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 { vendor | video | native | none } 26 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver 27 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 28 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 29 If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver. 30 If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode. 31 If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface. 32 33 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr 34 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 35 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 36 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 37 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 38 39 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 40 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 41 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 42 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 43 This option is useful for developers to identify the 44 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 45 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 46 47 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 48 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 49 Format: <int> 50 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 51 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 52 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 53 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT 54 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 55 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 56 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 57 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 58 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about 59 debug layers and levels. 60 61 Enable processor driver info messages: 62 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 63 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages: 64 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000 65 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 66 object while interpreting AML: 67 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 68 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 69 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 70 71 Some values produce so much output that the system is 72 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 73 if you need to capture more output. 74 75 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 76 { strict | lax | no } 77 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 78 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 79 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 80 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 81 can interfere with legacy drivers. 82 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 83 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 84 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 85 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 86 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 87 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 88 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 89 no further checks are performed. 90 91 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI] 92 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 93 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 94 size limitation. 95 96 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 97 ACPI will balance active IRQs 98 default in APIC mode 99 100 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 101 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 102 default in PIC mode 103 104 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 105 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 106 107 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 108 use by PCI 109 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 110 111 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 112 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 113 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 114 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 115 the GPE dispatcher. 116 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 117 GPE floodings. 118 Format: <byte> 119 120 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 121 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 122 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 123 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 124 auto-serialization feature. 125 This feature is enabled by default. 126 This option allows to turn off the feature. 127 128 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 129 kernels. 130 131 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] 132 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 133 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 134 installed automatically and they will appear under 135 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 136 This option turns off this feature. 137 Note that specifying this option does not affect 138 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 139 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 140 141 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT] 142 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let 143 a native driver control the watchdog device instead. 144 145 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] 146 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 147 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 148 second kernel for kdump. 149 150 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 151 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 152 153 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 154 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 155 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 156 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 157 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 158 159 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 160 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 161 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 162 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 163 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 164 strings 165 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 166 strings 167 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 168 169 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 170 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 171 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 172 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 173 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 174 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 175 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 176 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 177 care about the state of the feature group strings which 178 should be controlled by the OSPM. 179 Examples: 180 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 181 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 182 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 183 184 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 185 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 186 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 187 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 188 multiple times through kernel command line is also 189 meaningless. 190 Examples: 191 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 192 FALSE. 193 194 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 195 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 196 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 197 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 198 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 199 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 200 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 201 there are quirks related to this string. This command 202 is useful when one want to control the state of the 203 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 204 the OSPM features. 205 Examples: 206 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 207 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 208 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 209 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 210 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 211 equivalent to 212 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 213 and 214 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 215 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 216 217 acpi_pm_good [X86] 218 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 219 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 220 and always returns good values. 221 222 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 223 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 224 225 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 226 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 227 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 228 229 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 230 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig, 231 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl } 232 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on 233 s3_bios and s3_mode. 234 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 235 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 236 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 237 used during resume from hibernation. 238 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 239 control method, with respect to putting devices into 240 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 241 of _PTS is used by default). 242 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 243 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 244 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 245 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 246 but some broken systems don't work without it). 247 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 248 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 249 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 250 251 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 252 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 253 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 254 255 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 256 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 257 258 agp= [AGP] 259 { off | try_unsupported } 260 off: disable AGP support 261 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 262 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 263 264 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 265 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 266 267 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 268 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 269 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 270 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 271 272 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 273 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 274 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 275 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 276 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 277 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 278 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 279 280 32: only for 32-bit processes 281 64: only for 64-bit processes 282 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 283 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 284 285 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 286 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 287 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 288 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 289 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 290 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 291 292 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 293 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 294 Possible values are: 295 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when 296 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are 297 flushed before they will be reused, which 298 is a lot of faster 299 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 300 the system 301 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 302 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 303 allowed anymore to lift isolation 304 requirements as needed. This option 305 does not override iommu=pt 306 307 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 308 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 309 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 310 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 311 IOMMU initialization. 312 313 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 314 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 315 remapping modes: 316 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 317 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 318 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 319 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 320 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 321 322 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 323 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 324 Format: <a>,<b> 325 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 326 327 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 328 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 329 connected to one of 16 gameports 330 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 331 332 apc= [HW,SPARC] 333 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 334 Format: noidle 335 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 336 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 337 APC and your system crashes randomly. 338 339 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 340 Change the output verbosity while booting 341 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 342 Change the amount of debugging information output 343 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 344 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 345 driver name. 346 Format: apic=driver_name 347 Examples: apic=bigsmp 348 349 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 350 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 351 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 352 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 353 backup of CPU 0 354 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 355 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 356 shot down by NMI 357 358 autoconf= [IPV6] 359 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 360 361 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 362 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 363 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 364 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 365 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 366 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 367 apic=verbose is specified. 368 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 369 370 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 371 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 372 373 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 374 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 375 376 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target 377 Identification support 378 379 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication 380 support 381 382 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 383 384 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 385 386 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 387 EzKey and similar keyboards 388 389 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 390 391 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 392 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 393 394 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 395 keyboards 396 397 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 398 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 399 400 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 401 Use software keyboard repeat 402 403 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 404 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 405 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 406 enabled until the next reboot 407 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 408 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 409 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 410 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 411 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 412 userspace auditd. 413 Default: unset 414 415 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 416 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 417 Default: 64 418 419 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 420 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 421 Format: { "0" | "1" } 422 0 - Disable the BAU. 423 1 - Enable the BAU. 424 unset - Disable the BAU. 425 426 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 427 Format: <io>,<mode> 428 429 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 430 Format: <io>,<mode> 431 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 432 433 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 434 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 435 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 436 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 437 438 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 439 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 440 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 441 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 442 443 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 444 embedded devices based on command line input. 445 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 446 447 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 448 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to 449 no delay (0). 450 Format: integer 451 452 bootconfig [KNL] 453 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 454 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 455 456 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 457 458 bert_disable [ACPI] 459 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 460 461 bgrt_disable [ACPI][X86] 462 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. 463 464 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 465 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 466 kernel args too. 467 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst 468 bttv.tuner= 469 470 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 471 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 472 at a time. 473 474 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 475 476 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 477 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 478 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 479 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 480 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 481 This option provides an override for these situations. 482 483 carrier_timeout= 484 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 485 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 486 it waits 120 seconds. 487 488 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 489 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 490 trust validation. 491 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 492 493 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 494 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 495 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 496 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 497 others). 498 499 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 500 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 501 502 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller 503 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable} 504 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 505 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 506 a single hierarchy 507 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 508 subsystem 509 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 510 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 511 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 512 513 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 514 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 515 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 516 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 517 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 518 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 519 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 520 all v1 hierarchies. 521 522 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 523 Format: <string> 524 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 525 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 526 527 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 528 Format: { "0" | "1" } 529 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 530 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 531 any implied execute protection). 532 1 -- check protection requested by application. 533 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 534 Value can be changed at runtime via 535 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 536 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. 537 538 cio_ignore= [S390] 539 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 540 clk_ignore_unused 541 [CLK] 542 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 543 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 544 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 545 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 546 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 547 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 548 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 549 platform with proper driver support. For more 550 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 551 552 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 553 [Deprecated] 554 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 555 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 556 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 557 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 558 559 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 560 Format: <string> 561 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 562 with the name specified. 563 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 564 the platform: 565 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 566 [ACPI] acpi_pm 567 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 568 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 569 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 570 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 571 [MIPS] MIPS 572 [PARISC] cr16 573 [S390] tod 574 [SH] SuperH 575 [SPARC64] tick 576 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 577 578 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 579 [ARM,ARM64] 580 Format: <bool> 581 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 582 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 583 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 584 systems. 585 586 clearcpuid=BITNUM[,BITNUM...] [X86] 587 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 588 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 589 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily 590 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific 591 ones should be. 592 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 593 or using the feature without checking anything 594 will still see it. This just prevents it from 595 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 596 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 597 some critical bits. 598 599 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 600 [KNL,CMA] 601 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 602 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 603 placement constraint by the physical address range of 604 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 605 altogether. For more information, see 606 kernel/dma/contiguous.c 607 608 cma_pernuma=nn[MG] 609 [ARM64,KNL,CMA] 610 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for 611 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables 612 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not 613 specificed, the default value is 0. 614 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 615 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area 616 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 617 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 618 619 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 620 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 621 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 622 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 623 a hypervisor. 624 Default: yes 625 626 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 627 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 628 allocations, by default set to 256K. 629 630 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 631 Format: 632 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 633 634 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 635 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 636 637 com90xx= [HW,NET] 638 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 639 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 640 641 condev= [HW,S390] console device 642 conmode= 643 644 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 645 646 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 647 648 ttyS<n>[,options] 649 ttyUSB0[,options] 650 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 651 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 652 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 653 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 654 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 655 656 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 657 information. See 658 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an 659 alternative. 660 661 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 662 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 663 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 664 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 665 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 666 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 667 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 668 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 669 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 670 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 671 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 672 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 673 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 674 the h/w is not re-initialized. 675 676 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 677 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 678 679 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 680 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 681 console=brl,ttyS0 682 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 683 684 console_msg_format= 685 [KNL] Change console messages format 686 default 687 By default we print messages on consoles in 688 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 689 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 690 `printk_time' param). 691 syslog 692 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 693 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 694 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 695 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 696 from /proc/kmsg. 697 698 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 699 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 700 Defaults to 0. 701 702 coredump_filter= 703 [KNL] Change the default value for 704 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 705 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. 706 707 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 708 [ARM,ARM64] 709 Format: <bool> 710 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 711 0: default value, disable debugging 712 1: enable debugging at boot time 713 714 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 715 disable the cpuidle sub-system 716 717 cpuidle.governor= 718 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 719 720 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 721 disable the cpufreq sub-system 722 723 cpufreq.default_governor= 724 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or 725 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the 726 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. 727 728 cpu_init_udelay=N 729 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 730 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 731 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 732 Default: 10000 733 734 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 735 Format: 736 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 737 738 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 739 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 740 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 741 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 742 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 743 is selected automatically. 744 [KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and 745 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset' 746 hasn't been specified. 747 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 748 749 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 750 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 751 in the running system. The syntax of range is 752 start-[end] where start and end are both 753 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 754 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 755 756 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 757 [KNL, X86-64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 758 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 759 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 760 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 761 available. 762 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 763 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 764 [KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 765 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 766 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 767 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 768 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 769 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 770 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at 771 at least 256M below 4G automatically. 772 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G 773 for second kernel instead. 774 0: to disable low allocation. 775 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 776 or memory reserved is below 4G. 777 778 cryptomgr.notests 779 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 780 781 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 782 Format: <dma> 783 784 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 785 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 786 787 dasd= [HW,NET] 788 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 789 790 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 791 (one device per port) 792 Format: <port#>,<type> 793 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 794 795 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot 796 time. See 797 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for 798 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg. 799 800 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 801 802 debug_boot_weak_hash 803 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 804 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 805 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 806 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 807 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 808 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 809 810 debug_locks_verbose= 811 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests 812 Format: <int> 813 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 814 self-tests. 815 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 816 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) 817 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only 818 useful to lockdep developers. 819 820 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 821 822 no_debug_objects 823 [KNL] Disable object debugging 824 825 debug_guardpage_minorder= 826 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 827 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 828 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 829 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 830 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 831 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 832 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 833 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 834 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 835 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 836 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 837 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 838 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when 839 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 840 bypassed) which are not detectable by 841 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 842 tracking down these problems. 843 844 debug_pagealloc= 845 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 846 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 847 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 848 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 849 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 850 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 851 on: enable the feature 852 853 debugfs= [KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace 854 and debugfs internal clients. 855 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 856 on: All functions are enabled. 857 no-mount: 858 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 859 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 860 its content. There is nothing to mount. 861 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 862 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 863 or directories within debugfs. 864 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 865 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 866 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 867 868 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 869 870 decnet.addr= [HW,NET] 871 Format: <area>[,<node>] 872 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.rst. 873 874 default_hugepagesz= 875 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 876 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 877 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 878 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 879 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 880 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 881 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 882 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 883 Format: size[KMG] 884 885 deferred_probe_timeout= 886 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 887 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 888 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 889 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0 890 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also 891 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 892 retrying. 893 894 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 895 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 896 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 897 level 1 and decompression (default) 898 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 899 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 900 only (compression on level 1) 901 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 902 only (decompression) 903 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 904 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 905 906 dhash_entries= [KNL] 907 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 908 909 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 910 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 911 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 912 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 913 miss to occur. 914 915 stress_slb [PPC] 916 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 917 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 918 on kernel addresses. 919 920 disable= [IPV6] 921 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 922 923 hardened_usercopy= 924 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 925 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 926 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 927 from reading or writing beyond known memory 928 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 929 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 930 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 931 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 932 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 933 934 disable_radix [PPC] 935 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 936 937 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 938 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 939 invalidate. 940 941 disable_tlbie [PPC] 942 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 943 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 944 945 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 946 Format: <int> 947 The number of initial APIC ID for the 948 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 949 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 950 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 951 causing system reset or hang due to sending 952 INIT from AP to BSP. 953 954 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 955 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 956 to workaround buggy firmware. 957 958 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 959 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 960 961 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 962 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 963 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 964 entry later. This parameter disables that. 965 966 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 967 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 968 memory out of your available memory pool based on 969 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 970 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 971 972 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 973 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 974 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 975 976 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 977 978 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 979 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 980 981 dma_debug_entries=<number> 982 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 983 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 984 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 985 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 986 architectural default is too low. 987 988 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 989 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 990 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 991 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 992 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 993 driver later using sysfs. 994 995 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 996 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. 997 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 998 999 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1000 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1001 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1002 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1003 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1004 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 1005 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 1006 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 1007 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 1008 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 1009 available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID 1010 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 1011 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 1012 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 1013 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1014 data set with no connector name will be used for 1015 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1016 1017 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1018 1019 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 1020 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1021 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1022 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1023 exists). 1024 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1025 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1026 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1027 1028 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1029 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1030 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1031 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1032 1033 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1034 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1035 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1036 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1037 for details. 1038 1039 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 1040 in some Intel CPUs. 1041 1042 <module>.async_probe [KNL] 1043 Enable asynchronous probe on this module. 1044 1045 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 1046 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1047 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1048 which are not unmapped. 1049 1050 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 1051 1052 When used with no options, the early console is 1053 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1054 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1055 the platform. 1056 1057 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1058 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1059 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1060 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1061 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1062 configured. 1063 1064 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 1065 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 1066 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 1067 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options] 1068 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1069 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1070 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1071 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1072 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1073 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1074 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1075 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1076 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 1077 1078 pl011,<addr> 1079 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1080 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1081 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1082 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1083 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1084 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1085 the device registers. 1086 1087 meson,<addr> 1088 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1089 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1090 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1091 supported. 1092 1093 msm_serial,<addr> 1094 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1095 port at the specified address. The serial port 1096 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1097 yet supported. 1098 1099 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1100 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1101 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1102 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1103 yet supported. 1104 1105 owl,<addr> 1106 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1107 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1108 specified address. The serial port must already be 1109 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1110 1111 rda,<addr> 1112 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1113 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1114 specified address. The serial port must already be 1115 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1116 1117 sbi 1118 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1119 console. 1120 1121 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1122 1123 s3c2410,<addr> 1124 s3c2412,<addr> 1125 s3c2440,<addr> 1126 s3c6400,<addr> 1127 s5pv210,<addr> 1128 exynos4210,<addr> 1129 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1130 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1131 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1132 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1133 Options are not yet supported. 1134 1135 lantiq,<addr> 1136 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1137 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1138 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1139 yet supported. 1140 1141 lpuart,<addr> 1142 lpuart32,<addr> 1143 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1144 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1145 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1146 port must already be setup and configured. 1147 1148 ec_imx21,<addr> 1149 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1150 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1151 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1152 must already be setup and configured. 1153 1154 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1155 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1156 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1157 address. The serial port must already be setup 1158 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1159 1160 qcom_geni,<addr> 1161 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1162 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1163 specified address. The serial port must already be 1164 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1165 1166 efifb,[options] 1167 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1168 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1169 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1170 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1171 mapped with the correct attributes. 1172 1173 linflex,<addr> 1174 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1175 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1176 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1177 already be setup and configured. 1178 1179 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1180 earlyprintk=vga 1181 earlyprintk=sclp 1182 earlyprintk=xen 1183 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1184 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1185 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1186 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1187 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1188 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1189 1190 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1191 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1192 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1193 1194 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1195 takes over. 1196 1197 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can 1198 be used at a time. 1199 1200 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1201 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1202 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1203 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1204 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1205 You can find the port for a given device in 1206 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1207 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1208 1209 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1210 very good. 1211 1212 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by 1213 the real console. 1214 1215 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests. 1216 1217 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1218 1219 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1220 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1221 UART class. 1222 1223 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1224 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1225 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1226 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1227 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1228 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1229 default: on. 1230 1231 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1232 ekgdboc=kbd 1233 1234 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1235 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1236 1237 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1238 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1239 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1240 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1241 1242 edd= [EDD] 1243 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1244 1245 efi= [EFI] 1246 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1247 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1248 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1249 debug: enable misc debug output. 1250 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1251 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1252 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1253 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1254 firmware implementations. 1255 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1256 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1257 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1258 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1259 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1260 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1261 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1262 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1263 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1264 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1265 1266 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1267 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1268 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1269 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1270 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1271 1272 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1273 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1274 updating original EFI memory map. 1275 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1276 from ss to ss+nn. 1277 1278 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1279 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1280 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1281 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1282 1283 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the 1284 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to 1285 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff. 1286 1287 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1288 related features. For example, you can do debugging of 1289 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1290 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as 1291 "soft reserved". 1292 1293 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1294 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1295 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1296 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1297 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1298 1299 1300 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1301 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1302 1303 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1304 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1305 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1306 1307 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1308 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1309 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1310 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1311 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1312 1313 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1314 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1315 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1316 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1317 1318 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1319 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1320 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1321 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1322 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1323 1324 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1325 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1326 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1327 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1328 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1329 Default value is 0. 1330 Value can be changed at runtime via 1331 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1332 1333 erst_disable [ACPI] 1334 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1335 support. 1336 1337 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1338 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1339 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1340 1341 evm= [EVM] 1342 Format: { "fix" } 1343 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1344 current integrity status. 1345 1346 failslab= 1347 fail_usercopy= 1348 fail_page_alloc= 1349 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1350 General fault injection mechanism. 1351 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1352 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1353 1354 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1355 Format: { initns | none } 1356 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1357 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1358 1359 floppy= [HW] 1360 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1361 1362 force_pal_cache_flush 1363 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1364 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1365 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1366 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1367 1368 forcepae [X86-32] 1369 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1370 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1371 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1372 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1373 and may cause unknown problems. 1374 1375 ftrace=[tracer] 1376 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1377 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1378 boot debugging. 1379 1380 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1381 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1382 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1383 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1384 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1385 oops. 1386 1387 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1388 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1389 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 1390 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1391 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1392 tracing directory. 1393 1394 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1395 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1396 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1397 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1398 tracing directory. 1399 1400 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1401 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1402 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1403 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions 1404 that can be changed at run time by the 1405 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1406 1407 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1408 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1409 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of 1410 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1411 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1412 1413 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1414 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1415 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1416 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1417 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1418 1419 fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1420 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1421 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1422 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1423 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1424 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1425 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1426 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1427 suppliers). 1428 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1429 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1430 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1431 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1432 up (sync_state() calls). 1433 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1434 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1435 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1436 1437 fw_devlink.strict=<bool> 1438 [KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory 1439 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. 1440 Format: <bool> 1441 1442 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1443 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1444 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1445 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1446 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1447 1448 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1449 1450 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1451 Format: off | on 1452 default: on 1453 1454 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1455 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1456 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1457 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1458 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1459 1460 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1461 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1462 android emulator 1463 1464 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1465 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1466 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1467 GPT to be used instead. 1468 1469 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1470 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1471 Format: 0 | 1 1472 Default: 0 1473 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1474 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1475 Format: 0 | 1 1476 Default: 0 1477 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1478 Format: 0 | 1 1479 Default: 0 1480 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1481 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1482 Default: 1024 1483 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1484 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1485 Default: 1024 1486 1487 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1488 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1489 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1490 1491 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1492 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1493 backtraces on all cpus. 1494 Format: 0 | 1 1495 1496 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1497 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1498 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1499 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1500 1501 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1502 1503 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1504 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1505 1506 hest_disable [ACPI] 1507 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1508 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1509 logic will be disabled. 1510 1511 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1512 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1513 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1514 size on bigger boxes. 1515 1516 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1517 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1518 Default: "on" 1519 1520 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1521 1522 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1523 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1524 verbose } 1525 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1526 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1527 VIA, nVidia) 1528 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1529 1530 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1531 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1532 1533 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation 1534 of gigantic hugepages. 1535 Format: nn[KMGTPE] 1536 1537 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic 1538 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the 1539 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1540 1541 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1542 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1543 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1544 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1545 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1546 the default huge page size. See also 1547 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1548 Format: <integer> 1549 1550 hugepagesz= 1551 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in 1552 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge 1553 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair 1554 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for 1555 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are 1556 architecture dependent. See also 1557 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1558 Format: size[KMG] 1559 1560 hung_task_panic= 1561 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1562 Format: 0 | 1 1563 1564 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1565 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1566 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1567 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1568 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1569 1570 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1571 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1572 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1573 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1574 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1575 1576 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1577 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1578 guest on lock contention. 1579 1580 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1581 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1582 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1583 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1584 the real console. 1585 1586 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1587 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1588 registered from board initialization code. 1589 Format: 1590 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1591 1592 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1593 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1594 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1595 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1596 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1597 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1598 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1599 keyboard and cannot control its state 1600 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1601 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1602 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1603 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1604 for the AUX port 1605 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1606 controller 1607 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1608 controllers 1609 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1610 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1611 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1612 transitions, or never reset 1613 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1614 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1615 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1616 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1617 architectures force reset to be always executed 1618 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1619 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1620 1621 i810= [HW,DRM] 1622 1623 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1624 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1625 hardware. 1626 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature 1627 does not match list of supported models. 1628 i8k.power_status 1629 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1630 (disabled by default) 1631 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1632 capability is set. 1633 1634 i915.invert_brightness= 1635 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1636 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1637 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1638 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1639 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1640 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1641 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1642 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1643 value switches the backlight off. 1644 -1 -- never invert brightness 1645 0 -- machine default 1646 1 -- force brightness inversion 1647 1648 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1649 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1650 1651 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1652 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc 1653 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr 1654 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options 1655 See Documentation/ide/ide.rst. 1656 1657 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1658 Format: <int> 1659 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on 1660 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by 1661 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The 1662 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning. 1663 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the 1664 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which 1665 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value 1666 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it 1667 was 0x3. 1668 1669 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1670 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers. 1671 1672 idle= [X86] 1673 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1674 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1675 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1676 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1677 Not recommended. 1678 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1679 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1680 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1681 1682 idxd.sva= [HW] 1683 Format: <bool> 1684 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) 1685 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to 1686 true (1). 1687 1688 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1689 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1690 Default: strict 1691 1692 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1693 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1694 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1695 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1696 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1697 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1698 encoding mode. 1699 1700 Available settings are as follows: 1701 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1702 supported by the FPU 1703 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1704 by the FPU 1705 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1706 by the FPU 1707 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1708 supported by the FPU 1709 1710 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1711 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1712 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1713 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1714 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1715 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1716 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1717 MIPS64 CPUs. 1718 1719 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1720 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1721 except where unsupported by hardware. 1722 1723 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1724 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1725 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1726 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1727 could change it dynamically, usually by 1728 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1729 1730 ignore_rlimit_data 1731 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1732 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1733 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1734 1735 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1736 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1737 1738 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1739 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1740 default: "enforce" 1741 1742 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1743 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1744 owned by uid=0. 1745 1746 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1747 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1748 measurements, instead of host native format. 1749 1750 ima_hash= [IMA] 1751 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1752 | sha512 | ... } 1753 default: "sha1" 1754 1755 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1756 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1757 1758 ima_policy= [IMA] 1759 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1760 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1761 fail_securely | critical_data" 1762 1763 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1764 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1765 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1766 uid=0. 1767 1768 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1769 all files owned by root. 1770 1771 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1772 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1773 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1774 1775 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1776 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1777 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1778 flag. 1779 1780 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 1781 critical data. 1782 1783 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1784 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1785 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1786 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1787 opened for read by uid=0. 1788 1789 ima_template= [IMA] 1790 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1791 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" } 1792 Default: "ima-ng" 1793 1794 ima_template_fmt= 1795 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1796 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1797 1798 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1799 Format: <min_file_size> 1800 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1801 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1802 1803 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1804 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1805 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1806 1807 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1808 Format: <bufsize> 1809 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1810 1811 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1812 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1813 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1814 1815 init= [KNL] 1816 Format: <full_path> 1817 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1818 process. 1819 1820 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1821 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1822 startup. 1823 1824 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1825 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1826 modules and initcalls. 1827 1828 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 1829 1830 initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to 1831 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 1832 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 1833 setting. 1834 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 1835 Default is 0, 0 1836 1837 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 1838 zeroes. 1839 Format: 0 | 1 1840 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 1841 1842 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 1843 Format: 0 | 1 1844 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 1845 1846 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 1847 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 1848 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 1849 override in debugfs after boot. 1850 1851 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 1852 Format: <irq> 1853 1854 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 1855 1856 integrity_audit=[IMA] 1857 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1858 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 1859 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 1860 1861 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 1862 on 1863 Enable intel iommu driver. 1864 off 1865 Disable intel iommu driver. 1866 igfx_off [Default Off] 1867 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 1868 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 1869 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 1870 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 1871 DMA. 1872 forcedac [X86-64] 1873 With this option iommu will not optimize to look 1874 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual 1875 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater 1876 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look 1877 for translation below 32-bit and if not available 1878 then look in the higher range. 1879 strict [Default Off] 1880 With this option on every unmap_single operation will 1881 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed 1882 to batching them for performance. 1883 sp_off [Default Off] 1884 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 1885 has the capability. With this option, super page will 1886 not be supported. 1887 sm_on [Default Off] 1888 By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the 1889 hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable 1890 mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode 1891 will be used on hardware which claims to support it. 1892 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 1893 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 1894 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 1895 could harm performance of some high-throughput 1896 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 1897 mapping is enabled. 1898 Note that using this option lowers the security 1899 provided by tboot because it makes the system 1900 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 1901 1902 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 1903 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 1904 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 1905 1906 intel_pstate= [X86] 1907 disable 1908 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 1909 scaling driver for the supported processors 1910 passive 1911 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 1912 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 1913 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 1914 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 1915 feature. 1916 force 1917 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 1918 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 1919 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 1920 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 1921 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 1922 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 1923 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 1924 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 1925 no_hwp 1926 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 1927 if available. 1928 hwp_only 1929 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 1930 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 1931 support_acpi_ppc 1932 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 1933 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 1934 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 1935 then this feature is turned on by default. 1936 per_cpu_perf_limits 1937 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 1938 cpufreq sysfs interface 1939 1940 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 1941 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 1942 off disable Interrupt Remapping 1943 nosid disable Source ID checking 1944 no_x2apic_optout 1945 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 1946 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 1947 1948 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 1949 strict regions from userspace. 1950 relaxed 1951 1952 iommu= [X86] 1953 off 1954 force 1955 noforce 1956 biomerge 1957 panic 1958 nopanic 1959 merge 1960 nomerge 1961 soft 1962 pt [X86] 1963 nopt [X86] 1964 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 1965 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 1966 1967 iommu.strict= [ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 1968 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1969 0 - Lazy mode. 1970 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 1971 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 1972 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 1973 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 1974 the relevant IOMMU driver. 1975 1 - Strict mode (default). 1976 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 1977 synchronously. 1978 1979 iommu.passthrough= 1980 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 1981 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1982 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 1983 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 1984 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 1985 1986 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 1987 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 1988 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 1989 1990 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 1991 0x80 1992 Standard port 0x80 based delay 1993 0xed 1994 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 1995 udelay 1996 Simple two microseconds delay 1997 none 1998 No delay 1999 2000 ip= [IP_PNP] 2001 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2002 2003 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2004 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2005 2006 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2007 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2008 2009 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2010 [ARM, ARM64] 2011 Format: <bool> 2012 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2013 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2014 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2015 2016 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2017 [ARM, ARM64] 2018 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2019 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2020 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2021 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2022 LPIs. 2023 2024 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 2025 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2026 requires the kernel to be built with 2027 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2028 2029 irqfixup [HW] 2030 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2031 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2032 firmware running. 2033 2034 irqpoll [HW] 2035 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2036 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2037 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2038 firmware running. 2039 2040 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2041 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2042 2043 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2044 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2045 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2046 2047 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2048 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2049 2050 nohz 2051 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 2052 2053 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2054 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2055 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2056 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2057 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2058 2059 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2060 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2061 be configured manually after bootup. 2062 2063 domain 2064 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2065 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2066 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2067 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2068 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2069 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2070 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2071 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2072 2073 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2074 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2075 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2076 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2077 2078 managed_irq 2079 2080 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2081 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2082 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2083 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2084 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2085 2086 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2087 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2088 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2089 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2090 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2091 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2092 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2093 2094 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2095 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2096 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2097 only delivered when tasks running on those 2098 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2099 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2100 queues. 2101 2102 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2103 2104 iucv= [HW,NET] 2105 2106 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2107 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2108 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2109 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 2110 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2111 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2112 2113 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2114 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2115 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2116 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to 2117 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2118 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2119 2120 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2121 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2122 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2123 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2124 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 2125 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2126 2127 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2128 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2129 2130 nokaslr [KNL] 2131 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 2132 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 2133 Layout Randomization). 2134 2135 kasan_multi_shot 2136 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2137 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2138 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2139 invalid access. 2140 2141 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 2142 2143 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2144 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2145 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2146 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2147 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2148 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2149 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2150 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2151 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2152 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2153 2154 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2155 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2156 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2157 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2158 zone if it does not. 2159 2160 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2161 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2162 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2163 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2164 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2165 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2166 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2167 2168 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2169 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2170 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2171 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2172 optional and is the number seconds in between 2173 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2174 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2175 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2176 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2177 the kernel debugger. 2178 2179 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2180 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2181 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2182 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2183 keyboard only format: kbd 2184 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2185 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2186 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2187 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2188 2189 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW] 2190 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2191 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2192 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2193 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2194 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2195 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2196 2197 The name of the early console should be specified 2198 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2199 the early console might be different than the tty 2200 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2201 blank and the first boot console that implements 2202 read() will be picked. 2203 2204 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2205 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2206 2207 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2208 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2209 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2210 2211 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2212 Valid arguments: on, off 2213 Default: on 2214 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2215 the default is off. 2216 2217 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2218 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2219 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2220 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2221 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2222 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2223 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2224 2225 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2226 2227 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2228 Boot Parameter" section. 2229 2230 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2231 and kernel address spaces. 2232 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2233 0: force disabled 2234 1: force enabled 2235 2236 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2237 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2238 2239 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2240 Default is false (don't support). 2241 2242 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit 2243 KVM MMU at runtime. 2244 Default is 0 (off) 2245 2246 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2247 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2248 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2249 force : Always deploy workaround. 2250 off : Never deploy workaround. 2251 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2252 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2253 2254 Default is 'auto'. 2255 2256 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2257 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2258 2259 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2260 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2261 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2262 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2263 minute. The default is 60. 2264 2265 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 2266 Default is 1 (enabled) 2267 2268 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 2269 for all guests. 2270 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 2271 2272 kvm-arm.mode= 2273 [KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation. 2274 2275 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2276 protected guests. 2277 2278 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose 2279 state is kept private from the host. 2280 Not valid if the kernel is running in EL2. 2281 2282 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support and 2283 the value of CONFIG_ARM64_VHE. 2284 2285 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2286 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2287 system registers 2288 2289 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2290 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2291 system registers 2292 2293 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2294 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2295 system registers 2296 2297 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2298 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2299 LPIs. 2300 2301 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC] 2302 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2303 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2304 allocation. 2305 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2306 Format: <integer> 2307 Default: 5 2308 2309 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 2310 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 2311 Default is 1 (enabled) 2312 2313 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2314 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states 2315 Default is 0 (disabled) 2316 2317 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2318 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 2319 Default is 1 (enabled) 2320 2321 kvm-intel.nested= 2322 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 2323 Default is 0 (disabled) 2324 2325 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2326 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 2327 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 2328 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 2329 2330 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2331 CVE-2018-3620. 2332 2333 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2334 2335 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2336 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2337 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2338 never: Disables the mitigation 2339 2340 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2341 2342 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 2343 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 2344 Default is 1 (enabled) 2345 2346 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2347 affected CPUs 2348 2349 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2350 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2351 2352 full 2353 Provides all available mitigations for the 2354 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2355 enables all mitigations in the 2356 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2357 2358 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2359 sysfs interface is still possible after 2360 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2361 when the first VM is started in a 2362 potentially insecure configuration, 2363 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2364 2365 full,force 2366 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2367 flush runtime control. Implies the 2368 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2369 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2370 2371 flush 2372 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2373 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2374 L1D flush. 2375 2376 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2377 sysfs interface is still possible after 2378 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2379 when the first VM is started in a 2380 potentially insecure configuration, 2381 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2382 2383 flush,nosmt 2384 2385 Disables SMT and enables the default 2386 hypervisor mitigation. 2387 2388 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2389 sysfs interface is still possible after 2390 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2391 when the first VM is started in a 2392 potentially insecure configuration, 2393 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2394 2395 flush,nowarn 2396 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2397 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2398 insecure configuration. 2399 2400 off 2401 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2402 emit any warnings. 2403 It also drops the swap size and available 2404 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2405 bare metal. 2406 2407 Default is 'flush'. 2408 2409 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2410 2411 l2cr= [PPC] 2412 2413 l3cr= [PPC] 2414 2415 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2416 disabled it. 2417 2418 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 2419 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2420 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2421 Format: notscdeadline 2422 2423 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2424 in C2 power state. 2425 2426 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2427 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2428 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2429 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2430 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2431 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2432 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2433 2434 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2435 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2436 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2437 2438 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2439 when set. 2440 Format: <int> 2441 2442 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma- 2443 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is 2444 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers 2445 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches 2446 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If 2447 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE 2448 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the 2449 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices. 2450 2451 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2452 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2453 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2454 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2455 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2456 host link and device attached to it. 2457 2458 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2459 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed. 2460 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2461 The following configurations can be forced. 2462 2463 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2464 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2465 2466 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2467 2468 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2469 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2470 allowed. 2471 2472 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2473 2474 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM. 2475 2476 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft 2477 and both resets. 2478 2479 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during 2480 hot-unplug link recovery 2481 2482 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data. 2483 2484 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support 2485 2486 * disable: Disable this device. 2487 2488 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2489 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2490 2491 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 2492 2493 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 2494 2495 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2496 Format: <integer> 2497 2498 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2499 Format: <integer> 2500 2501 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2502 Format: <integer> 2503 2504 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2505 Format: <integer> 2506 2507 lockdown= [SECURITY] 2508 { integrity | confidentiality } 2509 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 2510 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 2511 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 2512 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 2513 to extract confidential information from the kernel 2514 are also disabled. 2515 2516 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2517 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2518 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2519 number of online CPUs. 2520 2521 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2522 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2523 2524 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2525 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2526 2527 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2528 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2529 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2530 2531 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2532 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2533 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2534 mode during the locktorture test. 2535 2536 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2537 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2538 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2539 2540 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2541 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2542 2543 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2544 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2545 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2546 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2547 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2548 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2549 2550 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2551 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2552 2553 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2554 Enable additional printk() statements. 2555 2556 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2557 Format: <irq> 2558 2559 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2560 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2561 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2562 loglevels are defined as follows: 2563 2564 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2565 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2566 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2567 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2568 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2569 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2570 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2571 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2572 2573 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2574 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2575 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2576 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2577 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2578 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2579 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2580 2581 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2582 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2583 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2584 kernel boot problems. 2585 2586 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2587 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2588 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2589 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2590 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2591 attached printers to be reset. Using 2592 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2593 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2594 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2595 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2596 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2597 port specification list means that device IDs 2598 from each port should be examined, to see if 2599 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2600 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2601 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2602 2603 lpj=n [KNL] 2604 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2605 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2606 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2607 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2608 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2609 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2610 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2611 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2612 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2613 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2614 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2615 hardware. 2616 2617 ltpc= [NET] 2618 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2619 2620 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 2621 2622 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 2623 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 2624 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 2625 2626 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2627 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2628 Example: machvec=hpzx1 2629 2630 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 2631 different yeeloong laptops. 2632 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2633 2634 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater 2635 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2636 2637 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2638 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2639 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2640 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2641 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2642 only takes effect during system bootup. 2643 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2644 which also disables the IO APIC. 2645 2646 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2647 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2648 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2649 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2650 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2651 /dev/loop-control interface. 2652 2653 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2654 2655 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 2656 2657 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2658 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2659 2660 mdacon= [MDA] 2661 Format: <first>,<last> 2662 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2663 2664 mds= [X86,INTEL] 2665 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 2666 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 2667 2668 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2669 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2670 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2671 2672 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2673 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2674 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2675 not have direct access. 2676 2677 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 2678 options are: 2679 2680 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 2681 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 2682 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 2683 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 2684 2685 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 2686 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 2687 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 2688 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 2689 too. 2690 2691 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 2692 mds=full. 2693 2694 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 2695 2696 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2697 Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows: 2698 2699 1 for test; 2700 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 2701 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 2702 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 2703 2704 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 2705 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 2706 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 2707 belonging to unused RAM. 2708 2709 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 2710 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 2711 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 2712 2713 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 2714 memory. 2715 2716 memchunk=nn[KMG] 2717 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 2718 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 2719 2720 memhp_default_state=online/offline 2721 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 2722 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 2723 set according to the 2724 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 2725 option. 2726 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 2727 2728 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 2729 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 2730 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 2731 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 2732 option description. 2733 2734 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 2735 [KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 2736 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 2737 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 2738 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 2739 Multiple different regions can be specified, 2740 comma delimited. 2741 Example: 2742 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 2743 2744 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 2745 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 2746 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 2747 2748 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 2749 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 2750 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 2751 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 2752 memmap=64K$0x18690000 2753 or 2754 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 2755 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 2756 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 2757 will be eaten. 2758 2759 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 2760 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 2761 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 2762 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 2763 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 2764 2765 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 2766 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 2767 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 2768 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 2769 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 2770 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 2771 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 2772 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 2773 2774 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 2775 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 2776 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 2777 Setting this option will scan the memory 2778 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 2779 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 2780 from using the memory being corrupted. 2781 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 2782 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 2783 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 2784 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 2785 2786 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 2787 By default it checks for corruption in the low 2788 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 2789 use. Use this parameter to scan for 2790 corruption in more or less memory. 2791 2792 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 2793 By default it checks for corruption every 60 2794 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 2795 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 2796 2797 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest 2798 Format: <integer> 2799 default : 0 <disable> 2800 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 2801 performed. Each pass selects another test 2802 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 2803 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 2804 memory contents and reserves bad memory 2805 regions that are detected. 2806 2807 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 2808 Valid arguments: on, off 2809 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 2810 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 2811 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 2812 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 2813 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 2814 2815 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst 2816 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 2817 2818 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 2819 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 2820 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 2821 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 2822 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 2823 2824 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 2825 See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst. 2826 2827 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 2828 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 2829 platforms. 2830 2831 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 2832 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 2833 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 2834 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 2835 2836 mga= [HW,DRM] 2837 2838 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this 2839 physical address is ignored. 2840 2841 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 2842 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 2843 Default: "0tb" 2844 MINI2440 configuration specification: 2845 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 2846 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 2847 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 2848 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 2849 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 2850 unconfigured. 2851 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 2852 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 2853 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 2854 VGA shield. 2855 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 2856 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 2857 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 2858 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 2859 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 2860 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 2861 2862 mitigations= 2863 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 2864 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 2865 arch-independent options, each of which is an 2866 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 2867 2868 off 2869 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 2870 improves system performance, but it may also 2871 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 2872 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC] 2873 kpti=0 [ARM64] 2874 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 2875 nobp=0 [S390] 2876 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 2877 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 2878 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 2879 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 2880 l1tf=off [X86] 2881 mds=off [X86] 2882 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 2883 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 2884 no_entry_flush [PPC] 2885 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 2886 2887 Exceptions: 2888 This does not have any effect on 2889 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 2890 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 2891 2892 auto (default) 2893 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 2894 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 2895 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 2896 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 2897 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 2898 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 2899 2900 auto,nosmt 2901 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 2902 if needed. This is for users who always want to 2903 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 2904 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 2905 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 2906 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 2907 2908 mminit_loglevel= 2909 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 2910 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 2911 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 2912 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 2913 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 2914 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 2915 2916 module.sig_enforce 2917 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 2918 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 2919 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 2920 is always true, so this option does nothing. 2921 2922 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 2923 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 2924 2925 mousedev.tap_time= 2926 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 2927 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 2928 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 2929 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 2930 Format: <msecs> 2931 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 2932 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2933 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 2934 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2935 2936 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2937 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 2938 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 2939 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 2940 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 2941 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 2942 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 2943 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 2944 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 2945 is not too small. 2946 2947 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 2948 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 2949 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 2950 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 2951 allocations. Use with caution! 2952 2953 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 2954 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 2955 2956 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 2957 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 2958 2959 mtdparts= [MTD] 2960 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 2961 2962 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 2963 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 2964 at a time. 2965 2966 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 2967 2968 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 2969 2970 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 2971 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 2972 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 2973 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 2974 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 2975 2976 mtdset= [ARM] 2977 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 2978 2979 See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c 2980 2981 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 2982 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 2983 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 2984 2985 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2986 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 2987 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 2988 2989 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2990 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 2991 Default is 1. 2992 Large value could prevent small alignment from 2993 using up MTRRs. 2994 2995 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 2996 Format: <integer> 2997 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 2998 Default : 1 2999 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3000 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3001 3002 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3003 3004 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3005 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3006 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3007 something different and driver-specific. 3008 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3009 file if at all. 3010 3011 nf_conntrack.acct= 3012 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3013 0 to disable accounting 3014 1 to enable accounting 3015 Default value is 0. 3016 3017 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 3018 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3019 3020 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 3021 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3022 3023 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 3024 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3025 3026 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3027 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3028 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3029 requests. 3030 3031 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3032 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3033 channel should listen. 3034 3035 nfs.cache_getent= 3036 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3037 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3038 3039 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3040 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3041 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3042 3043 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3044 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3045 entries. 3046 3047 nfs.enable_ino64= 3048 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3049 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3050 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3051 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3052 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3053 3054 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3055 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3056 slots the client will assign to the callback 3057 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3058 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3059 a particular server. 3060 3061 nfs.max_session_slots= 3062 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 3063 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 3064 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 3065 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 3066 Note that there is little point in setting this 3067 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 3068 3069 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3070 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 3071 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 3072 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 3073 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 3074 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 3075 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 3076 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 3077 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 3078 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 3079 back to using the idmapper. 3080 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 3081 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 3082 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 3083 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 3084 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 3085 UUID that is generated at system install time. 3086 3087 nfs.send_implementation_id = 3088 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 3089 information in exchange_id requests. 3090 If zero, no implementation identification information 3091 will be sent. 3092 The default is to send the implementation identification 3093 information. 3094 3095 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 3096 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 3097 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 3098 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 3099 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 3100 after the locks are lost. 3101 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 3102 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 3103 parameter to '1'. 3104 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 3105 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 3106 3107 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 3108 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 3109 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 3110 3111 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 3112 whatever value is the default set by the layout 3113 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 3114 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 3115 3116 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3117 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 3118 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 3119 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 3120 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 3121 migration from NFSv2/v3. 3122 3123 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 3124 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 3125 NMI stack-backtrace request. 3126 3127 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 3128 when a NMI is triggered. 3129 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 3130 3131 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 3132 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 3133 Valid num: 0 or 1 3134 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 3135 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 3136 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 3137 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 3138 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 3139 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 3140 please see 'nowatchdog'. 3141 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 3142 need the box quickly up again. 3143 3144 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 3145 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 3146 3147 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3148 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3149 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3150 waits 4 seconds. 3151 3152 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3153 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3154 is present. 3155 3156 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3157 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3158 3159 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 3160 3161 no_console_suspend 3162 [HW] Never suspend the console 3163 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3164 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3165 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3166 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3167 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3168 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3169 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3170 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3171 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3172 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3173 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3174 turn on/off it dynamically. 3175 3176 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 3177 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 3178 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 3179 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 3180 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 3181 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 3182 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 3183 data will be no longer available. This parameter 3184 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 3185 is set. 3186 3187 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 3188 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 3189 but will impact performance. 3190 3191 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3192 3193 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 3194 (CPU alternatives feature). 3195 3196 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3197 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3198 3199 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3200 3201 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem 3202 on "Classic" PPC cores. 3203 3204 nocache [ARM] 3205 3206 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction 3207 3208 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting 3209 3210 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3211 3212 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 3213 3214 no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 3215 3216 noexec [IA-64] 3217 3218 noexec [X86] 3219 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels. 3220 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3221 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings 3222 3223 nosmap [X86,PPC] 3224 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 3225 even if it is supported by processor. 3226 3227 nosmep [X86,PPC] 3228 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 3229 even if it is supported by processor. 3230 3231 noexec32 [X86-64] 3232 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3233 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3234 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3235 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3236 read implies executable mappings 3237 3238 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3239 3240 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3241 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3242 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3243 3244 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3245 3246 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3247 Equivalent to smt=1. 3248 3249 [KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3250 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 3251 via the sysfs control file. 3252 3253 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 3254 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 3255 possible in the system. 3256 3257 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 3258 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 3259 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 3260 option. 3261 3262 nospec_store_bypass_disable 3263 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 3264 3265 no_uaccess_flush 3266 [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 3267 3268 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 3269 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 3270 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 3271 3272 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 3273 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 3274 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 3275 performance of saving the states is degraded because 3276 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 3277 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 3278 3279 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 3280 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 3281 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 3282 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 3283 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 3284 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 3285 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 3286 3287 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait 3288 in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 3289 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 3290 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 3291 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 3292 correctly or when doing power measurements to evalute 3293 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 3294 useful when using JTAG debugger. 3295 3296 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3297 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3298 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3299 3300 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3301 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3302 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3303 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3304 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3305 real-time systems. 3306 3307 no_hash_pointers 3308 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be 3309 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p 3310 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured 3311 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature 3312 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged 3313 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more 3314 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be 3315 compared. However, if this command-line option is 3316 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true 3317 value printed. Pointers printed via %pK may still be 3318 hashed. This option should only be specified when 3319 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production 3320 kernels. 3321 3322 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3323 3324 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3325 Valid arguments: on, off 3326 Default: on 3327 3328 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3329 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3330 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3331 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3332 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3333 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3334 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3335 just as if they had also been called out in the 3336 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3337 3338 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3339 3340 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3341 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3342 3343 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 3344 broken timer IRQ sources. 3345 3346 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3347 3348 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3349 initial RAM disk. 3350 3351 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3352 remapping. 3353 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3354 3355 nointroute [IA-64] 3356 3357 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3358 3359 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3360 3361 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3362 3363 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3364 fault handling. 3365 3366 no-vmw-sched-clock 3367 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 3368 clock and use the default one. 3369 3370 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time 3371 accounting. steal time is computed, but won't 3372 influence scheduler behaviour 3373 3374 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3375 3376 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3377 3378 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel 3379 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx 3380 3381 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3382 3383 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3384 3385 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3386 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3387 3388 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3389 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3390 irq. 3391 3392 nomodule Disable module load 3393 3394 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3395 pagetables) support. 3396 3397 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3398 3399 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3400 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3401 3402 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3403 with UP alternatives 3404 3405 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and 3406 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported 3407 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still 3408 available to user space applications. 3409 3410 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3411 space. 3412 3413 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3414 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3415 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3416 3417 nosbagart [IA-64] 3418 3419 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. 3420 3421 nosgx [X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 3422 3423 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3424 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3425 3426 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3427 3428 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 3429 3430 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 3431 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 3432 3433 nowb [ARM] 3434 3435 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 3436 3437 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 3438 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 3439 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 3440 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 3441 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 3442 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 3443 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 3444 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 3445 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 3446 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 3447 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 3448 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 3449 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 3450 3451 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 3452 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 3453 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 3454 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 3455 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 3456 parameter's value. 3457 Format: integer between 1 and 255 3458 Default: 255 3459 3460 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 3461 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 3462 SAL PALO. 3463 3464 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3465 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 3466 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 3467 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 3468 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 3469 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 3470 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 3471 hot plugging. 3472 3473 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 3474 3475 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing. 3476 Allowed values are enable and disable 3477 3478 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 3479 'node', 'default' can be specified 3480 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 3481 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 3482 3483 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 3484 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 3485 info. 3486 3487 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 3488 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 3489 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 3490 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 3491 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 3492 interrupts *may* be lost! 3493 3494 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 3495 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 3496 For example, to override I2C bus2: 3497 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 3498 3499 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 3500 process, but there is a small probability of 3501 deadlocking the machine. 3502 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 3503 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 3504 3505 page_alloc.shuffle= 3506 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 3507 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 3508 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 3509 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 3510 cache, and this parameter can be used to 3511 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 3512 can be read from sysfs at: 3513 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 3514 3515 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 3516 Storage of the information about who allocated 3517 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 3518 we can turn it on. 3519 on: enable the feature 3520 3521 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 3522 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 3523 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 3524 off: turn off poisoning (default) 3525 on: turn on poisoning 3526 3527 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 3528 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 3529 timeout = 0: wait forever 3530 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 3531 Format: <timeout> 3532 3533 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 3534 User can chose combination of the following bits: 3535 bit 0: print all tasks info 3536 bit 1: print system memory info 3537 bit 2: print timer info 3538 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 3539 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 3540 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 3541 3542 panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 3543 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 3544 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 3545 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 3546 called with any of the flags in this set. 3547 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 3548 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 3549 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 3550 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 3551 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 3552 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 3553 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 3554 3555 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 3556 on a WARN(). 3557 3558 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 3559 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 3560 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 3561 succeeds in any situation. 3562 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 3563 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 3564 kernel more unstable. 3565 3566 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 3567 connected to, default is 0. 3568 Format: <parport#> 3569 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 3570 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 3571 Format: <mode> 3572 3573 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 3574 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 3575 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 3576 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 3577 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 3578 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 3579 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 3580 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 3581 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 3582 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 3583 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 3584 are specified on the command line, starting 3585 with parport0. 3586 3587 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 3588 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 3589 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 3590 computer where firmware has no options for setting 3591 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 3592 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 3593 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 3594 3595 pause_on_oops= 3596 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 3597 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 3598 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 3599 3600 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 3601 3602 pcd. [PARIDE] 3603 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 3604 See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3605 3606 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 3607 3608 Some options herein operate on a specific device 3609 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 3610 specified in one of the following formats: 3611 3612 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 3613 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 3614 3615 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 3616 bus/device/function address which may change 3617 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 3618 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 3619 by other kernel parameters. If the 3620 domain is left unspecified, it is 3621 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 3622 to a device through multiple device/function 3623 addresses can be specified after the base 3624 address (this is more robust against 3625 renumbering issues). The second format 3626 selects devices using IDs from the 3627 configuration space which may match multiple 3628 devices in the system. 3629 3630 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 3631 changes anything 3632 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 3633 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 3634 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 3635 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 3636 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 3637 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 3638 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 3639 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 3640 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3641 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 3642 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 3643 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3644 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 3645 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 3646 bus number. The config space is then accessed 3647 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 3648 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 3649 on the configuration access mechanisms. 3650 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 3651 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3652 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 3653 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 3654 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 3655 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 3656 Configuration 3657 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 3658 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 3659 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 3660 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 3661 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3662 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 3663 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 3664 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 3665 should never be necessary. 3666 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 3667 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 3668 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 3669 when the system masks IRQs. 3670 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 3671 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 3672 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 3673 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 3674 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 3675 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 3676 on several machines and they hang the machine 3677 when used, but on other computers it's the only 3678 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 3679 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 3680 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 3681 motherboard. 3682 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 3683 Use with caution as certain devices share 3684 address decoders between ROMs and other 3685 resources. 3686 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 3687 expansion ROMs that do not already have 3688 BIOS assigned address ranges. 3689 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 3690 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 3691 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 3692 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 3693 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 3694 this way. 3695 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 3696 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 3697 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 3698 F0000h-100000h range. 3699 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 3700 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 3701 secondary buses and you want to tell it 3702 explicitly which ones they are. 3703 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 3704 numbers ourselves, overriding 3705 whatever the firmware may have done. 3706 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 3707 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 3708 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 3709 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 3710 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 3711 IRQ routing is enabled. 3712 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 3713 or for PCI scanning. 3714 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 3715 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 3716 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 3717 please report a bug. 3718 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 3719 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 3720 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 3721 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 3722 so this option is a temporary workaround 3723 for broken drivers that don't call it. 3724 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 3725 handle more pci cards 3726 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 3727 This might help on some broken boards which 3728 machine check when some devices' config space 3729 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 3730 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 3731 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3732 This sorting is done to get a device 3733 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 3734 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3735 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 3736 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 3737 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 3738 supported by all devices below the root complex. 3739 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 3740 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 3741 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 3742 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 3743 or bus can support) for best performance. 3744 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 3745 every device is guaranteed to support. This 3746 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 3747 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 3748 reduced performance. This also guarantees 3749 that hot-added devices will work. 3750 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3751 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 3752 The default value is 256 bytes. 3753 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3754 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 3755 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 3756 resource_alignment= 3757 Format: 3758 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 3759 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 3760 aligned memory resources. How to 3761 specify the device is described above. 3762 If <order of align> is not specified, 3763 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 3764 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 3765 windows need to be expanded. 3766 To specify the alignment for several 3767 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 3768 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 3769 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 3770 for 4096-byte alignment. 3771 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 3772 end-to-end CRC checking). 3773 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 3774 the default. 3775 off: Turn ECRC off 3776 on: Turn ECRC on. 3777 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3778 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 3779 Default size is 256 bytes. 3780 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3781 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 3782 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3783 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3784 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 3785 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3786 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3787 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 3788 MMIO_PREF window. 3789 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3790 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 3791 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 3792 Default is 1. 3793 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 3794 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 3795 accommodate resources required by all child 3796 devices. 3797 off: Turn realloc off 3798 on: Turn realloc on 3799 realloc same as realloc=on 3800 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 3801 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 3802 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 3803 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 3804 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 3805 port. 3806 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 3807 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 3808 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 3809 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 3810 conflict with unreported devices), so this 3811 taints the kernel. 3812 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 3813 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 3814 specified above) separated by semicolons. 3815 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 3816 redirect capabilities forced off which will 3817 allow P2P traffic between devices through 3818 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 3819 this removes isolation between devices and 3820 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 3821 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 3822 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 3823 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 3824 one PCI domain per PCI function 3825 3826 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 3827 Management. 3828 off Disable ASPM. 3829 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 3830 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 3831 3832 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 3833 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 3834 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 3835 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 3836 also tries to use these services. 3837 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 3838 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 3839 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 3840 hotplug). 3841 3842 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 3843 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 3844 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 3845 3846 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 3847 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 3848 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 3849 3850 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 3851 3852 pd_ignore_unused 3853 [PM] 3854 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 3855 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 3856 for debug and development, but should not be 3857 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 3858 3859 pd. [PARIDE] 3860 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3861 3862 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 3863 boot time. 3864 Format: { 0 | 1 } 3865 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 3866 3867 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 3868 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 3869 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 3870 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 3871 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 3872 and performance comparison. 3873 3874 pf. [PARIDE] 3875 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3876 3877 pg. [PARIDE] 3878 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3879 3880 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 3881 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 3882 3883 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 3884 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 3885 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 3886 3887 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 3888 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 3889 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 3890 3891 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 3892 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 3893 3894 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 3895 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 3896 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 3897 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 3898 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 3899 possible settings and some assignment information. 3900 3901 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 3902 { off } 3903 3904 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 3905 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 3906 3907 pnp_reserve_irq= 3908 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 3909 3910 pnp_reserve_dma= 3911 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 3912 3913 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 3914 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 3915 3916 pnp_reserve_mem= 3917 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 3918 autoconfiguration. 3919 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 3920 3921 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 3922 Default is 21. 3923 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 3924 may be specified. 3925 Format: <port>,<port>.... 3926 3927 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 3928 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 3929 platform machine description specific power_save 3930 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 3931 execution priority. 3932 3933 ppc_strict_facility_enable 3934 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 3935 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 3936 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 3937 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 3938 3939 ppc_tm= [PPC] 3940 Format: {"off"} 3941 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 3942 3943 preempt= [KNL] 3944 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 3945 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 3946 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 3947 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 3948 can be preempted anytime. 3949 3950 print-fatal-signals= 3951 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 3952 3953 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 3954 related application anomalies: too many signals, 3955 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 3956 coredump - etc. 3957 3958 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 3959 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 3960 3961 default: off. 3962 3963 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 3964 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 3965 panics 3966 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3967 default: disabled 3968 3969 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 3970 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 3971 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 3972 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 3973 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 3974 Default: ratelimit 3975 3976 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 3977 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3978 3979 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 3980 Limit processor to maximum C-state 3981 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 3982 3983 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 3984 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 3985 instead using the legacy FADT method 3986 3987 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 3988 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 3989 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 3990 [defaults to kernel profiling] 3991 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 3992 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 3993 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 3994 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 3995 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 3996 statistical time based profiling. 3997 3998 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 3999 4000 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 4001 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 4002 that). 4003 Format: <bool> 4004 4005 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 4006 tracking. 4007 Format: <bool> 4008 4009 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 4010 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 4011 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 4012 per second. 4013 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 4014 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 4015 (0 = never). 4016 psmouse.resolution= 4017 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 4018 psmouse.smartscroll= 4019 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 4020 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 4021 4022 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 4023 4024 pt. [PARIDE] 4025 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4026 4027 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 4028 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 4029 removes hardening, but improves performance of 4030 system calls and interrupts. 4031 4032 on - unconditionally enable 4033 off - unconditionally disable 4034 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4035 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 4036 4037 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 4038 4039 nopti [X86-64] 4040 Equivalent to pti=off 4041 4042 pty.legacy_count= 4043 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 4044 default number. 4045 4046 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 4047 4048 r128= [HW,DRM] 4049 4050 raid= [HW,RAID] 4051 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 4052 4053 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 4054 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 4055 4056 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 4057 4058 random.trust_cpu={on,off} 4059 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the 4060 CPU's random number generator (if available) to 4061 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 4062 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU. 4063 4064 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 4065 4066 cec_disable [X86] 4067 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 4068 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 4069 4070 rcu_nocbs= [KNL] 4071 The argument is a cpu list, as described above, 4072 except that the string "all" can be used to 4073 specify every CPU on the system. 4074 4075 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set 4076 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs. 4077 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be 4078 offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that 4079 purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and 4080 "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number. 4081 This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs, 4082 which can be useful for HPC and real-time 4083 workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency 4084 for asymmetric multiprocessors. 4085 4086 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 4087 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 4088 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 4089 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 4090 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 4091 This improves the real-time response for the 4092 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 4093 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 4094 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 4095 periodically wake up to do the polling. 4096 4097 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 4098 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 4099 process in one batch. 4100 4101 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 4102 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 4103 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 4104 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 4105 4106 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 4107 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4108 RCU grace-period cleanup. 4109 4110 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 4111 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4112 RCU grace-period initialization. 4113 4114 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 4115 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4116 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 4117 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 4118 the rcu_node combining tree. 4119 4120 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 4121 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 4122 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 4123 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 4124 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 4125 4126 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 4127 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 4128 to zero. 4129 4130 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 4131 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 4132 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 4133 possibly be useful for architectures having high 4134 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 4135 4136 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 4137 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 4138 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 4139 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 4140 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 4141 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 4142 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 4143 4144 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 4145 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 4146 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 4147 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 4148 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 4149 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 4150 condition. 4151 4152 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 4153 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 4154 first attempt to force quiescent states. 4155 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 4156 and maximum value is HZ. 4157 4158 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 4159 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 4160 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 4161 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 4162 4163 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 4164 Set required age in jiffies for a 4165 given grace period before RCU starts 4166 soliciting quiescent-state help from 4167 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 4168 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 4169 a value based on the most recent settings 4170 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 4171 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 4172 This calculated value may be viewed in 4173 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 4174 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 4175 overwritten. 4176 4177 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 4178 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 4179 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 4180 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 4181 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 4182 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 4183 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 4184 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 4185 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 4186 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 4187 4188 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 4189 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 4190 each group, which defaults to the square root 4191 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 4192 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 4193 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 4194 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 4195 4196 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 4197 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4198 batch limiting is disabled. 4199 4200 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 4201 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 4202 batch limiting is re-enabled. 4203 4204 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 4205 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4206 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 4207 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 4208 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 4209 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 4210 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 4211 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 4212 4213 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL] 4214 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 4215 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 4216 4217 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 4218 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 4219 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 4220 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 4221 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 4222 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 4223 4224 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 4225 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 4226 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 4227 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 4228 Larger delays increase the probability of 4229 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 4230 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 4231 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 4232 4233 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 4234 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 4235 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 4236 why a new grace period has not yet started. 4237 4238 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 4239 Measure performance of asynchronous 4240 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 4241 4242 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 4243 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 4244 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 4245 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 4246 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 4247 previously posted callbacks to drain. 4248 4249 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 4250 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 4251 grace-period primitives. 4252 4253 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 4254 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4255 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4256 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4257 interference. 4258 4259 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 4260 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 4261 4262 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 4263 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 4264 4265 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 4266 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 4267 4268 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 4269 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 4270 of allocations and frees. 4271 4272 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 4273 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4274 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4275 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 4276 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4277 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4278 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 4279 a single reader. 4280 4281 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 4282 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 4283 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 4284 N, where N is the number of CPUs 4285 4286 rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL] 4287 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4288 4289 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 4290 Shut the system down after performance tests 4291 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 4292 testing. 4293 4294 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 4295 Enable additional printk() statements. 4296 4297 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 4298 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 4299 in microseconds. The default of zero says 4300 no holdoff. 4301 4302 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 4303 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 4304 in microseconds. 4305 4306 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 4307 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 4308 in microseconds. 4309 4310 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 4311 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 4312 in seconds. 4313 4314 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 4315 Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 4316 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 4317 4318 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 4319 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 4320 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 4321 4322 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 4323 Number of seconds to wait between successive 4324 forward-progress tests. 4325 4326 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 4327 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 4328 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 4329 testing. 4330 4331 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 4332 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 4333 primitives, if available. 4334 4335 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 4336 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 4337 4338 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 4339 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 4340 update-side primitives, if available. 4341 4342 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 4343 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 4344 update-side primitives, if available. If all 4345 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 4346 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 4347 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 4348 they are all non-zero. 4349 4350 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 4351 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 4352 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 4353 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 4354 4355 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 4356 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 4357 This can of course result in splats, and is 4358 intended to test the ability of things like 4359 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 4360 such leaks. 4361 4362 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 4363 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 4364 4365 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 4366 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 4367 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 4368 test, hence the "fake". 4369 4370 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 4371 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 4372 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 4373 4374 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 4375 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 4376 callback-offload toggling attempts. 4377 4378 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 4379 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4380 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4381 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 4382 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4383 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4384 4385 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 4386 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 4387 4388 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 4389 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 4390 4391 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 4392 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 4393 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 4394 4395 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL] 4396 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used 4397 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and 4398 task-exit processing. 4399 4400 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 4401 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 4402 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 4403 is spawned. 4404 4405 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 4406 The delay, in seconds, between successive 4407 read-then-exit testing episodes. 4408 4409 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 4410 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 4411 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 4412 during the rcutorture test. 4413 4414 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 4415 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 4416 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 4417 4418 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 4419 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 4420 warnings, zero to disable. 4421 4422 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 4423 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 4424 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition 4425 to any other stall-related activity. 4426 4427 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 4428 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 4429 4430 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 4431 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 4432 4433 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 4434 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 4435 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 4436 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 4437 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 4438 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 4439 4440 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 4441 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 4442 4443 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 4444 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 4445 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 4446 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 4447 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 4448 4449 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 4450 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 4451 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 4452 under test support RCU priority boosting. 4453 4454 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 4455 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 4456 4457 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 4458 Interval (s) between each boost test. 4459 4460 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 4461 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 4462 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 4463 4464 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 4465 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4466 4467 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 4468 Enable additional printk() statements. 4469 4470 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 4471 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 4472 stall warning. 4473 4474 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 4475 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4476 4477 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 4478 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 4479 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 4480 during early boot, that is, during the time 4481 before the init task is spawned. 4482 4483 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4484 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4485 4486 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 4487 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 4488 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 4489 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 4490 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 4491 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 4492 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4493 4494 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 4495 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 4496 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 4497 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 4498 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 4499 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 4500 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 4501 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 4502 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4503 4504 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 4505 Once boot has completed (that is, after 4506 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 4507 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 4508 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4509 4510 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 4511 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 4512 it to the value one, that is, converting any 4513 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 4514 period to instead use normal non-expedited 4515 grace-period processing. 4516 4517 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 4518 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 4519 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 4520 of a given grace period. Setting a large 4521 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 4522 but lengthens grace periods. 4523 4524 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4525 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning 4526 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal 4527 to zero. 4528 4529 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 4530 Run the RCU early boot self tests 4531 4532 rdinit= [KNL] 4533 Format: <full_path> 4534 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 4535 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 4536 4537 rdrand= [X86] 4538 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 4539 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 4540 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 4541 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 4542 path). 4543 4544 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 4545 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 4546 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 4547 mba. 4548 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 4549 rdt=cmt,!mba 4550 4551 reboot= [KNL] 4552 Format (x86 or x86_64): 4553 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \ 4554 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 4555 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 4556 [[,]f[orce] 4557 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 4558 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 4559 reboot only), 4560 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 4561 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 4562 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 4563 to be used for rebooting. 4564 4565 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 4566 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4567 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4568 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4569 interference. 4570 4571 refscale.loops= [KNL] 4572 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 4573 primitive under test. Increasing this number 4574 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 4575 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 4576 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 4577 x86 laptops. 4578 4579 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 4580 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 4581 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 4582 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 4583 4584 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 4585 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 4586 the console log. 4587 4588 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 4589 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 4590 measured in microseconds. 4591 4592 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 4593 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 4594 4595 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 4596 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 4597 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 4598 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 4599 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 4600 4601 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 4602 Enable additional printk() statements. 4603 4604 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 4605 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 4606 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 4607 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 4608 specified. 4609 4610 relax_domain_level= 4611 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 4612 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 4613 4614 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 4615 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 4616 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 4617 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 4618 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 4619 4620 reservetop= [X86-32] 4621 Format: nn[KMG] 4622 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 4623 address space. 4624 4625 reservelow= [X86] 4626 Format: nn[K] 4627 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at 4628 the bottom of the address space. 4629 4630 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 4631 during initialization. 4632 4633 resume= [SWSUSP] 4634 Specify the partition device for software suspend 4635 Format: 4636 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 4637 4638 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 4639 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 4640 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 4641 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 4642 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 4643 4644 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4645 read the resume files 4646 4647 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 4648 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4649 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4650 4651 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 4652 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 4653 present during boot. 4654 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 4655 no Disable hibernation and resume. 4656 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 4657 (that will set all pages holding image data 4658 during restoration read-only). 4659 4660 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 4661 4662 rfkill.default_state= 4663 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 4664 etc. communication is blocked by default. 4665 1 Unblocked. 4666 4667 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 4668 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 4669 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 4670 blocked and the previous configuration. 4671 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 4672 blocked and everything unblocked. 4673 4674 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4675 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 4676 4677 ring3mwait=disable 4678 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 4679 CPUs. 4680 4681 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 4682 4683 rodata= [KNL] 4684 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 4685 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 4686 4687 rockchip.usb_uart 4688 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 4689 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 4690 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 4691 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 4692 4693 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 4694 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 4695 4696 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4697 mount the root filesystem 4698 4699 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 4700 4701 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 4702 4703 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 4704 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4705 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4706 4707 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 4708 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 4709 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 4710 managed by CMA. 4711 4712 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 4713 4714 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 4715 4716 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 4717 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 4718 strict 4719 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 4720 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 4721 which is faster. 4722 4723 sa1100ir [NET] 4724 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 4725 4726 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter 4727 4728 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 4729 4730 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 4731 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 4732 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 4733 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 4734 4735 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 4736 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 4737 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 4738 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 4739 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 4740 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 4741 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 4742 value. 4743 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 4744 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 4745 1 64 ms 4746 2 128 ms 4747 and so on. 4748 Format: integer between 0 and 10 4749 Default is 0. 4750 4751 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 4752 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 4753 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 4754 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 4755 tests. 4756 4757 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 4758 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 4759 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 4760 default) disables this feature. Please note 4761 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 4762 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 4763 softlockup complaints, and so on. 4764 4765 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 4766 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 4767 smp_call_function() family of functions. 4768 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 4769 equal to the number of CPUs. 4770 4771 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 4772 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 4773 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 4774 4775 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 4776 Number seconds to wait between successive 4777 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 4778 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 4779 4780 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 4781 The number of seconds following the start of the 4782 test after which to shut down the system. The 4783 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 4784 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 4785 4786 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 4787 The number of seconds between outputting the 4788 current test statistics to the console. A value 4789 of zero disables statistics output. 4790 4791 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 4792 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 4793 to the set of CPUs under test. 4794 4795 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 4796 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 4797 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 4798 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 4799 functions. 4800 4801 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 4802 Enable additional printk() statements. 4803 4804 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 4805 The probability weighting to use for the 4806 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 4807 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 4808 default if all other weights are -1. However, 4809 if at least one weight has some other value, a 4810 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 4811 4812 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 4813 The probability weighting to use for the 4814 smp_call_function_single() function with a 4815 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 4816 4817 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 4818 The probability weighting to use for the 4819 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 4820 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 4821 Note well that setting a high probability for 4822 this weighting can place serious IPI load 4823 on the system. 4824 4825 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 4826 The probability weighting to use for the 4827 smp_call_function_many() function with a 4828 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 4829 and weight_many. 4830 4831 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 4832 The probability weighting to use for the 4833 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 4834 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 4835 weight_many. 4836 4837 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 4838 The probability weighting to use for the 4839 smp_call_function_all() function with a 4840 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 4841 and weight_many. 4842 4843 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 4844 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 4845 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 4846 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4847 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 4848 1 -- enable. 4849 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 4850 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 4851 4852 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 4853 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 4854 "lsm=" parameter. 4855 4856 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 4857 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4858 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 4859 0 -- disable. 4860 1 -- enable. 4861 Default value is 1. 4862 4863 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 4864 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4865 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 4866 0 -- disable. 4867 1 -- enable. 4868 Default value is set via kernel config option. 4869 4870 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 4871 4872 shapers= [NET] 4873 Maximal number of shapers. 4874 4875 simeth= [IA-64] 4876 simscsi= 4877 4878 slram= [HW,MTD] 4879 4880 slab_nomerge [MM] 4881 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 4882 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 4883 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 4884 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 4885 layout control by attackers can usually be 4886 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 4887 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 4888 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 4889 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 4890 own. 4891 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4892 4893 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 4894 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 4895 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 4896 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 4897 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 4898 4899 slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB] 4900 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 4901 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 4902 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 4903 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 4904 last alloc / free. For more information see 4905 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4906 4907 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 4908 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 4909 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 4910 fragmentation. For more information see 4911 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4912 4913 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 4914 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 4915 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 4916 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 4917 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 4918 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 4919 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 4920 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4921 4922 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 4923 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 4924 lower than slub_max_order. 4925 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4926 4927 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 4928 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 4929 See slab_nomerge for more information. 4930 4931 smart2= [HW] 4932 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 4933 4934 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 4935 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 4936 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 4937 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 4938 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 4939 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 4940 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 4941 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 4942 1: Fast pin select (default) 4943 2: ATC IRMode 4944 4945 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 4946 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 4947 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 4948 actual hardware limit. 4949 Format: <integer> 4950 Default: -1 (no limit) 4951 4952 softlockup_panic= 4953 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 4954 Format: 0 | 1 4955 4956 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 4957 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 4958 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 4959 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 4960 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 4961 4962 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 4963 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 4964 backtraces on all cpus. 4965 Format: 0 | 1 4966 4967 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 4968 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 4969 4970 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 4971 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 4972 The default operation protects the kernel from 4973 user space attacks. 4974 4975 on - unconditionally enable, implies 4976 spectre_v2_user=on 4977 off - unconditionally disable, implies 4978 spectre_v2_user=off 4979 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4980 vulnerable 4981 4982 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 4983 mitigation method at run time according to the 4984 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 4985 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 4986 compiler with which the kernel was built. 4987 4988 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 4989 against user space to user space task attacks. 4990 4991 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 4992 the user space protections. 4993 4994 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 4995 4996 retpoline - replace indirect branches 4997 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline 4998 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk 4999 5000 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5001 spectre_v2=auto. 5002 5003 spectre_v2_user= 5004 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5005 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 5006 user space tasks 5007 5008 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 5009 enforced by spectre_v2=on 5010 5011 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 5012 enforced by spectre_v2=off 5013 5014 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 5015 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 5016 per thread. The mitigation control state 5017 is inherited on fork. 5018 5019 prctl,ibpb 5020 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 5021 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5022 always when switching between different user 5023 space processes. 5024 5025 seccomp 5026 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 5027 threads will enable the mitigation unless 5028 they explicitly opt out. 5029 5030 seccomp,ibpb 5031 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 5032 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5033 always when switching between different 5034 user space processes. 5035 5036 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 5037 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 5038 5039 Default mitigation: 5040 If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 5041 5042 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5043 spectre_v2_user=auto. 5044 5045 spec_store_bypass_disable= 5046 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 5047 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 5048 5049 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 5050 a common industry wide performance optimization known 5051 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 5052 to the same memory location may not be observed by 5053 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 5054 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 5055 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 5056 end of a particular speculation execution window. 5057 5058 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 5059 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 5060 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 5061 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 5062 5063 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 5064 Bypass optimization is used. 5065 5066 On x86 the options are: 5067 5068 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 5069 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 5070 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 5071 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 5072 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 5073 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 5074 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 5075 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 5076 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 5077 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 5078 for a process by default. The state of the control 5079 is inherited on fork. 5080 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 5081 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 5082 5083 Default mitigations: 5084 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 5085 5086 On powerpc the options are: 5087 5088 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 5089 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 5090 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 5091 exit. 5092 off - No action. 5093 5094 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5095 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 5096 5097 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 5098 spia_fio_base= 5099 spia_pedr= 5100 spia_peddr= 5101 5102 split_lock_detect= 5103 [X86] Enable split lock detection 5104 5105 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 5106 instructions that access data across cache line 5107 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception. 5108 5109 off - not enabled 5110 5111 warn - the kernel will emit rate limited warnings 5112 about applications triggering the #AC 5113 exception. This mode is the default on CPUs 5114 that supports split lock detection. 5115 5116 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 5117 that trigger the #AC exception. 5118 5119 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 5120 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 5121 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 5122 mode. 5123 5124 srbds= [X86,INTEL] 5125 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 5126 (SRBDS) mitigation. 5127 5128 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 5129 exploit which can leak bits from the random 5130 number generator. 5131 5132 By default, this issue is mitigated by 5133 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 5134 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 5135 much slower. Among other effects, this will 5136 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 5137 5138 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 5139 the following option: 5140 5141 off: Disable mitigation and remove 5142 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 5143 5144 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 5145 Specifies how frequently to check for 5146 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 5147 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 5148 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 5149 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 5150 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 5151 are ignored. 5152 5153 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 5154 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 5155 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 5156 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 5157 grace period will be considered for automatic 5158 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 5159 expediting. 5160 5161 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 5162 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 5163 5164 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 5165 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 5166 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 5167 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 5168 5169 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 5170 for both kernel and userspace 5171 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 5172 for both kernel and userspace 5173 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 5174 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 5175 to allow userspace to register its 5176 interest in being mitigated too. 5177 5178 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 5179 override the default stack gap protection. The value 5180 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 5181 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 5182 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 5183 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 5184 5185 stack_depot_disable= [KNL] 5186 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 5187 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 5188 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 5189 to false. 5190 5191 stacktrace [FTRACE] 5192 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 5193 5194 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 5195 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 5196 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 5197 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 5198 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 5199 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 5200 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 5201 5202 sti= [PARISC,HW] 5203 Format: <num> 5204 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 5205 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 5206 as the initial boot-console. 5207 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5208 5209 sti_font= [HW] 5210 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5211 5212 stifb= [HW] 5213 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 5214 5215 sunrpc.min_resvport= 5216 sunrpc.max_resvport= 5217 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5218 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 5219 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 5220 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 5221 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 5222 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 5223 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 5224 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 5225 maximum port values. 5226 5227 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 5228 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5229 Limit the number of requests that the server will 5230 process in parallel from a single connection. 5231 The default value is 0 (no limit). 5232 5233 sunrpc.pool_mode= 5234 [NFS] 5235 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 5236 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 5237 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 5238 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 5239 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 5240 NFS server is running. 5241 5242 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 5243 automatically using heuristics 5244 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 5245 percpu one pool for each CPU 5246 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 5247 to global on non-NUMA machines) 5248 5249 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 5250 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 5251 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5252 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 5253 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 5254 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 5255 improve throughput, but will also increase the 5256 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 5257 5258 suspend.pm_test_delay= 5259 [SUSPEND] 5260 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 5261 mode before resuming the system (see 5262 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 5263 is set. Default value is 5. 5264 5265 svm= [PPC] 5266 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 5267 This parameter controls use of the Protected 5268 Execution Facility on pSeries. 5269 5270 swapaccount=[0|1] 5271 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 5272 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 5273 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst) 5274 5275 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 5276 Format: { <int> | force | noforce } 5277 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 5278 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 5279 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 5280 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 5281 5282 switches= [HW,M68k] 5283 5284 sysctl.*= [KNL] 5285 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 5286 process, as if the value was written to the respective 5287 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 5288 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 5289 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 5290 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 5291 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 5292 5293 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 5294 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 5295 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 5296 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 5297 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 5298 in older udev will not work anymore. 5299 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 5300 the kernel configuration. 5301 5302 sysrq_always_enabled 5303 [KNL] 5304 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 5305 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 5306 Useful for debugging. 5307 5308 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5309 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 5310 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 5311 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 5312 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 5313 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 5314 5315 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 5316 5317 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N] 5318 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 5319 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 5320 as the system sleep state during system startup with 5321 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 5322 The system is woken from this state using a 5323 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 5324 5325 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5326 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 5327 5328 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 5329 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 5330 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 5331 5332 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 5333 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 5334 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 5335 5336 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 5337 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 5338 critical and hot trip points. 5339 5340 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 5341 1: disable ACPI thermal control 5342 5343 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 5344 -1: disable all passive trip points 5345 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 5346 value 5347 5348 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 5349 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 5350 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 5351 0: no polling (default) 5352 5353 threadirqs [KNL] 5354 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 5355 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 5356 5357 topology= [S390] 5358 Format: {off | on} 5359 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 5360 topology information if the hardware supports this. 5361 The scheduler will make use of this information and 5362 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 5363 Default is on. 5364 5365 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 5366 Format: {off} 5367 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 5368 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 5369 LPAR. 5370 5371 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 5372 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 5373 until after init has spawned. 5374 5375 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 5376 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 5377 even if there were no errors. This can be a 5378 very costly operation when many torture tests 5379 are running concurrently, especially on systems 5380 with rotating-rust storage. 5381 5382 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 5383 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 5384 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 5385 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 5386 5387 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 5388 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 5389 5390 tp720= [HW,PS2] 5391 5392 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 5393 Format: integer pcr id 5394 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 5395 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 5396 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 5397 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 5398 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 5399 are saved. 5400 5401 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 5402 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 5403 5404 trace_event=[event-list] 5405 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 5406 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 5407 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 5408 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 5409 5410 trace_options=[option-list] 5411 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 5412 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 5413 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 5414 to echo the option name into 5415 5416 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 5417 5418 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 5419 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 5420 5421 trace_options=stacktrace 5422 5423 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 5424 section. 5425 5426 tp_printk[FTRACE] 5427 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 5428 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 5429 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 5430 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 5431 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 5432 5433 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 5434 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 5435 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 5436 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 5437 5438 ** CAUTION ** 5439 5440 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 5441 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 5442 the system to live lock. 5443 5444 traceoff_on_warning 5445 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 5446 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 5447 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 5448 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 5449 5450 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 5451 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 5452 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 5453 5454 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 5455 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 5456 5457 transparent_hugepage= 5458 [KNL] 5459 Format: [always|madvise|never] 5460 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 5461 with respect to transparent hugepages. 5462 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 5463 for more details. 5464 5465 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 5466 Format: <string> 5467 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 5468 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 5469 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 5470 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 5471 virtualized environment. 5472 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 5473 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 5474 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 5475 can add overhead. 5476 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 5477 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 5478 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 5479 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 5480 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 5481 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 5482 acceptable). 5483 5484 tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 5485 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 5486 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 5487 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 5488 Format: <unsigned int> 5489 5490 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 5491 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 5492 support TSX control. 5493 5494 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 5495 5496 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 5497 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 5498 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 5499 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 5500 so there may be unknown security risks associated 5501 with leaving it enabled. 5502 5503 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 5504 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 5505 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 5506 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 5507 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 5508 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 5509 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 5510 5511 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 5512 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 5513 5514 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 5515 5516 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 5517 for more details. 5518 5519 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 5520 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 5521 5522 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 5523 certain CPUs that support Transactional 5524 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 5525 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 5526 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 5527 conditions. 5528 5529 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 5530 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 5531 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 5532 access. 5533 5534 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 5535 options are: 5536 5537 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 5538 if TSX is enabled. 5539 5540 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 5541 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 5542 is not disabled because CPU is not 5543 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 5544 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 5545 5546 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 5547 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 5548 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 5549 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 5550 5551 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5552 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 5553 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 5554 required and doesn't provide any additional 5555 mitigation. 5556 5557 For details see: 5558 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 5559 5560 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 5561 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 5562 Format: 5563 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 5564 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 5565 5566 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 5567 happen after console_init() and before a proper 5568 console driver takes over, this boot options might 5569 help "seeing" what's going on. 5570 5571 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5572 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 5573 5574 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 5575 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 5576 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 5577 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 5578 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 5579 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 5580 reported either. 5581 5582 unknown_nmi_panic 5583 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 5584 5585 usbcore.authorized_default= 5586 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 5587 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 5588 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 5589 if device connected to internal port) 5590 5591 usbcore.autosuspend= 5592 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 5593 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 5594 is the time required before an idle device will be 5595 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 5596 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 5597 5598 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 5599 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 5600 5601 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 5602 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 5603 (default = 65536). 5604 5605 usbcore.blinkenlights= 5606 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 5607 5608 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 5609 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 5610 scheme (default 0 = off). 5611 5612 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 5613 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 5614 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 5615 5616 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 5617 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 5618 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 5619 5620 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 5621 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 5622 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 5623 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 5624 5625 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 5626 5627 usbcore.quirks= 5628 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 5629 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 5630 commas. Each entry has the form 5631 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 5632 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 5633 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 5634 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 5635 the following meanings: 5636 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 5637 descriptors must not be fetched using 5638 a 255-byte read); 5639 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 5640 correctly so reset it instead); 5641 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 5642 Set-Interface requests); 5643 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 5644 handle its Configuration or Interface 5645 strings); 5646 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 5647 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 5648 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 5649 more interface descriptions than the 5650 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 5651 talking to these interfaces); 5652 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 5653 during initialization, after we read 5654 the device descriptor); 5655 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 5656 high speed and super speed interrupt 5657 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 5658 require the interval in microframes (1 5659 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 5660 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 5661 (bInterval-1). 5662 Devices with this quirk report their 5663 bInterval as the result of this 5664 calculation instead of the exponent 5665 variable used in the calculation); 5666 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 5667 handle device_qualifier descriptor 5668 requests); 5669 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 5670 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 5671 remote wakeup capability); 5672 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 5673 Power Management); 5674 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 5675 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 5676 frames instead of the USB 2.0 5677 calculation); 5678 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 5679 to be disconnected before suspend to 5680 prevent spurious wakeup); 5681 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 5682 pause after every control message); 5683 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 5684 delay after resetting its port); 5685 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 5686 5687 usbhid.mousepoll= 5688 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 5689 5690 usbhid.jspoll= 5691 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 5692 5693 usbhid.kbpoll= 5694 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 5695 5696 usb-storage.delay_use= 5697 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 5698 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 5699 5700 usb-storage.quirks= 5701 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 5702 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 5703 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 5704 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 5705 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 5706 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 5707 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 5708 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 5709 of sense data, not on uas); 5710 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 5711 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 5712 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 5713 device capacity by one sector); 5714 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 5715 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 5716 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 5717 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 5718 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 5719 command, uas only); 5720 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 5721 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 5722 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 5723 reported device capacity by one 5724 sector if the number is odd); 5725 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 5726 device); 5727 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 5728 command, uas only); 5729 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 5730 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 5731 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 5732 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 5733 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 5734 not on uas); 5735 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 5736 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 5737 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 5738 reported by the device, not on uas); 5739 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 5740 by default, not on uas); 5741 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 5742 bogus residue values, not on uas); 5743 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 5744 Logical Unit); 5745 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 5746 commands, uas only); 5747 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 5748 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 5749 medium is write-protected). 5750 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 5751 even if the device claims no cache, 5752 not on uas) 5753 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 5754 5755 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 5756 Format: <int> 5757 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 5758 1 - undefined instruction events 5759 2 - system calls 5760 4 - invalid data aborts 5761 8 - SIGSEGV faults 5762 16 - SIGBUS faults 5763 Example: user_debug=31 5764 5765 userpte= 5766 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 5767 5768 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 5769 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 5770 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 5771 5772 vdso= [X86,SH] 5773 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 5774 5775 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 5776 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 5777 5778 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 5779 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 5780 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 5781 5782 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 5783 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 5784 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 5785 5786 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 5787 alias for vdso32=0. 5788 5789 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 5790 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 5791 5792 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 5793 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 5794 5795 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 5796 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 5797 5798 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1] 5799 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 5800 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 5801 level and then send out the event to user space through 5802 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver 5803 will only send out the event without touching backlight 5804 brightness level. 5805 default: 1 5806 5807 virtio_mmio.device= 5808 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 5809 5810 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 5811 where: 5812 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 5813 like K, M and G) 5814 <baseaddr> := physical base address 5815 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 5816 request_irq()) 5817 <id> := (optional) platform device id 5818 example: 5819 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 5820 5821 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 5822 5823 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 5824 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and 5825 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 5826 Use vga=ask for menu. 5827 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 5828 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 5829 5830 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 5831 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 5832 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 5833 All options are enabled by default, and this 5834 interface is meant to allow for selectively 5835 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 5836 debugging features. 5837 5838 Available options are: 5839 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 5840 - Disable all of the above options 5841 5842 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 5843 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 5844 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 5845 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 5846 mapped kernel RAM. 5847 5848 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 5849 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 5850 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 5851 5852 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 5853 Format: <command> 5854 5855 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 5856 Format: <command> 5857 5858 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 5859 Format: <command> 5860 5861 vsyscall= [X86-64] 5862 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 5863 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 5864 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 5865 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 5866 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 5867 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 5868 5869 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 5870 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 5871 page is readable. 5872 5873 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 5874 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 5875 page is not readable. 5876 5877 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 5878 them quite hard to use for exploits but 5879 might break your system. 5880 5881 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 5882 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 5883 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 5884 5885 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 5886 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 5887 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 5888 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 5889 5890 vt.default_blu= [VT] 5891 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 5892 Change the default blue palette of the console. 5893 This is a 16-member array composed of values 5894 ranging from 0-255. 5895 5896 vt.default_grn= [VT] 5897 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 5898 Change the default green palette of the console. 5899 This is a 16-member array composed of values 5900 ranging from 0-255. 5901 5902 vt.default_red= [VT] 5903 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 5904 Change the default red palette of the console. 5905 This is a 16-member array composed of values 5906 ranging from 0-255. 5907 5908 vt.default_utf8= 5909 [VT] 5910 Format=<0|1> 5911 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 5912 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 5913 newly opened terminals. 5914 5915 vt.global_cursor_default= 5916 [VT] 5917 Format=<-1|0|1> 5918 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 5919 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 5920 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 5921 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 5922 cursors, 1 will display them. 5923 5924 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 5925 Default: 2 = green. 5926 5927 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 5928 Default: 3 = cyan. 5929 5930 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 5931 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 5932 or other driver-specific files in the 5933 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 5934 5935 watchdog_thresh= 5936 [KNL] 5937 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 5938 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 5939 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 5940 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 5941 seconds. 5942 5943 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 5944 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 5945 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 5946 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 5947 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 5948 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 5949 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 5950 corresponding sysfs file. 5951 5952 workqueue.disable_numa 5953 By default, all work items queued to unbound 5954 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 5955 issued on, which results in better behavior in 5956 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 5957 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 5958 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 5959 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 5960 5961 workqueue.power_efficient 5962 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 5963 they show better performance thanks to cache 5964 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 5965 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 5966 5967 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 5968 were observed to contribute significantly to power 5969 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 5970 power usage at the cost of small performance 5971 overhead. 5972 5973 The default value of this parameter is determined by 5974 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 5975 5976 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 5977 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 5978 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 5979 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 5980 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 5981 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 5982 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 5983 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 5984 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 5985 impacted. 5986 5987 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 5988 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 5989 supporting x2apic. 5990 5991 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 5992 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 5993 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 5994 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 5995 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 5996 domains. 5997 5998 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 5999 Unplug Xen emulated devices 6000 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 6001 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 6002 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 6003 nics -- unplug network devices 6004 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 6005 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 6006 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 6007 the unplug protocol 6008 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 6009 6010 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN] 6011 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 6012 panic() code such as dumping handler. 6013 6014 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 6015 Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations. 6016 This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which 6017 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6018 6019 xen_nopv [X86] 6020 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 6021 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 6022 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 6023 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6024 6025 xen_no_vector_callback 6026 [KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen 6027 event channel interrupts. 6028 6029 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 6030 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 6031 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 6032 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 6033 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 6034 6035 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 6036 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 6037 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 6038 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 6039 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 6040 more timer interrupts. 6041 6042 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 6043 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 6044 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 6045 6046 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 6047 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 6048 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 6049 6050 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 6051 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 6052 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 6053 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 6054 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 6055 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 6056 6057 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] 6058 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 6059 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 6060 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 6061 6062 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM] 6063 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 6064 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 6065 contention. 6066 6067 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 6068 Format: 6069 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 6070 6071 xive= [PPC] 6072 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 6073 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 6074 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 6075 6076 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 6077 controller on both pseries and powernv 6078 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 6079 6080 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 6081 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 6082 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 6083 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 6084 6085 xmon [PPC] 6086 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 6087 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 6088 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 6089 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 6090 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 6091 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6092 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 6093 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 6094 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 6095 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6096 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 6097 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 6098 can be written using xmon commands. 6099 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 6100 memory, and other data can't be written using 6101 xmon commands. 6102 off xmon is disabled. 6103