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