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1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4 copy_dsdt }
5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14 are available
15
16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
17
18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
19 Format: <int>
20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21 1,0: use 1st APIC table
22 default: 0
23
24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
25 { vendor | video | native | none }
26 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
27 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
28 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
29 If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
30 If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
31 If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
32
33 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
34 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
35 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
36 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
37 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
38
39 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
40 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
41 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
42 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
43 This option is useful for developers to identify the
44 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
45 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
46
47 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
48 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
49 Format: <int>
50 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
51 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
52 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
53 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS
54 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
55 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
56 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
57 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
58 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
59 debug layers and levels.
60
61 Enable processor driver info messages:
62 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
63 Enable 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> or <bitmap-list>
117
118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122 auto-serialization feature.
123 This feature is enabled by default.
124 This option allows to turn off the feature.
125
126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
127 kernels.
128
129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132 installed automatically and they will appear under
133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134 This option turns off this feature.
135 Note that specifying this option does not affect
136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
138
139 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT]
140 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
141 a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
142
143 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
144 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
145 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
146 second kernel for kdump.
147
148 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
149 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
150
151 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
152 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
153 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
154 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
155 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
156
157 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
158 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
159 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
160 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
161 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
162 strings
163 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
164 strings
165 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
166
167 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
168 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
169 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
170 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
171 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
172 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
173 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
174 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
175 care about the state of the feature group strings which
176 should be controlled by the OSPM.
177 Examples:
178 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
179 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
180 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
181
182 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
183 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
184 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
185 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
186 multiple times through kernel command line is also
187 meaningless.
188 Examples:
189 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
190 FALSE.
191
192 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
193 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
194 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
195 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
196 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
197 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
198 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
199 there are quirks related to this string. This command
200 is useful when one want to control the state of the
201 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
202 the OSPM features.
203 Examples:
204 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
205 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
206 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
207 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
208 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
209 equivalent to
210 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
211 and
212 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
213 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
214
215 acpi_pm_good [X86]
216 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
217 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
218 and always returns good values.
219
220 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
221 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
222
223 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
224 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
225 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
226
227 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
228 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
229 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
230 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
231 s3_bios and s3_mode.
232 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
233 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
234 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
235 used during resume from hibernation.
236 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
237 control method, with respect to putting devices into
238 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
239 of _PTS is used by default).
240 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
241 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
242 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
243 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
244 but some broken systems don't work without it).
245 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
246 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
247 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
248
249 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
250 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
251 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
252
253 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
254 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
255
256 agp= [AGP]
257 { off | try_unsupported }
258 off: disable AGP support
259 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
260 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
261
262 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
263 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
264
265 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
266 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
267 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
268 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
269
270 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
271 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
272 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
273 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
274 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
275 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
276 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
277
278 32: only for 32-bit processes
279 64: only for 64-bit processes
280 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
281 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
282
283 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
284 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
285 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
286 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
287 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
288 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
289
290 allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64]
291 Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the
292 PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict
293 subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this
294 parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit
295 EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
296 and hot-unplug operations may be restricted.
297
298 See Documentation/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more
299 information.
300
301 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
302 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
303 Possible values are:
304 fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1
305 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
306 the system
307 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
308 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
309 allowed anymore to lift isolation
310 requirements as needed. This option
311 does not override iommu=pt
312 force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known
313 to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this
314 option with care.
315
316 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
317 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
318 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
319 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
320 IOMMU initialization.
321
322 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
323 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
324 remapping modes:
325 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
326 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
327 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
328 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
329 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
330
331 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
332 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
333 Format: <a>,<b>
334 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
335
336 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
337 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
338 connected to one of 16 gameports
339 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
340
341 apc= [HW,SPARC]
342 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
343 Format: noidle
344 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
345 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
346 APC and your system crashes randomly.
347
348 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
349 Change the output verbosity while booting
350 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
351 Change the amount of debugging information output
352 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
353 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
354 driver name.
355 Format: apic=driver_name
356 Examples: apic=bigsmp
357
358 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
359 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
360 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
361 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
362 backup of CPU 0
363 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
364 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
365 shot down by NMI
366
367 autoconf= [IPV6]
368 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
369
370 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
371 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
372 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
373 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
374 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
375 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
376 apic=verbose is specified.
377 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
378
379 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
380 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
381
382 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
383 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
384
385 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
386 Identification support
387
388 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
389 support
390
391 arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension
392 support
393
394 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
395
396 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
397
398 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
399 EzKey and similar keyboards
400
401 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
402
403 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
404 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
405
406 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
407 keyboards
408
409 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
410 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
411
412 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
413 Use software keyboard repeat
414
415 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
416 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
417 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
418 enabled until the next reboot
419 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
420 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
421 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
422 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
423 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
424 userspace auditd.
425 Default: unset
426
427 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
428 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
429 Default: 64
430
431 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
432 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
433 Format: { "0" | "1" }
434 0 - Disable the BAU.
435 1 - Enable the BAU.
436 unset - Disable the BAU.
437
438 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
439 Format: <io>,<mode>
440
441 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
442 Format: <io>,<mode>
443 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
444
445 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
446 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
447 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
448 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
449
450 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
451 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
452 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
453 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
454
455 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
456 embedded devices based on command line input.
457 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
458
459 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
460 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
461 no delay (0).
462 Format: integer
463
464 bootconfig [KNL]
465 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
466 and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
467
468 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
469
470 bert_disable [ACPI]
471 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
472
473 bgrt_disable [ACPI][X86]
474 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
475
476 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
477 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
478 kernel args too.
479 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
480 bttv.tuner=
481
482 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
483 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
484 at a time.
485
486 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
487
488 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
489 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
490 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
491 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
492 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
493 This option provides an override for these situations.
494
495 carrier_timeout=
496 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
497 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
498 it waits 120 seconds.
499
500 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
501 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
502 trust validation.
503 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
504
505 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
506 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
507 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
508 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
509 others).
510
511 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
512 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
513
514 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature
515 Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable}
516 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
517 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
518 a single hierarchy
519 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
520 subsystem
521 - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is
522 disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not
523 created
524 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
525 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
526 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
527 Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure
528 stall information accounting feature
529
530 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
531 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
532 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
533 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
534 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
535 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
536 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
537 all v1 hierarchies.
538
539 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
540 Format: <string>
541 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
542 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
543
544 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
545 Format: { "0" | "1" }
546 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
547 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
548 any implied execute protection).
549 1 -- check protection requested by application.
550 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
551 Value can be changed at runtime via
552 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
553 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
554
555 cio_ignore= [S390]
556 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
557 clk_ignore_unused
558 [CLK]
559 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
560 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
561 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
562 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
563 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
564 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
565 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
566 platform with proper driver support. For more
567 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
568
569 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
570 [Deprecated]
571 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
572 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
573 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
574 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
575
576 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
577 Format: <string>
578 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
579 with the name specified.
580 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
581 the platform:
582 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
583 [ACPI] acpi_pm
584 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
585 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
586 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
587 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
588 [MIPS] MIPS
589 [PARISC] cr16
590 [S390] tod
591 [SH] SuperH
592 [SPARC64] tick
593 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
594
595 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
596 [ARM,ARM64]
597 Format: <bool>
598 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
599 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
600 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
601 systems.
602
603 clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL]
604 Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to
605 external delays before the clock will be marked
606 unstable. Defaults to three retries, that is,
607 four attempts to read the clock under test.
608
609 clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL]
610 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
611 marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that
612 are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
613 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
614 zero says not to check any. Values larger than
615 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
616 The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with
617 no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice.
618
619 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
620 Set the time in seconds that the clocksource
621 watchdog test waits before commencing its tests.
622 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
623 10 seconds when built into the kernel.
624
625 clearcpuid=BITNUM[,BITNUM...] [X86]
626 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
627 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
628 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
629 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
630 ones should be.
631 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
632 or using the feature without checking anything
633 will still see it. This just prevents it from
634 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
635 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
636 some critical bits.
637
638 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
639 [KNL,CMA]
640 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
641 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
642 placement constraint by the physical address range of
643 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
644 altogether. For more information, see
645 kernel/dma/contiguous.c
646
647 cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
648 [ARM64,KNL,CMA]
649 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
650 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
651 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
652 specificed, the default value is 0.
653 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
654 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
655 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
656 they will fallback to the global default memory area.
657
658 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
659 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
660 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
661 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
662 a hypervisor.
663 Default: yes
664
665 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
666 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
667 allocations, by default set to 256K.
668
669 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
670 Format:
671 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
672
673 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
674 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
675
676 com90xx= [HW,NET]
677 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
678 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
679
680 condev= [HW,S390] console device
681 conmode=
682
683 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
684
685 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
686
687 ttyS<n>[,options]
688 ttyUSB0[,options]
689 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
690 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
691 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
692 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
693 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
694
695 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
696 information. See
697 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
698 alternative.
699
700 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
701 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
702 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
703 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
704 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
705 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
706 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
707 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
708 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
709 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
710 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
711 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
712 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
713 the h/w is not re-initialized.
714
715 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
716 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
717
718 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
719 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
720 console=brl,ttyS0
721 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
722
723 console_msg_format=
724 [KNL] Change console messages format
725 default
726 By default we print messages on consoles in
727 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
728 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
729 `printk_time' param).
730 syslog
731 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
732 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
733 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
734 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
735 from /proc/kmsg.
736
737 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
738 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
739 Defaults to 0.
740
741 coredump_filter=
742 [KNL] Change the default value for
743 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
744 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
745
746 coresight_cpu_debug.enable
747 [ARM,ARM64]
748 Format: <bool>
749 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
750 0: default value, disable debugging
751 1: enable debugging at boot time
752
753 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
754 disable the cpuidle sub-system
755
756 cpuidle.governor=
757 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
758
759 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
760 disable the cpufreq sub-system
761
762 cpufreq.default_governor=
763 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
764 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
765 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
766
767 cpu_init_udelay=N
768 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
769 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
770 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
771 Default: 10000
772
773 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
774 Format:
775 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
776
777 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
778 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
779 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
780 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
781 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
782 is selected automatically.
783 [KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and
784 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
785 hasn't been specified.
786 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
787
788 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
789 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
790 in the running system. The syntax of range is
791 start-[end] where start and end are both
792 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
793 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
794
795 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
796 [KNL, X86-64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
797 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
798 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
799 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
800 available.
801 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
802 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
803 [KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
804 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
805 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
806 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
807 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
808 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
809 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
810 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
811 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
812 for second kernel instead.
813 0: to disable low allocation.
814 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
815 or memory reserved is below 4G.
816
817 cryptomgr.notests
818 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
819
820 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
821 Format: <dma>
822
823 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
824 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
825
826 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable debug add-ons of cross-CPU function call
827 handling. When switched on, additional debug data is
828 printed to the console in case a hanging CPU is
829 detected, and that CPU is pinged again in order to try
830 to resolve the hang situation.
831 0: disable csdlock debugging (default)
832 1: enable basic csdlock debugging (minor impact)
833 ext: enable extended csdlock debugging (more impact,
834 but more data)
835
836 dasd= [HW,NET]
837 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
838
839 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
840 (one device per port)
841 Format: <port#>,<type>
842 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
843
844 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
845
846 debug_boot_weak_hash
847 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
848 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
849 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are
850 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
851 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
852 insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
853
854 debug_locks_verbose=
855 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests
856 Format: <int>
857 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
858 self-tests.
859 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
860 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
861 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
862 useful to lockdep developers.
863
864 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
865
866 no_debug_objects
867 [KNL] Disable object debugging
868
869 debug_guardpage_minorder=
870 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
871 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
872 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
873 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
874 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
875 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
876 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
877 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
878 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
879 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
880 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
881 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
882 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
883 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
884 bypassed) which are not detectable by
885 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
886 tracking down these problems.
887
888 debug_pagealloc=
889 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
890 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
891 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
892 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
893 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
894 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
895 on: enable the feature
896
897 debugfs= [KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace
898 and debugfs internal clients.
899 Format: { on, no-mount, off }
900 on: All functions are enabled.
901 no-mount:
902 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
903 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
904 its content. There is nothing to mount.
905 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients
906 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
907 or directories within debugfs.
908 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
909 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
910 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
911
912 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
913
914 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
915 Format: <area>[,<node>]
916 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.rst.
917
918 default_hugepagesz=
919 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
920 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
921 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
922 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
923 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the
924 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page
925 sizes are architecture dependent. See also
926 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
927 Format: size[KMG]
928
929 deferred_probe_timeout=
930 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
931 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
932 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
933 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
934 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
935 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
936 retrying.
937
938 dfltcc= [HW,S390]
939 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
940 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
941 level 1 and decompression (default)
942 off: No s390 zlib hardware support
943 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
944 only (compression on level 1)
945 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
946 only (decompression)
947 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
948 level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
949
950 dhash_entries= [KNL]
951 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
952
953 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
954 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
955 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
956 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
957 miss to occur.
958
959 stress_slb [PPC]
960 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
961 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
962 on kernel addresses.
963
964 disable= [IPV6]
965 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
966
967 hardened_usercopy=
968 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
969 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
970 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
971 from reading or writing beyond known memory
972 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
973 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
974 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
975 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
976 off Disable hardened usercopy checks.
977
978 disable_radix [PPC]
979 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
980
981 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES]
982 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
983 invalidate.
984
985 disable_tlbie [PPC]
986 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
987 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
988
989 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
990 Format: <int>
991 The number of initial APIC ID for the
992 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
993 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
994 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
995 causing system reset or hang due to sending
996 INIT from AP to BSP.
997
998 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
999 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
1000 to workaround buggy firmware.
1001
1002 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
1003 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1004
1005 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1006 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1007 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1008 entry later. This parameter disables that.
1009
1010 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
1011 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1012 memory out of your available memory pool based on
1013 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
1014 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1015
1016 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1017 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1018 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1019
1020 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1021
1022 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1023 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1024
1025 dma_debug_entries=<number>
1026 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1027 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1028 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1029 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1030 architectural default is too low.
1031
1032 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1033 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1034 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1035 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1036 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1037 driver later using sysfs.
1038
1039 driver_async_probe= [KNL]
1040 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
1041 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1042
1043 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1044 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1045 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1046 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1047 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1048 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
1049 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
1050 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
1051 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
1052 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
1053 available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID
1054 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
1055 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
1056 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
1057 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
1058 data set with no connector name will be used for
1059 any connectors not explicitly specified.
1060
1061 dscc4.setup= [NET]
1062
1063 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC]
1064 Format: {"off" | "known"}
1065 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1066 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1067 exists).
1068 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1069 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1070 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1071
1072 dump_apple_properties [X86]
1073 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1074 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
1075 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1076
1077 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1078 <module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1079 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
1080 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1081 for details.
1082
1083 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
1084 in some Intel CPUs.
1085
1086 <module>.async_probe [KNL]
1087 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
1088
1089 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1090 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1091 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1092 which are not unmapped.
1093
1094 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
1095
1096 When used with no options, the early console is
1097 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1098 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1099 the platform.
1100
1101 cdns,<addr>[,options]
1102 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1103 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1104 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1105 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1106 configured.
1107
1108 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1109 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1110 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
1111 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
1112 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1113 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1114 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1115 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1116 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1117 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1118 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1119 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1120 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
1121
1122 pl011,<addr>
1123 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1124 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1125 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1126 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1127 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1128 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1129 the device registers.
1130
1131 liteuart,<addr>
1132 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the
1133 specified address. The serial port must already be
1134 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1135
1136 meson,<addr>
1137 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1138 port at the specified address. The serial port must
1139 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1140 supported.
1141
1142 msm_serial,<addr>
1143 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1144 port at the specified address. The serial port
1145 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1146 yet supported.
1147
1148 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1149 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1150 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1151 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1152 yet supported.
1153
1154 owl,<addr>
1155 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1156 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1157 specified address. The serial port must already be
1158 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1159
1160 rda,<addr>
1161 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1162 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1163 specified address. The serial port must already be
1164 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1165
1166 sbi
1167 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1168 console.
1169
1170 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1171
1172 s3c2410,<addr>
1173 s3c2412,<addr>
1174 s3c2440,<addr>
1175 s3c6400,<addr>
1176 s5pv210,<addr>
1177 exynos4210,<addr>
1178 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1179 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1180 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1181 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1182 Options are not yet supported.
1183
1184 lantiq,<addr>
1185 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1186 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1187 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1188 yet supported.
1189
1190 lpuart,<addr>
1191 lpuart32,<addr>
1192 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1193 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1194 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1195 port must already be setup and configured.
1196
1197 ec_imx21,<addr>
1198 ec_imx6q,<addr>
1199 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1200 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1201 must already be setup and configured.
1202
1203 ar3700_uart,<addr>
1204 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1205 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1206 address. The serial port must already be setup
1207 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1208
1209 qcom_geni,<addr>
1210 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1211 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1212 specified address. The serial port must already be
1213 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1214
1215 efifb,[options]
1216 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1217 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1218 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1219 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1220 mapped with the correct attributes.
1221
1222 linflex,<addr>
1223 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1224 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1225 address must be provided, and the serial port must
1226 already be setup and configured.
1227
1228 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1229 earlyprintk=vga
1230 earlyprintk=sclp
1231 earlyprintk=xen
1232 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1233 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1234 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1235 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1236 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1237 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1238
1239 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1240 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1241 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1242
1243 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1244 takes over.
1245
1246 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1247 be used at a time.
1248
1249 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1250 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1251 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1252 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1253 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1254 You can find the port for a given device in
1255 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1256 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1257
1258 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1259 very good.
1260
1261 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1262 the real console.
1263
1264 The xen option can only be used in Xen domains.
1265
1266 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1267
1268 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1269 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1270 UART class.
1271
1272 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1273 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1274 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1275 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1276 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1277 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1278 default: on.
1279
1280 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1281 ekgdboc=kbd
1282
1283 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1284 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1285
1286 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1287 but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1288 very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1289 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1290
1291 edd= [EDD]
1292 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1293
1294 efi= [EFI]
1295 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1296 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1297 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1298 debug: enable misc debug output.
1299 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1300 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1301 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1302 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1303 firmware implementations.
1304 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1305 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1306 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1307 memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1308 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1309 reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1310 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1311 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1312 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1313 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1314
1315 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1316 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1317 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1318 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1319 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1320
1321 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1322 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1323 updating original EFI memory map.
1324 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1325 from ss to ss+nn.
1326
1327 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1328 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1329 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1330 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1331
1332 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1333 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1334 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1335
1336 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1337 related features. For example, you can do debugging of
1338 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1339 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1340 "soft reserved".
1341
1342 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1343 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1344 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1345 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1346 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1347
1348
1349 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1350 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1351
1352 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1353 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1354 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1355
1356 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1357 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1358 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1359 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1360 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1361
1362 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1363 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1364 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1365 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1366
1367 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1368 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1369 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1370 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1371 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1372
1373 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1374 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1375 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1376 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1377 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1378 Default value is 0.
1379 Value can be changed at runtime via
1380 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1381
1382 erst_disable [ACPI]
1383 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1384 support.
1385
1386 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1387 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1388 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1389
1390 evm= [EVM]
1391 Format: { "fix" }
1392 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1393 current integrity status.
1394
1395 failslab=
1396 fail_usercopy=
1397 fail_page_alloc=
1398 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1399 General fault injection mechanism.
1400 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1401 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1402
1403 fb_tunnels= [NET]
1404 Format: { initns | none }
1405 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1406 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1407
1408 floppy= [HW]
1409 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1410
1411 force_pal_cache_flush
1412 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1413 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1414 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1415 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1416
1417 forcepae [X86-32]
1418 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1419 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1420 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1421 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1422 and may cause unknown problems.
1423
1424 ftrace=[tracer]
1425 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1426 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1427 boot debugging.
1428
1429 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1430 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1431 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1432 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1433 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1434 oops.
1435
1436 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1437 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1438 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1439 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1440 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1441 tracing directory.
1442
1443 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1444 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1445 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1446 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1447 tracing directory.
1448
1449 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1450 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1451 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1452 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1453 that can be changed at run time by the
1454 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1455
1456 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1457 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1458 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of
1459 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1460 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1461
1462 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1463 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1464 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1465 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1466 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1467
1468 fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1469 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1470 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1471 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1472 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1473 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1474 clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1475 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1476 suppliers).
1477 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1478 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info.
1479 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1480 but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1481 up (sync_state() calls).
1482 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it
1483 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1484 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1485
1486 fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
1487 [KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
1488 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1489 Format: <bool>
1490
1491 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1492 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1493 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1494 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1495 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1496
1497 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1498
1499 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1500 Format: off | on
1501 default: on
1502
1503 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1504 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1505 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1506 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1507 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1508
1509 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1510 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1511 android emulator
1512
1513 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1514 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1515 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1516 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
1517 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named.
1518
1519 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1520 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1521 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1522 GPT to be used instead.
1523
1524 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1525 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1526 Format: 0 | 1
1527 Default: 0
1528 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1529 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1530 Format: 0 | 1
1531 Default: 0
1532 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1533 Format: 0 | 1
1534 Default: 0
1535 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1536 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1537 Default: 1024
1538 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1539 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1540 Default: 1024
1541
1542 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1543 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1544 backtraces on all cpus.
1545 Format: 0 | 1
1546
1547 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1548 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
1549 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1550 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1551
1552 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1553
1554 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1555 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1556
1557 hest_disable [ACPI]
1558 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1559 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1560 logic will be disabled.
1561
1562 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1563 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1564 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1565 size on bigger boxes.
1566
1567 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1568 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1569 Default: "on"
1570
1571 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1572
1573 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1574 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1575 verbose }
1576 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1577 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1578 VIA, nVidia)
1579 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1580
1581 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1582 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1583
1584 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
1585 of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size
1586 of a CMA area per node can be specified.
1587 Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format)
1588 <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]]
1589
1590 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
1591 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
1592 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1593
1594 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1595 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1596 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1597 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1598 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1599 the default huge page size. If using node format, the
1600 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified.
1601 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1602 Format: <integer> or (node format)
1603 <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>]
1604
1605 hugepagesz=
1606 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in
1607 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge
1608 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair
1609 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
1610 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are
1611 architecture dependent. See also
1612 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1613 Format: size[KMG]
1614
1615 hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
1616 [KNL] Reguires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP
1617 enabled.
1618 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
1619 memory (6 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
1620 Format: { on | off (default) }
1621
1622 on: enable the feature
1623 off: disable the feature
1624
1625 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y,
1626 the default is on.
1627
1628 This is not compatible with memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory.
1629 If both parameters are enabled, hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes
1630 precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory.
1631
1632 hung_task_panic=
1633 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1634 Format: 0 | 1
1635
1636 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
1637 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1638 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1639 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1640 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1641
1642 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1643 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1644 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1645 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1646 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1647
1648 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1649 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1650 guest on lock contention.
1651
1652 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1653 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1654 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1655 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1656 the real console.
1657
1658 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1659 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1660 registered from board initialization code.
1661 Format:
1662 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1663
1664 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1665 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1666 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1667 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1668 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1669 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1670 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1671 keyboard and cannot control its state
1672 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1673 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1674 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1675 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1676 for the AUX port
1677 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1678 controller
1679 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1680 controllers
1681 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1682 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1683 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1684 transitions, or never reset
1685 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1686 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1687 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1688 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1689 architectures force reset to be always executed
1690 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1691 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1692
1693 i810= [HW,DRM]
1694
1695 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1696 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1697 hardware.
1698 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1699 does not match list of supported models.
1700 i8k.power_status
1701 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1702 (disabled by default)
1703 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1704 capability is set.
1705
1706 i915.invert_brightness=
1707 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1708 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1709 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1710 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1711 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1712 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1713 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1714 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1715 value switches the backlight off.
1716 -1 -- never invert brightness
1717 0 -- machine default
1718 1 -- force brightness inversion
1719
1720 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1721 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1722
1723 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1724 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1725 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1726 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1727 See Documentation/ide/ide.rst.
1728
1729 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1730 Format: <int>
1731 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1732 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1733 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1734 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1735 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1736 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1737 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1738 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1739 was 0x3.
1740
1741 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1742 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1743
1744 idle= [X86]
1745 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1746 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1747 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1748 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1749 Not recommended.
1750 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1751 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1752 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1753
1754 idxd.sva= [HW]
1755 Format: <bool>
1756 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
1757 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
1758 true (1).
1759
1760 idxd.tc_override= [HW]
1761 Format: <bool>
1762 Allow override of default traffic class configuration
1763 for the device. By default it is set to false (0).
1764
1765 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1766 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1767 Default: strict
1768
1769 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1770 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1771 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1772 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1773 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1774 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1775 encoding mode.
1776
1777 Available settings are as follows:
1778 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1779 supported by the FPU
1780 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1781 by the FPU
1782 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1783 by the FPU
1784 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1785 supported by the FPU
1786
1787 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1788 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1789 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1790 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1791 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1792 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1793 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1794 MIPS64 CPUs.
1795
1796 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1797 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1798 except where unsupported by hardware.
1799
1800 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1801 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1802 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1803 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1804 could change it dynamically, usually by
1805 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1806
1807 ignore_rlimit_data
1808 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1809 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1810 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1811
1812 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1813 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1814
1815 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1816 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1817 default: "enforce"
1818
1819 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
1820 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1821 owned by uid=0.
1822
1823 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1824 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1825 measurements, instead of host native format.
1826
1827 ima_hash= [IMA]
1828 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1829 | sha512 | ... }
1830 default: "sha1"
1831
1832 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1833 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1834
1835 ima_policy= [IMA]
1836 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1837 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1838 fail_securely | critical_data"
1839
1840 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1841 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1842 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1843 uid=0.
1844
1845 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1846 all files owned by root.
1847
1848 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1849 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1850 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1851
1852 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1853 verification failure also on privileged mounted
1854 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1855 flag.
1856
1857 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
1858 critical data.
1859
1860 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
1861 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1862 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1863 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1864 opened for read by uid=0.
1865
1866 ima_template= [IMA]
1867 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1868 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1869 Default: "ima-ng"
1870
1871 ima_template_fmt=
1872 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1873 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1874
1875 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1876 Format: <min_file_size>
1877 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1878 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1879
1880 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1881 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1882 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1883
1884 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1885 Format: <bufsize>
1886 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1887
1888 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1889 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1890 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1891
1892 init= [KNL]
1893 Format: <full_path>
1894 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1895 process.
1896
1897 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1898 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1899 startup.
1900
1901 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1902 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1903 modules and initcalls.
1904
1905 initramfs_async= [KNL]
1906 Format: <bool>
1907 Default: 1
1908 This parameter controls whether the initramfs
1909 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently
1910 with devices being probed and
1911 initialized. This should normally just work,
1912 but as a debugging aid, one can get the
1913 historical behaviour of the initramfs
1914 unpacking being completed before device_ and
1915 late_ initcalls.
1916
1917 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1918
1919 initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to
1920 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
1921 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
1922 setting.
1923 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
1924 Default is 0, 0
1925
1926 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
1927 zeroes.
1928 Format: 0 | 1
1929 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
1930
1931 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
1932 Format: 0 | 1
1933 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
1934
1935 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1936 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1937 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1938 override in debugfs after boot.
1939
1940 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1941 Format: <irq>
1942
1943 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1944
1945 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1946 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1947 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1948 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1949
1950 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1951 on
1952 Enable intel iommu driver.
1953 off
1954 Disable intel iommu driver.
1955 igfx_off [Default Off]
1956 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1957 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1958 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1959 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1960 DMA.
1961 strict [Default Off]
1962 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1.
1963 sp_off [Default Off]
1964 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1965 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1966 not be supported.
1967 sm_on
1968 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware
1969 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode
1970 translation.
1971 sm_off
1972 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode.
1973 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1974 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1975 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1976 could harm performance of some high-throughput
1977 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1978 mapping is enabled.
1979 Note that using this option lowers the security
1980 provided by tboot because it makes the system
1981 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
1982
1983 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1984 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1985 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
1986
1987 intel_pstate= [X86]
1988 disable
1989 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1990 scaling driver for the supported processors
1991 passive
1992 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1993 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1994 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1995 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1996 feature.
1997 force
1998 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1999 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
2000 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
2001 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
2002 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
2003 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
2004 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
2005 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
2006 no_hwp
2007 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
2008 if available.
2009 hwp_only
2010 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
2011 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
2012 support_acpi_ppc
2013 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
2014 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
2015 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
2016 then this feature is turned on by default.
2017 per_cpu_perf_limits
2018 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
2019 cpufreq sysfs interface
2020
2021 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
2022 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
2023 off disable Interrupt Remapping
2024 nosid disable Source ID checking
2025 no_x2apic_optout
2026 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
2027 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
2028
2029 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
2030 strict regions from userspace.
2031 relaxed
2032
2033 iommu= [X86]
2034 off
2035 force
2036 noforce
2037 biomerge
2038 panic
2039 nopanic
2040 merge
2041 nomerge
2042 soft
2043 pt [X86]
2044 nopt [X86]
2045 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
2046 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
2047
2048 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
2049 Format: { "0" | "1" }
2050 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
2051 falling back to the full range if needed.
2052 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
2053 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
2054 greater than 32-bit addressing.
2055
2056 iommu.strict= [ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
2057 Format: { "0" | "1" }
2058 0 - Lazy mode.
2059 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
2060 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
2061 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
2062 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
2063 the relevant IOMMU driver.
2064 1 - Strict mode.
2065 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
2066 synchronously.
2067 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}.
2068 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the
2069 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence.
2070
2071 iommu.passthrough=
2072 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
2073 Format: { "0" | "1" }
2074 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2075 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
2076 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
2077
2078 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
2079 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
2080 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
2081
2082 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
2083 0x80
2084 Standard port 0x80 based delay
2085 0xed
2086 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
2087 udelay
2088 Simple two microseconds delay
2089 none
2090 No delay
2091
2092 ip= [IP_PNP]
2093 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2094
2095 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2096 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2097
2098 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2099 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2100
2101 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2102 [ARM, ARM64]
2103 Format: <bool>
2104 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2105 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2106 exposed by the device tree is too small.
2107
2108 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2109 [ARM, ARM64]
2110 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2111 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2112 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2113 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2114 LPIs.
2115
2116 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
2117 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2118 requires the kernel to be built with
2119 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2120
2121 irqfixup [HW]
2122 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2123 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2124 firmware running.
2125
2126 irqpoll [HW]
2127 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2128 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2129 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2130 firmware running.
2131
2132 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
2133 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2134
2135 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2136 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2137 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2138
2139 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2140 specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2141
2142 nohz
2143 Disable the tick when a single task runs.
2144
2145 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2146 need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2147 workqueue's affinity configured via the
2148 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2149 by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2150
2151 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2152 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2153 be configured manually after bootup.
2154
2155 domain
2156 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2157 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2158 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2159 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2160 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2161 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2162 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2163 move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2164
2165 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2166 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2167 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2168 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2169
2170 managed_irq
2171
2172 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2173 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2174 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2175 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2176 the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2177
2178 This isolation is best effort and only effective
2179 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2180 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2181 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2182 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2183 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2184 cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2185
2186 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2187 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2188 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2189 only delivered when tasks running on those
2190 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2191 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2192 queues.
2193
2194 The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2195
2196 iucv= [HW,NET]
2197
2198 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64]
2199 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2200 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2201 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2202 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2203 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2204
2205 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64]
2206 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2207 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2208 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
2209 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2210 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2211
2212 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64]
2213 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2214 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2215 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2216 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
2217 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2218
2219 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2220 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2221
2222 nokaslr [KNL]
2223 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
2224 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
2225 Layout Randomization).
2226
2227 kasan_multi_shot
2228 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2229 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2230 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2231 invalid access.
2232
2233 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
2234
2235 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2236 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2237 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2238 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested
2239 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2240 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for
2241 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the
2242 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2243 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2244 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2245
2246 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2247 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2248 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2249 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2250 zone if it does not.
2251
2252 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2253 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2254 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror"
2255 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2256 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2257 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2258 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2259
2260 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2261 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2262 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2263 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
2264 optional and is the number seconds in between
2265 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2266 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2267 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
2268 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2269 the kernel debugger.
2270
2271 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2272 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2273 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2274 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2275 keyboard only format: kbd
2276 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2277 Optional Kernel mode setting:
2278 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2279 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2280
2281 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW]
2282 If the boot console provides the ability to read
2283 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2284 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2285 until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2286 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2287 specifies the normal console to transition to.
2288
2289 The name of the early console should be specified
2290 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2291 the early console might be different than the tty
2292 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2293 blank and the first boot console that implements
2294 read() will be picked.
2295
2296 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2297 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2298
2299 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
2300 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2301 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2302
2303 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2304 Valid arguments: on, off
2305 Default: on
2306 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2307 the default is off.
2308
2309 kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2310 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2311 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2312 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2313 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2314 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2315 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2316
2317 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2318
2319 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2320 Boot Parameter" section.
2321
2322 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2323 and kernel address spaces.
2324 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2325 0: force disabled
2326 1: force enabled
2327
2328 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2329 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2330
2331 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2332 Default is false (don't support).
2333
2334 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
2335 KVM MMU at runtime.
2336 Default is 0 (off)
2337
2338 kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2339 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2340 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2341 force : Always deploy workaround.
2342 off : Never deploy workaround.
2343 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2344 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2345
2346 Default is 'auto'.
2347
2348 If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2349 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2350
2351 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2352 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2353 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2354 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2355 period (see below). The default is 60.
2356
2357 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms=
2358 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages
2359 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will
2360 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs.
2361 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based
2362 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average.
2363
2364 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
2365 Default is 1 (enabled)
2366
2367 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2368 for all guests.
2369 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
2370
2371 kvm-arm.mode=
2372 [KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation.
2373
2374 none: Forcefully disable KVM.
2375
2376 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
2377 protected guests.
2378
2379 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose
2380 state is kept private from the host.
2381 Not valid if the kernel is running in EL2.
2382
2383 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting
2384 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation
2385 for the host.
2386
2387 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2388 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2389 system registers
2390
2391 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2392 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2393 system registers
2394
2395 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2396 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2397 system registers
2398
2399 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2400 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2401 LPIs.
2402
2403 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC]
2404 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2405 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2406 allocation.
2407 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
2408 Format: <integer>
2409 Default: 5
2410
2411 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2412 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2413 Default is 1 (enabled)
2414
2415 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2416 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
2417 Default is 0 (disabled)
2418
2419 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2420 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2421 Default is 1 (enabled)
2422
2423 kvm-intel.nested=
2424 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2425 Default is 0 (disabled)
2426
2427 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2428 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2429 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2430 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2431
2432 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2433 CVE-2018-3620.
2434
2435 Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2436
2437 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2438 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2439 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2440 never: Disables the mitigation
2441
2442 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2443
2444 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2445 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2446 Default is 1 (enabled)
2447
2448 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL]
2449 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability.
2450
2451 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2452 internal buffers which can forward information to a
2453 disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2454
2455 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2456 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2457 attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2458 not have direct access.
2459
2460 This parameter controls the mitigation. The
2461 options are:
2462
2463 on - enable the interface for the mitigation
2464
2465 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2466 affected CPUs
2467
2468 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2469 enabled and cannot be disabled.
2470
2471 full
2472 Provides all available mitigations for the
2473 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2474 enables all mitigations in the
2475 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2476
2477 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2478 sysfs interface is still possible after
2479 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2480 when the first VM is started in a
2481 potentially insecure configuration,
2482 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2483
2484 full,force
2485 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2486 flush runtime control. Implies the
2487 'nosmt=force' command line option.
2488 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2489
2490 flush
2491 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2492 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2493 L1D flush.
2494
2495 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2496 sysfs interface is still possible after
2497 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2498 when the first VM is started in a
2499 potentially insecure configuration,
2500 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2501
2502 flush,nosmt
2503
2504 Disables SMT and enables the default
2505 hypervisor mitigation.
2506
2507 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2508 sysfs interface is still possible after
2509 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2510 when the first VM is started in a
2511 potentially insecure configuration,
2512 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2513
2514 flush,nowarn
2515 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2516 warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2517 insecure configuration.
2518
2519 off
2520 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2521 emit any warnings.
2522 It also drops the swap size and available
2523 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2524 bare metal.
2525
2526 Default is 'flush'.
2527
2528 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2529
2530 l2cr= [PPC]
2531
2532 l3cr= [PPC]
2533
2534 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2535 disabled it.
2536
2537 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
2538 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2539 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2540 Format: notscdeadline
2541
2542 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2543 in C2 power state.
2544
2545 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
2546 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2547 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2548 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2549 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
2550 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2551 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2552
2553 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2554 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
2555 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
2556
2557 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2558 when set.
2559 Format: <int>
2560
2561 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma-
2562 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
2563 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
2564 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
2565 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
2566 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2567 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2568 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2569
2570 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2571 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
2572 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2573 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
2574 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2575 host link and device attached to it.
2576
2577 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
2578 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2579 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2580 The following configurations can be forced.
2581
2582 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2583 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2584
2585 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2586
2587 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2588 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2589 allowed.
2590
2591 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2592
2593 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2594
2595 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2596 and both resets.
2597
2598 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2599 hot-unplug link recovery
2600
2601 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2602
2603 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2604
2605 * disable: Disable this device.
2606
2607 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2608 the same attribute, the last one is used.
2609
2610 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2611
2612 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated]
2613
2614 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2615 Format: <integer>
2616
2617 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2618 Format: <integer>
2619
2620 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2621 Format: <integer>
2622
2623 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2624 Format: <integer>
2625
2626 lockdown= [SECURITY]
2627 { integrity | confidentiality }
2628 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2629 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2630 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2631 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2632 to extract confidential information from the kernel
2633 are also disabled.
2634
2635 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2636 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2637 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2638 number of online CPUs.
2639
2640 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2641 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2642
2643 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2644 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2645
2646 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2647 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2648 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2649
2650 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2651 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2652 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2653 mode during the locktorture test.
2654
2655 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2656 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2657 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2658
2659 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2660 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2661
2662 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2663 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2664 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2665 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2666 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2667 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2668
2669 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2670 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2671
2672 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2673 Enable additional printk() statements.
2674
2675 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2676 Format: <irq>
2677
2678 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2679 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2680 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2681 loglevels are defined as follows:
2682
2683 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2684 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2685 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2686 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2687 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2688 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2689 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2690 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2691
2692 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2693 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2694 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2695 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2696 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2697 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2698 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2699
2700 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2701 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2702 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2703 kernel boot problems.
2704
2705 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2706 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2707 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2708 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2709 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2710 attached printers to be reset. Using
2711 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2712 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2713 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2714 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2715 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2716 port specification list means that device IDs
2717 from each port should be examined, to see if
2718 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2719 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2720 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2721
2722 lpj=n [KNL]
2723 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2724 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2725 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2726 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2727 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2728 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2729 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2730 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2731 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2732 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2733 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2734 hardware.
2735
2736 ltpc= [NET]
2737 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2738
2739 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2740
2741 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2742 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
2743 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
2744
2745 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2746 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2747 Example: machvec=hpzx1
2748
2749 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
2750 different yeeloong laptops.
2751 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2752
2753 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2754 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2755
2756 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2757 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2758 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2759 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2760 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2761 only takes effect during system bootup.
2762 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2763 which also disables the IO APIC.
2764
2765 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2766 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2767 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2768 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2769 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2770 /dev/loop-control interface.
2771
2772 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2773
2774 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
2775
2776 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2777 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2778
2779 mdacon= [MDA]
2780 Format: <first>,<last>
2781 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2782
2783 mds= [X86,INTEL]
2784 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2785 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2786
2787 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2788 internal buffers which can forward information to a
2789 disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2790
2791 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2792 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2793 attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2794 not have direct access.
2795
2796 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2797 options are:
2798
2799 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2800 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2801 SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2802 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
2803
2804 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
2805 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
2806 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
2807 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
2808 too.
2809
2810 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2811 mds=full.
2812
2813 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2814
2815 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2816 Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows:
2817
2818 1 for test;
2819 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
2820 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
2821 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
2822
2823 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2824 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2825 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2826 belonging to unused RAM.
2827
2828 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
2829 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
2830 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
2831
2832 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2833 memory.
2834
2835 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2836 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2837 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2838
2839 memhp_default_state=online/offline
2840 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2841 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2842 set according to the
2843 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2844 option.
2845 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
2846
2847 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2848 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2849 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2850 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2851 option description.
2852
2853 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2854 [KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2855 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2856 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2857 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2858 Multiple different regions can be specified,
2859 comma delimited.
2860 Example:
2861 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2862
2863 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2864 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2865 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2866
2867 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2868 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2869 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2870 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2871 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2872 or
2873 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2874 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2875 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2876 will be eaten.
2877
2878 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2879 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2880 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2881 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2882 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2883
2884 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2885 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2886 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2887 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2888 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2889 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2890 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2891 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2892
2893 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2894 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2895 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2896 Setting this option will scan the memory
2897 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2898 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2899 from using the memory being corrupted.
2900 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2901 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2902 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2903 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2904
2905 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2906 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2907 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2908 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2909 corruption in more or less memory.
2910
2911 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2912 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2913 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2914 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2915
2916 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
2917 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
2918 Format: {on | off (default)}
2919 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
2920 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages)
2921 from the hotadded memory which will allow to
2922 hotadd a lot of memory without requiring
2923 additional memory to do so.
2924 This feature is disabled by default because it
2925 has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
2926 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
2927 memory blocks).
2928 The state of the flag can be read in
2929 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
2930 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
2931 the feature is not effective.
2932
2933 This is not compatible with hugetlb_free_vmemmap. If
2934 both parameters are enabled, hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes
2935 precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory.
2936
2937 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest
2938 Format: <integer>
2939 default : 0 <disable>
2940 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2941 performed. Each pass selects another test
2942 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2943 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2944 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2945 regions that are detected.
2946
2947 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2948 Valid arguments: on, off
2949 Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2950 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2951 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2952 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
2953 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
2954
2955 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
2956 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2957
2958 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2959 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2960 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2961 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2962 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
2963
2964 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2965 See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst.
2966
2967 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2968 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2969 platforms.
2970
2971 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2972 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2973 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2974 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2975
2976 mga= [HW,DRM]
2977
2978 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2979 physical address is ignored.
2980
2981 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2982 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2983 Default: "0tb"
2984 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2985 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2986 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2987 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2988 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2989 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2990 unconfigured.
2991 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2992 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2993 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2994 VGA shield.
2995 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2996 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2997 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2998 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2999 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
3000 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
3001
3002 mitigations=
3003 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
3004 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated,
3005 arch-independent options, each of which is an
3006 aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
3007
3008 off
3009 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This
3010 improves system performance, but it may also
3011 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
3012 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
3013 kpti=0 [ARM64]
3014 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
3015 nobp=0 [S390]
3016 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
3017 spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
3018 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
3019 ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
3020 l1tf=off [X86]
3021 mds=off [X86]
3022 tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
3023 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
3024 no_entry_flush [PPC]
3025 no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
3026
3027 Exceptions:
3028 This does not have any effect on
3029 kvm.nx_huge_pages when
3030 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
3031
3032 auto (default)
3033 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
3034 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for
3035 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
3036 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
3037 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
3038 Equivalent to: (default behavior)
3039
3040 auto,nosmt
3041 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
3042 if needed. This is for users who always want to
3043 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
3044 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
3045 mds=full,nosmt [X86]
3046 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
3047
3048 mminit_loglevel=
3049 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
3050 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
3051 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
3052 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
3053 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
3054 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
3055
3056 module.sig_enforce
3057 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
3058 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
3059 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
3060 is always true, so this option does nothing.
3061
3062 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
3063 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
3064
3065 mousedev.tap_time=
3066 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
3067 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
3068 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
3069 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
3070 Format: <msecs>
3071 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
3072 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3073 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
3074 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3075
3076 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
3077 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
3078 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
3079 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
3080 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is
3081 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
3082 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its
3083 own is specified, the administrator must be careful
3084 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
3085 is not too small.
3086
3087 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
3088 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
3089 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
3090 allocations which rules out almost all kernel
3091 allocations. Use with caution!
3092
3093 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
3094 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
3095
3096 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
3097 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
3098
3099 mtdparts= [MTD]
3100 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
3101
3102 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
3103 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
3104 at a time.
3105
3106 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
3107
3108 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
3109
3110 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
3111 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
3112 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
3113 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
3114 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
3115
3116 mtdset= [ARM]
3117 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
3118
3119 See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c
3120
3121 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
3122 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
3123 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
3124
3125 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3126 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
3127 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
3128
3129 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3130 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
3131 Default is 1.
3132 Large value could prevent small alignment from
3133 using up MTRRs.
3134
3135 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
3136 Format: <integer>
3137 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
3138 Default : 1
3139 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3140 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
3141
3142 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
3143
3144 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
3145 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
3146 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
3147 something different and driver-specific.
3148 This usage is only documented in each driver source
3149 file if at all.
3150
3151 nf_conntrack.acct=
3152 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
3153 0 to disable accounting
3154 1 to enable accounting
3155 Default value is 0.
3156
3157 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
3158 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3159
3160 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
3161 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3162
3163 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
3164 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3165
3166 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
3167 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
3168 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
3169 requests.
3170
3171 nfs.callback_tcpport=
3172 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
3173 channel should listen.
3174
3175 nfs.cache_getent=
3176 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
3177 to update the NFS client cache entries.
3178
3179 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
3180 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
3181 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
3182
3183 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
3184 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
3185 entries.
3186
3187 nfs.enable_ino64=
3188 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
3189 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
3190 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
3191 of returning the full 64-bit number.
3192 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
3193
3194 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
3195 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
3196 slots the client will assign to the callback
3197 channel. This determines the maximum number of
3198 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
3199 a particular server.
3200
3201 nfs.max_session_slots=
3202 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
3203 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
3204 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
3205 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
3206 Note that there is little point in setting this
3207 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
3208
3209 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3210 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
3211 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
3212 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
3213 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
3214 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
3215 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
3216 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
3217 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
3218 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
3219 back to using the idmapper.
3220 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
3221 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
3222 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
3223 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
3224 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
3225 UUID that is generated at system install time.
3226
3227 nfs.send_implementation_id =
3228 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
3229 information in exchange_id requests.
3230 If zero, no implementation identification information
3231 will be sent.
3232 The default is to send the implementation identification
3233 information.
3234
3235 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
3236 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
3237 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
3238 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
3239 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
3240 after the locks are lost.
3241 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
3242 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
3243 parameter to '1'.
3244 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
3245 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
3246
3247 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
3248 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
3249 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
3250
3251 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
3252 whatever value is the default set by the layout
3253 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
3254 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
3255
3256 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable =
3257 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support
3258 server-to-server copies for which this server is
3259 the destination of the copy.
3260
3261 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout =
3262 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a
3263 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts
3264 the source server. It caches the mount in case
3265 it will be needed again, and discards it if not
3266 used for the number of milliseconds specified by
3267 this parameter.
3268
3269 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3270 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
3271 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
3272 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
3273 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
3274 migration from NFSv2/v3.
3275
3276
3277 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
3278 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
3279 NMI stack-backtrace request.
3280
3281 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
3282 when a NMI is triggered.
3283 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
3284
3285 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
3286 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
3287 Valid num: 0 or 1
3288 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
3289 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
3290 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
3291 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
3292 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
3293 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
3294 please see 'nowatchdog'.
3295 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
3296 need the box quickly up again.
3297
3298 These settings can be accessed at runtime via
3299 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
3300
3301 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3302 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3303 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3304 waits 4 seconds.
3305
3306 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
3307 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3308 is present.
3309
3310 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3311 kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3312
3313 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
3314
3315 no_console_suspend
3316 [HW] Never suspend the console
3317 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3318 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
3319 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3320 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3321 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
3322 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3323 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3324 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3325 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3326 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3327 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3328 turn on/off it dynamically.
3329
3330 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP]
3331 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
3332 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
3333 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data
3334 without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
3335 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling
3336 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
3337 data will be no longer available. This parameter
3338 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
3339 is set.
3340
3341 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
3342 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
3343 but will impact performance.
3344
3345 noalign [KNL,ARM]
3346
3347 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
3348 (CPU alternatives feature).
3349
3350 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3351 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3352
3353 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3354
3355 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
3356 on "Classic" PPC cores.
3357
3358 nocache [ARM]
3359
3360 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
3361
3362 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
3363
3364 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3365
3366 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
3367
3368 no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
3369
3370 noexec [IA-64]
3371
3372 noexec [X86]
3373 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
3374 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3375 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
3376
3377 nosmap [X86,PPC]
3378 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3379 even if it is supported by processor.
3380
3381 nosmep [X86,PPC]
3382 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
3383 even if it is supported by processor.
3384
3385 noexec32 [X86-64]
3386 This affects only 32-bit executables.
3387 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3388 read doesn't imply executable mappings
3389 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3390 read implies executable mappings
3391
3392 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3393
3394 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3395 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3396 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3397
3398 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3399
3400 nohugevmalloc [PPC] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
3401
3402 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3403 Equivalent to smt=1.
3404
3405 [KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3406 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3407 via the sysfs control file.
3408
3409 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3410 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3411 possible in the system.
3412
3413 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3414 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3415 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3416 option.
3417
3418 nospec_store_bypass_disable
3419 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3420
3421 no_uaccess_flush
3422 [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
3423
3424 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
3425 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
3426 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
3427
3428 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3429 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3430 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3431 performance of saving the states is degraded because
3432 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3433 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3434
3435 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3436 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3437 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3438 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3439 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3440 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3441 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3442
3443 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait
3444 in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
3445 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
3446 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
3447 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
3448 correctly or when doing power measurements to evalute
3449 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
3450 useful when using JTAG debugger.
3451
3452 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
3453 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3454 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3455
3456 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3457 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3458 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3459 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3460 in certain environments such as networked servers or
3461 real-time systems.
3462
3463 no_hash_pointers
3464 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be
3465 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p
3466 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured
3467 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature
3468 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged
3469 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more
3470 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be
3471 compared. However, if this command-line option is
3472 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true
3473 value printed. Pointers printed via %pK may still be
3474 hashed. This option should only be specified when
3475 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production
3476 kernels.
3477
3478 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3479
3480 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3481 Valid arguments: on, off
3482 Default: on
3483
3484 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3485 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3486 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3487 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3488 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3489 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
3490 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3491 just as if they had also been called out in the
3492 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3493
3494 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3495
3496 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3497 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3498
3499 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3500 broken timer IRQ sources.
3501
3502 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3503
3504 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3505 initial RAM disk.
3506
3507 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3508 remapping.
3509 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3510
3511 nointroute [IA-64]
3512
3513 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3514
3515 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3516
3517 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3518
3519 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3520 fault handling.
3521
3522 no-vmw-sched-clock
3523 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3524 clock and use the default one.
3525
3526 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time
3527 accounting. steal time is computed, but won't
3528 influence scheduler behaviour
3529
3530 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3531
3532 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3533
3534 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
3535 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
3536
3537 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3538
3539 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3540
3541 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3542 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3543
3544 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3545 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3546 irq.
3547
3548 nomodule Disable module load
3549
3550 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3551 pagetables) support.
3552
3553 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3554
3555 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
3556 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3557
3558 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3559 with UP alternatives
3560
3561 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3562 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3563 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3564 available to user space applications.
3565
3566 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3567 space.
3568
3569 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
3570 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3571 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3572
3573 nosbagart [IA-64]
3574
3575 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
3576
3577 nosgx [X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
3578
3579 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3580 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3581
3582 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3583
3584 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3585
3586 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3587 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3588
3589 nowb [ARM]
3590
3591 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3592
3593 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3594 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3595 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3596 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3597 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3598 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3599 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3600 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3601 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3602 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3603 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3604 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3605 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3606
3607 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
3608 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3609 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3610 without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3611 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3612 parameter's value.
3613 Format: integer between 1 and 255
3614 Default: 255
3615
3616 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
3617 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3618 SAL PALO.
3619
3620 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
3621 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
3622 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3623 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3624 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3625 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3626 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3627 hot plugging.
3628
3629 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3630
3631 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only
3632 set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory.
3633
3634 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
3635 NUMA balancing.
3636 Allowed values are enable and disable
3637
3638 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3639 'node', 'default' can be specified
3640 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3641 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
3642
3643 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3644 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
3645 info.
3646
3647 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3648 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3649 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3650 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
3651 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3652 interrupts *may* be lost!
3653
3654 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3655 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3656 For example, to override I2C bus2:
3657 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3658
3659 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3660 process, but there is a small probability of
3661 deadlocking the machine.
3662 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3663 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3664
3665 page_alloc.shuffle=
3666 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3667 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3668 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3669 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3670 cache, and this parameter can be used to
3671 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3672 can be read from sysfs at:
3673 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3674
3675 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3676 Storage of the information about who allocated
3677 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3678 we can turn it on.
3679 on: enable the feature
3680
3681 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3682 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3683 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3684 off: turn off poisoning (default)
3685 on: turn on poisoning
3686
3687 page_reporting.page_reporting_order=
3688 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order
3689 Format: <integer>
3690 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page
3691 reporting is disabled when it exceeds (MAX_ORDER-1).
3692
3693 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3694 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3695 timeout = 0: wait forever
3696 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3697 Format: <timeout>
3698
3699 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3700 User can chose combination of the following bits:
3701 bit 0: print all tasks info
3702 bit 1: print system memory info
3703 bit 2: print timer info
3704 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3705 bit 4: print ftrace buffer
3706 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
3707
3708 panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
3709 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
3710 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
3711 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
3712 called with any of the flags in this set.
3713 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
3714 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
3715 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
3716 bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
3717 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
3718 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
3719 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
3720
3721 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
3722 on a WARN().
3723
3724 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3725 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3726 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3727 succeeds in any situation.
3728 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3729 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3730 kernel more unstable.
3731
3732 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3733 connected to, default is 0.
3734 Format: <parport#>
3735 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3736 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
3737 Format: <mode>
3738
3739 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3740 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3741 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3742 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3743 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3744 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3745 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3746 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3747 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3748 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3749 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3750 are specified on the command line, starting
3751 with parport0.
3752
3753 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
3754 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3755 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3756 computer where firmware has no options for setting
3757 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3758 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
3759 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3760
3761 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA]
3762 Format: <int>
3763 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
3764 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
3765 has been found at either range. Disabled by default.
3766
3767 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA]
3768 Format: <int>
3769 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
3770 changes. Disabled by default.
3771
3772 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA]
3773 Format: <int>
3774 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
3775 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
3776 Disabled by default.
3777
3778 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA]
3779 Format: <int>
3780 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
3781 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
3782 Disabled by default.
3783
3784 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA]
3785 Format: <int>
3786 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY
3787 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first
3788 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
3789 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often
3790 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
3791 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
3792 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
3793 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across
3794 all channels.
3795
3796 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA]
3797 Format: <int>
3798 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
3799 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
3800 respectively. Disabled by default.
3801
3802 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA]
3803 Format: <int>
3804 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
3805 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
3806 respectively. Disabled by default.
3807
3808 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA]
3809 Format: <int>
3810 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual
3811 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
3812 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
3813 All modes allowed by default.
3814
3815 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA]
3816 Format: <int>
3817 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
3818 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default.
3819
3820 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA]
3821 Format: <int>
3822 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on
3823 platform configuration and the use of other driver
3824 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
3825 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
3826 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
3827 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for
3828 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
3829 By default all supported ports are probed.
3830
3831 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA]
3832 Format: <int>
3833 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default
3834 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
3835
3836 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA]
3837 Format: <int>
3838 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use
3839 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the
3840 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
3841 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
3842 0 otherwise.
3843
3844 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA]
3845 Format: <int>
3846 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow
3847 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for
3848 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only
3849 allowed by default.
3850
3851 pause_on_oops=
3852 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3853 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
3854 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3855
3856 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
3857
3858 pcd. [PARIDE]
3859 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
3860 See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3861
3862 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3863
3864 Some options herein operate on a specific device
3865 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3866 specified in one of the following formats:
3867
3868 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
3869 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3870
3871 Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3872 bus/device/function address which may change
3873 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3874 firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3875 by other kernel parameters. If the
3876 domain is left unspecified, it is
3877 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3878 to a device through multiple device/function
3879 addresses can be specified after the base
3880 address (this is more robust against
3881 renumbering issues). The second format
3882 selects devices using IDs from the
3883 configuration space which may match multiple
3884 devices in the system.
3885
3886 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel
3887 changes anything
3888 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
3889 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
3890 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3891 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
3892 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
3893 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3894 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3895 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
3896 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3897 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3898 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3899 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3900 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3901 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3902 bus number. The config space is then accessed
3903 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3904 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3905 on the configuration access mechanisms.
3906 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3907 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3908 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
3909 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3910 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
3911 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
3912 Configuration
3913 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3914 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3915 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
3916 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3917 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3918 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
3919 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3920 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3921 should never be necessary.
3922 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3923 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3924 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3925 when the system masks IRQs.
3926 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3927 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3928 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3929 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
3930 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
3931 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3932 on several machines and they hang the machine
3933 when used, but on other computers it's the only
3934 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3935 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3936 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3937 motherboard.
3938 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
3939 Use with caution as certain devices share
3940 address decoders between ROMs and other
3941 resources.
3942 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
3943 expansion ROMs that do not already have
3944 BIOS assigned address ranges.
3945 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
3946 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
3947 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
3948 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3949 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3950 this way.
3951 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
3952 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3953 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3954 F0000h-100000h range.
3955 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
3956 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3957 secondary buses and you want to tell it
3958 explicitly which ones they are.
3959 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
3960 numbers ourselves, overriding
3961 whatever the firmware may have done.
3962 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
3963 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3964 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3965 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3966 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3967 IRQ routing is enabled.
3968 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
3969 or for PCI scanning.
3970 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3971 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3972 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
3973 please report a bug.
3974 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3975 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
3976 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3977 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3978 so this option is a temporary workaround
3979 for broken drivers that don't call it.
3980 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3981 handle more pci cards
3982 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3983 This might help on some broken boards which
3984 machine check when some devices' config space
3985 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3986 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
3987 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3988 This sorting is done to get a device
3989 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3990 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3991 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3992 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3993 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3994 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3995 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3996 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3997 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3998 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3999 or bus can support) for best performance.
4000 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
4001 every device is guaranteed to support. This
4002 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
4003 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
4004 reduced performance. This also guarantees
4005 that hot-added devices will work.
4006 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
4007 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
4008 The default value is 256 bytes.
4009 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
4010 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
4011 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
4012 resource_alignment=
4013 Format:
4014 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
4015 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
4016 aligned memory resources. How to
4017 specify the device is described above.
4018 If <order of align> is not specified,
4019 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
4020 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
4021 windows need to be expanded.
4022 To specify the alignment for several
4023 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
4024 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
4025 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
4026 for 4096-byte alignment.
4027 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
4028 end-to-end CRC checking).
4029 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
4030 the default.
4031 off: Turn ECRC off
4032 on: Turn ECRC on.
4033 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
4034 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
4035 Default size is 256 bytes.
4036 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
4037 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
4038 Default size is 2 megabytes.
4039 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
4040 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
4041 Default size is 2 megabytes.
4042 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
4043 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
4044 MMIO_PREF window.
4045 Default size is 2 megabytes.
4046 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
4047 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
4048 Default is 1.
4049 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
4050 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
4051 accommodate resources required by all child
4052 devices.
4053 off: Turn realloc off
4054 on: Turn realloc on
4055 realloc same as realloc=on
4056 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
4057 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
4058 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
4059 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
4060 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
4061 port.
4062 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
4063 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
4064 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
4065 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
4066 conflict with unreported devices), so this
4067 taints the kernel.
4068 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
4069 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4070 specified above) separated by semicolons.
4071 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
4072 redirect capabilities forced off which will
4073 allow P2P traffic between devices through
4074 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
4075 this removes isolation between devices and
4076 may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
4077 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
4078 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
4079 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
4080 one PCI domain per PCI function
4081
4082 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
4083 Management.
4084 off Disable ASPM.
4085 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
4086 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
4087
4088 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
4089 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
4090 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
4091 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform
4092 also tries to use these services.
4093 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May
4094 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
4095 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
4096 hotplug).
4097
4098 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
4099 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
4100 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
4101
4102 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
4103 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
4104 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
4105
4106 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
4107
4108 pd_ignore_unused
4109 [PM]
4110 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
4111 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
4112 for debug and development, but should not be
4113 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
4114
4115 pd. [PARIDE]
4116 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4117
4118 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
4119 boot time.
4120 Format: { 0 | 1 }
4121 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
4122
4123 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
4124 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
4125 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
4126 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
4127 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
4128 and performance comparison.
4129
4130 pf. [PARIDE]
4131 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4132
4133 pg. [PARIDE]
4134 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4135
4136 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
4137 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
4138
4139 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
4140 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
4141 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
4142
4143 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
4144 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
4145 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
4146
4147 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL]
4148 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
4149
4150 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
4151 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
4152 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
4153 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
4154 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
4155 possible settings and some assignment information.
4156
4157 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
4158 { off }
4159
4160 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
4161 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
4162
4163 pnp_reserve_irq=
4164 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
4165
4166 pnp_reserve_dma=
4167 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
4168
4169 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
4170 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
4171
4172 pnp_reserve_mem=
4173 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
4174 autoconfiguration.
4175 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
4176
4177 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
4178 Default is 21.
4179 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
4180 may be specified.
4181 Format: <port>,<port>....
4182
4183 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
4184 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
4185 platform machine description specific power_save
4186 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
4187 execution priority.
4188
4189 ppc_strict_facility_enable
4190 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
4191 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
4192 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
4193 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
4194
4195 ppc_tm= [PPC]
4196 Format: {"off"}
4197 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
4198
4199 preempt= [KNL]
4200 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
4201 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
4202 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
4203 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
4204 can be preempted anytime.
4205
4206 print-fatal-signals=
4207 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
4208
4209 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
4210 related application anomalies: too many signals,
4211 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
4212 coredump - etc.
4213
4214 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
4215 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
4216
4217 default: off.
4218
4219 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
4220 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
4221 panics
4222 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4223 default: disabled
4224
4225 printk.console_no_auto_verbose=
4226 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic
4227 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
4228 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on
4229 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice
4230 in order to provide more debug information.
4231 Format: <bool>
4232 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled)
4233
4234 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
4235 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
4236 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
4237 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
4238 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
4239 Default: ratelimit
4240
4241 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
4242 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4243
4244 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
4245 Limit processor to maximum C-state
4246 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
4247
4248 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
4249 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
4250 instead using the legacy FADT method
4251
4252 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
4253 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
4254 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
4255 [defaults to kernel profiling]
4256 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
4257 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
4258 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
4259 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
4260 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
4261 statistical time based profiling.
4262
4263 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated]
4264
4265 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
4266 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
4267 that).
4268 Format: <bool>
4269
4270 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
4271 tracking.
4272 Format: <bool>
4273
4274 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
4275 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
4276 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
4277 per second.
4278 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
4279 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
4280 (0 = never).
4281 psmouse.resolution=
4282 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
4283 psmouse.smartscroll=
4284 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
4285 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
4286
4287 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
4288
4289 pt. [PARIDE]
4290 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4291
4292 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
4293 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
4294 removes hardening, but improves performance of
4295 system calls and interrupts.
4296
4297 on - unconditionally enable
4298 off - unconditionally disable
4299 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4300 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
4301
4302 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
4303
4304 nopti [X86-64]
4305 Equivalent to pti=off
4306
4307 pty.legacy_count=
4308 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
4309 default number.
4310
4311 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
4312
4313 r128= [HW,DRM]
4314
4315 raid= [HW,RAID]
4316 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
4317
4318 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
4319 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
4320
4321 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address
4322
4323 random.trust_cpu={on,off}
4324 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
4325 CPU's random number generator (if available) to
4326 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
4327 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
4328
4329 randomize_kstack_offset=
4330 [KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
4331 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
4332 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
4333 that depend on stack address determinism or
4334 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
4335 available on architectures that have defined
4336 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
4337 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4338 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
4339
4340 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
4341
4342 cec_disable [X86]
4343 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
4344 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
4345
4346 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
4347 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
4348
4349 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
4350 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
4351 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be
4352 offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that
4353 purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and
4354 "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number.
4355 This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs,
4356 which can be useful for HPC and real-time
4357 workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency
4358 for asymmetric multiprocessors.
4359
4360 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
4361 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
4362 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
4363 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
4364 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
4365 This improves the real-time response for the
4366 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
4367 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
4368 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
4369 periodically wake up to do the polling.
4370
4371 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
4372 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
4373 process in one batch.
4374
4375 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
4376 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
4377 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
4378 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
4379
4380 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
4381 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4382 RCU grace-period cleanup.
4383
4384 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
4385 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4386 RCU grace-period initialization.
4387
4388 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
4389 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4390 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
4391 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
4392 the rcu_node combining tree.
4393
4394 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL]
4395 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
4396 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero
4397 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
4398 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
4399
4400 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
4401 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
4402 to zero.
4403
4404 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
4405 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
4406 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
4407 possibly be useful for architectures having high
4408 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
4409
4410 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
4411 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
4412 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
4413 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
4414 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
4415 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
4416 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
4417
4418 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
4419 Minimum number of objects which are cached and
4420 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
4421 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
4422 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
4423 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
4424 condition.
4425
4426 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL]
4427 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
4428 in response to low-memory conditions. The range
4429 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000.
4430
4431 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
4432 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
4433 first attempt to force quiescent states.
4434 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
4435 and maximum value is HZ.
4436
4437 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
4438 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
4439 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
4440 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
4441
4442 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
4443 Set required age in jiffies for a
4444 given grace period before RCU starts
4445 soliciting quiescent-state help from
4446 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
4447 If not specified, the kernel will calculate
4448 a value based on the most recent settings
4449 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
4450 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
4451 This calculated value may be viewed in
4452 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set
4453 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
4454 overwritten.
4455
4456 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
4457 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
4458 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
4459 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
4460 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
4461 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
4462 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
4463 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
4464 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
4465 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
4466
4467 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
4468 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
4469 each group, which defaults to the square root
4470 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce
4471 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
4472 kthread, but increases that same overhead on
4473 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
4474
4475 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
4476 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4477 batch limiting is disabled.
4478
4479 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
4480 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
4481 batch limiting is re-enabled.
4482
4483 rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
4484 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4485 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
4486 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
4487 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
4488 Set to less than zero to make this be set based
4489 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
4490 disable more aggressive help enlistment.
4491
4492 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
4493 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
4494 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
4495
4496 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
4497 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
4498 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
4499 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
4500 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
4501 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
4502
4503 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
4504 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
4505 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
4506 in microseconds. This defaults to zero.
4507 Larger delays increase the probability of
4508 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
4509 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
4510 rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
4511
4512 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
4513 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
4514 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
4515 why a new grace period has not yet started.
4516
4517 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
4518 Measure performance of asynchronous
4519 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
4520
4521 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
4522 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
4523 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
4524 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
4525 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
4526 previously posted callbacks to drain.
4527
4528 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
4529 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
4530 grace-period primitives.
4531
4532 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
4533 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
4534 this parameter is to delay the start of the
4535 test until boot completes in order to avoid
4536 interference.
4537
4538 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
4539 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
4540
4541 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
4542 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4543 If this parameter has the same value as
4544 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
4545 and double-argument variants are tested.
4546
4547 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
4548 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4549 If this parameter has the same value as
4550 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
4551 and double-argument variants are tested.
4552
4553 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
4554 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
4555
4556 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
4557 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
4558
4559 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
4560 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
4561 of allocations and frees.
4562
4563 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
4564 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
4565 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
4566 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
4567 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
4568 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4569 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
4570 a single reader.
4571
4572 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
4573 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
4574 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
4575 N, where N is the number of CPUs
4576
4577 rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL]
4578 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4579
4580 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
4581 Shut the system down after performance tests
4582 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
4583 testing.
4584
4585 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
4586 Enable additional printk() statements.
4587
4588 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
4589 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
4590 in microseconds. The default of zero says
4591 no holdoff.
4592
4593 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
4594 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
4595 in microseconds.
4596
4597 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
4598 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
4599 in microseconds.
4600
4601 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
4602 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
4603 in seconds.
4604
4605 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
4606 Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
4607 for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
4608
4609 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
4610 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
4611 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
4612
4613 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
4614 Number of seconds to wait between successive
4615 forward-progress tests.
4616
4617 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
4618 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
4619 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
4620 testing.
4621
4622 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
4623 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
4624 primitives, if available.
4625
4626 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
4627 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4628
4629 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
4630 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
4631 update-side primitives, if available.
4632
4633 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
4634 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
4635 update-side primitives, if available. If all
4636 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
4637 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
4638 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
4639 they are all non-zero.
4640
4641 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
4642 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
4643 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU
4644 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
4645
4646 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
4647 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
4648 This can of course result in splats, and is
4649 intended to test the ability of things like
4650 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
4651 such leaks.
4652
4653 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
4654 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
4655
4656 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
4657 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
4658 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
4659 test, hence the "fake".
4660
4661 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
4662 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
4663 Zero (the default) disables toggling.
4664
4665 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
4666 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
4667 callback-offload toggling attempts.
4668
4669 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
4670 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
4671 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
4672 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
4673 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
4674 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4675
4676 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
4677 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
4678
4679 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
4680 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
4681
4682 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
4683 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
4684 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
4685
4686 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
4687 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
4688 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
4689 task-exit processing.
4690
4691 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
4692 The number of times in a given read-then-exit
4693 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
4694 is spawned.
4695
4696 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
4697 The delay, in seconds, between successive
4698 read-then-exit testing episodes.
4699
4700 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
4701 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
4702 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
4703 during the rcutorture test.
4704
4705 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
4706 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
4707 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
4708
4709 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
4710 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
4711 warnings, zero to disable.
4712
4713 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
4714 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result
4715 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition
4716 to any other stall-related activity.
4717
4718 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
4719 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
4720
4721 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
4722 Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
4723
4724 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
4725 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
4726 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
4727 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu
4728 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
4729 kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
4730
4731 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
4732 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
4733
4734 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
4735 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
4736 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
4737 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
4738 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
4739
4740 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
4741 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
4742 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
4743 under test support RCU priority boosting.
4744
4745 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
4746 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
4747
4748 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
4749 Interval (s) between each boost test.
4750
4751 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
4752 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
4753 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
4754
4755 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
4756 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4757
4758 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
4759 Enable additional printk() statements.
4760
4761 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
4762 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
4763 stall warning.
4764
4765 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
4766 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4767
4768 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
4769 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
4770 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
4771 during early boot, that is, during the time
4772 before the init task is spawned.
4773
4774 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4775 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4776
4777 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
4778 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
4779 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
4780 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
4781 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
4782 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
4783 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4784
4785 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
4786 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
4787 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
4788 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
4789 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
4790 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
4791 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
4792 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
4793 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4794
4795 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
4796 Once boot has completed (that is, after
4797 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
4798 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
4799 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4800
4801 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
4802 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
4803 it to the value one, that is, converting any
4804 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
4805 period to instead use normal non-expedited
4806 grace-period processing.
4807
4808 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
4809 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
4810 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
4811 of a given grace period. Setting a large
4812 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
4813 but lengthens grace periods.
4814
4815 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4816 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
4817 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
4818 to zero.
4819
4820 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
4821 Run the RCU early boot self tests
4822
4823 rdinit= [KNL]
4824 Format: <full_path>
4825 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
4826 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
4827
4828 rdrand= [X86]
4829 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
4830 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
4831 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
4832 support, specifically around the suspend/resume
4833 path).
4834
4835 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
4836 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
4837 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
4838 mba.
4839 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
4840 rdt=cmt,!mba
4841
4842 reboot= [KNL]
4843 Format (x86 or x86_64):
4844 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \
4845 [[,]s[mp]#### \
4846 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
4847 [[,]f[orce]
4848 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
4849 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
4850 reboot only),
4851 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
4852 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
4853 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
4854 to be used for rebooting.
4855
4856 refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
4857 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
4858 this parameter is to delay the start of the
4859 test until boot completes in order to avoid
4860 interference.
4861
4862 refscale.loops= [KNL]
4863 Set the number of loops over the synchronization
4864 primitive under test. Increasing this number
4865 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
4866 but the default has already reduced the per-pass
4867 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
4868 x86 laptops.
4869
4870 refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
4871 Set number of readers. The default value of -1
4872 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
4873 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice.
4874
4875 refscale.nruns= [KNL]
4876 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
4877 the console log.
4878
4879 refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
4880 Set the read-side critical-section duration,
4881 measured in microseconds.
4882
4883 refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
4884 Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
4885
4886 refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
4887 Shut down the system at the end of the performance
4888 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
4889 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
4890 it running) when refscale is built as a module.
4891
4892 refscale.verbose= [KNL]
4893 Enable additional printk() statements.
4894
4895 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
4896 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero
4897 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise,
4898 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
4899 specified.
4900
4901 relax_domain_level=
4902 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
4903 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
4904
4905 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
4906 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
4907 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
4908 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
4909 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
4910
4911 reservetop= [X86-32]
4912 Format: nn[KMG]
4913 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
4914 address space.
4915
4916 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
4917 during initialization.
4918
4919 resume= [SWSUSP]
4920 Specify the partition device for software suspend
4921 Format:
4922 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
4923
4924 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
4925 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
4926 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
4927 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
4928 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
4929
4930 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4931 read the resume files
4932
4933 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
4934 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4935 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4936
4937 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
4938 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
4939 present during boot.
4940 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
4941 no Disable hibernation and resume.
4942 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
4943 (that will set all pages holding image data
4944 during restoration read-only).
4945
4946 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
4947
4948 rfkill.default_state=
4949 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
4950 etc. communication is blocked by default.
4951 1 Unblocked.
4952
4953 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
4954 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
4955 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4956 blocked and the previous configuration.
4957 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4958 blocked and everything unblocked.
4959
4960 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4961 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
4962
4963 ring3mwait=disable
4964 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
4965 CPUs.
4966
4967 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
4968
4969 rodata= [KNL]
4970 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
4971 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
4972
4973 rockchip.usb_uart
4974 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
4975 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
4976 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
4977 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
4978
4979 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
4980 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
4981
4982 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4983 mount the root filesystem
4984
4985 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
4986
4987 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
4988
4989 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
4990 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4991 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4992
4993 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
4994 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
4995 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
4996 managed by CMA.
4997
4998 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
4999
5000 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
5001
5002 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
5003 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
5004 strict
5005 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
5006 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
5007 which is faster.
5008
5009 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390]
5010 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space
5011 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal
5012 factor of the size of main memory.
5013 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use
5014 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed,
5015 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory
5016 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice
5017 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no
5018 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the
5019 cost of significant additional memory use for tables.
5020
5021 sa1100ir [NET]
5022 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
5023
5024 sched_verbose [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
5025
5026 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
5027 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
5028 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
5029 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
5030
5031 sched_thermal_decay_shift=
5032 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
5033 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
5034 default decay period of other scheduler pelt
5035 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
5036 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
5037 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
5038 value.
5039 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
5040 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr
5041 1 64 ms
5042 2 128 ms
5043 and so on.
5044 Format: integer between 0 and 10
5045 Default is 0.
5046
5047 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
5048 Number of seconds to hold off before starting
5049 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and
5050 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
5051 tests.
5052
5053 scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
5054 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
5055 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the
5056 default) disables this feature. Please note
5057 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
5058 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
5059 softlockup complaints, and so on.
5060
5061 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
5062 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
5063 smp_call_function() family of functions.
5064 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
5065 equal to the number of CPUs.
5066
5067 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5068 Number seconds to wait after the start of the
5069 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
5070
5071 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5072 Number seconds to wait between successive
5073 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which
5074 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
5075
5076 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5077 The number of seconds following the start of the
5078 test after which to shut down the system. The
5079 default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
5080 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
5081
5082 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5083 The number of seconds between outputting the
5084 current test statistics to the console. A value
5085 of zero disables statistics output.
5086
5087 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
5088 The number of jiffies to wait between each change
5089 to the set of CPUs under test.
5090
5091 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
5092 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
5093 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
5094 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
5095 functions.
5096
5097 scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
5098 Enable additional printk() statements.
5099
5100 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
5101 The probability weighting to use for the
5102 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
5103 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the
5104 default if all other weights are -1. However,
5105 if at least one weight has some other value, a
5106 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
5107
5108 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
5109 The probability weighting to use for the
5110 smp_call_function_single() function with a
5111 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single.
5112
5113 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
5114 The probability weighting to use for the
5115 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
5116 "wait" parameter. See weight_single.
5117 Note well that setting a high probability for
5118 this weighting can place serious IPI load
5119 on the system.
5120
5121 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
5122 The probability weighting to use for the
5123 smp_call_function_many() function with a
5124 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single
5125 and weight_many.
5126
5127 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
5128 The probability weighting to use for the
5129 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
5130 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and
5131 weight_many.
5132
5133 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
5134 The probability weighting to use for the
5135 smp_call_function_all() function with a
5136 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single
5137 and weight_many.
5138
5139 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
5140 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
5141 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
5142 Format: { "0" | "1" }
5143 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
5144 1 -- enable.
5145 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
5146 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
5147
5148 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
5149 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
5150 "lsm=" parameter.
5151
5152 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
5153 Format: { "0" | "1" }
5154 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
5155 0 -- disable.
5156 1 -- enable.
5157 Default value is 1.
5158
5159 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
5160 Format: { "0" | "1" }
5161 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
5162 0 -- disable.
5163 1 -- enable.
5164 Default value is set via kernel config option.
5165
5166 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
5167
5168 shapers= [NET]
5169 Maximal number of shapers.
5170
5171 simeth= [IA-64]
5172 simscsi=
5173
5174 slram= [HW,MTD]
5175
5176 slab_merge [MM]
5177 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
5178 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
5179
5180 slab_nomerge [MM]
5181 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
5182 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
5183 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
5184 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
5185 layout control by attackers can usually be
5186 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
5187 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
5188 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
5189 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
5190 own.
5191 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5192
5193 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
5194 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5195 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5196 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
5197 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
5198
5199 slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB]
5200 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
5201 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
5202 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
5203 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
5204 last alloc / free. For more information see
5205 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5206
5207 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
5208 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5209 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5210 fragmentation. For more information see
5211 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5212
5213 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
5214 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
5215 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
5216 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
5217 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
5218 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
5219 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
5220 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5221
5222 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
5223 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
5224 lower than slub_max_order.
5225 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5226
5227 slub_merge [MM, SLUB]
5228 Same with slab_merge.
5229
5230 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
5231 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
5232 See slab_nomerge for more information.
5233
5234 smart2= [HW]
5235 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
5236
5237 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
5238 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
5239 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
5240 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
5241 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
5242 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
5243 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
5244 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
5245 1: Fast pin select (default)
5246 2: ATC IRMode
5247
5248 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
5249 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
5250 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
5251 actual hardware limit.
5252 Format: <integer>
5253 Default: -1 (no limit)
5254
5255 softlockup_panic=
5256 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
5257 Format: 0 | 1
5258
5259 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
5260 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
5261 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
5262 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
5263 respective build-time switch to that functionality.
5264
5265 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
5266 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
5267 backtraces on all cpus.
5268 Format: 0 | 1
5269
5270 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
5271 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
5272
5273 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5274 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
5275 The default operation protects the kernel from
5276 user space attacks.
5277
5278 on - unconditionally enable, implies
5279 spectre_v2_user=on
5280 off - unconditionally disable, implies
5281 spectre_v2_user=off
5282 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
5283 vulnerable
5284
5285 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
5286 mitigation method at run time according to the
5287 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
5288 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
5289 compiler with which the kernel was built.
5290
5291 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
5292 against user space to user space task attacks.
5293
5294 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
5295 the user space protections.
5296
5297 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
5298
5299 retpoline - replace indirect branches
5300 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
5301 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk
5302
5303 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5304 spectre_v2=auto.
5305
5306 spectre_v2_user=
5307 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5308 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
5309 user space tasks
5310
5311 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
5312 enforced by spectre_v2=on
5313
5314 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
5315 enforced by spectre_v2=off
5316
5317 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
5318 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
5319 per thread. The mitigation control state
5320 is inherited on fork.
5321
5322 prctl,ibpb
5323 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
5324 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5325 always when switching between different user
5326 space processes.
5327
5328 seccomp
5329 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
5330 threads will enable the mitigation unless
5331 they explicitly opt out.
5332
5333 seccomp,ibpb
5334 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
5335 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5336 always when switching between different
5337 user space processes.
5338
5339 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
5340 the available CPU features and vulnerability.
5341
5342 Default mitigation: "prctl"
5343
5344 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5345 spectre_v2_user=auto.
5346
5347 spec_store_bypass_disable=
5348 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
5349 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
5350
5351 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
5352 a common industry wide performance optimization known
5353 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
5354 to the same memory location may not be observed by
5355 later loads during speculative execution. The idea
5356 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
5357 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
5358 end of a particular speculation execution window.
5359
5360 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5361 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
5362 example to read memory to which the attacker does not
5363 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
5364
5365 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
5366 Bypass optimization is used.
5367
5368 On x86 the options are:
5369
5370 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
5371 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
5372 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
5373 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
5374 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
5375 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
5376 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
5377 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
5378 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
5379 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
5380 for a process by default. The state of the control
5381 is inherited on fork.
5382 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
5383 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
5384
5385 Default mitigations:
5386 X86: "prctl"
5387
5388 On powerpc the options are:
5389
5390 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
5391 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
5392 perform a software flush on kernel entry and
5393 exit.
5394 off - No action.
5395
5396 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5397 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
5398
5399 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
5400 spia_fio_base=
5401 spia_pedr=
5402 spia_peddr=
5403
5404 split_lock_detect=
5405 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
5406
5407 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
5408 instructions that access data across cache line
5409 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
5410 for split lock detection or a debug exception for
5411 bus lock detection.
5412
5413 off - not enabled
5414
5415 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
5416 about applications triggering the #AC
5417 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
5418 the default on CPUs that support split lock
5419 detection or bus lock detection. Default
5420 behavior is by #AC if both features are
5421 enabled in hardware.
5422
5423 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
5424 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
5425 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
5426 both features are enabled in hardware.
5427
5428 ratelimit:N -
5429 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
5430 per second for bus lock detection.
5431 0 < N <= 1000.
5432
5433 N/A for split lock detection.
5434
5435
5436 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
5437 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
5438 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
5439 mode.
5440
5441 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
5442 CPL > 0.
5443
5444 srbds= [X86,INTEL]
5445 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
5446 (SRBDS) mitigation.
5447
5448 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
5449 exploit which can leak bits from the random
5450 number generator.
5451
5452 By default, this issue is mitigated by
5453 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause
5454 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
5455 much slower. Among other effects, this will
5456 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
5457
5458 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
5459 the following option:
5460
5461 off: Disable mitigation and remove
5462 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
5463
5464 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
5465 Specifies how frequently to check for
5466 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
5467 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
5468 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
5469 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
5470 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
5471 are ignored.
5472
5473 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
5474 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
5475 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
5476 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
5477 grace period will be considered for automatic
5478 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
5479 expediting.
5480
5481 ssbd= [ARM64,HW]
5482 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
5483
5484 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
5485 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
5486 firmware based mitigation, this parameter
5487 indicates how the mitigation should be used:
5488
5489 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for
5490 for both kernel and userspace
5491 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
5492 for both kernel and userspace
5493 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the
5494 kernel, and offer a prctl interface
5495 to allow userspace to register its
5496 interest in being mitigated too.
5497
5498 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
5499 override the default stack gap protection. The value
5500 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
5501 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
5502 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
5503 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
5504
5505 stack_depot_disable= [KNL]
5506 Setting this to true through kernel command line will
5507 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
5508 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
5509 to false.
5510
5511 stacktrace [FTRACE]
5512 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
5513
5514 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
5515 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
5516 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
5517 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
5518 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
5519 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
5520 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
5521
5522 sti= [PARISC,HW]
5523 Format: <num>
5524 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
5525 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
5526 as the initial boot-console.
5527 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5528
5529 sti_font= [HW]
5530 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5531
5532 stifb= [HW]
5533 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
5534
5535 strict_sas_size=
5536 [X86]
5537 Format: <bool>
5538 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks
5539 against the required signal frame size which
5540 depends on the supported FPU features. This can
5541 be used to filter out binaries which have
5542 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ.
5543
5544 sunrpc.min_resvport=
5545 sunrpc.max_resvport=
5546 [NFS,SUNRPC]
5547 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
5548 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
5549 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
5550 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
5551 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
5552 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
5553 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
5554 maximum port values.
5555
5556 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
5557 [NFS,SUNRPC]
5558 Limit the number of requests that the server will
5559 process in parallel from a single connection.
5560 The default value is 0 (no limit).
5561
5562 sunrpc.pool_mode=
5563 [NFS]
5564 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
5565 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
5566 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
5567 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
5568 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
5569 NFS server is running.
5570
5571 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
5572 automatically using heuristics
5573 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
5574 percpu one pool for each CPU
5575 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
5576 to global on non-NUMA machines)
5577
5578 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
5579 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
5580 [NFS,SUNRPC]
5581 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
5582 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
5583 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
5584 improve throughput, but will also increase the
5585 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
5586
5587 suspend.pm_test_delay=
5588 [SUSPEND]
5589 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
5590 mode before resuming the system (see
5591 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
5592 is set. Default value is 5.
5593
5594 svm= [PPC]
5595 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
5596 This parameter controls use of the Protected
5597 Execution Facility on pSeries.
5598
5599 swapaccount=[0|1]
5600 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
5601 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
5602 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
5603
5604 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
5605 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
5606 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
5607 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
5608 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
5609 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
5610
5611 switches= [HW,M68k]
5612
5613 sysctl.*= [KNL]
5614 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
5615 process, as if the value was written to the respective
5616 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
5617 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
5618 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
5619 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
5620 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
5621
5622 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
5623 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
5624 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
5625 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
5626 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
5627 in older udev will not work anymore.
5628 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
5629 the kernel configuration.
5630
5631 sysrq_always_enabled
5632 [KNL]
5633 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
5634 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
5635 Useful for debugging.
5636
5637 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
5638 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
5639 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
5640 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
5641 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
5642 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
5643
5644 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
5645
5646 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
5647 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
5648 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
5649 as the system sleep state during system startup with
5650 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
5651 The system is woken from this state using a
5652 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
5653
5654 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
5655 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
5656
5657 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
5658 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
5659 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
5660
5661 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
5662 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
5663 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
5664
5665 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
5666 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
5667 critical and hot trip points.
5668
5669 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
5670 1: disable ACPI thermal control
5671
5672 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
5673 -1: disable all passive trip points
5674 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
5675 value
5676
5677 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
5678 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
5679 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
5680 0: no polling (default)
5681
5682 threadirqs [KNL]
5683 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
5684 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
5685
5686 topology= [S390]
5687 Format: {off | on}
5688 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
5689 topology information if the hardware supports this.
5690 The scheduler will make use of this information and
5691 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
5692 Default is on.
5693
5694 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
5695 Format: {off}
5696 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
5697 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
5698 LPAR.
5699
5700 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
5701 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
5702 until after init has spawned.
5703
5704 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
5705 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
5706 even if there were no errors. This can be a
5707 very costly operation when many torture tests
5708 are running concurrently, especially on systems
5709 with rotating-rust storage.
5710
5711 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
5712 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
5713 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero
5714 disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
5715
5716 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
5717 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
5718
5719 tp720= [HW,PS2]
5720
5721 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
5722 Format: integer pcr id
5723 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
5724 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
5725 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
5726 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
5727 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
5728 are saved.
5729
5730 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
5731 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
5732
5733 trace_event=[event-list]
5734 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
5735 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
5736 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
5737 also Documentation/trace/events.rst
5738
5739 trace_options=[option-list]
5740 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
5741 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
5742 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
5743 to echo the option name into
5744
5745 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
5746
5747 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
5748 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
5749
5750 trace_options=stacktrace
5751
5752 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
5753 section.
5754
5755 tp_printk[FTRACE]
5756 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
5757 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
5758 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
5759 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
5760 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
5761
5762 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
5763 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
5764 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
5765 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
5766
5767 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used
5768 to stop the printing of events to console at
5769 late_initcall_sync.
5770
5771 ** CAUTION **
5772
5773 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
5774 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
5775 the system to live lock.
5776
5777 tp_printk_stop_on_boot[FTRACE]
5778 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise
5779 on the console. It may be useful to only include the
5780 printing of events during boot up, as user space may
5781 make the system inoperable.
5782
5783 This command line option will stop the printing of events
5784 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame.
5785
5786 traceoff_on_warning
5787 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
5788 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
5789 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
5790 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
5791
5792 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
5793 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
5794 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
5795
5796 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
5797 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
5798
5799 transparent_hugepage=
5800 [KNL]
5801 Format: [always|madvise|never]
5802 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
5803 with respect to transparent hugepages.
5804 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
5805 for more details.
5806
5807 trusted.source= [KEYS]
5808 Format: <string>
5809 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
5810 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
5811 sources:
5812 - "tpm"
5813 - "tee"
5814 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
5815 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
5816 first trust source as a backend which is initialized
5817 successfully during iteration.
5818
5819 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
5820 Format: <string>
5821 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
5822 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
5823 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
5824 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
5825 virtualized environment.
5826 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
5827 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
5828 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
5829 can add overhead.
5830 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
5831 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
5832 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
5833 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
5834 in situations with strict latency requirements (where
5835 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
5836 acceptable).
5837
5838 tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
5839 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
5840 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
5841 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
5842 Format: <unsigned int>
5843
5844 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
5845 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
5846 support TSX control.
5847
5848 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
5849
5850 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
5851 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
5852 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
5853 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
5854 so there may be unknown security risks associated
5855 with leaving it enabled.
5856
5857 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
5858 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
5859 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
5860 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
5861 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
5862 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
5863 deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
5864
5865 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
5866 otherwise enable TSX on the system.
5867
5868 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
5869
5870 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
5871 for more details.
5872
5873 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
5874 Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
5875
5876 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
5877 certain CPUs that support Transactional
5878 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
5879 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
5880 information to a disclosure gadget under certain
5881 conditions.
5882
5883 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5884 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
5885 access data to which the attacker does not have direct
5886 access.
5887
5888 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The
5889 options are:
5890
5891 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
5892 if TSX is enabled.
5893
5894 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
5895 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
5896 is not disabled because CPU is not
5897 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
5898 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
5899
5900 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
5901 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
5902 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
5903 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
5904
5905 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5906 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected
5907 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
5908 required and doesn't provide any additional
5909 mitigation.
5910
5911 For details see:
5912 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
5913
5914 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
5915 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
5916 Format:
5917 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
5918 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
5919
5920 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
5921 happen after console_init() and before a proper
5922 console driver takes over, this boot options might
5923 help "seeing" what's going on.
5924
5925 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
5926 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
5927
5928 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
5929 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
5930 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
5931 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
5932 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
5933 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
5934 reported either.
5935
5936 unknown_nmi_panic
5937 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
5938
5939 usbcore.authorized_default=
5940 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
5941 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
5942 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
5943 if device connected to internal port)
5944
5945 usbcore.autosuspend=
5946 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
5947 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
5948 is the time required before an idle device will be
5949 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
5950 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
5951
5952 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
5953 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
5954
5955 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
5956 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
5957 (default = 65536).
5958
5959 usbcore.blinkenlights=
5960 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
5961
5962 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
5963 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
5964 scheme (default 0 = off).
5965
5966 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
5967 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
5968 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
5969
5970 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
5971 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
5972 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
5973
5974 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
5975 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
5976 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
5977 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
5978
5979 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
5980
5981 usbcore.quirks=
5982 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
5983 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
5984 commas. Each entry has the form
5985 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
5986 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
5987 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
5988 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
5989 the following meanings:
5990 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
5991 descriptors must not be fetched using
5992 a 255-byte read);
5993 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
5994 correctly so reset it instead);
5995 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
5996 Set-Interface requests);
5997 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
5998 handle its Configuration or Interface
5999 strings);
6000 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
6001 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
6002 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
6003 more interface descriptions than the
6004 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
6005 talking to these interfaces);
6006 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
6007 during initialization, after we read
6008 the device descriptor);
6009 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
6010 high speed and super speed interrupt
6011 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
6012 require the interval in microframes (1
6013 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
6014 calculated as interval = 2 ^
6015 (bInterval-1).
6016 Devices with this quirk report their
6017 bInterval as the result of this
6018 calculation instead of the exponent
6019 variable used in the calculation);
6020 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
6021 handle device_qualifier descriptor
6022 requests);
6023 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
6024 generates spurious wakeup, ignore
6025 remote wakeup capability);
6026 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
6027 Power Management);
6028 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
6029 (Device reports its bInterval as linear
6030 frames instead of the USB 2.0
6031 calculation);
6032 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
6033 to be disconnected before suspend to
6034 prevent spurious wakeup);
6035 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
6036 pause after every control message);
6037 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
6038 delay after resetting its port);
6039 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
6040
6041 usbhid.mousepoll=
6042 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
6043
6044 usbhid.jspoll=
6045 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
6046
6047 usbhid.kbpoll=
6048 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
6049
6050 usb-storage.delay_use=
6051 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
6052 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
6053
6054 usb-storage.quirks=
6055 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
6056 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
6057 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
6058 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
6059 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
6060 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
6061 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
6062 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
6063 of sense data, not on uas);
6064 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
6065 bytes of sense data, not on uas);
6066 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
6067 device capacity by one sector);
6068 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
6069 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
6070 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
6071 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
6072 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
6073 command, uas only);
6074 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
6075 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
6076 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
6077 reported device capacity by one
6078 sector if the number is odd);
6079 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
6080 device);
6081 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
6082 command, uas only);
6083 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
6084 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
6085 unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
6086 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
6087 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
6088 not on uas);
6089 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
6090 initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
6091 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
6092 reported by the device, not on uas);
6093 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
6094 by default, not on uas);
6095 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
6096 bogus residue values, not on uas);
6097 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
6098 Logical Unit);
6099 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
6100 commands, uas only);
6101 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
6102 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
6103 medium is write-protected).
6104 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
6105 even if the device claims no cache,
6106 not on uas)
6107 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
6108
6109 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
6110 Format: <int>
6111 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
6112 1 - undefined instruction events
6113 2 - system calls
6114 4 - invalid data aborts
6115 8 - SIGSEGV faults
6116 16 - SIGBUS faults
6117 Example: user_debug=31
6118
6119 userpte=
6120 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
6121
6122 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
6123 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
6124 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
6125
6126 vdso= [X86,SH]
6127 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
6128
6129 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
6130 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
6131
6132 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
6133 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
6134 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
6135
6136 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
6137 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
6138 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
6139
6140 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
6141 alias for vdso32=0.
6142
6143 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
6144 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
6145
6146 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
6147 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
6148
6149 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
6150 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
6151
6152 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
6153 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
6154 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
6155 level and then send out the event to user space through
6156 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
6157 will only send out the event without touching backlight
6158 brightness level.
6159 default: 1
6160
6161 virtio_mmio.device=
6162 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
6163
6164 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
6165 where:
6166 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
6167 like K, M and G)
6168 <baseaddr> := physical base address
6169 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
6170 request_irq())
6171 <id> := (optional) platform device id
6172 example:
6173 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
6174
6175 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
6176
6177 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
6178 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
6179 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
6180 Use vga=ask for menu.
6181 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
6182 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
6183
6184 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
6185 May slow down system boot speed, especially when
6186 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
6187 All options are enabled by default, and this
6188 interface is meant to allow for selectively
6189 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
6190 debugging features.
6191
6192 Available options are:
6193 P Enable page structure init time poisoning
6194 - Disable all of the above options
6195
6196 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
6197 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
6198 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
6199 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
6200 mapped kernel RAM.
6201
6202 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390]
6203 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
6204 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
6205
6206 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
6207 Format: <command>
6208
6209 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
6210 Format: <command>
6211
6212 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
6213 Format: <command>
6214
6215 vsyscall= [X86-64]
6216 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
6217 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
6218 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
6219 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
6220 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
6221 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
6222
6223 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
6224 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall
6225 page is readable.
6226
6227 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
6228 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall
6229 page is not readable.
6230
6231 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
6232 them quite hard to use for exploits but
6233 might break your system.
6234
6235 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
6236 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
6237 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
6238
6239 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
6240 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
6241 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
6242 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
6243
6244 vt.default_blu= [VT]
6245 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
6246 Change the default blue palette of the console.
6247 This is a 16-member array composed of values
6248 ranging from 0-255.
6249
6250 vt.default_grn= [VT]
6251 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
6252 Change the default green palette of the console.
6253 This is a 16-member array composed of values
6254 ranging from 0-255.
6255
6256 vt.default_red= [VT]
6257 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
6258 Change the default red palette of the console.
6259 This is a 16-member array composed of values
6260 ranging from 0-255.
6261
6262 vt.default_utf8=
6263 [VT]
6264 Format=<0|1>
6265 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
6266 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
6267 newly opened terminals.
6268
6269 vt.global_cursor_default=
6270 [VT]
6271 Format=<-1|0|1>
6272 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
6273 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
6274 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
6275 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
6276 cursors, 1 will display them.
6277
6278 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
6279 Default: 2 = green.
6280
6281 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
6282 Default: 3 = cyan.
6283
6284 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
6285 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
6286 or other driver-specific files in the
6287 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
6288
6289 watchdog_thresh=
6290 [KNL]
6291 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
6292 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
6293 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
6294 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
6295 seconds.
6296
6297 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
6298 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
6299 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
6300 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
6301 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
6302 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
6303 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
6304 corresponding sysfs file.
6305
6306 workqueue.disable_numa
6307 By default, all work items queued to unbound
6308 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
6309 issued on, which results in better behavior in
6310 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
6311 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
6312 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
6313 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
6314
6315 workqueue.power_efficient
6316 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
6317 they show better performance thanks to cache
6318 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
6319 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
6320
6321 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
6322 were observed to contribute significantly to power
6323 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
6324 power usage at the cost of small performance
6325 overhead.
6326
6327 The default value of this parameter is determined by
6328 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
6329
6330 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
6331 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
6332 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
6333 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
6334 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
6335 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
6336 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
6337 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
6338 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
6339 impacted.
6340
6341 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
6342 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
6343 supporting x2apic.
6344
6345 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
6346 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
6347 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
6348 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
6349 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
6350 domains.
6351
6352 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
6353 Unplug Xen emulated devices
6354 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
6355 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
6356 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
6357 nics -- unplug network devices
6358 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
6359 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
6360 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
6361 the unplug protocol
6362 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
6363
6364 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN]
6365 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
6366 panic() code such as dumping handler.
6367
6368 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
6369 Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations.
6370 This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which
6371 has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6372
6373 xen_nopv [X86]
6374 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
6375 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
6376 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
6377 has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6378
6379 xen_no_vector_callback
6380 [KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen
6381 event channel interrupts.
6382
6383 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN]
6384 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
6385 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
6386 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
6387 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
6388
6389 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN]
6390 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
6391 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
6392 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
6393 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
6394 more timer interrupts.
6395
6396 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN]
6397 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
6398 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory.
6399 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and
6400 started with less memory configured than allowed at
6401 max. Default is 180.
6402
6403 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN]
6404 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
6405 storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
6406
6407 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN]
6408 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
6409 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
6410
6411 xen.fifo_events= [XEN]
6412 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
6413 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
6414 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
6415 fairer and the number of possible event channels is
6416 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
6417
6418 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
6419 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
6420 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
6421 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
6422
6423 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM]
6424 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
6425 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
6426 contention.
6427
6428 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
6429 Format:
6430 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
6431
6432 xive= [PPC]
6433 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
6434 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
6435 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
6436
6437 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
6438 controller on both pseries and powernv
6439 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
6440
6441 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL]
6442 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
6443 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
6444 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
6445
6446 xmon [PPC]
6447 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
6448 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
6449 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
6450 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
6451 debugger is called from setup_arch().
6452 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
6453 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
6454 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
6455 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
6456 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
6457 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
6458 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
6459 can be written using xmon commands.
6460 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
6461 memory, and other data can't be written using
6462 xmon commands.
6463 off xmon is disabled.