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