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