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.txt, pci=noacpi 17 18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC] 19 Format: <int> 20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 21 1,0: use 1st APIC table 22 default: 0 23 24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 25 acpi_backlight=vendor 26 acpi_backlight=video 27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver 28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 29 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 30 31 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr 32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 36 37 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 41 This option is useful for developers to identify the 42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 43 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 44 45 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 47 Format: <int> 48 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT 52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 55 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 56 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about 57 debug layers and levels. 58 59 Enable processor driver info messages: 60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages: 62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000 63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 64 object while interpreting AML: 65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 68 69 Some values produce so much output that the system is 70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 71 if you need to capture more output. 72 73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 74 { strict | lax | no } 75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 79 can interfere with legacy drivers. 80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 82 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 87 no further checks are performed. 88 89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI] 90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 92 size limitation. 93 94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 95 ACPI will balance active IRQs 96 default in APIC mode 97 98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 100 default in PIC mode 101 102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 103 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 104 105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 106 use by PCI 107 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 108 109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 113 the GPE dispatcher. 114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 115 GPE floodings. 116 Format: <int> 117 Support masking of GPEs numbered from 0x00 to 0x7f. 118 119 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 120 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 121 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 122 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 123 auto-serialization feature. 124 This feature is enabled by default. 125 This option allows to turn off the feature. 126 127 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 128 kernels. 129 130 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] 131 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 132 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 133 installed automatically and they will appear under 134 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 135 This option turns off this feature. 136 Note that specifying this option does not affect 137 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 138 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 139 140 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT] 141 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let 142 a native driver control the watchdog device instead. 143 144 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] 145 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 146 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 147 second kernel for kdump. 148 149 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 150 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 151 152 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 153 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 154 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 155 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 156 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 157 158 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 159 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 160 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 161 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 162 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 163 strings 164 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 165 strings 166 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 167 168 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 169 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 170 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 171 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 172 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 173 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 174 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 175 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 176 care about the state of the feature group strings which 177 should be controlled by the OSPM. 178 Examples: 179 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 180 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 181 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 182 183 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 184 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 185 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 186 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 187 multiple times through kernel command line is also 188 meaningless. 189 Examples: 190 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 191 FALSE. 192 193 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 194 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 195 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 196 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 197 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 198 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 199 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 200 there are quirks related to this string. This command 201 is useful when one want to control the state of the 202 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 203 the OSPM features. 204 Examples: 205 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 206 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 207 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 208 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 209 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 210 equivalent to 211 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 212 and 213 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 214 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 215 216 acpi_pm_good [X86] 217 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 218 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 219 and always returns good values. 220 221 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 222 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 223 224 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 225 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 226 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 227 228 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 229 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig, 230 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable } 231 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on 232 s3_bios and s3_mode. 233 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 234 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 235 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 236 used during resume from hibernation. 237 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 238 control method, with respect to putting devices into 239 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 240 of _PTS is used by default). 241 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 242 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 243 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 244 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 245 but some broken systems don't work without it). 246 247 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 248 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 249 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 250 251 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 252 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 253 254 agp= [AGP] 255 { off | try_unsupported } 256 off: disable AGP support 257 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 258 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 259 260 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 261 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt 262 263 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 264 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 265 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 266 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 267 268 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 269 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 270 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 271 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 272 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 273 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 274 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 275 276 32: only for 32-bit processes 277 64: only for 64-bit processes 278 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 279 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 280 281 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 282 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 283 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 284 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 285 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 286 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 287 288 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 289 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 290 Possible values are: 291 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when 292 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are 293 flushed before they will be reused, which 294 is a lot of faster 295 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 296 the system 297 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 298 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 299 allowed anymore to lift isolation 300 requirements as needed. This option 301 does not override iommu=pt 302 303 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 304 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 305 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 306 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 307 IOMMU initialization. 308 309 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 310 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 311 remapping modes: 312 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 313 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 314 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 315 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 316 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 317 318 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 319 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 320 Format: <a>,<b> 321 See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt 322 323 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 324 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 325 connected to one of 16 gameports 326 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 327 328 apc= [HW,SPARC] 329 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 330 Format: noidle 331 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 332 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 333 APC and your system crashes randomly. 334 335 apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 336 Change the output verbosity whilst booting 337 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 338 Change the amount of debugging information output 339 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 340 341 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 342 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 343 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 344 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 345 backup of CPU 0 346 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 347 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 348 shot down by NMI 349 350 autoconf= [IPV6] 351 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 352 353 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 354 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 355 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 356 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 357 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 358 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 359 apic=verbose is specified. 360 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 361 362 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 363 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 364 365 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 366 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 367 368 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 369 370 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 371 372 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 373 EzKey and similar keyboards 374 375 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 376 377 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 378 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 379 380 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 381 keyboards 382 383 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 384 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 385 386 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 387 Use software keyboard repeat 388 389 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 390 Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled) 391 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled 392 until the next reboot 393 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 394 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 395 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled, 396 storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in 397 RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace 398 auditd. 399 Default: unset 400 401 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 402 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 403 Default: 64 404 405 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 406 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 407 Format: { "0" | "1" } 408 0 - Disable the BAU. 409 1 - Enable the BAU. 410 unset - Disable the BAU. 411 412 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 413 Format: <io>,<mode> 414 415 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 416 Format: <io>,<mode> 417 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 418 419 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 420 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 421 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 422 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 423 424 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 425 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 426 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 427 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 428 429 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 430 embedded devices based on command line input. 431 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt 432 433 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 434 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to 435 no delay (0). 436 Format: integer 437 438 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages. 439 440 bert_disable [ACPI] 441 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 442 443 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 444 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 445 kernel args too. 446 bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options 447 bttv.tuner= 448 449 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 450 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 451 at a time. 452 453 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 454 455 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 456 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 457 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 458 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 459 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 460 This option provides an override for these situations. 461 462 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 463 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 464 trust validation. 465 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 466 467 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 468 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 469 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 470 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 471 others). 472 473 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 474 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details. 475 476 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller 477 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable} 478 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 479 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 480 a single hierarchy 481 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 482 subsystem 483 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 484 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 485 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 486 487 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1 488 Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" } 489 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 490 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 491 492 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 493 Format: <string> 494 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 495 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 496 497 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 498 Format: { "0" | "1" } 499 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 500 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 501 any implied execute protection). 502 1 -- check protection requested by application. 503 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 504 Value can be changed at runtime via 505 /selinux/checkreqprot. 506 507 cio_ignore= [S390] 508 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details. 509 clk_ignore_unused 510 [CLK] 511 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 512 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 513 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 514 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 515 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 516 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 517 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 518 platform with proper driver support. For more 519 information, see Documentation/clk.txt. 520 521 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 522 [Deprecated] 523 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 524 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 525 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 526 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 527 528 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 529 Format: <string> 530 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 531 with the name specified. 532 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 533 the platform: 534 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 535 [ACPI] acpi_pm 536 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 537 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 538 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 539 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 540 [MIPS] MIPS 541 [PARISC] cr16 542 [S390] tod 543 [SH] SuperH 544 [SPARC64] tick 545 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 546 547 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 548 [ARM,ARM64] 549 Format: <bool> 550 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 551 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 552 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 553 systems. 554 555 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86] 556 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 557 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 558 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily 559 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific 560 ones should be. 561 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 562 or using the feature without checking anything 563 will still see it. This just prevents it from 564 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 565 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 566 some critical bits. 567 568 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 569 [ARM,X86,KNL] 570 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 571 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 572 placement constraint by the physical address range of 573 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 574 altogether. For more information, see 575 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h 576 577 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 578 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 579 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 580 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 581 a hypervisor. 582 Default: yes 583 584 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 585 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 586 allocations, by default set to 256K. 587 588 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print 589 in an oops report. 590 Range: 0 - 8192 591 Default: 64 592 593 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 594 Format: 595 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 596 597 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 598 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 599 600 com90xx= [HW,NET] 601 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 602 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 603 604 condev= [HW,S390] console device 605 conmode= 606 607 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 608 609 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 610 611 ttyS<n>[,options] 612 ttyUSB0[,options] 613 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 614 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 615 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 616 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 617 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 618 619 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 620 information. See 621 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an 622 alternative. 623 624 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 625 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 626 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 627 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 628 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 629 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 630 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 631 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 632 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 633 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 634 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 635 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 636 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 637 the h/w is not re-initialized. 638 639 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 640 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 641 642 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 643 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 644 console=brl,ttyS0 645 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 646 647 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 648 seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0 649 disables the blank timer. 650 651 coredump_filter= 652 [KNL] Change the default value for 653 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 654 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt. 655 656 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 657 [ARM,ARM64] 658 Format: <bool> 659 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 660 0: default value, disable debugging 661 1: enable debugging at boot time 662 663 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 664 disable the cpuidle sub-system 665 666 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 667 disable the cpufreq sub-system 668 669 cpu_init_udelay=N 670 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 671 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 672 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 673 Default: 10000 674 675 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 676 Format: 677 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 678 679 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 680 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 681 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 682 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 683 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 684 is selected automatically. Check 685 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details. 686 687 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 688 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 689 in the running system. The syntax of range is 690 start-[end] where start and end are both 691 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 692 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example. 693 694 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 695 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 696 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 697 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 698 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 699 available. 700 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 701 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 702 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 703 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 704 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 705 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 706 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 707 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 708 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at 709 at least 256M below 4G automatically. 710 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G 711 for second kernel instead. 712 0: to disable low allocation. 713 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 714 or memory reserved is below 4G. 715 716 cryptomgr.notests 717 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 718 719 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 720 Format: <dma> 721 722 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 723 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 724 725 dasd= [HW,NET] 726 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 727 728 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 729 (one device per port) 730 Format: <port#>,<type> 731 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt 732 733 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot 734 time. See 735 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for 736 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg. 737 738 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 739 740 debug_locks_verbose= 741 [KNL] verbose self-tests 742 Format=<0|1> 743 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 744 self-tests. 745 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to 746 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally 747 only useful to kernel developers. 748 749 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 750 751 no_debug_objects 752 [KNL] Disable object debugging 753 754 debug_guardpage_minorder= 755 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 756 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 757 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 758 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 759 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 760 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 761 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 762 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 763 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 764 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 765 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 766 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 767 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when 768 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 769 bypassed) which are not detectable by 770 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 771 tracking down these problems. 772 773 debug_pagealloc= 774 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 775 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In 776 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge 777 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable 778 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same 779 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 780 on: enable the feature 781 782 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 783 784 decnet.addr= [HW,NET] 785 Format: <area>[,<node>] 786 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt. 787 788 default_hugepagesz= 789 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default 790 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by 791 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and 792 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems. 793 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size 794 if not specified. 795 796 dhash_entries= [KNL] 797 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 798 799 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 800 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 801 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 802 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 803 miss to occur. 804 805 disable= [IPV6] 806 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 807 808 disable_radix [PPC] 809 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 810 811 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 812 Format: <int> 813 The number of initial APIC ID for the 814 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 815 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 816 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 817 causing system reset or hang due to sending 818 INIT from AP to BSP. 819 820 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 821 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if 822 to workaround buggy firmware. 823 824 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 825 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 826 827 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 828 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 829 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 830 entry later. This parameter disables that. 831 832 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 833 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 834 memory out of your available memory pool based on 835 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 836 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 837 838 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 839 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 840 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 841 842 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 843 844 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 845 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 846 847 dma_debug_entries=<number> 848 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 849 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 850 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 851 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 852 architectural default is too low. 853 854 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 855 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 856 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 857 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 858 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 859 driver later using sysfs. 860 861 drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 862 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 863 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 864 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 865 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 866 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 867 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 868 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 869 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 870 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 871 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID 872 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 873 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 874 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 875 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 876 data set with no connector name will be used for 877 any connectors not explicitly specified. 878 879 dscc4.setup= [NET] 880 881 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 882 Format: {"off" | "known"} 883 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 884 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 885 exists). 886 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 887 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 888 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 889 890 dump_apple_properties [X86] 891 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 892 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 893 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 894 895 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 896 module.dyndbg[="val"] 897 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 898 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 899 for details. 900 901 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions. 902 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more 903 information about the feature. 904 905 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 906 in some Intel CPUs. 907 908 module.async_probe [KNL] 909 Enable asynchronous probe on this module. 910 911 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 912 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 913 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 914 which are not unmapped. 915 916 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 917 918 When used with no options, the early console is 919 determined by the stdout-path property in device 920 tree's chosen node. 921 922 cdns,<addr>[,options] 923 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 924 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 925 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 926 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 927 configured. 928 929 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 930 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 931 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 932 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options] 933 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 934 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 935 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 936 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 937 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 938 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 939 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 940 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 941 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 942 943 pl011,<addr> 944 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 945 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 946 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 947 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 948 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 949 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 950 the device registers. 951 952 meson,<addr> 953 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 954 port at the specified address. The serial port must 955 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 956 supported. 957 958 msm_serial,<addr> 959 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 960 port at the specified address. The serial port 961 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 962 yet supported. 963 964 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 965 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 966 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 967 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 968 yet supported. 969 970 owl,<addr> 971 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 972 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 973 specified address. The serial port must already be 974 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 975 976 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 977 978 s3c2410,<addr> 979 s3c2412,<addr> 980 s3c2440,<addr> 981 s3c6400,<addr> 982 s5pv210,<addr> 983 exynos4210,<addr> 984 Use early console provided by serial driver available 985 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 986 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 987 serial port must already be setup and configured. 988 Options are not yet supported. 989 990 lantiq,<addr> 991 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 992 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 993 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 994 yet supported. 995 996 lpuart,<addr> 997 lpuart32,<addr> 998 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 999 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1000 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1001 port must already be setup and configured. 1002 1003 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1004 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1005 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1006 address. The serial port must already be setup 1007 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1008 1009 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k,S390] 1010 earlyprintk=vga 1011 earlyprintk=efi 1012 earlyprintk=sclp 1013 earlyprintk=xen 1014 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1015 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1016 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1017 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1018 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1019 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1020 1021 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1022 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1023 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1024 1025 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1026 takes over. 1027 1028 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can 1029 be used at a time. 1030 1031 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1032 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1033 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1034 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1035 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1036 You can find the port for a given device in 1037 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1038 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1039 1040 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1041 very good. 1042 1043 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by 1044 the real console. 1045 1046 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests. 1047 1048 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1049 1050 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1051 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1052 UART class. 1053 1054 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1055 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1056 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1057 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1058 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1059 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1060 default: on. 1061 1062 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1063 ekgdboc=kbd 1064 1065 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1066 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1067 1068 edd= [EDD] 1069 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1070 1071 efi= [EFI] 1072 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" } 1073 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI 1074 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by 1075 default. 1076 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1077 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1078 firmware implementations. 1079 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1080 debug: enable misc debug output 1081 1082 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1083 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1084 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1085 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1086 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1087 1088 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1089 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1090 updating original EFI memory map. 1091 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1092 from ss to ss+nn. 1093 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1094 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1095 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1096 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1097 1098 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1099 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of 1100 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1101 doesn't support it. 1102 1103 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1104 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1105 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1106 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1107 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details. 1108 1109 1110 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1111 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1112 1113 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1114 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1115 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1116 1117 elevator= [IOSCHED] 1118 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"} 1119 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and 1120 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details. 1121 1122 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1123 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1124 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1125 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1126 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details. 1127 1128 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1129 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1130 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1131 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1132 1133 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1134 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1135 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1136 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1137 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1138 1139 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1140 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1141 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1142 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1143 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1144 Default value is 0. 1145 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce. 1146 1147 erst_disable [ACPI] 1148 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1149 support. 1150 1151 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1152 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1153 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1154 1155 evm= [EVM] 1156 Format: { "fix" } 1157 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1158 current integrity status. 1159 1160 failslab= 1161 fail_page_alloc= 1162 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1163 General fault injection mechanism. 1164 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1165 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1166 1167 floppy= [HW] 1168 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt. 1169 1170 force_pal_cache_flush 1171 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1172 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1173 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1174 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1175 1176 forcepae [X86-32] 1177 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1178 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1179 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1180 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1181 and may cause unknown problems. 1182 1183 ftrace=[tracer] 1184 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1185 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1186 boot debugging. 1187 1188 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1189 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1190 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1191 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1192 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1193 oops. 1194 1195 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1196 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1197 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 1198 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1199 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1200 tracing directory. 1201 1202 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1203 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1204 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1205 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1206 tracing directory. 1207 1208 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1209 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1210 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1211 function-list is a comma separated list of functions 1212 that can be changed at run time by the 1213 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1214 1215 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1216 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1217 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of 1218 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1219 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1220 1221 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1222 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1223 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1224 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1225 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1226 1227 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1228 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1229 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1230 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1231 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt 1232 1233 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1234 1235 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1236 Format: off | on 1237 default: on 1238 1239 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1240 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1241 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1242 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1243 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1244 1245 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1246 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1247 android emulator 1248 1249 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1250 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1251 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1252 GPT to be used instead. 1253 1254 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1255 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1256 Format: 0 | 1 1257 Default: 0 1258 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1259 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1260 Format: 0 | 1 1261 Default: 0 1262 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1263 Format: 0 | 1 1264 Default: 0 1265 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1266 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1267 Default: 1024 1268 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1269 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1270 Default: 1024 1271 1272 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1273 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1274 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1275 1276 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1277 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1278 backtraces on all cpus. 1279 Format: <integer> 1280 1281 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1282 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1283 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1284 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1285 1286 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1287 1288 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1289 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1290 1291 hest_disable [ACPI] 1292 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1293 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1294 logic will be disabled. 1295 1296 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1297 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1298 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1299 size on bigger boxes. 1300 1301 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1302 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1303 Default: "on" 1304 1305 hisax= [HW,ISDN] 1306 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax. 1307 1308 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1309 1310 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1311 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1312 verbose } 1313 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1314 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1315 VIA, nVidia) 1316 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1317 1318 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1319 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1320 1321 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1322 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages. 1323 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified 1324 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve 1325 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on 1326 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G 1327 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag). 1328 1329 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1330 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1331 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1332 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1333 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1334 1335 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to 1336 hardware thread id mappings. 1337 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread> 1338 1339 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1340 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1341 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1342 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1343 the real console. 1344 1345 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1346 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1347 registered from board initialization code. 1348 Format: 1349 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1350 1351 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1352 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1353 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1354 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1355 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1356 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1357 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1358 keyboard and cannot control its state 1359 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1360 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1361 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1362 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1363 for the AUX port 1364 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1365 controller 1366 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1367 controllers 1368 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1369 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1370 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1371 transitions, or never reset 1372 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1373 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1374 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1375 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1376 architectures force reset to be always executed 1377 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1378 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1379 1380 i810= [HW,DRM] 1381 1382 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1383 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1384 hardware. 1385 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature 1386 does not match list of supported models. 1387 i8k.power_status 1388 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1389 (disabled by default) 1390 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1391 capability is set. 1392 1393 i915.invert_brightness= 1394 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1395 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1396 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1397 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1398 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1399 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1400 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1401 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1402 value switches the backlight off. 1403 -1 -- never invert brightness 1404 0 -- machine default 1405 1 -- force brightness inversion 1406 1407 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1408 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1409 1410 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1411 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc 1412 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr 1413 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options 1414 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt. 1415 1416 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1417 Format: <int> 1418 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on 1419 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by 1420 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The 1421 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning. 1422 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the 1423 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which 1424 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value 1425 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it 1426 was 0x3. 1427 1428 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1429 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers. 1430 1431 idle= [X86] 1432 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1433 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1434 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1435 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1436 Not recommended. 1437 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1438 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1439 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1440 1441 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1442 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1443 Default: strict 1444 1445 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1446 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1447 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1448 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1449 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1450 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1451 encoding mode. 1452 1453 Available settings are as follows: 1454 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1455 supported by the FPU 1456 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1457 by the FPU 1458 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1459 by the FPU 1460 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1461 supported by the FPU 1462 1463 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1464 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1465 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1466 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1467 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1468 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1469 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1470 MIPS64 CPUs. 1471 1472 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1473 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1474 except where unsupported by hardware. 1475 1476 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1477 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1478 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1479 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1480 could change it dynamically, usually by 1481 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1482 1483 ignore_rlimit_data 1484 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1485 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1486 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1487 1488 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1489 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1490 1491 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1492 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1493 default: "enforce" 1494 1495 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] 1496 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1497 owned by uid=0. 1498 1499 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1500 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1501 measurements, instead of host native format. 1502 1503 ima_hash= [IMA] 1504 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1505 | sha512 | ... } 1506 default: "sha1" 1507 1508 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1509 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1510 1511 ima_policy= [IMA] 1512 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1513 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot" 1514 1515 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1516 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1517 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1518 uid=0. 1519 1520 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1521 all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent 1522 of ima_appraise_tcb.) 1523 1524 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1525 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1526 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1527 1528 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1529 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1530 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1531 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1532 opened for read by uid=0. 1533 1534 ima_template= [IMA] 1535 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1536 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" } 1537 Default: "ima-ng" 1538 1539 ima_template_fmt= 1540 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1541 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1542 1543 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1544 Format: <min_file_size> 1545 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1546 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1547 1548 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1549 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1550 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1551 1552 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1553 Format: <bufsize> 1554 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1555 1556 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1557 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1558 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1559 1560 init= [KNL] 1561 Format: <full_path> 1562 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1563 process. 1564 1565 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1566 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1567 startup. 1568 1569 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1570 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1571 modules and initcalls. 1572 1573 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 1574 1575 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 1576 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 1577 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 1578 override in debugfs after boot. 1579 1580 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 1581 Format: <irq> 1582 1583 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 1584 1585 integrity_audit=[IMA] 1586 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1587 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 1588 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 1589 1590 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 1591 on 1592 Enable intel iommu driver. 1593 off 1594 Disable intel iommu driver. 1595 igfx_off [Default Off] 1596 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 1597 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 1598 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 1599 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 1600 DMA. 1601 forcedac [x86_64] 1602 With this option iommu will not optimize to look 1603 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual 1604 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater 1605 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look 1606 for translation below 32-bit and if not available 1607 then look in the higher range. 1608 strict [Default Off] 1609 With this option on every unmap_single operation will 1610 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed 1611 to batching them for performance. 1612 sp_off [Default Off] 1613 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 1614 has the capability. With this option, super page will 1615 not be supported. 1616 ecs_off [Default Off] 1617 By default, extended context tables will be supported if 1618 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the 1619 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With 1620 this option set, extended tables will not be used even 1621 on hardware which claims to support them. 1622 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 1623 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 1624 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 1625 could harm performance of some high-throughput 1626 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 1627 mapping is enabled. 1628 Note that using this option lowers the security 1629 provided by tboot because it makes the system 1630 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 1631 1632 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 1633 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 1634 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 1635 1636 intel_pstate= [X86] 1637 disable 1638 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 1639 scaling driver for the supported processors 1640 passive 1641 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 1642 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 1643 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 1644 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 1645 feature. 1646 force 1647 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 1648 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 1649 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 1650 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 1651 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 1652 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 1653 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 1654 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 1655 no_hwp 1656 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 1657 if available. 1658 hwp_only 1659 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 1660 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 1661 support_acpi_ppc 1662 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 1663 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 1664 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 1665 then this feature is turned on by default. 1666 per_cpu_perf_limits 1667 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 1668 cpufreq sysfs interface 1669 1670 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 1671 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 1672 off disable Interrupt Remapping 1673 nosid disable Source ID checking 1674 no_x2apic_optout 1675 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 1676 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 1677 1678 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 1679 strict regions from userspace. 1680 relaxed 1681 1682 iommu= [x86] 1683 off 1684 force 1685 noforce 1686 biomerge 1687 panic 1688 nopanic 1689 merge 1690 nomerge 1691 forcesac 1692 soft 1693 pt [x86, IA-64] 1694 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 1695 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 1696 1697 iommu.passthrough= 1698 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 1699 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1700 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 1701 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 1702 unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 1703 1704 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems 1705 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 1706 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 1707 1708 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 1709 0x80 1710 Standard port 0x80 based delay 1711 0xed 1712 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 1713 udelay 1714 Simple two microseconds delay 1715 none 1716 No delay 1717 1718 ip= [IP_PNP] 1719 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 1720 1721 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 1722 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 1723 1724 irqfixup [HW] 1725 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1726 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1727 firmware running. 1728 1729 irqpoll [HW] 1730 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1731 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 1732 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1733 firmware running. 1734 1735 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 1736 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 1737 1738 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler. 1739 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 1740 1741 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs 1742 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 1743 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an 1744 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 1745 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 1746 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 1747 1748 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The 1749 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all 1750 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and 1751 suboptimal load balancer performance. 1752 1753 iucv= [HW,NET] 1754 1755 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64] 1756 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 1757 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1758 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 1759 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 1760 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 1761 1762 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64] 1763 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 1764 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1765 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to 1766 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 1767 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 1768 1769 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64] 1770 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 1771 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1772 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 1773 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 1774 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 1775 1776 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 1777 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt. 1778 1779 nokaslr [KNL] 1780 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 1781 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 1782 Layout Randomization). 1783 1784 kasan_multi_shot 1785 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 1786 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 1787 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 1788 invalid access. 1789 1790 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 1791 1792 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 1793 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror" 1794 This parameter 1795 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel 1796 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is 1797 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The 1798 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable 1799 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both 1800 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will 1801 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number 1802 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the 1803 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved 1804 by the page migration subsystem. This means that 1805 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone. 1806 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still 1807 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 1808 zone if it does not. 1809 1810 Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]), 1811 you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror" 1812 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 1813 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 1814 for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive, 1815 so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same 1816 time. 1817 1818 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 1819 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 1820 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 1821 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 1822 optional and is the number seconds in between 1823 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 1824 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 1825 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 1826 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 1827 the kernel debugger. 1828 1829 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 1830 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 1831 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 1832 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 1833 keyboard only format: kbd 1834 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 1835 Optional Kernel mode setting: 1836 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 1837 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 1838 1839 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 1840 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 1841 1842 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address. 1843 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 1844 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 1845 1846 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 1847 Valid arguments: on, off 1848 Default: on 1849 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 1850 the default is off. 1851 1852 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 1853 and kernel address spaces. 1854 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 1855 0: force disabled 1856 1: force enabled 1857 1858 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 1859 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 1860 1861 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit 1862 KVM MMU at runtime. 1863 Default is 0 (off) 1864 1865 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 1866 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 1867 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 1868 force : Always deploy workaround. 1869 off : Never deploy workaround. 1870 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 1871 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 1872 1873 Default is 'auto'. 1874 1875 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 1876 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 1877 1878 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 1879 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 1880 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 1881 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 1882 minute. The default is 60. 1883 1884 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 1885 Default is 1 (enabled) 1886 1887 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 1888 for all guests. 1889 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 1890 1891 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 1892 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 1893 system registers 1894 1895 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 1896 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 1897 system registers 1898 1899 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 1900 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 1901 system registers 1902 1903 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 1904 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 1905 Default is 1 (enabled) 1906 1907 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 1908 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states 1909 Default is 0 (disabled) 1910 1911 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 1912 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 1913 Default is 1 (enabled) 1914 1915 kvm-intel.nested= 1916 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 1917 Default is 0 (disabled) 1918 1919 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 1920 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 1921 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 1922 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 1923 1924 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 1925 CVE-2018-3620. 1926 1927 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 1928 1929 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 1930 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 1931 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 1932 never: Disables the mitigation 1933 1934 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 1935 1936 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 1937 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 1938 Default is 1 (enabled) 1939 1940 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 1941 affected CPUs 1942 1943 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 1944 enabled and cannot be disabled. 1945 1946 full 1947 Provides all available mitigations for the 1948 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 1949 enables all mitigations in the 1950 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 1951 1952 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 1953 sysfs interface is still possible after 1954 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 1955 when the first VM is started in a 1956 potentially insecure configuration, 1957 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 1958 1959 full,force 1960 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 1961 flush runtime control. Implies the 1962 'nosmt=force' command line option. 1963 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 1964 1965 flush 1966 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 1967 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 1968 L1D flush. 1969 1970 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 1971 sysfs interface is still possible after 1972 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 1973 when the first VM is started in a 1974 potentially insecure configuration, 1975 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 1976 1977 flush,nosmt 1978 1979 Disables SMT and enables the default 1980 hypervisor mitigation. 1981 1982 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 1983 sysfs interface is still possible after 1984 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 1985 when the first VM is started in a 1986 potentially insecure configuration, 1987 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 1988 1989 flush,nowarn 1990 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 1991 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 1992 insecure configuration. 1993 1994 off 1995 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 1996 emit any warnings. 1997 It also drops the swap size and available 1998 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 1999 bare metal. 2000 2001 Default is 'flush'. 2002 2003 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2004 2005 l2cr= [PPC] 2006 2007 l3cr= [PPC] 2008 2009 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2010 disabled it. 2011 2012 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline 2013 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2014 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2015 2016 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2017 in C2 power state. 2018 2019 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2020 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2021 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2022 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2023 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2024 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2025 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2026 2027 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2028 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2029 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2030 2031 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2032 when set. 2033 Format: <int> 2034 2035 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma 2036 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is 2037 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers 2038 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches 2039 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If 2040 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE 2041 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the 2042 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices. 2043 2044 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2045 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2046 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2047 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2048 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2049 host link and device attached to it. 2050 2051 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2052 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed. 2053 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2054 The following configurations can be forced. 2055 2056 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2057 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2058 2059 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2060 2061 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2062 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2063 allowed. 2064 2065 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2066 2067 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM. 2068 2069 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft 2070 and both resets. 2071 2072 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during 2073 hot-unplug link recovery 2074 2075 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data. 2076 2077 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support 2078 2079 * disable: Disable this device. 2080 2081 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2082 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2083 2084 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 2085 2086 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy 2087 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 2088 2089 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2090 Format: <integer> 2091 2092 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2093 Format: <integer> 2094 2095 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2096 Format: <integer> 2097 2098 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2099 Format: <integer> 2100 2101 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2102 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2103 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2104 number of online CPUs. 2105 2106 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2107 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2108 2109 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2110 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2111 2112 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2113 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2114 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2115 2116 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2117 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2118 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2119 mode during the locktorture test. 2120 2121 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2122 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2123 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2124 2125 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2126 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2127 2128 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2129 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2130 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2131 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2132 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2133 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2134 2135 locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT] 2136 Start locktorture running at boot time. 2137 2138 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2139 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2140 2141 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2142 Enable additional printk() statements. 2143 2144 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2145 Format: <irq> 2146 2147 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2148 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2149 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2150 loglevels are defined as follows: 2151 2152 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2153 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2154 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2155 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2156 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2157 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2158 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2159 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2160 2161 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2162 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2163 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2164 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2165 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2166 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2167 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2168 2169 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2170 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2171 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2172 kernel boot problems. 2173 2174 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2175 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2176 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2177 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2178 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2179 attached printers to be reset. Using 2180 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2181 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2182 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2183 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2184 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2185 port specification list means that device IDs 2186 from each port should be examined, to see if 2187 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2188 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2189 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2190 2191 lpj=n [KNL] 2192 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2193 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2194 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2195 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2196 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2197 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2198 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2199 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2200 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2201 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2202 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2203 hardware. 2204 2205 ltpc= [NET] 2206 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2207 2208 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2209 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2210 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb 2211 2212 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different 2213 yeeloong laptop. 2214 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2215 2216 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater 2217 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2218 2219 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2220 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2221 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2222 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2223 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2224 only takes effect during system bootup. 2225 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2226 which also disables the IO APIC. 2227 2228 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2229 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2230 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2231 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2232 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2233 /dev/loop-control interface. 2234 2235 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2236 2237 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt 2238 2239 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2240 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2241 2242 mdacon= [MDA] 2243 Format: <first>,<last> 2244 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2245 2246 mds= [X86,INTEL] 2247 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 2248 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 2249 2250 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2251 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2252 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2253 2254 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2255 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2256 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2257 not have direct access. 2258 2259 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 2260 options are: 2261 2262 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 2263 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 2264 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 2265 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 2266 2267 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 2268 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 2269 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 2270 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 2271 too. 2272 2273 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 2274 mds=full. 2275 2276 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 2277 2278 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2279 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able 2280 to see the whole system memory or for test. 2281 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 2282 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 2283 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 2284 belonging to unused RAM. 2285 2286 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 2287 memory. 2288 2289 memchunk=nn[KMG] 2290 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 2291 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 2292 2293 memhp_default_state=online/offline 2294 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 2295 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 2296 set according to the 2297 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 2298 option. 2299 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt. 2300 2301 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 2302 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 2303 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 2304 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 2305 option description. 2306 2307 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 2308 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 2309 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 2310 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 2311 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 2312 Multiple different regions can be specified, 2313 comma delimited. 2314 Example: 2315 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 2316 2317 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 2318 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 2319 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 2320 2321 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 2322 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 2323 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 2324 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 2325 memmap=64K$0x18690000 2326 or 2327 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 2328 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 2329 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 2330 will be eaten. 2331 2332 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 2333 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 2334 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 2335 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 2336 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 2337 2338 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 2339 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 2340 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 2341 Setting this option will scan the memory 2342 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 2343 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 2344 from using the memory being corrupted. 2345 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 2346 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 2347 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 2348 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 2349 2350 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 2351 By default it checks for corruption in the low 2352 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 2353 use. Use this parameter to scan for 2354 corruption in more or less memory. 2355 2356 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 2357 By default it checks for corruption every 60 2358 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 2359 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 2360 2361 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest 2362 Format: <integer> 2363 default : 0 <disable> 2364 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 2365 performed. Each pass selects another test 2366 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 2367 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 2368 memory contents and reserves bad memory 2369 regions that are detected. 2370 2371 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 2372 Valid arguments: on, off 2373 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 2374 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 2375 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 2376 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 2377 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 2378 2379 Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt 2380 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 2381 2382 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 2383 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 2384 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 2385 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 2386 See Documentation/power/states.txt. 2387 2388 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 2389 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt. 2390 2391 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 2392 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 2393 platforms. 2394 2395 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 2396 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 2397 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 2398 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 2399 2400 mga= [HW,DRM] 2401 2402 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this 2403 physical address is ignored. 2404 2405 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 2406 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 2407 Default: "0tb" 2408 MINI2440 configuration specification: 2409 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 2410 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 2411 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 2412 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 2413 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 2414 unconfigured. 2415 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 2416 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 2417 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 2418 VGA shield. 2419 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 2420 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 2421 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 2422 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 2423 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 2424 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 2425 2426 mitigations= 2427 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 2428 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 2429 arch-independent options, each of which is an 2430 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 2431 2432 off 2433 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 2434 improves system performance, but it may also 2435 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 2436 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC] 2437 kpti=0 [ARM64] 2438 nospectre_v1 [PPC] 2439 nobp=0 [S390] 2440 nospectre_v1 [X86] 2441 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 2442 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 2443 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 2444 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 2445 l1tf=off [X86] 2446 mds=off [X86] 2447 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 2448 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 2449 2450 Exceptions: 2451 This does not have any effect on 2452 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 2453 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 2454 2455 auto (default) 2456 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 2457 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 2458 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 2459 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 2460 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 2461 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 2462 2463 auto,nosmt 2464 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 2465 if needed. This is for users who always want to 2466 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 2467 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 2468 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 2469 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 2470 2471 mminit_loglevel= 2472 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 2473 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 2474 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 2475 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 2476 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 2477 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 2478 2479 module.sig_enforce 2480 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 2481 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 2482 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 2483 is always true, so this option does nothing. 2484 2485 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 2486 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 2487 2488 mousedev.tap_time= 2489 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 2490 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 2491 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 2492 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 2493 Format: <msecs> 2494 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 2495 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2496 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 2497 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2498 2499 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter 2500 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the 2501 amount of memory used for migratable allocations. 2502 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified, 2503 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified 2504 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own 2505 is specified, the administrator must be careful 2506 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 2507 is not too small. 2508 2509 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 2510 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 2511 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 2512 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 2513 allocations. Use with caution! 2514 2515 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 2516 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 2517 2518 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 2519 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 2520 2521 mtdparts= [MTD] 2522 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c. 2523 2524 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 2525 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 2526 at a time. 2527 2528 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 2529 2530 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 2531 2532 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 2533 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 2534 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 2535 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 2536 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 2537 2538 mtdset= [ARM] 2539 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 2540 2541 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c 2542 2543 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 2544 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 2545 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 2546 2547 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2548 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 2549 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 2550 2551 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2552 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 2553 Default is 1. 2554 Large value could prevent small alignment from 2555 using up MTRRs. 2556 2557 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 2558 Format: <integer> 2559 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 2560 Default : 1 2561 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 2562 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 2563 2564 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 2565 2566 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 2567 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 2568 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 2569 something different and driver-specific. 2570 This usage is only documented in each driver source 2571 file if at all. 2572 2573 nf_conntrack.acct= 2574 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 2575 0 to disable accounting 2576 1 to enable accounting 2577 Default value is 0. 2578 2579 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 2580 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2581 2582 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 2583 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2584 2585 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 2586 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2587 2588 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 2589 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 2590 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 2591 requests. 2592 2593 nfs.callback_tcpport= 2594 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 2595 channel should listen. 2596 2597 nfs.cache_getent= 2598 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 2599 to update the NFS client cache entries. 2600 2601 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 2602 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 2603 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 2604 2605 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 2606 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 2607 entries. 2608 2609 nfs.enable_ino64= 2610 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 2611 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 2612 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 2613 of returning the full 64-bit number. 2614 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 2615 2616 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 2617 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 2618 slots the client will assign to the callback 2619 channel. This determines the maximum number of 2620 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 2621 a particular server. 2622 2623 nfs.max_session_slots= 2624 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 2625 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 2626 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 2627 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 2628 Note that there is little point in setting this 2629 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 2630 2631 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2632 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 2633 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 2634 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 2635 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 2636 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 2637 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 2638 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 2639 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 2640 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 2641 back to using the idmapper. 2642 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 2643 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 2644 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 2645 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 2646 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 2647 UUID that is generated at system install time. 2648 2649 nfs.send_implementation_id = 2650 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 2651 information in exchange_id requests. 2652 If zero, no implementation identification information 2653 will be sent. 2654 The default is to send the implementation identification 2655 information. 2656 2657 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 2658 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 2659 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 2660 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 2661 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 2662 after the locks are lost. 2663 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 2664 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 2665 parameter to '1'. 2666 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 2667 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 2668 2669 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 2670 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 2671 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 2672 2673 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 2674 whatever value is the default set by the layout 2675 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 2676 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 2677 2678 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2679 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 2680 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 2681 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 2682 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 2683 migration from NFSv2/v3. 2684 2685 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 2686 when a NMI is triggered. 2687 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 2688 2689 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 2690 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 2691 Valid num: 0 or 1 2692 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 2693 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 2694 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 2695 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite 2696 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 2697 please see 'nowatchdog'. 2698 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 2699 need the box quickly up again. 2700 2701 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 2702 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 2703 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 2704 waits 4 seconds. 2705 2706 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 2707 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 2708 is present. 2709 2710 no_console_suspend 2711 [HW] Never suspend the console 2712 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 2713 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 2714 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 2715 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 2716 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 2717 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 2718 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 2719 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 2720 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 2721 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 2722 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 2723 turn on/off it dynamically. 2724 2725 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 2726 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 2727 but will impact performance. 2728 2729 noalign [KNL,ARM] 2730 2731 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 2732 (CPU alternatives feature). 2733 2734 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 2735 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 2736 2737 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 2738 2739 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem 2740 on "Classic" PPC cores. 2741 2742 nocache [ARM] 2743 2744 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction 2745 2746 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting 2747 2748 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 2749 2750 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 2751 2752 noexec [IA-64] 2753 2754 noexec [X86] 2755 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels. 2756 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 2757 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings 2758 2759 nosmap [X86] 2760 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 2761 even if it is supported by processor. 2762 2763 nosmep [X86] 2764 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 2765 even if it is supported by processor. 2766 2767 noexec32 [X86-64] 2768 This affects only 32-bit executables. 2769 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 2770 read doesn't imply executable mappings 2771 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 2772 read implies executable mappings 2773 2774 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 2775 2776 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 2777 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 2778 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 2779 2780 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 2781 2782 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 2783 Equivalent to smt=1. 2784 2785 [KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 2786 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 2787 via the sysfs control file. 2788 2789 nospectre_v1 [X66, PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 2790 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks 2791 are possible in the system. 2792 2793 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 2794 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 2795 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 2796 option. 2797 2798 nospec_store_bypass_disable 2799 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 2800 2801 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 2802 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 2803 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 2804 2805 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 2806 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 2807 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 2808 performance of saving the states is degraded because 2809 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 2810 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 2811 2812 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 2813 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 2814 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 2815 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 2816 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 2817 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 2818 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 2819 2820 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or 2821 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to 2822 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger. 2823 2824 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 2825 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 2826 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 2827 2828 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 2829 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 2830 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 2831 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 2832 in certain environments such as networked servers or 2833 real-time systems. 2834 2835 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 2836 2837 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 2838 Valid arguments: on, off 2839 Default: on 2840 2841 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT] 2842 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2843 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 2844 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 2845 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 2846 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 2847 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 2848 just as if they had also been called out in the 2849 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 2850 2851 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 2852 2853 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 2854 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 2855 2856 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 2857 broken timer IRQ sources. 2858 2859 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 2860 2861 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 2862 initial RAM disk. 2863 2864 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 2865 remapping. 2866 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 2867 2868 nointroute [IA-64] 2869 2870 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 2871 2872 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 2873 2874 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 2875 2876 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 2877 fault handling. 2878 2879 no-vmw-sched-clock 2880 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 2881 clock and use the default one. 2882 2883 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. 2884 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler 2885 behaviour 2886 2887 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 2888 2889 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 2890 2891 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel 2892 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx 2893 2894 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 2895 2896 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 2897 2898 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 2899 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 2900 2901 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 2902 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 2903 irq. 2904 2905 nomodule Disable module load 2906 2907 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 2908 pagetables) support. 2909 2910 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 2911 2912 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 2913 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 2914 2915 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 2916 with UP alternatives 2917 2918 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and 2919 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported 2920 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still 2921 available to user space applications. 2922 2923 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 2924 space. 2925 2926 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 2927 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 2928 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 2929 2930 nosbagart [IA-64] 2931 2932 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. 2933 2934 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 2935 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 2936 2937 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 2938 2939 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 2940 2941 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter 2942 2943 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 2944 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 2945 2946 nowb [ARM] 2947 2948 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 2949 2950 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 2951 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 2952 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 2953 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 2954 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 2955 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 2956 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 2957 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 2958 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 2959 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 2960 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 2961 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 2962 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 2963 2964 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 2965 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 2966 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 2967 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 2968 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 2969 parameter's value. 2970 Format: integer between 1 and 255 2971 Default: 255 2972 2973 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 2974 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 2975 SAL PALO. 2976 2977 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2978 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 2979 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 2980 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 2981 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 2982 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 2983 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 2984 hot plugging. 2985 2986 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 2987 2988 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing. 2989 Allowed values are enable and disable 2990 2991 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 2992 'node', 'default' can be specified 2993 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 2994 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details. 2995 2996 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 2997 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more 2998 info. 2999 3000 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 3001 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 3002 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 3003 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 3004 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 3005 interrupts *may* be lost! 3006 3007 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 3008 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 3009 For example, to override I2C bus2: 3010 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 3011 3012 oprofile.timer= [HW] 3013 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters 3014 3015 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type 3016 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile 3017 userland or if you want common events. 3018 Format: { arch_perfmon } 3019 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural 3020 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the 3021 CPU specific event set. 3022 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI 3023 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer 3024 for generic hr timer mode) 3025 3026 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 3027 process, but there is a small probability of 3028 deadlocking the machine. 3029 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 3030 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 3031 3032 OSS [HW,OSS] 3033 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt 3034 3035 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 3036 Storage of the information about who allocated 3037 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 3038 we can turn it on. 3039 on: enable the feature 3040 3041 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 3042 poisoning on the buddy allocator. 3043 off: turn off poisoning 3044 on: turn on poisoning 3045 3046 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 3047 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 3048 timeout = 0: wait forever 3049 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 3050 Format: <timeout> 3051 3052 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 3053 on a WARN(). 3054 3055 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 3056 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 3057 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 3058 succeeds in any situation. 3059 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 3060 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 3061 kernel more unstable. 3062 3063 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 3064 connected to, default is 0. 3065 Format: <parport#> 3066 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 3067 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 3068 Format: <mode> 3069 3070 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 3071 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 3072 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 3073 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 3074 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 3075 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 3076 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 3077 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 3078 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 3079 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 3080 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 3081 are specified on the command line, starting 3082 with parport0. 3083 3084 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 3085 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 3086 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 3087 computer where firmware has no options for setting 3088 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 3089 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 3090 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 3091 3092 pause_on_oops= 3093 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 3094 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 3095 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 3096 3097 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 3098 3099 pcd. [PARIDE] 3100 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 3101 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3102 3103 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options: 3104 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel 3105 changes anything 3106 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 3107 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 3108 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 3109 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 3110 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 3111 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 3112 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 3113 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 3114 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3115 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 3116 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 3117 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3118 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 3119 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 3120 bus number. The config space is then accessed 3121 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 3122 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 3123 on the configuration access mechanisms. 3124 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 3125 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3126 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 3127 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 3128 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 3129 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 3130 Configuration 3131 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 3132 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 3133 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 3134 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 3135 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3136 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 3137 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 3138 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 3139 should never be necessary. 3140 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 3141 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 3142 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 3143 when the system masks IRQs. 3144 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 3145 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 3146 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 3147 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 3148 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 3149 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 3150 on several machines and they hang the machine 3151 when used, but on other computers it's the only 3152 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 3153 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 3154 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 3155 motherboard. 3156 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 3157 Use with caution as certain devices share 3158 address decoders between ROMs and other 3159 resources. 3160 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 3161 expansion ROMs that do not already have 3162 BIOS assigned address ranges. 3163 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 3164 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 3165 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 3166 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 3167 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 3168 this way. 3169 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 3170 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 3171 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 3172 F0000h-100000h range. 3173 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 3174 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 3175 secondary buses and you want to tell it 3176 explicitly which ones they are. 3177 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 3178 numbers ourselves, overriding 3179 whatever the firmware may have done. 3180 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 3181 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 3182 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 3183 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 3184 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 3185 IRQ routing is enabled. 3186 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 3187 or for PCI scanning. 3188 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 3189 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 3190 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 3191 please report a bug. 3192 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 3193 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 3194 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 3195 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 3196 so this option is a temporary workaround 3197 for broken drivers that don't call it. 3198 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 3199 handle more pci cards 3200 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 3201 This might help on some broken boards which 3202 machine check when some devices' config space 3203 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 3204 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 3205 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3206 This sorting is done to get a device 3207 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 3208 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3209 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 3210 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 3211 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 3212 supported by all devices below the root complex. 3213 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 3214 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 3215 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 3216 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 3217 or bus can support) for best performance. 3218 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 3219 every device is guaranteed to support. This 3220 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 3221 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 3222 reduced performance. This also guarantees 3223 that hot-added devices will work. 3224 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3225 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 3226 The default value is 256 bytes. 3227 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3228 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 3229 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 3230 resource_alignment= 3231 Format: 3232 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...] 3233 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\ 3234 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...] 3235 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 3236 aligned memory resources. 3237 If <order of align> is not specified, 3238 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 3239 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource 3240 windows need to be expanded. 3241 To specify the alignment for several 3242 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 3243 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 3244 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 3245 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 3246 end-to-end CRC checking). 3247 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 3248 the default. 3249 off: Turn ECRC off 3250 on: Turn ECRC on. 3251 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3252 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 3253 Default size is 256 bytes. 3254 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3255 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window. 3256 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3257 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 3258 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 3259 Default is 1. 3260 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 3261 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 3262 accommodate resources required by all child 3263 devices. 3264 off: Turn realloc off 3265 on: Turn realloc on 3266 realloc same as realloc=on 3267 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 3268 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 3269 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 3270 port. 3271 3272 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 3273 Management. 3274 off Disable ASPM. 3275 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 3276 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 3277 3278 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options: 3279 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this 3280 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services). 3281 3282 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling: 3283 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services 3284 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use 3285 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS. 3286 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports 3287 unconditionally. 3288 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe 3289 ports driver. 3290 3291 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 3292 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 3293 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 3294 3295 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 3296 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 3297 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 3298 3299 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 3300 3301 pd_ignore_unused 3302 [PM] 3303 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 3304 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 3305 for debug and development, but should not be 3306 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 3307 3308 pd. [PARIDE] 3309 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3310 3311 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 3312 boot time. 3313 Format: { 0 | 1 } 3314 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 3315 3316 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 3317 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 3318 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 3319 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 3320 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 3321 and performance comparison. 3322 3323 pf. [PARIDE] 3324 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3325 3326 pg. [PARIDE] 3327 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3328 3329 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 3330 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt. 3331 3332 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 3333 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 3334 See also Documentation/parport.txt. 3335 3336 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 3337 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 3338 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 3339 3340 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 3341 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 3342 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 3343 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 3344 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 3345 possible settings and some assignment information. 3346 3347 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 3348 { off } 3349 3350 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 3351 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 3352 3353 pnp_reserve_irq= 3354 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 3355 3356 pnp_reserve_dma= 3357 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 3358 3359 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 3360 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 3361 3362 pnp_reserve_mem= 3363 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 3364 autoconfiguration. 3365 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 3366 3367 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 3368 Default is 21. 3369 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 3370 may be specified. 3371 Format: <port>,<port>.... 3372 3373 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 3374 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 3375 platform machine description specific power_save 3376 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 3377 execution priority. 3378 3379 ppc_strict_facility_enable 3380 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 3381 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 3382 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 3383 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 3384 3385 print-fatal-signals= 3386 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 3387 3388 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 3389 related application anomalies: too many signals, 3390 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 3391 coredump - etc. 3392 3393 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 3394 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 3395 3396 default: off. 3397 3398 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 3399 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 3400 panics 3401 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3402 default: disabled 3403 3404 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 3405 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 3406 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 3407 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 3408 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 3409 Default: ratelimit 3410 3411 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 3412 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3413 3414 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 3415 Limit processor to maximum C-state 3416 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 3417 3418 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 3419 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 3420 instead using the legacy FADT method 3421 3422 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 3423 Format: [schedule,]<number> 3424 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 3425 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 3426 statistical time based profiling. 3427 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 3428 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 3429 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 3430 3431 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk 3432 before loading. 3433 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 3434 3435 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 3436 tracking. 3437 Format: <bool> 3438 3439 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 3440 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 3441 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 3442 per second. 3443 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 3444 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 3445 (0 = never). 3446 psmouse.resolution= 3447 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 3448 psmouse.smartscroll= 3449 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 3450 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 3451 3452 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 3453 3454 pt. [PARIDE] 3455 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3456 3457 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 3458 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 3459 removes hardening, but improves performance of 3460 system calls and interrupts. 3461 3462 on - unconditionally enable 3463 off - unconditionally disable 3464 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 3465 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 3466 3467 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 3468 3469 nopti [X86_64] 3470 Equivalent to pti=off 3471 3472 pty.legacy_count= 3473 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 3474 default number. 3475 3476 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 3477 3478 r128= [HW,DRM] 3479 3480 raid= [HW,RAID] 3481 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 3482 3483 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 3484 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 3485 3486 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 3487 3488 cec_disable [X86] 3489 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 3490 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 3491 3492 rcu_nocbs= [KNL] 3493 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3494 3495 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set 3496 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs. 3497 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will 3498 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for 3499 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" 3500 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" 3501 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the 3502 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and 3503 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy 3504 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 3505 3506 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 3507 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 3508 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 3509 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 3510 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 3511 This improves the real-time response for the 3512 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 3513 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 3514 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 3515 periodically wake up to do the polling. 3516 3517 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 3518 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 3519 process in one batch. 3520 3521 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 3522 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 3523 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 3524 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 3525 3526 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 3527 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3528 RCU grace-period cleanup. 3529 3530 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 3531 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3532 RCU grace-period initialization. 3533 3534 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 3535 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3536 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 3537 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 3538 the rcu_node combining tree. 3539 3540 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 3541 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 3542 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 3543 possibly be useful for architectures having high 3544 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 3545 3546 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 3547 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 3548 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 3549 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 3550 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 3551 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 3552 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 3553 3554 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 3555 Set required age in jiffies for a 3556 given grace period before RCU starts 3557 soliciting quiescent-state help from 3558 rcu_note_context_switch(). 3559 3560 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 3561 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 3562 first attempt to force quiescent states. 3563 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 3564 and maximum value is HZ. 3565 3566 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 3567 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 3568 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 3569 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 3570 3571 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 3572 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 3573 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 3574 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 3575 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 3576 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 3577 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 3578 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 3579 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 3580 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 3581 3582 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL] 3583 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which 3584 defaults to the square root of the number of 3585 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead 3586 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases 3587 that same overhead on each group's leader. 3588 3589 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 3590 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 3591 batch limiting is disabled. 3592 3593 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 3594 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 3595 batch limiting is re-enabled. 3596 3597 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL] 3598 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 3599 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 3600 3601 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL] 3602 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 3603 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 3604 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can 3605 prove do nothing more than free memory. 3606 3607 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 3608 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 3609 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 3610 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 3611 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 3612 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 3613 3614 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL] 3615 Measure performance of asynchronous 3616 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 3617 3618 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL] 3619 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 3620 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 3621 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 3622 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 3623 previously posted callbacks to drain. 3624 3625 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL] 3626 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 3627 grace-period primitives. 3628 3629 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL] 3630 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 3631 this parameter is to delay the start of the 3632 test until boot completes in order to avoid 3633 interference. 3634 3635 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL] 3636 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 3637 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 3638 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 3639 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 3640 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 3641 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 3642 a single reader. 3643 3644 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL] 3645 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 3646 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders. 3647 N, where N is the number of CPUs 3648 3649 rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT] 3650 Start rcuperf running at boot time. 3651 3652 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL] 3653 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 3654 3655 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL] 3656 Shut the system down after performance tests 3657 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 3658 testing. 3659 3660 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL] 3661 Enable additional printk() statements. 3662 3663 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 3664 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 3665 in microseconds. The default of zero says 3666 no holdoff. 3667 3668 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL] 3669 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive 3670 callback-flood tests. 3671 3672 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL] 3673 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive 3674 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood 3675 test. 3676 3677 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL] 3678 Set the number of bursts making up a given 3679 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to 3680 disable callback-flood testing. 3681 3682 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL] 3683 Set the number of callbacks to be registered 3684 in a given burst of a callback-flood test. 3685 3686 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 3687 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 3688 in microseconds. 3689 3690 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 3691 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 3692 in microseconds. 3693 3694 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 3695 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 3696 in seconds. 3697 3698 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 3699 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 3700 primitives, if available. 3701 3702 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 3703 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 3704 3705 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 3706 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 3707 update-side primitives, if available. 3708 3709 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 3710 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 3711 update-side primitives, if available. If all 3712 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 3713 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 3714 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 3715 they are all non-zero. 3716 3717 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 3718 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 3719 3720 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 3721 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 3722 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 3723 test, hence the "fake". 3724 3725 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 3726 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 3727 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 3728 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 3729 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 3730 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 3731 3732 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 3733 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 3734 3735 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 3736 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 3737 3738 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 3739 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 3740 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 3741 3742 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 3743 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 3744 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 3745 during the rcutorture test. 3746 3747 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 3748 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 3749 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 3750 3751 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 3752 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 3753 warnings, zero to disable. 3754 3755 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 3756 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 3757 3758 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 3759 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 3760 3761 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 3762 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 3763 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 3764 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 3765 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 3766 3767 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 3768 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 3769 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 3770 under test support RCU priority boosting. 3771 3772 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 3773 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 3774 3775 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 3776 Interval (s) between each boost test. 3777 3778 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 3779 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 3780 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 3781 3782 rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT] 3783 Start rcutorture running at boot time. 3784 3785 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 3786 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 3787 3788 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 3789 Enable additional printk() statements. 3790 3791 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 3792 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 3793 3794 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 3795 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 3796 3797 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 3798 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 3799 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 3800 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 3801 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 3802 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 3803 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 3804 3805 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 3806 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 3807 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 3808 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 3809 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 3810 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 3811 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 3812 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 3813 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 3814 3815 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 3816 Once boot has completed (that is, after 3817 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 3818 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 3819 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 3820 3821 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 3822 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning 3823 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal 3824 to zero. 3825 3826 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 3827 Run the RCU early boot self tests 3828 3829 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL] 3830 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests 3831 3832 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL] 3833 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests 3834 3835 rdinit= [KNL] 3836 Format: <full_path> 3837 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 3838 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 3839 3840 rdrand= [X86] 3841 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 3842 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 3843 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 3844 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 3845 path). 3846 3847 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 3848 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 3849 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, mba. 3850 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 3851 rdt=cmt,!mba 3852 3853 reboot= [KNL] 3854 Format (x86 or x86_64): 3855 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \ 3856 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 3857 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 3858 [[,]f[orce] 3859 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio, 3860 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 3861 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 3862 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 3863 to be used for rebooting. 3864 3865 relax_domain_level= 3866 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 3867 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt. 3868 3869 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area 3870 3871 reservetop= [X86-32] 3872 Format: nn[KMG] 3873 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 3874 address space. 3875 3876 reservelow= [X86] 3877 Format: nn[K] 3878 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at 3879 the bottom of the address space. 3880 3881 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 3882 during initialization. 3883 3884 resume= [SWSUSP] 3885 Specify the partition device for software suspend 3886 Format: 3887 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 3888 3889 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 3890 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 3891 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 3892 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 3893 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt 3894 3895 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 3896 read the resume files 3897 3898 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 3899 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 3900 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 3901 3902 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 3903 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 3904 present during boot. 3905 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 3906 no Disable hibernation and resume. 3907 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 3908 (that will set all pages holding image data 3909 during restoration read-only). 3910 3911 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 3912 3913 rfkill.default_state= 3914 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 3915 etc. communication is blocked by default. 3916 1 Unblocked. 3917 3918 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 3919 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 3920 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 3921 blocked and the previous configuration. 3922 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 3923 blocked and everything unblocked. 3924 3925 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 3926 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 3927 3928 ring3mwait=disable 3929 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 3930 CPUs. 3931 3932 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 3933 3934 rodata= [KNL] 3935 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 3936 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 3937 3938 rockchip.usb_uart 3939 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 3940 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 3941 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 3942 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 3943 3944 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 3945 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 3946 3947 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 3948 mount the root filesystem 3949 3950 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 3951 3952 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 3953 3954 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 3955 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 3956 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 3957 3958 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 3959 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 3960 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 3961 managed by CMA. 3962 3963 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 3964 3965 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 3966 3967 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 3968 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 3969 strict 3970 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 3971 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 3972 which is faster. 3973 3974 sa1100ir [NET] 3975 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 3976 3977 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter 3978 3979 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 3980 3981 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 3982 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 3983 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 3984 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 3985 3986 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 3987 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 3988 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 3989 Format: { "0" | "1" } 3990 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 3991 1 -- enable. 3992 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 3993 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 3994 3995 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot. 3996 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first 3997 security module asking for security registration will be 3998 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated 3999 as if no module has been chosen. 4000 4001 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 4002 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4003 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 4004 0 -- disable. 4005 1 -- enable. 4006 Default value is set via kernel config option. 4007 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used 4008 later to disable prior to initial policy load. 4009 4010 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 4011 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4012 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 4013 0 -- disable. 4014 1 -- enable. 4015 Default value is set via kernel config option. 4016 4017 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 4018 4019 shapers= [NET] 4020 Maximal number of shapers. 4021 4022 simeth= [IA-64] 4023 simscsi= 4024 4025 slram= [HW,MTD] 4026 4027 slab_nomerge [MM] 4028 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 4029 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 4030 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 4031 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 4032 layout control by attackers can usually be 4033 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 4034 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 4035 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 4036 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 4037 own. 4038 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 4039 4040 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 4041 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 4042 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 4043 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 4044 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 4045 4046 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB] 4047 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 4048 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 4049 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 4050 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 4051 last alloc / free. For more information see 4052 Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 4053 4054 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB] 4055 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for 4056 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable. 4057 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON. 4058 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug 4059 directories and files being created under 4060 /sys/kernel/slub. 4061 4062 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 4063 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 4064 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 4065 fragmentation. For more information see 4066 Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 4067 4068 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 4069 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 4070 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 4071 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 4072 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 4073 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 4074 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 4075 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 4076 4077 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 4078 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 4079 lower than slub_max_order. 4080 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 4081 4082 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 4083 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 4084 See slab_nomerge for more information. 4085 4086 smart2= [HW] 4087 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 4088 4089 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 4090 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 4091 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 4092 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 4093 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 4094 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 4095 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 4096 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 4097 1: Fast pin select (default) 4098 2: ATC IRMode 4099 4100 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 4101 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 4102 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 4103 actual hardware limit. 4104 Format: <integer> 4105 Default: -1 (no limit) 4106 4107 softlockup_panic= 4108 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 4109 Format: <integer> 4110 4111 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 4112 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 4113 backtraces on all cpus. 4114 Format: <integer> 4115 4116 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 4117 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt 4118 4119 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 4120 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 4121 The default operation protects the kernel from 4122 user space attacks. 4123 4124 on - unconditionally enable, implies 4125 spectre_v2_user=on 4126 off - unconditionally disable, implies 4127 spectre_v2_user=off 4128 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4129 vulnerable 4130 4131 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 4132 mitigation method at run time according to the 4133 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 4134 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 4135 compiler with which the kernel was built. 4136 4137 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 4138 against user space to user space task attacks. 4139 4140 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 4141 the user space protections. 4142 4143 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 4144 4145 retpoline - replace indirect branches 4146 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline 4147 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk 4148 4149 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4150 spectre_v2=auto. 4151 4152 spectre_v2_user= 4153 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 4154 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 4155 user space tasks 4156 4157 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 4158 enforced by spectre_v2=on 4159 4160 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 4161 enforced by spectre_v2=off 4162 4163 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 4164 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 4165 per thread. The mitigation control state 4166 is inherited on fork. 4167 4168 prctl,ibpb 4169 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 4170 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 4171 always when switching between different user 4172 space processes. 4173 4174 seccomp 4175 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 4176 threads will enable the mitigation unless 4177 they explicitly opt out. 4178 4179 seccomp,ibpb 4180 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 4181 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 4182 always when switching between different 4183 user space processes. 4184 4185 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 4186 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 4187 4188 Default mitigation: 4189 If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 4190 4191 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4192 spectre_v2_user=auto. 4193 4194 spec_store_bypass_disable= 4195 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 4196 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 4197 4198 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 4199 a common industry wide performance optimization known 4200 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 4201 to the same memory location may not be observed by 4202 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 4203 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 4204 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 4205 end of a particular speculation execution window. 4206 4207 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 4208 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 4209 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 4210 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 4211 4212 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 4213 Bypass optimization is used. 4214 4215 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 4216 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 4217 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 4218 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 4219 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 4220 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 4221 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 4222 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 4223 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 4224 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 4225 for a process by default. The state of the control 4226 is inherited on fork. 4227 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 4228 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 4229 4230 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4231 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 4232 4233 Default mitigations: 4234 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 4235 4236 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 4237 spia_fio_base= 4238 spia_pedr= 4239 spia_peddr= 4240 4241 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 4242 Specifies how frequently to check for 4243 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 4244 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 4245 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 4246 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 4247 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 4248 are ignored. 4249 4250 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 4251 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 4252 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 4253 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 4254 grace period will be considered for automatic 4255 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 4256 expediting. 4257 4258 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 4259 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 4260 4261 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 4262 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 4263 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 4264 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 4265 4266 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 4267 for both kernel and userspace 4268 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 4269 for both kernel and userspace 4270 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 4271 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 4272 to allow userspace to register its 4273 interest in being mitigated too. 4274 4275 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 4276 override the default stack gap protection. The value 4277 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 4278 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 4279 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 4280 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 4281 4282 stacktrace [FTRACE] 4283 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 4284 4285 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 4286 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 4287 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 4288 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 4289 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 4290 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 4291 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 4292 4293 sti= [PARISC,HW] 4294 Format: <num> 4295 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 4296 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 4297 as the initial boot-console. 4298 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 4299 4300 sti_font= [HW] 4301 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 4302 4303 stifb= [HW] 4304 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 4305 4306 sunrpc.min_resvport= 4307 sunrpc.max_resvport= 4308 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4309 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 4310 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 4311 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 4312 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 4313 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 4314 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 4315 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 4316 maximum port values. 4317 4318 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 4319 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4320 Limit the number of requests that the server will 4321 process in parallel from a single connection. 4322 The default value is 0 (no limit). 4323 4324 sunrpc.pool_mode= 4325 [NFS] 4326 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 4327 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 4328 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 4329 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 4330 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 4331 NFS server is running. 4332 4333 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 4334 automatically using heuristics 4335 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 4336 percpu one pool for each CPU 4337 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 4338 to global on non-NUMA machines) 4339 4340 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 4341 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 4342 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4343 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 4344 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 4345 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 4346 improve throughput, but will also increase the 4347 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 4348 4349 suspend.pm_test_delay= 4350 [SUSPEND] 4351 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 4352 mode before resuming the system (see 4353 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 4354 is set. Default value is 5. 4355 4356 swapaccount=[0|1] 4357 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 4358 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 4359 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt) 4360 4361 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 4362 Format: { <int> | force | noforce } 4363 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 4364 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 4365 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 4366 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 4367 4368 switches= [HW,M68k] 4369 4370 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 4371 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 4372 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 4373 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 4374 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 4375 in older udev will not work anymore. 4376 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 4377 the kernel configuration. 4378 4379 sysrq_always_enabled 4380 [KNL] 4381 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 4382 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 4383 Useful for debugging. 4384 4385 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4386 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 4387 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 4388 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 4389 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt 4390 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 4391 4392 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 4393 4394 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N] 4395 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 4396 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 4397 as the system sleep state during system startup with 4398 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 4399 The system is woken from this state using a 4400 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 4401 4402 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4403 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 4404 4405 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 4406 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 4407 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 4408 4409 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 4410 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 4411 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 4412 4413 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 4414 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 4415 critical and hot trip points. 4416 4417 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 4418 1: disable ACPI thermal control 4419 4420 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 4421 -1: disable all passive trip points 4422 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 4423 value 4424 4425 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 4426 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 4427 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 4428 0: no polling (default) 4429 4430 threadirqs [KNL] 4431 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 4432 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 4433 4434 tmem [KNL,XEN] 4435 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in. 4436 4437 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4438 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache 4439 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor. 4440 4441 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4442 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap 4443 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled 4444 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled. 4445 4446 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4447 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages 4448 to the hypervisor. 4449 4450 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4451 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately 4452 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the 4453 kernel based on different criteria. 4454 4455 topology= [S390] 4456 Format: {off | on} 4457 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 4458 topology information if the hardware supports this. 4459 The scheduler will make use of this information and 4460 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 4461 Default is on. 4462 4463 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 4464 Format: {off} 4465 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 4466 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 4467 LPAR. 4468 4469 tp720= [HW,PS2] 4470 4471 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 4472 Format: integer pcr id 4473 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 4474 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 4475 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 4476 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 4477 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 4478 are saved. 4479 4480 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 4481 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 4482 4483 trace_event=[event-list] 4484 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 4485 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 4486 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See 4487 also Documentation/trace/events.txt 4488 4489 trace_options=[option-list] 4490 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 4491 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 4492 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 4493 to echo the option name into 4494 4495 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 4496 4497 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 4498 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 4499 4500 trace_options=stacktrace 4501 4502 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options" 4503 section. 4504 4505 tp_printk[FTRACE] 4506 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 4507 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 4508 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 4509 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 4510 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 4511 4512 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 4513 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 4514 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 4515 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 4516 4517 ** CAUTION ** 4518 4519 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 4520 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 4521 the system to live lock. 4522 4523 traceoff_on_warning 4524 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 4525 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 4526 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 4527 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 4528 4529 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 4530 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 4531 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 4532 4533 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 4534 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 4535 4536 transparent_hugepage= 4537 [KNL] 4538 Format: [always|madvise|never] 4539 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 4540 with respect to transparent hugepages. 4541 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details. 4542 4543 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 4544 Format: <string> 4545 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 4546 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 4547 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 4548 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 4549 virtualized environment. 4550 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 4551 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 4552 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 4553 can add overhead. 4554 4555 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 4556 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 4557 support TSX control. 4558 4559 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 4560 4561 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 4562 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 4563 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 4564 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 4565 so there may be unknown security risks associated 4566 with leaving it enabled. 4567 4568 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 4569 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 4570 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 4571 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 4572 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 4573 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 4574 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 4575 4576 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 4577 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 4578 4579 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 4580 4581 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 4582 for more details. 4583 4584 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 4585 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 4586 4587 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 4588 certain CPUs that support Transactional 4589 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 4590 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 4591 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 4592 conditions. 4593 4594 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 4595 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 4596 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 4597 access. 4598 4599 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 4600 options are: 4601 4602 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 4603 if TSX is enabled. 4604 4605 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 4606 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 4607 is not disabled because CPU is not 4608 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 4609 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 4610 4611 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 4612 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 4613 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 4614 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 4615 4616 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4617 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 4618 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 4619 required and doesn't provide any additional 4620 mitigation. 4621 4622 For details see: 4623 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 4624 4625 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 4626 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 4627 Format: 4628 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 4629 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt 4630 4631 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 4632 happen after console_init() and before a proper 4633 console driver takes over, this boot options might 4634 help "seeing" what's going on. 4635 4636 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4637 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 4638 4639 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 4640 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 4641 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 4642 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 4643 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 4644 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 4645 reported either. 4646 4647 unknown_nmi_panic 4648 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 4649 4650 usbcore.authorized_default= 4651 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 4652 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 4653 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized) 4654 4655 usbcore.autosuspend= 4656 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 4657 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 4658 is the time required before an idle device will be 4659 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 4660 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 4661 4662 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 4663 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 4664 4665 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 4666 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 4667 (default = 65536). 4668 4669 usbcore.blinkenlights= 4670 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 4671 4672 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 4673 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 4674 scheme (default 0 = off). 4675 4676 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 4677 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 4678 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 4679 4680 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 4681 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 4682 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 4683 4684 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 4685 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 4686 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 4687 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 4688 4689 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 4690 4691 usbhid.mousepoll= 4692 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 4693 4694 usbhid.jspoll= 4695 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 4696 4697 usb-storage.delay_use= 4698 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 4699 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 4700 4701 usb-storage.quirks= 4702 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 4703 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 4704 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 4705 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 4706 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 4707 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 4708 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 4709 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 4710 of sense data, not on uas); 4711 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 4712 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 4713 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 4714 device capacity by one sector); 4715 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 4716 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 4717 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 4718 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 4719 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 4720 command, uas only); 4721 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 4722 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 4723 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 4724 reported device capacity by one 4725 sector if the number is odd); 4726 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 4727 device); 4728 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 4729 command, uas only); 4730 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 4731 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 4732 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 4733 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 4734 not on uas); 4735 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 4736 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 4737 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 4738 reported by the device, not on uas); 4739 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 4740 by default, not on uas); 4741 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 4742 bogus residue values, not on uas); 4743 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 4744 Logical Unit); 4745 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 4746 commands, uas only); 4747 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 4748 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 4749 medium is write-protected). 4750 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 4751 even if the device claims no cache, 4752 not on uas) 4753 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 4754 4755 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 4756 Format: <int> 4757 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 4758 1 - undefined instruction events 4759 2 - system calls 4760 4 - invalid data aborts 4761 8 - SIGSEGV faults 4762 16 - SIGBUS faults 4763 Example: user_debug=31 4764 4765 userpte= 4766 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 4767 4768 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 4769 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 4770 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 4771 4772 vdso= [X86,SH] 4773 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 4774 4775 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 4776 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 4777 4778 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 4779 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 4780 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 4781 4782 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 4783 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 4784 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 4785 4786 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 4787 alias for vdso32=0. 4788 4789 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 4790 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 4791 4792 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 4793 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 4794 4795 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 4796 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt. 4797 4798 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1] 4799 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 4800 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 4801 level and then send out the event to user space through 4802 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver 4803 will only send out the event without touching backlight 4804 brightness level. 4805 default: 1 4806 4807 virtio_mmio.device= 4808 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 4809 4810 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 4811 where: 4812 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 4813 like K, M and G) 4814 <baseaddr> := physical base address 4815 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 4816 request_irq()) 4817 <id> := (optional) platform device id 4818 example: 4819 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 4820 4821 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 4822 4823 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 4824 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and 4825 Documentation/svga.txt. 4826 Use vga=ask for menu. 4827 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 4828 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 4829 4830 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 4831 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 4832 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 4833 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 4834 mapped kernel RAM. 4835 4836 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 4837 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 4838 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 4839 4840 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 4841 Format: <command> 4842 4843 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 4844 Format: <command> 4845 4846 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 4847 Format: <command> 4848 4849 vsyscall= [X86-64] 4850 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 4851 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 4852 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 4853 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 4854 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 4855 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 4856 4857 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 4858 emulated reasonably safely. 4859 4860 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions. 4861 This is a little bit faster than trapping 4862 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work 4863 better than they would in emulation mode. 4864 It also makes exploits much easier to write. 4865 4866 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 4867 them quite hard to use for exploits but 4868 might break your system. 4869 4870 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 4871 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 4872 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 4873 4874 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 4875 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 4876 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 4877 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 4878 4879 vt.default_blu= [VT] 4880 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 4881 Change the default blue palette of the console. 4882 This is a 16-member array composed of values 4883 ranging from 0-255. 4884 4885 vt.default_grn= [VT] 4886 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 4887 Change the default green palette of the console. 4888 This is a 16-member array composed of values 4889 ranging from 0-255. 4890 4891 vt.default_red= [VT] 4892 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 4893 Change the default red palette of the console. 4894 This is a 16-member array composed of values 4895 ranging from 0-255. 4896 4897 vt.default_utf8= 4898 [VT] 4899 Format=<0|1> 4900 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 4901 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 4902 newly opened terminals. 4903 4904 vt.global_cursor_default= 4905 [VT] 4906 Format=<-1|0|1> 4907 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 4908 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 4909 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 4910 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 4911 cursors, 1 will display them. 4912 4913 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 4914 Default: 2 = green. 4915 4916 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 4917 Default: 3 = cyan. 4918 4919 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 4920 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt 4921 or other driver-specific files in the 4922 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 4923 4924 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 4925 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 4926 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 4927 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 4928 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 4929 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 4930 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 4931 corresponding sysfs file. 4932 4933 workqueue.disable_numa 4934 By default, all work items queued to unbound 4935 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 4936 issued on, which results in better behavior in 4937 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 4938 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 4939 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 4940 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 4941 4942 workqueue.power_efficient 4943 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 4944 they show better performance thanks to cache 4945 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 4946 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 4947 4948 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 4949 were observed to contribute significantly to power 4950 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 4951 power usage at the cost of small performance 4952 overhead. 4953 4954 The default value of this parameter is determined by 4955 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 4956 4957 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 4958 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 4959 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 4960 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 4961 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 4962 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 4963 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 4964 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 4965 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 4966 impacted. 4967 4968 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 4969 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 4970 supporting x2apic. 4971 4972 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT] 4973 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform. 4974 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer 4975 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer. 4976 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt 4977 4978 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 4979 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 4980 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 4981 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 4982 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 4983 domains. 4984 4985 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 4986 Unplug Xen emulated devices 4987 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 4988 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 4989 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 4990 nics -- unplug network devices 4991 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 4992 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 4993 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 4994 the unplug protocol 4995 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 4996 4997 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN] 4998 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 4999 panic() code such as dumping handler. 5000 5001 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 5002 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV 5003 optimizations. 5004 5005 xen_nopv [X86] 5006 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 5007 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 5008 5009 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 5010 Format: 5011 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 5012