1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64] 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt | 4 copy_dsdt } 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64] 7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on 8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant. 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory 13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force" 14 are available 15 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi 17 18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC] 19 Format: <int> 20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 21 1,0: use 1st APIC table 22 default: 0 23 24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 25 acpi_backlight=vendor 26 acpi_backlight=video 27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver 28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 29 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 30 31 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr 32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 36 37 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 41 This option is useful for developers to identify the 42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 43 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 44 45 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 47 Format: <int> 48 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT 52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 55 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 56 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about 57 debug layers and levels. 58 59 Enable processor driver info messages: 60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages: 62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000 63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 64 object while interpreting AML: 65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 68 69 Some values produce so much output that the system is 70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 71 if you need to capture more output. 72 73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 74 { strict | lax | no } 75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 79 can interfere with legacy drivers. 80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 82 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 87 no further checks are performed. 88 89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI] 90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 92 size limitation. 93 94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 95 ACPI will balance active IRQs 96 default in APIC mode 97 98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 100 default in PIC mode 101 102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 103 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 104 105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 106 use by PCI 107 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 108 109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 113 the GPE dispatcher. 114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 115 GPE floodings. 116 Format: <byte> 117 118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 122 auto-serialization feature. 123 This feature is enabled by default. 124 This option allows to turn off the feature. 125 126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 127 kernels. 128 129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] 130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 132 installed automatically and they will appear under 133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 134 This option turns off this feature. 135 Note that specifying this option does not affect 136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 138 139 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT] 140 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let 141 a native driver control the watchdog device instead. 142 143 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] 144 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 145 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 146 second kernel for kdump. 147 148 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 149 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 150 151 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 152 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 153 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 154 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 155 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 156 157 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 158 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 159 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 160 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 161 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 162 strings 163 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 164 strings 165 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 166 167 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 168 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 169 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 170 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 171 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 172 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 173 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 174 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 175 care about the state of the feature group strings which 176 should be controlled by the OSPM. 177 Examples: 178 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 179 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 180 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 181 182 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 183 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 184 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 185 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 186 multiple times through kernel command line is also 187 meaningless. 188 Examples: 189 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 190 FALSE. 191 192 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 193 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 194 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 195 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 196 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 197 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 198 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 199 there are quirks related to this string. This command 200 is useful when one want to control the state of the 201 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 202 the OSPM features. 203 Examples: 204 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 205 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 206 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 207 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 208 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 209 equivalent to 210 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 211 and 212 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 213 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 214 215 acpi_pm_good [X86] 216 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 217 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 218 and always returns good values. 219 220 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 221 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 222 223 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 224 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 225 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 226 227 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 228 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig, 229 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl } 230 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on 231 s3_bios and s3_mode. 232 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 233 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 234 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 235 used during resume from hibernation. 236 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 237 control method, with respect to putting devices into 238 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 239 of _PTS is used by default). 240 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 241 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 242 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 243 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 244 but some broken systems don't work without it). 245 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 246 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 247 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 248 249 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 250 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 251 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 252 253 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 254 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 255 256 agp= [AGP] 257 { off | try_unsupported } 258 off: disable AGP support 259 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 260 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 261 262 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 263 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 264 265 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 266 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 267 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 268 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 269 270 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 271 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 272 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 273 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 274 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 275 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 276 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 277 278 32: only for 32-bit processes 279 64: only for 64-bit processes 280 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 281 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 282 283 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 284 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 285 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 286 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 287 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 288 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 289 290 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 291 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 292 Possible values are: 293 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when 294 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are 295 flushed before they will be reused, which 296 is a lot of faster 297 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 298 the system 299 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 300 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 301 allowed anymore to lift isolation 302 requirements as needed. This option 303 does not override iommu=pt 304 305 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 306 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 307 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 308 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 309 IOMMU initialization. 310 311 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 312 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 313 remapping modes: 314 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 315 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 316 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 317 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 318 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 319 320 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 321 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 322 Format: <a>,<b> 323 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 324 325 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 326 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 327 connected to one of 16 gameports 328 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 329 330 apc= [HW,SPARC] 331 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 332 Format: noidle 333 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 334 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 335 APC and your system crashes randomly. 336 337 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 338 Change the output verbosity while booting 339 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 340 Change the amount of debugging information output 341 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 342 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 343 driver name. 344 Format: apic=driver_name 345 Examples: apic=bigsmp 346 347 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 348 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 349 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 350 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 351 backup of CPU 0 352 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 353 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 354 shot down by NMI 355 356 autoconf= [IPV6] 357 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 358 359 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 360 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 361 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 362 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 363 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 364 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 365 apic=verbose is specified. 366 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 367 368 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 369 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 370 371 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 372 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 373 374 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 375 376 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 377 378 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 379 EzKey and similar keyboards 380 381 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 382 383 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 384 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 385 386 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 387 keyboards 388 389 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 390 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 391 392 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 393 Use software keyboard repeat 394 395 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 396 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 397 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 398 enabled until the next reboot 399 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 400 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 401 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 402 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 403 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 404 userspace auditd. 405 Default: unset 406 407 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 408 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 409 Default: 64 410 411 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 412 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 413 Format: { "0" | "1" } 414 0 - Disable the BAU. 415 1 - Enable the BAU. 416 unset - Disable the BAU. 417 418 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 419 Format: <io>,<mode> 420 421 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 422 Format: <io>,<mode> 423 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 424 425 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 426 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 427 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 428 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 429 430 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 431 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 432 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 433 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 434 435 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 436 embedded devices based on command line input. 437 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 438 439 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 440 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to 441 no delay (0). 442 Format: integer 443 444 bootconfig [KNL] 445 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 446 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 447 448 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 449 450 bert_disable [ACPI] 451 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 452 453 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 454 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 455 kernel args too. 456 bttv.pll= See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst 457 bttv.tuner= 458 459 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 460 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 461 at a time. 462 463 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 464 465 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 466 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 467 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 468 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 469 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 470 This option provides an override for these situations. 471 472 carrier_timeout= 473 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 474 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 475 it waits 120 seconds. 476 477 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 478 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 479 trust validation. 480 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 481 482 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 483 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 484 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 485 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 486 others). 487 488 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 489 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 490 491 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller 492 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable} 493 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 494 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 495 a single hierarchy 496 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 497 subsystem 498 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 499 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 500 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 501 502 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 503 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 504 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 505 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 506 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 507 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 508 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 509 all v1 hierarchies. 510 511 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 512 Format: <string> 513 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 514 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 515 516 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 517 Format: { "0" | "1" } 518 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 519 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 520 any implied execute protection). 521 1 -- check protection requested by application. 522 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 523 Value can be changed at runtime via 524 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 525 526 cio_ignore= [S390] 527 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 528 clk_ignore_unused 529 [CLK] 530 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 531 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 532 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 533 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 534 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 535 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 536 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 537 platform with proper driver support. For more 538 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 539 540 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 541 [Deprecated] 542 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 543 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 544 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 545 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 546 547 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 548 Format: <string> 549 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 550 with the name specified. 551 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 552 the platform: 553 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 554 [ACPI] acpi_pm 555 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 556 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 557 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 558 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 559 [MIPS] MIPS 560 [PARISC] cr16 561 [S390] tod 562 [SH] SuperH 563 [SPARC64] tick 564 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 565 566 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 567 [ARM,ARM64] 568 Format: <bool> 569 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 570 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 571 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 572 systems. 573 574 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86] 575 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 576 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 577 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily 578 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific 579 ones should be. 580 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 581 or using the feature without checking anything 582 will still see it. This just prevents it from 583 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 584 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 585 some critical bits. 586 587 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 588 [ARM,X86,KNL] 589 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 590 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 591 placement constraint by the physical address range of 592 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 593 altogether. For more information, see 594 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h 595 596 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 597 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 598 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 599 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 600 a hypervisor. 601 Default: yes 602 603 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 604 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 605 allocations, by default set to 256K. 606 607 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 608 Format: 609 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 610 611 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 612 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 613 614 com90xx= [HW,NET] 615 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 616 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 617 618 condev= [HW,S390] console device 619 conmode= 620 621 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 622 623 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 624 625 ttyS<n>[,options] 626 ttyUSB0[,options] 627 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 628 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 629 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 630 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 631 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 632 633 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 634 information. See 635 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an 636 alternative. 637 638 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 639 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 640 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 641 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 642 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 643 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 644 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 645 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 646 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 647 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 648 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 649 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 650 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 651 the h/w is not re-initialized. 652 653 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 654 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 655 656 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 657 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 658 console=brl,ttyS0 659 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 660 661 console_msg_format= 662 [KNL] Change console messages format 663 default 664 By default we print messages on consoles in 665 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 666 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 667 `printk_time' param). 668 syslog 669 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 670 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 671 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 672 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 673 from /proc/kmsg. 674 675 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 676 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 677 Defaults to 0. 678 679 coredump_filter= 680 [KNL] Change the default value for 681 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 682 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt. 683 684 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 685 [ARM,ARM64] 686 Format: <bool> 687 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 688 0: default value, disable debugging 689 1: enable debugging at boot time 690 691 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 692 disable the cpuidle sub-system 693 694 cpuidle.governor= 695 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 696 697 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 698 disable the cpufreq sub-system 699 700 cpu_init_udelay=N 701 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 702 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 703 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 704 Default: 10000 705 706 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 707 Format: 708 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 709 710 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 711 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 712 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 713 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 714 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 715 is selected automatically. 716 [KNL, x86_64] select a region under 4G first, and 717 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset' 718 hasn't been specified. 719 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 720 721 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 722 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 723 in the running system. The syntax of range is 724 start-[end] where start and end are both 725 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 726 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 727 728 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 729 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 730 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 731 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 732 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 733 available. 734 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 735 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 736 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 737 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 738 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 739 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 740 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 741 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 742 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at 743 at least 256M below 4G automatically. 744 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G 745 for second kernel instead. 746 0: to disable low allocation. 747 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 748 or memory reserved is below 4G. 749 750 cryptomgr.notests 751 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 752 753 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 754 Format: <dma> 755 756 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 757 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 758 759 dasd= [HW,NET] 760 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 761 762 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 763 (one device per port) 764 Format: <port#>,<type> 765 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 766 767 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot 768 time. See 769 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for 770 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg. 771 772 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 773 774 debug_boot_weak_hash 775 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 776 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 777 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 778 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 779 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 780 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 781 782 debug_locks_verbose= 783 [KNL] verbose self-tests 784 Format=<0|1> 785 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 786 self-tests. 787 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to 788 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally 789 only useful to kernel developers. 790 791 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 792 793 no_debug_objects 794 [KNL] Disable object debugging 795 796 debug_guardpage_minorder= 797 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 798 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 799 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 800 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 801 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 802 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 803 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 804 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 805 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 806 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 807 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 808 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 809 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when 810 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 811 bypassed) which are not detectable by 812 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 813 tracking down these problems. 814 815 debug_pagealloc= 816 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 817 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 818 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 819 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 820 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 821 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 822 on: enable the feature 823 824 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 825 826 decnet.addr= [HW,NET] 827 Format: <area>[,<node>] 828 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt. 829 830 default_hugepagesz= 831 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default 832 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by 833 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and 834 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems. 835 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size 836 if not specified. 837 838 deferred_probe_timeout= 839 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 840 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 841 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 842 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0 843 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also 844 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 845 retrying. 846 847 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 848 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 849 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 850 level 1 and decompression (default) 851 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 852 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 853 only (compression on level 1) 854 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 855 only (decompression) 856 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 857 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 858 859 dhash_entries= [KNL] 860 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 861 862 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 863 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 864 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 865 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 866 miss to occur. 867 868 disable= [IPV6] 869 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 870 871 hardened_usercopy= 872 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 873 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 874 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 875 from reading or writing beyond known memory 876 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 877 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 878 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 879 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 880 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 881 882 disable_radix [PPC] 883 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 884 885 disable_tlbie [PPC] 886 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 887 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 888 889 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 890 Format: <int> 891 The number of initial APIC ID for the 892 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 893 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 894 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 895 causing system reset or hang due to sending 896 INIT from AP to BSP. 897 898 perf_v4_pmi= [X86,INTEL] 899 Format: <bool> 900 Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature. 901 The feature only exists starting from 902 Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer). 903 904 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 905 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if 906 to workaround buggy firmware. 907 908 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 909 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 910 911 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 912 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 913 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 914 entry later. This parameter disables that. 915 916 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 917 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 918 memory out of your available memory pool based on 919 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 920 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 921 922 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 923 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 924 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 925 926 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 927 928 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 929 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 930 931 dma_debug_entries=<number> 932 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 933 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 934 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 935 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 936 architectural default is too low. 937 938 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 939 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 940 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 941 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 942 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 943 driver later using sysfs. 944 945 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 946 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. 947 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 948 949 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 950 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 951 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 952 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 953 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 954 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 955 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 956 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 957 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 958 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 959 available in Documentation/driver-api/edid.rst. An EDID 960 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 961 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 962 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 963 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 964 data set with no connector name will be used for 965 any connectors not explicitly specified. 966 967 dscc4.setup= [NET] 968 969 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 970 Format: {"off" | "known"} 971 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 972 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 973 exists). 974 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 975 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 976 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 977 978 dump_apple_properties [X86] 979 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 980 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 981 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 982 983 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 984 module.dyndbg[="val"] 985 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 986 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 987 for details. 988 989 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions. 990 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.rst for more 991 information about the feature. 992 993 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 994 in some Intel CPUs. 995 996 module.async_probe [KNL] 997 Enable asynchronous probe on this module. 998 999 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 1000 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1001 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1002 which are not unmapped. 1003 1004 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 1005 1006 When used with no options, the early console is 1007 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1008 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1009 the platform. 1010 1011 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1012 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1013 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1014 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1015 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1016 configured. 1017 1018 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 1019 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 1020 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 1021 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options] 1022 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1023 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1024 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1025 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1026 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1027 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1028 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1029 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1030 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 1031 1032 pl011,<addr> 1033 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1034 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1035 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1036 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1037 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1038 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1039 the device registers. 1040 1041 meson,<addr> 1042 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1043 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1044 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1045 supported. 1046 1047 msm_serial,<addr> 1048 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1049 port at the specified address. The serial port 1050 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1051 yet supported. 1052 1053 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1054 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1055 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1056 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1057 yet supported. 1058 1059 owl,<addr> 1060 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1061 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1062 specified address. The serial port must already be 1063 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1064 1065 rda,<addr> 1066 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1067 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1068 specified address. The serial port must already be 1069 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1070 1071 sbi 1072 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1073 console. 1074 1075 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1076 1077 s3c2410,<addr> 1078 s3c2412,<addr> 1079 s3c2440,<addr> 1080 s3c6400,<addr> 1081 s5pv210,<addr> 1082 exynos4210,<addr> 1083 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1084 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1085 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1086 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1087 Options are not yet supported. 1088 1089 lantiq,<addr> 1090 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1091 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1092 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1093 yet supported. 1094 1095 lpuart,<addr> 1096 lpuart32,<addr> 1097 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1098 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1099 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1100 port must already be setup and configured. 1101 1102 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1103 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1104 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1105 address. The serial port must already be setup 1106 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1107 1108 qcom_geni,<addr> 1109 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1110 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1111 specified address. The serial port must already be 1112 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1113 1114 efifb,[options] 1115 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1116 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1117 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1118 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1119 mapped with the correct attributes. 1120 1121 linflex,<addr> 1122 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1123 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1124 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1125 already be setup and configured. 1126 1127 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1128 earlyprintk=vga 1129 earlyprintk=sclp 1130 earlyprintk=xen 1131 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1132 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1133 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1134 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1135 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1136 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1137 1138 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1139 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1140 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1141 1142 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1143 takes over. 1144 1145 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can 1146 be used at a time. 1147 1148 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1149 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1150 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1151 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1152 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1153 You can find the port for a given device in 1154 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1155 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1156 1157 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1158 very good. 1159 1160 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by 1161 the real console. 1162 1163 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests. 1164 1165 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1166 1167 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1168 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1169 UART class. 1170 1171 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1172 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1173 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1174 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1175 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1176 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1177 default: on. 1178 1179 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1180 ekgdboc=kbd 1181 1182 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1183 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1184 1185 edd= [EDD] 1186 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1187 1188 efi= [EFI] 1189 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug", 1190 "nosoftreserve", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1191 "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1192 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI 1193 runtime services mapping. [Needs CONFIG_X86_UV=y] 1194 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1195 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1196 firmware implementations. 1197 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1198 debug: enable misc debug output 1199 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1200 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1201 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1202 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1203 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1204 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1205 disable_early_pci_dma: Disable the busmaster bit on all 1206 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1207 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1208 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1209 1210 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1211 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1212 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1213 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1214 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1215 1216 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1217 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1218 updating original EFI memory map. 1219 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1220 from ss to ss+nn. 1221 1222 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1223 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1224 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1225 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1226 1227 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the 1228 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to 1229 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff. 1230 1231 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1232 related features. For example, you can do debugging of 1233 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1234 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as 1235 "soft reserved". 1236 1237 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1238 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1239 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1240 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1241 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1242 1243 1244 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1245 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1246 1247 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1248 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1249 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1250 1251 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1252 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1253 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1254 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1255 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1256 1257 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1258 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1259 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1260 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1261 1262 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1263 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1264 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1265 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1266 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1267 1268 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1269 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1270 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1271 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1272 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1273 Default value is 0. 1274 Value can be changed at runtime via 1275 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1276 1277 erst_disable [ACPI] 1278 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1279 support. 1280 1281 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1282 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1283 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1284 1285 evm= [EVM] 1286 Format: { "fix" } 1287 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1288 current integrity status. 1289 1290 failslab= 1291 fail_page_alloc= 1292 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1293 General fault injection mechanism. 1294 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1295 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1296 1297 floppy= [HW] 1298 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1299 1300 force_pal_cache_flush 1301 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1302 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1303 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1304 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1305 1306 forcepae [X86-32] 1307 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1308 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1309 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1310 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1311 and may cause unknown problems. 1312 1313 ftrace=[tracer] 1314 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1315 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1316 boot debugging. 1317 1318 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1319 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1320 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1321 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1322 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1323 oops. 1324 1325 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1326 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1327 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 1328 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1329 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1330 tracing directory. 1331 1332 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1333 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1334 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1335 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1336 tracing directory. 1337 1338 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1339 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1340 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1341 function-list is a comma separated list of functions 1342 that can be changed at run time by the 1343 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1344 1345 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1346 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1347 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of 1348 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1349 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1350 1351 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1352 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1353 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1354 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1355 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1356 1357 fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1358 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1359 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1360 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1361 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1362 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1363 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1364 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1365 suppliers). 1366 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1367 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1368 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1369 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1370 up (sync_state() calls). 1371 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1372 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1373 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1374 1375 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1376 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1377 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1378 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1379 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1380 1381 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1382 1383 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1384 Format: off | on 1385 default: on 1386 1387 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1388 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1389 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1390 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1391 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1392 1393 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1394 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1395 android emulator 1396 1397 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1398 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1399 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1400 GPT to be used instead. 1401 1402 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1403 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1404 Format: 0 | 1 1405 Default: 0 1406 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1407 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1408 Format: 0 | 1 1409 Default: 0 1410 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1411 Format: 0 | 1 1412 Default: 0 1413 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1414 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1415 Default: 1024 1416 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1417 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1418 Default: 1024 1419 1420 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1421 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1422 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1423 1424 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1425 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1426 backtraces on all cpus. 1427 Format: <integer> 1428 1429 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1430 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1431 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1432 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1433 1434 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1435 1436 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1437 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1438 1439 hest_disable [ACPI] 1440 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1441 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1442 logic will be disabled. 1443 1444 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1445 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1446 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1447 size on bigger boxes. 1448 1449 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1450 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1451 Default: "on" 1452 1453 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1454 1455 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1456 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1457 verbose } 1458 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1459 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1460 VIA, nVidia) 1461 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1462 1463 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1464 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1465 1466 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1467 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages. 1468 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified 1469 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve 1470 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on 1471 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G 1472 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag). 1473 1474 hung_task_panic= 1475 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1476 Format: <integer> 1477 1478 A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a 1479 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1480 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1481 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1482 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1483 1484 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1485 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1486 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1487 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1488 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1489 1490 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1491 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1492 guest on lock contention. 1493 1494 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1495 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1496 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1497 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1498 the real console. 1499 1500 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1501 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1502 registered from board initialization code. 1503 Format: 1504 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1505 1506 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1507 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1508 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1509 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1510 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1511 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1512 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1513 keyboard and cannot control its state 1514 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1515 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1516 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1517 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1518 for the AUX port 1519 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1520 controller 1521 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1522 controllers 1523 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1524 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1525 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1526 transitions, or never reset 1527 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1528 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1529 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1530 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1531 architectures force reset to be always executed 1532 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1533 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1534 1535 i810= [HW,DRM] 1536 1537 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1538 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1539 hardware. 1540 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature 1541 does not match list of supported models. 1542 i8k.power_status 1543 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1544 (disabled by default) 1545 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1546 capability is set. 1547 1548 i915.invert_brightness= 1549 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1550 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1551 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1552 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1553 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1554 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1555 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1556 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1557 value switches the backlight off. 1558 -1 -- never invert brightness 1559 0 -- machine default 1560 1 -- force brightness inversion 1561 1562 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1563 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1564 1565 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1566 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc 1567 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr 1568 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options 1569 See Documentation/ide/ide.rst. 1570 1571 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1572 Format: <int> 1573 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on 1574 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by 1575 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The 1576 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning. 1577 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the 1578 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which 1579 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value 1580 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it 1581 was 0x3. 1582 1583 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1584 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers. 1585 1586 idle= [X86] 1587 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1588 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1589 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1590 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1591 Not recommended. 1592 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1593 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1594 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1595 1596 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1597 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1598 Default: strict 1599 1600 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1601 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1602 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1603 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1604 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1605 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1606 encoding mode. 1607 1608 Available settings are as follows: 1609 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1610 supported by the FPU 1611 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1612 by the FPU 1613 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1614 by the FPU 1615 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1616 supported by the FPU 1617 1618 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1619 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1620 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1621 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1622 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1623 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1624 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1625 MIPS64 CPUs. 1626 1627 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1628 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1629 except where unsupported by hardware. 1630 1631 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1632 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1633 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1634 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1635 could change it dynamically, usually by 1636 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1637 1638 ignore_rlimit_data 1639 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1640 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1641 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1642 1643 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1644 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1645 1646 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1647 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1648 default: "enforce" 1649 1650 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1651 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1652 owned by uid=0. 1653 1654 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1655 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1656 measurements, instead of host native format. 1657 1658 ima_hash= [IMA] 1659 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1660 | sha512 | ... } 1661 default: "sha1" 1662 1663 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1664 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1665 1666 ima_policy= [IMA] 1667 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1668 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1669 fail_securely" 1670 1671 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1672 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1673 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1674 uid=0. 1675 1676 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1677 all files owned by root. 1678 1679 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1680 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1681 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1682 1683 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1684 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1685 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1686 flag. 1687 1688 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1689 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1690 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1691 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1692 opened for read by uid=0. 1693 1694 ima_template= [IMA] 1695 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1696 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" } 1697 Default: "ima-ng" 1698 1699 ima_template_fmt= 1700 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1701 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1702 1703 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1704 Format: <min_file_size> 1705 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1706 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1707 1708 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1709 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1710 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1711 1712 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1713 Format: <bufsize> 1714 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1715 1716 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1717 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1718 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1719 1720 init= [KNL] 1721 Format: <full_path> 1722 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1723 process. 1724 1725 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1726 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1727 startup. 1728 1729 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1730 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1731 modules and initcalls. 1732 1733 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 1734 1735 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 1736 zeroes. 1737 Format: 0 | 1 1738 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 1739 1740 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 1741 Format: 0 | 1 1742 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 1743 1744 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 1745 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 1746 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 1747 override in debugfs after boot. 1748 1749 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 1750 Format: <irq> 1751 1752 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 1753 1754 integrity_audit=[IMA] 1755 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1756 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 1757 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 1758 1759 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 1760 on 1761 Enable intel iommu driver. 1762 off 1763 Disable intel iommu driver. 1764 igfx_off [Default Off] 1765 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 1766 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 1767 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 1768 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 1769 DMA. 1770 forcedac [x86_64] 1771 With this option iommu will not optimize to look 1772 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual 1773 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater 1774 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look 1775 for translation below 32-bit and if not available 1776 then look in the higher range. 1777 strict [Default Off] 1778 With this option on every unmap_single operation will 1779 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed 1780 to batching them for performance. 1781 sp_off [Default Off] 1782 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 1783 has the capability. With this option, super page will 1784 not be supported. 1785 sm_on [Default Off] 1786 By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the 1787 hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable 1788 mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode 1789 will be used on hardware which claims to support it. 1790 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 1791 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 1792 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 1793 could harm performance of some high-throughput 1794 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 1795 mapping is enabled. 1796 Note that using this option lowers the security 1797 provided by tboot because it makes the system 1798 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 1799 nobounce [Default off] 1800 Disable bounce buffer for unstrusted devices such as 1801 the Thunderbolt devices. This will treat the untrusted 1802 devices as the trusted ones, hence might expose security 1803 risks of DMA attacks. 1804 1805 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 1806 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 1807 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 1808 1809 intel_pstate= [X86] 1810 disable 1811 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 1812 scaling driver for the supported processors 1813 passive 1814 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 1815 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 1816 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 1817 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 1818 feature. 1819 force 1820 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 1821 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 1822 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 1823 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 1824 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 1825 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 1826 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 1827 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 1828 no_hwp 1829 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 1830 if available. 1831 hwp_only 1832 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 1833 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 1834 support_acpi_ppc 1835 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 1836 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 1837 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 1838 then this feature is turned on by default. 1839 per_cpu_perf_limits 1840 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 1841 cpufreq sysfs interface 1842 1843 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 1844 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 1845 off disable Interrupt Remapping 1846 nosid disable Source ID checking 1847 no_x2apic_optout 1848 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 1849 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 1850 1851 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 1852 strict regions from userspace. 1853 relaxed 1854 1855 iommu= [x86] 1856 off 1857 force 1858 noforce 1859 biomerge 1860 panic 1861 nopanic 1862 merge 1863 nomerge 1864 soft 1865 pt [x86] 1866 nopt [x86] 1867 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 1868 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 1869 1870 iommu.strict= [ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 1871 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1872 0 - Lazy mode. 1873 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 1874 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 1875 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 1876 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 1877 the relevant IOMMU driver. 1878 1 - Strict mode (default). 1879 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 1880 synchronously. 1881 1882 iommu.passthrough= 1883 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 1884 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1885 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 1886 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 1887 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 1888 1889 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems 1890 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 1891 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 1892 1893 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 1894 0x80 1895 Standard port 0x80 based delay 1896 0xed 1897 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 1898 udelay 1899 Simple two microseconds delay 1900 none 1901 No delay 1902 1903 ip= [IP_PNP] 1904 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 1905 1906 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 1907 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 1908 1909 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 1910 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 1911 1912 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 1913 [ARM, ARM64] 1914 Format: <bool> 1915 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 1916 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 1917 exposed by the device tree is too small. 1918 1919 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 1920 [ARM, ARM64] 1921 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 1922 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 1923 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 1924 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 1925 LPIs. 1926 1927 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 1928 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 1929 requires the kernel to be built with 1930 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 1931 1932 irqfixup [HW] 1933 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1934 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1935 firmware running. 1936 1937 irqpoll [HW] 1938 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1939 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 1940 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1941 firmware running. 1942 1943 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 1944 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 1945 1946 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 1947 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 1948 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 1949 1950 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 1951 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 1952 1953 nohz 1954 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 1955 1956 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 1957 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 1958 workqueue's affinity configured via the 1959 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 1960 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 1961 1962 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 1963 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 1964 be configured manually after bootup. 1965 1966 domain 1967 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 1968 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 1969 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 1970 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 1971 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 1972 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 1973 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 1974 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 1975 1976 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 1977 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 1978 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 1979 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 1980 1981 managed_irq 1982 1983 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 1984 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 1985 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 1986 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 1987 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 1988 1989 This isolation is best effort and only effective 1990 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 1991 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 1992 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 1993 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 1994 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 1995 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 1996 1997 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 1998 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 1999 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2000 only delivered when tasks running on those 2001 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2002 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2003 queues. 2004 2005 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2006 2007 iucv= [HW,NET] 2008 2009 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64] 2010 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2011 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2012 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 2013 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2014 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2015 2016 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64] 2017 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2018 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2019 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to 2020 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2021 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2022 2023 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64] 2024 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2025 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2026 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2027 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 2028 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2029 2030 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2031 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2032 2033 nokaslr [KNL] 2034 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 2035 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 2036 Layout Randomization). 2037 2038 kasan_multi_shot 2039 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2040 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2041 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2042 invalid access. 2043 2044 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 2045 2046 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2047 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2048 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2049 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2050 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2051 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2052 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2053 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2054 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2055 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2056 2057 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2058 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2059 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2060 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2061 zone if it does not. 2062 2063 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2064 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2065 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2066 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2067 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2068 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2069 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2070 2071 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2072 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2073 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2074 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2075 optional and is the number seconds in between 2076 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2077 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2078 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2079 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2080 the kernel debugger. 2081 2082 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2083 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2084 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2085 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2086 keyboard only format: kbd 2087 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2088 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2089 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2090 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2091 2092 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2093 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2094 2095 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address. 2096 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2097 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2098 2099 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2100 Valid arguments: on, off 2101 Default: on 2102 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2103 the default is off. 2104 2105 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2106 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2107 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2108 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2109 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2110 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2111 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2112 2113 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2114 2115 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2116 Boot Parameter" section. 2117 2118 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2119 and kernel address spaces. 2120 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2121 0: force disabled 2122 1: force enabled 2123 2124 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2125 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2126 2127 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2128 Default is false (don't support). 2129 2130 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit 2131 KVM MMU at runtime. 2132 Default is 0 (off) 2133 2134 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2135 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2136 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2137 force : Always deploy workaround. 2138 off : Never deploy workaround. 2139 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2140 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2141 2142 Default is 'auto'. 2143 2144 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2145 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2146 2147 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2148 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2149 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2150 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2151 minute. The default is 60. 2152 2153 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 2154 Default is 1 (enabled) 2155 2156 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 2157 for all guests. 2158 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 2159 2160 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2161 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2162 system registers 2163 2164 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2165 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2166 system registers 2167 2168 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2169 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2170 system registers 2171 2172 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2173 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2174 LPIs. 2175 2176 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 2177 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 2178 Default is 1 (enabled) 2179 2180 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2181 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states 2182 Default is 0 (disabled) 2183 2184 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2185 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 2186 Default is 1 (enabled) 2187 2188 kvm-intel.nested= 2189 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 2190 Default is 0 (disabled) 2191 2192 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2193 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 2194 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 2195 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 2196 2197 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2198 CVE-2018-3620. 2199 2200 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2201 2202 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2203 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2204 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2205 never: Disables the mitigation 2206 2207 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2208 2209 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 2210 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 2211 Default is 1 (enabled) 2212 2213 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2214 affected CPUs 2215 2216 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2217 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2218 2219 full 2220 Provides all available mitigations for the 2221 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2222 enables all mitigations in the 2223 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2224 2225 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2226 sysfs interface is still possible after 2227 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2228 when the first VM is started in a 2229 potentially insecure configuration, 2230 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2231 2232 full,force 2233 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2234 flush runtime control. Implies the 2235 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2236 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2237 2238 flush 2239 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2240 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2241 L1D flush. 2242 2243 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2244 sysfs interface is still possible after 2245 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2246 when the first VM is started in a 2247 potentially insecure configuration, 2248 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2249 2250 flush,nosmt 2251 2252 Disables SMT and enables the default 2253 hypervisor mitigation. 2254 2255 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2256 sysfs interface is still possible after 2257 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2258 when the first VM is started in a 2259 potentially insecure configuration, 2260 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2261 2262 flush,nowarn 2263 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2264 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2265 insecure configuration. 2266 2267 off 2268 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2269 emit any warnings. 2270 It also drops the swap size and available 2271 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2272 bare metal. 2273 2274 Default is 'flush'. 2275 2276 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2277 2278 l2cr= [PPC] 2279 2280 l3cr= [PPC] 2281 2282 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2283 disabled it. 2284 2285 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline 2286 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2287 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2288 2289 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2290 in C2 power state. 2291 2292 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2293 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2294 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2295 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2296 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2297 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2298 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2299 2300 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2301 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2302 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2303 2304 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2305 when set. 2306 Format: <int> 2307 2308 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma 2309 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is 2310 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers 2311 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches 2312 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If 2313 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE 2314 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the 2315 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices. 2316 2317 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2318 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2319 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2320 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2321 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2322 host link and device attached to it. 2323 2324 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2325 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed. 2326 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2327 The following configurations can be forced. 2328 2329 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2330 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2331 2332 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2333 2334 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2335 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2336 allowed. 2337 2338 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2339 2340 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM. 2341 2342 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft 2343 and both resets. 2344 2345 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during 2346 hot-unplug link recovery 2347 2348 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data. 2349 2350 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support 2351 2352 * disable: Disable this device. 2353 2354 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2355 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2356 2357 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 2358 2359 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy 2360 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 2361 2362 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2363 Format: <integer> 2364 2365 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2366 Format: <integer> 2367 2368 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2369 Format: <integer> 2370 2371 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2372 Format: <integer> 2373 2374 lockdown= [SECURITY] 2375 { integrity | confidentiality } 2376 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 2377 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 2378 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 2379 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 2380 to extract confidential information from the kernel 2381 are also disabled. 2382 2383 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2384 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2385 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2386 number of online CPUs. 2387 2388 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2389 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2390 2391 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2392 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2393 2394 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2395 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2396 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2397 2398 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2399 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2400 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2401 mode during the locktorture test. 2402 2403 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2404 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2405 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2406 2407 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2408 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2409 2410 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2411 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2412 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2413 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2414 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2415 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2416 2417 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2418 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2419 2420 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2421 Enable additional printk() statements. 2422 2423 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2424 Format: <irq> 2425 2426 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2427 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2428 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2429 loglevels are defined as follows: 2430 2431 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2432 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2433 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2434 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2435 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2436 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2437 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2438 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2439 2440 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2441 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2442 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2443 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2444 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2445 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2446 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2447 2448 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2449 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2450 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2451 kernel boot problems. 2452 2453 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2454 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2455 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2456 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2457 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2458 attached printers to be reset. Using 2459 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2460 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2461 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2462 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2463 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2464 port specification list means that device IDs 2465 from each port should be examined, to see if 2466 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2467 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2468 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2469 2470 lpj=n [KNL] 2471 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2472 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2473 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2474 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2475 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2476 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2477 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2478 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2479 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2480 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2481 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2482 hardware. 2483 2484 ltpc= [NET] 2485 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2486 2487 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 2488 2489 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 2490 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 2491 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 2492 2493 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2494 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2495 Example: machvec=hpzx1 2496 2497 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different 2498 yeeloong laptop. 2499 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2500 2501 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater 2502 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2503 2504 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2505 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2506 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2507 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2508 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2509 only takes effect during system bootup. 2510 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2511 which also disables the IO APIC. 2512 2513 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2514 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2515 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2516 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2517 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2518 /dev/loop-control interface. 2519 2520 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2521 2522 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 2523 2524 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2525 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2526 2527 mdacon= [MDA] 2528 Format: <first>,<last> 2529 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2530 2531 mds= [X86,INTEL] 2532 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 2533 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 2534 2535 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2536 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2537 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2538 2539 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2540 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2541 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2542 not have direct access. 2543 2544 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 2545 options are: 2546 2547 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 2548 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 2549 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 2550 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 2551 2552 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 2553 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 2554 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 2555 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 2556 too. 2557 2558 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 2559 mds=full. 2560 2561 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 2562 2563 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2564 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able 2565 to see the whole system memory or for test. 2566 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 2567 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 2568 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 2569 belonging to unused RAM. 2570 2571 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 2572 memory. 2573 2574 memchunk=nn[KMG] 2575 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 2576 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 2577 2578 memhp_default_state=online/offline 2579 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 2580 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 2581 set according to the 2582 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 2583 option. 2584 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 2585 2586 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 2587 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 2588 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 2589 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 2590 option description. 2591 2592 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 2593 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 2594 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 2595 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 2596 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 2597 Multiple different regions can be specified, 2598 comma delimited. 2599 Example: 2600 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 2601 2602 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 2603 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 2604 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 2605 2606 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 2607 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 2608 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 2609 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 2610 memmap=64K$0x18690000 2611 or 2612 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 2613 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 2614 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 2615 will be eaten. 2616 2617 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 2618 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 2619 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 2620 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 2621 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 2622 2623 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 2624 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 2625 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 2626 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 2627 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 2628 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 2629 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 2630 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 2631 2632 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 2633 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 2634 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 2635 Setting this option will scan the memory 2636 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 2637 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 2638 from using the memory being corrupted. 2639 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 2640 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 2641 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 2642 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 2643 2644 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 2645 By default it checks for corruption in the low 2646 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 2647 use. Use this parameter to scan for 2648 corruption in more or less memory. 2649 2650 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 2651 By default it checks for corruption every 60 2652 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 2653 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 2654 2655 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest 2656 Format: <integer> 2657 default : 0 <disable> 2658 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 2659 performed. Each pass selects another test 2660 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 2661 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 2662 memory contents and reserves bad memory 2663 regions that are detected. 2664 2665 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 2666 Valid arguments: on, off 2667 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 2668 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 2669 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 2670 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 2671 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 2672 2673 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst 2674 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 2675 2676 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 2677 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 2678 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 2679 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 2680 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 2681 2682 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 2683 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst. 2684 2685 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 2686 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 2687 platforms. 2688 2689 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 2690 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 2691 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 2692 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 2693 2694 mga= [HW,DRM] 2695 2696 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this 2697 physical address is ignored. 2698 2699 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 2700 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 2701 Default: "0tb" 2702 MINI2440 configuration specification: 2703 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 2704 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 2705 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 2706 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 2707 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 2708 unconfigured. 2709 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 2710 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 2711 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 2712 VGA shield. 2713 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 2714 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 2715 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 2716 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 2717 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 2718 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 2719 2720 mitigations= 2721 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 2722 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 2723 arch-independent options, each of which is an 2724 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 2725 2726 off 2727 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 2728 improves system performance, but it may also 2729 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 2730 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC] 2731 kpti=0 [ARM64] 2732 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 2733 nobp=0 [S390] 2734 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 2735 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 2736 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 2737 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 2738 l1tf=off [X86] 2739 mds=off [X86] 2740 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 2741 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 2742 2743 Exceptions: 2744 This does not have any effect on 2745 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 2746 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 2747 2748 auto (default) 2749 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 2750 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 2751 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 2752 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 2753 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 2754 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 2755 2756 auto,nosmt 2757 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 2758 if needed. This is for users who always want to 2759 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 2760 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 2761 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 2762 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 2763 2764 mminit_loglevel= 2765 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 2766 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 2767 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 2768 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 2769 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 2770 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 2771 2772 module.sig_enforce 2773 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 2774 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 2775 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 2776 is always true, so this option does nothing. 2777 2778 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 2779 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 2780 2781 mousedev.tap_time= 2782 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 2783 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 2784 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 2785 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 2786 Format: <msecs> 2787 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 2788 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2789 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 2790 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2791 2792 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2793 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 2794 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 2795 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 2796 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 2797 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 2798 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 2799 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 2800 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 2801 is not too small. 2802 2803 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 2804 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 2805 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 2806 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 2807 allocations. Use with caution! 2808 2809 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 2810 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 2811 2812 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 2813 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 2814 2815 mtdparts= [MTD] 2816 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c. 2817 2818 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 2819 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 2820 at a time. 2821 2822 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 2823 2824 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 2825 2826 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 2827 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 2828 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 2829 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 2830 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 2831 2832 mtdset= [ARM] 2833 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 2834 2835 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c 2836 2837 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 2838 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 2839 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 2840 2841 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2842 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 2843 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 2844 2845 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2846 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 2847 Default is 1. 2848 Large value could prevent small alignment from 2849 using up MTRRs. 2850 2851 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 2852 Format: <integer> 2853 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 2854 Default : 1 2855 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 2856 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 2857 2858 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 2859 2860 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 2861 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 2862 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 2863 something different and driver-specific. 2864 This usage is only documented in each driver source 2865 file if at all. 2866 2867 nf_conntrack.acct= 2868 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 2869 0 to disable accounting 2870 1 to enable accounting 2871 Default value is 0. 2872 2873 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 2874 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2875 2876 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 2877 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2878 2879 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 2880 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2881 2882 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 2883 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 2884 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 2885 requests. 2886 2887 nfs.callback_tcpport= 2888 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 2889 channel should listen. 2890 2891 nfs.cache_getent= 2892 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 2893 to update the NFS client cache entries. 2894 2895 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 2896 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 2897 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 2898 2899 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 2900 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 2901 entries. 2902 2903 nfs.enable_ino64= 2904 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 2905 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 2906 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 2907 of returning the full 64-bit number. 2908 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 2909 2910 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 2911 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 2912 slots the client will assign to the callback 2913 channel. This determines the maximum number of 2914 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 2915 a particular server. 2916 2917 nfs.max_session_slots= 2918 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 2919 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 2920 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 2921 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 2922 Note that there is little point in setting this 2923 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 2924 2925 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2926 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 2927 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 2928 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 2929 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 2930 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 2931 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 2932 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 2933 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 2934 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 2935 back to using the idmapper. 2936 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 2937 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 2938 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 2939 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 2940 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 2941 UUID that is generated at system install time. 2942 2943 nfs.send_implementation_id = 2944 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 2945 information in exchange_id requests. 2946 If zero, no implementation identification information 2947 will be sent. 2948 The default is to send the implementation identification 2949 information. 2950 2951 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 2952 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 2953 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 2954 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 2955 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 2956 after the locks are lost. 2957 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 2958 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 2959 parameter to '1'. 2960 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 2961 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 2962 2963 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 2964 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 2965 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 2966 2967 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 2968 whatever value is the default set by the layout 2969 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 2970 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 2971 2972 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2973 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 2974 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 2975 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 2976 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 2977 migration from NFSv2/v3. 2978 2979 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 2980 when a NMI is triggered. 2981 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 2982 2983 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 2984 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 2985 Valid num: 0 or 1 2986 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 2987 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 2988 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 2989 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 2990 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 2991 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 2992 please see 'nowatchdog'. 2993 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 2994 need the box quickly up again. 2995 2996 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 2997 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 2998 2999 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3000 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3001 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3002 waits 4 seconds. 3003 3004 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3005 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3006 is present. 3007 3008 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3009 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3010 3011 no_console_suspend 3012 [HW] Never suspend the console 3013 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3014 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3015 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3016 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3017 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3018 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3019 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3020 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3021 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3022 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3023 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3024 turn on/off it dynamically. 3025 3026 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 3027 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 3028 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 3029 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 3030 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 3031 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 3032 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 3033 data will be no longer available. This parameter 3034 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 3035 is set. 3036 3037 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 3038 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 3039 but will impact performance. 3040 3041 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3042 3043 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 3044 (CPU alternatives feature). 3045 3046 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3047 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3048 3049 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3050 3051 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem 3052 on "Classic" PPC cores. 3053 3054 nocache [ARM] 3055 3056 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction 3057 3058 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting 3059 3060 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3061 3062 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 3063 3064 noexec [IA-64] 3065 3066 noexec [X86] 3067 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels. 3068 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3069 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings 3070 3071 nosmap [X86,PPC] 3072 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 3073 even if it is supported by processor. 3074 3075 nosmep [X86,PPC] 3076 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 3077 even if it is supported by processor. 3078 3079 noexec32 [X86-64] 3080 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3081 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3082 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3083 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3084 read implies executable mappings 3085 3086 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3087 3088 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3089 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3090 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3091 3092 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86,PPC] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3093 3094 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3095 Equivalent to smt=1. 3096 3097 [KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3098 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 3099 via the sysfs control file. 3100 3101 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 3102 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 3103 possible in the system. 3104 3105 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 3106 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 3107 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 3108 option. 3109 3110 nospec_store_bypass_disable 3111 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 3112 3113 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 3114 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 3115 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 3116 3117 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 3118 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 3119 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 3120 performance of saving the states is degraded because 3121 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 3122 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 3123 3124 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 3125 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 3126 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 3127 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 3128 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 3129 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 3130 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 3131 3132 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or 3133 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to 3134 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger. 3135 3136 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3137 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3138 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3139 3140 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3141 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3142 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3143 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3144 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3145 real-time systems. 3146 3147 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3148 3149 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3150 Valid arguments: on, off 3151 Default: on 3152 3153 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3154 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3155 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3156 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3157 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3158 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3159 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3160 just as if they had also been called out in the 3161 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3162 3163 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3164 3165 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3166 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3167 3168 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 3169 broken timer IRQ sources. 3170 3171 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3172 3173 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3174 initial RAM disk. 3175 3176 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3177 remapping. 3178 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3179 3180 nointroute [IA-64] 3181 3182 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3183 3184 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3185 3186 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3187 3188 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3189 fault handling. 3190 3191 no-vmw-sched-clock 3192 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 3193 clock and use the default one. 3194 3195 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time 3196 accounting. steal time is computed, but won't 3197 influence scheduler behaviour 3198 3199 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3200 3201 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3202 3203 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel 3204 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx 3205 3206 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3207 3208 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3209 3210 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3211 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3212 3213 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3214 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3215 irq. 3216 3217 nomodule Disable module load 3218 3219 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3220 pagetables) support. 3221 3222 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3223 3224 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3225 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3226 3227 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3228 with UP alternatives 3229 3230 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and 3231 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported 3232 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still 3233 available to user space applications. 3234 3235 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3236 space. 3237 3238 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3239 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3240 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3241 3242 nosbagart [IA-64] 3243 3244 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. 3245 3246 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3247 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3248 3249 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3250 3251 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 3252 3253 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 3254 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 3255 3256 nowb [ARM] 3257 3258 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 3259 3260 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 3261 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 3262 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 3263 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 3264 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 3265 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 3266 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 3267 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 3268 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 3269 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 3270 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 3271 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 3272 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 3273 3274 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 3275 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 3276 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 3277 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 3278 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 3279 parameter's value. 3280 Format: integer between 1 and 255 3281 Default: 255 3282 3283 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 3284 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 3285 SAL PALO. 3286 3287 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3288 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 3289 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 3290 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 3291 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 3292 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 3293 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 3294 hot plugging. 3295 3296 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 3297 3298 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing. 3299 Allowed values are enable and disable 3300 3301 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 3302 'node', 'default' can be specified 3303 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 3304 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 3305 3306 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 3307 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more 3308 info. 3309 3310 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 3311 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 3312 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 3313 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 3314 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 3315 interrupts *may* be lost! 3316 3317 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 3318 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 3319 For example, to override I2C bus2: 3320 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 3321 3322 oprofile.timer= [HW] 3323 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters 3324 3325 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type 3326 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile 3327 userland or if you want common events. 3328 Format: { arch_perfmon } 3329 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural 3330 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the 3331 CPU specific event set. 3332 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI 3333 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer 3334 for generic hr timer mode) 3335 3336 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 3337 process, but there is a small probability of 3338 deadlocking the machine. 3339 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 3340 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 3341 3342 page_alloc.shuffle= 3343 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 3344 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 3345 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 3346 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 3347 cache, and this parameter can be used to 3348 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 3349 can be read from sysfs at: 3350 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 3351 3352 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 3353 Storage of the information about who allocated 3354 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 3355 we can turn it on. 3356 on: enable the feature 3357 3358 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 3359 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 3360 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 3361 off: turn off poisoning (default) 3362 on: turn on poisoning 3363 3364 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 3365 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 3366 timeout = 0: wait forever 3367 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 3368 Format: <timeout> 3369 3370 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 3371 User can chose combination of the following bits: 3372 bit 0: print all tasks info 3373 bit 1: print system memory info 3374 bit 2: print timer info 3375 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 3376 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 3377 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 3378 3379 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 3380 on a WARN(). 3381 3382 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 3383 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 3384 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 3385 succeeds in any situation. 3386 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 3387 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 3388 kernel more unstable. 3389 3390 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 3391 connected to, default is 0. 3392 Format: <parport#> 3393 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 3394 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 3395 Format: <mode> 3396 3397 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 3398 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 3399 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 3400 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 3401 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 3402 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 3403 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 3404 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 3405 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 3406 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 3407 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 3408 are specified on the command line, starting 3409 with parport0. 3410 3411 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 3412 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 3413 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 3414 computer where firmware has no options for setting 3415 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 3416 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 3417 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 3418 3419 pause_on_oops= 3420 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 3421 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 3422 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 3423 3424 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 3425 3426 pcd. [PARIDE] 3427 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 3428 See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3429 3430 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 3431 3432 Some options herein operate on a specific device 3433 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 3434 specified in one of the following formats: 3435 3436 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 3437 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 3438 3439 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 3440 bus/device/function address which may change 3441 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 3442 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 3443 by other kernel parameters. If the 3444 domain is left unspecified, it is 3445 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 3446 to a device through multiple device/function 3447 addresses can be specified after the base 3448 address (this is more robust against 3449 renumbering issues). The second format 3450 selects devices using IDs from the 3451 configuration space which may match multiple 3452 devices in the system. 3453 3454 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 3455 changes anything 3456 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 3457 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 3458 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 3459 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 3460 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 3461 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 3462 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 3463 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 3464 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3465 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 3466 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 3467 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3468 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 3469 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 3470 bus number. The config space is then accessed 3471 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 3472 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 3473 on the configuration access mechanisms. 3474 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 3475 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3476 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 3477 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 3478 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 3479 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 3480 Configuration 3481 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 3482 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 3483 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 3484 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 3485 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3486 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 3487 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 3488 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 3489 should never be necessary. 3490 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 3491 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 3492 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 3493 when the system masks IRQs. 3494 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 3495 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 3496 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 3497 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 3498 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 3499 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 3500 on several machines and they hang the machine 3501 when used, but on other computers it's the only 3502 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 3503 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 3504 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 3505 motherboard. 3506 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 3507 Use with caution as certain devices share 3508 address decoders between ROMs and other 3509 resources. 3510 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 3511 expansion ROMs that do not already have 3512 BIOS assigned address ranges. 3513 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 3514 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 3515 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 3516 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 3517 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 3518 this way. 3519 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 3520 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 3521 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 3522 F0000h-100000h range. 3523 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 3524 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 3525 secondary buses and you want to tell it 3526 explicitly which ones they are. 3527 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 3528 numbers ourselves, overriding 3529 whatever the firmware may have done. 3530 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 3531 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 3532 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 3533 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 3534 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 3535 IRQ routing is enabled. 3536 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 3537 or for PCI scanning. 3538 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 3539 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 3540 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 3541 please report a bug. 3542 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 3543 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 3544 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 3545 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 3546 so this option is a temporary workaround 3547 for broken drivers that don't call it. 3548 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 3549 handle more pci cards 3550 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 3551 This might help on some broken boards which 3552 machine check when some devices' config space 3553 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 3554 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 3555 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3556 This sorting is done to get a device 3557 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 3558 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3559 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 3560 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 3561 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 3562 supported by all devices below the root complex. 3563 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 3564 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 3565 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 3566 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 3567 or bus can support) for best performance. 3568 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 3569 every device is guaranteed to support. This 3570 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 3571 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 3572 reduced performance. This also guarantees 3573 that hot-added devices will work. 3574 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3575 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 3576 The default value is 256 bytes. 3577 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3578 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 3579 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 3580 resource_alignment= 3581 Format: 3582 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 3583 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 3584 aligned memory resources. How to 3585 specify the device is described above. 3586 If <order of align> is not specified, 3587 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 3588 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 3589 windows need to be expanded. 3590 To specify the alignment for several 3591 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 3592 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 3593 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 3594 for 4096-byte alignment. 3595 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 3596 end-to-end CRC checking). 3597 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 3598 the default. 3599 off: Turn ECRC off 3600 on: Turn ECRC on. 3601 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3602 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 3603 Default size is 256 bytes. 3604 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3605 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 3606 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3607 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3608 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 3609 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3610 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3611 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 3612 MMIO_PREF window. 3613 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3614 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 3615 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 3616 Default is 1. 3617 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 3618 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 3619 accommodate resources required by all child 3620 devices. 3621 off: Turn realloc off 3622 on: Turn realloc on 3623 realloc same as realloc=on 3624 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 3625 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 3626 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 3627 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 3628 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 3629 port. 3630 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 3631 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 3632 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 3633 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 3634 conflict with unreported devices), so this 3635 taints the kernel. 3636 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 3637 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 3638 specified above) separated by semicolons. 3639 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 3640 redirect capabilities forced off which will 3641 allow P2P traffic between devices through 3642 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 3643 this removes isolation between devices and 3644 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 3645 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 3646 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 3647 3648 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 3649 Management. 3650 off Disable ASPM. 3651 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 3652 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 3653 3654 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 3655 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 3656 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 3657 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 3658 also tries to use these services. 3659 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 3660 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 3661 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 3662 hotplug). 3663 3664 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 3665 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 3666 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 3667 3668 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 3669 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 3670 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 3671 3672 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 3673 3674 pd_ignore_unused 3675 [PM] 3676 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 3677 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 3678 for debug and development, but should not be 3679 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 3680 3681 pd. [PARIDE] 3682 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3683 3684 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 3685 boot time. 3686 Format: { 0 | 1 } 3687 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 3688 3689 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 3690 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 3691 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 3692 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 3693 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 3694 and performance comparison. 3695 3696 pf. [PARIDE] 3697 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3698 3699 pg. [PARIDE] 3700 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3701 3702 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 3703 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 3704 3705 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 3706 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 3707 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 3708 3709 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 3710 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 3711 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 3712 3713 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 3714 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 3715 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 3716 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 3717 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 3718 possible settings and some assignment information. 3719 3720 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 3721 { off } 3722 3723 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 3724 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 3725 3726 pnp_reserve_irq= 3727 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 3728 3729 pnp_reserve_dma= 3730 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 3731 3732 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 3733 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 3734 3735 pnp_reserve_mem= 3736 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 3737 autoconfiguration. 3738 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 3739 3740 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 3741 Default is 21. 3742 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 3743 may be specified. 3744 Format: <port>,<port>.... 3745 3746 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 3747 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 3748 platform machine description specific power_save 3749 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 3750 execution priority. 3751 3752 ppc_strict_facility_enable 3753 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 3754 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 3755 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 3756 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 3757 3758 ppc_tm= [PPC] 3759 Format: {"off"} 3760 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 3761 3762 print-fatal-signals= 3763 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 3764 3765 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 3766 related application anomalies: too many signals, 3767 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 3768 coredump - etc. 3769 3770 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 3771 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 3772 3773 default: off. 3774 3775 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 3776 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 3777 panics 3778 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3779 default: disabled 3780 3781 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 3782 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 3783 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 3784 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 3785 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 3786 Default: ratelimit 3787 3788 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 3789 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3790 3791 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 3792 Limit processor to maximum C-state 3793 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 3794 3795 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 3796 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 3797 instead using the legacy FADT method 3798 3799 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 3800 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 3801 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 3802 [defaults to kernel profiling] 3803 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 3804 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 3805 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 3806 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 3807 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 3808 statistical time based profiling. 3809 3810 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk 3811 before loading. 3812 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 3813 3814 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 3815 tracking. 3816 Format: <bool> 3817 3818 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 3819 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 3820 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 3821 per second. 3822 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 3823 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 3824 (0 = never). 3825 psmouse.resolution= 3826 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 3827 psmouse.smartscroll= 3828 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 3829 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 3830 3831 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 3832 3833 pt. [PARIDE] 3834 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3835 3836 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 3837 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 3838 removes hardening, but improves performance of 3839 system calls and interrupts. 3840 3841 on - unconditionally enable 3842 off - unconditionally disable 3843 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 3844 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 3845 3846 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 3847 3848 nopti [X86_64] 3849 Equivalent to pti=off 3850 3851 pty.legacy_count= 3852 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 3853 default number. 3854 3855 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 3856 3857 r128= [HW,DRM] 3858 3859 raid= [HW,RAID] 3860 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 3861 3862 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 3863 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 3864 3865 random.trust_cpu={on,off} 3866 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the 3867 CPU's random number generator (if available) to 3868 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 3869 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU. 3870 3871 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 3872 3873 cec_disable [X86] 3874 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 3875 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 3876 3877 rcu_nocbs= [KNL] 3878 The argument is a cpu list, as described above, 3879 except that the string "all" can be used to 3880 specify every CPU on the system. 3881 3882 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set 3883 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs. 3884 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be 3885 offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that 3886 purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and 3887 "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number. 3888 This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs, 3889 which can be useful for HPC and real-time 3890 workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency 3891 for asymmetric multiprocessors. 3892 3893 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 3894 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 3895 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 3896 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 3897 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 3898 This improves the real-time response for the 3899 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 3900 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 3901 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 3902 periodically wake up to do the polling. 3903 3904 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 3905 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 3906 process in one batch. 3907 3908 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 3909 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 3910 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 3911 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 3912 3913 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 3914 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3915 RCU grace-period cleanup. 3916 3917 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 3918 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3919 RCU grace-period initialization. 3920 3921 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 3922 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3923 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 3924 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 3925 the rcu_node combining tree. 3926 3927 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 3928 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 3929 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 3930 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 3931 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 3932 3933 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 3934 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 3935 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 3936 possibly be useful for architectures having high 3937 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 3938 3939 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 3940 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 3941 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 3942 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 3943 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 3944 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 3945 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 3946 3947 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 3948 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 3949 first attempt to force quiescent states. 3950 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 3951 and maximum value is HZ. 3952 3953 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 3954 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 3955 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 3956 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 3957 3958 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 3959 Set required age in jiffies for a 3960 given grace period before RCU starts 3961 soliciting quiescent-state help from 3962 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 3963 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 3964 a value based on the most recent settings 3965 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 3966 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 3967 This calculated value may be viewed in 3968 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 3969 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 3970 overwritten. 3971 3972 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 3973 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 3974 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 3975 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 3976 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 3977 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 3978 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 3979 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 3980 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 3981 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 3982 3983 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 3984 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 3985 each group, which defaults to the square root 3986 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 3987 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 3988 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 3989 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 3990 3991 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 3992 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 3993 batch limiting is disabled. 3994 3995 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 3996 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 3997 batch limiting is re-enabled. 3998 3999 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL] 4000 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 4001 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 4002 4003 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL] 4004 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 4005 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 4006 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can 4007 prove do nothing more than free memory. 4008 4009 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 4010 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 4011 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 4012 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 4013 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 4014 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 4015 4016 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 4017 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 4018 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 4019 why a new grace period has not yet started. 4020 4021 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL] 4022 Measure performance of asynchronous 4023 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 4024 4025 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL] 4026 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 4027 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 4028 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 4029 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 4030 previously posted callbacks to drain. 4031 4032 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL] 4033 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 4034 grace-period primitives. 4035 4036 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL] 4037 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4038 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4039 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4040 interference. 4041 4042 rcuperf.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 4043 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 4044 4045 rcuperf.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 4046 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 4047 4048 rcuperf.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 4049 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 4050 4051 rcuperf.kfree_loops= [KNL] 4052 Number of loops doing rcuperf.kfree_alloc_num number 4053 of allocations and frees. 4054 4055 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL] 4056 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4057 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4058 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 4059 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4060 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4061 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 4062 a single reader. 4063 4064 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL] 4065 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 4066 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders. 4067 N, where N is the number of CPUs 4068 4069 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL] 4070 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4071 4072 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL] 4073 Shut the system down after performance tests 4074 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 4075 testing. 4076 4077 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL] 4078 Enable additional printk() statements. 4079 4080 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 4081 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 4082 in microseconds. The default of zero says 4083 no holdoff. 4084 4085 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 4086 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 4087 in microseconds. 4088 4089 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 4090 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 4091 in microseconds. 4092 4093 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 4094 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 4095 in seconds. 4096 4097 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 4098 Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 4099 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 4100 4101 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 4102 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 4103 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 4104 4105 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 4106 Number of seconds to wait between successive 4107 forward-progress tests. 4108 4109 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 4110 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 4111 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 4112 testing. 4113 4114 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 4115 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 4116 primitives, if available. 4117 4118 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 4119 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 4120 4121 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 4122 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 4123 update-side primitives, if available. 4124 4125 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 4126 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 4127 update-side primitives, if available. If all 4128 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 4129 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 4130 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 4131 they are all non-zero. 4132 4133 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 4134 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 4135 4136 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 4137 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 4138 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 4139 test, hence the "fake". 4140 4141 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 4142 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4143 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4144 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 4145 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4146 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4147 4148 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 4149 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 4150 4151 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 4152 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 4153 4154 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 4155 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 4156 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 4157 4158 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 4159 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 4160 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 4161 during the rcutorture test. 4162 4163 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 4164 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 4165 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 4166 4167 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 4168 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 4169 warnings, zero to disable. 4170 4171 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 4172 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 4173 4174 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 4175 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 4176 4177 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 4178 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 4179 4180 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 4181 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 4182 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 4183 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 4184 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 4185 4186 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 4187 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 4188 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 4189 under test support RCU priority boosting. 4190 4191 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 4192 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 4193 4194 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 4195 Interval (s) between each boost test. 4196 4197 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 4198 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 4199 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 4200 4201 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 4202 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4203 4204 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 4205 Enable additional printk() statements. 4206 4207 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 4208 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 4209 stall warning. 4210 4211 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 4212 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4213 4214 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4215 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4216 4217 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 4218 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 4219 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 4220 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 4221 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 4222 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 4223 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4224 4225 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 4226 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 4227 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 4228 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 4229 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 4230 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 4231 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 4232 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 4233 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4234 4235 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 4236 Once boot has completed (that is, after 4237 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 4238 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 4239 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4240 4241 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4242 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning 4243 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal 4244 to zero. 4245 4246 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 4247 Run the RCU early boot self tests 4248 4249 rdinit= [KNL] 4250 Format: <full_path> 4251 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 4252 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 4253 4254 rdrand= [X86] 4255 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 4256 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 4257 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 4258 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 4259 path). 4260 4261 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 4262 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 4263 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 4264 mba. 4265 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 4266 rdt=cmt,!mba 4267 4268 reboot= [KNL] 4269 Format (x86 or x86_64): 4270 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \ 4271 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 4272 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 4273 [[,]f[orce] 4274 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 4275 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 4276 reboot only), 4277 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 4278 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 4279 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 4280 to be used for rebooting. 4281 4282 relax_domain_level= 4283 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 4284 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 4285 4286 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 4287 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 4288 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 4289 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 4290 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 4291 4292 reservetop= [X86-32] 4293 Format: nn[KMG] 4294 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 4295 address space. 4296 4297 reservelow= [X86] 4298 Format: nn[K] 4299 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at 4300 the bottom of the address space. 4301 4302 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 4303 during initialization. 4304 4305 resume= [SWSUSP] 4306 Specify the partition device for software suspend 4307 Format: 4308 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 4309 4310 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 4311 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 4312 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 4313 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 4314 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 4315 4316 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4317 read the resume files 4318 4319 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 4320 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4321 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4322 4323 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 4324 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 4325 present during boot. 4326 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 4327 no Disable hibernation and resume. 4328 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 4329 (that will set all pages holding image data 4330 during restoration read-only). 4331 4332 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 4333 4334 rfkill.default_state= 4335 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 4336 etc. communication is blocked by default. 4337 1 Unblocked. 4338 4339 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 4340 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 4341 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 4342 blocked and the previous configuration. 4343 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 4344 blocked and everything unblocked. 4345 4346 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4347 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 4348 4349 ring3mwait=disable 4350 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 4351 CPUs. 4352 4353 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 4354 4355 rodata= [KNL] 4356 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 4357 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 4358 4359 rockchip.usb_uart 4360 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 4361 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 4362 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 4363 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 4364 4365 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 4366 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 4367 4368 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4369 mount the root filesystem 4370 4371 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 4372 4373 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 4374 4375 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 4376 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4377 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4378 4379 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 4380 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 4381 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 4382 managed by CMA. 4383 4384 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 4385 4386 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 4387 4388 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 4389 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 4390 strict 4391 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 4392 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 4393 which is faster. 4394 4395 sa1100ir [NET] 4396 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 4397 4398 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter 4399 4400 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 4401 4402 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 4403 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 4404 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 4405 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 4406 4407 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 4408 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 4409 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 4410 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4411 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 4412 1 -- enable. 4413 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 4414 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 4415 4416 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 4417 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 4418 "lsm=" parameter. 4419 4420 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 4421 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4422 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 4423 0 -- disable. 4424 1 -- enable. 4425 Default value is 1. 4426 4427 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 4428 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4429 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 4430 0 -- disable. 4431 1 -- enable. 4432 Default value is set via kernel config option. 4433 4434 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 4435 4436 shapers= [NET] 4437 Maximal number of shapers. 4438 4439 simeth= [IA-64] 4440 simscsi= 4441 4442 slram= [HW,MTD] 4443 4444 slab_nomerge [MM] 4445 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 4446 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 4447 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 4448 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 4449 layout control by attackers can usually be 4450 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 4451 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 4452 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 4453 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 4454 own. 4455 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4456 4457 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 4458 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 4459 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 4460 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 4461 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 4462 4463 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB] 4464 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 4465 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 4466 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 4467 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 4468 last alloc / free. For more information see 4469 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4470 4471 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB] 4472 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for 4473 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable. 4474 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON. 4475 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug 4476 directories and files being created under 4477 /sys/kernel/slub. 4478 4479 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 4480 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 4481 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 4482 fragmentation. For more information see 4483 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4484 4485 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 4486 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 4487 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 4488 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 4489 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 4490 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 4491 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 4492 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4493 4494 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 4495 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 4496 lower than slub_max_order. 4497 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4498 4499 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 4500 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 4501 See slab_nomerge for more information. 4502 4503 smart2= [HW] 4504 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 4505 4506 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 4507 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 4508 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 4509 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 4510 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 4511 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 4512 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 4513 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 4514 1: Fast pin select (default) 4515 2: ATC IRMode 4516 4517 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 4518 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 4519 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 4520 actual hardware limit. 4521 Format: <integer> 4522 Default: -1 (no limit) 4523 4524 softlockup_panic= 4525 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 4526 Format: <integer> 4527 4528 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector 4529 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This 4530 is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 4531 which is the respective build-time switch to that 4532 functionality. 4533 4534 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 4535 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 4536 backtraces on all cpus. 4537 Format: <integer> 4538 4539 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 4540 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 4541 4542 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 4543 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 4544 The default operation protects the kernel from 4545 user space attacks. 4546 4547 on - unconditionally enable, implies 4548 spectre_v2_user=on 4549 off - unconditionally disable, implies 4550 spectre_v2_user=off 4551 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4552 vulnerable 4553 4554 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 4555 mitigation method at run time according to the 4556 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 4557 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 4558 compiler with which the kernel was built. 4559 4560 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 4561 against user space to user space task attacks. 4562 4563 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 4564 the user space protections. 4565 4566 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 4567 4568 retpoline - replace indirect branches 4569 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline 4570 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk 4571 4572 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4573 spectre_v2=auto. 4574 4575 spectre_v2_user= 4576 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 4577 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 4578 user space tasks 4579 4580 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 4581 enforced by spectre_v2=on 4582 4583 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 4584 enforced by spectre_v2=off 4585 4586 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 4587 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 4588 per thread. The mitigation control state 4589 is inherited on fork. 4590 4591 prctl,ibpb 4592 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 4593 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 4594 always when switching between different user 4595 space processes. 4596 4597 seccomp 4598 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 4599 threads will enable the mitigation unless 4600 they explicitly opt out. 4601 4602 seccomp,ibpb 4603 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 4604 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 4605 always when switching between different 4606 user space processes. 4607 4608 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 4609 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 4610 4611 Default mitigation: 4612 If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 4613 4614 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4615 spectre_v2_user=auto. 4616 4617 spec_store_bypass_disable= 4618 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 4619 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 4620 4621 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 4622 a common industry wide performance optimization known 4623 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 4624 to the same memory location may not be observed by 4625 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 4626 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 4627 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 4628 end of a particular speculation execution window. 4629 4630 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 4631 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 4632 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 4633 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 4634 4635 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 4636 Bypass optimization is used. 4637 4638 On x86 the options are: 4639 4640 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 4641 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 4642 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 4643 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 4644 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 4645 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 4646 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 4647 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 4648 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 4649 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 4650 for a process by default. The state of the control 4651 is inherited on fork. 4652 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 4653 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 4654 4655 Default mitigations: 4656 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 4657 4658 On powerpc the options are: 4659 4660 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 4661 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 4662 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 4663 exit. 4664 off - No action. 4665 4666 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4667 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 4668 4669 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 4670 spia_fio_base= 4671 spia_pedr= 4672 spia_peddr= 4673 4674 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 4675 Specifies how frequently to check for 4676 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 4677 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 4678 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 4679 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 4680 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 4681 are ignored. 4682 4683 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 4684 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 4685 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 4686 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 4687 grace period will be considered for automatic 4688 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 4689 expediting. 4690 4691 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 4692 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 4693 4694 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 4695 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 4696 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 4697 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 4698 4699 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 4700 for both kernel and userspace 4701 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 4702 for both kernel and userspace 4703 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 4704 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 4705 to allow userspace to register its 4706 interest in being mitigated too. 4707 4708 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 4709 override the default stack gap protection. The value 4710 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 4711 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 4712 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 4713 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 4714 4715 stacktrace [FTRACE] 4716 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 4717 4718 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 4719 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 4720 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 4721 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 4722 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 4723 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 4724 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 4725 4726 sti= [PARISC,HW] 4727 Format: <num> 4728 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 4729 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 4730 as the initial boot-console. 4731 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 4732 4733 sti_font= [HW] 4734 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 4735 4736 stifb= [HW] 4737 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 4738 4739 sunrpc.min_resvport= 4740 sunrpc.max_resvport= 4741 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4742 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 4743 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 4744 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 4745 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 4746 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 4747 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 4748 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 4749 maximum port values. 4750 4751 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 4752 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4753 Limit the number of requests that the server will 4754 process in parallel from a single connection. 4755 The default value is 0 (no limit). 4756 4757 sunrpc.pool_mode= 4758 [NFS] 4759 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 4760 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 4761 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 4762 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 4763 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 4764 NFS server is running. 4765 4766 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 4767 automatically using heuristics 4768 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 4769 percpu one pool for each CPU 4770 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 4771 to global on non-NUMA machines) 4772 4773 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 4774 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 4775 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4776 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 4777 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 4778 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 4779 improve throughput, but will also increase the 4780 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 4781 4782 suspend.pm_test_delay= 4783 [SUSPEND] 4784 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 4785 mode before resuming the system (see 4786 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 4787 is set. Default value is 5. 4788 4789 svm= [PPC] 4790 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 4791 This parameter controls use of the Protected 4792 Execution Facility on pSeries. 4793 4794 swapaccount=[0|1] 4795 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 4796 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 4797 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst) 4798 4799 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 4800 Format: { <int> | force | noforce } 4801 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 4802 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 4803 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 4804 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 4805 4806 switches= [HW,M68k] 4807 4808 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 4809 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 4810 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 4811 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 4812 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 4813 in older udev will not work anymore. 4814 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 4815 the kernel configuration. 4816 4817 sysrq_always_enabled 4818 [KNL] 4819 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 4820 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 4821 Useful for debugging. 4822 4823 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4824 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 4825 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 4826 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 4827 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt 4828 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 4829 4830 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 4831 4832 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N] 4833 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 4834 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 4835 as the system sleep state during system startup with 4836 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 4837 The system is woken from this state using a 4838 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 4839 4840 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4841 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 4842 4843 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 4844 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 4845 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 4846 4847 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 4848 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 4849 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 4850 4851 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 4852 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 4853 critical and hot trip points. 4854 4855 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 4856 1: disable ACPI thermal control 4857 4858 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 4859 -1: disable all passive trip points 4860 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 4861 value 4862 4863 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 4864 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 4865 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 4866 0: no polling (default) 4867 4868 threadirqs [KNL] 4869 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 4870 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 4871 4872 topology= [S390] 4873 Format: {off | on} 4874 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 4875 topology information if the hardware supports this. 4876 The scheduler will make use of this information and 4877 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 4878 Default is on. 4879 4880 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 4881 Format: {off} 4882 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 4883 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 4884 LPAR. 4885 4886 tp720= [HW,PS2] 4887 4888 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 4889 Format: integer pcr id 4890 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 4891 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 4892 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 4893 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 4894 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 4895 are saved. 4896 4897 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 4898 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 4899 4900 trace_event=[event-list] 4901 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 4902 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 4903 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See 4904 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 4905 4906 trace_options=[option-list] 4907 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 4908 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 4909 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 4910 to echo the option name into 4911 4912 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 4913 4914 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 4915 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 4916 4917 trace_options=stacktrace 4918 4919 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 4920 section. 4921 4922 tp_printk[FTRACE] 4923 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 4924 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 4925 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 4926 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 4927 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 4928 4929 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 4930 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 4931 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 4932 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 4933 4934 ** CAUTION ** 4935 4936 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 4937 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 4938 the system to live lock. 4939 4940 traceoff_on_warning 4941 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 4942 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 4943 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 4944 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 4945 4946 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 4947 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 4948 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 4949 4950 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 4951 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 4952 4953 transparent_hugepage= 4954 [KNL] 4955 Format: [always|madvise|never] 4956 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 4957 with respect to transparent hugepages. 4958 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 4959 for more details. 4960 4961 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 4962 Format: <string> 4963 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 4964 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 4965 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 4966 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 4967 virtualized environment. 4968 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 4969 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 4970 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 4971 can add overhead. 4972 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 4973 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 4974 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 4975 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 4976 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 4977 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 4978 acceptable). 4979 4980 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 4981 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 4982 support TSX control. 4983 4984 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 4985 4986 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 4987 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 4988 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 4989 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 4990 so there may be unknown security risks associated 4991 with leaving it enabled. 4992 4993 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 4994 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 4995 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 4996 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 4997 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 4998 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 4999 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 5000 5001 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 5002 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 5003 5004 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 5005 5006 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 5007 for more details. 5008 5009 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 5010 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 5011 5012 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 5013 certain CPUs that support Transactional 5014 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 5015 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 5016 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 5017 conditions. 5018 5019 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 5020 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 5021 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 5022 access. 5023 5024 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 5025 options are: 5026 5027 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 5028 if TSX is enabled. 5029 5030 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 5031 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 5032 is not disabled because CPU is not 5033 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 5034 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 5035 5036 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 5037 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 5038 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 5039 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 5040 5041 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5042 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 5043 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 5044 required and doesn't provide any additional 5045 mitigation. 5046 5047 For details see: 5048 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 5049 5050 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 5051 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 5052 Format: 5053 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 5054 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 5055 5056 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 5057 happen after console_init() and before a proper 5058 console driver takes over, this boot options might 5059 help "seeing" what's going on. 5060 5061 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5062 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 5063 5064 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 5065 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 5066 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 5067 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 5068 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 5069 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 5070 reported either. 5071 5072 unknown_nmi_panic 5073 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 5074 5075 usbcore.authorized_default= 5076 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 5077 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 5078 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 5079 if device connected to internal port) 5080 5081 usbcore.autosuspend= 5082 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 5083 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 5084 is the time required before an idle device will be 5085 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 5086 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 5087 5088 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 5089 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 5090 5091 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 5092 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 5093 (default = 65536). 5094 5095 usbcore.blinkenlights= 5096 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 5097 5098 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 5099 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 5100 scheme, applies only to low and full-speed devices 5101 (default 0 = off). 5102 5103 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 5104 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 5105 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 5106 5107 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 5108 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 5109 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 5110 5111 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 5112 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 5113 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 5114 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 5115 5116 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 5117 5118 usbcore.quirks= 5119 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 5120 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 5121 commas. Each entry has the form 5122 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 5123 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 5124 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 5125 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 5126 the following meanings: 5127 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 5128 descriptors must not be fetched using 5129 a 255-byte read); 5130 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 5131 correctly so reset it instead); 5132 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 5133 Set-Interface requests); 5134 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 5135 handle its Configuration or Interface 5136 strings); 5137 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 5138 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 5139 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 5140 more interface descriptions than the 5141 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 5142 talking to these interfaces); 5143 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 5144 during initialization, after we read 5145 the device descriptor); 5146 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 5147 high speed and super speed interrupt 5148 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 5149 require the interval in microframes (1 5150 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 5151 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 5152 (bInterval-1). 5153 Devices with this quirk report their 5154 bInterval as the result of this 5155 calculation instead of the exponent 5156 variable used in the calculation); 5157 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 5158 handle device_qualifier descriptor 5159 requests); 5160 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 5161 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 5162 remote wakeup capability); 5163 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 5164 Power Management); 5165 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 5166 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 5167 frames instead of the USB 2.0 5168 calculation); 5169 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 5170 to be disconnected before suspend to 5171 prevent spurious wakeup); 5172 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 5173 pause after every control message); 5174 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 5175 delay after resetting its port); 5176 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 5177 5178 usbhid.mousepoll= 5179 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 5180 5181 usbhid.jspoll= 5182 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 5183 5184 usbhid.kbpoll= 5185 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 5186 5187 usb-storage.delay_use= 5188 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 5189 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 5190 5191 usb-storage.quirks= 5192 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 5193 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 5194 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 5195 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 5196 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 5197 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 5198 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 5199 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 5200 of sense data, not on uas); 5201 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 5202 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 5203 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 5204 device capacity by one sector); 5205 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 5206 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 5207 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 5208 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 5209 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 5210 command, uas only); 5211 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 5212 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 5213 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 5214 reported device capacity by one 5215 sector if the number is odd); 5216 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 5217 device); 5218 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 5219 command, uas only); 5220 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 5221 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 5222 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 5223 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 5224 not on uas); 5225 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 5226 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 5227 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 5228 reported by the device, not on uas); 5229 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 5230 by default, not on uas); 5231 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 5232 bogus residue values, not on uas); 5233 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 5234 Logical Unit); 5235 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 5236 commands, uas only); 5237 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 5238 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 5239 medium is write-protected). 5240 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 5241 even if the device claims no cache, 5242 not on uas) 5243 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 5244 5245 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 5246 Format: <int> 5247 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 5248 1 - undefined instruction events 5249 2 - system calls 5250 4 - invalid data aborts 5251 8 - SIGSEGV faults 5252 16 - SIGBUS faults 5253 Example: user_debug=31 5254 5255 userpte= 5256 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 5257 5258 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 5259 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 5260 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 5261 5262 vdso= [X86,SH] 5263 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 5264 5265 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 5266 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 5267 5268 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 5269 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 5270 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 5271 5272 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 5273 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 5274 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 5275 5276 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 5277 alias for vdso32=0. 5278 5279 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 5280 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 5281 5282 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 5283 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 5284 5285 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 5286 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 5287 5288 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1] 5289 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 5290 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 5291 level and then send out the event to user space through 5292 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver 5293 will only send out the event without touching backlight 5294 brightness level. 5295 default: 1 5296 5297 virtio_mmio.device= 5298 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 5299 5300 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 5301 where: 5302 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 5303 like K, M and G) 5304 <baseaddr> := physical base address 5305 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 5306 request_irq()) 5307 <id> := (optional) platform device id 5308 example: 5309 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 5310 5311 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 5312 5313 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 5314 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and 5315 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 5316 Use vga=ask for menu. 5317 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 5318 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 5319 5320 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 5321 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 5322 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 5323 All options are enabled by default, and this 5324 interface is meant to allow for selectively 5325 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 5326 debugging features. 5327 5328 Available options are: 5329 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 5330 - Disable all of the above options 5331 5332 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 5333 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 5334 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 5335 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 5336 mapped kernel RAM. 5337 5338 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 5339 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 5340 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 5341 5342 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 5343 Format: <command> 5344 5345 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 5346 Format: <command> 5347 5348 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 5349 Format: <command> 5350 5351 vsyscall= [X86-64] 5352 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 5353 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 5354 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 5355 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 5356 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 5357 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 5358 5359 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 5360 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 5361 page is readable. 5362 5363 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 5364 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 5365 page is not readable. 5366 5367 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 5368 them quite hard to use for exploits but 5369 might break your system. 5370 5371 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 5372 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 5373 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 5374 5375 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 5376 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 5377 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 5378 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 5379 5380 vt.default_blu= [VT] 5381 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 5382 Change the default blue palette of the console. 5383 This is a 16-member array composed of values 5384 ranging from 0-255. 5385 5386 vt.default_grn= [VT] 5387 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 5388 Change the default green palette of the console. 5389 This is a 16-member array composed of values 5390 ranging from 0-255. 5391 5392 vt.default_red= [VT] 5393 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 5394 Change the default red palette of the console. 5395 This is a 16-member array composed of values 5396 ranging from 0-255. 5397 5398 vt.default_utf8= 5399 [VT] 5400 Format=<0|1> 5401 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 5402 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 5403 newly opened terminals. 5404 5405 vt.global_cursor_default= 5406 [VT] 5407 Format=<-1|0|1> 5408 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 5409 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 5410 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 5411 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 5412 cursors, 1 will display them. 5413 5414 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 5415 Default: 2 = green. 5416 5417 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 5418 Default: 3 = cyan. 5419 5420 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 5421 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 5422 or other driver-specific files in the 5423 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 5424 5425 watchdog_thresh= 5426 [KNL] 5427 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 5428 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 5429 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 5430 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 5431 seconds. 5432 5433 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 5434 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 5435 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 5436 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 5437 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 5438 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 5439 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 5440 corresponding sysfs file. 5441 5442 workqueue.disable_numa 5443 By default, all work items queued to unbound 5444 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 5445 issued on, which results in better behavior in 5446 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 5447 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 5448 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 5449 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 5450 5451 workqueue.power_efficient 5452 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 5453 they show better performance thanks to cache 5454 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 5455 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 5456 5457 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 5458 were observed to contribute significantly to power 5459 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 5460 power usage at the cost of small performance 5461 overhead. 5462 5463 The default value of this parameter is determined by 5464 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 5465 5466 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 5467 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 5468 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 5469 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 5470 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 5471 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 5472 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 5473 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 5474 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 5475 impacted. 5476 5477 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 5478 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 5479 supporting x2apic. 5480 5481 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT] 5482 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform. 5483 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer 5484 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer. 5485 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt 5486 5487 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 5488 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 5489 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 5490 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 5491 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 5492 domains. 5493 5494 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 5495 Unplug Xen emulated devices 5496 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 5497 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 5498 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 5499 nics -- unplug network devices 5500 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 5501 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 5502 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 5503 the unplug protocol 5504 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 5505 5506 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN] 5507 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 5508 panic() code such as dumping handler. 5509 5510 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 5511 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV 5512 optimizations. 5513 5514 xen_nopv [X86] 5515 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 5516 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 5517 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 5518 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 5519 5520 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 5521 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 5522 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 5523 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 5524 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 5525 5526 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 5527 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 5528 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 5529 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 5530 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 5531 more timer interrupts. 5532 5533 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] 5534 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 5535 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 5536 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 5537 5538 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 5539 Format: 5540 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 5541 5542 xive= [PPC] 5543 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 5544 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 5545 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 5546 5547 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 5548 controller on both pseries and powernv 5549 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 5550 5551 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 5552 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 5553 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 5554 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 5555 5556 xmon [PPC] 5557 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 5558 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 5559 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 5560 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 5561 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 5562 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 5563 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 5564 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 5565 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 5566 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 5567 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 5568 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 5569 can be written using xmon commands. 5570 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 5571 memory, and other data can't be written using 5572 xmon commands. 5573 off xmon is disabled. 5574