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  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. See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
  16. acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
  17. Format: <int>
  18. 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
  19. 1,0: use 1st APIC table
  20. default: 0
  21. acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
  22. acpi_backlight=vendor
  23. acpi_backlight=video
  24. If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
  25. (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
  26. of the ACPI video.ko driver.
  27. acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
  28. force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
  29. 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
  30. bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
  31. the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
  32. acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
  33. Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
  34. This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
  35. the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
  36. This option is useful for developers to identify the
  37. root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
  38. has something to do with the repair mechanism.
  39. acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
  40. acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
  41. Format: <int>
  42. CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
  43. debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
  44. _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
  45. #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
  46. Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
  47. ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
  48. ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
  49. The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
  50. Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
  51. debug layers and levels.
  52. Enable processor driver info messages:
  53. acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
  54. Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
  55. acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
  56. Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
  57. object while interpreting AML:
  58. acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
  59. Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
  60. acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
  61. Some values produce so much output that the system is
  62. unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
  63. if you need to capture more output.
  64. acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
  65. { strict | lax | no }
  66. Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
  67. and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
  68. only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
  69. used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
  70. can interfere with legacy drivers.
  71. strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
  72. is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
  73. resources will fail to bind to device using them.
  74. lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
  75. legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
  76. will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
  77. no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
  78. no further checks are performed.
  79. acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
  80. Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
  81. By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
  82. size limitation.
  83. acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
  84. ACPI will balance active IRQs
  85. default in APIC mode
  86. acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
  87. ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
  88. default in PIC mode
  89. acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
  90. Format: <irq>,<irq>...
  91. acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
  92. use by PCI
  93. Format: <irq>,<irq>...
  94. acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
  95. Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
  96. by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
  97. GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
  98. the GPE dispatcher.
  99. This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
  100. GPE floodings.
  101. Format: <byte>
  102. acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
  103. Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
  104. AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
  105. named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
  106. auto-serialization feature.
  107. This feature is enabled by default.
  108. This option allows to turn off the feature.
  109. acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
  110. kernels.
  111. acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
  112. Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
  113. By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
  114. installed automatically and they will appear under
  115. /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
  116. This option turns off this feature.
  117. Note that specifying this option does not affect
  118. dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
  119. tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
  120. acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT]
  121. Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
  122. a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
  123. acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
  124. Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
  125. on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
  126. second kernel for kdump.
  127. acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
  128. Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
  129. acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
  130. of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
  131. specification revision (when using this switch, it may
  132. be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
  133. row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
  134. acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
  135. acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
  136. acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
  137. acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
  138. acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
  139. strings
  140. acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
  141. strings
  142. acpi_osi= # disable all strings
  143. 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
  144. multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
  145. vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
  146. affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
  147. it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
  148. strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
  149. specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
  150. is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
  151. care about the state of the feature group strings which
  152. should be controlled by the OSPM.
  153. Examples:
  154. 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
  155. to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
  156. can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
  157. 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
  158. 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
  159. exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
  160. only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
  161. multiple times through kernel command line is also
  162. meaningless.
  163. Examples:
  164. 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
  165. FALSE.
  166. 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
  167. multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
  168. string(s). Note that such command can affect the
  169. current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
  170. feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
  171. through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
  172. still not able to affect the final state of a string if
  173. there are quirks related to this string. This command
  174. is useful when one want to control the state of the
  175. feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
  176. the OSPM features.
  177. Examples:
  178. 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
  179. '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
  180. 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
  181. '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
  182. 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
  183. equivalent to
  184. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
  185. and
  186. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
  187. they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
  188. acpi_pm_good [X86]
  189. Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
  190. to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
  191. and always returns good values.
  192. acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
  193. Format: { level | edge | high | low }
  194. acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
  195. Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
  196. For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
  197. acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
  198. Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
  199. old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
  200. See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
  201. s3_bios and s3_mode.
  202. s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
  203. as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
  204. s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
  205. used during resume from hibernation.
  206. old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
  207. control method, with respect to putting devices into
  208. low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
  209. of _PTS is used by default).
  210. nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
  211. ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
  212. sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
  213. on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
  214. but some broken systems don't work without it).
  215. nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
  216. behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
  217. suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
  218. acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
  219. Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
  220. that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
  221. add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
  222. kernel's map of available physical RAM.
  223. agp= [AGP]
  224. { off | try_unsupported }
  225. off: disable AGP support
  226. try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
  227. (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
  228. ALSA [HW,ALSA]
  229. See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
  230. alignment= [KNL,ARM]
  231. Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
  232. behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
  233. bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
  234. align_va_addr= [X86-64]
  235. Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
  236. allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
  237. gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
  238. machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
  239. CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
  240. a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
  241. 32: only for 32-bit processes
  242. 64: only for 64-bit processes
  243. on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
  244. off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
  245. alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
  246. Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
  247. main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
  248. and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
  249. do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
  250. to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
  251. amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
  252. Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
  253. Possible values are:
  254. fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
  255. they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
  256. flushed before they will be reused, which
  257. is a lot of faster
  258. off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
  259. the system
  260. force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
  261. devices. The IOMMU driver is not
  262. allowed anymore to lift isolation
  263. requirements as needed. This option
  264. does not override iommu=pt
  265. amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
  266. Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
  267. for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
  268. driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
  269. IOMMU initialization.
  270. amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
  271. Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
  272. remapping modes:
  273. legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
  274. vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
  275. to inject interrupts directly into guest.
  276. This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
  277. (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
  278. amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
  279. Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
  280. Format: <a>,<b>
  281. See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
  282. analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
  283. Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
  284. connected to one of 16 gameports
  285. Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
  286. apc= [HW,SPARC]
  287. Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
  288. Format: noidle
  289. Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
  290. not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
  291. APC and your system crashes randomly.
  292. apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
  293. Change the output verbosity whilst booting
  294. Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
  295. Change the amount of debugging information output
  296. when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
  297. For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
  298. driver name.
  299. Format: apic=driver_name
  300. Examples: apic=bigsmp
  301. apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
  302. Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
  303. bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
  304. all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
  305. backup of CPU 0
  306. none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
  307. useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
  308. shot down by NMI
  309. autoconf= [IPV6]
  310. See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
  311. show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
  312. Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
  313. number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
  314. to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
  315. Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
  316. The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
  317. apic=verbose is specified.
  318. Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
  319. apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
  320. See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
  321. arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
  322. Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
  323. ataflop= [HW,M68k]
  324. atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
  325. atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
  326. EzKey and similar keyboards
  327. atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
  328. atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
  329. Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
  330. atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
  331. keyboards
  332. atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
  333. Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
  334. atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
  335. Use software keyboard repeat
  336. audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
  337. Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
  338. 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
  339. enabled until the next reboot
  340. unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
  341. will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
  342. 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
  343. enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
  344. messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
  345. userspace auditd.
  346. Default: unset
  347. audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
  348. Format: <int> (must be >=0)
  349. Default: 64
  350. bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
  351. behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
  352. Format: { "0" | "1" }
  353. 0 - Disable the BAU.
  354. 1 - Enable the BAU.
  355. unset - Disable the BAU.
  356. baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
  357. Format: <io>,<mode>
  358. baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
  359. Format: <io>,<mode>
  360. See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
  361. baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
  362. BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
  363. Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
  364. See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
  365. baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
  366. BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
  367. Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
  368. See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
  369. blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
  370. embedded devices based on command line input.
  371. See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
  372. boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
  373. Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
  374. no delay (0).
  375. Format: integer
  376. bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
  377. bert_disable [ACPI]
  378. Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
  379. bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
  380. bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
  381. kernel args too.
  382. bttv.pll= See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
  383. bttv.tuner=
  384. bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
  385. firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
  386. at a time.
  387. c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
  388. cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
  389. Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
  390. size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
  391. to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
  392. possible to determine what the correct size should be.
  393. This option provides an override for these situations.
  394. ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
  395. the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
  396. trust validation.
  397. format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
  398. cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
  399. algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
  400. inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
  401. for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
  402. others).
  403. ccw_timeout_log [S390]
  404. See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
  405. cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
  406. Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
  407. The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
  408. - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
  409. a single hierarchy
  410. - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
  411. subsystem
  412. {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
  413. cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
  414. only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
  415. cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
  416. Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
  417. Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
  418. the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
  419. cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
  420. Format: <string>
  421. nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
  422. nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
  423. checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
  424. Format: { "0" | "1" }
  425. See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
  426. 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
  427. any implied execute protection).
  428. 1 -- check protection requested by application.
  429. Default value is set via a kernel config option.
  430. Value can be changed at runtime via
  431. /selinux/checkreqprot.
  432. cio_ignore= [S390]
  433. See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
  434. clk_ignore_unused
  435. [CLK]
  436. Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
  437. clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
  438. device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
  439. by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
  440. force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
  441. those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
  442. debug and development, but should not be needed on a
  443. platform with proper driver support. For more
  444. information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
  445. clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
  446. [Deprecated]
  447. Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
  448. when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
  449. clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
  450. Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
  451. clocksource= Override the default clocksource
  452. Format: <string>
  453. Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
  454. with the name specified.
  455. Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
  456. the platform:
  457. [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
  458. [ACPI] acpi_pm
  459. [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
  460. pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
  461. [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
  462. scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
  463. [MIPS] MIPS
  464. [PARISC] cr16
  465. [S390] tod
  466. [SH] SuperH
  467. [SPARC64] tick
  468. [X86-64] hpet,tsc
  469. clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
  470. [ARM,ARM64]
  471. Format: <bool>
  472. Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
  473. architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
  474. loops can be debugged more effectively on production
  475. systems.
  476. clearcpuid=BITNUM[,BITNUM...] [X86]
  477. Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
  478. arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
  479. numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
  480. stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
  481. ones should be.
  482. Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
  483. or using the feature without checking anything
  484. will still see it. This just prevents it from
  485. being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
  486. Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
  487. some critical bits.
  488. cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
  489. [ARM,X86,KNL]
  490. Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
  491. contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
  492. placement constraint by the physical address range of
  493. memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
  494. altogether. For more information, see
  495. include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
  496. cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
  497. Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
  498. when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
  499. to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
  500. a hypervisor.
  501. Default: yes
  502. coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
  503. Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
  504. allocations, by default set to 256K.
  505. com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
  506. Format:
  507. <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
  508. com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
  509. Format: <io>[,<irq>]
  510. com90xx= [HW,NET]
  511. ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
  512. Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
  513. condev= [HW,S390] console device
  514. conmode=
  515. console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
  516. tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
  517. ttyS<n>[,options]
  518. ttyUSB0[,options]
  519. Use the specified serial port. The options are of
  520. the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
  521. "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
  522. bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
  523. omit it). Default is "9600n8".
  524. See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
  525. information. See
  526. Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
  527. alternative.
  528. uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
  529. uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
  530. uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
  531. uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
  532. uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
  533. Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
  534. UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
  535. switching to the matching ttyS device later.
  536. MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
  537. (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
  538. If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
  539. to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
  540. the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
  541. the h/w is not re-initialized.
  542. hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
  543. both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
  544. If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
  545. device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
  546. console=brl,ttyS0
  547. For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
  548. console_msg_format=
  549. [KNL] Change console messages format
  550. default
  551. By default we print messages on consoles in
  552. "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
  553. printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
  554. `printk_time' param).
  555. syslog
  556. Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
  557. IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
  558. prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
  559. syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
  560. from /proc/kmsg.
  561. consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
  562. seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
  563. Defaults to 0.
  564. coredump_filter=
  565. [KNL] Change the default value for
  566. /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
  567. See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
  568. coresight_cpu_debug.enable
  569. [ARM,ARM64]
  570. Format: <bool>
  571. Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
  572. 0: default value, disable debugging
  573. 1: enable debugging at boot time
  574. cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
  575. disable the cpuidle sub-system
  576. cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
  577. disable the cpufreq sub-system
  578. cpu_init_udelay=N
  579. [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
  580. of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
  581. on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
  582. Default: 10000
  583. cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
  584. Format:
  585. <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
  586. crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
  587. [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
  588. upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
  589. memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
  590. image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
  591. is selected automatically. Check
  592. Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
  593. crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
  594. [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
  595. in the running system. The syntax of range is
  596. start-[end] where start and end are both
  597. a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
  598. Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
  599. crashkernel=size[KMG],high
  600. [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
  601. to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
  602. be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
  603. Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
  604. available.
  605. It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
  606. crashkernel=size[KMG],low
  607. [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
  608. is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
  609. above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
  610. that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
  611. requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
  612. low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
  613. devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
  614. at least 256M below 4G automatically.
  615. This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
  616. for second kernel instead.
  617. 0: to disable low allocation.
  618. It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
  619. or memory reserved is below 4G.
  620. cryptomgr.notests
  621. [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
  622. cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
  623. Format: <dma>
  624. cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
  625. Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
  626. dasd= [HW,NET]
  627. See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
  628. db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
  629. (one device per port)
  630. Format: <port#>,<type>
  631. See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
  632. ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
  633. time. See
  634. Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
  635. details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
  636. debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
  637. debug_boot_weak_hash
  638. [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
  639. boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
  640. of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are
  641. seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
  642. value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
  643. insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
  644. debug_locks_verbose=
  645. [KNL] verbose self-tests
  646. Format=<0|1>
  647. Print debugging info while doing the locking API
  648. self-tests.
  649. We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
  650. 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
  651. only useful to kernel developers.
  652. debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
  653. no_debug_objects
  654. [KNL] Disable object debugging
  655. debug_guardpage_minorder=
  656. [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
  657. parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
  658. be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
  659. buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
  660. of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
  661. amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
  662. possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
  663. to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
  664. memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
  665. driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
  666. random memory location. Note that there exists a class
  667. of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
  668. F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
  669. memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
  670. bypassed) which are not detectable by
  671. CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
  672. tracking down these problems.
  673. debug_pagealloc=
  674. [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
  675. parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
  676. default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
  677. chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
  678. it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
  679. with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
  680. on: enable the feature
  681. debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
  682. decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
  683. Format: <area>[,<node>]
  684. See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
  685. default_hugepagesz=
  686. [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
  687. HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
  688. the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
  689. default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
  690. Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
  691. if not specified.
  692. deferred_probe_timeout=
  693. [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
  694. deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
  695. probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
  696. drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
  697. will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
  698. dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
  699. retrying.
  700. dhash_entries= [KNL]
  701. Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
  702. disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
  703. Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
  704. causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
  705. can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
  706. miss to occur.
  707. disable= [IPV6]
  708. See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
  709. hardened_usercopy=
  710. [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
  711. hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
  712. usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
  713. from reading or writing beyond known memory
  714. allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
  715. against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
  716. copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
  717. on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
  718. off Disable hardened usercopy checks.
  719. disable_radix [PPC]
  720. Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
  721. disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
  722. Format: <int>
  723. The number of initial APIC ID for the
  724. corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
  725. mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
  726. disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
  727. causing system reset or hang due to sending
  728. INIT from AP to BSP.
  729. disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
  730. Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
  731. to workaround buggy firmware.
  732. disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
  733. See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
  734. disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
  735. The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
  736. to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
  737. entry later. This parameter disables that.
  738. disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
  739. By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
  740. memory out of your available memory pool based on
  741. MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
  742. possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
  743. disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
  744. Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
  745. Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
  746. dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
  747. dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
  748. this option disables the debugging code at boot.
  749. dma_debug_entries=<number>
  750. This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
  751. entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
  752. required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
  753. DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
  754. architectural default is too low.
  755. dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
  756. With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
  757. filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
  758. pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
  759. The filter can be disabled or changed to another
  760. driver later using sysfs.
  761. drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
  762. Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
  763. panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
  764. This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
  765. in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
  766. Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
  767. edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
  768. edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
  769. and no file with the same name exists. Details and
  770. instructions how to build your own EDID data are
  771. available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
  772. data set will only be used for a particular connector,
  773. if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
  774. name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
  775. set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
  776. data set with no connector name will be used for
  777. any connectors not explicitly specified.
  778. dscc4.setup= [NET]
  779. dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC]
  780. Format: {"off" | "known"}
  781. Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
  782. used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
  783. exists).
  784. off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
  785. known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
  786. or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
  787. dump_apple_properties [X86]
  788. Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
  789. x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
  790. what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
  791. dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
  792. module.dyndbg[="val"]
  793. Enable debug messages at boot time. See
  794. Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
  795. for details.
  796. nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
  797. See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
  798. information about the feature.
  799. nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
  800. in some Intel CPUs.
  801. module.async_probe [KNL]
  802. Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
  803. early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
  804. Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
  805. is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
  806. which are not unmapped.
  807. earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
  808. [ARM64] The early console is determined by the
  809. stdout-path property in device tree's chosen node,
  810. or determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
  811. [X86] When used with no options the early console is
  812. determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
  813. cdns,<addr>[,options]
  814. Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
  815. (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
  816. supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
  817. specified, the serial port must already be setup and
  818. configured.
  819. uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
  820. uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
  821. uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
  822. uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
  823. uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
  824. Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
  825. UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
  826. MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
  827. (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
  828. If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
  829. to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
  830. in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
  831. unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
  832. pl011,<addr>
  833. pl011,mmio32,<addr>
  834. Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
  835. port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
  836. must already be setup and configured. Options are not
  837. yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
  838. the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
  839. the device registers.
  840. meson,<addr>
  841. Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
  842. port at the specified address. The serial port must
  843. already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
  844. supported.
  845. msm_serial,<addr>
  846. Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
  847. port at the specified address. The serial port
  848. must already be setup and configured. Options are not
  849. yet supported.
  850. msm_serial_dm,<addr>
  851. Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
  852. dm port at the specified address. The serial port
  853. must already be setup and configured. Options are not
  854. yet supported.
  855. owl,<addr>
  856. Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
  857. of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
  858. specified address. The serial port must already be
  859. setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
  860. smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
  861. s3c2410,<addr>
  862. s3c2412,<addr>
  863. s3c2440,<addr>
  864. s3c6400,<addr>
  865. s5pv210,<addr>
  866. exynos4210,<addr>
  867. Use early console provided by serial driver available
  868. on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
  869. a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
  870. serial port must already be setup and configured.
  871. Options are not yet supported.
  872. lantiq,<addr>
  873. Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
  874. (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
  875. must already be setup and configured. Options are not
  876. yet supported.
  877. lpuart,<addr>
  878. lpuart32,<addr>
  879. Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
  880. found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
  881. A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
  882. port must already be setup and configured.
  883. ar3700_uart,<addr>
  884. Start an early, polled-mode console on the
  885. Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
  886. address. The serial port must already be setup
  887. and configured. Options are not yet supported.
  888. qcom_geni,<addr>
  889. Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
  890. Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
  891. specified address. The serial port must already be
  892. setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
  893. earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
  894. earlyprintk=vga
  895. earlyprintk=efi
  896. earlyprintk=sclp
  897. earlyprintk=xen
  898. earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
  899. earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
  900. earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
  901. earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
  902. earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
  903. earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
  904. earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
  905. the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
  906. default because it has some cosmetic problems.
  907. Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
  908. takes over.
  909. Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
  910. be used at a time.
  911. Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
  912. name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
  913. on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
  914. replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
  915. earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
  916. You can find the port for a given device in
  917. /proc/tty/driver/serial:
  918. 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
  919. Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
  920. very good.
  921. The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
  922. the real console.
  923. The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
  924. The sclp output can only be used on s390.
  925. The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
  926. PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
  927. UART class.
  928. edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
  929. Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
  930. on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
  931. by other higher priority error reporting module.
  932. off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
  933. force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
  934. default: on.
  935. ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
  936. ekgdboc=kbd
  937. This is designed to be used in conjunction with
  938. the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
  939. edd= [EDD]
  940. Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
  941. efi= [EFI]
  942. Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
  943. old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
  944. runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
  945. default.
  946. nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
  947. boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
  948. firmware implementations.
  949. noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
  950. debug: enable misc debug output
  951. efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
  952. Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
  953. your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
  954. you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
  955. fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
  956. efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
  957. Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
  958. updating original EFI memory map.
  959. Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
  960. from ss to ss+nn.
  961. If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
  962. is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
  963. attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
  964. 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
  965. Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
  966. related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
  967. Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
  968. doesn't support it.
  969. efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
  970. that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
  971. multiple variables with the same name but with different
  972. vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
  973. Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
  974. eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
  975. See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
  976. elanfreq= [X86-32]
  977. See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
  978. arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
  979. elevator= [IOSCHED]
  980. Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
  981. See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
  982. Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
  983. elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
  984. Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
  985. image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
  986. kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
  987. See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
  988. enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
  989. The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
  990. to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
  991. entry later. This parameter enables that.
  992. enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
  993. Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
  994. Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
  995. (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
  996. The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
  997. enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
  998. Format: {"0" | "1"}
  999. See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
  1000. 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
  1001. 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
  1002. Default value is 0.
  1003. Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
  1004. erst_disable [ACPI]
  1005. Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
  1006. support.
  1007. ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
  1008. This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
  1009. has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
  1010. evm= [EVM]
  1011. Format: { "fix" }
  1012. Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
  1013. current integrity status.
  1014. failslab=
  1015. fail_page_alloc=
  1016. fail_make_request=[KNL]
  1017. General fault injection mechanism.
  1018. Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
  1019. See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
  1020. floppy= [HW]
  1021. See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
  1022. force_pal_cache_flush
  1023. [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
  1024. buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
  1025. parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
  1026. ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
  1027. forcepae [X86-32]
  1028. Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
  1029. Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
  1030. functionally usable PAE implementation.
  1031. Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
  1032. and may cause unknown problems.
  1033. ftrace=[tracer]
  1034. [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
  1035. as early as possible in order to facilitate early
  1036. boot debugging.
  1037. ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
  1038. [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
  1039. If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
  1040. buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
  1041. dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
  1042. oops.
  1043. ftrace_filter=[function-list]
  1044. [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
  1045. tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
  1046. list of functions. This list can be changed at run
  1047. time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
  1048. tracing directory.
  1049. ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
  1050. [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
  1051. function-list. This list can be changed at run time
  1052. by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
  1053. tracing directory.
  1054. ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
  1055. [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
  1056. by the function graph tracer at boot up.
  1057. function-list is a comma separated list of functions
  1058. that can be changed at run time by the
  1059. set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
  1060. ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
  1061. [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
  1062. function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
  1063. functions that can be changed at run time by the
  1064. set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
  1065. ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
  1066. [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
  1067. the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
  1068. can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
  1069. in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
  1070. gamecon.map[2|3]=
  1071. [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
  1072. support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
  1073. Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
  1074. See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
  1075. gamma= [HW,DRM]
  1076. gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
  1077. Format: off | on
  1078. default: on
  1079. gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
  1080. kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
  1081. debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
  1082. When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
  1083. debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
  1084. goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
  1085. Don't use this when you are not running on the
  1086. android emulator
  1087. gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
  1088. invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
  1089. primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
  1090. GPT to be used instead.
  1091. grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
  1092. the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
  1093. Format: 0 | 1
  1094. Default: 0
  1095. grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
  1096. the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
  1097. Format: 0 | 1
  1098. Default: 0
  1099. grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
  1100. Format: 0 | 1
  1101. Default: 0
  1102. grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
  1103. Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
  1104. Default: 1024
  1105. grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
  1106. Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
  1107. Default: 1024
  1108. gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
  1109. [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
  1110. Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
  1111. hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
  1112. [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
  1113. backtraces on all cpus.
  1114. Format: <integer>
  1115. hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
  1116. are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
  1117. for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
  1118. Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
  1119. hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
  1120. hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
  1121. Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
  1122. hest_disable [ACPI]
  1123. Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
  1124. corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
  1125. logic will be disabled.
  1126. highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
  1127. size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
  1128. highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
  1129. size on bigger boxes.
  1130. highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
  1131. Valid parameters: "on", "off"
  1132. Default: "on"
  1133. hisax= [HW,ISDN]
  1134. See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
  1135. hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
  1136. hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
  1137. Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
  1138. verbose }
  1139. disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
  1140. force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
  1141. VIA, nVidia)
  1142. verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
  1143. hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
  1144. registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
  1145. hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
  1146. hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
  1147. On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
  1148. multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
  1149. huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
  1150. x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
  1151. (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
  1152. hung_task_panic=
  1153. [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
  1154. Format: <integer>
  1155. A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a
  1156. hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
  1157. by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
  1158. option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
  1159. be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
  1160. hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
  1161. terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
  1162. hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
  1163. If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
  1164. from listed z/VM user IDs only.
  1165. keep_bootcon [KNL]
  1166. Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
  1167. useful for debugging when something happens in the window
  1168. between unregistering the boot console and initializing
  1169. the real console.
  1170. i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
  1171. or register an additional I2C bus that is not
  1172. registered from board initialization code.
  1173. Format:
  1174. <bus_id>,<clkrate>
  1175. i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
  1176. i8042.unmask_kbd_data
  1177. [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
  1178. (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
  1179. requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
  1180. i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
  1181. i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
  1182. keyboard and cannot control its state
  1183. (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
  1184. i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
  1185. i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
  1186. i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
  1187. for the AUX port
  1188. i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
  1189. controller
  1190. i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
  1191. controllers
  1192. i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
  1193. i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
  1194. suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
  1195. transitions, or never reset
  1196. Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
  1197. 1, Y, y: always reset controller
  1198. 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
  1199. Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
  1200. architectures force reset to be always executed
  1201. i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
  1202. i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
  1203. i810= [HW,DRM]
  1204. i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
  1205. indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
  1206. hardware.
  1207. i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
  1208. does not match list of supported models.
  1209. i8k.power_status
  1210. [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
  1211. (disabled by default)
  1212. i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
  1213. capability is set.
  1214. i915.invert_brightness=
  1215. [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
  1216. set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
  1217. brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
  1218. and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
  1219. to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
  1220. (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
  1221. is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
  1222. to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
  1223. value switches the backlight off.
  1224. -1 -- never invert brightness
  1225. 0 -- machine default
  1226. 1 -- force brightness inversion
  1227. icn= [HW,ISDN]
  1228. Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
  1229. ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
  1230. Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
  1231. .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
  1232. .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
  1233. See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
  1234. ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
  1235. Format: <int>
  1236. Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
  1237. platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
  1238. setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
  1239. default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
  1240. On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
  1241. PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
  1242. are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
  1243. of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
  1244. was 0x3.
  1245. ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
  1246. Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
  1247. idle= [X86]
  1248. Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
  1249. Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
  1250. improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
  1251. will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
  1252. Not recommended.
  1253. idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
  1254. In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
  1255. idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
  1256. ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
  1257. Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
  1258. Default: strict
  1259. Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
  1260. based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
  1261. the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
  1262. of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
  1263. binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
  1264. support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
  1265. encoding mode.
  1266. Available settings are as follows:
  1267. strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
  1268. supported by the FPU
  1269. legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
  1270. by the FPU
  1271. 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
  1272. by the FPU
  1273. relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
  1274. supported by the FPU
  1275. The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
  1276. encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
  1277. been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
  1278. 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
  1279. 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
  1280. 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
  1281. legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
  1282. MIPS64 CPUs.
  1283. The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
  1284. mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
  1285. except where unsupported by hardware.
  1286. ignore_loglevel [KNL]
  1287. Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
  1288. kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
  1289. We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
  1290. could change it dynamically, usually by
  1291. /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
  1292. ignore_rlimit_data
  1293. Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
  1294. print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
  1295. /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
  1296. ihash_entries= [KNL]
  1297. Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
  1298. ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
  1299. Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
  1300. default: "enforce"
  1301. ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
  1302. The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
  1303. owned by uid=0.
  1304. ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
  1305. Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
  1306. measurements, instead of host native format.
  1307. ima_hash= [IMA]
  1308. Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
  1309. | sha512 | ... }
  1310. default: "sha1"
  1311. The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
  1312. in crypto/hash_info.h.
  1313. ima_policy= [IMA]
  1314. The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
  1315. Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
  1316. fail_securely"
  1317. The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
  1318. mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
  1319. mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
  1320. uid=0.
  1321. The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
  1322. all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent
  1323. of ima_appraise_tcb.)
  1324. The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
  1325. of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
  1326. firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
  1327. The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
  1328. verification failure also on privileged mounted
  1329. filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
  1330. flag.
  1331. ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
  1332. Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
  1333. Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
  1334. programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
  1335. opened for read by uid=0.
  1336. ima_template= [IMA]
  1337. Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
  1338. Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
  1339. Default: "ima-ng"
  1340. ima_template_fmt=
  1341. [IMA] Define a custom template format.
  1342. Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
  1343. ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
  1344. Format: <min_file_size>
  1345. Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
  1346. If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
  1347. ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
  1348. different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
  1349. to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
  1350. ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
  1351. Format: <bufsize>
  1352. Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
  1353. ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
  1354. different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
  1355. to achieve best performance for particular HW.
  1356. init= [KNL]
  1357. Format: <full_path>
  1358. Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
  1359. process.
  1360. initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
  1361. for working out where the kernel is dying during
  1362. startup.
  1363. initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
  1364. initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
  1365. modules and initcalls.
  1366. initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
  1367. init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
  1368. register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
  1369. default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
  1370. override in debugfs after boot.
  1371. inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
  1372. Format: <irq>
  1373. int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
  1374. integrity_audit=[IMA]
  1375. Format: { "0" | "1" }
  1376. 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
  1377. 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
  1378. intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
  1379. on
  1380. Enable intel iommu driver.
  1381. off
  1382. Disable intel iommu driver.
  1383. igfx_off [Default Off]
  1384. By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
  1385. device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
  1386. bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
  1387. this case, gfx device will use physical address for
  1388. DMA.
  1389. forcedac [x86_64]
  1390. With this option iommu will not optimize to look
  1391. for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
  1392. address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
  1393. than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
  1394. for translation below 32-bit and if not available
  1395. then look in the higher range.
  1396. strict [Default Off]
  1397. With this option on every unmap_single operation will
  1398. result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
  1399. to batching them for performance.
  1400. sp_off [Default Off]
  1401. By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
  1402. has the capability. With this option, super page will
  1403. not be supported.
  1404. ecs_off [Default Off]
  1405. By default, extended context tables will be supported if
  1406. the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
  1407. extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
  1408. this option set, extended tables will not be used even
  1409. on hardware which claims to support them.
  1410. tboot_noforce [Default Off]
  1411. Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
  1412. By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
  1413. could harm performance of some high-throughput
  1414. devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
  1415. mapping is enabled.
  1416. Note that using this option lowers the security
  1417. provided by tboot because it makes the system
  1418. vulnerable to DMA attacks.
  1419. intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
  1420. 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
  1421. 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
  1422. intel_pstate= [X86]
  1423. disable
  1424. Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
  1425. scaling driver for the supported processors
  1426. passive
  1427. Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
  1428. to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
  1429. enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
  1430. used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
  1431. feature.
  1432. force
  1433. Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
  1434. in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
  1435. instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
  1436. as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
  1437. P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
  1438. should be used with caution. This option does not work with
  1439. processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
  1440. or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
  1441. no_hwp
  1442. Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
  1443. if available.
  1444. hwp_only
  1445. Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
  1446. hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
  1447. support_acpi_ppc
  1448. Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
  1449. Description Table, specifies preferred power management
  1450. profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
  1451. then this feature is turned on by default.
  1452. per_cpu_perf_limits
  1453. Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
  1454. cpufreq sysfs interface
  1455. intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
  1456. on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
  1457. off disable Interrupt Remapping
  1458. nosid disable Source ID checking
  1459. no_x2apic_optout
  1460. BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
  1461. nopost disable Interrupt Posting
  1462. iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
  1463. strict regions from userspace.
  1464. relaxed
  1465. iommu= [x86]
  1466. off
  1467. force
  1468. noforce
  1469. biomerge
  1470. panic
  1471. nopanic
  1472. merge
  1473. nomerge
  1474. soft
  1475. pt [x86]
  1476. nopt [x86]
  1477. nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
  1478. Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
  1479. iommu.passthrough=
  1480. [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
  1481. Format: { "0" | "1" }
  1482. 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
  1483. 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
  1484. unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
  1485. io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
  1486. See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
  1487. arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
  1488. io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
  1489. 0x80
  1490. Standard port 0x80 based delay
  1491. 0xed
  1492. Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
  1493. udelay
  1494. Simple two microseconds delay
  1495. none
  1496. No delay
  1497. ip= [IP_PNP]
  1498. See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
  1499. irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
  1500. The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
  1501. irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
  1502. [ARM, ARM64]
  1503. Format: <bool>
  1504. Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
  1505. of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
  1506. exposed by the device tree is too small.
  1507. irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
  1508. [ARM, ARM64]
  1509. Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
  1510. LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
  1511. that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
  1512. to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
  1513. LPIs.
  1514. irqfixup [HW]
  1515. When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
  1516. for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
  1517. firmware running.
  1518. irqpoll [HW]
  1519. When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
  1520. for it. Also check all handlers each timer
  1521. interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
  1522. firmware running.
  1523. isapnp= [ISAPNP]
  1524. Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
  1525. isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
  1526. [Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
  1527. Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
  1528. Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
  1529. specified in the flag list (default: domain):
  1530. nohz
  1531. Disable the tick when a single task runs.
  1532. A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
  1533. need to affine to housekeeping through the global
  1534. workqueue's affinity configured via the
  1535. /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
  1536. by using the 'domain' flag described below.
  1537. NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
  1538. so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
  1539. be configured manually after bootup.
  1540. domain
  1541. Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
  1542. algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
  1543. is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
  1544. the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
  1545. advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
  1546. balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
  1547. It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
  1548. move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
  1549. You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
  1550. the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
  1551. <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
  1552. "number of CPUs in system - 1".
  1553. The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
  1554. iucv= [HW,NET]
  1555. ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
  1556. Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
  1557. mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
  1558. example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
  1559. PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
  1560. ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
  1561. ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
  1562. Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
  1563. mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
  1564. example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
  1565. PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
  1566. ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
  1567. ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
  1568. Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
  1569. mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
  1570. example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
  1571. PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
  1572. ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
  1573. js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
  1574. See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
  1575. nokaslr [KNL]
  1576. When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
  1577. kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
  1578. Layout Randomization).
  1579. kasan_multi_shot
  1580. [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
  1581. report on every invalid memory access. Without this
  1582. parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
  1583. invalid access.
  1584. keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
  1585. kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
  1586. Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
  1587. This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
  1588. the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested
  1589. amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
  1590. system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for
  1591. movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the
  1592. event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
  1593. ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
  1594. other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
  1595. ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
  1596. may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
  1597. subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
  1598. still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
  1599. zone if it does not.
  1600. It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
  1601. the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
  1602. memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror"
  1603. option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
  1604. for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
  1605. for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
  1606. are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
  1607. kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
  1608. Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
  1609. The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
  1610. port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
  1611. optional and is the number seconds in between
  1612. each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
  1613. the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
  1614. gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
  1615. not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
  1616. the kernel debugger.
  1617. kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
  1618. Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
  1619. or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
  1620. Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
  1621. keyboard only format: kbd
  1622. keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
  1623. Optional Kernel mode setting:
  1624. kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
  1625. kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
  1626. kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
  1627. kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
  1628. kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
  1629. Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
  1630. Ethernet adapter MAC address.
  1631. kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
  1632. Valid arguments: on, off
  1633. Default: on
  1634. Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
  1635. the default is off.
  1636. kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
  1637. and kernel address spaces.
  1638. Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
  1639. 0: force disabled
  1640. 1: force enabled
  1641. kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
  1642. Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
  1643. kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
  1644. Default is false (don't support).
  1645. kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
  1646. KVM MMU at runtime.
  1647. Default is 0 (off)
  1648. kvm.nx_huge_pages=
  1649. [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
  1650. X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
  1651. force : Always deploy workaround.
  1652. off : Never deploy workaround.
  1653. auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
  1654. X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
  1655. Default is 'auto'.
  1656. If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
  1657. guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
  1658. kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
  1659. [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
  1660. back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
  1661. the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
  1662. minute. The default is 60.
  1663. kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
  1664. Default is 1 (enabled)
  1665. kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
  1666. for all guests.
  1667. Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
  1668. kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
  1669. [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
  1670. system registers
  1671. kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
  1672. [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
  1673. system registers
  1674. kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
  1675. [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
  1676. system registers
  1677. kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
  1678. [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
  1679. LPIs.
  1680. kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
  1681. (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
  1682. Default is 1 (enabled)
  1683. kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
  1684. [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
  1685. Default is 0 (disabled)
  1686. kvm-intel.flexpriority=
  1687. [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
  1688. Default is 1 (enabled)
  1689. kvm-intel.nested=
  1690. [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
  1691. Default is 0 (disabled)
  1692. kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
  1693. [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
  1694. (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
  1695. Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
  1696. kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
  1697. CVE-2018-3620.
  1698. Valid arguments: never, cond, always
  1699. always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
  1700. cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
  1701. VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
  1702. never: Disables the mitigation
  1703. Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
  1704. kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
  1705. feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
  1706. Default is 1 (enabled)
  1707. l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
  1708. affected CPUs
  1709. The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
  1710. enabled and cannot be disabled.
  1711. full
  1712. Provides all available mitigations for the
  1713. L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
  1714. enables all mitigations in the
  1715. hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
  1716. SMT control and L1D flush control via the
  1717. sysfs interface is still possible after
  1718. boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
  1719. when the first VM is started in a
  1720. potentially insecure configuration,
  1721. i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
  1722. full,force
  1723. Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
  1724. flush runtime control. Implies the
  1725. 'nosmt=force' command line option.
  1726. (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
  1727. flush
  1728. Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
  1729. hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
  1730. L1D flush.
  1731. SMT control and L1D flush control via the
  1732. sysfs interface is still possible after
  1733. boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
  1734. when the first VM is started in a
  1735. potentially insecure configuration,
  1736. i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
  1737. flush,nosmt
  1738. Disables SMT and enables the default
  1739. hypervisor mitigation.
  1740. SMT control and L1D flush control via the
  1741. sysfs interface is still possible after
  1742. boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
  1743. when the first VM is started in a
  1744. potentially insecure configuration,
  1745. i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
  1746. flush,nowarn
  1747. Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
  1748. warn when a VM is started in a potentially
  1749. insecure configuration.
  1750. off
  1751. Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
  1752. emit any warnings.
  1753. It also drops the swap size and available
  1754. RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
  1755. bare metal.
  1756. Default is 'flush'.
  1757. For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
  1758. l2cr= [PPC]
  1759. l3cr= [PPC]
  1760. lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
  1761. disabled it.
  1762. lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
  1763. value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
  1764. back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
  1765. lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
  1766. in C2 power state.
  1767. libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
  1768. libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
  1769. libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
  1770. libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
  1771. libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
  1772. Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
  1773. for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
  1774. libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
  1775. libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
  1776. libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
  1777. libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
  1778. when set.
  1779. Format: <int>
  1780. libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
  1781. separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
  1782. PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
  1783. matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
  1784. the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
  1785. the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
  1786. values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
  1787. configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
  1788. If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
  1789. the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
  1790. number of 0 either selects the first device or the
  1791. first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
  1792. select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
  1793. host link and device attached to it.
  1794. The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
  1795. as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
  1796. For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
  1797. The following configurations can be forced.
  1798. * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
  1799. Any ID with matching PORT is used.
  1800. * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
  1801. * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
  1802. udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
  1803. allowed.
  1804. * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
  1805. * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
  1806. * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
  1807. and both resets.
  1808. * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
  1809. hot-unplug link recovery
  1810. * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
  1811. * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
  1812. * disable: Disable this device.
  1813. If there are multiple matching configurations changing
  1814. the same attribute, the last one is used.
  1815. memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
  1816. load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
  1817. See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
  1818. lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
  1819. Format: <integer>
  1820. lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
  1821. Format: <integer>
  1822. lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
  1823. Format: <integer>
  1824. lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
  1825. Format: <integer>
  1826. locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
  1827. Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
  1828. Defaults to being automatically set based on the
  1829. number of online CPUs.
  1830. locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
  1831. Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
  1832. locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
  1833. Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
  1834. locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
  1835. Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
  1836. zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
  1837. locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
  1838. Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
  1839. tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
  1840. mode during the locktorture test.
  1841. locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
  1842. Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
  1843. is useful for hands-off automated testing.
  1844. locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
  1845. Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
  1846. locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
  1847. Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
  1848. specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
  1849. five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
  1850. This tests the locking primitive's ability to
  1851. transition abruptly to and from idle.
  1852. locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
  1853. Specify the locking implementation to test.
  1854. locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
  1855. Enable additional printk() statements.
  1856. logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
  1857. Format: <irq>
  1858. loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
  1859. console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
  1860. also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
  1861. loglevels are defined as follows:
  1862. 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
  1863. 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
  1864. 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
  1865. 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
  1866. 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
  1867. 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
  1868. 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
  1869. 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
  1870. log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
  1871. in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
  1872. than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
  1873. by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
  1874. also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
  1875. that allows to increase the default size depending on
  1876. the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
  1877. logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
  1878. This may be used to provide more screen space for
  1879. kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
  1880. kernel boot problems.
  1881. lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
  1882. lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
  1883. lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
  1884. lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
  1885. specified in addition to the ports) causes
  1886. attached printers to be reset. Using
  1887. lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
  1888. to associate lp devices with, starting with
  1889. lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
  1890. that lp device, or a parport name such as
  1891. 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
  1892. port specification list means that device IDs
  1893. from each port should be examined, to see if
  1894. an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
  1895. so, the driver will manage that printer.
  1896. See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
  1897. lpj=n [KNL]
  1898. Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
  1899. time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
  1900. CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
  1901. the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
  1902. autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
  1903. on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
  1904. which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
  1905. significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
  1906. will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
  1907. unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
  1908. unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
  1909. hardware.
  1910. ltpc= [NET]
  1911. Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
  1912. machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
  1913. (machvec) in a generic kernel.
  1914. Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
  1915. machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
  1916. yeeloong laptop.
  1917. Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
  1918. max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
  1919. than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
  1920. maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
  1921. will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
  1922. the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
  1923. bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
  1924. "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
  1925. only takes effect during system bootup.
  1926. While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
  1927. which also disables the IO APIC.
  1928. max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
  1929. (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
  1930. number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
  1931. of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
  1932. devices can be requested on-demand with the
  1933. /dev/loop-control interface.
  1934. mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
  1935. mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
  1936. md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
  1937. See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
  1938. mdacon= [MDA]
  1939. Format: <first>,<last>
  1940. Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
  1941. mds= [X86,INTEL]
  1942. Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
  1943. Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
  1944. Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
  1945. internal buffers which can forward information to a
  1946. disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
  1947. In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
  1948. forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
  1949. attack, to access data to which the attacker does
  1950. not have direct access.
  1951. This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
  1952. options are:
  1953. full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
  1954. full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
  1955. SMT on vulnerable CPUs
  1956. off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
  1957. On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
  1958. an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
  1959. mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
  1960. this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
  1961. too.
  1962. Not specifying this option is equivalent to
  1963. mds=full.
  1964. For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
  1965. mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
  1966. Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
  1967. to see the whole system memory or for test.
  1968. [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
  1969. with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
  1970. Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
  1971. belonging to unused RAM.
  1972. mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
  1973. memory.
  1974. memchunk=nn[KMG]
  1975. [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
  1976. per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
  1977. memhp_default_state=online/offline
  1978. [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
  1979. onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
  1980. set according to the
  1981. CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
  1982. option.
  1983. See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
  1984. memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
  1985. E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
  1986. Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
  1987. BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
  1988. option description.
  1989. memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
  1990. [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
  1991. Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
  1992. If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
  1993. which limits max address to nn[KMG].
  1994. Multiple different regions can be specified,
  1995. comma delimited.
  1996. Example:
  1997. memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
  1998. memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
  1999. [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
  2000. Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
  2001. memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
  2002. [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
  2003. Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
  2004. Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
  2005. memmap=64K$0x18690000
  2006. or
  2007. memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
  2008. Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
  2009. like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
  2010. will be eaten.
  2011. memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
  2012. [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
  2013. Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
  2014. The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
  2015. and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
  2016. memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
  2017. [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
  2018. from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
  2019. out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
  2020. even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
  2021. out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
  2022. specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
  2023. 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
  2024. memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
  2025. Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
  2026. memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
  2027. Setting this option will scan the memory
  2028. looking for corruption. Enabling this will
  2029. both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
  2030. from using the memory being corrupted.
  2031. However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
  2032. repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
  2033. affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
  2034. to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
  2035. memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
  2036. By default it checks for corruption in the low
  2037. 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
  2038. use. Use this parameter to scan for
  2039. corruption in more or less memory.
  2040. memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
  2041. By default it checks for corruption every 60
  2042. seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
  2043. other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
  2044. memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
  2045. Format: <integer>
  2046. default : 0 <disable>
  2047. Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
  2048. performed. Each pass selects another test
  2049. pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
  2050. fills the memory with this pattern, validates
  2051. memory contents and reserves bad memory
  2052. regions that are detected.
  2053. mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
  2054. Valid arguments: on, off
  2055. Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
  2056. on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
  2057. off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
  2058. mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
  2059. mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
  2060. Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
  2061. for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
  2062. mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
  2063. s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
  2064. shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
  2065. deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
  2066. See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
  2067. meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
  2068. See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
  2069. mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
  2070. Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
  2071. platforms.
  2072. mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
  2073. the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
  2074. version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
  2075. problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
  2076. mga= [HW,DRM]
  2077. min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
  2078. physical address is ignored.
  2079. mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
  2080. Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
  2081. Default: "0tb"
  2082. MINI2440 configuration specification:
  2083. 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
  2084. 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
  2085. 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
  2086. Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
  2087. the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
  2088. unconfigured.
  2089. b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
  2090. linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
  2091. LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
  2092. VGA shield.
  2093. c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
  2094. t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
  2095. touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
  2096. kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
  2097. in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
  2098. http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
  2099. mitigations=
  2100. [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
  2101. CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated,
  2102. arch-independent options, each of which is an
  2103. aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
  2104. off
  2105. Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This
  2106. improves system performance, but it may also
  2107. expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
  2108. Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
  2109. kpti=0 [ARM64]
  2110. nospectre_v1 [PPC]
  2111. nobp=0 [S390]
  2112. nospectre_v1 [X86]
  2113. nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
  2114. spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
  2115. spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
  2116. ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
  2117. l1tf=off [X86]
  2118. mds=off [X86]
  2119. tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
  2120. kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
  2121. no_entry_flush [PPC]
  2122. no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
  2123. Exceptions:
  2124. This does not have any effect on
  2125. kvm.nx_huge_pages when
  2126. kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
  2127. auto (default)
  2128. Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
  2129. enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for
  2130. users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
  2131. getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
  2132. have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
  2133. Equivalent to: (default behavior)
  2134. auto,nosmt
  2135. Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
  2136. if needed. This is for users who always want to
  2137. be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
  2138. Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
  2139. mds=full,nosmt [X86]
  2140. tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
  2141. mminit_loglevel=
  2142. [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
  2143. parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
  2144. the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
  2145. of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
  2146. log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
  2147. so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
  2148. module.sig_enforce
  2149. [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
  2150. modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
  2151. Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
  2152. is always true, so this option does nothing.
  2153. module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
  2154. modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
  2155. mousedev.tap_time=
  2156. [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
  2157. leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
  2158. a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
  2159. touchpads working in absolute mode only).
  2160. Format: <msecs>
  2161. mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
  2162. reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
  2163. mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
  2164. reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
  2165. movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
  2166. Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
  2167. This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
  2168. specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
  2169. allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is
  2170. specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
  2171. specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its
  2172. own is specified, the administrator must be careful
  2173. that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
  2174. is not too small.
  2175. movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
  2176. NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
  2177. of such nodes will be usable only for movable
  2178. allocations which rules out almost all kernel
  2179. allocations. Use with caution!
  2180. MTD_Partition= [MTD]
  2181. Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
  2182. MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
  2183. <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
  2184. mtdparts= [MTD]
  2185. See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
  2186. multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
  2187. firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
  2188. at a time.
  2189. onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
  2190. Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
  2191. boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
  2192. The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
  2193. lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
  2194. Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
  2195. 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
  2196. mtdset= [ARM]
  2197. ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
  2198. See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
  2199. mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
  2200. [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
  2201. ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
  2202. mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
  2203. used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
  2204. that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
  2205. mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
  2206. Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
  2207. Default is 1.
  2208. Large value could prevent small alignment from
  2209. using up MTRRs.
  2210. mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
  2211. Format: <integer>
  2212. Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
  2213. Default : 1
  2214. Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
  2215. Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
  2216. n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
  2217. netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
  2218. Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
  2219. Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
  2220. something different and driver-specific.
  2221. This usage is only documented in each driver source
  2222. file if at all.
  2223. nf_conntrack.acct=
  2224. [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
  2225. 0 to disable accounting
  2226. 1 to enable accounting
  2227. Default value is 0.
  2228. nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
  2229. See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
  2230. nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
  2231. See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
  2232. nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
  2233. See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
  2234. nfs.callback_nr_threads=
  2235. [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
  2236. NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
  2237. requests.
  2238. nfs.callback_tcpport=
  2239. [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
  2240. channel should listen.
  2241. nfs.cache_getent=
  2242. [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
  2243. to update the NFS client cache entries.
  2244. nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
  2245. [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
  2246. update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
  2247. nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
  2248. [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
  2249. entries.
  2250. nfs.enable_ino64=
  2251. [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
  2252. If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
  2253. number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
  2254. of returning the full 64-bit number.
  2255. The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
  2256. nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
  2257. [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
  2258. slots the client will assign to the callback
  2259. channel. This determines the maximum number of
  2260. callbacks the client will process in parallel for
  2261. a particular server.
  2262. nfs.max_session_slots=
  2263. [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
  2264. the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
  2265. This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
  2266. that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
  2267. Note that there is little point in setting this
  2268. value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
  2269. nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
  2270. [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
  2271. ensures that both the RPC level authentication
  2272. scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
  2273. numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
  2274. 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
  2275. disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
  2276. legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
  2277. Servers that do not support this mode of operation
  2278. will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
  2279. back to using the idmapper.
  2280. To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
  2281. nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
  2282. [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
  2283. ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
  2284. their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
  2285. UUID that is generated at system install time.
  2286. nfs.send_implementation_id =
  2287. [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
  2288. information in exchange_id requests.
  2289. If zero, no implementation identification information
  2290. will be sent.
  2291. The default is to send the implementation identification
  2292. information.
  2293. nfs.recover_lost_locks =
  2294. [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
  2295. to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
  2296. doing this risks data corruption, since there are
  2297. no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
  2298. after the locks are lost.
  2299. If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
  2300. attempting to recover these locks, then set this
  2301. parameter to '1'.
  2302. The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
  2303. not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
  2304. nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
  2305. [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
  2306. layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
  2307. Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
  2308. whatever value is the default set by the layout
  2309. driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
  2310. in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
  2311. nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
  2312. [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
  2313. server will return only numeric uids and gids to
  2314. clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
  2315. and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
  2316. migration from NFSv2/v3.
  2317. nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
  2318. when a NMI is triggered.
  2319. Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
  2320. nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
  2321. Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
  2322. Valid num: 0 or 1
  2323. 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
  2324. 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
  2325. When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
  2326. timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
  2327. default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
  2328. please see 'nowatchdog'.
  2329. This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
  2330. need the box quickly up again.
  2331. These settings can be accessed at runtime via
  2332. the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
  2333. netpoll.carrier_timeout=
  2334. [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
  2335. netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
  2336. waits 4 seconds.
  2337. no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
  2338. emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
  2339. is present.
  2340. no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
  2341. kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
  2342. no_console_suspend
  2343. [HW] Never suspend the console
  2344. Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
  2345. hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
  2346. messages can reach various consoles while the rest
  2347. of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
  2348. debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
  2349. not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
  2350. to work with serial and VGA consoles.
  2351. To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
  2352. console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
  2353. it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
  2354. /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
  2355. turn on/off it dynamically.
  2356. noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
  2357. caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
  2358. but will impact performance.
  2359. noalign [KNL,ARM]
  2360. noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
  2361. (CPU alternatives feature).
  2362. noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
  2363. IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
  2364. noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
  2365. nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
  2366. on "Classic" PPC cores.
  2367. nocache [ARM]
  2368. noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
  2369. nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
  2370. nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
  2371. noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
  2372. no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
  2373. noexec [IA-64]
  2374. noexec [X86]
  2375. On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
  2376. noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
  2377. noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
  2378. nosmap [X86]
  2379. Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
  2380. even if it is supported by processor.
  2381. nosmep [X86]
  2382. Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
  2383. even if it is supported by processor.
  2384. noexec32 [X86-64]
  2385. This affects only 32-bit executables.
  2386. noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
  2387. read doesn't imply executable mappings
  2388. noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
  2389. read implies executable mappings
  2390. nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
  2391. nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
  2392. register save and restore. The kernel will only save
  2393. legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
  2394. nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
  2395. nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
  2396. Equivalent to smt=1.
  2397. [KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
  2398. nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
  2399. via the sysfs control file.
  2400. nospectre_v1 [X66, PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
  2401. (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks
  2402. are possible in the system.
  2403. nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
  2404. the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
  2405. vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
  2406. option.
  2407. nospec_store_bypass_disable
  2408. [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
  2409. no_uaccess_flush
  2410. [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
  2411. noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
  2412. and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
  2413. enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
  2414. noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
  2415. register states. The kernel will fall back to use
  2416. xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
  2417. performance of saving the states is degraded because
  2418. xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
  2419. xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
  2420. noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
  2421. restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
  2422. form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
  2423. xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
  2424. in standard form of xsave area. By using this
  2425. parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
  2426. memory on xsaves enabled systems.
  2427. nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
  2428. wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
  2429. use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
  2430. no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
  2431. only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
  2432. is to be setuid root or executed by root.
  2433. nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
  2434. function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
  2435. power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
  2436. interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
  2437. in certain environments such as networked servers or
  2438. real-time systems.
  2439. nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
  2440. nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
  2441. Valid arguments: on, off
  2442. Default: on
  2443. nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
  2444. The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
  2445. In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
  2446. the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
  2447. whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
  2448. the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
  2449. in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
  2450. just as if they had also been called out in the
  2451. rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
  2452. noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
  2453. noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
  2454. disable unhandled interrupt sources.
  2455. no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
  2456. broken timer IRQ sources.
  2457. noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
  2458. noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
  2459. initial RAM disk.
  2460. nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
  2461. remapping.
  2462. [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
  2463. nointroute [IA-64]
  2464. noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
  2465. nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
  2466. no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
  2467. no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
  2468. fault handling.
  2469. no-vmw-sched-clock
  2470. [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
  2471. clock and use the default one.
  2472. no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
  2473. steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
  2474. behaviour
  2475. nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
  2476. nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
  2477. noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
  2478. lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
  2479. nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
  2480. nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
  2481. nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
  2482. Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
  2483. nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
  2484. shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
  2485. irq.
  2486. nomodule Disable module load
  2487. nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
  2488. pagetables) support.
  2489. nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
  2490. norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
  2491. echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
  2492. noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
  2493. with UP alternatives
  2494. nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
  2495. RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
  2496. by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
  2497. available to user space applications.
  2498. noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
  2499. space.
  2500. no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
  2501. This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
  2502. reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
  2503. nosbagart [IA-64]
  2504. nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
  2505. nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
  2506. and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
  2507. nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
  2508. nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
  2509. nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
  2510. soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
  2511. nowb [ARM]
  2512. nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
  2513. cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
  2514. CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
  2515. Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
  2516. 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
  2517. Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
  2518. need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
  2519. 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
  2520. removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
  2521. It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
  2522. machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
  2523. after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
  2524. If the dependencies are under your control, you can
  2525. turn on cpu0_hotplug.
  2526. nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
  2527. This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
  2528. cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
  2529. without interruptions, before HW switches it.
  2530. The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
  2531. parameter's value.
  2532. Format: integer between 1 and 255
  2533. Default: 255
  2534. nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
  2535. purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
  2536. SAL PALO.
  2537. nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
  2538. could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
  2539. support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
  2540. number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
  2541. runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
  2542. n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
  2543. variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
  2544. hot plugging.
  2545. nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
  2546. numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
  2547. Allowed values are enable and disable
  2548. numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
  2549. 'node', 'default' can be specified
  2550. This can be set from sysctl after boot.
  2551. See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
  2552. ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
  2553. See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
  2554. info.
  2555. olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
  2556. Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
  2557. command is not properly ACKed, override the length
  2558. of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
  2559. waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
  2560. interrupts *may* be lost!
  2561. omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
  2562. Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
  2563. For example, to override I2C bus2:
  2564. omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
  2565. oprofile.timer= [HW]
  2566. Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
  2567. oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
  2568. This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
  2569. userland or if you want common events.
  2570. Format: { arch_perfmon }
  2571. arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
  2572. perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
  2573. CPU specific event set.
  2574. timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
  2575. timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
  2576. for generic hr timer mode)
  2577. oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
  2578. process, but there is a small probability of
  2579. deadlocking the machine.
  2580. This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
  2581. Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
  2582. page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
  2583. Storage of the information about who allocated
  2584. each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
  2585. we can turn it on.
  2586. on: enable the feature
  2587. page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
  2588. poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
  2589. CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
  2590. off: turn off poisoning (default)
  2591. on: turn on poisoning
  2592. panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
  2593. timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
  2594. timeout = 0: wait forever
  2595. timeout < 0: reboot immediately
  2596. Format: <timeout>
  2597. panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
  2598. on a WARN().
  2599. crash_kexec_post_notifiers
  2600. Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
  2601. kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
  2602. succeeds in any situation.
  2603. Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
  2604. because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
  2605. kernel more unstable.
  2606. parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
  2607. connected to, default is 0.
  2608. Format: <parport#>
  2609. parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
  2610. 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
  2611. Format: <mode>
  2612. parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
  2613. Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
  2614. Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
  2615. IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
  2616. ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
  2617. possible conflicts). You can specify the base
  2618. address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
  2619. should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
  2620. settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
  2621. (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
  2622. Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
  2623. are specified on the command line, starting
  2624. with parport0.
  2625. parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
  2626. Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
  2627. a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
  2628. computer where firmware has no options for setting
  2629. up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
  2630. Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
  2631. Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
  2632. pause_on_oops=
  2633. Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
  2634. the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
  2635. your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
  2636. pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
  2637. pcd. [PARIDE]
  2638. See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
  2639. See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
  2640. pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
  2641. Some options herein operate on a specific device
  2642. or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
  2643. specified in one of the following formats:
  2644. [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
  2645. pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
  2646. Note: the first format specifies a PCI
  2647. bus/device/function address which may change
  2648. if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
  2649. firmware changes, or due to changes caused
  2650. by other kernel parameters. If the
  2651. domain is left unspecified, it is
  2652. taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
  2653. to a device through multiple device/function
  2654. addresses can be specified after the base
  2655. address (this is more robust against
  2656. renumbering issues). The second format
  2657. selects devices using IDs from the
  2658. configuration space which may match multiple
  2659. devices in the system.
  2660. earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel
  2661. changes anything
  2662. off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
  2663. bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
  2664. the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
  2665. has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
  2666. nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
  2667. hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
  2668. if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
  2669. suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
  2670. conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
  2671. Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
  2672. data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
  2673. conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
  2674. Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
  2675. the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
  2676. bus number. The config space is then accessed
  2677. through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
  2678. See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
  2679. on the configuration access mechanisms.
  2680. noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
  2681. enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
  2682. disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
  2683. nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
  2684. root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
  2685. nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
  2686. Configuration
  2687. check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
  2688. properly configured MMIO access to PCI
  2689. config space on AMD family 10h CPU
  2690. nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
  2691. enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
  2692. disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
  2693. noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
  2694. Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
  2695. should never be necessary.
  2696. ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
  2697. primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
  2698. boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
  2699. when the system masks IRQs.
  2700. noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
  2701. boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
  2702. a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
  2703. The opposite of ioapicreroute.
  2704. biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
  2705. routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
  2706. on several machines and they hang the machine
  2707. when used, but on other computers it's the only
  2708. way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
  2709. this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
  2710. IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
  2711. motherboard.
  2712. rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
  2713. Use with caution as certain devices share
  2714. address decoders between ROMs and other
  2715. resources.
  2716. norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
  2717. expansion ROMs that do not already have
  2718. BIOS assigned address ranges.
  2719. nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
  2720. BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
  2721. irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
  2722. assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
  2723. make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
  2724. this way.
  2725. pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
  2726. of the PIRQ table (normally generated
  2727. by the BIOS) if it is outside the
  2728. F0000h-100000h range.
  2729. lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
  2730. useful if the kernel is unable to find your
  2731. secondary buses and you want to tell it
  2732. explicitly which ones they are.
  2733. assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
  2734. numbers ourselves, overriding
  2735. whatever the firmware may have done.
  2736. usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
  2737. in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
  2738. some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
  2739. some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
  2740. notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
  2741. IRQ routing is enabled.
  2742. noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
  2743. or for PCI scanning.
  2744. use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
  2745. from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
  2746. is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
  2747. please report a bug.
  2748. nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
  2749. If you need to use this, please report a bug.
  2750. routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
  2751. This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
  2752. so this option is a temporary workaround
  2753. for broken drivers that don't call it.
  2754. skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
  2755. handle more pci cards
  2756. noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
  2757. This might help on some broken boards which
  2758. machine check when some devices' config space
  2759. is read. But various workarounds are disabled
  2760. and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
  2761. bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
  2762. This sorting is done to get a device
  2763. order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
  2764. nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
  2765. pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
  2766. tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
  2767. pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
  2768. supported by all devices below the root complex.
  2769. pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
  2770. based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
  2771. Read Request Size) to the largest supported
  2772. value (no larger than the MPS that the device
  2773. or bus can support) for best performance.
  2774. pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
  2775. every device is guaranteed to support. This
  2776. configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
  2777. any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
  2778. reduced performance. This also guarantees
  2779. that hot-added devices will work.
  2780. cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
  2781. reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
  2782. The default value is 256 bytes.
  2783. cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
  2784. reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
  2785. window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
  2786. resource_alignment=
  2787. Format:
  2788. [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
  2789. Specifies alignment and device to reassign
  2790. aligned memory resources. How to
  2791. specify the device is described above.
  2792. If <order of align> is not specified,
  2793. PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
  2794. PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
  2795. windows need to be expanded.
  2796. To specify the alignment for several
  2797. instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
  2798. device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
  2799. specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
  2800. ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
  2801. end-to-end CRC checking).
  2802. bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
  2803. the default.
  2804. off: Turn ECRC off
  2805. on: Turn ECRC on.
  2806. hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
  2807. reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
  2808. Default size is 256 bytes.
  2809. hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
  2810. reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
  2811. Default size is 2 megabytes.
  2812. hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
  2813. reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
  2814. Default is 1.
  2815. realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
  2816. if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
  2817. accommodate resources required by all child
  2818. devices.
  2819. off: Turn realloc off
  2820. on: Turn realloc on
  2821. realloc same as realloc=on
  2822. noari do not use PCIe ARI.
  2823. noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
  2824. do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
  2825. pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
  2826. only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
  2827. port.
  2828. big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
  2829. root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
  2830. can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
  2831. Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
  2832. conflict with unreported devices), so this
  2833. taints the kernel.
  2834. disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
  2835. Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
  2836. specified above) separated by semicolons.
  2837. Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
  2838. redirect capabilities forced off which will
  2839. allow P2P traffic between devices through
  2840. bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
  2841. this removes isolation between devices and
  2842. may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
  2843. pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
  2844. Management.
  2845. off Disable ASPM.
  2846. force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
  2847. WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
  2848. pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
  2849. native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
  2850. even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
  2851. use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform
  2852. also tries to use these services.
  2853. compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
  2854. hotplug).
  2855. pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
  2856. off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
  2857. force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
  2858. pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
  2859. nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
  2860. all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
  2861. pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
  2862. pd_ignore_unused
  2863. [PM]
  2864. Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
  2865. even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
  2866. for debug and development, but should not be
  2867. needed on a platform with proper driver support.
  2868. pd. [PARIDE]
  2869. See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
  2870. pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
  2871. boot time.
  2872. Format: { 0 | 1 }
  2873. See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
  2874. percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
  2875. Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
  2876. Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
  2877. See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
  2878. allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
  2879. and performance comparison.
  2880. pf. [PARIDE]
  2881. See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
  2882. pg. [PARIDE]
  2883. See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
  2884. pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
  2885. See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
  2886. plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
  2887. Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
  2888. See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
  2889. pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
  2890. Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
  2891. e.g. pmtmr=0x508
  2892. pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
  2893. Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
  2894. CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
  2895. via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
  2896. current resource usage; turning this on also shows
  2897. possible settings and some assignment information.
  2898. pnpacpi= [ACPI]
  2899. { off }
  2900. pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
  2901. { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
  2902. pnp_reserve_irq=
  2903. [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
  2904. pnp_reserve_dma=
  2905. [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
  2906. pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
  2907. Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
  2908. pnp_reserve_mem=
  2909. [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
  2910. autoconfiguration.
  2911. Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
  2912. ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
  2913. Default is 21.
  2914. Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
  2915. may be specified.
  2916. Format: <port>,<port>....
  2917. powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
  2918. It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
  2919. platform machine description specific power_save
  2920. function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
  2921. execution priority.
  2922. ppc_strict_facility_enable
  2923. [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
  2924. Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
  2925. allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
  2926. There is some performance impact when enabling this.
  2927. ppc_tm= [PPC]
  2928. Format: {"off"}
  2929. Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
  2930. print-fatal-signals=
  2931. [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
  2932. If enabled, warn about various signal handling
  2933. related application anomalies: too many signals,
  2934. too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
  2935. coredump - etc.
  2936. If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
  2937. you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
  2938. default: off.
  2939. printk.always_kmsg_dump=
  2940. Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
  2941. panics
  2942. Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
  2943. default: disabled
  2944. printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
  2945. Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
  2946. on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
  2947. off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
  2948. ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
  2949. Default: ratelimit
  2950. printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
  2951. Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
  2952. processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
  2953. Limit processor to maximum C-state
  2954. max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
  2955. processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
  2956. Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
  2957. instead using the legacy FADT method
  2958. profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
  2959. Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
  2960. Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
  2961. [defaults to kernel profiling]
  2962. Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
  2963. Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
  2964. Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
  2965. Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
  2966. Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
  2967. statistical time based profiling.
  2968. prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
  2969. before loading.
  2970. See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
  2971. psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
  2972. probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
  2973. psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
  2974. per second.
  2975. psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
  2976. Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
  2977. (0 = never).
  2978. psmouse.resolution=
  2979. [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
  2980. psmouse.smartscroll=
  2981. [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
  2982. 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
  2983. pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
  2984. pt. [PARIDE]
  2985. See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
  2986. pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
  2987. kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
  2988. removes hardening, but improves performance of
  2989. system calls and interrupts.
  2990. on - unconditionally enable
  2991. off - unconditionally disable
  2992. auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
  2993. vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
  2994. Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
  2995. nopti [X86_64]
  2996. Equivalent to pti=off
  2997. pty.legacy_count=
  2998. [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
  2999. default number.
  3000. quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
  3001. r128= [HW,DRM]
  3002. raid= [HW,RAID]
  3003. See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
  3004. ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
  3005. See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
  3006. random.trust_cpu={on,off}
  3007. [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
  3008. CPU's random number generator (if available) to
  3009. fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
  3010. by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
  3011. ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
  3012. cec_disable [X86]
  3013. Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
  3014. see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
  3015. rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
  3016. The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
  3017. In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
  3018. the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
  3019. Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
  3020. be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
  3021. that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
  3022. for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
  3023. is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
  3024. offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
  3025. real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
  3026. efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
  3027. rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
  3028. Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
  3029. (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
  3030. awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
  3031. make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
  3032. This improves the real-time response for the
  3033. offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
  3034. wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
  3035. energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
  3036. periodically wake up to do the polling.
  3037. rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
  3038. Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
  3039. process in one batch.
  3040. rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
  3041. Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
  3042. out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
  3043. purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
  3044. rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
  3045. Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
  3046. RCU grace-period cleanup.
  3047. rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
  3048. Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
  3049. RCU grace-period initialization.
  3050. rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
  3051. Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
  3052. RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
  3053. the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
  3054. the rcu_node combining tree.
  3055. rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
  3056. Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
  3057. tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
  3058. possibly be useful for architectures having high
  3059. cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
  3060. rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
  3061. Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
  3062. leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
  3063. large systems, which will choose the value 64,
  3064. and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
  3065. latencies, which will choose a value aligned
  3066. with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
  3067. rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
  3068. Set required age in jiffies for a
  3069. given grace period before RCU starts
  3070. soliciting quiescent-state help from
  3071. rcu_note_context_switch().
  3072. rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
  3073. Set delay from grace-period initialization to
  3074. first attempt to force quiescent states.
  3075. Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
  3076. and maximum value is HZ.
  3077. rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
  3078. Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
  3079. quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
  3080. value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
  3081. rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
  3082. Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
  3083. kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
  3084. the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
  3085. and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
  3086. rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
  3087. set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
  3088. (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
  3089. RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
  3090. the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
  3091. rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
  3092. Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
  3093. defaults to the square root of the number of
  3094. CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
  3095. on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
  3096. that same overhead on each group's leader.
  3097. rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
  3098. Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
  3099. batch limiting is disabled.
  3100. rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
  3101. Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
  3102. batch limiting is re-enabled.
  3103. rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
  3104. Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
  3105. RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
  3106. rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
  3107. Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
  3108. only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
  3109. Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
  3110. prove do nothing more than free memory.
  3111. rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
  3112. Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
  3113. wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
  3114. it should at force-quiescent-state time.
  3115. This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
  3116. WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
  3117. rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
  3118. Measure performance of asynchronous
  3119. grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
  3120. rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
  3121. Specify the maximum number of outstanding
  3122. callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
  3123. thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
  3124. corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
  3125. previously posted callbacks to drain.
  3126. rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
  3127. Measure performance of expedited synchronous
  3128. grace-period primitives.
  3129. rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
  3130. Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
  3131. this parameter is to delay the start of the
  3132. test until boot completes in order to avoid
  3133. interference.
  3134. rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
  3135. Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
  3136. N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
  3137. "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
  3138. the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
  3139. (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
  3140. A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
  3141. a single reader.
  3142. rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
  3143. Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
  3144. the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
  3145. N, where N is the number of CPUs
  3146. rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
  3147. Specify the RCU implementation to test.
  3148. rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
  3149. Shut the system down after performance tests
  3150. complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
  3151. testing.
  3152. rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
  3153. Enable additional printk() statements.
  3154. rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
  3155. Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
  3156. in microseconds. The default of zero says
  3157. no holdoff.
  3158. rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
  3159. Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
  3160. callback-flood tests.
  3161. rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
  3162. Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
  3163. bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
  3164. test.
  3165. rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
  3166. Set the number of bursts making up a given
  3167. callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
  3168. disable callback-flood testing.
  3169. rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
  3170. Set the number of callbacks to be registered
  3171. in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
  3172. rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
  3173. Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
  3174. in microseconds.
  3175. rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
  3176. Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
  3177. in microseconds.
  3178. rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
  3179. Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
  3180. in seconds.
  3181. rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
  3182. Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
  3183. primitives, if available.
  3184. rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
  3185. Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
  3186. rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
  3187. Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
  3188. update-side primitives, if available.
  3189. rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
  3190. Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
  3191. update-side primitives, if available. If all
  3192. of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
  3193. rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
  3194. are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
  3195. they are all non-zero.
  3196. rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
  3197. Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
  3198. rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
  3199. Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
  3200. stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
  3201. test, hence the "fake".
  3202. rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
  3203. Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
  3204. N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
  3205. "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
  3206. the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
  3207. (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
  3208. rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
  3209. Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
  3210. rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
  3211. Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
  3212. rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
  3213. Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
  3214. or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
  3215. rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
  3216. Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
  3217. allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
  3218. during the rcutorture test.
  3219. rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
  3220. Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
  3221. is useful for hands-off automated testing.
  3222. rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
  3223. Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
  3224. warnings, zero to disable.
  3225. rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
  3226. Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
  3227. rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
  3228. Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
  3229. rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
  3230. Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
  3231. rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
  3232. Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
  3233. five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
  3234. wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
  3235. ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
  3236. rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
  3237. Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
  3238. "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
  3239. under test support RCU priority boosting.
  3240. rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
  3241. Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
  3242. rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
  3243. Interval (s) between each boost test.
  3244. rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
  3245. Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
  3246. rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
  3247. rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
  3248. Specify the RCU implementation to test.
  3249. rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
  3250. Enable additional printk() statements.
  3251. rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
  3252. Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
  3253. rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
  3254. Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
  3255. rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
  3256. Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
  3257. example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
  3258. of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
  3259. but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
  3260. real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
  3261. No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
  3262. rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
  3263. Use only normal grace-period primitives,
  3264. for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
  3265. synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
  3266. real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
  3267. energy efficiency, but can expose users to
  3268. increased grace-period latency. This parameter
  3269. overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
  3270. CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
  3271. rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
  3272. Once boot has completed (that is, after
  3273. rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
  3274. only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
  3275. on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
  3276. rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
  3277. Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
  3278. messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
  3279. to zero.
  3280. rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
  3281. Run the RCU early boot self tests
  3282. rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
  3283. Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
  3284. rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
  3285. Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
  3286. rdinit= [KNL]
  3287. Format: <full_path>
  3288. Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
  3289. used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
  3290. rdrand= [X86]
  3291. force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
  3292. advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
  3293. certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
  3294. support, specifically around the suspend/resume
  3295. path).
  3296. rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
  3297. Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
  3298. cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
  3299. mba.
  3300. E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
  3301. rdt=cmt,!mba
  3302. reboot= [KNL]
  3303. Format (x86 or x86_64):
  3304. [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
  3305. [[,]s[mp]#### \
  3306. [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
  3307. [[,]f[orce]
  3308. Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
  3309. reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
  3310. reboot_force is either force or not specified,
  3311. reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
  3312. to be used for rebooting.
  3313. relax_domain_level=
  3314. [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
  3315. See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
  3316. reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
  3317. Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
  3318. Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
  3319. them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
  3320. is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
  3321. reservetop= [X86-32]
  3322. Format: nn[KMG]
  3323. Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
  3324. address space.
  3325. reservelow= [X86]
  3326. Format: nn[K]
  3327. Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
  3328. the bottom of the address space.
  3329. reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
  3330. during initialization.
  3331. resume= [SWSUSP]
  3332. Specify the partition device for software suspend
  3333. Format:
  3334. {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
  3335. resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
  3336. Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
  3337. given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
  3338. in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
  3339. See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
  3340. resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
  3341. read the resume files
  3342. resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
  3343. Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
  3344. (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
  3345. hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
  3346. noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
  3347. present during boot.
  3348. nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
  3349. no Disable hibernation and resume.
  3350. protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
  3351. (that will set all pages holding image data
  3352. during restoration read-only).
  3353. retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
  3354. rfkill.default_state=
  3355. 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
  3356. etc. communication is blocked by default.
  3357. 1 Unblocked.
  3358. rfkill.master_switch_mode=
  3359. 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
  3360. 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
  3361. blocked and the previous configuration.
  3362. 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
  3363. blocked and everything unblocked.
  3364. rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
  3365. Set number of hash buckets for route cache
  3366. ring3mwait=disable
  3367. [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
  3368. CPUs.
  3369. ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
  3370. rodata= [KNL]
  3371. on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
  3372. off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
  3373. rockchip.usb_uart
  3374. Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
  3375. on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
  3376. debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
  3377. port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
  3378. root= [KNL] Root filesystem
  3379. See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
  3380. rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
  3381. mount the root filesystem
  3382. rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
  3383. rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
  3384. rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
  3385. Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
  3386. (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
  3387. rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
  3388. [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
  3389. Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
  3390. managed by CMA.
  3391. rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
  3392. S [KNL] Run init in single mode
  3393. s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
  3394. Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
  3395. strict
  3396. With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
  3397. an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
  3398. which is faster.
  3399. sa1100ir [NET]
  3400. See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
  3401. sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
  3402. sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
  3403. schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
  3404. Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
  3405. incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
  3406. but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
  3407. skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
  3408. xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
  3409. contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
  3410. Format: { "0" | "1" }
  3411. 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
  3412. 1 -- enable.
  3413. Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
  3414. enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
  3415. security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
  3416. If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
  3417. security module asking for security registration will be
  3418. loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
  3419. as if no module has been chosen.
  3420. selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
  3421. Format: { "0" | "1" }
  3422. See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
  3423. 0 -- disable.
  3424. 1 -- enable.
  3425. Default value is set via kernel config option.
  3426. If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
  3427. later to disable prior to initial policy load.
  3428. apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
  3429. Format: { "0" | "1" }
  3430. See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
  3431. 0 -- disable.
  3432. 1 -- enable.
  3433. Default value is set via kernel config option.
  3434. serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
  3435. shapers= [NET]
  3436. Maximal number of shapers.
  3437. simeth= [IA-64]
  3438. simscsi=
  3439. slram= [HW,MTD]
  3440. slab_nomerge [MM]
  3441. Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
  3442. necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
  3443. allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
  3444. environments where the risk of heap overflows and
  3445. layout control by attackers can usually be
  3446. frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
  3447. most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
  3448. cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
  3449. unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
  3450. own.
  3451. For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
  3452. slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
  3453. Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
  3454. A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
  3455. fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
  3456. more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
  3457. slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
  3458. Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
  3459. culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
  3460. slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
  3461. may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
  3462. last alloc / free. For more information see
  3463. Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
  3464. slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
  3465. Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
  3466. memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
  3467. The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
  3468. Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
  3469. directories and files being created under
  3470. /sys/kernel/slub.
  3471. slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
  3472. Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
  3473. A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
  3474. fragmentation. For more information see
  3475. Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
  3476. slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
  3477. The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
  3478. increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
  3479. generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
  3480. the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
  3481. of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
  3482. and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
  3483. For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
  3484. slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
  3485. Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
  3486. lower than slub_max_order.
  3487. For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
  3488. slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
  3489. Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
  3490. See slab_nomerge for more information.
  3491. smart2= [HW]
  3492. Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
  3493. smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
  3494. smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
  3495. smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
  3496. smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
  3497. smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
  3498. smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
  3499. smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
  3500. 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
  3501. 1: Fast pin select (default)
  3502. 2: ATC IRMode
  3503. smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
  3504. CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
  3505. symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
  3506. actual hardware limit.
  3507. Format: <integer>
  3508. Default: -1 (no limit)
  3509. softlockup_panic=
  3510. [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
  3511. Format: <integer>
  3512. A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
  3513. to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
  3514. is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
  3515. which is the respective build-time switch to that
  3516. functionality.
  3517. softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
  3518. [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
  3519. backtraces on all cpus.
  3520. Format: <integer>
  3521. sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
  3522. See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
  3523. spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
  3524. (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
  3525. The default operation protects the kernel from
  3526. user space attacks.
  3527. on - unconditionally enable, implies
  3528. spectre_v2_user=on
  3529. off - unconditionally disable, implies
  3530. spectre_v2_user=off
  3531. auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
  3532. vulnerable
  3533. Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
  3534. mitigation method at run time according to the
  3535. CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
  3536. CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
  3537. compiler with which the kernel was built.
  3538. Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
  3539. against user space to user space task attacks.
  3540. Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
  3541. the user space protections.
  3542. Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
  3543. retpoline - replace indirect branches
  3544. retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
  3545. retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk
  3546. Not specifying this option is equivalent to
  3547. spectre_v2=auto.
  3548. spectre_v2_user=
  3549. [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
  3550. (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
  3551. user space tasks
  3552. on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
  3553. enforced by spectre_v2=on
  3554. off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
  3555. enforced by spectre_v2=off
  3556. prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
  3557. but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
  3558. per thread. The mitigation control state
  3559. is inherited on fork.
  3560. prctl,ibpb
  3561. - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
  3562. controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
  3563. always when switching between different user
  3564. space processes.
  3565. seccomp
  3566. - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
  3567. threads will enable the mitigation unless
  3568. they explicitly opt out.
  3569. seccomp,ibpb
  3570. - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
  3571. controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
  3572. always when switching between different
  3573. user space processes.
  3574. auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
  3575. the available CPU features and vulnerability.
  3576. Default mitigation:
  3577. If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
  3578. Not specifying this option is equivalent to
  3579. spectre_v2_user=auto.
  3580. spec_store_bypass_disable=
  3581. [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
  3582. (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
  3583. Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
  3584. a common industry wide performance optimization known
  3585. as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
  3586. to the same memory location may not be observed by
  3587. later loads during speculative execution. The idea
  3588. is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
  3589. be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
  3590. end of a particular speculation execution window.
  3591. In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
  3592. store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
  3593. example to read memory to which the attacker does not
  3594. directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
  3595. This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
  3596. Bypass optimization is used.
  3597. On x86 the options are:
  3598. on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
  3599. off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
  3600. auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
  3601. implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
  3602. picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
  3603. CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
  3604. CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
  3605. architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
  3606. prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
  3607. via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
  3608. for a process by default. The state of the control
  3609. is inherited on fork.
  3610. seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
  3611. will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
  3612. Default mitigations:
  3613. X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
  3614. On powerpc the options are:
  3615. on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
  3616. barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
  3617. perform a software flush on kernel entry and
  3618. exit.
  3619. off - No action.
  3620. Not specifying this option is equivalent to
  3621. spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
  3622. spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
  3623. spia_fio_base=
  3624. spia_pedr=
  3625. spia_peddr=
  3626. srbds= [X86,INTEL]
  3627. Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
  3628. (SRBDS) mitigation.
  3629. Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
  3630. exploit which can leak bits from the random
  3631. number generator.
  3632. By default, this issue is mitigated by
  3633. microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause
  3634. the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
  3635. much slower. Among other effects, this will
  3636. result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
  3637. The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
  3638. the following option:
  3639. off: Disable mitigation and remove
  3640. performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
  3641. srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
  3642. Specifies how frequently to check for
  3643. grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
  3644. srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
  3645. The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
  3646. parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
  3647. be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
  3648. are ignored.
  3649. srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
  3650. Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
  3651. since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
  3652. a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
  3653. grace period will be considered for automatic
  3654. expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
  3655. expediting.
  3656. ssbd= [ARM64,HW]
  3657. Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
  3658. On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
  3659. Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
  3660. firmware based mitigation, this parameter
  3661. indicates how the mitigation should be used:
  3662. force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for
  3663. for both kernel and userspace
  3664. force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
  3665. for both kernel and userspace
  3666. kernel: Always enable mitigation in the
  3667. kernel, and offer a prctl interface
  3668. to allow userspace to register its
  3669. interest in being mitigated too.
  3670. stack_guard_gap= [MM]
  3671. override the default stack gap protection. The value
  3672. is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
  3673. to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
  3674. growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
  3675. mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
  3676. stacktrace [FTRACE]
  3677. Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
  3678. stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
  3679. [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
  3680. will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
  3681. list of functions. This list can be changed at run
  3682. time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
  3683. tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
  3684. and the stacktrace above is not needed.
  3685. sti= [PARISC,HW]
  3686. Format: <num>
  3687. Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
  3688. machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
  3689. as the initial boot-console.
  3690. See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
  3691. sti_font= [HW]
  3692. See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
  3693. stifb= [HW]
  3694. Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
  3695. sunrpc.min_resvport=
  3696. sunrpc.max_resvport=
  3697. [NFS,SUNRPC]
  3698. SunRPC servers often require that client requests
  3699. originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
  3700. range 0 < portnr < 1024).
  3701. An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
  3702. ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
  3703. kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
  3704. using these two parameters to set the minimum and
  3705. maximum port values.
  3706. sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
  3707. [NFS,SUNRPC]
  3708. Limit the number of requests that the server will
  3709. process in parallel from a single connection.
  3710. The default value is 0 (no limit).
  3711. sunrpc.pool_mode=
  3712. [NFS]
  3713. Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
  3714. service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
  3715. you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
  3716. option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
  3717. Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
  3718. NFS server is running.
  3719. auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
  3720. automatically using heuristics
  3721. global a single global pool contains all CPUs
  3722. percpu one pool for each CPU
  3723. pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
  3724. to global on non-NUMA machines)
  3725. sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
  3726. sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
  3727. [NFS,SUNRPC]
  3728. Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
  3729. RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
  3730. server. Increasing these values may allow you to
  3731. improve throughput, but will also increase the
  3732. amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
  3733. suspend.pm_test_delay=
  3734. [SUSPEND]
  3735. Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
  3736. mode before resuming the system (see
  3737. /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
  3738. is set. Default value is 5.
  3739. swapaccount=[0|1]
  3740. [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
  3741. controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
  3742. it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
  3743. swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
  3744. Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
  3745. <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
  3746. force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
  3747. wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
  3748. noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
  3749. switches= [HW,M68k]
  3750. sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
  3751. Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
  3752. on older distributions. When this option is enabled
  3753. very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
  3754. is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
  3755. in older udev will not work anymore.
  3756. Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
  3757. the kernel configuration.
  3758. sysrq_always_enabled
  3759. [KNL]
  3760. Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
  3761. neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
  3762. Useful for debugging.
  3763. tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
  3764. Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
  3765. Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
  3766. ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
  3767. cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
  3768. "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
  3769. tdfx= [HW,DRM]
  3770. test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
  3771. Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
  3772. standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
  3773. as the system sleep state during system startup with
  3774. the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
  3775. The system is woken from this state using a
  3776. wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
  3777. thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
  3778. Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
  3779. thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
  3780. -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
  3781. <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
  3782. thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
  3783. -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
  3784. <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
  3785. thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
  3786. Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
  3787. critical and hot trip points.
  3788. thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
  3789. 1: disable ACPI thermal control
  3790. thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
  3791. -1: disable all passive trip points
  3792. <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
  3793. value
  3794. thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
  3795. Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
  3796. <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
  3797. 0: no polling (default)
  3798. threadirqs [KNL]
  3799. Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
  3800. marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
  3801. tmem [KNL,XEN]
  3802. Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
  3803. tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
  3804. Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
  3805. API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
  3806. tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
  3807. Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
  3808. API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
  3809. the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
  3810. tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
  3811. Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
  3812. to the hypervisor.
  3813. tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
  3814. Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
  3815. transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
  3816. kernel based on different criteria.
  3817. topology= [S390]
  3818. Format: {off | on}
  3819. Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
  3820. topology information if the hardware supports this.
  3821. The scheduler will make use of this information and
  3822. e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
  3823. Default is on.
  3824. topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
  3825. Format: {off}
  3826. Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
  3827. topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
  3828. LPAR.
  3829. tp720= [HW,PS2]
  3830. tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
  3831. Format: integer pcr id
  3832. Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
  3833. should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
  3834. as a workaround for some chips which fail to
  3835. flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
  3836. This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
  3837. are saved.
  3838. trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
  3839. [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
  3840. trace_event=[event-list]
  3841. [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
  3842. to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
  3843. comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
  3844. also Documentation/trace/events.rst
  3845. trace_options=[option-list]
  3846. [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
  3847. The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
  3848. that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
  3849. to echo the option name into
  3850. /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
  3851. For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
  3852. stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
  3853. trace_options=stacktrace
  3854. See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
  3855. section.
  3856. tp_printk[FTRACE]
  3857. Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
  3858. tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
  3859. where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
  3860. option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
  3861. ftrace_dump_on_oops.
  3862. To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
  3863. echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
  3864. Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
  3865. tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
  3866. ** CAUTION **
  3867. Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
  3868. frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
  3869. the system to live lock.
  3870. traceoff_on_warning
  3871. [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
  3872. warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
  3873. be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
  3874. file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
  3875. This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
  3876. the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
  3877. be filled with content caused by the warning output.
  3878. This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
  3879. option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
  3880. transparent_hugepage=
  3881. [KNL]
  3882. Format: [always|madvise|never]
  3883. Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
  3884. with respect to transparent hugepages.
  3885. See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
  3886. for more details.
  3887. tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
  3888. Format: <string>
  3889. [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
  3890. disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
  3891. as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
  3892. high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
  3893. virtualized environment.
  3894. [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
  3895. Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
  3896. platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
  3897. can add overhead.
  3898. [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
  3899. marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
  3900. avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
  3901. tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
  3902. Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
  3903. support TSX control.
  3904. This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
  3905. on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
  3906. mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
  3907. TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
  3908. several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
  3909. so there may be unknown security risks associated
  3910. with leaving it enabled.
  3911. off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
  3912. option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
  3913. not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
  3914. MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
  3915. the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
  3916. update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
  3917. deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
  3918. auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
  3919. otherwise enable TSX on the system.
  3920. Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
  3921. See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
  3922. for more details.
  3923. tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
  3924. Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
  3925. Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
  3926. certain CPUs that support Transactional
  3927. Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
  3928. exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
  3929. information to a disclosure gadget under certain
  3930. conditions.
  3931. In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
  3932. data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
  3933. access data to which the attacker does not have direct
  3934. access.
  3935. This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The
  3936. options are:
  3937. full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
  3938. if TSX is enabled.
  3939. full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
  3940. vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
  3941. is not disabled because CPU is not
  3942. vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
  3943. off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
  3944. On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
  3945. prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
  3946. are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
  3947. this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
  3948. Not specifying this option is equivalent to
  3949. tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected
  3950. and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
  3951. required and doesn't provide any additional
  3952. mitigation.
  3953. For details see:
  3954. Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
  3955. turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
  3956. TurboGraFX parallel port interface
  3957. Format:
  3958. <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
  3959. See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
  3960. udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
  3961. happen after console_init() and before a proper
  3962. console driver takes over, this boot options might
  3963. help "seeing" what's going on.
  3964. uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
  3965. Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
  3966. uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
  3967. [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
  3968. Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
  3969. bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
  3970. anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
  3971. Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
  3972. reported either.
  3973. unknown_nmi_panic
  3974. [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
  3975. usbcore.authorized_default=
  3976. [USB] Default USB device authorization:
  3977. (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
  3978. 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
  3979. usbcore.autosuspend=
  3980. [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
  3981. for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
  3982. is the time required before an idle device will be
  3983. autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
  3984. to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
  3985. usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
  3986. [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
  3987. usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
  3988. [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
  3989. (default = 65536).
  3990. usbcore.blinkenlights=
  3991. [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
  3992. usbcore.old_scheme_first=
  3993. [USB] Start with the old device initialization
  3994. scheme (default 0 = off).
  3995. usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
  3996. [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
  3997. usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
  3998. usbcore.use_both_schemes=
  3999. [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
  4000. if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
  4001. usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
  4002. [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
  4003. USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
  4004. (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
  4005. usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
  4006. usbcore.quirks=
  4007. [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
  4008. usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
  4009. commas. Each entry has the form
  4010. VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
  4011. numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
  4012. will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
  4013. clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
  4014. the following meanings:
  4015. a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
  4016. descriptors must not be fetched using
  4017. a 255-byte read);
  4018. b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
  4019. correctly so reset it instead);
  4020. c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
  4021. Set-Interface requests);
  4022. d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
  4023. handle its Configuration or Interface
  4024. strings);
  4025. e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
  4026. (e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
  4027. f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
  4028. more interface descriptions than the
  4029. bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
  4030. talking to these interfaces);
  4031. g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
  4032. during initialization, after we read
  4033. the device descriptor);
  4034. h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
  4035. high speed and super speed interrupt
  4036. endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
  4037. require the interval in microframes (1
  4038. microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
  4039. calculated as interval = 2 ^
  4040. (bInterval-1).
  4041. Devices with this quirk report their
  4042. bInterval as the result of this
  4043. calculation instead of the exponent
  4044. variable used in the calculation);
  4045. i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
  4046. handle device_qualifier descriptor
  4047. requests);
  4048. j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
  4049. generates spurious wakeup, ignore
  4050. remote wakeup capability);
  4051. k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
  4052. Power Management);
  4053. l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
  4054. (Device reports its bInterval as linear
  4055. frames instead of the USB 2.0
  4056. calculation);
  4057. m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
  4058. to be disconnected before suspend to
  4059. prevent spurious wakeup);
  4060. n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
  4061. pause after every control message);
  4062. o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
  4063. delay after resetting its port);
  4064. Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
  4065. usbhid.mousepoll=
  4066. [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
  4067. usbhid.jspoll=
  4068. [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
  4069. usbhid.kbpoll=
  4070. [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
  4071. usb-storage.delay_use=
  4072. [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
  4073. scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
  4074. usb-storage.quirks=
  4075. [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
  4076. override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
  4077. entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
  4078. the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
  4079. and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
  4080. Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
  4081. to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
  4082. a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
  4083. of sense data, not on uas);
  4084. b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
  4085. bytes of sense data, not on uas);
  4086. c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
  4087. device capacity by one sector);
  4088. d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
  4089. READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
  4090. e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
  4091. READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
  4092. f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
  4093. command, uas only);
  4094. g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
  4095. 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
  4096. h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
  4097. reported device capacity by one
  4098. sector if the number is odd);
  4099. i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
  4100. device);
  4101. j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
  4102. command, uas only);
  4103. k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
  4104. l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
  4105. unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
  4106. m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
  4107. than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
  4108. not on uas);
  4109. n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
  4110. initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
  4111. o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
  4112. reported by the device, not on uas);
  4113. p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
  4114. by default, not on uas);
  4115. r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
  4116. bogus residue values, not on uas);
  4117. s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
  4118. Logical Unit);
  4119. t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
  4120. commands, uas only);
  4121. u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
  4122. w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
  4123. medium is write-protected).
  4124. y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
  4125. even if the device claims no cache,
  4126. not on uas)
  4127. Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
  4128. user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
  4129. Format: <int>
  4130. See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
  4131. 1 - undefined instruction events
  4132. 2 - system calls
  4133. 4 - invalid data aborts
  4134. 8 - SIGSEGV faults
  4135. 16 - SIGBUS faults
  4136. Example: user_debug=31
  4137. userpte=
  4138. [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
  4139. nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
  4140. HIGHMEM regardless of setting
  4141. of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
  4142. vdso= [X86,SH]
  4143. On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
  4144. vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
  4145. vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
  4146. vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
  4147. vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
  4148. vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
  4149. See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
  4150. details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
  4151. vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
  4152. For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
  4153. alias for vdso32=0.
  4154. Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
  4155. dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
  4156. vector= [IA-64,SMP]
  4157. vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
  4158. video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
  4159. See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
  4160. video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
  4161. If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
  4162. generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
  4163. level and then send out the event to user space through
  4164. the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
  4165. will only send out the event without touching backlight
  4166. brightness level.
  4167. default: 1
  4168. virtio_mmio.device=
  4169. [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
  4170. <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
  4171. where:
  4172. <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
  4173. like K, M and G)
  4174. <baseaddr> := physical base address
  4175. <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
  4176. request_irq())
  4177. <id> := (optional) platform device id
  4178. example:
  4179. virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
  4180. Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
  4181. vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
  4182. See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
  4183. Documentation/svga.txt.
  4184. Use vga=ask for menu.
  4185. This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
  4186. passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
  4187. vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
  4188. size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
  4189. minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
  4190. decrease the size and leave more room for directly
  4191. mapped kernel RAM.
  4192. vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390]
  4193. Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
  4194. allocations for the vmcp device driver.
  4195. vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
  4196. Format: <command>
  4197. vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
  4198. Format: <command>
  4199. vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
  4200. Format: <command>
  4201. vsyscall= [X86-64]
  4202. Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
  4203. fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
  4204. code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
  4205. versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
  4206. functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
  4207. targets for exploits that can control RIP.
  4208. emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
  4209. emulated reasonably safely.
  4210. none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
  4211. them quite hard to use for exploits but
  4212. might break your system.
  4213. vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
  4214. Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
  4215. Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
  4216. vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
  4217. Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
  4218. the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
  4219. see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
  4220. vt.default_blu= [VT]
  4221. Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
  4222. Change the default blue palette of the console.
  4223. This is a 16-member array composed of values
  4224. ranging from 0-255.
  4225. vt.default_grn= [VT]
  4226. Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
  4227. Change the default green palette of the console.
  4228. This is a 16-member array composed of values
  4229. ranging from 0-255.
  4230. vt.default_red= [VT]
  4231. Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
  4232. Change the default red palette of the console.
  4233. This is a 16-member array composed of values
  4234. ranging from 0-255.
  4235. vt.default_utf8=
  4236. [VT]
  4237. Format=<0|1>
  4238. Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
  4239. Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
  4240. newly opened terminals.
  4241. vt.global_cursor_default=
  4242. [VT]
  4243. Format=<-1|0|1>
  4244. Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
  4245. is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
  4246. i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
  4247. overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
  4248. cursors, 1 will display them.
  4249. vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
  4250. Default: 2 = green.
  4251. vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
  4252. Default: 3 = cyan.
  4253. watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
  4254. see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
  4255. or other driver-specific files in the
  4256. Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
  4257. workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
  4258. If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
  4259. warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
  4260. help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
  4261. detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
  4262. duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
  4263. it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
  4264. corresponding sysfs file.
  4265. workqueue.disable_numa
  4266. By default, all work items queued to unbound
  4267. workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
  4268. issued on, which results in better behavior in
  4269. general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
  4270. whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
  4271. that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
  4272. workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
  4273. workqueue.power_efficient
  4274. Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
  4275. they show better performance thanks to cache
  4276. locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
  4277. be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
  4278. Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
  4279. were observed to contribute significantly to power
  4280. consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
  4281. power usage at the cost of small performance
  4282. overhead.
  4283. The default value of this parameter is determined by
  4284. the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
  4285. workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
  4286. Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
  4287. items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
  4288. on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
  4289. and while local CPU is still preferred work items
  4290. may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
  4291. forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
  4292. usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
  4293. When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
  4294. impacted.
  4295. x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
  4296. default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
  4297. supporting x2apic.
  4298. x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
  4299. Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
  4300. Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
  4301. plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
  4302. x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
  4303. xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
  4304. Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
  4305. to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
  4306. crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
  4307. save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
  4308. domains.
  4309. xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
  4310. Unplug Xen emulated devices
  4311. Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
  4312. ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
  4313. aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
  4314. nics -- unplug network devices
  4315. all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
  4316. unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
  4317. unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
  4318. the unplug protocol
  4319. never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
  4320. xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN]
  4321. Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
  4322. panic() code such as dumping handler.
  4323. xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
  4324. Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
  4325. optimizations.
  4326. xen_nopv [X86]
  4327. Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
  4328. run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
  4329. xen_scrub_pages= [XEN]
  4330. Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
  4331. to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
  4332. with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
  4333. Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
  4334. xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN]
  4335. How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
  4336. storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
  4337. xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN]
  4338. After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
  4339. should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
  4340. xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
  4341. Format:
  4342. <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
  4343. xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL]
  4344. A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
  4345. host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
  4346. consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.