1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64] 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt | 4 copy_dsdt } 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64] 7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on 8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant. 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory 13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force" 14 are available 15 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi 17 18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC] 19 Format: <int> 20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 21 1,0: use 1st APIC table 22 default: 0 23 24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 25 acpi_backlight=vendor 26 acpi_backlight=video 27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver 28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 29 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 30 31 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr 32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 36 37 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 41 This option is useful for developers to identify the 42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 43 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 44 45 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 47 Format: <int> 48 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT 52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 55 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 56 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about 57 debug layers and levels. 58 59 Enable processor driver info messages: 60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages: 62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000 63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 64 object while interpreting AML: 65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 68 69 Some values produce so much output that the system is 70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 71 if you need to capture more output. 72 73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 74 { strict | lax | no } 75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 79 can interfere with legacy drivers. 80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 82 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 87 no further checks are performed. 88 89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI] 90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 92 size limitation. 93 94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 95 ACPI will balance active IRQs 96 default in APIC mode 97 98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 100 default in PIC mode 101 102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 103 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 104 105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 106 use by PCI 107 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 108 109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 113 the GPE dispatcher. 114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 115 GPE floodings. 116 Format: <byte> 117 118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 122 auto-serialization feature. 123 This feature is enabled by default. 124 This option allows to turn off the feature. 125 126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 127 kernels. 128 129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] 130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 132 installed automatically and they will appear under 133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 134 This option turns off this feature. 135 Note that specifying this option does not affect 136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 138 139 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] 140 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 141 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 142 second kernel for kdump. 143 144 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 145 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 146 147 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 148 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 149 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 150 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 151 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 152 153 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 154 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 155 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 156 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 157 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 158 strings 159 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 160 strings 161 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 162 163 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 164 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 165 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 166 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 167 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 168 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 169 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 170 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 171 care about the state of the feature group strings which 172 should be controlled by the OSPM. 173 Examples: 174 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 175 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 176 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 177 178 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 179 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 180 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 181 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 182 multiple times through kernel command line is also 183 meaningless. 184 Examples: 185 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 186 FALSE. 187 188 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 189 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 190 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 191 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 192 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 193 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 194 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 195 there are quirks related to this string. This command 196 is useful when one want to control the state of the 197 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 198 the OSPM features. 199 Examples: 200 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 201 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 202 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 203 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 204 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 205 equivalent to 206 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 207 and 208 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 209 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 210 211 acpi_pm_good [X86] 212 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 213 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 214 and always returns good values. 215 216 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 217 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 218 219 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 220 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 221 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 222 223 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 224 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig, 225 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl } 226 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on 227 s3_bios and s3_mode. 228 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 229 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 230 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 231 used during resume from hibernation. 232 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 233 control method, with respect to putting devices into 234 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 235 of _PTS is used by default). 236 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 237 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 238 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 239 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 240 but some broken systems don't work without it). 241 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 242 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 243 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 244 245 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 246 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 247 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 248 249 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 250 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 251 252 agp= [AGP] 253 { off | try_unsupported } 254 off: disable AGP support 255 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 256 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 257 258 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 259 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 260 261 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 262 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 263 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 264 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 265 266 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 267 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 268 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 269 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 270 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 271 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 272 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 273 274 32: only for 32-bit processes 275 64: only for 64-bit processes 276 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 277 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 278 279 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 280 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 281 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 282 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 283 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 284 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 285 286 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 287 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 288 Possible values are: 289 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when 290 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are 291 flushed before they will be reused, which 292 is a lot of faster 293 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 294 the system 295 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 296 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 297 allowed anymore to lift isolation 298 requirements as needed. This option 299 does not override iommu=pt 300 301 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 302 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 303 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 304 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 305 IOMMU initialization. 306 307 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 308 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 309 remapping modes: 310 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 311 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 312 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 313 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 314 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 315 316 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 317 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 318 Format: <a>,<b> 319 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 320 321 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 322 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 323 connected to one of 16 gameports 324 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 325 326 apc= [HW,SPARC] 327 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 328 Format: noidle 329 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 330 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 331 APC and your system crashes randomly. 332 333 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 334 Change the output verbosity while booting 335 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 336 Change the amount of debugging information output 337 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 338 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 339 driver name. 340 Format: apic=driver_name 341 Examples: apic=bigsmp 342 343 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 344 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 345 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 346 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 347 backup of CPU 0 348 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 349 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 350 shot down by NMI 351 352 autoconf= [IPV6] 353 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 354 355 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 356 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 357 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 358 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 359 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 360 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 361 apic=verbose is specified. 362 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 363 364 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 365 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 366 367 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 368 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 369 370 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 371 372 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 373 374 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 375 EzKey and similar keyboards 376 377 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 378 379 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 380 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 381 382 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 383 keyboards 384 385 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 386 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 387 388 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 389 Use software keyboard repeat 390 391 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 392 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 393 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 394 enabled until the next reboot 395 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 396 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 397 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 398 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 399 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 400 userspace auditd. 401 Default: unset 402 403 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 404 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 405 Default: 64 406 407 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 408 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 409 Format: { "0" | "1" } 410 0 - Disable the BAU. 411 1 - Enable the BAU. 412 unset - Disable the BAU. 413 414 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 415 Format: <io>,<mode> 416 417 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 418 Format: <io>,<mode> 419 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 420 421 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 422 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 423 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 424 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 425 426 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 427 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 428 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 429 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 430 431 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 432 embedded devices based on command line input. 433 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 434 435 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 436 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to 437 no delay (0). 438 Format: integer 439 440 bert_disable [ACPI] 441 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 442 443 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 444 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 445 kernel args too. 446 bttv.pll= See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst 447 bttv.tuner= 448 449 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 450 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 451 at a time. 452 453 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 454 455 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 456 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 457 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 458 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 459 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 460 This option provides an override for these situations. 461 462 carrier_timeout= 463 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 464 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 465 it waits 120 seconds. 466 467 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 468 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 469 trust validation. 470 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 471 472 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 473 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 474 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 475 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 476 others). 477 478 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 479 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 480 481 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller 482 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable} 483 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 484 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 485 a single hierarchy 486 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 487 subsystem 488 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 489 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 490 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 491 492 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 493 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 494 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 495 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 496 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 497 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 498 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 499 all v1 hierarchies. 500 501 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 502 Format: <string> 503 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 504 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 505 506 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 507 Format: { "0" | "1" } 508 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 509 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 510 any implied execute protection). 511 1 -- check protection requested by application. 512 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 513 Value can be changed at runtime via 514 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 515 516 cio_ignore= [S390] 517 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 518 clk_ignore_unused 519 [CLK] 520 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 521 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 522 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 523 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 524 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 525 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 526 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 527 platform with proper driver support. For more 528 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 529 530 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 531 [Deprecated] 532 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 533 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 534 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 535 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 536 537 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 538 Format: <string> 539 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 540 with the name specified. 541 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 542 the platform: 543 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 544 [ACPI] acpi_pm 545 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 546 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 547 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 548 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 549 [MIPS] MIPS 550 [PARISC] cr16 551 [S390] tod 552 [SH] SuperH 553 [SPARC64] tick 554 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 555 556 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 557 [ARM,ARM64] 558 Format: <bool> 559 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 560 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 561 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 562 systems. 563 564 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86] 565 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 566 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 567 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily 568 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific 569 ones should be. 570 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 571 or using the feature without checking anything 572 will still see it. This just prevents it from 573 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 574 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 575 some critical bits. 576 577 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 578 [ARM,X86,KNL] 579 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 580 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 581 placement constraint by the physical address range of 582 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 583 altogether. For more information, see 584 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h 585 586 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 587 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 588 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 589 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 590 a hypervisor. 591 Default: yes 592 593 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 594 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 595 allocations, by default set to 256K. 596 597 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 598 Format: 599 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 600 601 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 602 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 603 604 com90xx= [HW,NET] 605 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 606 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 607 608 condev= [HW,S390] console device 609 conmode= 610 611 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 612 613 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 614 615 ttyS<n>[,options] 616 ttyUSB0[,options] 617 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 618 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 619 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 620 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 621 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 622 623 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 624 information. See 625 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an 626 alternative. 627 628 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 629 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 630 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 631 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 632 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 633 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 634 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 635 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 636 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 637 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 638 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 639 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 640 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 641 the h/w is not re-initialized. 642 643 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 644 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 645 646 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 647 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 648 console=brl,ttyS0 649 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 650 651 console_msg_format= 652 [KNL] Change console messages format 653 default 654 By default we print messages on consoles in 655 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 656 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 657 `printk_time' param). 658 syslog 659 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 660 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 661 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 662 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 663 from /proc/kmsg. 664 665 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 666 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 667 Defaults to 0. 668 669 coredump_filter= 670 [KNL] Change the default value for 671 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 672 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt. 673 674 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 675 [ARM,ARM64] 676 Format: <bool> 677 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 678 0: default value, disable debugging 679 1: enable debugging at boot time 680 681 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 682 disable the cpuidle sub-system 683 684 cpuidle.governor= 685 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 686 687 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 688 disable the cpufreq sub-system 689 690 cpu_init_udelay=N 691 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 692 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 693 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 694 Default: 10000 695 696 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 697 Format: 698 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 699 700 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 701 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 702 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 703 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 704 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 705 is selected automatically. 706 [KNL, x86_64] select a region under 4G first, and 707 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset' 708 hasn't been specified. 709 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 710 711 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 712 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 713 in the running system. The syntax of range is 714 start-[end] where start and end are both 715 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 716 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 717 718 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 719 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 720 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 721 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 722 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 723 available. 724 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 725 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 726 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 727 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 728 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 729 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 730 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 731 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 732 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at 733 at least 256M below 4G automatically. 734 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G 735 for second kernel instead. 736 0: to disable low allocation. 737 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 738 or memory reserved is below 4G. 739 740 cryptomgr.notests 741 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 742 743 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 744 Format: <dma> 745 746 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 747 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 748 749 dasd= [HW,NET] 750 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 751 752 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 753 (one device per port) 754 Format: <port#>,<type> 755 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 756 757 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot 758 time. See 759 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for 760 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg. 761 762 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 763 764 debug_boot_weak_hash 765 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 766 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 767 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 768 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 769 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 770 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 771 772 debug_locks_verbose= 773 [KNL] verbose self-tests 774 Format=<0|1> 775 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 776 self-tests. 777 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to 778 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally 779 only useful to kernel developers. 780 781 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 782 783 no_debug_objects 784 [KNL] Disable object debugging 785 786 debug_guardpage_minorder= 787 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 788 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 789 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 790 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 791 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 792 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 793 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 794 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 795 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 796 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 797 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 798 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 799 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when 800 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 801 bypassed) which are not detectable by 802 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 803 tracking down these problems. 804 805 debug_pagealloc= 806 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 807 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 808 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 809 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 810 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 811 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 812 on: enable the feature 813 814 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 815 816 decnet.addr= [HW,NET] 817 Format: <area>[,<node>] 818 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt. 819 820 default_hugepagesz= 821 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default 822 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by 823 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and 824 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems. 825 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size 826 if not specified. 827 828 deferred_probe_timeout= 829 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 830 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 831 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 832 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0 833 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also 834 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 835 retrying. 836 837 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 838 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 839 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 840 level 1 and decompression (default) 841 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 842 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 843 only (compression on level 1) 844 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 845 only (decompression) 846 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 847 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 848 849 dhash_entries= [KNL] 850 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 851 852 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 853 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 854 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 855 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 856 miss to occur. 857 858 disable= [IPV6] 859 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 860 861 hardened_usercopy= 862 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 863 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 864 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 865 from reading or writing beyond known memory 866 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 867 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 868 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 869 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 870 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 871 872 disable_radix [PPC] 873 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 874 875 disable_tlbie [PPC] 876 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 877 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 878 879 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 880 Format: <int> 881 The number of initial APIC ID for the 882 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 883 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 884 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 885 causing system reset or hang due to sending 886 INIT from AP to BSP. 887 888 perf_v4_pmi= [X86,INTEL] 889 Format: <bool> 890 Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature. 891 The feature only exists starting from 892 Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer). 893 894 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 895 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if 896 to workaround buggy firmware. 897 898 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 899 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 900 901 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 902 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 903 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 904 entry later. This parameter disables that. 905 906 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 907 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 908 memory out of your available memory pool based on 909 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 910 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 911 912 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 913 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 914 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 915 916 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 917 918 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 919 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 920 921 dma_debug_entries=<number> 922 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 923 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 924 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 925 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 926 architectural default is too low. 927 928 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 929 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 930 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 931 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 932 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 933 driver later using sysfs. 934 935 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 936 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. 937 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 938 939 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 940 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 941 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 942 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 943 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 944 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 945 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 946 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 947 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 948 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 949 available in Documentation/driver-api/edid.rst. An EDID 950 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 951 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 952 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 953 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 954 data set with no connector name will be used for 955 any connectors not explicitly specified. 956 957 dscc4.setup= [NET] 958 959 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 960 Format: {"off" | "known"} 961 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 962 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 963 exists). 964 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 965 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 966 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 967 968 dump_apple_properties [X86] 969 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 970 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 971 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 972 973 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 974 module.dyndbg[="val"] 975 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 976 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 977 for details. 978 979 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions. 980 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.rst for more 981 information about the feature. 982 983 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 984 in some Intel CPUs. 985 986 module.async_probe [KNL] 987 Enable asynchronous probe on this module. 988 989 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 990 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 991 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 992 which are not unmapped. 993 994 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 995 996 When used with no options, the early console is 997 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 998 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 999 the platform. 1000 1001 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1002 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1003 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1004 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1005 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1006 configured. 1007 1008 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 1009 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 1010 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 1011 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options] 1012 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1013 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1014 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1015 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1016 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1017 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1018 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1019 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1020 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 1021 1022 pl011,<addr> 1023 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1024 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1025 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1026 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1027 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1028 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1029 the device registers. 1030 1031 meson,<addr> 1032 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1033 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1034 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1035 supported. 1036 1037 msm_serial,<addr> 1038 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1039 port at the specified address. The serial port 1040 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1041 yet supported. 1042 1043 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1044 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1045 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1046 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1047 yet supported. 1048 1049 owl,<addr> 1050 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1051 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1052 specified address. The serial port must already be 1053 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1054 1055 rda,<addr> 1056 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1057 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1058 specified address. The serial port must already be 1059 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1060 1061 sbi 1062 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1063 console. 1064 1065 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1066 1067 s3c2410,<addr> 1068 s3c2412,<addr> 1069 s3c2440,<addr> 1070 s3c6400,<addr> 1071 s5pv210,<addr> 1072 exynos4210,<addr> 1073 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1074 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1075 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1076 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1077 Options are not yet supported. 1078 1079 lantiq,<addr> 1080 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1081 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1082 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1083 yet supported. 1084 1085 lpuart,<addr> 1086 lpuart32,<addr> 1087 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1088 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1089 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1090 port must already be setup and configured. 1091 1092 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1093 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1094 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1095 address. The serial port must already be setup 1096 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1097 1098 qcom_geni,<addr> 1099 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1100 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1101 specified address. The serial port must already be 1102 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1103 1104 efifb,[options] 1105 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1106 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1107 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1108 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1109 mapped with the correct attributes. 1110 1111 linflex,<addr> 1112 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1113 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1114 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1115 already be setup and configured. 1116 1117 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1118 earlyprintk=vga 1119 earlyprintk=sclp 1120 earlyprintk=xen 1121 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1122 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1123 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1124 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1125 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1126 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1127 1128 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1129 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1130 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1131 1132 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1133 takes over. 1134 1135 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can 1136 be used at a time. 1137 1138 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1139 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1140 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1141 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1142 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1143 You can find the port for a given device in 1144 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1145 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1146 1147 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1148 very good. 1149 1150 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by 1151 the real console. 1152 1153 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests. 1154 1155 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1156 1157 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1158 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1159 UART class. 1160 1161 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1162 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1163 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1164 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1165 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1166 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1167 default: on. 1168 1169 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1170 ekgdboc=kbd 1171 1172 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1173 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1174 1175 edd= [EDD] 1176 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1177 1178 efi= [EFI] 1179 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug", 1180 "nosoftreserve", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1181 "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1182 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI 1183 runtime services mapping. [Needs CONFIG_X86_UV=y] 1184 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1185 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1186 firmware implementations. 1187 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1188 debug: enable misc debug output 1189 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1190 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1191 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1192 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1193 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1194 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1195 disable_early_pci_dma: Disable the busmaster bit on all 1196 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1197 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1198 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1199 1200 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1201 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1202 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1203 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1204 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1205 1206 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1207 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1208 updating original EFI memory map. 1209 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1210 from ss to ss+nn. 1211 1212 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1213 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1214 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1215 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1216 1217 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the 1218 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to 1219 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff. 1220 1221 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1222 related features. For example, you can do debugging of 1223 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1224 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as 1225 "soft reserved". 1226 1227 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1228 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1229 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1230 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1231 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1232 1233 1234 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1235 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1236 1237 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1238 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1239 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1240 1241 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1242 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1243 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1244 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1245 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1246 1247 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1248 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1249 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1250 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1251 1252 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1253 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1254 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1255 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1256 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1257 1258 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1259 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1260 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1261 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1262 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1263 Default value is 0. 1264 Value can be changed at runtime via 1265 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1266 1267 erst_disable [ACPI] 1268 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1269 support. 1270 1271 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1272 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1273 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1274 1275 evm= [EVM] 1276 Format: { "fix" } 1277 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1278 current integrity status. 1279 1280 failslab= 1281 fail_page_alloc= 1282 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1283 General fault injection mechanism. 1284 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1285 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1286 1287 floppy= [HW] 1288 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1289 1290 force_pal_cache_flush 1291 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1292 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1293 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1294 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1295 1296 forcepae [X86-32] 1297 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1298 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1299 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1300 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1301 and may cause unknown problems. 1302 1303 ftrace=[tracer] 1304 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1305 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1306 boot debugging. 1307 1308 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1309 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1310 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1311 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1312 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1313 oops. 1314 1315 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1316 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1317 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 1318 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1319 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1320 tracing directory. 1321 1322 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1323 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1324 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1325 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1326 tracing directory. 1327 1328 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1329 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1330 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1331 function-list is a comma separated list of functions 1332 that can be changed at run time by the 1333 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1334 1335 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1336 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1337 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of 1338 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1339 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1340 1341 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1342 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1343 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1344 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1345 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1346 1347 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1348 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1349 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1350 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1351 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1352 1353 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1354 1355 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1356 Format: off | on 1357 default: on 1358 1359 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1360 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1361 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1362 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1363 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1364 1365 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1366 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1367 android emulator 1368 1369 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1370 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1371 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1372 GPT to be used instead. 1373 1374 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1375 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1376 Format: 0 | 1 1377 Default: 0 1378 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1379 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1380 Format: 0 | 1 1381 Default: 0 1382 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1383 Format: 0 | 1 1384 Default: 0 1385 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1386 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1387 Default: 1024 1388 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1389 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1390 Default: 1024 1391 1392 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1393 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1394 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1395 1396 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1397 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1398 backtraces on all cpus. 1399 Format: <integer> 1400 1401 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1402 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1403 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1404 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1405 1406 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1407 1408 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1409 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1410 1411 hest_disable [ACPI] 1412 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1413 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1414 logic will be disabled. 1415 1416 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1417 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1418 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1419 size on bigger boxes. 1420 1421 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1422 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1423 Default: "on" 1424 1425 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1426 1427 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1428 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1429 verbose } 1430 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1431 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1432 VIA, nVidia) 1433 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1434 1435 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1436 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1437 1438 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1439 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages. 1440 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified 1441 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve 1442 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on 1443 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G 1444 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag). 1445 1446 hung_task_panic= 1447 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1448 Format: <integer> 1449 1450 A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a 1451 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1452 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1453 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1454 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1455 1456 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1457 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1458 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1459 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1460 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1461 1462 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1463 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1464 guest on lock contention. 1465 1466 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1467 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1468 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1469 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1470 the real console. 1471 1472 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1473 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1474 registered from board initialization code. 1475 Format: 1476 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1477 1478 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1479 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1480 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1481 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1482 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1483 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1484 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1485 keyboard and cannot control its state 1486 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1487 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1488 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1489 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1490 for the AUX port 1491 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1492 controller 1493 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1494 controllers 1495 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1496 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1497 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1498 transitions, or never reset 1499 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1500 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1501 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1502 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1503 architectures force reset to be always executed 1504 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1505 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1506 1507 i810= [HW,DRM] 1508 1509 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1510 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1511 hardware. 1512 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature 1513 does not match list of supported models. 1514 i8k.power_status 1515 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1516 (disabled by default) 1517 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1518 capability is set. 1519 1520 i915.invert_brightness= 1521 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1522 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1523 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1524 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1525 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1526 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1527 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1528 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1529 value switches the backlight off. 1530 -1 -- never invert brightness 1531 0 -- machine default 1532 1 -- force brightness inversion 1533 1534 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1535 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1536 1537 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1538 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc 1539 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr 1540 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options 1541 See Documentation/ide/ide.rst. 1542 1543 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1544 Format: <int> 1545 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on 1546 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by 1547 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The 1548 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning. 1549 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the 1550 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which 1551 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value 1552 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it 1553 was 0x3. 1554 1555 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1556 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers. 1557 1558 idle= [X86] 1559 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1560 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1561 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1562 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1563 Not recommended. 1564 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1565 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1566 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1567 1568 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1569 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1570 Default: strict 1571 1572 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1573 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1574 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1575 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1576 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1577 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1578 encoding mode. 1579 1580 Available settings are as follows: 1581 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1582 supported by the FPU 1583 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1584 by the FPU 1585 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1586 by the FPU 1587 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1588 supported by the FPU 1589 1590 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1591 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1592 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1593 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1594 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1595 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1596 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1597 MIPS64 CPUs. 1598 1599 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1600 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1601 except where unsupported by hardware. 1602 1603 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1604 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1605 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1606 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1607 could change it dynamically, usually by 1608 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1609 1610 ignore_rlimit_data 1611 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1612 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1613 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1614 1615 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1616 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1617 1618 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1619 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1620 default: "enforce" 1621 1622 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1623 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1624 owned by uid=0. 1625 1626 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1627 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1628 measurements, instead of host native format. 1629 1630 ima_hash= [IMA] 1631 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1632 | sha512 | ... } 1633 default: "sha1" 1634 1635 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1636 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1637 1638 ima_policy= [IMA] 1639 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1640 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1641 fail_securely" 1642 1643 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1644 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1645 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1646 uid=0. 1647 1648 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1649 all files owned by root. 1650 1651 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1652 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1653 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1654 1655 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1656 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1657 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1658 flag. 1659 1660 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1661 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1662 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1663 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1664 opened for read by uid=0. 1665 1666 ima_template= [IMA] 1667 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1668 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" } 1669 Default: "ima-ng" 1670 1671 ima_template_fmt= 1672 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1673 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1674 1675 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1676 Format: <min_file_size> 1677 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1678 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1679 1680 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1681 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1682 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1683 1684 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1685 Format: <bufsize> 1686 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1687 1688 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1689 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1690 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1691 1692 init= [KNL] 1693 Format: <full_path> 1694 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1695 process. 1696 1697 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1698 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1699 startup. 1700 1701 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1702 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1703 modules and initcalls. 1704 1705 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 1706 1707 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 1708 zeroes. 1709 Format: 0 | 1 1710 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 1711 1712 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 1713 Format: 0 | 1 1714 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 1715 1716 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 1717 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 1718 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 1719 override in debugfs after boot. 1720 1721 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 1722 Format: <irq> 1723 1724 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 1725 1726 integrity_audit=[IMA] 1727 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1728 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 1729 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 1730 1731 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 1732 on 1733 Enable intel iommu driver. 1734 off 1735 Disable intel iommu driver. 1736 igfx_off [Default Off] 1737 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 1738 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 1739 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 1740 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 1741 DMA. 1742 forcedac [x86_64] 1743 With this option iommu will not optimize to look 1744 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual 1745 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater 1746 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look 1747 for translation below 32-bit and if not available 1748 then look in the higher range. 1749 strict [Default Off] 1750 With this option on every unmap_single operation will 1751 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed 1752 to batching them for performance. 1753 sp_off [Default Off] 1754 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 1755 has the capability. With this option, super page will 1756 not be supported. 1757 sm_on [Default Off] 1758 By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the 1759 hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable 1760 mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode 1761 will be used on hardware which claims to support it. 1762 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 1763 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 1764 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 1765 could harm performance of some high-throughput 1766 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 1767 mapping is enabled. 1768 Note that using this option lowers the security 1769 provided by tboot because it makes the system 1770 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 1771 nobounce [Default off] 1772 Disable bounce buffer for unstrusted devices such as 1773 the Thunderbolt devices. This will treat the untrusted 1774 devices as the trusted ones, hence might expose security 1775 risks of DMA attacks. 1776 1777 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 1778 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 1779 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 1780 1781 intel_pstate= [X86] 1782 disable 1783 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 1784 scaling driver for the supported processors 1785 passive 1786 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 1787 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 1788 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 1789 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 1790 feature. 1791 force 1792 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 1793 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 1794 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 1795 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 1796 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 1797 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 1798 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 1799 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 1800 no_hwp 1801 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 1802 if available. 1803 hwp_only 1804 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 1805 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 1806 support_acpi_ppc 1807 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 1808 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 1809 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 1810 then this feature is turned on by default. 1811 per_cpu_perf_limits 1812 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 1813 cpufreq sysfs interface 1814 1815 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 1816 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 1817 off disable Interrupt Remapping 1818 nosid disable Source ID checking 1819 no_x2apic_optout 1820 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 1821 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 1822 1823 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 1824 strict regions from userspace. 1825 relaxed 1826 1827 iommu= [x86] 1828 off 1829 force 1830 noforce 1831 biomerge 1832 panic 1833 nopanic 1834 merge 1835 nomerge 1836 soft 1837 pt [x86] 1838 nopt [x86] 1839 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 1840 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 1841 1842 iommu.strict= [ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 1843 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1844 0 - Lazy mode. 1845 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 1846 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 1847 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 1848 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 1849 the relevant IOMMU driver. 1850 1 - Strict mode (default). 1851 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 1852 synchronously. 1853 1854 iommu.passthrough= 1855 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 1856 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1857 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 1858 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 1859 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 1860 1861 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems 1862 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 1863 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 1864 1865 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 1866 0x80 1867 Standard port 0x80 based delay 1868 0xed 1869 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 1870 udelay 1871 Simple two microseconds delay 1872 none 1873 No delay 1874 1875 ip= [IP_PNP] 1876 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 1877 1878 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 1879 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 1880 1881 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 1882 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 1883 1884 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 1885 [ARM, ARM64] 1886 Format: <bool> 1887 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 1888 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 1889 exposed by the device tree is too small. 1890 1891 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 1892 [ARM, ARM64] 1893 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 1894 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 1895 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 1896 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 1897 LPIs. 1898 1899 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 1900 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 1901 requires the kernel to be built with 1902 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 1903 1904 irqfixup [HW] 1905 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1906 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1907 firmware running. 1908 1909 irqpoll [HW] 1910 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1911 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 1912 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1913 firmware running. 1914 1915 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 1916 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 1917 1918 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 1919 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 1920 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 1921 1922 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 1923 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 1924 1925 nohz 1926 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 1927 1928 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 1929 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 1930 workqueue's affinity configured via the 1931 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 1932 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 1933 1934 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 1935 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 1936 be configured manually after bootup. 1937 1938 domain 1939 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 1940 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 1941 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 1942 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 1943 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 1944 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 1945 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 1946 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 1947 1948 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 1949 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 1950 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 1951 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 1952 1953 managed_irq 1954 1955 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 1956 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 1957 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 1958 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 1959 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 1960 1961 This isolation is best effort and only effective 1962 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 1963 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 1964 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 1965 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 1966 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 1967 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 1968 1969 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 1970 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 1971 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 1972 only delivered when tasks running on those 1973 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 1974 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 1975 queues. 1976 1977 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 1978 1979 iucv= [HW,NET] 1980 1981 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64] 1982 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 1983 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1984 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 1985 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 1986 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 1987 1988 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64] 1989 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 1990 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1991 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to 1992 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 1993 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 1994 1995 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64] 1996 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 1997 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1998 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 1999 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 2000 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2001 2002 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2003 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2004 2005 nokaslr [KNL] 2006 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 2007 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 2008 Layout Randomization). 2009 2010 kasan_multi_shot 2011 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2012 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2013 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2014 invalid access. 2015 2016 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 2017 2018 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2019 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2020 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2021 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2022 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2023 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2024 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2025 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2026 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2027 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2028 2029 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2030 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2031 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2032 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2033 zone if it does not. 2034 2035 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2036 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2037 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2038 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2039 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2040 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2041 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2042 2043 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2044 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2045 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2046 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2047 optional and is the number seconds in between 2048 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2049 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2050 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2051 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2052 the kernel debugger. 2053 2054 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2055 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2056 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2057 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2058 keyboard only format: kbd 2059 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2060 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2061 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2062 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2063 2064 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2065 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2066 2067 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address. 2068 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2069 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2070 2071 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2072 Valid arguments: on, off 2073 Default: on 2074 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2075 the default is off. 2076 2077 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2078 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2079 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2080 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2081 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2082 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2083 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2084 2085 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2086 2087 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2088 Boot Parameter" section. 2089 2090 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2091 and kernel address spaces. 2092 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2093 0: force disabled 2094 1: force enabled 2095 2096 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2097 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2098 2099 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2100 Default is false (don't support). 2101 2102 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit 2103 KVM MMU at runtime. 2104 Default is 0 (off) 2105 2106 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2107 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2108 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2109 force : Always deploy workaround. 2110 off : Never deploy workaround. 2111 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2112 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2113 2114 Default is 'auto'. 2115 2116 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2117 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2118 2119 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2120 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2121 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2122 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2123 minute. The default is 60. 2124 2125 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 2126 Default is 1 (enabled) 2127 2128 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 2129 for all guests. 2130 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 2131 2132 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2133 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2134 system registers 2135 2136 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2137 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2138 system registers 2139 2140 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2141 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2142 system registers 2143 2144 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2145 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2146 LPIs. 2147 2148 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 2149 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 2150 Default is 1 (enabled) 2151 2152 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2153 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states 2154 Default is 0 (disabled) 2155 2156 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2157 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 2158 Default is 1 (enabled) 2159 2160 kvm-intel.nested= 2161 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 2162 Default is 0 (disabled) 2163 2164 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2165 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 2166 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 2167 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 2168 2169 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2170 CVE-2018-3620. 2171 2172 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2173 2174 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2175 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2176 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2177 never: Disables the mitigation 2178 2179 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2180 2181 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 2182 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 2183 Default is 1 (enabled) 2184 2185 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2186 affected CPUs 2187 2188 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2189 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2190 2191 full 2192 Provides all available mitigations for the 2193 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2194 enables all mitigations in the 2195 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2196 2197 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2198 sysfs interface is still possible after 2199 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2200 when the first VM is started in a 2201 potentially insecure configuration, 2202 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2203 2204 full,force 2205 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2206 flush runtime control. Implies the 2207 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2208 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2209 2210 flush 2211 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2212 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2213 L1D flush. 2214 2215 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2216 sysfs interface is still possible after 2217 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2218 when the first VM is started in a 2219 potentially insecure configuration, 2220 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2221 2222 flush,nosmt 2223 2224 Disables SMT and enables the default 2225 hypervisor mitigation. 2226 2227 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2228 sysfs interface is still possible after 2229 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2230 when the first VM is started in a 2231 potentially insecure configuration, 2232 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2233 2234 flush,nowarn 2235 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2236 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2237 insecure configuration. 2238 2239 off 2240 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2241 emit any warnings. 2242 It also drops the swap size and available 2243 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2244 bare metal. 2245 2246 Default is 'flush'. 2247 2248 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2249 2250 l2cr= [PPC] 2251 2252 l3cr= [PPC] 2253 2254 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2255 disabled it. 2256 2257 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline 2258 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2259 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2260 2261 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2262 in C2 power state. 2263 2264 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2265 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2266 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2267 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2268 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2269 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2270 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2271 2272 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2273 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2274 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2275 2276 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2277 when set. 2278 Format: <int> 2279 2280 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma 2281 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is 2282 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers 2283 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches 2284 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If 2285 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE 2286 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the 2287 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices. 2288 2289 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2290 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2291 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2292 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2293 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2294 host link and device attached to it. 2295 2296 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2297 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed. 2298 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2299 The following configurations can be forced. 2300 2301 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2302 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2303 2304 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2305 2306 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2307 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2308 allowed. 2309 2310 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2311 2312 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM. 2313 2314 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft 2315 and both resets. 2316 2317 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during 2318 hot-unplug link recovery 2319 2320 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data. 2321 2322 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support 2323 2324 * disable: Disable this device. 2325 2326 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2327 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2328 2329 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 2330 2331 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy 2332 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 2333 2334 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2335 Format: <integer> 2336 2337 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2338 Format: <integer> 2339 2340 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2341 Format: <integer> 2342 2343 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2344 Format: <integer> 2345 2346 lockdown= [SECURITY] 2347 { integrity | confidentiality } 2348 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 2349 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 2350 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 2351 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 2352 to extract confidential information from the kernel 2353 are also disabled. 2354 2355 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2356 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2357 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2358 number of online CPUs. 2359 2360 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2361 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2362 2363 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2364 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2365 2366 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2367 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2368 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2369 2370 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2371 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2372 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2373 mode during the locktorture test. 2374 2375 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2376 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2377 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2378 2379 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2380 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2381 2382 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2383 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2384 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2385 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2386 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2387 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2388 2389 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2390 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2391 2392 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2393 Enable additional printk() statements. 2394 2395 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2396 Format: <irq> 2397 2398 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2399 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2400 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2401 loglevels are defined as follows: 2402 2403 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2404 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2405 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2406 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2407 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2408 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2409 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2410 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2411 2412 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2413 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2414 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2415 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2416 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2417 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2418 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2419 2420 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2421 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2422 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2423 kernel boot problems. 2424 2425 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2426 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2427 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2428 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2429 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2430 attached printers to be reset. Using 2431 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2432 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2433 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2434 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2435 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2436 port specification list means that device IDs 2437 from each port should be examined, to see if 2438 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2439 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2440 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2441 2442 lpj=n [KNL] 2443 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2444 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2445 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2446 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2447 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2448 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2449 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2450 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2451 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2452 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2453 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2454 hardware. 2455 2456 ltpc= [NET] 2457 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2458 2459 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 2460 2461 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 2462 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 2463 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 2464 2465 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2466 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2467 Example: machvec=hpzx1 2468 2469 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different 2470 yeeloong laptop. 2471 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2472 2473 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater 2474 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2475 2476 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2477 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2478 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2479 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2480 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2481 only takes effect during system bootup. 2482 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2483 which also disables the IO APIC. 2484 2485 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2486 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2487 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2488 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2489 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2490 /dev/loop-control interface. 2491 2492 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2493 2494 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 2495 2496 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2497 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2498 2499 mdacon= [MDA] 2500 Format: <first>,<last> 2501 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2502 2503 mds= [X86,INTEL] 2504 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 2505 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 2506 2507 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2508 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2509 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2510 2511 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2512 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2513 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2514 not have direct access. 2515 2516 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 2517 options are: 2518 2519 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 2520 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 2521 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 2522 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 2523 2524 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 2525 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 2526 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 2527 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 2528 too. 2529 2530 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 2531 mds=full. 2532 2533 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 2534 2535 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2536 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able 2537 to see the whole system memory or for test. 2538 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 2539 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 2540 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 2541 belonging to unused RAM. 2542 2543 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 2544 memory. 2545 2546 memchunk=nn[KMG] 2547 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 2548 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 2549 2550 memhp_default_state=online/offline 2551 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 2552 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 2553 set according to the 2554 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 2555 option. 2556 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 2557 2558 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 2559 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 2560 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 2561 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 2562 option description. 2563 2564 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 2565 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 2566 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 2567 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 2568 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 2569 Multiple different regions can be specified, 2570 comma delimited. 2571 Example: 2572 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 2573 2574 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 2575 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 2576 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 2577 2578 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 2579 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 2580 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 2581 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 2582 memmap=64K$0x18690000 2583 or 2584 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 2585 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 2586 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 2587 will be eaten. 2588 2589 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 2590 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 2591 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 2592 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 2593 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 2594 2595 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 2596 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 2597 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 2598 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 2599 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 2600 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 2601 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 2602 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 2603 2604 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 2605 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 2606 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 2607 Setting this option will scan the memory 2608 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 2609 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 2610 from using the memory being corrupted. 2611 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 2612 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 2613 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 2614 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 2615 2616 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 2617 By default it checks for corruption in the low 2618 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 2619 use. Use this parameter to scan for 2620 corruption in more or less memory. 2621 2622 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 2623 By default it checks for corruption every 60 2624 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 2625 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 2626 2627 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest 2628 Format: <integer> 2629 default : 0 <disable> 2630 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 2631 performed. Each pass selects another test 2632 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 2633 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 2634 memory contents and reserves bad memory 2635 regions that are detected. 2636 2637 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 2638 Valid arguments: on, off 2639 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 2640 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 2641 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 2642 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 2643 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 2644 2645 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst 2646 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 2647 2648 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 2649 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 2650 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 2651 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 2652 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 2653 2654 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 2655 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst. 2656 2657 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 2658 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 2659 platforms. 2660 2661 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 2662 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 2663 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 2664 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 2665 2666 mga= [HW,DRM] 2667 2668 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this 2669 physical address is ignored. 2670 2671 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 2672 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 2673 Default: "0tb" 2674 MINI2440 configuration specification: 2675 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 2676 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 2677 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 2678 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 2679 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 2680 unconfigured. 2681 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 2682 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 2683 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 2684 VGA shield. 2685 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 2686 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 2687 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 2688 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 2689 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 2690 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 2691 2692 mitigations= 2693 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 2694 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 2695 arch-independent options, each of which is an 2696 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 2697 2698 off 2699 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 2700 improves system performance, but it may also 2701 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 2702 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC] 2703 kpti=0 [ARM64] 2704 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 2705 nobp=0 [S390] 2706 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 2707 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 2708 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 2709 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 2710 l1tf=off [X86] 2711 mds=off [X86] 2712 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 2713 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 2714 2715 Exceptions: 2716 This does not have any effect on 2717 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 2718 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 2719 2720 auto (default) 2721 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 2722 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 2723 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 2724 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 2725 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 2726 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 2727 2728 auto,nosmt 2729 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 2730 if needed. This is for users who always want to 2731 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 2732 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 2733 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 2734 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 2735 2736 mminit_loglevel= 2737 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 2738 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 2739 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 2740 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 2741 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 2742 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 2743 2744 module.sig_enforce 2745 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 2746 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 2747 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 2748 is always true, so this option does nothing. 2749 2750 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 2751 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 2752 2753 mousedev.tap_time= 2754 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 2755 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 2756 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 2757 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 2758 Format: <msecs> 2759 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 2760 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2761 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 2762 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2763 2764 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2765 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 2766 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 2767 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 2768 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 2769 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 2770 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 2771 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 2772 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 2773 is not too small. 2774 2775 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 2776 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 2777 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 2778 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 2779 allocations. Use with caution! 2780 2781 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 2782 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 2783 2784 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 2785 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 2786 2787 mtdparts= [MTD] 2788 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c. 2789 2790 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 2791 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 2792 at a time. 2793 2794 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 2795 2796 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 2797 2798 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 2799 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 2800 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 2801 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 2802 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 2803 2804 mtdset= [ARM] 2805 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 2806 2807 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c 2808 2809 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 2810 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 2811 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 2812 2813 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2814 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 2815 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 2816 2817 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2818 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 2819 Default is 1. 2820 Large value could prevent small alignment from 2821 using up MTRRs. 2822 2823 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 2824 Format: <integer> 2825 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 2826 Default : 1 2827 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 2828 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 2829 2830 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 2831 2832 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 2833 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 2834 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 2835 something different and driver-specific. 2836 This usage is only documented in each driver source 2837 file if at all. 2838 2839 nf_conntrack.acct= 2840 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 2841 0 to disable accounting 2842 1 to enable accounting 2843 Default value is 0. 2844 2845 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 2846 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2847 2848 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 2849 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2850 2851 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 2852 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2853 2854 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 2855 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 2856 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 2857 requests. 2858 2859 nfs.callback_tcpport= 2860 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 2861 channel should listen. 2862 2863 nfs.cache_getent= 2864 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 2865 to update the NFS client cache entries. 2866 2867 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 2868 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 2869 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 2870 2871 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 2872 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 2873 entries. 2874 2875 nfs.enable_ino64= 2876 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 2877 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 2878 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 2879 of returning the full 64-bit number. 2880 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 2881 2882 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 2883 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 2884 slots the client will assign to the callback 2885 channel. This determines the maximum number of 2886 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 2887 a particular server. 2888 2889 nfs.max_session_slots= 2890 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 2891 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 2892 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 2893 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 2894 Note that there is little point in setting this 2895 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 2896 2897 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2898 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 2899 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 2900 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 2901 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 2902 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 2903 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 2904 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 2905 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 2906 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 2907 back to using the idmapper. 2908 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 2909 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 2910 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 2911 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 2912 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 2913 UUID that is generated at system install time. 2914 2915 nfs.send_implementation_id = 2916 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 2917 information in exchange_id requests. 2918 If zero, no implementation identification information 2919 will be sent. 2920 The default is to send the implementation identification 2921 information. 2922 2923 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 2924 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 2925 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 2926 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 2927 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 2928 after the locks are lost. 2929 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 2930 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 2931 parameter to '1'. 2932 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 2933 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 2934 2935 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 2936 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 2937 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 2938 2939 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 2940 whatever value is the default set by the layout 2941 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 2942 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 2943 2944 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2945 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 2946 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 2947 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 2948 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 2949 migration from NFSv2/v3. 2950 2951 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 2952 when a NMI is triggered. 2953 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 2954 2955 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 2956 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 2957 Valid num: 0 or 1 2958 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 2959 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 2960 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 2961 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 2962 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 2963 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 2964 please see 'nowatchdog'. 2965 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 2966 need the box quickly up again. 2967 2968 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 2969 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 2970 2971 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 2972 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 2973 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 2974 waits 4 seconds. 2975 2976 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 2977 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 2978 is present. 2979 2980 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 2981 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 2982 2983 no_console_suspend 2984 [HW] Never suspend the console 2985 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 2986 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 2987 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 2988 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 2989 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 2990 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 2991 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 2992 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 2993 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 2994 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 2995 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 2996 turn on/off it dynamically. 2997 2998 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 2999 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 3000 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 3001 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 3002 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 3003 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 3004 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 3005 data will be no longer available. This parameter 3006 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 3007 is set. 3008 3009 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 3010 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 3011 but will impact performance. 3012 3013 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3014 3015 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 3016 (CPU alternatives feature). 3017 3018 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3019 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3020 3021 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3022 3023 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem 3024 on "Classic" PPC cores. 3025 3026 nocache [ARM] 3027 3028 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction 3029 3030 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting 3031 3032 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3033 3034 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 3035 3036 noexec [IA-64] 3037 3038 noexec [X86] 3039 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels. 3040 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3041 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings 3042 3043 nosmap [X86,PPC] 3044 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 3045 even if it is supported by processor. 3046 3047 nosmep [X86,PPC] 3048 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 3049 even if it is supported by processor. 3050 3051 noexec32 [X86-64] 3052 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3053 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3054 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3055 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3056 read implies executable mappings 3057 3058 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3059 3060 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3061 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3062 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3063 3064 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86,PPC] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3065 3066 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3067 Equivalent to smt=1. 3068 3069 [KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3070 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 3071 via the sysfs control file. 3072 3073 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 3074 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 3075 possible in the system. 3076 3077 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 3078 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 3079 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 3080 option. 3081 3082 nospec_store_bypass_disable 3083 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 3084 3085 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 3086 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 3087 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 3088 3089 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 3090 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 3091 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 3092 performance of saving the states is degraded because 3093 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 3094 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 3095 3096 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 3097 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 3098 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 3099 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 3100 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 3101 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 3102 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 3103 3104 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or 3105 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to 3106 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger. 3107 3108 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3109 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3110 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3111 3112 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3113 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3114 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3115 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3116 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3117 real-time systems. 3118 3119 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3120 3121 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3122 Valid arguments: on, off 3123 Default: on 3124 3125 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3126 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3127 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3128 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3129 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3130 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3131 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3132 just as if they had also been called out in the 3133 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3134 3135 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3136 3137 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3138 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3139 3140 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 3141 broken timer IRQ sources. 3142 3143 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3144 3145 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3146 initial RAM disk. 3147 3148 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3149 remapping. 3150 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3151 3152 nointroute [IA-64] 3153 3154 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3155 3156 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3157 3158 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3159 3160 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3161 fault handling. 3162 3163 no-vmw-sched-clock 3164 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 3165 clock and use the default one. 3166 3167 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time 3168 accounting. steal time is computed, but won't 3169 influence scheduler behaviour 3170 3171 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3172 3173 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3174 3175 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel 3176 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx 3177 3178 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3179 3180 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3181 3182 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3183 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3184 3185 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3186 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3187 irq. 3188 3189 nomodule Disable module load 3190 3191 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3192 pagetables) support. 3193 3194 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3195 3196 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3197 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3198 3199 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3200 with UP alternatives 3201 3202 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and 3203 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported 3204 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still 3205 available to user space applications. 3206 3207 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3208 space. 3209 3210 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3211 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3212 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3213 3214 nosbagart [IA-64] 3215 3216 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. 3217 3218 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3219 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3220 3221 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3222 3223 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 3224 3225 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 3226 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 3227 3228 nowb [ARM] 3229 3230 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 3231 3232 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 3233 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 3234 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 3235 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 3236 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 3237 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 3238 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 3239 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 3240 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 3241 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 3242 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 3243 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 3244 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 3245 3246 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 3247 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 3248 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 3249 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 3250 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 3251 parameter's value. 3252 Format: integer between 1 and 255 3253 Default: 255 3254 3255 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 3256 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 3257 SAL PALO. 3258 3259 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3260 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 3261 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 3262 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 3263 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 3264 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 3265 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 3266 hot plugging. 3267 3268 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 3269 3270 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing. 3271 Allowed values are enable and disable 3272 3273 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 3274 'node', 'default' can be specified 3275 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 3276 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 3277 3278 of_devlink [OF, KNL] Create device links between consumer and 3279 supplier devices by scanning the devictree to infer the 3280 consumer/supplier relationships. A consumer device 3281 will not be probed until all the supplier devices have 3282 probed successfully. 3283 3284 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 3285 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more 3286 info. 3287 3288 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 3289 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 3290 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 3291 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 3292 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 3293 interrupts *may* be lost! 3294 3295 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 3296 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 3297 For example, to override I2C bus2: 3298 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 3299 3300 oprofile.timer= [HW] 3301 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters 3302 3303 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type 3304 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile 3305 userland or if you want common events. 3306 Format: { arch_perfmon } 3307 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural 3308 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the 3309 CPU specific event set. 3310 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI 3311 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer 3312 for generic hr timer mode) 3313 3314 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 3315 process, but there is a small probability of 3316 deadlocking the machine. 3317 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 3318 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 3319 3320 page_alloc.shuffle= 3321 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 3322 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 3323 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 3324 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 3325 cache, and this parameter can be used to 3326 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 3327 can be read from sysfs at: 3328 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 3329 3330 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 3331 Storage of the information about who allocated 3332 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 3333 we can turn it on. 3334 on: enable the feature 3335 3336 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 3337 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 3338 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 3339 off: turn off poisoning (default) 3340 on: turn on poisoning 3341 3342 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 3343 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 3344 timeout = 0: wait forever 3345 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 3346 Format: <timeout> 3347 3348 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 3349 User can chose combination of the following bits: 3350 bit 0: print all tasks info 3351 bit 1: print system memory info 3352 bit 2: print timer info 3353 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 3354 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 3355 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 3356 3357 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 3358 on a WARN(). 3359 3360 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 3361 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 3362 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 3363 succeeds in any situation. 3364 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 3365 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 3366 kernel more unstable. 3367 3368 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 3369 connected to, default is 0. 3370 Format: <parport#> 3371 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 3372 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 3373 Format: <mode> 3374 3375 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 3376 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 3377 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 3378 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 3379 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 3380 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 3381 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 3382 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 3383 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 3384 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 3385 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 3386 are specified on the command line, starting 3387 with parport0. 3388 3389 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 3390 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 3391 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 3392 computer where firmware has no options for setting 3393 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 3394 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 3395 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 3396 3397 pause_on_oops= 3398 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 3399 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 3400 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 3401 3402 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 3403 3404 pcd. [PARIDE] 3405 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 3406 See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3407 3408 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 3409 3410 Some options herein operate on a specific device 3411 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 3412 specified in one of the following formats: 3413 3414 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 3415 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 3416 3417 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 3418 bus/device/function address which may change 3419 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 3420 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 3421 by other kernel parameters. If the 3422 domain is left unspecified, it is 3423 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 3424 to a device through multiple device/function 3425 addresses can be specified after the base 3426 address (this is more robust against 3427 renumbering issues). The second format 3428 selects devices using IDs from the 3429 configuration space which may match multiple 3430 devices in the system. 3431 3432 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 3433 changes anything 3434 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 3435 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 3436 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 3437 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 3438 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 3439 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 3440 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 3441 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 3442 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3443 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 3444 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 3445 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3446 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 3447 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 3448 bus number. The config space is then accessed 3449 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 3450 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 3451 on the configuration access mechanisms. 3452 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 3453 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3454 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 3455 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 3456 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 3457 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 3458 Configuration 3459 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 3460 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 3461 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 3462 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 3463 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3464 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 3465 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 3466 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 3467 should never be necessary. 3468 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 3469 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 3470 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 3471 when the system masks IRQs. 3472 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 3473 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 3474 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 3475 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 3476 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 3477 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 3478 on several machines and they hang the machine 3479 when used, but on other computers it's the only 3480 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 3481 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 3482 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 3483 motherboard. 3484 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 3485 Use with caution as certain devices share 3486 address decoders between ROMs and other 3487 resources. 3488 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 3489 expansion ROMs that do not already have 3490 BIOS assigned address ranges. 3491 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 3492 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 3493 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 3494 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 3495 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 3496 this way. 3497 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 3498 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 3499 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 3500 F0000h-100000h range. 3501 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 3502 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 3503 secondary buses and you want to tell it 3504 explicitly which ones they are. 3505 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 3506 numbers ourselves, overriding 3507 whatever the firmware may have done. 3508 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 3509 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 3510 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 3511 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 3512 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 3513 IRQ routing is enabled. 3514 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 3515 or for PCI scanning. 3516 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 3517 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 3518 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 3519 please report a bug. 3520 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 3521 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 3522 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 3523 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 3524 so this option is a temporary workaround 3525 for broken drivers that don't call it. 3526 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 3527 handle more pci cards 3528 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 3529 This might help on some broken boards which 3530 machine check when some devices' config space 3531 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 3532 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 3533 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3534 This sorting is done to get a device 3535 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 3536 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3537 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 3538 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 3539 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 3540 supported by all devices below the root complex. 3541 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 3542 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 3543 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 3544 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 3545 or bus can support) for best performance. 3546 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 3547 every device is guaranteed to support. This 3548 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 3549 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 3550 reduced performance. This also guarantees 3551 that hot-added devices will work. 3552 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3553 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 3554 The default value is 256 bytes. 3555 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3556 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 3557 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 3558 resource_alignment= 3559 Format: 3560 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 3561 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 3562 aligned memory resources. How to 3563 specify the device is described above. 3564 If <order of align> is not specified, 3565 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 3566 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 3567 windows need to be expanded. 3568 To specify the alignment for several 3569 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 3570 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 3571 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 3572 for 4096-byte alignment. 3573 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 3574 end-to-end CRC checking). 3575 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 3576 the default. 3577 off: Turn ECRC off 3578 on: Turn ECRC on. 3579 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3580 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 3581 Default size is 256 bytes. 3582 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3583 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 3584 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3585 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3586 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 3587 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3588 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3589 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 3590 MMIO_PREF window. 3591 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3592 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 3593 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 3594 Default is 1. 3595 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 3596 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 3597 accommodate resources required by all child 3598 devices. 3599 off: Turn realloc off 3600 on: Turn realloc on 3601 realloc same as realloc=on 3602 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 3603 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 3604 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 3605 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 3606 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 3607 port. 3608 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 3609 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 3610 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 3611 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 3612 conflict with unreported devices), so this 3613 taints the kernel. 3614 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 3615 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 3616 specified above) separated by semicolons. 3617 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 3618 redirect capabilities forced off which will 3619 allow P2P traffic between devices through 3620 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 3621 this removes isolation between devices and 3622 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 3623 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 3624 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 3625 3626 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 3627 Management. 3628 off Disable ASPM. 3629 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 3630 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 3631 3632 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 3633 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 3634 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 3635 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 3636 also tries to use these services. 3637 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 3638 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 3639 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 3640 hotplug). 3641 3642 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 3643 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 3644 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 3645 3646 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 3647 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 3648 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 3649 3650 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 3651 3652 pd_ignore_unused 3653 [PM] 3654 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 3655 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 3656 for debug and development, but should not be 3657 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 3658 3659 pd. [PARIDE] 3660 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3661 3662 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 3663 boot time. 3664 Format: { 0 | 1 } 3665 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 3666 3667 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 3668 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 3669 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 3670 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 3671 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 3672 and performance comparison. 3673 3674 pf. [PARIDE] 3675 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3676 3677 pg. [PARIDE] 3678 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3679 3680 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 3681 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 3682 3683 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 3684 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 3685 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 3686 3687 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 3688 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 3689 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 3690 3691 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 3692 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 3693 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 3694 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 3695 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 3696 possible settings and some assignment information. 3697 3698 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 3699 { off } 3700 3701 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 3702 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 3703 3704 pnp_reserve_irq= 3705 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 3706 3707 pnp_reserve_dma= 3708 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 3709 3710 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 3711 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 3712 3713 pnp_reserve_mem= 3714 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 3715 autoconfiguration. 3716 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 3717 3718 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 3719 Default is 21. 3720 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 3721 may be specified. 3722 Format: <port>,<port>.... 3723 3724 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 3725 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 3726 platform machine description specific power_save 3727 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 3728 execution priority. 3729 3730 ppc_strict_facility_enable 3731 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 3732 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 3733 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 3734 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 3735 3736 ppc_tm= [PPC] 3737 Format: {"off"} 3738 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 3739 3740 print-fatal-signals= 3741 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 3742 3743 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 3744 related application anomalies: too many signals, 3745 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 3746 coredump - etc. 3747 3748 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 3749 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 3750 3751 default: off. 3752 3753 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 3754 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 3755 panics 3756 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3757 default: disabled 3758 3759 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 3760 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 3761 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 3762 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 3763 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 3764 Default: ratelimit 3765 3766 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 3767 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3768 3769 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 3770 Limit processor to maximum C-state 3771 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 3772 3773 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 3774 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 3775 instead using the legacy FADT method 3776 3777 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 3778 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 3779 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 3780 [defaults to kernel profiling] 3781 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 3782 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 3783 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 3784 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 3785 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 3786 statistical time based profiling. 3787 3788 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk 3789 before loading. 3790 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 3791 3792 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 3793 tracking. 3794 Format: <bool> 3795 3796 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 3797 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 3798 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 3799 per second. 3800 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 3801 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 3802 (0 = never). 3803 psmouse.resolution= 3804 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 3805 psmouse.smartscroll= 3806 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 3807 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 3808 3809 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 3810 3811 pt. [PARIDE] 3812 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3813 3814 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 3815 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 3816 removes hardening, but improves performance of 3817 system calls and interrupts. 3818 3819 on - unconditionally enable 3820 off - unconditionally disable 3821 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 3822 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 3823 3824 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 3825 3826 nopti [X86_64] 3827 Equivalent to pti=off 3828 3829 pty.legacy_count= 3830 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 3831 default number. 3832 3833 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 3834 3835 r128= [HW,DRM] 3836 3837 raid= [HW,RAID] 3838 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 3839 3840 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 3841 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 3842 3843 random.trust_cpu={on,off} 3844 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the 3845 CPU's random number generator (if available) to 3846 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 3847 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU. 3848 3849 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 3850 3851 cec_disable [X86] 3852 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 3853 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 3854 3855 rcu_nocbs= [KNL] 3856 The argument is a cpu list, as described above, 3857 except that the string "all" can be used to 3858 specify every CPU on the system. 3859 3860 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set 3861 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs. 3862 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be 3863 offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that 3864 purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and 3865 "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number. 3866 This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs, 3867 which can be useful for HPC and real-time 3868 workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency 3869 for asymmetric multiprocessors. 3870 3871 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 3872 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 3873 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 3874 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 3875 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 3876 This improves the real-time response for the 3877 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 3878 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 3879 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 3880 periodically wake up to do the polling. 3881 3882 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 3883 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 3884 process in one batch. 3885 3886 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 3887 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 3888 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 3889 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 3890 3891 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 3892 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3893 RCU grace-period cleanup. 3894 3895 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 3896 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3897 RCU grace-period initialization. 3898 3899 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 3900 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3901 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 3902 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 3903 the rcu_node combining tree. 3904 3905 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 3906 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 3907 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 3908 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 3909 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 3910 3911 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 3912 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 3913 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 3914 possibly be useful for architectures having high 3915 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 3916 3917 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 3918 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 3919 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 3920 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 3921 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 3922 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 3923 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 3924 3925 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 3926 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 3927 first attempt to force quiescent states. 3928 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 3929 and maximum value is HZ. 3930 3931 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 3932 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 3933 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 3934 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 3935 3936 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 3937 Set required age in jiffies for a 3938 given grace period before RCU starts 3939 soliciting quiescent-state help from 3940 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 3941 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 3942 a value based on the most recent settings 3943 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 3944 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 3945 This calculated value may be viewed in 3946 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 3947 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 3948 overwritten. 3949 3950 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 3951 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 3952 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 3953 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 3954 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 3955 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 3956 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 3957 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 3958 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 3959 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 3960 3961 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 3962 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 3963 each group, which defaults to the square root 3964 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 3965 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 3966 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 3967 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 3968 3969 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 3970 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 3971 batch limiting is disabled. 3972 3973 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 3974 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 3975 batch limiting is re-enabled. 3976 3977 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL] 3978 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 3979 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 3980 3981 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL] 3982 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 3983 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 3984 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can 3985 prove do nothing more than free memory. 3986 3987 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 3988 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 3989 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 3990 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 3991 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 3992 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 3993 3994 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 3995 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 3996 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 3997 why a new grace period has not yet started. 3998 3999 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL] 4000 Measure performance of asynchronous 4001 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 4002 4003 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL] 4004 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 4005 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 4006 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 4007 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 4008 previously posted callbacks to drain. 4009 4010 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL] 4011 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 4012 grace-period primitives. 4013 4014 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL] 4015 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4016 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4017 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4018 interference. 4019 4020 rcuperf.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 4021 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 4022 4023 rcuperf.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 4024 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 4025 4026 rcuperf.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 4027 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 4028 4029 rcuperf.kfree_loops= [KNL] 4030 Number of loops doing rcuperf.kfree_alloc_num number 4031 of allocations and frees. 4032 4033 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL] 4034 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4035 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4036 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 4037 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4038 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4039 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 4040 a single reader. 4041 4042 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL] 4043 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 4044 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders. 4045 N, where N is the number of CPUs 4046 4047 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL] 4048 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4049 4050 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL] 4051 Shut the system down after performance tests 4052 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 4053 testing. 4054 4055 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL] 4056 Enable additional printk() statements. 4057 4058 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 4059 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 4060 in microseconds. The default of zero says 4061 no holdoff. 4062 4063 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 4064 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 4065 in microseconds. 4066 4067 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 4068 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 4069 in microseconds. 4070 4071 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 4072 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 4073 in seconds. 4074 4075 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 4076 Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 4077 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 4078 4079 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 4080 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 4081 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 4082 4083 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 4084 Number of seconds to wait between successive 4085 forward-progress tests. 4086 4087 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 4088 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 4089 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 4090 testing. 4091 4092 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 4093 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 4094 primitives, if available. 4095 4096 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 4097 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 4098 4099 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 4100 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 4101 update-side primitives, if available. 4102 4103 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 4104 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 4105 update-side primitives, if available. If all 4106 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 4107 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 4108 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 4109 they are all non-zero. 4110 4111 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 4112 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 4113 4114 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 4115 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 4116 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 4117 test, hence the "fake". 4118 4119 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 4120 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4121 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4122 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 4123 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4124 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4125 4126 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 4127 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 4128 4129 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 4130 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 4131 4132 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 4133 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 4134 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 4135 4136 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 4137 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 4138 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 4139 during the rcutorture test. 4140 4141 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 4142 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 4143 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 4144 4145 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 4146 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 4147 warnings, zero to disable. 4148 4149 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 4150 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 4151 4152 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 4153 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 4154 4155 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 4156 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 4157 4158 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 4159 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 4160 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 4161 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 4162 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 4163 4164 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 4165 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 4166 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 4167 under test support RCU priority boosting. 4168 4169 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 4170 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 4171 4172 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 4173 Interval (s) between each boost test. 4174 4175 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 4176 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 4177 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 4178 4179 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 4180 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4181 4182 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 4183 Enable additional printk() statements. 4184 4185 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 4186 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 4187 stall warning. 4188 4189 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 4190 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4191 4192 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4193 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4194 4195 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 4196 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 4197 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 4198 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 4199 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 4200 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 4201 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4202 4203 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 4204 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 4205 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 4206 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 4207 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 4208 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 4209 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 4210 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 4211 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4212 4213 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 4214 Once boot has completed (that is, after 4215 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 4216 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 4217 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4218 4219 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4220 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning 4221 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal 4222 to zero. 4223 4224 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 4225 Run the RCU early boot self tests 4226 4227 rdinit= [KNL] 4228 Format: <full_path> 4229 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 4230 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 4231 4232 rdrand= [X86] 4233 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 4234 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 4235 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 4236 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 4237 path). 4238 4239 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 4240 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 4241 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 4242 mba. 4243 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 4244 rdt=cmt,!mba 4245 4246 reboot= [KNL] 4247 Format (x86 or x86_64): 4248 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \ 4249 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 4250 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 4251 [[,]f[orce] 4252 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 4253 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 4254 reboot only), 4255 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 4256 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 4257 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 4258 to be used for rebooting. 4259 4260 relax_domain_level= 4261 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 4262 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 4263 4264 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 4265 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 4266 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 4267 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 4268 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 4269 4270 reservetop= [X86-32] 4271 Format: nn[KMG] 4272 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 4273 address space. 4274 4275 reservelow= [X86] 4276 Format: nn[K] 4277 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at 4278 the bottom of the address space. 4279 4280 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 4281 during initialization. 4282 4283 resume= [SWSUSP] 4284 Specify the partition device for software suspend 4285 Format: 4286 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 4287 4288 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 4289 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 4290 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 4291 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 4292 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 4293 4294 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4295 read the resume files 4296 4297 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 4298 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4299 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4300 4301 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 4302 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 4303 present during boot. 4304 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 4305 no Disable hibernation and resume. 4306 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 4307 (that will set all pages holding image data 4308 during restoration read-only). 4309 4310 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 4311 4312 rfkill.default_state= 4313 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 4314 etc. communication is blocked by default. 4315 1 Unblocked. 4316 4317 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 4318 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 4319 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 4320 blocked and the previous configuration. 4321 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 4322 blocked and everything unblocked. 4323 4324 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4325 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 4326 4327 ring3mwait=disable 4328 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 4329 CPUs. 4330 4331 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 4332 4333 rodata= [KNL] 4334 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 4335 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 4336 4337 rockchip.usb_uart 4338 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 4339 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 4340 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 4341 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 4342 4343 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 4344 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 4345 4346 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4347 mount the root filesystem 4348 4349 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 4350 4351 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 4352 4353 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 4354 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4355 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4356 4357 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 4358 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 4359 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 4360 managed by CMA. 4361 4362 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 4363 4364 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 4365 4366 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 4367 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 4368 strict 4369 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 4370 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 4371 which is faster. 4372 4373 sa1100ir [NET] 4374 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 4375 4376 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter 4377 4378 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 4379 4380 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 4381 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 4382 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 4383 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 4384 4385 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 4386 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 4387 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 4388 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4389 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 4390 1 -- enable. 4391 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 4392 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 4393 4394 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 4395 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 4396 "lsm=" parameter. 4397 4398 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 4399 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4400 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 4401 0 -- disable. 4402 1 -- enable. 4403 Default value is 1. 4404 4405 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 4406 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4407 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 4408 0 -- disable. 4409 1 -- enable. 4410 Default value is set via kernel config option. 4411 4412 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 4413 4414 shapers= [NET] 4415 Maximal number of shapers. 4416 4417 simeth= [IA-64] 4418 simscsi= 4419 4420 slram= [HW,MTD] 4421 4422 slab_nomerge [MM] 4423 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 4424 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 4425 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 4426 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 4427 layout control by attackers can usually be 4428 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 4429 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 4430 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 4431 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 4432 own. 4433 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4434 4435 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 4436 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 4437 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 4438 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 4439 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 4440 4441 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB] 4442 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 4443 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 4444 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 4445 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 4446 last alloc / free. For more information see 4447 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4448 4449 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB] 4450 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for 4451 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable. 4452 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON. 4453 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug 4454 directories and files being created under 4455 /sys/kernel/slub. 4456 4457 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 4458 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 4459 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 4460 fragmentation. For more information see 4461 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4462 4463 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 4464 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 4465 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 4466 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 4467 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 4468 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 4469 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 4470 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4471 4472 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 4473 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 4474 lower than slub_max_order. 4475 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4476 4477 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 4478 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 4479 See slab_nomerge for more information. 4480 4481 smart2= [HW] 4482 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 4483 4484 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 4485 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 4486 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 4487 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 4488 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 4489 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 4490 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 4491 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 4492 1: Fast pin select (default) 4493 2: ATC IRMode 4494 4495 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 4496 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 4497 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 4498 actual hardware limit. 4499 Format: <integer> 4500 Default: -1 (no limit) 4501 4502 softlockup_panic= 4503 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 4504 Format: <integer> 4505 4506 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector 4507 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This 4508 is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 4509 which is the respective build-time switch to that 4510 functionality. 4511 4512 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 4513 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 4514 backtraces on all cpus. 4515 Format: <integer> 4516 4517 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 4518 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 4519 4520 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 4521 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 4522 The default operation protects the kernel from 4523 user space attacks. 4524 4525 on - unconditionally enable, implies 4526 spectre_v2_user=on 4527 off - unconditionally disable, implies 4528 spectre_v2_user=off 4529 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4530 vulnerable 4531 4532 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 4533 mitigation method at run time according to the 4534 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 4535 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 4536 compiler with which the kernel was built. 4537 4538 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 4539 against user space to user space task attacks. 4540 4541 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 4542 the user space protections. 4543 4544 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 4545 4546 retpoline - replace indirect branches 4547 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline 4548 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk 4549 4550 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4551 spectre_v2=auto. 4552 4553 spectre_v2_user= 4554 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 4555 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 4556 user space tasks 4557 4558 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 4559 enforced by spectre_v2=on 4560 4561 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 4562 enforced by spectre_v2=off 4563 4564 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 4565 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 4566 per thread. The mitigation control state 4567 is inherited on fork. 4568 4569 prctl,ibpb 4570 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 4571 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 4572 always when switching between different user 4573 space processes. 4574 4575 seccomp 4576 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 4577 threads will enable the mitigation unless 4578 they explicitly opt out. 4579 4580 seccomp,ibpb 4581 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 4582 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 4583 always when switching between different 4584 user space processes. 4585 4586 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 4587 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 4588 4589 Default mitigation: 4590 If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 4591 4592 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4593 spectre_v2_user=auto. 4594 4595 spec_store_bypass_disable= 4596 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 4597 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 4598 4599 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 4600 a common industry wide performance optimization known 4601 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 4602 to the same memory location may not be observed by 4603 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 4604 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 4605 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 4606 end of a particular speculation execution window. 4607 4608 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 4609 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 4610 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 4611 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 4612 4613 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 4614 Bypass optimization is used. 4615 4616 On x86 the options are: 4617 4618 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 4619 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 4620 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 4621 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 4622 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 4623 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 4624 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 4625 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 4626 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 4627 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 4628 for a process by default. The state of the control 4629 is inherited on fork. 4630 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 4631 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 4632 4633 Default mitigations: 4634 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 4635 4636 On powerpc the options are: 4637 4638 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 4639 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 4640 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 4641 exit. 4642 off - No action. 4643 4644 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4645 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 4646 4647 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 4648 spia_fio_base= 4649 spia_pedr= 4650 spia_peddr= 4651 4652 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 4653 Specifies how frequently to check for 4654 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 4655 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 4656 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 4657 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 4658 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 4659 are ignored. 4660 4661 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 4662 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 4663 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 4664 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 4665 grace period will be considered for automatic 4666 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 4667 expediting. 4668 4669 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 4670 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 4671 4672 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 4673 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 4674 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 4675 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 4676 4677 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 4678 for both kernel and userspace 4679 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 4680 for both kernel and userspace 4681 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 4682 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 4683 to allow userspace to register its 4684 interest in being mitigated too. 4685 4686 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 4687 override the default stack gap protection. The value 4688 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 4689 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 4690 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 4691 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 4692 4693 stacktrace [FTRACE] 4694 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 4695 4696 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 4697 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 4698 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 4699 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 4700 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 4701 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 4702 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 4703 4704 sti= [PARISC,HW] 4705 Format: <num> 4706 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 4707 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 4708 as the initial boot-console. 4709 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 4710 4711 sti_font= [HW] 4712 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 4713 4714 stifb= [HW] 4715 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 4716 4717 sunrpc.min_resvport= 4718 sunrpc.max_resvport= 4719 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4720 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 4721 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 4722 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 4723 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 4724 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 4725 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 4726 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 4727 maximum port values. 4728 4729 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 4730 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4731 Limit the number of requests that the server will 4732 process in parallel from a single connection. 4733 The default value is 0 (no limit). 4734 4735 sunrpc.pool_mode= 4736 [NFS] 4737 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 4738 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 4739 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 4740 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 4741 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 4742 NFS server is running. 4743 4744 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 4745 automatically using heuristics 4746 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 4747 percpu one pool for each CPU 4748 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 4749 to global on non-NUMA machines) 4750 4751 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 4752 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 4753 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4754 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 4755 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 4756 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 4757 improve throughput, but will also increase the 4758 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 4759 4760 suspend.pm_test_delay= 4761 [SUSPEND] 4762 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 4763 mode before resuming the system (see 4764 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 4765 is set. Default value is 5. 4766 4767 svm= [PPC] 4768 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 4769 This parameter controls use of the Protected 4770 Execution Facility on pSeries. 4771 4772 swapaccount=[0|1] 4773 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 4774 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 4775 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst) 4776 4777 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 4778 Format: { <int> | force | noforce } 4779 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 4780 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 4781 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 4782 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 4783 4784 switches= [HW,M68k] 4785 4786 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 4787 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 4788 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 4789 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 4790 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 4791 in older udev will not work anymore. 4792 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 4793 the kernel configuration. 4794 4795 sysrq_always_enabled 4796 [KNL] 4797 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 4798 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 4799 Useful for debugging. 4800 4801 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4802 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 4803 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 4804 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 4805 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt 4806 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 4807 4808 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 4809 4810 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N] 4811 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 4812 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 4813 as the system sleep state during system startup with 4814 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 4815 The system is woken from this state using a 4816 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 4817 4818 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4819 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 4820 4821 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 4822 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 4823 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 4824 4825 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 4826 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 4827 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 4828 4829 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 4830 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 4831 critical and hot trip points. 4832 4833 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 4834 1: disable ACPI thermal control 4835 4836 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 4837 -1: disable all passive trip points 4838 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 4839 value 4840 4841 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 4842 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 4843 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 4844 0: no polling (default) 4845 4846 threadirqs [KNL] 4847 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 4848 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 4849 4850 topology= [S390] 4851 Format: {off | on} 4852 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 4853 topology information if the hardware supports this. 4854 The scheduler will make use of this information and 4855 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 4856 Default is on. 4857 4858 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 4859 Format: {off} 4860 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 4861 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 4862 LPAR. 4863 4864 tp720= [HW,PS2] 4865 4866 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 4867 Format: integer pcr id 4868 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 4869 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 4870 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 4871 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 4872 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 4873 are saved. 4874 4875 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 4876 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 4877 4878 trace_event=[event-list] 4879 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 4880 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 4881 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See 4882 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 4883 4884 trace_options=[option-list] 4885 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 4886 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 4887 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 4888 to echo the option name into 4889 4890 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 4891 4892 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 4893 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 4894 4895 trace_options=stacktrace 4896 4897 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 4898 section. 4899 4900 tp_printk[FTRACE] 4901 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 4902 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 4903 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 4904 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 4905 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 4906 4907 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 4908 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 4909 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 4910 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 4911 4912 ** CAUTION ** 4913 4914 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 4915 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 4916 the system to live lock. 4917 4918 traceoff_on_warning 4919 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 4920 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 4921 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 4922 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 4923 4924 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 4925 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 4926 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 4927 4928 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 4929 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 4930 4931 transparent_hugepage= 4932 [KNL] 4933 Format: [always|madvise|never] 4934 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 4935 with respect to transparent hugepages. 4936 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 4937 for more details. 4938 4939 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 4940 Format: <string> 4941 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 4942 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 4943 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 4944 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 4945 virtualized environment. 4946 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 4947 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 4948 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 4949 can add overhead. 4950 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 4951 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 4952 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 4953 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 4954 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 4955 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 4956 acceptable). 4957 4958 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 4959 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 4960 support TSX control. 4961 4962 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 4963 4964 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 4965 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 4966 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 4967 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 4968 so there may be unknown security risks associated 4969 with leaving it enabled. 4970 4971 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 4972 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 4973 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 4974 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 4975 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 4976 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 4977 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 4978 4979 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 4980 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 4981 4982 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 4983 4984 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 4985 for more details. 4986 4987 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 4988 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 4989 4990 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 4991 certain CPUs that support Transactional 4992 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 4993 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 4994 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 4995 conditions. 4996 4997 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 4998 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 4999 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 5000 access. 5001 5002 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 5003 options are: 5004 5005 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 5006 if TSX is enabled. 5007 5008 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 5009 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 5010 is not disabled because CPU is not 5011 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 5012 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 5013 5014 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 5015 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 5016 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 5017 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 5018 5019 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5020 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 5021 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 5022 required and doesn't provide any additional 5023 mitigation. 5024 5025 For details see: 5026 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 5027 5028 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 5029 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 5030 Format: 5031 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 5032 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 5033 5034 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 5035 happen after console_init() and before a proper 5036 console driver takes over, this boot options might 5037 help "seeing" what's going on. 5038 5039 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5040 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 5041 5042 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 5043 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 5044 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 5045 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 5046 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 5047 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 5048 reported either. 5049 5050 unknown_nmi_panic 5051 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 5052 5053 usbcore.authorized_default= 5054 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 5055 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 5056 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 5057 if device connected to internal port) 5058 5059 usbcore.autosuspend= 5060 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 5061 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 5062 is the time required before an idle device will be 5063 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 5064 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 5065 5066 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 5067 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 5068 5069 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 5070 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 5071 (default = 65536). 5072 5073 usbcore.blinkenlights= 5074 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 5075 5076 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 5077 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 5078 scheme, applies only to low and full-speed devices 5079 (default 0 = off). 5080 5081 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 5082 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 5083 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 5084 5085 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 5086 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 5087 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 5088 5089 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 5090 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 5091 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 5092 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 5093 5094 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 5095 5096 usbcore.quirks= 5097 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 5098 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 5099 commas. Each entry has the form 5100 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 5101 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 5102 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 5103 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 5104 the following meanings: 5105 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 5106 descriptors must not be fetched using 5107 a 255-byte read); 5108 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 5109 correctly so reset it instead); 5110 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 5111 Set-Interface requests); 5112 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 5113 handle its Configuration or Interface 5114 strings); 5115 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 5116 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 5117 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 5118 more interface descriptions than the 5119 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 5120 talking to these interfaces); 5121 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 5122 during initialization, after we read 5123 the device descriptor); 5124 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 5125 high speed and super speed interrupt 5126 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 5127 require the interval in microframes (1 5128 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 5129 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 5130 (bInterval-1). 5131 Devices with this quirk report their 5132 bInterval as the result of this 5133 calculation instead of the exponent 5134 variable used in the calculation); 5135 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 5136 handle device_qualifier descriptor 5137 requests); 5138 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 5139 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 5140 remote wakeup capability); 5141 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 5142 Power Management); 5143 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 5144 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 5145 frames instead of the USB 2.0 5146 calculation); 5147 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 5148 to be disconnected before suspend to 5149 prevent spurious wakeup); 5150 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 5151 pause after every control message); 5152 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 5153 delay after resetting its port); 5154 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 5155 5156 usbhid.mousepoll= 5157 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 5158 5159 usbhid.jspoll= 5160 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 5161 5162 usbhid.kbpoll= 5163 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 5164 5165 usb-storage.delay_use= 5166 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 5167 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 5168 5169 usb-storage.quirks= 5170 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 5171 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 5172 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 5173 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 5174 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 5175 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 5176 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 5177 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 5178 of sense data, not on uas); 5179 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 5180 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 5181 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 5182 device capacity by one sector); 5183 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 5184 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 5185 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 5186 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 5187 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 5188 command, uas only); 5189 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 5190 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 5191 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 5192 reported device capacity by one 5193 sector if the number is odd); 5194 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 5195 device); 5196 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 5197 command, uas only); 5198 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 5199 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 5200 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 5201 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 5202 not on uas); 5203 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 5204 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 5205 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 5206 reported by the device, not on uas); 5207 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 5208 by default, not on uas); 5209 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 5210 bogus residue values, not on uas); 5211 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 5212 Logical Unit); 5213 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 5214 commands, uas only); 5215 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 5216 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 5217 medium is write-protected). 5218 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 5219 even if the device claims no cache, 5220 not on uas) 5221 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 5222 5223 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 5224 Format: <int> 5225 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 5226 1 - undefined instruction events 5227 2 - system calls 5228 4 - invalid data aborts 5229 8 - SIGSEGV faults 5230 16 - SIGBUS faults 5231 Example: user_debug=31 5232 5233 userpte= 5234 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 5235 5236 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 5237 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 5238 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 5239 5240 vdso= [X86,SH] 5241 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 5242 5243 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 5244 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 5245 5246 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 5247 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 5248 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 5249 5250 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 5251 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 5252 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 5253 5254 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 5255 alias for vdso32=0. 5256 5257 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 5258 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 5259 5260 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 5261 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 5262 5263 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 5264 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 5265 5266 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1] 5267 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 5268 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 5269 level and then send out the event to user space through 5270 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver 5271 will only send out the event without touching backlight 5272 brightness level. 5273 default: 1 5274 5275 virtio_mmio.device= 5276 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 5277 5278 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 5279 where: 5280 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 5281 like K, M and G) 5282 <baseaddr> := physical base address 5283 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 5284 request_irq()) 5285 <id> := (optional) platform device id 5286 example: 5287 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 5288 5289 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 5290 5291 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 5292 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and 5293 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 5294 Use vga=ask for menu. 5295 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 5296 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 5297 5298 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 5299 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 5300 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 5301 All options are enabled by default, and this 5302 interface is meant to allow for selectively 5303 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 5304 debugging features. 5305 5306 Available options are: 5307 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 5308 - Disable all of the above options 5309 5310 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 5311 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 5312 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 5313 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 5314 mapped kernel RAM. 5315 5316 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 5317 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 5318 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 5319 5320 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 5321 Format: <command> 5322 5323 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 5324 Format: <command> 5325 5326 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 5327 Format: <command> 5328 5329 vsyscall= [X86-64] 5330 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 5331 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 5332 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 5333 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 5334 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 5335 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 5336 5337 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 5338 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 5339 page is readable. 5340 5341 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 5342 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 5343 page is not readable. 5344 5345 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 5346 them quite hard to use for exploits but 5347 might break your system. 5348 5349 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 5350 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 5351 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 5352 5353 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 5354 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 5355 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 5356 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 5357 5358 vt.default_blu= [VT] 5359 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 5360 Change the default blue palette of the console. 5361 This is a 16-member array composed of values 5362 ranging from 0-255. 5363 5364 vt.default_grn= [VT] 5365 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 5366 Change the default green palette of the console. 5367 This is a 16-member array composed of values 5368 ranging from 0-255. 5369 5370 vt.default_red= [VT] 5371 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 5372 Change the default red palette of the console. 5373 This is a 16-member array composed of values 5374 ranging from 0-255. 5375 5376 vt.default_utf8= 5377 [VT] 5378 Format=<0|1> 5379 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 5380 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 5381 newly opened terminals. 5382 5383 vt.global_cursor_default= 5384 [VT] 5385 Format=<-1|0|1> 5386 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 5387 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 5388 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 5389 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 5390 cursors, 1 will display them. 5391 5392 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 5393 Default: 2 = green. 5394 5395 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 5396 Default: 3 = cyan. 5397 5398 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 5399 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 5400 or other driver-specific files in the 5401 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 5402 5403 watchdog_thresh= 5404 [KNL] 5405 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 5406 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 5407 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 5408 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 5409 seconds. 5410 5411 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 5412 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 5413 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 5414 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 5415 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 5416 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 5417 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 5418 corresponding sysfs file. 5419 5420 workqueue.disable_numa 5421 By default, all work items queued to unbound 5422 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 5423 issued on, which results in better behavior in 5424 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 5425 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 5426 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 5427 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 5428 5429 workqueue.power_efficient 5430 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 5431 they show better performance thanks to cache 5432 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 5433 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 5434 5435 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 5436 were observed to contribute significantly to power 5437 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 5438 power usage at the cost of small performance 5439 overhead. 5440 5441 The default value of this parameter is determined by 5442 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 5443 5444 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 5445 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 5446 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 5447 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 5448 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 5449 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 5450 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 5451 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 5452 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 5453 impacted. 5454 5455 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 5456 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 5457 supporting x2apic. 5458 5459 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT] 5460 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform. 5461 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer 5462 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer. 5463 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt 5464 5465 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 5466 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 5467 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 5468 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 5469 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 5470 domains. 5471 5472 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 5473 Unplug Xen emulated devices 5474 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 5475 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 5476 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 5477 nics -- unplug network devices 5478 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 5479 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 5480 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 5481 the unplug protocol 5482 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 5483 5484 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN] 5485 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 5486 panic() code such as dumping handler. 5487 5488 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 5489 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV 5490 optimizations. 5491 5492 xen_nopv [X86] 5493 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 5494 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 5495 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 5496 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 5497 5498 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 5499 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 5500 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 5501 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 5502 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 5503 5504 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 5505 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 5506 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 5507 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 5508 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 5509 more timer interrupts. 5510 5511 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] 5512 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 5513 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 5514 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 5515 5516 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 5517 Format: 5518 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 5519 5520 xive= [PPC] 5521 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 5522 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 5523 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 5524 5525 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 5526 controller on both pseries and powernv 5527 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 5528 5529 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 5530 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 5531 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 5532 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 5533 5534 xmon [PPC] 5535 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 5536 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 5537 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 5538 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 5539 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 5540 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 5541 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 5542 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 5543 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 5544 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 5545 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 5546 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 5547 can be written using xmon commands. 5548 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 5549 memory, and other data can't be written using 5550 xmon commands. 5551 off xmon is disabled. 5552