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2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4 copy_dsdt }
5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14 are available
15
16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
17
18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
19 Format: <int>
20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21 1,0: use 1st APIC table
22 default: 0
23
24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
25 acpi_backlight=vendor
26 acpi_backlight=video
27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
31 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
37 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41 This option is useful for developers to identify the
42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
45 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
47 Format: <int>
48 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
55 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
56 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
57 debug layers and levels.
58
59 Enable processor driver info messages:
60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64 object while interpreting AML:
65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69 Some values produce so much output that the system is
70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71 if you need to capture more output.
72
73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
74 { strict | lax | no }
75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79 can interfere with legacy drivers.
80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87 no further checks are performed.
88
89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92 size limitation.
93
94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95 ACPI will balance active IRQs
96 default in APIC mode
97
98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100 default in PIC mode
101
102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106 use by PCI
107 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113 the GPE dispatcher.
114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115 GPE floodings.
116 Format: <byte>
117
118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122 auto-serialization feature.
123 This feature is enabled by default.
124 This option allows to turn off the feature.
125
126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
127 kernels.
128
129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132 installed automatically and they will appear under
133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134 This option turns off this feature.
135 Note that specifying this option does not affect
136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
138
139 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
140 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
141 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
142 second kernel for kdump.
143
144 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
145 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
146
147 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
148 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
149 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
150 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
151 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
152
153 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
154 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
155 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
156 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
157 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
158 strings
159 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
160 strings
161 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
162
163 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
164 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
165 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
166 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
167 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
168 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
169 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
170 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
171 care about the state of the feature group strings which
172 should be controlled by the OSPM.
173 Examples:
174 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
175 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
176 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
177
178 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
179 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
180 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
181 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
182 multiple times through kernel command line is also
183 meaningless.
184 Examples:
185 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
186 FALSE.
187
188 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
189 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
190 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
191 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
192 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
193 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
194 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
195 there are quirks related to this string. This command
196 is useful when one want to control the state of the
197 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
198 the OSPM features.
199 Examples:
200 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
201 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
202 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
203 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
204 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
205 equivalent to
206 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
207 and
208 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
209 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
210
211 acpi_pm_good [X86]
212 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
213 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
214 and always returns good values.
215
216 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
217 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
218
219 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
220 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
221 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
222
223 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
224 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
225 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
226 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
227 s3_bios and s3_mode.
228 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
229 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
230 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
231 used during resume from hibernation.
232 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
233 control method, with respect to putting devices into
234 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
235 of _PTS is used by default).
236 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
237 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
238 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
239 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
240 but some broken systems don't work without it).
241 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
242 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
243 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
244
245 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
246 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
247 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
248
249 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
250 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
251
252 agp= [AGP]
253 { off | try_unsupported }
254 off: disable AGP support
255 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
256 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
257
258 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
259 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
260
261 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
262 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
263 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
264 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
265
266 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
267 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
268 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
269 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
270 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
271 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
272 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
273
274 32: only for 32-bit processes
275 64: only for 64-bit processes
276 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
277 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
278
279 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
280 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
281 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
282 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
283 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
284 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
285
286 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
287 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
288 Possible values are:
289 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
290 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
291 flushed before they will be reused, which
292 is a lot of faster
293 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
294 the system
295 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
296 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
297 allowed anymore to lift isolation
298 requirements as needed. This option
299 does not override iommu=pt
300
301 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
302 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
303 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
304 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
305 IOMMU initialization.
306
307 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
308 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
309 remapping modes:
310 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
311 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
312 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
313 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
314 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
315
316 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
317 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
318 Format: <a>,<b>
319 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
320
321 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
322 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
323 connected to one of 16 gameports
324 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
325
326 apc= [HW,SPARC]
327 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
328 Format: noidle
329 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
330 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
331 APC and your system crashes randomly.
332
333 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
334 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
335 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
336 Change the amount of debugging information output
337 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
338 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
339 driver name.
340 Format: apic=driver_name
341 Examples: apic=bigsmp
342
343 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
344 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
345 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
346 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
347 backup of CPU 0
348 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
349 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
350 shot down by NMI
351
352 autoconf= [IPV6]
353 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
354
355 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
356 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
357 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
358 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
359 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
360 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
361 apic=verbose is specified.
362 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
363
364 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
365 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
366
367 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
368 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
369
370 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
371
372 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
373
374 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
375 EzKey and similar keyboards
376
377 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
378
379 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
380 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
381
382 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
383 keyboards
384
385 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
386 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
387
388 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
389 Use software keyboard repeat
390
391 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
392 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
393 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
394 enabled until the next reboot
395 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
396 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
397 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
398 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
399 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
400 userspace auditd.
401 Default: unset
402
403 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
404 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
405 Default: 64
406
407 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
408 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
409 Format: { "0" | "1" }
410 0 - Disable the BAU.
411 1 - Enable the BAU.
412 unset - Disable the BAU.
413
414 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
415 Format: <io>,<mode>
416
417 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
418 Format: <io>,<mode>
419 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
420
421 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
422 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
423 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
424 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
425
426 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
427 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
428 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
429 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
430
431 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
432 embedded devices based on command line input.
433 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
434
435 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
436 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
437 no delay (0).
438 Format: integer
439
440 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
441
442 bert_disable [ACPI]
443 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
444
445 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
446 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
447 kernel args too.
448 bttv.pll= See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
449 bttv.tuner=
450
451 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
452 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
453 at a time.
454
455 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
456
457 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
458 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
459 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
460 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
461 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
462 This option provides an override for these situations.
463
464 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
465 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
466 trust validation.
467 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
468
469 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
470 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
471 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
472 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
473 others).
474
475 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
476 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
477
478 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
479 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
480 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
481 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
482 a single hierarchy
483 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
484 subsystem
485 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
486 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
487 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
488
489 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
490 Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
491 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
492 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
493
494 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
495 Format: <string>
496 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
497 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
498
499 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
500 Format: { "0" | "1" }
501 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
502 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
503 any implied execute protection).
504 1 -- check protection requested by application.
505 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
506 Value can be changed at runtime via
507 /selinux/checkreqprot.
508
509 cio_ignore= [S390]
510 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
511 clk_ignore_unused
512 [CLK]
513 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
514 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
515 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
516 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
517 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
518 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
519 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
520 platform with proper driver support. For more
521 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
522
523 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
524 [Deprecated]
525 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
526 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
527 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
528 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
529
530 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
531 Format: <string>
532 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
533 with the name specified.
534 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
535 the platform:
536 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
537 [ACPI] acpi_pm
538 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
539 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
540 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
541 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
542 [MIPS] MIPS
543 [PARISC] cr16
544 [S390] tod
545 [SH] SuperH
546 [SPARC64] tick
547 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
548
549 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
550 [ARM,ARM64]
551 Format: <bool>
552 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
553 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
554 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
555 systems.
556
557 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
558 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
559 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
560 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
561 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
562 ones should be.
563 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
564 or using the feature without checking anything
565 will still see it. This just prevents it from
566 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
567 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
568 some critical bits.
569
570 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
571 [ARM,X86,KNL]
572 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
573 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
574 placement constraint by the physical address range of
575 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
576 altogether. For more information, see
577 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
578
579 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
580 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
581 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
582 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
583 a hypervisor.
584 Default: yes
585
586 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
587 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
588 allocations, by default set to 256K.
589
590 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
591 Format:
592 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
593
594 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
595 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
596
597 com90xx= [HW,NET]
598 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
599 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
600
601 condev= [HW,S390] console device
602 conmode=
603
604 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
605
606 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
607
608 ttyS<n>[,options]
609 ttyUSB0[,options]
610 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
611 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
612 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
613 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
614 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
615
616 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
617 information. See
618 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
619 alternative.
620
621 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
622 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
623 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
624 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
625 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
626 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
627 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
628 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
629 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
630 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
631 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
632 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
633 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
634 the h/w is not re-initialized.
635
636 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
637 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
638
639 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
640 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
641 console=brl,ttyS0
642 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
643
644 console_msg_format=
645 [KNL] Change console messages format
646 default
647 By default we print messages on consoles in
648 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
649 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
650 `printk_time' param).
651 syslog
652 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
653 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
654 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
655 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
656 from /proc/kmsg.
657
658 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
659 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
660 Defaults to 0.
661
662 coredump_filter=
663 [KNL] Change the default value for
664 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
665 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
666
667 coresight_cpu_debug.enable
668 [ARM,ARM64]
669 Format: <bool>
670 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
671 0: default value, disable debugging
672 1: enable debugging at boot time
673
674 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
675 disable the cpuidle sub-system
676
677 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
678 disable the cpufreq sub-system
679
680 cpu_init_udelay=N
681 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
682 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
683 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
684 Default: 10000
685
686 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
687 Format:
688 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
689
690 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
691 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
692 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
693 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
694 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
695 is selected automatically. Check
696 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
697
698 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
699 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
700 in the running system. The syntax of range is
701 start-[end] where start and end are both
702 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
703 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
704
705 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
706 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
707 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
708 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
709 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
710 available.
711 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
712 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
713 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
714 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
715 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
716 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
717 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
718 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
719 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
720 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
721 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
722 for second kernel instead.
723 0: to disable low allocation.
724 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
725 or memory reserved is below 4G.
726
727 cryptomgr.notests
728 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
729
730 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
731 Format: <dma>
732
733 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
734 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
735
736 dasd= [HW,NET]
737 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
738
739 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
740 (one device per port)
741 Format: <port#>,<type>
742 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
743
744 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
745 time. See
746 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
747 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
748
749 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
750
751 debug_boot_weak_hash
752 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
753 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
754 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are
755 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
756 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
757 insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
758
759 debug_locks_verbose=
760 [KNL] verbose self-tests
761 Format=<0|1>
762 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
763 self-tests.
764 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
765 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
766 only useful to kernel developers.
767
768 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
769
770 no_debug_objects
771 [KNL] Disable object debugging
772
773 debug_guardpage_minorder=
774 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
775 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
776 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
777 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
778 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
779 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
780 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
781 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
782 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
783 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
784 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
785 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
786 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
787 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
788 bypassed) which are not detectable by
789 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
790 tracking down these problems.
791
792 debug_pagealloc=
793 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
794 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
795 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
796 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
797 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
798 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
799 on: enable the feature
800
801 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
802
803 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
804 Format: <area>[,<node>]
805 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
806
807 default_hugepagesz=
808 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
809 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
810 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
811 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
812 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
813 if not specified.
814
815 deferred_probe_timeout=
816 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
817 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
818 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
819 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
820 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
821 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
822 retrying.
823
824 dhash_entries= [KNL]
825 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
826
827 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
828 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
829 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
830 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
831 miss to occur.
832
833 disable= [IPV6]
834 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
835
836 hardened_usercopy=
837 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
838 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
839 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
840 from reading or writing beyond known memory
841 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
842 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
843 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
844 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
845 off Disable hardened usercopy checks.
846
847 disable_radix [PPC]
848 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
849
850 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
851 Format: <int>
852 The number of initial APIC ID for the
853 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
854 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
855 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
856 causing system reset or hang due to sending
857 INIT from AP to BSP.
858
859 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
860 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
861 to workaround buggy firmware.
862
863 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
864 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
865
866 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
867 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
868 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
869 entry later. This parameter disables that.
870
871 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
872 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
873 memory out of your available memory pool based on
874 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
875 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
876
877 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
878 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
879 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
880
881 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
882
883 dm= [DM] Allows early creation of a device-mapper device.
884 See Documentation/device-mapper/boot.txt.
885
886 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
887 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
888
889 dma_debug_entries=<number>
890 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
891 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
892 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
893 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
894 architectural default is too low.
895
896 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
897 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
898 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
899 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
900 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
901 driver later using sysfs.
902
903 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
904 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
905 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
906 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
907 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
908 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
909 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
910 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
911 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
912 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
913 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
914 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
915 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
916 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
917 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
918 data set with no connector name will be used for
919 any connectors not explicitly specified.
920
921 dscc4.setup= [NET]
922
923 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC]
924 Format: {"off" | "known"}
925 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
926 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
927 exists).
928 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
929 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
930 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
931
932 dump_apple_properties [X86]
933 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
934 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
935 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
936
937 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
938 module.dyndbg[="val"]
939 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
940 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
941 for details.
942
943 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
944 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
945 information about the feature.
946
947 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
948 in some Intel CPUs.
949
950 module.async_probe [KNL]
951 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
952
953 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
954 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
955 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
956 which are not unmapped.
957
958 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
959
960 [ARM64] The early console is determined by the
961 stdout-path property in device tree's chosen node,
962 or determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
963
964 [X86] When used with no options the early console is
965 determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
966
967 cdns,<addr>[,options]
968 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
969 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
970 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
971 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
972 configured.
973
974 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
975 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
976 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
977 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
978 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
979 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
980 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
981 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
982 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
983 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
984 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
985 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
986 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
987
988 pl011,<addr>
989 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
990 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
991 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
992 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
993 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
994 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
995 the device registers.
996
997 meson,<addr>
998 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
999 port at the specified address. The serial port must
1000 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1001 supported.
1002
1003 msm_serial,<addr>
1004 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1005 port at the specified address. The serial port
1006 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1007 yet supported.
1008
1009 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1010 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1011 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1012 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1013 yet supported.
1014
1015 owl,<addr>
1016 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1017 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1018 specified address. The serial port must already be
1019 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1020
1021 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1022
1023 s3c2410,<addr>
1024 s3c2412,<addr>
1025 s3c2440,<addr>
1026 s3c6400,<addr>
1027 s5pv210,<addr>
1028 exynos4210,<addr>
1029 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1030 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1031 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1032 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1033 Options are not yet supported.
1034
1035 lantiq,<addr>
1036 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1037 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1038 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1039 yet supported.
1040
1041 lpuart,<addr>
1042 lpuart32,<addr>
1043 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1044 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1045 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1046 port must already be setup and configured.
1047
1048 ar3700_uart,<addr>
1049 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1050 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1051 address. The serial port must already be setup
1052 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1053
1054 qcom_geni,<addr>
1055 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1056 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1057 specified address. The serial port must already be
1058 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1059
1060 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1061 earlyprintk=vga
1062 earlyprintk=efi
1063 earlyprintk=sclp
1064 earlyprintk=xen
1065 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1066 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1067 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1068 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1069 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1070 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1071
1072 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1073 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1074 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1075
1076 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1077 takes over.
1078
1079 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1080 be used at a time.
1081
1082 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1083 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1084 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1085 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1086 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1087 You can find the port for a given device in
1088 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1089 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1090
1091 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1092 very good.
1093
1094 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1095 the real console.
1096
1097 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1098
1099 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1100
1101 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1102 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1103 UART class.
1104
1105 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1106 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1107 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1108 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1109 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1110 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1111 default: on.
1112
1113 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1114 ekgdboc=kbd
1115
1116 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1117 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1118
1119 edd= [EDD]
1120 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1121
1122 efi= [EFI]
1123 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
1124 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1125 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1126 default.
1127 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1128 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1129 firmware implementations.
1130 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1131 debug: enable misc debug output
1132
1133 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1134 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1135 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1136 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1137 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1138
1139 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1140 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1141 updating original EFI memory map.
1142 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1143 from ss to ss+nn.
1144 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1145 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1146 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1147 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1148
1149 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1150 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1151 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1152 doesn't support it.
1153
1154 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1155 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1156 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1157 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1158 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1159
1160
1161 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1162 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1163
1164 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1165 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1166 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1167
1168 elevator= [IOSCHED]
1169 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
1170 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
1171 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1172
1173 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1174 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1175 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1176 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1177 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
1178
1179 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1180 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1181 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1182 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1183
1184 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1185 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1186 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1187 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1188 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1189
1190 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1191 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1192 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1193 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1194 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1195 Default value is 0.
1196 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1197
1198 erst_disable [ACPI]
1199 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1200 support.
1201
1202 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1203 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1204 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1205
1206 evm= [EVM]
1207 Format: { "fix" }
1208 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1209 current integrity status.
1210
1211 failslab=
1212 fail_page_alloc=
1213 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1214 General fault injection mechanism.
1215 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1216 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1217
1218 floppy= [HW]
1219 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1220
1221 force_pal_cache_flush
1222 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1223 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1224 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1225 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1226
1227 forcepae [X86-32]
1228 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1229 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1230 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1231 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1232 and may cause unknown problems.
1233
1234 ftrace=[tracer]
1235 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1236 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1237 boot debugging.
1238
1239 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1240 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1241 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1242 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1243 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1244 oops.
1245
1246 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1247 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1248 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1249 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1250 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1251 tracing directory.
1252
1253 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1254 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1255 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1256 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1257 tracing directory.
1258
1259 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1260 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1261 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1262 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1263 that can be changed at run time by the
1264 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1265
1266 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1267 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1268 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1269 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1270 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1271
1272 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1273 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1274 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1275 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1276 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1277
1278 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1279 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1280 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1281 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1282 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1283
1284 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1285
1286 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1287 Format: off | on
1288 default: on
1289
1290 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1291 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1292 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1293 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1294 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1295
1296 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1297 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1298 android emulator
1299
1300 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1301 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1302 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1303 GPT to be used instead.
1304
1305 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1306 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1307 Format: 0 | 1
1308 Default: 0
1309 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1310 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1311 Format: 0 | 1
1312 Default: 0
1313 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1314 Format: 0 | 1
1315 Default: 0
1316 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1317 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1318 Default: 1024
1319 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1320 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1321 Default: 1024
1322
1323 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1324 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1325 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1326
1327 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1328 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1329 backtraces on all cpus.
1330 Format: <integer>
1331
1332 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1333 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
1334 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1335 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1336
1337 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1338
1339 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1340 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1341
1342 hest_disable [ACPI]
1343 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1344 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1345 logic will be disabled.
1346
1347 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1348 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1349 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1350 size on bigger boxes.
1351
1352 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1353 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1354 Default: "on"
1355
1356 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1357 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1358
1359 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1360
1361 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1362 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1363 verbose }
1364 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1365 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1366 VIA, nVidia)
1367 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1368
1369 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1370 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1371
1372 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1373 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
1374 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1375 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1376 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1377 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
1378 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
1379
1380 hung_task_panic=
1381 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1382 Format: <integer>
1383
1384 A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a
1385 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1386 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1387 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1388 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1389
1390 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1391 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1392 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1393 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1394 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1395 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1396 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1397 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1398 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1399 the real console.
1400
1401 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1402 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1403 registered from board initialization code.
1404 Format:
1405 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1406
1407 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1408 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1409 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1410 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1411 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1412 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1413 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1414 keyboard and cannot control its state
1415 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1416 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1417 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1418 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1419 for the AUX port
1420 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1421 controller
1422 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1423 controllers
1424 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1425 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1426 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1427 transitions, or never reset
1428 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1429 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1430 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1431 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1432 architectures force reset to be always executed
1433 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1434 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1435
1436 i810= [HW,DRM]
1437
1438 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1439 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1440 hardware.
1441 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1442 does not match list of supported models.
1443 i8k.power_status
1444 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1445 (disabled by default)
1446 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1447 capability is set.
1448
1449 i915.invert_brightness=
1450 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1451 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1452 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1453 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1454 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1455 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1456 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1457 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1458 value switches the backlight off.
1459 -1 -- never invert brightness
1460 0 -- machine default
1461 1 -- force brightness inversion
1462
1463 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1464 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1465
1466 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1467 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1468 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1469 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1470 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1471
1472 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1473 Format: <int>
1474 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1475 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1476 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1477 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1478 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1479 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1480 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1481 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1482 was 0x3.
1483
1484 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1485 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1486
1487 idle= [X86]
1488 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1489 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1490 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1491 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1492 Not recommended.
1493 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1494 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1495 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1496
1497 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1498 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1499 Default: strict
1500
1501 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1502 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1503 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1504 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1505 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1506 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1507 encoding mode.
1508
1509 Available settings are as follows:
1510 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1511 supported by the FPU
1512 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1513 by the FPU
1514 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1515 by the FPU
1516 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1517 supported by the FPU
1518
1519 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1520 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1521 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1522 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1523 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1524 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1525 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1526 MIPS64 CPUs.
1527
1528 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1529 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1530 except where unsupported by hardware.
1531
1532 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1533 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1534 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1535 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1536 could change it dynamically, usually by
1537 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1538
1539 ignore_rlimit_data
1540 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1541 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1542 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1543
1544 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1545 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1546
1547 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1548 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1549 default: "enforce"
1550
1551 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1552 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1553 owned by uid=0.
1554
1555 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1556 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1557 measurements, instead of host native format.
1558
1559 ima_hash= [IMA]
1560 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1561 | sha512 | ... }
1562 default: "sha1"
1563
1564 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1565 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1566
1567 ima_policy= [IMA]
1568 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1569 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1570 fail_securely"
1571
1572 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1573 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1574 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1575 uid=0.
1576
1577 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1578 all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent
1579 of ima_appraise_tcb.)
1580
1581 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1582 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1583 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1584
1585 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1586 verification failure also on privileged mounted
1587 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1588 flag.
1589
1590 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
1591 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1592 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1593 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1594 opened for read by uid=0.
1595
1596 ima_template= [IMA]
1597 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1598 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1599 Default: "ima-ng"
1600
1601 ima_template_fmt=
1602 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1603 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1604
1605 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1606 Format: <min_file_size>
1607 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1608 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1609
1610 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1611 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1612 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1613
1614 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1615 Format: <bufsize>
1616 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1617
1618 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1619 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1620 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1621
1622 init= [KNL]
1623 Format: <full_path>
1624 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1625 process.
1626
1627 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1628 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1629 startup.
1630
1631 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1632 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1633 modules and initcalls.
1634
1635 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1636
1637 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
1638 zeroes.
1639 Format: 0 | 1
1640 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
1641
1642 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
1643 Format: 0 | 1
1644 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
1645
1646 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1647 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1648 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1649 override in debugfs after boot.
1650
1651 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1652 Format: <irq>
1653
1654 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1655
1656 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1657 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1658 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1659 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1660
1661 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1662 on
1663 Enable intel iommu driver.
1664 off
1665 Disable intel iommu driver.
1666 igfx_off [Default Off]
1667 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1668 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1669 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1670 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1671 DMA.
1672 forcedac [x86_64]
1673 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1674 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1675 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1676 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1677 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1678 then look in the higher range.
1679 strict [Default Off]
1680 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1681 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1682 to batching them for performance.
1683 sp_off [Default Off]
1684 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1685 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1686 not be supported.
1687 ecs_off [Default Off]
1688 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1689 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1690 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1691 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1692 on hardware which claims to support them.
1693 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1694 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1695 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1696 could harm performance of some high-throughput
1697 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1698 mapping is enabled.
1699 Note that using this option lowers the security
1700 provided by tboot because it makes the system
1701 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
1702
1703 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1704 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1705 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
1706
1707 intel_pstate= [X86]
1708 disable
1709 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1710 scaling driver for the supported processors
1711 passive
1712 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1713 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1714 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1715 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1716 feature.
1717 force
1718 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1719 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1720 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1721 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1722 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1723 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1724 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1725 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1726 no_hwp
1727 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1728 if available.
1729 hwp_only
1730 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1731 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1732 support_acpi_ppc
1733 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1734 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1735 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1736 then this feature is turned on by default.
1737 per_cpu_perf_limits
1738 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1739 cpufreq sysfs interface
1740
1741 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1742 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1743 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1744 nosid disable Source ID checking
1745 no_x2apic_optout
1746 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1747 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
1748
1749 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1750 strict regions from userspace.
1751 relaxed
1752
1753 iommu= [x86]
1754 off
1755 force
1756 noforce
1757 biomerge
1758 panic
1759 nopanic
1760 merge
1761 nomerge
1762 soft
1763 pt [x86]
1764 nopt [x86]
1765 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1766 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
1767
1768 iommu.passthrough=
1769 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1770 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1771 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1772 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1773 unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1774
1775 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1776 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1777 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1778
1779 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
1780 0x80
1781 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1782 0xed
1783 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1784 udelay
1785 Simple two microseconds delay
1786 none
1787 No delay
1788
1789 ip= [IP_PNP]
1790 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1791
1792 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
1793 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
1794
1795 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1796 [ARM, ARM64]
1797 Format: <bool>
1798 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1799 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1800 exposed by the device tree is too small.
1801
1802 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
1803 [ARM, ARM64]
1804 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
1805 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
1806 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
1807 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
1808 LPIs.
1809
1810 irqfixup [HW]
1811 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1812 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1813 firmware running.
1814
1815 irqpoll [HW]
1816 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1817 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1818 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1819 firmware running.
1820
1821 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
1822 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1823
1824 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
1825 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1826 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
1827
1828 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1829 specified in the flag list (default: domain):
1830
1831 nohz
1832 Disable the tick when a single task runs.
1833
1834 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
1835 need to affine to housekeeping through the global
1836 workqueue's affinity configured via the
1837 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
1838 by using the 'domain' flag described below.
1839
1840 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
1841 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
1842 be configured manually after bootup.
1843
1844 domain
1845 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1846 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1847 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1848 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1849 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1850 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1851 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1852 move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1853
1854 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1855 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1856 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1857 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1858
1859 The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
1860
1861
1862
1863 iucv= [HW,NET]
1864
1865 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1866 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1867 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1868 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1869 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1870 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1871
1872 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1873 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1874 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1875 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1876 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1877 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1878
1879 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1880 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1881 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1882 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1883 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1884 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1885
1886 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1887 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
1888
1889 nokaslr [KNL]
1890 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1891 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1892 Layout Randomization).
1893
1894 kasan_multi_shot
1895 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1896 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1897 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1898 invalid access.
1899
1900 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1901
1902 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1903 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
1904 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
1905 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested
1906 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
1907 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for
1908 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the
1909 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
1910 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
1911 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
1912
1913 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
1914 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
1915 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
1916 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1917 zone if it does not.
1918
1919 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
1920 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
1921 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror"
1922 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1923 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1924 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
1925 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
1926
1927 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1928 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1929 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1930 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1931 optional and is the number seconds in between
1932 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1933 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1934 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1935 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1936 the kernel debugger.
1937
1938 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
1939 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1940 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
1941 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1942 keyboard only format: kbd
1943 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1944 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1945 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1946 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
1947
1948 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1949 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1950
1951 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1952 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1953 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1954
1955 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1956 Valid arguments: on, off
1957 Default: on
1958 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1959 the default is off.
1960
1961 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1962 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1963
1964 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
1965 Default is false (don't support).
1966
1967 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1968 KVM MMU at runtime.
1969 Default is 0 (off)
1970
1971 kvm.nx_huge_pages=
1972 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
1973 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
1974 force : Always deploy workaround.
1975 off : Never deploy workaround.
1976 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
1977 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
1978
1979 Default is 'auto'.
1980
1981 If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
1982 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
1983
1984 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
1985 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
1986 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
1987 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
1988 minute. The default is 60.
1989
1990 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
1991 Default is 1 (enabled)
1992
1993 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1994 for all guests.
1995 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
1996
1997 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
1998 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
1999 system registers
2000
2001 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2002 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2003 system registers
2004
2005 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2006 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2007 system registers
2008
2009 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2010 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2011 LPIs.
2012
2013 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2014 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2015 Default is 1 (enabled)
2016
2017 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2018 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
2019 Default is 0 (disabled)
2020
2021 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2022 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2023 Default is 1 (enabled)
2024
2025 kvm-intel.nested=
2026 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2027 Default is 0 (disabled)
2028
2029 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2030 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2031 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2032 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2033
2034 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2035 CVE-2018-3620.
2036
2037 Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2038
2039 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2040 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2041 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2042 never: Disables the mitigation
2043
2044 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2045
2046 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2047 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2048 Default is 1 (enabled)
2049
2050 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2051 affected CPUs
2052
2053 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2054 enabled and cannot be disabled.
2055
2056 full
2057 Provides all available mitigations for the
2058 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2059 enables all mitigations in the
2060 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2061
2062 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2063 sysfs interface is still possible after
2064 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2065 when the first VM is started in a
2066 potentially insecure configuration,
2067 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2068
2069 full,force
2070 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2071 flush runtime control. Implies the
2072 'nosmt=force' command line option.
2073 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2074
2075 flush
2076 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2077 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2078 L1D flush.
2079
2080 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2081 sysfs interface is still possible after
2082 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2083 when the first VM is started in a
2084 potentially insecure configuration,
2085 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2086
2087 flush,nosmt
2088
2089 Disables SMT and enables the default
2090 hypervisor mitigation.
2091
2092 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2093 sysfs interface is still possible after
2094 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2095 when the first VM is started in a
2096 potentially insecure configuration,
2097 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2098
2099 flush,nowarn
2100 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2101 warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2102 insecure configuration.
2103
2104 off
2105 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2106 emit any warnings.
2107 It also drops the swap size and available
2108 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2109 bare metal.
2110
2111 Default is 'flush'.
2112
2113 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2114
2115 l2cr= [PPC]
2116
2117 l3cr= [PPC]
2118
2119 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2120 disabled it.
2121
2122 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
2123 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2124 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2125
2126 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2127 in C2 power state.
2128
2129 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
2130 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2131 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2132 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2133 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
2134 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2135 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2136
2137 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2138 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
2139 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
2140
2141 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2142 when set.
2143 Format: <int>
2144
2145 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
2146 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
2147 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
2148 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
2149 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
2150 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2151 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2152 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2153
2154 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2155 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
2156 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2157 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
2158 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2159 host link and device attached to it.
2160
2161 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
2162 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2163 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2164 The following configurations can be forced.
2165
2166 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2167 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2168
2169 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2170
2171 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2172 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2173 allowed.
2174
2175 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2176
2177 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2178
2179 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2180 and both resets.
2181
2182 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2183 hot-unplug link recovery
2184
2185 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2186
2187 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2188
2189 * disable: Disable this device.
2190
2191 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2192 the same attribute, the last one is used.
2193
2194 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2195
2196 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
2197 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
2198
2199 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2200 Format: <integer>
2201
2202 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2203 Format: <integer>
2204
2205 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2206 Format: <integer>
2207
2208 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2209 Format: <integer>
2210
2211 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2212 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2213 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2214 number of online CPUs.
2215
2216 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2217 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2218
2219 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2220 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2221
2222 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2223 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2224 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2225
2226 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2227 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2228 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2229 mode during the locktorture test.
2230
2231 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2232 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2233 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2234
2235 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2236 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2237
2238 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2239 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2240 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2241 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2242 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2243 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2244
2245 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2246 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2247
2248 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2249 Enable additional printk() statements.
2250
2251 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2252 Format: <irq>
2253
2254 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2255 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2256 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2257 loglevels are defined as follows:
2258
2259 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2260 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2261 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2262 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2263 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2264 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2265 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2266 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2267
2268 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2269 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2270 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2271 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2272 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2273 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2274 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2275
2276 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2277 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2278 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2279 kernel boot problems.
2280
2281 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2282 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2283 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2284 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2285 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2286 attached printers to be reset. Using
2287 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2288 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2289 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2290 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2291 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2292 port specification list means that device IDs
2293 from each port should be examined, to see if
2294 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2295 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2296 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2297
2298 lpj=n [KNL]
2299 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2300 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2301 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2302 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2303 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2304 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2305 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2306 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2307 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2308 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2309 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2310 hardware.
2311
2312 ltpc= [NET]
2313 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2314
2315 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2316 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2317 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
2318
2319 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2320 yeeloong laptop.
2321 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2322
2323 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2324 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2325
2326 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2327 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2328 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2329 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2330 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2331 only takes effect during system bootup.
2332 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2333 which also disables the IO APIC.
2334
2335 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2336 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2337 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2338 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2339 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2340 /dev/loop-control interface.
2341
2342 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2343
2344 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
2345
2346 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2347 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2348
2349 mdacon= [MDA]
2350 Format: <first>,<last>
2351 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2352
2353 mds= [X86,INTEL]
2354 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2355 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2356
2357 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2358 internal buffers which can forward information to a
2359 disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2360
2361 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2362 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2363 attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2364 not have direct access.
2365
2366 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2367 options are:
2368
2369 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2370 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2371 SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2372 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
2373
2374 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
2375 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
2376 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
2377 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
2378 too.
2379
2380 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2381 mds=full.
2382
2383 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2384
2385 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2386 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2387 to see the whole system memory or for test.
2388 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2389 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2390 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2391 belonging to unused RAM.
2392
2393 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2394 memory.
2395
2396 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2397 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2398 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2399
2400 memhp_default_state=online/offline
2401 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2402 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2403 set according to the
2404 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2405 option.
2406 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2407
2408 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2409 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2410 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2411 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2412 option description.
2413
2414 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2415 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2416 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2417 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2418 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2419 Multiple different regions can be specified,
2420 comma delimited.
2421 Example:
2422 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2423
2424 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2425 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2426 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2427
2428 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2429 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2430 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2431 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2432 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2433 or
2434 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2435 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2436 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2437 will be eaten.
2438
2439 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2440 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2441 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2442 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2443 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2444
2445 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2446 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2447 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2448 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2449 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2450 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2451 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2452 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2453
2454 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2455 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2456 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2457 Setting this option will scan the memory
2458 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2459 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2460 from using the memory being corrupted.
2461 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2462 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2463 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2464 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2465
2466 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2467 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2468 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2469 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2470 corruption in more or less memory.
2471
2472 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2473 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2474 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2475 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2476
2477 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
2478 Format: <integer>
2479 default : 0 <disable>
2480 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2481 performed. Each pass selects another test
2482 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2483 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2484 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2485 regions that are detected.
2486
2487 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2488 Valid arguments: on, off
2489 Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2490 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2491 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2492 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
2493 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
2494
2495 Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
2496 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2497
2498 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2499 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2500 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2501 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2502 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
2503
2504 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2505 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
2506
2507 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2508 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2509 platforms.
2510
2511 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2512 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2513 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2514 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2515
2516 mga= [HW,DRM]
2517
2518 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2519 physical address is ignored.
2520
2521 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2522 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2523 Default: "0tb"
2524 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2525 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2526 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2527 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2528 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2529 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2530 unconfigured.
2531 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2532 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2533 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2534 VGA shield.
2535 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2536 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2537 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2538 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2539 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2540 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2541
2542 mitigations=
2543 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
2544 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated,
2545 arch-independent options, each of which is an
2546 aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
2547
2548 off
2549 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This
2550 improves system performance, but it may also
2551 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
2552 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
2553 kpti=0 [ARM64]
2554 nospectre_v1 [PPC]
2555 nobp=0 [S390]
2556 nospectre_v1 [X86]
2557 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
2558 spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
2559 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
2560 ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
2561 l1tf=off [X86]
2562 mds=off [X86]
2563 tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
2564 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
2565
2566 Exceptions:
2567 This does not have any effect on
2568 kvm.nx_huge_pages when
2569 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
2570
2571 auto (default)
2572 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
2573 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for
2574 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
2575 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
2576 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
2577 Equivalent to: (default behavior)
2578
2579 auto,nosmt
2580 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
2581 if needed. This is for users who always want to
2582 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
2583 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
2584 mds=full,nosmt [X86]
2585 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
2586
2587 mminit_loglevel=
2588 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2589 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2590 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2591 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2592 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2593 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2594
2595 module.sig_enforce
2596 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2597 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2598 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
2599 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2600
2601 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2602 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2603
2604 mousedev.tap_time=
2605 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2606 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2607 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2608 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2609 Format: <msecs>
2610 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2611 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2612 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2613 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2614
2615 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2616 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2617 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
2618 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
2619 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is
2620 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
2621 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its
2622 own is specified, the administrator must be careful
2623 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2624 is not too small.
2625
2626 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2627 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2628 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2629 allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2630 allocations. Use with caution!
2631
2632 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2633 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2634
2635 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2636 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
2637
2638 mtdparts= [MTD]
2639 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
2640
2641 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2642 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2643 at a time.
2644
2645 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2646
2647 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2648
2649 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2650 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2651 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2652 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2653 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2654
2655 mtdset= [ARM]
2656 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2657
2658 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2659
2660 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
2661 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2662 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
2663
2664 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2665 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
2666 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2667
2668 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2669 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2670 Default is 1.
2671 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2672 using up MTRRs.
2673
2674 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2675 Format: <integer>
2676 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2677 Default : 1
2678 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2679 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2680
2681 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2682
2683 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2684 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2685 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2686 something different and driver-specific.
2687 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2688 file if at all.
2689
2690 nf_conntrack.acct=
2691 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2692 0 to disable accounting
2693 1 to enable accounting
2694 Default value is 0.
2695
2696 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
2697 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2698
2699 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
2700 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2701
2702 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2703 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2704
2705 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2706 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2707 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2708 requests.
2709
2710 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2711 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2712 channel should listen.
2713
2714 nfs.cache_getent=
2715 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2716 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2717
2718 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2719 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2720 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2721
2722 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2723 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2724 entries.
2725
2726 nfs.enable_ino64=
2727 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2728 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2729 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2730 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2731 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2732
2733 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2734 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2735 slots the client will assign to the callback
2736 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2737 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2738 a particular server.
2739
2740 nfs.max_session_slots=
2741 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2742 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2743 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2744 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2745 Note that there is little point in setting this
2746 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2747
2748 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2749 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2750 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2751 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2752 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2753 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2754 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2755 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2756 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2757 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2758 back to using the idmapper.
2759 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
2760 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2761 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2762 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2763 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2764 UUID that is generated at system install time.
2765
2766 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2767 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2768 information in exchange_id requests.
2769 If zero, no implementation identification information
2770 will be sent.
2771 The default is to send the implementation identification
2772 information.
2773
2774 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2775 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2776 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2777 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2778 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2779 after the locks are lost.
2780 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2781 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2782 parameter to '1'.
2783 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2784 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
2785
2786 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2787 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2788 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2789
2790 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2791 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2792 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2793 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2794
2795 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2796 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2797 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2798 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2799 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2800 migration from NFSv2/v3.
2801
2802 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
2803 when a NMI is triggered.
2804 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2805
2806 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
2807 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
2808 Valid num: 0 or 1
2809 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2810 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
2811 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
2812 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
2813 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2814 please see 'nowatchdog'.
2815 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2816 need the box quickly up again.
2817
2818 These settings can be accessed at runtime via
2819 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
2820
2821 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2822 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2823 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2824 waits 4 seconds.
2825
2826 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
2827 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2828 is present.
2829
2830 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
2831 kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
2832
2833 no_console_suspend
2834 [HW] Never suspend the console
2835 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2836 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2837 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2838 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2839 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2840 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2841 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
2842 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2843 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2844 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2845 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2846 turn on/off it dynamically.
2847
2848 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2849 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2850 but will impact performance.
2851
2852 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2853
2854 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2855 (CPU alternatives feature).
2856
2857 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2858 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2859
2860 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2861
2862 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2863 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2864
2865 nocache [ARM]
2866
2867 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2868
2869 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2870
2871 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2872
2873 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
2874
2875 noexec [IA-64]
2876
2877 noexec [X86]
2878 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
2879 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2880 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2881
2882 nosmap [X86]
2883 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2884 even if it is supported by processor.
2885
2886 nosmep [X86]
2887 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
2888 even if it is supported by processor.
2889
2890 noexec32 [X86-64]
2891 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2892 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2893 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2894 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2895 read implies executable mappings
2896
2897 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
2898
2899 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
2900 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2901 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
2902
2903 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2904
2905 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2906 Equivalent to smt=1.
2907
2908 [KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2909 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
2910 via the sysfs control file.
2911
2912 nospectre_v1 [X66, PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
2913 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks
2914 are possible in the system.
2915
2916 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
2917 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
2918 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
2919 option.
2920
2921 nospec_store_bypass_disable
2922 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
2923
2924 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2925 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2926 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2927
2928 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2929 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2930 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2931 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2932 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2933 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2934
2935 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2936 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2937 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2938 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2939 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2940 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2941 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2942
2943 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2944 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2945 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
2946
2947 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2948 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2949 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2950
2951 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2952 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2953 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2954 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2955 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2956 real-time systems.
2957
2958 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2959
2960 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2961 Valid arguments: on, off
2962 Default: on
2963
2964 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
2965 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2966 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
2967 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
2968 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2969 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
2970 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
2971 just as if they had also been called out in the
2972 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
2973
2974 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2975
2976 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
2977 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2978
2979 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
2980 broken timer IRQ sources.
2981
2982 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2983
2984 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2985 initial RAM disk.
2986
2987 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2988 remapping.
2989 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
2990
2991 nointroute [IA-64]
2992
2993 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2994
2995 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
2996
2997 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2998
2999 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3000 fault handling.
3001
3002 no-vmw-sched-clock
3003 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3004 clock and use the default one.
3005
3006 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
3007 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
3008 behaviour
3009
3010 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3011
3012 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3013
3014 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
3015 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
3016
3017 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3018
3019 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3020
3021 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3022 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3023
3024 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3025 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3026 irq.
3027
3028 nomodule Disable module load
3029
3030 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3031 pagetables) support.
3032
3033 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3034
3035 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
3036 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3037
3038 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3039 with UP alternatives
3040
3041 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3042 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3043 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3044 available to user space applications.
3045
3046 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3047 space.
3048
3049 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
3050 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3051 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3052
3053 nosbagart [IA-64]
3054
3055 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
3056
3057 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3058 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3059
3060 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3061
3062 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3063
3064 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3065 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3066
3067 nowb [ARM]
3068
3069 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3070
3071 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3072 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3073 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3074 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3075 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3076 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3077 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3078 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3079 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3080 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3081 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3082 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3083 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3084
3085 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
3086 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3087 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3088 without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3089 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3090 parameter's value.
3091 Format: integer between 1 and 255
3092 Default: 255
3093
3094 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
3095 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3096 SAL PALO.
3097
3098 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
3099 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
3100 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3101 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3102 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3103 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3104 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3105 hot plugging.
3106
3107 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3108
3109 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
3110 Allowed values are enable and disable
3111
3112 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3113 'node', 'default' can be specified
3114 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3115 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
3116
3117 of_devlink [OF, KNL] Create device links between consumer and
3118 supplier devices by scanning the devictree to infer the
3119 consumer/supplier relationships. A consumer device
3120 will not be probed until all the supplier devices have
3121 probed successfully.
3122
3123 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3124 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
3125 info.
3126
3127 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3128 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3129 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3130 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
3131 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3132 interrupts *may* be lost!
3133
3134 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3135 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3136 For example, to override I2C bus2:
3137 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3138
3139 oprofile.timer= [HW]
3140 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
3141
3142 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
3143 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
3144 userland or if you want common events.
3145 Format: { arch_perfmon }
3146 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
3147 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
3148 CPU specific event set.
3149 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
3150 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
3151 for generic hr timer mode)
3152
3153 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3154 process, but there is a small probability of
3155 deadlocking the machine.
3156 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3157 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3158
3159 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3160 Storage of the information about who allocated
3161 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3162 we can turn it on.
3163 on: enable the feature
3164
3165 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3166 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3167 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3168 off: turn off poisoning (default)
3169 on: turn on poisoning
3170
3171 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3172 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3173 timeout = 0: wait forever
3174 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3175 Format: <timeout>
3176
3177 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
3178 on a WARN().
3179
3180 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3181 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3182 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3183 succeeds in any situation.
3184 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3185 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3186 kernel more unstable.
3187
3188 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3189 connected to, default is 0.
3190 Format: <parport#>
3191 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3192 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
3193 Format: <mode>
3194
3195 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3196 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3197 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3198 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3199 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3200 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3201 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3202 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3203 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3204 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3205 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3206 are specified on the command line, starting
3207 with parport0.
3208
3209 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
3210 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3211 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3212 computer where firmware has no options for setting
3213 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3214 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
3215 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3216
3217 pause_on_oops=
3218 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3219 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
3220 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3221
3222 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
3223
3224 pcd. [PARIDE]
3225 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
3226 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3227
3228 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3229
3230 Some options herein operate on a specific device
3231 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3232 specified in one of the following formats:
3233
3234 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
3235 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3236
3237 Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3238 bus/device/function address which may change
3239 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3240 firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3241 by other kernel parameters. If the
3242 domain is left unspecified, it is
3243 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3244 to a device through multiple device/function
3245 addresses can be specified after the base
3246 address (this is more robust against
3247 renumbering issues). The second format
3248 selects devices using IDs from the
3249 configuration space which may match multiple
3250 devices in the system.
3251
3252 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel
3253 changes anything
3254 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
3255 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
3256 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3257 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
3258 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
3259 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3260 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3261 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
3262 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3263 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3264 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3265 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3266 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3267 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3268 bus number. The config space is then accessed
3269 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3270 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3271 on the configuration access mechanisms.
3272 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3273 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3274 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
3275 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3276 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
3277 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
3278 Configuration
3279 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3280 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3281 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
3282 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3283 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3284 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
3285 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3286 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3287 should never be necessary.
3288 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3289 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3290 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3291 when the system masks IRQs.
3292 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3293 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3294 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3295 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
3296 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
3297 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3298 on several machines and they hang the machine
3299 when used, but on other computers it's the only
3300 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3301 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3302 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3303 motherboard.
3304 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
3305 Use with caution as certain devices share
3306 address decoders between ROMs and other
3307 resources.
3308 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
3309 expansion ROMs that do not already have
3310 BIOS assigned address ranges.
3311 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
3312 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
3313 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
3314 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3315 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3316 this way.
3317 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
3318 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3319 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3320 F0000h-100000h range.
3321 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
3322 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3323 secondary buses and you want to tell it
3324 explicitly which ones they are.
3325 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
3326 numbers ourselves, overriding
3327 whatever the firmware may have done.
3328 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
3329 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3330 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3331 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3332 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3333 IRQ routing is enabled.
3334 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
3335 or for PCI scanning.
3336 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3337 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3338 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
3339 please report a bug.
3340 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3341 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
3342 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3343 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3344 so this option is a temporary workaround
3345 for broken drivers that don't call it.
3346 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3347 handle more pci cards
3348 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3349 This might help on some broken boards which
3350 machine check when some devices' config space
3351 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3352 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
3353 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3354 This sorting is done to get a device
3355 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3356 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3357 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3358 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3359 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3360 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3361 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3362 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3363 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3364 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3365 or bus can support) for best performance.
3366 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3367 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3368 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3369 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3370 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3371 that hot-added devices will work.
3372 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3373 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3374 The default value is 256 bytes.
3375 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3376 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3377 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3378 resource_alignment=
3379 Format:
3380 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
3381 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3382 aligned memory resources. How to
3383 specify the device is described above.
3384 If <order of align> is not specified,
3385 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3386 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3387 windows need to be expanded.
3388 To specify the alignment for several
3389 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3390 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3391 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
3392 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3393 end-to-end CRC checking).
3394 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3395 the default.
3396 off: Turn ECRC off
3397 on: Turn ECRC on.
3398 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3399 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3400 Default size is 256 bytes.
3401 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3402 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3403 Default size is 2 megabytes.
3404 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3405 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3406 Default is 1.
3407 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3408 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3409 accommodate resources required by all child
3410 devices.
3411 off: Turn realloc off
3412 on: Turn realloc on
3413 realloc same as realloc=on
3414 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
3415 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3416 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
3417 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3418 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3419 port.
3420 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3421 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3422 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3423 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3424 conflict with unreported devices), so this
3425 taints the kernel.
3426 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
3427 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
3428 specified above) separated by semicolons.
3429 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
3430 redirect capabilities forced off which will
3431 allow P2P traffic between devices through
3432 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
3433 this removes isolation between devices and
3434 may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
3435
3436 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3437 Management.
3438 off Disable ASPM.
3439 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3440 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3441
3442 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3443 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3444 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3445 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform
3446 also tries to use these services.
3447 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3448 hotplug).
3449
3450 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3451 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3452 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3453
3454 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
3455 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
3456 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
3457
3458 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3459
3460 pd_ignore_unused
3461 [PM]
3462 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3463 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3464 for debug and development, but should not be
3465 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3466
3467 pd. [PARIDE]
3468 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3469
3470 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3471 boot time.
3472 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3473 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3474
3475 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
3476 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3477 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3478 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3479 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3480 and performance comparison.
3481
3482 pf. [PARIDE]
3483 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3484
3485 pg. [PARIDE]
3486 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3487
3488 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
3489 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
3490
3491 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3492 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3493 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
3494
3495 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
3496 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3497 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3498
3499 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3500 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3501 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3502 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3503 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3504 possible settings and some assignment information.
3505
3506 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3507 { off }
3508
3509 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3510 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3511
3512 pnp_reserve_irq=
3513 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3514
3515 pnp_reserve_dma=
3516 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3517
3518 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
3519 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
3520
3521 pnp_reserve_mem=
3522 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3523 autoconfiguration.
3524 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3525
3526 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3527 Default is 21.
3528 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3529 may be specified.
3530 Format: <port>,<port>....
3531
3532 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3533 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3534 platform machine description specific power_save
3535 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3536 execution priority.
3537
3538 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3539 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3540 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3541 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3542 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3543
3544 ppc_tm= [PPC]
3545 Format: {"off"}
3546 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3547
3548 print-fatal-signals=
3549 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
3550
3551 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3552 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3553 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3554 coredump - etc.
3555
3556 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3557 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3558
3559 default: off.
3560
3561 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3562 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3563 panics
3564 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3565 default: disabled
3566
3567 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3568 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3569 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3570 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3571 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3572 Default: ratelimit
3573
3574 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3575 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3576
3577 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3578 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3579 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3580
3581 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3582 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3583 instead using the legacy FADT method
3584
3585 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
3586 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3587 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3588 [defaults to kernel profiling]
3589 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3590 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3591 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
3592 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
3593 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3594 statistical time based profiling.
3595
3596 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3597 before loading.
3598 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3599
3600 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
3601 tracking.
3602 Format: <bool>
3603
3604 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3605 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
3606 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3607 per second.
3608 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3609 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
3610 (0 = never).
3611 psmouse.resolution=
3612 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3613 psmouse.smartscroll=
3614 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
3615 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3616
3617 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3618
3619 pt. [PARIDE]
3620 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3621
3622 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3623 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
3624 removes hardening, but improves performance of
3625 system calls and interrupts.
3626
3627 on - unconditionally enable
3628 off - unconditionally disable
3629 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3630 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3631
3632 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3633
3634 nopti [X86_64]
3635 Equivalent to pti=off
3636
3637 pty.legacy_count=
3638 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3639 default number.
3640
3641 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
3642
3643 r128= [HW,DRM]
3644
3645 raid= [HW,RAID]
3646 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3647
3648 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
3649 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3650
3651 random.trust_cpu={on,off}
3652 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
3653 CPU's random number generator (if available) to
3654 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
3655 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
3656
3657 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
3658
3659 cec_disable [X86]
3660 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3661 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3662
3663 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
3664 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3665
3666 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3667 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3668 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
3669 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3670 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3671 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3672 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
3673 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3674 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3675 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3676
3677 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
3678 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3679 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3680 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3681 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3682 This improves the real-time response for the
3683 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3684 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3685 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3686 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3687
3688 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
3689 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3690 process in one batch.
3691
3692 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3693 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3694 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3695 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3696
3697 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3698 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3699 RCU grace-period cleanup.
3700
3701 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3702 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3703 RCU grace-period initialization.
3704
3705 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3706 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3707 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3708 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3709 the rcu_node combining tree.
3710
3711 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3712 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3713 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3714 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3715 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
3716
3717 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
3718 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3719 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3720 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3721 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3722 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3723 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
3724
3725 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3726 Set required age in jiffies for a
3727 given grace period before RCU starts
3728 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3729 rcu_note_context_switch().
3730
3731 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
3732 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3733 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3734 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3735 and maximum value is HZ.
3736
3737 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
3738 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3739 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3740 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3741
3742 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
3743 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3744 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3745 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3746 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3747 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3748 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3749 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3750 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3751 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
3752
3753 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3754 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3755 defaults to the square root of the number of
3756 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3757 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3758 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3759
3760 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
3761 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3762 batch limiting is disabled.
3763
3764 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
3765 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3766 batch limiting is re-enabled.
3767
3768 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
3769 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3770 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3771
3772 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
3773 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3774 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3775 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3776 prove do nothing more than free memory.
3777
3778 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3779 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3780 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3781 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3782 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3783 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3784
3785 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3786 Measure performance of asynchronous
3787 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3788
3789 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3790 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3791 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
3792 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3793 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3794 previously posted callbacks to drain.
3795
3796 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3797 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3798 grace-period primitives.
3799
3800 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3801 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3802 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3803 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3804 interference.
3805
3806 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3807 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3808 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3809 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3810 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3811 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3812 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3813 a single reader.
3814
3815 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3816 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3817 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3818 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3819
3820 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3821 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3822
3823 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3824 Shut the system down after performance tests
3825 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3826 testing.
3827
3828 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3829 Enable additional printk() statements.
3830
3831 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3832 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3833 in microseconds. The default of zero says
3834 no holdoff.
3835
3836 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3837 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3838 callback-flood tests.
3839
3840 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3841 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3842 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3843 test.
3844
3845 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3846 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3847 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3848 disable callback-flood testing.
3849
3850 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3851 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3852 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3853
3854 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
3855 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3856 in microseconds.
3857
3858 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
3859 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3860 in microseconds.
3861
3862 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
3863 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3864 in seconds.
3865
3866 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3867 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3868 primitives, if available.
3869
3870 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
3871 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
3872
3873 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
3874 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3875 update-side primitives, if available.
3876
3877 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3878 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3879 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3880 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3881 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3882 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3883 they are all non-zero.
3884
3885 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
3886 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3887
3888 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
3889 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3890 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3891 test, hence the "fake".
3892
3893 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3894 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3895 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3896 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3897 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3898 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3899
3900 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3901 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3902
3903 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
3904 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3905
3906 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
3907 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
3908 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3909
3910 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
3911 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3912 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3913 during the rcutorture test.
3914
3915 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
3916 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3917 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3918
3919 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
3920 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3921 warnings, zero to disable.
3922
3923 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
3924 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3925
3926 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
3927 Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
3928
3929 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
3930 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3931
3932 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
3933 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3934 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3935 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3936 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3937
3938 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
3939 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3940 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3941 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3942
3943 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
3944 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3945
3946 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
3947 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3948
3949 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
3950 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3951 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3952
3953 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
3954 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3955
3956 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
3957 Enable additional printk() statements.
3958
3959 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3960 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3961
3962 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3963 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3964
3965 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3966 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3967 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3968 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3969 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3970 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
3971 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3972
3973 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3974 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3975 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3976 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
3977 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3978 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3979 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3980 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3981 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3982
3983 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3984 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3985 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
3986 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3987 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3988
3989 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3990 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3991 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3992 to zero.
3993
3994 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3995 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3996
3997 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3998 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3999
4000 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
4001 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
4002
4003 rdinit= [KNL]
4004 Format: <full_path>
4005 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
4006 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
4007
4008 rdrand= [X86]
4009 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
4010 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
4011 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
4012 support, specifically around the suspend/resume
4013 path).
4014
4015 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
4016 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
4017 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
4018 mba.
4019 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
4020 rdt=cmt,!mba
4021
4022 reboot= [KNL]
4023 Format (x86 or x86_64):
4024 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
4025 [[,]s[mp]#### \
4026 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
4027 [[,]f[orce]
4028 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
4029 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
4030 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
4031 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
4032 to be used for rebooting.
4033
4034 relax_domain_level=
4035 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
4036 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
4037
4038 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
4039 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
4040 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
4041 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
4042 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
4043
4044 reservetop= [X86-32]
4045 Format: nn[KMG]
4046 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
4047 address space.
4048
4049 reservelow= [X86]
4050 Format: nn[K]
4051 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
4052 the bottom of the address space.
4053
4054 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
4055 during initialization.
4056
4057 resume= [SWSUSP]
4058 Specify the partition device for software suspend
4059 Format:
4060 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
4061
4062 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
4063 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
4064 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
4065 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
4066 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
4067
4068 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4069 read the resume files
4070
4071 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
4072 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4073 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4074
4075 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
4076 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
4077 present during boot.
4078 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
4079 no Disable hibernation and resume.
4080 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
4081 (that will set all pages holding image data
4082 during restoration read-only).
4083
4084 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
4085
4086 rfkill.default_state=
4087 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
4088 etc. communication is blocked by default.
4089 1 Unblocked.
4090
4091 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
4092 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
4093 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4094 blocked and the previous configuration.
4095 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4096 blocked and everything unblocked.
4097
4098 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4099 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
4100
4101 ring3mwait=disable
4102 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
4103 CPUs.
4104
4105 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
4106
4107 rodata= [KNL]
4108 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
4109 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
4110
4111 rockchip.usb_uart
4112 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
4113 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
4114 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
4115 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
4116
4117 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
4118 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
4119
4120 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4121 mount the root filesystem
4122
4123 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
4124
4125 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
4126
4127 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
4128 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4129 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4130
4131 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
4132 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
4133 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
4134 managed by CMA.
4135
4136 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
4137
4138 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
4139
4140 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
4141 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
4142 strict
4143 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
4144 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
4145 which is faster.
4146
4147 sa1100ir [NET]
4148 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
4149
4150 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
4151
4152 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
4153
4154 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
4155 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
4156 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
4157 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
4158
4159 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
4160 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
4161 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
4162 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4163 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
4164 1 -- enable.
4165 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
4166 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
4167
4168 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
4169 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
4170 security module asking for security registration will be
4171 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
4172 as if no module has been chosen.
4173
4174 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
4175 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4176 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
4177 0 -- disable.
4178 1 -- enable.
4179 Default value is set via kernel config option.
4180 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
4181 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
4182
4183 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
4184 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4185 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
4186 0 -- disable.
4187 1 -- enable.
4188 Default value is set via kernel config option.
4189
4190 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
4191
4192 shapers= [NET]
4193 Maximal number of shapers.
4194
4195 simeth= [IA-64]
4196 simscsi=
4197
4198 slram= [HW,MTD]
4199
4200 slab_nomerge [MM]
4201 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
4202 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
4203 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
4204 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
4205 layout control by attackers can usually be
4206 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
4207 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
4208 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
4209 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
4210 own.
4211 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4212
4213 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
4214 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4215 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4216 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
4217 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
4218
4219 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
4220 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
4221 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
4222 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
4223 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
4224 last alloc / free. For more information see
4225 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4226
4227 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
4228 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
4229 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
4230 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
4231 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
4232 directories and files being created under
4233 /sys/kernel/slub.
4234
4235 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
4236 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4237 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4238 fragmentation. For more information see
4239 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4240
4241 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
4242 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
4243 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
4244 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
4245 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
4246 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
4247 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
4248 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4249
4250 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
4251 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
4252 lower than slub_max_order.
4253 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4254
4255 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
4256 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
4257 See slab_nomerge for more information.
4258
4259 smart2= [HW]
4260 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
4261
4262 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
4263 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
4264 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
4265 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
4266 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
4267 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
4268 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
4269 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
4270 1: Fast pin select (default)
4271 2: ATC IRMode
4272
4273 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4274 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4275 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4276 actual hardware limit.
4277 Format: <integer>
4278 Default: -1 (no limit)
4279
4280 softlockup_panic=
4281 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
4282 Format: <integer>
4283
4284 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
4285 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
4286 is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
4287 which is the respective build-time switch to that
4288 functionality.
4289
4290 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4291 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4292 backtraces on all cpus.
4293 Format: <integer>
4294
4295 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
4296 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
4297
4298 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4299 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
4300 The default operation protects the kernel from
4301 user space attacks.
4302
4303 on - unconditionally enable, implies
4304 spectre_v2_user=on
4305 off - unconditionally disable, implies
4306 spectre_v2_user=off
4307 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4308 vulnerable
4309
4310 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4311 mitigation method at run time according to the
4312 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4313 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4314 compiler with which the kernel was built.
4315
4316 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
4317 against user space to user space task attacks.
4318
4319 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
4320 the user space protections.
4321
4322 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4323
4324 retpoline - replace indirect branches
4325 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4326 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4327
4328 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4329 spectre_v2=auto.
4330
4331 spectre_v2_user=
4332 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4333 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
4334 user space tasks
4335
4336 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
4337 enforced by spectre_v2=on
4338
4339 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
4340 enforced by spectre_v2=off
4341
4342 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
4343 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
4344 per thread. The mitigation control state
4345 is inherited on fork.
4346
4347 prctl,ibpb
4348 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
4349 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4350 always when switching between different user
4351 space processes.
4352
4353 seccomp
4354 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
4355 threads will enable the mitigation unless
4356 they explicitly opt out.
4357
4358 seccomp,ibpb
4359 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
4360 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4361 always when switching between different
4362 user space processes.
4363
4364 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
4365 the available CPU features and vulnerability.
4366
4367 Default mitigation:
4368 If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4369
4370 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4371 spectre_v2_user=auto.
4372
4373 spec_store_bypass_disable=
4374 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
4375 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
4376
4377 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
4378 a common industry wide performance optimization known
4379 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
4380 to the same memory location may not be observed by
4381 later loads during speculative execution. The idea
4382 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
4383 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
4384 end of a particular speculation execution window.
4385
4386 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4387 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
4388 example to read memory to which the attacker does not
4389 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
4390
4391 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
4392 Bypass optimization is used.
4393
4394 On x86 the options are:
4395
4396 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
4397 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
4398 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
4399 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
4400 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
4401 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
4402 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
4403 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
4404 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
4405 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
4406 for a process by default. The state of the control
4407 is inherited on fork.
4408 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
4409 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
4410
4411 Default mitigations:
4412 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4413
4414 On powerpc the options are:
4415
4416 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
4417 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
4418 perform a software flush on kernel entry and
4419 exit.
4420 off - No action.
4421
4422 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4423 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
4424
4425 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
4426 spia_fio_base=
4427 spia_pedr=
4428 spia_peddr=
4429
4430 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4431 Specifies how frequently to check for
4432 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4433 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4434 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4435 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4436 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
4437 are ignored.
4438
4439 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4440 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4441 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4442 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4443 grace period will be considered for automatic
4444 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
4445 expediting.
4446
4447 ssbd= [ARM64,HW]
4448 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
4449
4450 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
4451 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
4452 firmware based mitigation, this parameter
4453 indicates how the mitigation should be used:
4454
4455 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for
4456 for both kernel and userspace
4457 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
4458 for both kernel and userspace
4459 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the
4460 kernel, and offer a prctl interface
4461 to allow userspace to register its
4462 interest in being mitigated too.
4463
4464 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
4465 override the default stack gap protection. The value
4466 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4467 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4468 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4469 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4470
4471 stacktrace [FTRACE]
4472 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4473
4474 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4475 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4476 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4477 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4478 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4479 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4480 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4481
4482 sti= [PARISC,HW]
4483 Format: <num>
4484 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4485 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4486 as the initial boot-console.
4487 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4488
4489 sti_font= [HW]
4490 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4491
4492 stifb= [HW]
4493 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4494
4495 sunrpc.min_resvport=
4496 sunrpc.max_resvport=
4497 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4498 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4499 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4500 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4501 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4502 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4503 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4504 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4505 maximum port values.
4506
4507 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4508 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4509 Limit the number of requests that the server will
4510 process in parallel from a single connection.
4511 The default value is 0 (no limit).
4512
4513 sunrpc.pool_mode=
4514 [NFS]
4515 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4516 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
4517 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4518 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4519 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4520 NFS server is running.
4521
4522 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
4523 automatically using heuristics
4524 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
4525 percpu one pool for each CPU
4526 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4527 to global on non-NUMA machines)
4528
4529 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4530 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4531 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4532 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4533 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4534 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4535 improve throughput, but will also increase the
4536 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4537
4538 suspend.pm_test_delay=
4539 [SUSPEND]
4540 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4541 mode before resuming the system (see
4542 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4543 is set. Default value is 5.
4544
4545 swapaccount=[0|1]
4546 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4547 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
4548 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
4549
4550 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
4551 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
4552 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4553 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4554 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
4555 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
4556
4557 switches= [HW,M68k]
4558
4559 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4560 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4561 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4562 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4563 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4564 in older udev will not work anymore.
4565 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4566 the kernel configuration.
4567
4568 sysrq_always_enabled
4569 [KNL]
4570 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4571 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4572 Useful for debugging.
4573
4574 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4575 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4576 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4577 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4578 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4579 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4580
4581 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
4582
4583 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
4584 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
4585 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4586 as the system sleep state during system startup with
4587 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4588 The system is woken from this state using a
4589 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
4590
4591 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4592 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4593
4594 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
4595 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4596 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4597
4598 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
4599 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
4600 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
4601
4602 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
4603 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4604 critical and hot trip points.
4605
4606 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
4607 1: disable ACPI thermal control
4608
4609 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
4610 -1: disable all passive trip points
4611 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4612 value
4613
4614 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
4615 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4616 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4617 0: no polling (default)
4618
4619 threadirqs [KNL]
4620 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
4621 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
4622
4623 tmem [KNL,XEN]
4624 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4625
4626 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4627 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4628 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4629
4630 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4631 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
4632 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4633 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
4634
4635 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4636 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4637 to the hypervisor.
4638
4639 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4640 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4641 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4642 kernel based on different criteria.
4643
4644 topology= [S390]
4645 Format: {off | on}
4646 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
4647 topology information if the hardware supports this.
4648 The scheduler will make use of this information and
4649 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
4650 Default is on.
4651
4652 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4653 Format: {off}
4654 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4655 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4656 LPAR.
4657
4658 tp720= [HW,PS2]
4659
4660 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4661 Format: integer pcr id
4662 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4663 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4664 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4665 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4666 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4667 are saved.
4668
4669 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
4670 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
4671
4672 trace_event=[event-list]
4673 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
4674 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4675 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4676 also Documentation/trace/events.rst
4677
4678 trace_options=[option-list]
4679 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4680 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4681 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4682 to echo the option name into
4683
4684 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4685
4686 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4687 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4688
4689 trace_options=stacktrace
4690
4691 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
4692 section.
4693
4694 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4695 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4696 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4697 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4698 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4699 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4700
4701 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4702 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4703 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4704 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4705
4706 ** CAUTION **
4707
4708 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4709 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4710 the system to live lock.
4711
4712 traceoff_on_warning
4713 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4714 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4715 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4716 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4717
4718 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4719 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4720 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4721
4722 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4723 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4724
4725 transparent_hugepage=
4726 [KNL]
4727 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4728 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4729 with respect to transparent hugepages.
4730 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
4731 for more details.
4732
4733 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
4734 Format: <string>
4735 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
4736 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4737 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4738 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4739 virtualized environment.
4740 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4741 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4742 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4743 can add overhead.
4744 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4745 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4746 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
4747
4748 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
4749 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
4750 support TSX control.
4751
4752 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
4753
4754 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
4755 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
4756 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
4757 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
4758 so there may be unknown security risks associated
4759 with leaving it enabled.
4760
4761 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
4762 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
4763 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
4764 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
4765 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
4766 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
4767 deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
4768
4769 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
4770 otherwise enable TSX on the system.
4771
4772 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
4773
4774 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
4775 for more details.
4776
4777 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
4778 Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
4779
4780 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
4781 certain CPUs that support Transactional
4782 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
4783 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
4784 information to a disclosure gadget under certain
4785 conditions.
4786
4787 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4788 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
4789 access data to which the attacker does not have direct
4790 access.
4791
4792 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The
4793 options are:
4794
4795 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
4796 if TSX is enabled.
4797
4798 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
4799 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
4800 is not disabled because CPU is not
4801 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
4802 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
4803
4804 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
4805 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
4806 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
4807 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
4808
4809 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4810 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected
4811 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
4812 required and doesn't provide any additional
4813 mitigation.
4814
4815 For details see:
4816 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
4817
4818 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4819 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4820 Format:
4821 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
4822 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
4823
4824 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
4825 happen after console_init() and before a proper
4826 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4827 help "seeing" what's going on.
4828
4829 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4830 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4831
4832 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4833 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4834 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4835 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4836 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4837 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4838 reported either.
4839
4840 unknown_nmi_panic
4841 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
4842
4843 usbcore.authorized_default=
4844 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4845 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4846 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4847
4848 usbcore.autosuspend=
4849 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4850 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4851 is the time required before an idle device will be
4852 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
4853 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
4854
4855 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4856 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4857
4858 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4859 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4860 (default = 65536).
4861
4862 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4863 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4864
4865 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4866 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
4867 scheme (default 0 = off).
4868
4869 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4870 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4871 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4872
4873 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4874 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4875 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4876
4877 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4878 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4879 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4880 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4881
4882 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4883
4884 usbcore.quirks=
4885 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
4886 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
4887 commas. Each entry has the form
4888 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
4889 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
4890 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
4891 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
4892 the following meanings:
4893 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
4894 descriptors must not be fetched using
4895 a 255-byte read);
4896 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
4897 correctly so reset it instead);
4898 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
4899 Set-Interface requests);
4900 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
4901 handle its Configuration or Interface
4902 strings);
4903 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
4904 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
4905 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
4906 more interface descriptions than the
4907 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
4908 talking to these interfaces);
4909 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
4910 during initialization, after we read
4911 the device descriptor);
4912 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
4913 high speed and super speed interrupt
4914 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
4915 require the interval in microframes (1
4916 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
4917 calculated as interval = 2 ^
4918 (bInterval-1).
4919 Devices with this quirk report their
4920 bInterval as the result of this
4921 calculation instead of the exponent
4922 variable used in the calculation);
4923 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
4924 handle device_qualifier descriptor
4925 requests);
4926 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
4927 generates spurious wakeup, ignore
4928 remote wakeup capability);
4929 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
4930 Power Management);
4931 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
4932 (Device reports its bInterval as linear
4933 frames instead of the USB 2.0
4934 calculation);
4935 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
4936 to be disconnected before suspend to
4937 prevent spurious wakeup);
4938 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
4939 pause after every control message);
4940 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
4941 delay after resetting its port);
4942 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
4943
4944 usbhid.mousepoll=
4945 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
4946
4947 usbhid.jspoll=
4948 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4949
4950 usbhid.kbpoll=
4951 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
4952
4953 usb-storage.delay_use=
4954 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
4955 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
4956
4957 usb-storage.quirks=
4958 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4959 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4960 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4961 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4962 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4963 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4964 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
4965 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4966 of sense data, not on uas);
4967 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4968 bytes of sense data, not on uas);
4969 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4970 device capacity by one sector);
4971 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4972 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
4973 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4974 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
4975 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4976 command, uas only);
4977 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4978 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
4979 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4980 reported device capacity by one
4981 sector if the number is odd);
4982 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4983 device);
4984 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4985 command, uas only);
4986 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4987 unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
4988 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4989 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
4990 not on uas);
4991 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4992 initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
4993 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4994 reported by the device, not on uas);
4995 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4996 by default, not on uas);
4997 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4998 bogus residue values, not on uas);
4999 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
5000 Logical Unit);
5001 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
5002 commands, uas only);
5003 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
5004 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
5005 medium is write-protected).
5006 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
5007 even if the device claims no cache,
5008 not on uas)
5009 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
5010
5011 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
5012 Format: <int>
5013 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
5014 1 - undefined instruction events
5015 2 - system calls
5016 4 - invalid data aborts
5017 8 - SIGSEGV faults
5018 16 - SIGBUS faults
5019 Example: user_debug=31
5020
5021 userpte=
5022 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
5023
5024 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
5025 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
5026 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
5027
5028 vdso= [X86,SH]
5029 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
5030
5031 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
5032 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
5033
5034 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
5035 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
5036 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
5037
5038 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
5039 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
5040 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
5041
5042 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
5043 alias for vdso32=0.
5044
5045 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
5046 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
5047
5048 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
5049 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
5050
5051 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
5052 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
5053
5054 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
5055 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
5056 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
5057 level and then send out the event to user space through
5058 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
5059 will only send out the event without touching backlight
5060 brightness level.
5061 default: 1
5062
5063 virtio_mmio.device=
5064 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
5065
5066 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
5067 where:
5068 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
5069 like K, M and G)
5070 <baseaddr> := physical base address
5071 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
5072 request_irq())
5073 <id> := (optional) platform device id
5074 example:
5075 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
5076
5077 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
5078
5079 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
5080 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
5081 Documentation/svga.txt.
5082 Use vga=ask for menu.
5083 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
5084 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
5085
5086 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
5087 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
5088 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
5089 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
5090 mapped kernel RAM.
5091
5092 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390]
5093 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
5094 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
5095
5096 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
5097 Format: <command>
5098
5099 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
5100 Format: <command>
5101
5102 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
5103 Format: <command>
5104
5105 vsyscall= [X86-64]
5106 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
5107 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
5108 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
5109 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
5110 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
5111 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
5112
5113 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5114 emulated reasonably safely.
5115
5116 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
5117 them quite hard to use for exploits but
5118 might break your system.
5119
5120 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
5121 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
5122 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
5123
5124 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
5125 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
5126 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
5127 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
5128
5129 vt.default_blu= [VT]
5130 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
5131 Change the default blue palette of the console.
5132 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5133 ranging from 0-255.
5134
5135 vt.default_grn= [VT]
5136 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
5137 Change the default green palette of the console.
5138 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5139 ranging from 0-255.
5140
5141 vt.default_red= [VT]
5142 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
5143 Change the default red palette of the console.
5144 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5145 ranging from 0-255.
5146
5147 vt.default_utf8=
5148 [VT]
5149 Format=<0|1>
5150 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
5151 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
5152 newly opened terminals.
5153
5154 vt.global_cursor_default=
5155 [VT]
5156 Format=<-1|0|1>
5157 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
5158 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
5159 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
5160 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
5161 cursors, 1 will display them.
5162
5163 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
5164 Default: 2 = green.
5165
5166 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
5167 Default: 3 = cyan.
5168
5169 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
5170 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
5171 or other driver-specific files in the
5172 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
5173
5174 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
5175 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
5176 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
5177 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
5178 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
5179 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
5180 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
5181 corresponding sysfs file.
5182
5183 workqueue.disable_numa
5184 By default, all work items queued to unbound
5185 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
5186 issued on, which results in better behavior in
5187 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
5188 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
5189 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
5190 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
5191
5192 workqueue.power_efficient
5193 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
5194 they show better performance thanks to cache
5195 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
5196 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
5197
5198 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
5199 were observed to contribute significantly to power
5200 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
5201 power usage at the cost of small performance
5202 overhead.
5203
5204 The default value of this parameter is determined by
5205 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
5206
5207 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
5208 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
5209 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
5210 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
5211 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
5212 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
5213 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
5214 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
5215 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
5216 impacted.
5217
5218 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
5219 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
5220 supporting x2apic.
5221
5222 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
5223 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
5224 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
5225 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
5226 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
5227
5228 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
5229 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
5230 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
5231 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
5232 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
5233 domains.
5234
5235 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
5236 Unplug Xen emulated devices
5237 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
5238 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
5239 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
5240 nics -- unplug network devices
5241 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
5242 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
5243 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
5244 the unplug protocol
5245 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
5246
5247 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN]
5248 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
5249 panic() code such as dumping handler.
5250
5251 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
5252 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
5253 optimizations.
5254
5255 xen_nopv [X86]
5256 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
5257 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
5258
5259 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN]
5260 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
5261 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
5262 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
5263 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
5264
5265 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
5266 Format:
5267 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
5268
5269 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL]
5270 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
5271 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
5272 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.