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