 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3131 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 3132 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 3133 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 3134 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 3135 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 3136 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 3137 hot plugging. 3138 3139 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 3140 3141 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing. 3142 Allowed values are enable and disable 3143 3144 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 3145 'node', 'default' can be specified 3146 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 3147 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details. 3148 3149 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 3150 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more 3151 info. 3152 3153 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 3154 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 3155 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 3156 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 3157 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 3158 interrupts *may* be lost! 3159 3160 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 3161 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 3162 For example, to override I2C bus2: 3163 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 3164 3165 oprofile.timer= [HW] 3166 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters 3167 3168 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type 3169 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile 3170 userland or if you want common events. 3171 Format: { arch_perfmon } 3172 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural 3173 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the 3174 CPU specific event set. 3175 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI 3176 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer 3177 for generic hr timer mode) 3178 3179 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 3180 process, but there is a small probability of 3181 deadlocking the machine. 3182 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 3183 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 3184 3185 page_alloc.shuffle= 3186 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 3187 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 3188 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 3189 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 3190 cache, and this parameter can be used to 3191 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 3192 can be read from sysfs at: 3193 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 3194 3195 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 3196 Storage of the information about who allocated 3197 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 3198 we can turn it on. 3199 on: enable the feature 3200 3201 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 3202 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 3203 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 3204 off: turn off poisoning (default) 3205 on: turn on poisoning 3206 3207 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 3208 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 3209 timeout = 0: wait forever 3210 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 3211 Format: <timeout> 3212 3213 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 3214 User can chose combination of the following bits: 3215 bit 0: print all tasks info 3216 bit 1: print system memory info 3217 bit 2: print timer info 3218 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 3219 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 3220 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 3221 3222 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 3223 on a WARN(). 3224 3225 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 3226 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 3227 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 3228 succeeds in any situation. 3229 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 3230 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 3231 kernel more unstable. 3232 3233 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 3234 connected to, default is 0. 3235 Format: <parport#> 3236 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 3237 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 3238 Format: <mode> 3239 3240 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 3241 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 3242 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 3243 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 3244 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 3245 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 3246 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 3247 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 3248 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 3249 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 3250 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 3251 are specified on the command line, starting 3252 with parport0. 3253 3254 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 3255 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 3256 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 3257 computer where firmware has no options for setting 3258 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 3259 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 3260 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 3261 3262 pause_on_oops= 3263 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 3264 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 3265 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 3266 3267 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 3268 3269 pcd. [PARIDE] 3270 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 3271 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3272 3273 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 3274 3275 Some options herein operate on a specific device 3276 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 3277 specified in one of the following formats: 3278 3279 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 3280 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 3281 3282 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 3283 bus/device/function address which may change 3284 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 3285 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 3286 by other kernel parameters. If the 3287 domain is left unspecified, it is 3288 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 3289 to a device through multiple device/function 3290 addresses can be specified after the base 3291 address (this is more robust against 3292 renumbering issues). The second format 3293 selects devices using IDs from the 3294 configuration space which may match multiple 3295 devices in the system. 3296 3297 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 3298 changes anything 3299 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 3300 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 3301 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 3302 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 3303 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 3304 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 3305 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 3306 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 3307 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3308 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 3309 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 3310 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3311 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 3312 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 3313 bus number. The config space is then accessed 3314 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 3315 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 3316 on the configuration access mechanisms. 3317 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 3318 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3319 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 3320 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 3321 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 3322 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 3323 Configuration 3324 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 3325 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 3326 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 3327 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 3328 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3329 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 3330 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 3331 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 3332 should never be necessary. 3333 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 3334 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 3335 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 3336 when the system masks IRQs. 3337 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 3338 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 3339 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 3340 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 3341 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 3342 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 3343 on several machines and they hang the machine 3344 when used, but on other computers it's the only 3345 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 3346 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 3347 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 3348 motherboard. 3349 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 3350 Use with caution as certain devices share 3351 address decoders between ROMs and other 3352 resources. 3353 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 3354 expansion ROMs that do not already have 3355 BIOS assigned address ranges. 3356 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 3357 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 3358 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 3359 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 3360 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 3361 this way. 3362 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 3363 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 3364 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 3365 F0000h-100000h range. 3366 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 3367 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 3368 secondary buses and you want to tell it 3369 explicitly which ones they are. 3370 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 3371 numbers ourselves, overriding 3372 whatever the firmware may have done. 3373 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 3374 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 3375 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 3376 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 3377 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 3378 IRQ routing is enabled. 3379 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 3380 or for PCI scanning. 3381 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 3382 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 3383 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 3384 please report a bug. 3385 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 3386 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 3387 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 3388 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 3389 so this option is a temporary workaround 3390 for broken drivers that don't call it. 3391 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 3392 handle more pci cards 3393 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 3394 This might help on some broken boards which 3395 machine check when some devices' config space 3396 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 3397 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 3398 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3399 This sorting is done to get a device 3400 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 3401 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3402 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 3403 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 3404 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 3405 supported by all devices below the root complex. 3406 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 3407 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 3408 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 3409 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 3410 or bus can support) for best performance. 3411 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 3412 every device is guaranteed to support. This 3413 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 3414 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 3415 reduced performance. This also guarantees 3416 that hot-added devices will work. 3417 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3418 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 3419 The default value is 256 bytes. 3420 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3421 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 3422 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 3423 resource_alignment= 3424 Format: 3425 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 3426 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 3427 aligned memory resources. How to 3428 specify the device is described above. 3429 If <order of align> is not specified, 3430 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 3431 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource 3432 windows need to be expanded. 3433 To specify the alignment for several 3434 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 3435 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 3436 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 3437 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 3438 end-to-end CRC checking). 3439 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 3440 the default. 3441 off: Turn ECRC off 3442 on: Turn ECRC on. 3443 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3444 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 3445 Default size is 256 bytes. 3446 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3447 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window. 3448 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3449 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 3450 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 3451 Default is 1. 3452 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 3453 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 3454 accommodate resources required by all child 3455 devices. 3456 off: Turn realloc off 3457 on: Turn realloc on 3458 realloc same as realloc=on 3459 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 3460 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 3461 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 3462 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 3463 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 3464 port. 3465 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 3466 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 3467 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 3468 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 3469 conflict with unreported devices), so this 3470 taints the kernel. 3471 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 3472 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 3473 specified above) separated by semicolons. 3474 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 3475 redirect capabilities forced off which will 3476 allow P2P traffic between devices through 3477 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 3478 this removes isolation between devices and 3479 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 3480 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 3481 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 3482 3483 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 3484 Management. 3485 off Disable ASPM. 3486 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 3487 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 3488 3489 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 3490 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 3491 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 3492 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 3493 also tries to use these services. 3494 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 3495 hotplug). 3496 3497 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 3498 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 3499 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 3500 3501 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 3502 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 3503 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 3504 3505 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 3506 3507 pd_ignore_unused 3508 [PM] 3509 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 3510 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 3511 for debug and development, but should not be 3512 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 3513 3514 pd. [PARIDE] 3515 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3516 3517 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 3518 boot time. 3519 Format: { 0 | 1 } 3520 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 3521 3522 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 3523 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 3524 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 3525 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 3526 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 3527 and performance comparison. 3528 3529 pf. [PARIDE] 3530 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3531 3532 pg. [PARIDE] 3533 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3534 3535 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 3536 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 3537 3538 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 3539 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 3540 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 3541 3542 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 3543 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 3544 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 3545 3546 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 3547 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 3548 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 3549 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 3550 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 3551 possible settings and some assignment information. 3552 3553 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 3554 { off } 3555 3556 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 3557 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 3558 3559 pnp_reserve_irq= 3560 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 3561 3562 pnp_reserve_dma= 3563 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 3564 3565 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 3566 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 3567 3568 pnp_reserve_mem= 3569 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 3570 autoconfiguration. 3571 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 3572 3573 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 3574 Default is 21. 3575 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 3576 may be specified. 3577 Format: <port>,<port>.... 3578 3579 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 3580 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 3581 platform machine description specific power_save 3582 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 3583 execution priority. 3584 3585 ppc_strict_facility_enable 3586 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 3587 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 3588 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 3589 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 3590 3591 ppc_tm= [PPC] 3592 Format: {"off"} 3593 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 3594 3595 print-fatal-signals= 3596 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 3597 3598 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 3599 related application anomalies: too many signals, 3600 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 3601 coredump - etc. 3602 3603 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 3604 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 3605 3606 default: off. 3607 3608 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 3609 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 3610 panics 3611 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3612 default: disabled 3613 3614 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 3615 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 3616 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 3617 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 3618 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 3619 Default: ratelimit 3620 3621 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 3622 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3623 3624 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 3625 Limit processor to maximum C-state 3626 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 3627 3628 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 3629 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 3630 instead using the legacy FADT method 3631 3632 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 3633 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 3634 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 3635 [defaults to kernel profiling] 3636 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 3637 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 3638 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 3639 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 3640 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 3641 statistical time based profiling. 3642 3643 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk 3644 before loading. 3645 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 3646 3647 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 3648 tracking. 3649 Format: <bool> 3650 3651 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 3652 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 3653 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 3654 per second. 3655 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 3656 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 3657 (0 = never). 3658 psmouse.resolution= 3659 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 3660 psmouse.smartscroll= 3661 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 3662 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 3663 3664 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 3665 3666 pt. [PARIDE] 3667 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3668 3669 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 3670 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 3671 removes hardening, but improves performance of 3672 system calls and interrupts. 3673 3674 on - unconditionally enable 3675 off - unconditionally disable 3676 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 3677 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 3678 3679 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 3680 3681 nopti [X86_64] 3682 Equivalent to pti=off 3683 3684 pty.legacy_count= 3685 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 3686 default number. 3687 3688 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 3689 3690 r128= [HW,DRM] 3691 3692 raid= [HW,RAID] 3693 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 3694 3695 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 3696 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 3697 3698 random.trust_cpu={on,off} 3699 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the 3700 CPU's random number generator (if available) to 3701 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 3702 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU. 3703 3704 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 3705 3706 cec_disable [X86] 3707 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 3708 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 3709 3710 rcu_nocbs= [KNL] 3711 The argument is a cpu list, as described above, 3712 except that the string "all" can be used to 3713 specify every CPU on the system. 3714 3715 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set 3716 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs. 3717 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be 3718 offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that 3719 purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and 3720 "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number. 3721 This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs, 3722 which can be useful for HPC and real-time 3723 workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency 3724 for asymmetric multiprocessors. 3725 3726 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 3727 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 3728 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 3729 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 3730 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 3731 This improves the real-time response for the 3732 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 3733 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 3734 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 3735 periodically wake up to do the polling. 3736 3737 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 3738 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 3739 process in one batch. 3740 3741 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 3742 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 3743 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 3744 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 3745 3746 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 3747 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3748 RCU grace-period cleanup. 3749 3750 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 3751 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3752 RCU grace-period initialization. 3753 3754 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 3755 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3756 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 3757 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 3758 the rcu_node combining tree. 3759 3760 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 3761 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 3762 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 3763 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 3764 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 3765 3766 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 3767 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 3768 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 3769 possibly be useful for architectures having high 3770 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 3771 3772 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 3773 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 3774 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 3775 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 3776 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 3777 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 3778 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 3779 3780 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 3781 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 3782 first attempt to force quiescent states. 3783 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 3784 and maximum value is HZ. 3785 3786 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 3787 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 3788 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 3789 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 3790 3791 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 3792 Set required age in jiffies for a 3793 given grace period before RCU starts 3794 soliciting quiescent-state help from 3795 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 3796 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 3797 a value based on the most recent settings 3798 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 3799 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 3800 This calculated value may be viewed in 3801 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 3802 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 3803 overwritten. 3804 3805 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 3806 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 3807 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 3808 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 3809 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 3810 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 3811 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 3812 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 3813 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 3814 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 3815 3816 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL] 3817 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which 3818 defaults to the square root of the number of 3819 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead 3820 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases 3821 that same overhead on each group's leader. 3822 3823 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 3824 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 3825 batch limiting is disabled. 3826 3827 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 3828 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 3829 batch limiting is re-enabled. 3830 3831 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL] 3832 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 3833 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 3834 3835 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL] 3836 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 3837 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 3838 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can 3839 prove do nothing more than free memory. 3840 3841 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 3842 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 3843 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 3844 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 3845 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 3846 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 3847 3848 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 3849 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 3850 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 3851 why a new grace period has not yet started. 3852 3853 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL] 3854 Measure performance of asynchronous 3855 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 3856 3857 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL] 3858 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 3859 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 3860 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 3861 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 3862 previously posted callbacks to drain. 3863 3864 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL] 3865 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 3866 grace-period primitives. 3867 3868 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL] 3869 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 3870 this parameter is to delay the start of the 3871 test until boot completes in order to avoid 3872 interference. 3873 3874 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL] 3875 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 3876 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 3877 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 3878 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 3879 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 3880 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 3881 a single reader. 3882 3883 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL] 3884 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 3885 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders. 3886 N, where N is the number of CPUs 3887 3888 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL] 3889 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 3890 3891 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL] 3892 Shut the system down after performance tests 3893 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 3894 testing. 3895 3896 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL] 3897 Enable additional printk() statements. 3898 3899 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 3900 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 3901 in microseconds. The default of zero says 3902 no holdoff. 3903 3904 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 3905 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 3906 in microseconds. 3907 3908 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 3909 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 3910 in microseconds. 3911 3912 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 3913 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 3914 in seconds. 3915 3916 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 3917 Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 3918 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 3919 3920 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 3921 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 3922 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 3923 3924 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 3925 Number of seconds to wait between successive 3926 forward-progress tests. 3927 3928 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 3929 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 3930 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 3931 testing. 3932 3933 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 3934 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 3935 primitives, if available. 3936 3937 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 3938 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 3939 3940 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 3941 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 3942 update-side primitives, if available. 3943 3944 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 3945 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 3946 update-side primitives, if available. If all 3947 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 3948 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 3949 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 3950 they are all non-zero. 3951 3952 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 3953 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 3954 3955 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 3956 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 3957 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 3958 test, hence the "fake". 3959 3960 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 3961 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 3962 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 3963 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 3964 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 3965 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 3966 3967 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 3968 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 3969 3970 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 3971 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 3972 3973 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 3974 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 3975 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 3976 3977 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 3978 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 3979 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 3980 during the rcutorture test. 3981 3982 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 3983 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 3984 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 3985 3986 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 3987 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 3988 warnings, zero to disable. 3989 3990 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 3991 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 3992 3993 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 3994 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 3995 3996 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 3997 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 3998 3999 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 4000 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 4001 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 4002 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 4003 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 4004 4005 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 4006 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 4007 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 4008 under test support RCU priority boosting. 4009 4010 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 4011 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 4012 4013 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 4014 Interval (s) between each boost test. 4015 4016 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 4017 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 4018 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 4019 4020 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 4021 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4022 4023 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 4024 Enable additional printk() statements. 4025 4026 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 4027 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4028 4029 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4030 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4031 4032 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 4033 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 4034 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 4035 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 4036 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 4037 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 4038 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4039 4040 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 4041 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 4042 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 4043 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 4044 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 4045 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 4046 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 4047 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 4048 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4049 4050 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 4051 Once boot has completed (that is, after 4052 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 4053 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 4054 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4055 4056 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4057 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning 4058 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal 4059 to zero. 4060 4061 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 4062 Run the RCU early boot self tests 4063 4064 rdinit= [KNL] 4065 Format: <full_path> 4066 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 4067 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 4068 4069 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 4070 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 4071 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 4072 mba. 4073 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 4074 rdt=cmt,!mba 4075 4076 reboot= [KNL] 4077 Format (x86 or x86_64): 4078 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \ 4079 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 4080 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 4081 [[,]f[orce] 4082 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 4083 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 4084 reboot only), 4085 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 4086 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 4087 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 4088 to be used for rebooting. 4089 4090 relax_domain_level= 4091 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 4092 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 4093 4094 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 4095 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 4096 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 4097 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 4098 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 4099 4100 reservetop= [X86-32] 4101 Format: nn[KMG] 4102 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 4103 address space. 4104 4105 reservelow= [X86] 4106 Format: nn[K] 4107 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at 4108 the bottom of the address space. 4109 4110 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 4111 during initialization. 4112 4113 resume= [SWSUSP] 4114 Specify the partition device for software suspend 4115 Format: 4116 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 4117 4118 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 4119 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 4120 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 4121 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 4122 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt 4123 4124 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4125 read the resume files 4126 4127 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 4128 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4129 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4130 4131 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 4132 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 4133 present during boot. 4134 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 4135 no Disable hibernation and resume. 4136 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 4137 (that will set all pages holding image data 4138 during restoration read-only). 4139 4140 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 4141 4142 rfkill.default_state= 4143 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 4144 etc. communication is blocked by default. 4145 1 Unblocked. 4146 4147 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 4148 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 4149 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 4150 blocked and the previous configuration. 4151 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 4152 blocked and everything unblocked. 4153 4154 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4155 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 4156 4157 ring3mwait=disable 4158 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 4159 CPUs. 4160 4161 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 4162 4163 rodata= [KNL] 4164 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 4165 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 4166 4167 rockchip.usb_uart 4168 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 4169 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 4170 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 4171 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 4172 4173 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 4174 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 4175 4176 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4177 mount the root filesystem 4178 4179 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 4180 4181 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 4182 4183 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 4184 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4185 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4186 4187 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 4188 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 4189 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 4190 managed by CMA. 4191 4192 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 4193 4194 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 4195 4196 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 4197 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 4198 strict 4199 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 4200 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 4201 which is faster. 4202 4203 sa1100ir [NET] 4204 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 4205 4206 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter 4207 4208 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 4209 4210 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 4211 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 4212 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 4213 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 4214 4215 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 4216 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 4217 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 4218 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4219 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 4220 1 -- enable. 4221 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 4222 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 4223 4224 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 4225 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 4226 "lsm=" parameter. 4227 4228 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 4229 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4230 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 4231 0 -- disable. 4232 1 -- enable. 4233 Default value is set via kernel config option. 4234 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used 4235 later to disable prior to initial policy load. 4236 4237 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 4238 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4239 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 4240 0 -- disable. 4241 1 -- enable. 4242 Default value is set via kernel config option. 4243 4244 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 4245 4246 shapers= [NET] 4247 Maximal number of shapers. 4248 4249 simeth= [IA-64] 4250 simscsi= 4251 4252 slram= [HW,MTD] 4253 4254 slab_nomerge [MM] 4255 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 4256 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 4257 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 4258 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 4259 layout control by attackers can usually be 4260 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 4261 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 4262 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 4263 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 4264 own. 4265 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4266 4267 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 4268 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 4269 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 4270 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 4271 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 4272 4273 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB] 4274 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 4275 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 4276 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 4277 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 4278 last alloc / free. For more information see 4279 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4280 4281 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB] 4282 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for 4283 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable. 4284 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON. 4285 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug 4286 directories and files being created under 4287 /sys/kernel/slub. 4288 4289 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 4290 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 4291 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 4292 fragmentation. For more information see 4293 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4294 4295 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 4296 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 4297 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 4298 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 4299 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 4300 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 4301 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 4302 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4303 4304 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 4305 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 4306 lower than slub_max_order. 4307 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4308 4309 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 4310 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 4311 See slab_nomerge for more information. 4312 4313 smart2= [HW] 4314 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 4315 4316 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 4317 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 4318 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 4319 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 4320 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 4321 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 4322 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 4323 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 4324 1: Fast pin select (default) 4325 2: ATC IRMode 4326 4327 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 4328 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 4329 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 4330 actual hardware limit. 4331 Format: <integer> 4332 Default: -1 (no limit) 4333 4334 softlockup_panic= 4335 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 4336 Format: <integer> 4337 4338 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector 4339 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This 4340 is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 4341 which is the respective build-time switch to that 4342 functionality. 4343 4344 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 4345 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 4346 backtraces on all cpus. 4347 Format: <integer> 4348 4349 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 4350 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt 4351 4352 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 4353 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 4354 The default operation protects the kernel from 4355 user space attacks. 4356 4357 on - unconditionally enable, implies 4358 spectre_v2_user=on 4359 off - unconditionally disable, implies 4360 spectre_v2_user=off 4361 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4362 vulnerable 4363 4364 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 4365 mitigation method at run time according to the 4366 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 4367 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 4368 compiler with which the kernel was built. 4369 4370 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 4371 against user space to user space task attacks. 4372 4373 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 4374 the user space protections. 4375 4376 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 4377 4378 retpoline - replace indirect branches 4379 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline 4380 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk 4381 4382 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4383 spectre_v2=auto. 4384 4385 spectre_v2_user= 4386 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 4387 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 4388 user space tasks 4389 4390 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 4391 enforced by spectre_v2=on 4392 4393 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 4394 enforced by spectre_v2=off 4395 4396 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 4397 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 4398 per thread. The mitigation control state 4399 is inherited on fork. 4400 4401 prctl,ibpb 4402 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 4403 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 4404 always when switching between different user 4405 space processes. 4406 4407 seccomp 4408 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 4409 threads will enable the mitigation unless 4410 they explicitly opt out. 4411 4412 seccomp,ibpb 4413 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 4414 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 4415 always when switching between different 4416 user space processes. 4417 4418 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 4419 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 4420 4421 Default mitigation: 4422 If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 4423 4424 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4425 spectre_v2_user=auto. 4426 4427 spec_store_bypass_disable= 4428 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 4429 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 4430 4431 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 4432 a common industry wide performance optimization known 4433 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 4434 to the same memory location may not be observed by 4435 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 4436 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 4437 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 4438 end of a particular speculation execution window. 4439 4440 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 4441 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 4442 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 4443 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 4444 4445 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 4446 Bypass optimization is used. 4447 4448 On x86 the options are: 4449 4450 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 4451 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 4452 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 4453 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 4454 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 4455 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 4456 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 4457 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 4458 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 4459 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 4460 for a process by default. The state of the control 4461 is inherited on fork. 4462 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 4463 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 4464 4465 Default mitigations: 4466 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 4467 4468 On powerpc the options are: 4469 4470 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 4471 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 4472 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 4473 exit. 4474 off - No action. 4475 4476 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4477 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 4478 4479 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 4480 spia_fio_base= 4481 spia_pedr= 4482 spia_peddr= 4483 4484 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 4485 Specifies how frequently to check for 4486 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 4487 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 4488 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 4489 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 4490 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 4491 are ignored. 4492 4493 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 4494 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 4495 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 4496 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 4497 grace period will be considered for automatic 4498 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 4499 expediting. 4500 4501 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 4502 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 4503 4504 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 4505 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 4506 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 4507 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 4508 4509 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 4510 for both kernel and userspace 4511 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 4512 for both kernel and userspace 4513 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 4514 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 4515 to allow userspace to register its 4516 interest in being mitigated too. 4517 4518 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 4519 override the default stack gap protection. The value 4520 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 4521 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 4522 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 4523 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 4524 4525 stacktrace [FTRACE] 4526 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 4527 4528 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 4529 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 4530 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 4531 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 4532 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 4533 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 4534 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 4535 4536 sti= [PARISC,HW] 4537 Format: <num> 4538 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 4539 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 4540 as the initial boot-console. 4541 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 4542 4543 sti_font= [HW] 4544 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 4545 4546 stifb= [HW] 4547 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 4548 4549 sunrpc.min_resvport= 4550 sunrpc.max_resvport= 4551 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4552 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 4553 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 4554 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 4555 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 4556 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 4557 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 4558 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 4559 maximum port values. 4560 4561 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 4562 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4563 Limit the number of requests that the server will 4564 process in parallel from a single connection. 4565 The default value is 0 (no limit). 4566 4567 sunrpc.pool_mode= 4568 [NFS] 4569 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 4570 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 4571 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 4572 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 4573 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 4574 NFS server is running. 4575 4576 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 4577 automatically using heuristics 4578 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 4579 percpu one pool for each CPU 4580 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 4581 to global on non-NUMA machines) 4582 4583 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 4584 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 4585 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4586 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 4587 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 4588 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 4589 improve throughput, but will also increase the 4590 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 4591 4592 suspend.pm_test_delay= 4593 [SUSPEND] 4594 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 4595 mode before resuming the system (see 4596 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 4597 is set. Default value is 5. 4598 4599 swapaccount=[0|1] 4600 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 4601 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 4602 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.rst) 4603 4604 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 4605 Format: { <int> | force | noforce } 4606 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 4607 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 4608 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 4609 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 4610 4611 switches= [HW,M68k] 4612 4613 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 4614 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 4615 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 4616 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 4617 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 4618 in older udev will not work anymore. 4619 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 4620 the kernel configuration. 4621 4622 sysrq_always_enabled 4623 [KNL] 4624 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 4625 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 4626 Useful for debugging. 4627 4628 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4629 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 4630 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 4631 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 4632 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt 4633 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 4634 4635 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 4636 4637 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N] 4638 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 4639 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 4640 as the system sleep state during system startup with 4641 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 4642 The system is woken from this state using a 4643 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 4644 4645 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4646 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 4647 4648 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 4649 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 4650 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 4651 4652 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 4653 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 4654 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 4655 4656 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 4657 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 4658 critical and hot trip points. 4659 4660 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 4661 1: disable ACPI thermal control 4662 4663 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 4664 -1: disable all passive trip points 4665 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 4666 value 4667 4668 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 4669 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 4670 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 4671 0: no polling (default) 4672 4673 threadirqs [KNL] 4674 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 4675 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 4676 4677 tmem [KNL,XEN] 4678 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in. 4679 4680 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4681 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache 4682 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor. 4683 4684 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4685 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap 4686 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled 4687 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled. 4688 4689 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4690 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages 4691 to the hypervisor. 4692 4693 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4694 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately 4695 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the 4696 kernel based on different criteria. 4697 4698 topology= [S390] 4699 Format: {off | on} 4700 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 4701 topology information if the hardware supports this. 4702 The scheduler will make use of this information and 4703 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 4704 Default is on. 4705 4706 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 4707 Format: {off} 4708 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 4709 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 4710 LPAR. 4711 4712 tp720= [HW,PS2] 4713 4714 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 4715 Format: integer pcr id 4716 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 4717 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 4718 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 4719 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 4720 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 4721 are saved. 4722 4723 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 4724 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 4725 4726 trace_event=[event-list] 4727 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 4728 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 4729 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See 4730 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 4731 4732 trace_options=[option-list] 4733 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 4734 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 4735 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 4736 to echo the option name into 4737 4738 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 4739 4740 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 4741 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 4742 4743 trace_options=stacktrace 4744 4745 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 4746 section. 4747 4748 tp_printk[FTRACE] 4749 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 4750 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 4751 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 4752 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 4753 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 4754 4755 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 4756 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 4757 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 4758 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 4759 4760 ** CAUTION ** 4761 4762 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 4763 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 4764 the system to live lock. 4765 4766 traceoff_on_warning 4767 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 4768 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 4769 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 4770 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 4771 4772 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 4773 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 4774 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 4775 4776 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 4777 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 4778 4779 transparent_hugepage= 4780 [KNL] 4781 Format: [always|madvise|never] 4782 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 4783 with respect to transparent hugepages. 4784 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 4785 for more details. 4786 4787 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 4788 Format: <string> 4789 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 4790 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 4791 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 4792 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 4793 virtualized environment. 4794 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 4795 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 4796 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 4797 can add overhead. 4798 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 4799 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 4800 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 4801 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 4802 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 4803 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 4804 acceptable). 4805 4806 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 4807 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 4808 Format: 4809 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 4810 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 4811 4812 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 4813 happen after console_init() and before a proper 4814 console driver takes over, this boot options might 4815 help "seeing" what's going on. 4816 4817 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4818 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 4819 4820 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 4821 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 4822 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 4823 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 4824 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 4825 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 4826 reported either. 4827 4828 unknown_nmi_panic 4829 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 4830 4831 usbcore.authorized_default= 4832 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 4833 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 4834 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 4835 if device connected to internal port) 4836 4837 usbcore.autosuspend= 4838 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 4839 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 4840 is the time required before an idle device will be 4841 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 4842 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 4843 4844 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 4845 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 4846 4847 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 4848 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 4849 (default = 65536). 4850 4851 usbcore.blinkenlights= 4852 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 4853 4854 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 4855 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 4856 scheme, applies only to low and full-speed devices 4857 (default 0 = off). 4858 4859 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 4860 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 4861 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 4862 4863 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 4864 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 4865 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 4866 4867 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 4868 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 4869 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 4870 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 4871 4872 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 4873 4874 usbcore.quirks= 4875 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 4876 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 4877 commas. Each entry has the form 4878 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 4879 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 4880 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 4881 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 4882 the following meanings: 4883 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 4884 descriptors must not be fetched using 4885 a 255-byte read); 4886 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 4887 correctly so reset it instead); 4888 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 4889 Set-Interface requests); 4890 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 4891 handle its Configuration or Interface 4892 strings); 4893 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 4894 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 4895 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 4896 more interface descriptions than the 4897 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 4898 talking to these interfaces); 4899 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 4900 during initialization, after we read 4901 the device descriptor); 4902 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 4903 high speed and super speed interrupt 4904 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 4905 require the interval in microframes (1 4906 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 4907 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 4908 (bInterval-1). 4909 Devices with this quirk report their 4910 bInterval as the result of this 4911 calculation instead of the exponent 4912 variable used in the calculation); 4913 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 4914 handle device_qualifier descriptor 4915 requests); 4916 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 4917 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 4918 remote wakeup capability); 4919 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 4920 Power Management); 4921 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 4922 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 4923 frames instead of the USB 2.0 4924 calculation); 4925 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 4926 to be disconnected before suspend to 4927 prevent spurious wakeup); 4928 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 4929 pause after every control message); 4930 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 4931 delay after resetting its port); 4932 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 4933 4934 usbhid.mousepoll= 4935 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 4936 4937 usbhid.jspoll= 4938 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 4939 4940 usbhid.kbpoll= 4941 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 4942 4943 usb-storage.delay_use= 4944 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 4945 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 4946 4947 usb-storage.quirks= 4948 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 4949 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 4950 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 4951 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 4952 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 4953 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 4954 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 4955 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 4956 of sense data); 4957 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 4958 bytes of sense data); 4959 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 4960 device capacity by one sector); 4961 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 4962 READ_DISC_INFO command); 4963 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 4964 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 4965 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 4966 command, uas only); 4967 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 4968 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 4969 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 4970 reported device capacity by one 4971 sector if the number is odd); 4972 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 4973 device); 4974 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 4975 command, uas only); 4976 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 4977 unlock ejectable media); 4978 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 4979 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time); 4980 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 4981 initial READ(10) command); 4982 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 4983 reported by the device); 4984 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 4985 by default); 4986 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 4987 bogus residue values); 4988 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 4989 Logical Unit); 4990 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 4991 commands, uas only); 4992 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 4993 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 4994 medium is write-protected). 4995 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 4996 even if the device claims no cache) 4997 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 4998 4999 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 5000 Format: <int> 5001 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 5002 1 - undefined instruction events 5003 2 - system calls 5004 4 - invalid data aborts 5005 8 - SIGSEGV faults 5006 16 - SIGBUS faults 5007 Example: user_debug=31 5008 5009 userpte= 5010 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 5011 5012 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 5013 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 5014 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 5015 5016 vdso= [X86,SH] 5017 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 5018 5019 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 5020 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 5021 5022 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 5023 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 5024 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 5025 5026 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 5027 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 5028 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 5029 5030 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 5031 alias for vdso32=0. 5032 5033 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 5034 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 5035 5036 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 5037 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 5038 5039 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 5040 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 5041 5042 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1] 5043 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 5044 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 5045 level and then send out the event to user space through 5046 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver 5047 will only send out the event without touching backlight 5048 brightness level. 5049 default: 1 5050 5051 virtio_mmio.device= 5052 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 5053 5054 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 5055 where: 5056 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 5057 like K, M and G) 5058 <baseaddr> := physical base address 5059 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 5060 request_irq()) 5061 <id> := (optional) platform device id 5062 example: 5063 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 5064 5065 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 5066 5067 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 5068 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and 5069 Documentation/svga.txt. 5070 Use vga=ask for menu. 5071 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 5072 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 5073 5074 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 5075 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 5076 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 5077 All options are enabled by default, and this 5078 interface is meant to allow for selectively 5079 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 5080 debugging features. 5081 5082 Available options are: 5083 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 5084 - Disable all of the above options 5085 5086 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 5087 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 5088 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 5089 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 5090 mapped kernel RAM. 5091 5092 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 5093 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 5094 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 5095 5096 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 5097 Format: <command> 5098 5099 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 5100 Format: <command> 5101 5102 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 5103 Format: <command> 5104 5105 vsyscall= [X86-64] 5106 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 5107 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 5108 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 5109 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 5110 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 5111 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 5112 5113 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 5114 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 5115 page is readable. 5116 5117 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 5118 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 5119 page is not readable. 5120 5121 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 5122 them quite hard to use for exploits but 5123 might break your system. 5124 5125 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 5126 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 5127 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 5128 5129 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 5130 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 5131 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 5132 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 5133 5134 vt.default_blu= [VT] 5135 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 5136 Change the default blue palette of the console. 5137 This is a 16-member array composed of values 5138 ranging from 0-255. 5139 5140 vt.default_grn= [VT] 5141 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 5142 Change the default green palette of the console. 5143 This is a 16-member array composed of values 5144 ranging from 0-255. 5145 5146 vt.default_red= [VT] 5147 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 5148 Change the default red palette of the console. 5149 This is a 16-member array composed of values 5150 ranging from 0-255. 5151 5152 vt.default_utf8= 5153 [VT] 5154 Format=<0|1> 5155 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 5156 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 5157 newly opened terminals. 5158 5159 vt.global_cursor_default= 5160 [VT] 5161 Format=<-1|0|1> 5162 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 5163 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 5164 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 5165 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 5166 cursors, 1 will display them. 5167 5168 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 5169 Default: 2 = green. 5170 5171 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 5172 Default: 3 = cyan. 5173 5174 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 5175 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 5176 or other driver-specific files in the 5177 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 5178 5179 watchdog_thresh= 5180 [KNL] 5181 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 5182 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 5183 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 5184 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 5185 seconds. 5186 5187 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 5188 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 5189 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 5190 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 5191 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 5192 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 5193 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 5194 corresponding sysfs file. 5195 5196 workqueue.disable_numa 5197 By default, all work items queued to unbound 5198 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 5199 issued on, which results in better behavior in 5200 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 5201 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 5202 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 5203 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 5204 5205 workqueue.power_efficient 5206 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 5207 they show better performance thanks to cache 5208 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 5209 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 5210 5211 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 5212 were observed to contribute significantly to power 5213 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 5214 power usage at the cost of small performance 5215 overhead. 5216 5217 The default value of this parameter is determined by 5218 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 5219 5220 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 5221 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 5222 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 5223 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 5224 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 5225 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 5226 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 5227 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 5228 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 5229 impacted. 5230 5231 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 5232 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 5233 supporting x2apic. 5234 5235 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT] 5236 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform. 5237 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer 5238 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer. 5239 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt 5240 5241 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 5242 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 5243 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 5244 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 5245 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 5246 domains. 5247 5248 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 5249 Unplug Xen emulated devices 5250 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 5251 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 5252 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 5253 nics -- unplug network devices 5254 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 5255 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 5256 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 5257 the unplug protocol 5258 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 5259 5260 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 5261 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV 5262 optimizations. 5263 5264 xen_nopv [X86] 5265 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 5266 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 5267 5268 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 5269 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 5270 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 5271 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 5272 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 5273 5274 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 5275 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 5276 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 5277 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 5278 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 5279 more timer interrupts. 5280 5281 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 5282 Format: 5283 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 5284 5285 xive= [PPC] 5286 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 5287 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 5288 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 5289 5290 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 5291 controller on both pseries and powernv 5292 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 5293 5294 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 5295 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 5296 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 5297 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 5298