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Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001 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
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +000016 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +000017
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
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +000056 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +000057 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.
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +0200116 Format: <byte>
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000117
118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122 auto-serialization feature.
123 This feature is enabled by default.
124 This option allows to turn off the feature.
125
126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
127 kernels.
128
129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132 installed automatically and they will appear under
133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134 This option turns off this feature.
135 Note that specifying this option does not affect
136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
138
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +0200139 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT]
140 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
141 a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
142
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000143 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
144 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
145 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
146 second kernel for kdump.
147
148 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
149 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
150
151 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
152 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
153 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
154 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
155 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
156
157 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
158 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
159 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
160 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
161 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
162 strings
163 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
164 strings
165 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
166
167 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
168 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
169 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
170 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
171 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
172 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
173 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
174 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
175 care about the state of the feature group strings which
176 should be controlled by the OSPM.
177 Examples:
178 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
179 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
180 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
181
182 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
183 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
184 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
185 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
186 multiple times through kernel command line is also
187 meaningless.
188 Examples:
189 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
190 FALSE.
191
192 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
193 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
194 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
195 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
196 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
197 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
198 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
199 there are quirks related to this string. This command
200 is useful when one want to control the state of the
201 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
202 the OSPM features.
203 Examples:
204 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
205 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
206 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
207 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
208 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
209 equivalent to
210 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
211 and
212 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
213 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
214
215 acpi_pm_good [X86]
216 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
217 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
218 and always returns good values.
219
220 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
221 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
222
223 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
224 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
225 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
226
227 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
228 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
229 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +0000230 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000231 s3_bios and s3_mode.
232 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
233 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
234 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
235 used during resume from hibernation.
236 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
237 control method, with respect to putting devices into
238 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
239 of _PTS is used by default).
240 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
241 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
242 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
243 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
244 but some broken systems don't work without it).
245 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
246 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
247 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
248
249 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
250 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
251 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
252
253 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
254 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
255
256 agp= [AGP]
257 { off | try_unsupported }
258 off: disable AGP support
259 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
260 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
261
262 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
263 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
264
265 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
266 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
267 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
268 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
269
270 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
271 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
272 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
273 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
274 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
275 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
276 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
277
278 32: only for 32-bit processes
279 64: only for 64-bit processes
280 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
281 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
282
283 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
284 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
285 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
286 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
287 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
288 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
289
290 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
291 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
292 Possible values are:
293 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
294 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
295 flushed before they will be reused, which
296 is a lot of faster
297 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
298 the system
299 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
300 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
301 allowed anymore to lift isolation
302 requirements as needed. This option
303 does not override iommu=pt
304
305 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
306 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
307 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
308 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
309 IOMMU initialization.
310
311 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
312 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
313 remapping modes:
314 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
315 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
316 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
317 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
318 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
319
320 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
321 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
322 Format: <a>,<b>
323 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
324
325 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
326 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
327 connected to one of 16 gameports
328 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
329
330 apc= [HW,SPARC]
331 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
332 Format: noidle
333 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
334 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
335 APC and your system crashes randomly.
336
337 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +0000338 Change the output verbosity while booting
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000339 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
340 Change the amount of debugging information output
341 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
342 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
343 driver name.
344 Format: apic=driver_name
345 Examples: apic=bigsmp
346
347 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
348 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
349 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
350 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
351 backup of CPU 0
352 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
353 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
354 shot down by NMI
355
356 autoconf= [IPV6]
357 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
358
359 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
360 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
361 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
362 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
363 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
364 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
365 apic=verbose is specified.
366 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
367
368 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
369 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
370
371 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
372 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
373
374 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
375
376 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
377
378 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
379 EzKey and similar keyboards
380
381 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
382
383 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
384 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
385
386 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
387 keyboards
388
389 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
390 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
391
392 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
393 Use software keyboard repeat
394
395 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
396 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
397 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
398 enabled until the next reboot
399 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
400 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
401 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
402 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
403 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
404 userspace auditd.
405 Default: unset
406
407 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
408 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
409 Default: 64
410
411 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
412 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
413 Format: { "0" | "1" }
414 0 - Disable the BAU.
415 1 - Enable the BAU.
416 unset - Disable the BAU.
417
418 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
419 Format: <io>,<mode>
420
421 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
422 Format: <io>,<mode>
423 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
424
425 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
426 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
427 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
428 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
429
430 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
431 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
432 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
433 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
434
435 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
436 embedded devices based on command line input.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +0000437 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000438
439 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
440 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
441 no delay (0).
442 Format: integer
443
444 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
445
446 bert_disable [ACPI]
447 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
448
449 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
450 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
451 kernel args too.
452 bttv.pll= See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
453 bttv.tuner=
454
455 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
456 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
457 at a time.
458
459 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
460
461 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
462 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
463 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
464 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
465 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
466 This option provides an override for these situations.
467
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +0000468 carrier_timeout=
469 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
470 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
471 it waits 120 seconds.
472
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000473 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
474 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
475 trust validation.
476 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
477
478 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
479 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
480 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
481 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
482 others).
483
484 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +0000485 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000486
487 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
488 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
489 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
490 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
491 a single hierarchy
492 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
493 subsystem
494 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
495 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
496 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
497
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +0000498 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
499 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
500 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000501 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
502 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +0000503 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
504 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
505 all v1 hierarchies.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000506
507 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
508 Format: <string>
509 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
510 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
511
512 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
513 Format: { "0" | "1" }
514 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
515 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
516 any implied execute protection).
517 1 -- check protection requested by application.
518 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
519 Value can be changed at runtime via
520 /selinux/checkreqprot.
521
522 cio_ignore= [S390]
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +0000523 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000524 clk_ignore_unused
525 [CLK]
526 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
527 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
528 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
529 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
530 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
531 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
532 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
533 platform with proper driver support. For more
534 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
535
536 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
537 [Deprecated]
538 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
539 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
540 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
541 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
542
543 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
544 Format: <string>
545 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
546 with the name specified.
547 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
548 the platform:
549 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
550 [ACPI] acpi_pm
551 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
552 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
553 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
554 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
555 [MIPS] MIPS
556 [PARISC] cr16
557 [S390] tod
558 [SH] SuperH
559 [SPARC64] tick
560 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
561
562 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
563 [ARM,ARM64]
564 Format: <bool>
565 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
566 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
567 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
568 systems.
569
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +0200570 clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL]
571 Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to
572 external delays before the clock will be marked
573 unstable. Defaults to three retries, that is,
574 four attempts to read the clock under test.
575
576 clearcpuid=BITNUM[,BITNUM...] [X86]
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000577 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
578 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
579 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
580 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
581 ones should be.
582 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
583 or using the feature without checking anything
584 will still see it. This just prevents it from
585 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
586 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
587 some critical bits.
588
589 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
590 [ARM,X86,KNL]
591 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
592 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
593 placement constraint by the physical address range of
594 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
595 altogether. For more information, see
596 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
597
598 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
599 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
600 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
601 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
602 a hypervisor.
603 Default: yes
604
605 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
606 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
607 allocations, by default set to 256K.
608
609 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
610 Format:
611 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
612
613 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
614 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
615
616 com90xx= [HW,NET]
617 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
618 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
619
620 condev= [HW,S390] console device
621 conmode=
622
623 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
624
625 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
626
627 ttyS<n>[,options]
628 ttyUSB0[,options]
629 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
630 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
631 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
632 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
633 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
634
635 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
636 information. See
637 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
638 alternative.
639
640 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
641 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
642 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
643 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
644 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
645 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
646 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
647 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
648 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
649 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
650 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
651 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
652 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
653 the h/w is not re-initialized.
654
655 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
656 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
657
658 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
659 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
660 console=brl,ttyS0
661 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
662
663 console_msg_format=
664 [KNL] Change console messages format
665 default
666 By default we print messages on consoles in
667 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
668 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
669 `printk_time' param).
670 syslog
671 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
672 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
673 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
674 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
675 from /proc/kmsg.
676
677 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
678 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
679 Defaults to 0.
680
681 coredump_filter=
682 [KNL] Change the default value for
683 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
684 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
685
686 coresight_cpu_debug.enable
687 [ARM,ARM64]
688 Format: <bool>
689 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
690 0: default value, disable debugging
691 1: enable debugging at boot time
692
693 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
694 disable the cpuidle sub-system
695
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +0000696 cpuidle.governor=
697 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
698
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000699 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
700 disable the cpufreq sub-system
701
702 cpu_init_udelay=N
703 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
704 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
705 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
706 Default: 10000
707
708 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
709 Format:
710 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
711
712 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
713 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
714 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
715 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
716 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +0000717 is selected automatically.
718 [KNL, x86_64] select a region under 4G first, and
719 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
720 hasn't been specified.
721 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000722
723 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
724 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
725 in the running system. The syntax of range is
726 start-[end] where start and end are both
727 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +0000728 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000729
730 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
731 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
732 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
733 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
734 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
735 available.
736 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
737 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
738 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
739 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
740 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
741 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
742 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
743 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
744 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
745 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
746 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
747 for second kernel instead.
748 0: to disable low allocation.
749 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
750 or memory reserved is below 4G.
751
752 cryptomgr.notests
753 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
754
755 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
756 Format: <dma>
757
758 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
759 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
760
761 dasd= [HW,NET]
762 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
763
764 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
765 (one device per port)
766 Format: <port#>,<type>
767 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
768
769 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
770 time. See
771 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
772 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
773
774 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
775
776 debug_boot_weak_hash
777 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
778 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
779 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are
780 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
781 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
782 insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
783
784 debug_locks_verbose=
785 [KNL] verbose self-tests
786 Format=<0|1>
787 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
788 self-tests.
789 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
790 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
791 only useful to kernel developers.
792
793 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
794
795 no_debug_objects
796 [KNL] Disable object debugging
797
798 debug_guardpage_minorder=
799 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
800 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
801 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
802 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
803 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
804 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
805 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
806 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
807 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
808 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
809 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
810 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
811 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
812 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
813 bypassed) which are not detectable by
814 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
815 tracking down these problems.
816
817 debug_pagealloc=
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +0000818 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
819 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
820 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
821 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
822 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
823 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000824 on: enable the feature
825
826 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
827
828 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
829 Format: <area>[,<node>]
830 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
831
832 default_hugepagesz=
833 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
834 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
835 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
836 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
837 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
838 if not specified.
839
840 deferred_probe_timeout=
841 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
842 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
843 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
844 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
845 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
846 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
847 retrying.
848
849 dhash_entries= [KNL]
850 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
851
852 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
853 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
854 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
855 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
856 miss to occur.
857
858 disable= [IPV6]
859 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
860
861 hardened_usercopy=
862 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
863 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
864 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
865 from reading or writing beyond known memory
866 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
867 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
868 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
869 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
870 off Disable hardened usercopy checks.
871
872 disable_radix [PPC]
873 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
874
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +0000875 disable_tlbie [PPC]
876 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
877 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
878
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000879 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
880 Format: <int>
881 The number of initial APIC ID for the
882 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
883 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
884 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
885 causing system reset or hang due to sending
886 INIT from AP to BSP.
887
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +0000888 perf_v4_pmi= [X86,INTEL]
889 Format: <bool>
890 Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature.
891 The feature only exists starting from
892 Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer).
893
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000894 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
895 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
896 to workaround buggy firmware.
897
898 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
899 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
900
901 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
902 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
903 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
904 entry later. This parameter disables that.
905
906 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
907 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
908 memory out of your available memory pool based on
909 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
910 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
911
912 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
913 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
914 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
915
916 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
917
918 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
919 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
920
921 dma_debug_entries=<number>
922 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
923 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
924 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
925 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
926 architectural default is too low.
927
928 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
929 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
930 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
931 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
932 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
933 driver later using sysfs.
934
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +0000935 driver_async_probe= [KNL]
936 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
937 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
938
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000939 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
940 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
941 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
942 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
943 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
944 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
945 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
946 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
947 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
948 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +0000949 available in Documentation/driver-api/edid.rst. An EDID
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000950 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
951 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
952 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
953 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
954 data set with no connector name will be used for
955 any connectors not explicitly specified.
956
957 dscc4.setup= [NET]
958
959 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC]
960 Format: {"off" | "known"}
961 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
962 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
963 exists).
964 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
965 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
966 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
967
968 dump_apple_properties [X86]
969 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
970 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
971 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
972
973 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
974 module.dyndbg[="val"]
975 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
976 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
977 for details.
978
979 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +0000980 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.rst for more
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000981 information about the feature.
982
983 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
984 in some Intel CPUs.
985
986 module.async_probe [KNL]
987 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
988
989 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
990 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
991 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
992 which are not unmapped.
993
994 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
995
996 [ARM64] The early console is determined by the
997 stdout-path property in device tree's chosen node,
998 or determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
999
1000 [X86] When used with no options the early console is
1001 determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
1002
1003 cdns,<addr>[,options]
1004 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1005 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1006 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1007 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1008 configured.
1009
1010 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1011 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1012 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
1013 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
1014 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1015 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1016 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1017 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1018 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1019 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1020 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1021 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1022 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
1023
1024 pl011,<addr>
1025 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1026 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1027 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1028 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1029 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1030 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1031 the device registers.
1032
1033 meson,<addr>
1034 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1035 port at the specified address. The serial port must
1036 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1037 supported.
1038
1039 msm_serial,<addr>
1040 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1041 port at the specified address. The serial port
1042 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1043 yet supported.
1044
1045 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1046 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1047 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1048 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1049 yet supported.
1050
1051 owl,<addr>
1052 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1053 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1054 specified address. The serial port must already be
1055 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1056
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00001057 rda,<addr>
1058 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1059 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1060 specified address. The serial port must already be
1061 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1062
1063 sbi
1064 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1065 console.
1066
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001067 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1068
1069 s3c2410,<addr>
1070 s3c2412,<addr>
1071 s3c2440,<addr>
1072 s3c6400,<addr>
1073 s5pv210,<addr>
1074 exynos4210,<addr>
1075 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1076 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1077 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1078 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1079 Options are not yet supported.
1080
1081 lantiq,<addr>
1082 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1083 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1084 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1085 yet supported.
1086
1087 lpuart,<addr>
1088 lpuart32,<addr>
1089 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1090 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1091 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1092 port must already be setup and configured.
1093
1094 ar3700_uart,<addr>
1095 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1096 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1097 address. The serial port must already be setup
1098 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1099
1100 qcom_geni,<addr>
1101 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1102 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1103 specified address. The serial port must already be
1104 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1105
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00001106 efifb,[options]
1107 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1108 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1109 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1110 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1111 mapped with the correct attributes.
1112
1113 linflex,<addr>
1114 Use early console provided by Freescale LinFlex UART
1115 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1116 address must be provided, and the serial port must
1117 already be setup and configured.
1118
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001119 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1120 earlyprintk=vga
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001121 earlyprintk=sclp
1122 earlyprintk=xen
1123 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1124 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1125 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1126 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1127 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1128 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1129
1130 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1131 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1132 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1133
1134 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1135 takes over.
1136
1137 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1138 be used at a time.
1139
1140 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1141 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1142 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1143 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1144 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1145 You can find the port for a given device in
1146 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1147 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1148
1149 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1150 very good.
1151
1152 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1153 the real console.
1154
1155 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1156
1157 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1158
1159 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1160 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1161 UART class.
1162
1163 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1164 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1165 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1166 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1167 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1168 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1169 default: on.
1170
1171 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1172 ekgdboc=kbd
1173
1174 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1175 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1176
1177 edd= [EDD]
1178 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1179
1180 efi= [EFI]
1181 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
1182 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1183 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1184 default.
1185 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1186 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1187 firmware implementations.
1188 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1189 debug: enable misc debug output
1190
1191 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1192 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1193 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1194 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1195 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1196
1197 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1198 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1199 updating original EFI memory map.
1200 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1201 from ss to ss+nn.
1202 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1203 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1204 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1205 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1206
1207 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1208 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1209 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1210 doesn't support it.
1211
1212 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1213 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1214 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1215 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00001216 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001217
1218
1219 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1220 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1221
1222 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1223 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1224 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1225
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001226 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1227 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1228 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1229 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00001230 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001231
1232 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1233 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1234 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1235 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1236
1237 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1238 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1239 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1240 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1241 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1242
1243 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1244 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1245 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1246 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1247 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1248 Default value is 0.
1249 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1250
1251 erst_disable [ACPI]
1252 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1253 support.
1254
1255 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1256 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1257 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1258
1259 evm= [EVM]
1260 Format: { "fix" }
1261 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1262 current integrity status.
1263
1264 failslab=
1265 fail_page_alloc=
1266 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1267 General fault injection mechanism.
1268 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1269 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1270
1271 floppy= [HW]
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00001272 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001273
1274 force_pal_cache_flush
1275 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1276 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1277 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1278 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1279
1280 forcepae [X86-32]
1281 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1282 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1283 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1284 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1285 and may cause unknown problems.
1286
1287 ftrace=[tracer]
1288 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1289 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1290 boot debugging.
1291
1292 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1293 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1294 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1295 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1296 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1297 oops.
1298
1299 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1300 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1301 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1302 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1303 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1304 tracing directory.
1305
1306 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1307 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1308 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1309 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1310 tracing directory.
1311
1312 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1313 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1314 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1315 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1316 that can be changed at run time by the
1317 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1318
1319 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1320 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1321 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1322 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1323 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1324
1325 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1326 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1327 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1328 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1329 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1330
1331 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1332 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1333 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1334 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1335 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1336
1337 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1338
1339 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1340 Format: off | on
1341 default: on
1342
1343 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1344 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1345 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1346 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1347 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1348
1349 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1350 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1351 android emulator
1352
1353 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1354 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1355 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1356 GPT to be used instead.
1357
1358 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1359 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1360 Format: 0 | 1
1361 Default: 0
1362 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1363 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1364 Format: 0 | 1
1365 Default: 0
1366 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1367 Format: 0 | 1
1368 Default: 0
1369 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1370 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1371 Default: 1024
1372 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1373 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1374 Default: 1024
1375
1376 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1377 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1378 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1379
1380 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1381 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1382 backtraces on all cpus.
1383 Format: <integer>
1384
1385 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1386 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
1387 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1388 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1389
1390 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1391
1392 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1393 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1394
1395 hest_disable [ACPI]
1396 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1397 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1398 logic will be disabled.
1399
1400 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1401 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1402 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1403 size on bigger boxes.
1404
1405 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1406 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1407 Default: "on"
1408
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001409 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1410
1411 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1412 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1413 verbose }
1414 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1415 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1416 VIA, nVidia)
1417 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1418
1419 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1420 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1421
1422 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1423 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
1424 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1425 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1426 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1427 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
1428 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
1429
1430 hung_task_panic=
1431 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1432 Format: <integer>
1433
1434 A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a
1435 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1436 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1437 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1438 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1439
1440 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1441 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1442 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1443 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1444 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00001445
1446 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1447 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1448 guest on lock contention.
1449
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001450 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1451 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1452 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1453 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1454 the real console.
1455
1456 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1457 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1458 registered from board initialization code.
1459 Format:
1460 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1461
1462 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1463 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1464 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1465 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1466 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1467 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1468 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1469 keyboard and cannot control its state
1470 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1471 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1472 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1473 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1474 for the AUX port
1475 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1476 controller
1477 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1478 controllers
1479 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1480 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1481 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1482 transitions, or never reset
1483 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1484 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1485 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1486 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1487 architectures force reset to be always executed
1488 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1489 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1490
1491 i810= [HW,DRM]
1492
1493 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1494 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1495 hardware.
1496 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1497 does not match list of supported models.
1498 i8k.power_status
1499 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1500 (disabled by default)
1501 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1502 capability is set.
1503
1504 i915.invert_brightness=
1505 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1506 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1507 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1508 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1509 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1510 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1511 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1512 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1513 value switches the backlight off.
1514 -1 -- never invert brightness
1515 0 -- machine default
1516 1 -- force brightness inversion
1517
1518 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1519 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1520
1521 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1522 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1523 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1524 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00001525 See Documentation/ide/ide.rst.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001526
1527 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1528 Format: <int>
1529 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1530 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1531 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1532 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1533 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1534 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1535 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1536 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1537 was 0x3.
1538
1539 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1540 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1541
1542 idle= [X86]
1543 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1544 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1545 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1546 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1547 Not recommended.
1548 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1549 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1550 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1551
1552 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1553 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1554 Default: strict
1555
1556 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1557 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1558 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1559 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1560 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1561 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1562 encoding mode.
1563
1564 Available settings are as follows:
1565 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1566 supported by the FPU
1567 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1568 by the FPU
1569 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1570 by the FPU
1571 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1572 supported by the FPU
1573
1574 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1575 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1576 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1577 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1578 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1579 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1580 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1581 MIPS64 CPUs.
1582
1583 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1584 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1585 except where unsupported by hardware.
1586
1587 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1588 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1589 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1590 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1591 could change it dynamically, usually by
1592 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1593
1594 ignore_rlimit_data
1595 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1596 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1597 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1598
1599 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1600 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1601
1602 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1603 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1604 default: "enforce"
1605
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00001606 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001607 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1608 owned by uid=0.
1609
1610 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1611 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1612 measurements, instead of host native format.
1613
1614 ima_hash= [IMA]
1615 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1616 | sha512 | ... }
1617 default: "sha1"
1618
1619 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1620 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1621
1622 ima_policy= [IMA]
1623 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1624 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1625 fail_securely"
1626
1627 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1628 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1629 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1630 uid=0.
1631
1632 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00001633 all files owned by root.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001634
1635 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1636 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1637 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1638
1639 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1640 verification failure also on privileged mounted
1641 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1642 flag.
1643
1644 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
1645 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1646 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1647 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1648 opened for read by uid=0.
1649
1650 ima_template= [IMA]
1651 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1652 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1653 Default: "ima-ng"
1654
1655 ima_template_fmt=
1656 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1657 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1658
1659 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1660 Format: <min_file_size>
1661 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1662 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1663
1664 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1665 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1666 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1667
1668 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1669 Format: <bufsize>
1670 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1671
1672 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1673 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1674 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1675
1676 init= [KNL]
1677 Format: <full_path>
1678 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1679 process.
1680
1681 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1682 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1683 startup.
1684
1685 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1686 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1687 modules and initcalls.
1688
1689 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1690
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00001691 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
1692 zeroes.
1693 Format: 0 | 1
1694 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
1695
1696 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
1697 Format: 0 | 1
1698 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
1699
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001700 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1701 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1702 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1703 override in debugfs after boot.
1704
1705 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1706 Format: <irq>
1707
1708 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1709
1710 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1711 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1712 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1713 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1714
1715 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1716 on
1717 Enable intel iommu driver.
1718 off
1719 Disable intel iommu driver.
1720 igfx_off [Default Off]
1721 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1722 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1723 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1724 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1725 DMA.
1726 forcedac [x86_64]
1727 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1728 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1729 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1730 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1731 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1732 then look in the higher range.
1733 strict [Default Off]
1734 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1735 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1736 to batching them for performance.
1737 sp_off [Default Off]
1738 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1739 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1740 not be supported.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00001741 sm_on [Default Off]
1742 By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the
1743 hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable
1744 mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode
1745 will be used on hardware which claims to support it.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001746 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1747 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1748 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1749 could harm performance of some high-throughput
1750 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1751 mapping is enabled.
1752 Note that using this option lowers the security
1753 provided by tboot because it makes the system
1754 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00001755 nobounce [Default off]
1756 Disable bounce buffer for unstrusted devices such as
1757 the Thunderbolt devices. This will treat the untrusted
1758 devices as the trusted ones, hence might expose security
1759 risks of DMA attacks.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001760
1761 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1762 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1763 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
1764
1765 intel_pstate= [X86]
1766 disable
1767 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1768 scaling driver for the supported processors
1769 passive
1770 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1771 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1772 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1773 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1774 feature.
1775 force
1776 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1777 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1778 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1779 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1780 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1781 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1782 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1783 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1784 no_hwp
1785 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1786 if available.
1787 hwp_only
1788 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1789 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1790 support_acpi_ppc
1791 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1792 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1793 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1794 then this feature is turned on by default.
1795 per_cpu_perf_limits
1796 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1797 cpufreq sysfs interface
1798
1799 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1800 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1801 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1802 nosid disable Source ID checking
1803 no_x2apic_optout
1804 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1805 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
1806
1807 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1808 strict regions from userspace.
1809 relaxed
1810
1811 iommu= [x86]
1812 off
1813 force
1814 noforce
1815 biomerge
1816 panic
1817 nopanic
1818 merge
1819 nomerge
1820 soft
1821 pt [x86]
1822 nopt [x86]
1823 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1824 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
1825
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00001826 iommu.strict= [ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
1827 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1828 0 - Lazy mode.
1829 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
1830 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
1831 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
1832 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
1833 the relevant IOMMU driver.
1834 1 - Strict mode (default).
1835 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
1836 synchronously.
1837
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001838 iommu.passthrough=
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00001839 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001840 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1841 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1842 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00001843 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001844
1845 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1846 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1847 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1848
1849 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
1850 0x80
1851 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1852 0xed
1853 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1854 udelay
1855 Simple two microseconds delay
1856 none
1857 No delay
1858
1859 ip= [IP_PNP]
1860 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1861
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00001862 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
1863 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
1864
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001865 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
1866 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
1867
1868 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1869 [ARM, ARM64]
1870 Format: <bool>
1871 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1872 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1873 exposed by the device tree is too small.
1874
1875 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
1876 [ARM, ARM64]
1877 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
1878 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
1879 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
1880 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
1881 LPIs.
1882
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00001883 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
1884 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
1885 requires the kernel to be built with
1886 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
1887
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001888 irqfixup [HW]
1889 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1890 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1891 firmware running.
1892
1893 irqpoll [HW]
1894 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1895 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1896 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1897 firmware running.
1898
1899 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
1900 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1901
1902 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
1903 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1904 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
1905
1906 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1907 specified in the flag list (default: domain):
1908
1909 nohz
1910 Disable the tick when a single task runs.
1911
1912 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
1913 need to affine to housekeeping through the global
1914 workqueue's affinity configured via the
1915 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
1916 by using the 'domain' flag described below.
1917
1918 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
1919 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
1920 be configured manually after bootup.
1921
1922 domain
1923 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1924 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1925 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1926 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1927 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1928 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1929 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1930 move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1931
1932 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1933 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1934 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1935 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1936
1937 The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
1938
1939
1940
1941 iucv= [HW,NET]
1942
1943 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1944 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1945 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1946 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1947 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1948 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1949
1950 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1951 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1952 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1953 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1954 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1955 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1956
1957 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1958 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1959 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1960 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1961 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1962 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1963
1964 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1965 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
1966
1967 nokaslr [KNL]
1968 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1969 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1970 Layout Randomization).
1971
1972 kasan_multi_shot
1973 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1974 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1975 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1976 invalid access.
1977
1978 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1979
1980 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1981 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
1982 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
1983 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested
1984 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
1985 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for
1986 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the
1987 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
1988 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
1989 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
1990
1991 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
1992 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
1993 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
1994 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1995 zone if it does not.
1996
1997 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
1998 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
1999 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror"
2000 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2001 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2002 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2003 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2004
2005 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2006 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2007 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2008 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
2009 optional and is the number seconds in between
2010 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2011 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2012 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
2013 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2014 the kernel debugger.
2015
2016 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2017 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2018 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2019 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2020 keyboard only format: kbd
2021 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2022 Optional Kernel mode setting:
2023 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2024 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2025
2026 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2027 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2028
2029 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
2030 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2031 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2032
2033 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2034 Valid arguments: on, off
2035 Default: on
2036 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2037 the default is off.
2038
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00002039 kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2040 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2041 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2042 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2043 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2044 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2045 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2046
2047 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2048
2049 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2050 Boot Parameter" section.
2051
2052 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2053 and kernel address spaces.
2054 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2055 0: force disabled
2056 1: force enabled
2057
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002058 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2059 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2060
2061 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2062 Default is false (don't support).
2063
2064 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
2065 KVM MMU at runtime.
2066 Default is 0 (off)
2067
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00002068 kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2069 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2070 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2071 force : Always deploy workaround.
2072 off : Never deploy workaround.
2073 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2074 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2075
2076 Default is 'auto'.
2077
2078 If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2079 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2080
2081 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2082 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2083 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2084 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2085 minute. The default is 60.
2086
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002087 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
2088 Default is 1 (enabled)
2089
2090 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2091 for all guests.
2092 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
2093
2094 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2095 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2096 system registers
2097
2098 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2099 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2100 system registers
2101
2102 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2103 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2104 system registers
2105
2106 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2107 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2108 LPIs.
2109
2110 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2111 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2112 Default is 1 (enabled)
2113
2114 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2115 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
2116 Default is 0 (disabled)
2117
2118 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2119 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2120 Default is 1 (enabled)
2121
2122 kvm-intel.nested=
2123 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2124 Default is 0 (disabled)
2125
2126 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2127 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2128 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2129 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2130
2131 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2132 CVE-2018-3620.
2133
2134 Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2135
2136 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2137 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2138 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2139 never: Disables the mitigation
2140
2141 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2142
2143 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2144 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2145 Default is 1 (enabled)
2146
2147 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2148 affected CPUs
2149
2150 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2151 enabled and cannot be disabled.
2152
2153 full
2154 Provides all available mitigations for the
2155 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2156 enables all mitigations in the
2157 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2158
2159 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2160 sysfs interface is still possible after
2161 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2162 when the first VM is started in a
2163 potentially insecure configuration,
2164 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2165
2166 full,force
2167 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2168 flush runtime control. Implies the
2169 'nosmt=force' command line option.
2170 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2171
2172 flush
2173 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2174 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2175 L1D flush.
2176
2177 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2178 sysfs interface is still possible after
2179 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2180 when the first VM is started in a
2181 potentially insecure configuration,
2182 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2183
2184 flush,nosmt
2185
2186 Disables SMT and enables the default
2187 hypervisor mitigation.
2188
2189 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2190 sysfs interface is still possible after
2191 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2192 when the first VM is started in a
2193 potentially insecure configuration,
2194 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2195
2196 flush,nowarn
2197 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2198 warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2199 insecure configuration.
2200
2201 off
2202 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2203 emit any warnings.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00002204 It also drops the swap size and available
2205 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2206 bare metal.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002207
2208 Default is 'flush'.
2209
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00002210 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002211
2212 l2cr= [PPC]
2213
2214 l3cr= [PPC]
2215
2216 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2217 disabled it.
2218
2219 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
2220 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2221 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2222
2223 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2224 in C2 power state.
2225
2226 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
2227 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2228 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2229 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2230 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
2231 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2232 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2233
2234 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2235 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
2236 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
2237
2238 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2239 when set.
2240 Format: <int>
2241
2242 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
2243 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
2244 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
2245 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
2246 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
2247 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2248 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2249 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2250
2251 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2252 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
2253 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2254 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
2255 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2256 host link and device attached to it.
2257
2258 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
2259 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2260 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2261 The following configurations can be forced.
2262
2263 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2264 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2265
2266 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2267
2268 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2269 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2270 allowed.
2271
2272 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2273
2274 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2275
2276 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2277 and both resets.
2278
2279 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2280 hot-unplug link recovery
2281
2282 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2283
2284 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2285
2286 * disable: Disable this device.
2287
2288 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2289 the same attribute, the last one is used.
2290
2291 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2292
2293 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00002294 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002295
2296 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2297 Format: <integer>
2298
2299 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2300 Format: <integer>
2301
2302 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2303 Format: <integer>
2304
2305 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2306 Format: <integer>
2307
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00002308 lockdown= [SECURITY]
2309 { integrity | confidentiality }
2310 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2311 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2312 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2313 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2314 to extract confidential information from the kernel
2315 are also disabled.
2316
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002317 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2318 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2319 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2320 number of online CPUs.
2321
2322 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2323 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2324
2325 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2326 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2327
2328 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2329 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2330 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2331
2332 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2333 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2334 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2335 mode during the locktorture test.
2336
2337 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2338 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2339 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2340
2341 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2342 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2343
2344 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2345 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2346 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2347 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2348 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2349 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2350
2351 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2352 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2353
2354 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2355 Enable additional printk() statements.
2356
2357 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2358 Format: <irq>
2359
2360 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2361 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2362 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2363 loglevels are defined as follows:
2364
2365 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2366 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2367 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2368 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2369 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2370 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2371 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2372 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2373
2374 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2375 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2376 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2377 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2378 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2379 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2380 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2381
2382 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2383 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2384 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2385 kernel boot problems.
2386
2387 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2388 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2389 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2390 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2391 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2392 attached printers to be reset. Using
2393 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2394 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2395 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2396 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2397 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2398 port specification list means that device IDs
2399 from each port should be examined, to see if
2400 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2401 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2402 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2403
2404 lpj=n [KNL]
2405 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2406 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2407 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2408 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2409 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2410 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2411 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2412 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2413 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2414 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2415 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2416 hardware.
2417
2418 ltpc= [NET]
2419 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2420
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00002421 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2422
2423 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2424 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
2425 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
2426
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002427 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2428 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00002429 Example: machvec=hpzx1
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002430
2431 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2432 yeeloong laptop.
2433 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2434
2435 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2436 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2437
2438 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2439 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2440 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2441 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2442 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2443 only takes effect during system bootup.
2444 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2445 which also disables the IO APIC.
2446
2447 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2448 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2449 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2450 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2451 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2452 /dev/loop-control interface.
2453
2454 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2455
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00002456 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002457
2458 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2459 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2460
2461 mdacon= [MDA]
2462 Format: <first>,<last>
2463 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2464
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00002465 mds= [X86,INTEL]
2466 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2467 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2468
2469 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2470 internal buffers which can forward information to a
2471 disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2472
2473 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2474 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2475 attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2476 not have direct access.
2477
2478 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2479 options are:
2480
2481 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2482 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2483 SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2484 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
2485
2486 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
2487 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
2488 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
2489 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
2490 too.
2491
2492 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2493 mds=full.
2494
2495 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2496
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002497 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2498 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2499 to see the whole system memory or for test.
2500 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2501 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2502 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2503 belonging to unused RAM.
2504
2505 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2506 memory.
2507
2508 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2509 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2510 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2511
2512 memhp_default_state=online/offline
2513 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2514 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2515 set according to the
2516 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2517 option.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00002518 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002519
2520 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2521 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2522 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2523 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2524 option description.
2525
2526 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2527 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2528 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2529 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2530 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2531 Multiple different regions can be specified,
2532 comma delimited.
2533 Example:
2534 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2535
2536 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2537 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2538 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2539
2540 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2541 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2542 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2543 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2544 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2545 or
2546 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2547 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2548 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2549 will be eaten.
2550
2551 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2552 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2553 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2554 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2555 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2556
2557 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2558 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2559 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2560 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2561 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2562 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2563 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2564 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2565
2566 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2567 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2568 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2569 Setting this option will scan the memory
2570 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2571 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2572 from using the memory being corrupted.
2573 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2574 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2575 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2576 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2577
2578 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2579 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2580 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2581 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2582 corruption in more or less memory.
2583
2584 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2585 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2586 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2587 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2588
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00002589 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002590 Format: <integer>
2591 default : 0 <disable>
2592 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2593 performed. Each pass selects another test
2594 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2595 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2596 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2597 regions that are detected.
2598
2599 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2600 Valid arguments: on, off
2601 Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2602 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2603 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2604 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
2605 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
2606
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00002607 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002608 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2609
2610 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2611 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2612 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2613 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2614 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
2615
2616 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2617 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
2618
2619 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2620 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2621 platforms.
2622
2623 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2624 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2625 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2626 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2627
2628 mga= [HW,DRM]
2629
2630 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2631 physical address is ignored.
2632
2633 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2634 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2635 Default: "0tb"
2636 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2637 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2638 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2639 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2640 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2641 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2642 unconfigured.
2643 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2644 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2645 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2646 VGA shield.
2647 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2648 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2649 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2650 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2651 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2652 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2653
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00002654 mitigations=
2655 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
2656 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated,
2657 arch-independent options, each of which is an
2658 aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
2659
2660 off
2661 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This
2662 improves system performance, but it may also
2663 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
2664 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
2665 kpti=0 [ARM64]
2666 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
2667 nobp=0 [S390]
2668 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
2669 spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
2670 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
2671 ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
2672 l1tf=off [X86]
2673 mds=off [X86]
2674 tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
2675 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +02002676 no_entry_flush [PPC]
2677 no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00002678
2679 Exceptions:
2680 This does not have any effect on
2681 kvm.nx_huge_pages when
2682 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
2683
2684 auto (default)
2685 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
2686 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for
2687 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
2688 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
2689 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
2690 Equivalent to: (default behavior)
2691
2692 auto,nosmt
2693 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
2694 if needed. This is for users who always want to
2695 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
2696 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
2697 mds=full,nosmt [X86]
2698 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
2699
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002700 mminit_loglevel=
2701 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2702 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2703 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2704 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2705 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2706 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2707
2708 module.sig_enforce
2709 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2710 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2711 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
2712 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2713
2714 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2715 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2716
2717 mousedev.tap_time=
2718 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2719 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2720 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2721 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2722 Format: <msecs>
2723 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2724 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2725 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2726 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2727
2728 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2729 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2730 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
2731 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
2732 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is
2733 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
2734 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its
2735 own is specified, the administrator must be careful
2736 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2737 is not too small.
2738
2739 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2740 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2741 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2742 allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2743 allocations. Use with caution!
2744
2745 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2746 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2747
2748 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2749 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
2750
2751 mtdparts= [MTD]
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +02002752 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002753
2754 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2755 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2756 at a time.
2757
2758 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2759
2760 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2761
2762 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2763 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2764 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2765 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2766 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2767
2768 mtdset= [ARM]
2769 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2770
2771 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2772
2773 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
2774 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2775 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
2776
2777 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2778 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
2779 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2780
2781 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2782 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2783 Default is 1.
2784 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2785 using up MTRRs.
2786
2787 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2788 Format: <integer>
2789 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2790 Default : 1
2791 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2792 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2793
2794 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2795
2796 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2797 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2798 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2799 something different and driver-specific.
2800 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2801 file if at all.
2802
2803 nf_conntrack.acct=
2804 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2805 0 to disable accounting
2806 1 to enable accounting
2807 Default value is 0.
2808
2809 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
2810 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2811
2812 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
2813 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2814
2815 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2816 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2817
2818 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2819 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2820 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2821 requests.
2822
2823 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2824 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2825 channel should listen.
2826
2827 nfs.cache_getent=
2828 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2829 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2830
2831 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2832 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2833 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2834
2835 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2836 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2837 entries.
2838
2839 nfs.enable_ino64=
2840 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2841 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2842 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2843 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2844 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2845
2846 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2847 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2848 slots the client will assign to the callback
2849 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2850 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2851 a particular server.
2852
2853 nfs.max_session_slots=
2854 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2855 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2856 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2857 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2858 Note that there is little point in setting this
2859 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2860
2861 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2862 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2863 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2864 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2865 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2866 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2867 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2868 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2869 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2870 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2871 back to using the idmapper.
2872 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
2873 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2874 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2875 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2876 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2877 UUID that is generated at system install time.
2878
2879 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2880 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2881 information in exchange_id requests.
2882 If zero, no implementation identification information
2883 will be sent.
2884 The default is to send the implementation identification
2885 information.
2886
2887 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2888 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2889 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2890 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2891 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2892 after the locks are lost.
2893 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2894 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2895 parameter to '1'.
2896 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2897 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
2898
2899 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2900 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2901 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2902
2903 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2904 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2905 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2906 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2907
2908 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2909 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2910 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2911 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2912 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2913 migration from NFSv2/v3.
2914
2915 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
2916 when a NMI is triggered.
2917 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2918
2919 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
2920 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
2921 Valid num: 0 or 1
2922 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2923 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
2924 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00002925 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
2926 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
2927 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002928 please see 'nowatchdog'.
2929 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2930 need the box quickly up again.
2931
2932 These settings can be accessed at runtime via
2933 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
2934
2935 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2936 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2937 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2938 waits 4 seconds.
2939
2940 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
2941 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2942 is present.
2943
2944 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
2945 kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
2946
2947 no_console_suspend
2948 [HW] Never suspend the console
2949 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2950 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2951 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2952 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2953 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2954 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2955 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
2956 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2957 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2958 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2959 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2960 turn on/off it dynamically.
2961
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00002962 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP]
2963 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
2964 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
2965 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data
2966 without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
2967 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling
2968 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
2969 data will be no longer available. This parameter
2970 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
2971 is set.
2972
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002973 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2974 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2975 but will impact performance.
2976
2977 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2978
2979 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2980 (CPU alternatives feature).
2981
2982 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2983 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2984
2985 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2986
2987 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2988 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2989
2990 nocache [ARM]
2991
2992 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2993
2994 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2995
2996 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2997
2998 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
2999
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +02003000 no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
3001
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003002 noexec [IA-64]
3003
3004 noexec [X86]
3005 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
3006 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3007 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
3008
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003009 nosmap [X86,PPC]
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003010 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3011 even if it is supported by processor.
3012
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003013 nosmep [X86,PPC]
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003014 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
3015 even if it is supported by processor.
3016
3017 noexec32 [X86-64]
3018 This affects only 32-bit executables.
3019 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3020 read doesn't imply executable mappings
3021 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3022 read implies executable mappings
3023
3024 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3025
3026 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3027 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3028 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3029
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003030 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86,PPC] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003031
3032 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3033 Equivalent to smt=1.
3034
3035 [KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3036 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3037 via the sysfs control file.
3038
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003039 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3040 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3041 possible in the system.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003042
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003043 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3044 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3045 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3046 option.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003047
3048 nospec_store_bypass_disable
3049 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3050
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +02003051 no_uaccess_flush
3052 [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
3053
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003054 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
3055 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
3056 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
3057
3058 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3059 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3060 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3061 performance of saving the states is degraded because
3062 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3063 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3064
3065 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3066 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3067 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3068 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3069 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3070 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3071 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3072
3073 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
3074 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
3075 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
3076
3077 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
3078 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3079 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3080
3081 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3082 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3083 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3084 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3085 in certain environments such as networked servers or
3086 real-time systems.
3087
3088 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3089
3090 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3091 Valid arguments: on, off
3092 Default: on
3093
3094 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3095 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3096 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3097 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3098 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3099 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
3100 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3101 just as if they had also been called out in the
3102 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3103
3104 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3105
3106 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3107 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3108
3109 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3110 broken timer IRQ sources.
3111
3112 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3113
3114 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3115 initial RAM disk.
3116
3117 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3118 remapping.
3119 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3120
3121 nointroute [IA-64]
3122
3123 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3124
3125 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3126
3127 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3128
3129 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3130 fault handling.
3131
3132 no-vmw-sched-clock
3133 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3134 clock and use the default one.
3135
3136 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
3137 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
3138 behaviour
3139
3140 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3141
3142 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3143
3144 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
3145 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
3146
3147 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3148
3149 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3150
3151 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3152 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3153
3154 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3155 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3156 irq.
3157
3158 nomodule Disable module load
3159
3160 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3161 pagetables) support.
3162
3163 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3164
3165 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
3166 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3167
3168 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3169 with UP alternatives
3170
3171 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3172 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3173 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3174 available to user space applications.
3175
3176 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3177 space.
3178
3179 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
3180 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3181 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3182
3183 nosbagart [IA-64]
3184
3185 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
3186
3187 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3188 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3189
3190 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3191
3192 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3193
3194 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3195 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3196
3197 nowb [ARM]
3198
3199 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3200
3201 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3202 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3203 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3204 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3205 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3206 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3207 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3208 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3209 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3210 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3211 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3212 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3213 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3214
3215 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
3216 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3217 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3218 without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3219 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3220 parameter's value.
3221 Format: integer between 1 and 255
3222 Default: 255
3223
3224 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
3225 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3226 SAL PALO.
3227
3228 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
3229 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
3230 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3231 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3232 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3233 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3234 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3235 hot plugging.
3236
3237 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3238
3239 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
3240 Allowed values are enable and disable
3241
3242 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3243 'node', 'default' can be specified
3244 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003245 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003246
3247 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3248 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
3249 info.
3250
3251 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3252 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3253 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3254 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
3255 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3256 interrupts *may* be lost!
3257
3258 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3259 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3260 For example, to override I2C bus2:
3261 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3262
3263 oprofile.timer= [HW]
3264 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
3265
3266 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
3267 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
3268 userland or if you want common events.
3269 Format: { arch_perfmon }
3270 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
3271 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
3272 CPU specific event set.
3273 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
3274 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
3275 for generic hr timer mode)
3276
3277 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3278 process, but there is a small probability of
3279 deadlocking the machine.
3280 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3281 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3282
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003283 page_alloc.shuffle=
3284 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3285 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3286 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3287 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3288 cache, and this parameter can be used to
3289 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3290 can be read from sysfs at:
3291 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3292
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003293 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3294 Storage of the information about who allocated
3295 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3296 we can turn it on.
3297 on: enable the feature
3298
3299 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3300 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3301 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3302 off: turn off poisoning (default)
3303 on: turn on poisoning
3304
3305 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3306 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3307 timeout = 0: wait forever
3308 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3309 Format: <timeout>
3310
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003311 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3312 User can chose combination of the following bits:
3313 bit 0: print all tasks info
3314 bit 1: print system memory info
3315 bit 2: print timer info
3316 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3317 bit 4: print ftrace buffer
3318 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
3319
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003320 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
3321 on a WARN().
3322
3323 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3324 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3325 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3326 succeeds in any situation.
3327 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3328 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3329 kernel more unstable.
3330
3331 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3332 connected to, default is 0.
3333 Format: <parport#>
3334 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3335 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
3336 Format: <mode>
3337
3338 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3339 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3340 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3341 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3342 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3343 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3344 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3345 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3346 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3347 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3348 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3349 are specified on the command line, starting
3350 with parport0.
3351
3352 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
3353 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3354 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3355 computer where firmware has no options for setting
3356 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3357 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
3358 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3359
3360 pause_on_oops=
3361 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3362 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
3363 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3364
3365 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
3366
3367 pcd. [PARIDE]
3368 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003369 See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003370
3371 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3372
3373 Some options herein operate on a specific device
3374 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3375 specified in one of the following formats:
3376
3377 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
3378 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3379
3380 Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3381 bus/device/function address which may change
3382 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3383 firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3384 by other kernel parameters. If the
3385 domain is left unspecified, it is
3386 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3387 to a device through multiple device/function
3388 addresses can be specified after the base
3389 address (this is more robust against
3390 renumbering issues). The second format
3391 selects devices using IDs from the
3392 configuration space which may match multiple
3393 devices in the system.
3394
3395 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel
3396 changes anything
3397 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
3398 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
3399 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3400 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
3401 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
3402 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3403 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3404 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
3405 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3406 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3407 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3408 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3409 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3410 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3411 bus number. The config space is then accessed
3412 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3413 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3414 on the configuration access mechanisms.
3415 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3416 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3417 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
3418 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3419 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
3420 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
3421 Configuration
3422 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3423 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3424 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
3425 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3426 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3427 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
3428 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3429 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3430 should never be necessary.
3431 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3432 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3433 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3434 when the system masks IRQs.
3435 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3436 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3437 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3438 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
3439 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
3440 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3441 on several machines and they hang the machine
3442 when used, but on other computers it's the only
3443 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3444 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3445 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3446 motherboard.
3447 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
3448 Use with caution as certain devices share
3449 address decoders between ROMs and other
3450 resources.
3451 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
3452 expansion ROMs that do not already have
3453 BIOS assigned address ranges.
3454 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
3455 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
3456 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
3457 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3458 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3459 this way.
3460 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
3461 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3462 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3463 F0000h-100000h range.
3464 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
3465 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3466 secondary buses and you want to tell it
3467 explicitly which ones they are.
3468 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
3469 numbers ourselves, overriding
3470 whatever the firmware may have done.
3471 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
3472 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3473 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3474 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3475 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3476 IRQ routing is enabled.
3477 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
3478 or for PCI scanning.
3479 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3480 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3481 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
3482 please report a bug.
3483 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3484 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
3485 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3486 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3487 so this option is a temporary workaround
3488 for broken drivers that don't call it.
3489 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3490 handle more pci cards
3491 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3492 This might help on some broken boards which
3493 machine check when some devices' config space
3494 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3495 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
3496 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3497 This sorting is done to get a device
3498 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3499 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3500 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3501 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3502 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3503 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3504 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3505 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3506 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3507 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3508 or bus can support) for best performance.
3509 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3510 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3511 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3512 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3513 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3514 that hot-added devices will work.
3515 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3516 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3517 The default value is 256 bytes.
3518 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3519 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3520 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3521 resource_alignment=
3522 Format:
3523 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
3524 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3525 aligned memory resources. How to
3526 specify the device is described above.
3527 If <order of align> is not specified,
3528 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003529 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003530 windows need to be expanded.
3531 To specify the alignment for several
3532 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3533 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003534 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
3535 for 4096-byte alignment.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003536 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3537 end-to-end CRC checking).
3538 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3539 the default.
3540 off: Turn ECRC off
3541 on: Turn ECRC on.
3542 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3543 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3544 Default size is 256 bytes.
3545 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3546 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3547 Default size is 2 megabytes.
3548 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3549 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3550 Default is 1.
3551 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3552 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3553 accommodate resources required by all child
3554 devices.
3555 off: Turn realloc off
3556 on: Turn realloc on
3557 realloc same as realloc=on
3558 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
3559 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3560 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
3561 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3562 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3563 port.
3564 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3565 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3566 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3567 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3568 conflict with unreported devices), so this
3569 taints the kernel.
3570 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
3571 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
3572 specified above) separated by semicolons.
3573 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
3574 redirect capabilities forced off which will
3575 allow P2P traffic between devices through
3576 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
3577 this removes isolation between devices and
3578 may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003579 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
3580 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003581
3582 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3583 Management.
3584 off Disable ASPM.
3585 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3586 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3587
3588 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3589 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3590 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3591 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform
3592 also tries to use these services.
3593 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3594 hotplug).
3595
3596 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3597 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3598 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3599
3600 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
3601 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
3602 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
3603
3604 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3605
3606 pd_ignore_unused
3607 [PM]
3608 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3609 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3610 for debug and development, but should not be
3611 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3612
3613 pd. [PARIDE]
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003614 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003615
3616 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3617 boot time.
3618 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3619 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3620
3621 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
3622 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3623 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3624 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3625 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3626 and performance comparison.
3627
3628 pf. [PARIDE]
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003629 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003630
3631 pg. [PARIDE]
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003632 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003633
3634 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003635 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003636
3637 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3638 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3639 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
3640
3641 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
3642 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3643 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3644
3645 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3646 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3647 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3648 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3649 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3650 possible settings and some assignment information.
3651
3652 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3653 { off }
3654
3655 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3656 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3657
3658 pnp_reserve_irq=
3659 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3660
3661 pnp_reserve_dma=
3662 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3663
3664 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
3665 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
3666
3667 pnp_reserve_mem=
3668 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3669 autoconfiguration.
3670 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3671
3672 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3673 Default is 21.
3674 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3675 may be specified.
3676 Format: <port>,<port>....
3677
3678 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3679 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3680 platform machine description specific power_save
3681 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3682 execution priority.
3683
3684 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3685 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3686 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3687 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3688 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3689
3690 ppc_tm= [PPC]
3691 Format: {"off"}
3692 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3693
3694 print-fatal-signals=
3695 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
3696
3697 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3698 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3699 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3700 coredump - etc.
3701
3702 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3703 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3704
3705 default: off.
3706
3707 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3708 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3709 panics
3710 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3711 default: disabled
3712
3713 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3714 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3715 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3716 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3717 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3718 Default: ratelimit
3719
3720 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3721 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3722
3723 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3724 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3725 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3726
3727 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3728 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3729 instead using the legacy FADT method
3730
3731 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
3732 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3733 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3734 [defaults to kernel profiling]
3735 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3736 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3737 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
3738 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
3739 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3740 statistical time based profiling.
3741
3742 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3743 before loading.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003744 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
3745
3746 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
3747 tracking.
3748 Format: <bool>
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003749
3750 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3751 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
3752 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3753 per second.
3754 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3755 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
3756 (0 = never).
3757 psmouse.resolution=
3758 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3759 psmouse.smartscroll=
3760 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
3761 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3762
3763 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3764
3765 pt. [PARIDE]
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003766 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003767
3768 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3769 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
3770 removes hardening, but improves performance of
3771 system calls and interrupts.
3772
3773 on - unconditionally enable
3774 off - unconditionally disable
3775 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3776 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3777
3778 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3779
3780 nopti [X86_64]
3781 Equivalent to pti=off
3782
3783 pty.legacy_count=
3784 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3785 default number.
3786
3787 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
3788
3789 r128= [HW,DRM]
3790
3791 raid= [HW,RAID]
3792 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3793
3794 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003795 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003796
3797 random.trust_cpu={on,off}
3798 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
3799 CPU's random number generator (if available) to
3800 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
3801 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
3802
3803 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
3804
3805 cec_disable [X86]
3806 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3807 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3808
3809 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003810 The argument is a cpu list, as described above,
3811 except that the string "all" can be used to
3812 specify every CPU on the system.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003813
3814 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3815 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003816 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be
3817 offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that
3818 purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and
3819 "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number.
3820 This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs,
3821 which can be useful for HPC and real-time
3822 workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency
3823 for asymmetric multiprocessors.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003824
3825 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
3826 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3827 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3828 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3829 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3830 This improves the real-time response for the
3831 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3832 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3833 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3834 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3835
3836 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
3837 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3838 process in one batch.
3839
3840 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3841 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3842 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3843 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3844
3845 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3846 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3847 RCU grace-period cleanup.
3848
3849 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3850 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3851 RCU grace-period initialization.
3852
3853 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3854 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3855 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3856 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3857 the rcu_node combining tree.
3858
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003859 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL]
3860 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
3861 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero
3862 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
3863 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
3864
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003865 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3866 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3867 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3868 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3869 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
3870
3871 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
3872 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3873 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3874 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3875 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3876 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3877 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
3878
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003879 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
3880 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3881 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3882 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3883 and maximum value is HZ.
3884
3885 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
3886 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3887 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3888 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3889
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003890 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3891 Set required age in jiffies for a
3892 given grace period before RCU starts
3893 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3894 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
3895 If not specified, the kernel will calculate
3896 a value based on the most recent settings
3897 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
3898 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
3899 This calculated value may be viewed in
3900 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set
3901 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
3902 overwritten.
3903
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003904 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
3905 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3906 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3907 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3908 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3909 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3910 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3911 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3912 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3913 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
3914
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003915 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
3916 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
3917 each group, which defaults to the square root
3918 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce
3919 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
3920 kthread, but increases that same overhead on
3921 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003922
3923 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
3924 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3925 batch limiting is disabled.
3926
3927 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
3928 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3929 batch limiting is re-enabled.
3930
3931 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
3932 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3933 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3934
3935 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
3936 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3937 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3938 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3939 prove do nothing more than free memory.
3940
3941 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3942 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3943 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3944 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3945 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3946 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3947
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003948 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
3949 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
3950 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
3951 why a new grace period has not yet started.
3952
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003953 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3954 Measure performance of asynchronous
3955 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3956
3957 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3958 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3959 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
3960 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3961 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3962 previously posted callbacks to drain.
3963
3964 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3965 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3966 grace-period primitives.
3967
3968 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3969 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3970 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3971 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3972 interference.
3973
3974 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3975 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3976 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3977 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3978 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3979 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3980 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3981 a single reader.
3982
3983 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3984 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3985 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3986 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3987
3988 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3989 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3990
3991 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3992 Shut the system down after performance tests
3993 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3994 testing.
3995
3996 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3997 Enable additional printk() statements.
3998
3999 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
4000 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
4001 in microseconds. The default of zero says
4002 no holdoff.
4003
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004004 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
4005 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
4006 in microseconds.
4007
4008 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
4009 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
4010 in microseconds.
4011
4012 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
4013 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
4014 in seconds.
4015
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00004016 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
4017 Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
4018 for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
4019
4020 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
4021 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
4022 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
4023
4024 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
4025 Number of seconds to wait between successive
4026 forward-progress tests.
4027
4028 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
4029 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
4030 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
4031 testing.
4032
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004033 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
4034 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
4035 primitives, if available.
4036
4037 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
4038 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4039
4040 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
4041 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
4042 update-side primitives, if available.
4043
4044 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
4045 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
4046 update-side primitives, if available. If all
4047 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
4048 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
4049 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
4050 they are all non-zero.
4051
4052 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
4053 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
4054
4055 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
4056 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
4057 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
4058 test, hence the "fake".
4059
4060 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
4061 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
4062 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
4063 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
4064 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
4065 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4066
4067 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
4068 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
4069
4070 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
4071 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
4072
4073 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
4074 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
4075 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
4076
4077 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
4078 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
4079 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
4080 during the rcutorture test.
4081
4082 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
4083 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
4084 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
4085
4086 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
4087 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
4088 warnings, zero to disable.
4089
4090 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
4091 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
4092
4093 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
4094 Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
4095
4096 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
4097 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
4098
4099 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
4100 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
4101 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
4102 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
4103 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
4104
4105 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
4106 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
4107 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
4108 under test support RCU priority boosting.
4109
4110 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
4111 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
4112
4113 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
4114 Interval (s) between each boost test.
4115
4116 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
4117 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
4118 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
4119
4120 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
4121 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4122
4123 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
4124 Enable additional printk() statements.
4125
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00004126 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
4127 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
4128 stall warning.
4129
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004130 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
4131 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4132
4133 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4134 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4135
4136 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
4137 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
4138 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
4139 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
4140 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
4141 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
4142 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4143
4144 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
4145 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
4146 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
4147 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
4148 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
4149 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
4150 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
4151 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
4152 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4153
4154 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
4155 Once boot has completed (that is, after
4156 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
4157 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
4158 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4159
4160 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4161 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
4162 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
4163 to zero.
4164
4165 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
4166 Run the RCU early boot self tests
4167
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004168 rdinit= [KNL]
4169 Format: <full_path>
4170 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
4171 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
4172
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00004173 rdrand= [X86]
4174 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
4175 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
4176 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
4177 support, specifically around the suspend/resume
4178 path).
4179
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004180 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
4181 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
4182 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
4183 mba.
4184 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
4185 rdt=cmt,!mba
4186
4187 reboot= [KNL]
4188 Format (x86 or x86_64):
4189 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
4190 [[,]s[mp]#### \
4191 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
4192 [[,]f[orce]
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00004193 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
4194 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
4195 reboot only),
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004196 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
4197 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
4198 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
4199 to be used for rebooting.
4200
4201 relax_domain_level=
4202 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00004203 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004204
4205 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
4206 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
4207 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
4208 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
4209 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
4210
4211 reservetop= [X86-32]
4212 Format: nn[KMG]
4213 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
4214 address space.
4215
4216 reservelow= [X86]
4217 Format: nn[K]
4218 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
4219 the bottom of the address space.
4220
4221 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
4222 during initialization.
4223
4224 resume= [SWSUSP]
4225 Specify the partition device for software suspend
4226 Format:
4227 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
4228
4229 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
4230 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
4231 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
4232 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00004233 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004234
4235 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4236 read the resume files
4237
4238 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
4239 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4240 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4241
4242 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
4243 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
4244 present during boot.
4245 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
4246 no Disable hibernation and resume.
4247 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
4248 (that will set all pages holding image data
4249 during restoration read-only).
4250
4251 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
4252
4253 rfkill.default_state=
4254 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
4255 etc. communication is blocked by default.
4256 1 Unblocked.
4257
4258 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
4259 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
4260 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4261 blocked and the previous configuration.
4262 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4263 blocked and everything unblocked.
4264
4265 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4266 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
4267
4268 ring3mwait=disable
4269 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
4270 CPUs.
4271
4272 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
4273
4274 rodata= [KNL]
4275 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
4276 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
4277
4278 rockchip.usb_uart
4279 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
4280 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
4281 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
4282 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
4283
4284 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
4285 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
4286
4287 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4288 mount the root filesystem
4289
4290 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
4291
4292 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
4293
4294 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
4295 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4296 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4297
4298 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
4299 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
4300 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
4301 managed by CMA.
4302
4303 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
4304
4305 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
4306
4307 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
4308 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
4309 strict
4310 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
4311 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
4312 which is faster.
4313
4314 sa1100ir [NET]
4315 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
4316
4317 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
4318
4319 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
4320
4321 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
4322 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
4323 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
4324 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
4325
4326 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
4327 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
4328 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
4329 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4330 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
4331 1 -- enable.
4332 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
4333 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
4334
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00004335 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
4336 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
4337 "lsm=" parameter.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004338
4339 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
4340 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4341 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
4342 0 -- disable.
4343 1 -- enable.
4344 Default value is set via kernel config option.
4345 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
4346 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
4347
4348 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
4349 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4350 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
4351 0 -- disable.
4352 1 -- enable.
4353 Default value is set via kernel config option.
4354
4355 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
4356
4357 shapers= [NET]
4358 Maximal number of shapers.
4359
4360 simeth= [IA-64]
4361 simscsi=
4362
4363 slram= [HW,MTD]
4364
4365 slab_nomerge [MM]
4366 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
4367 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
4368 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
4369 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
4370 layout control by attackers can usually be
4371 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
4372 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
4373 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
4374 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
4375 own.
4376 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4377
4378 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
4379 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4380 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4381 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
4382 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
4383
4384 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
4385 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
4386 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
4387 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
4388 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
4389 last alloc / free. For more information see
4390 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4391
4392 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
4393 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
4394 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
4395 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
4396 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
4397 directories and files being created under
4398 /sys/kernel/slub.
4399
4400 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
4401 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4402 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4403 fragmentation. For more information see
4404 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4405
4406 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
4407 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
4408 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
4409 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
4410 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
4411 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
4412 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
4413 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4414
4415 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
4416 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
4417 lower than slub_max_order.
4418 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4419
4420 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
4421 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
4422 See slab_nomerge for more information.
4423
4424 smart2= [HW]
4425 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
4426
4427 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
4428 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
4429 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
4430 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
4431 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
4432 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
4433 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
4434 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
4435 1: Fast pin select (default)
4436 2: ATC IRMode
4437
4438 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4439 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4440 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4441 actual hardware limit.
4442 Format: <integer>
4443 Default: -1 (no limit)
4444
4445 softlockup_panic=
4446 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
4447 Format: <integer>
4448
4449 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
4450 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
4451 is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
4452 which is the respective build-time switch to that
4453 functionality.
4454
4455 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4456 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4457 backtraces on all cpus.
4458 Format: <integer>
4459
4460 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00004461 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004462
4463 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4464 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
4465 The default operation protects the kernel from
4466 user space attacks.
4467
4468 on - unconditionally enable, implies
4469 spectre_v2_user=on
4470 off - unconditionally disable, implies
4471 spectre_v2_user=off
4472 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4473 vulnerable
4474
4475 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4476 mitigation method at run time according to the
4477 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4478 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4479 compiler with which the kernel was built.
4480
4481 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
4482 against user space to user space task attacks.
4483
4484 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
4485 the user space protections.
4486
4487 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4488
4489 retpoline - replace indirect branches
4490 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4491 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4492
4493 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4494 spectre_v2=auto.
4495
4496 spectre_v2_user=
4497 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4498 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
4499 user space tasks
4500
4501 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
4502 enforced by spectre_v2=on
4503
4504 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
4505 enforced by spectre_v2=off
4506
4507 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
4508 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
4509 per thread. The mitigation control state
4510 is inherited on fork.
4511
4512 prctl,ibpb
4513 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
4514 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4515 always when switching between different user
4516 space processes.
4517
4518 seccomp
4519 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
4520 threads will enable the mitigation unless
4521 they explicitly opt out.
4522
4523 seccomp,ibpb
4524 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
4525 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4526 always when switching between different
4527 user space processes.
4528
4529 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
4530 the available CPU features and vulnerability.
4531
4532 Default mitigation:
4533 If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4534
4535 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4536 spectre_v2_user=auto.
4537
4538 spec_store_bypass_disable=
4539 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
4540 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
4541
4542 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
4543 a common industry wide performance optimization known
4544 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
4545 to the same memory location may not be observed by
4546 later loads during speculative execution. The idea
4547 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
4548 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
4549 end of a particular speculation execution window.
4550
4551 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4552 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
4553 example to read memory to which the attacker does not
4554 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
4555
4556 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
4557 Bypass optimization is used.
4558
4559 On x86 the options are:
4560
4561 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
4562 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
4563 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
4564 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
4565 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
4566 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
4567 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
4568 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
4569 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
4570 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
4571 for a process by default. The state of the control
4572 is inherited on fork.
4573 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
4574 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
4575
4576 Default mitigations:
4577 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4578
4579 On powerpc the options are:
4580
4581 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
4582 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
4583 perform a software flush on kernel entry and
4584 exit.
4585 off - No action.
4586
4587 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4588 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
4589
4590 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
4591 spia_fio_base=
4592 spia_pedr=
4593 spia_peddr=
4594
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +02004595 srbds= [X86,INTEL]
4596 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
4597 (SRBDS) mitigation.
4598
4599 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
4600 exploit which can leak bits from the random
4601 number generator.
4602
4603 By default, this issue is mitigated by
4604 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause
4605 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
4606 much slower. Among other effects, this will
4607 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
4608
4609 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
4610 the following option:
4611
4612 off: Disable mitigation and remove
4613 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
4614
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004615 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4616 Specifies how frequently to check for
4617 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4618 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4619 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4620 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4621 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
4622 are ignored.
4623
4624 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4625 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4626 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4627 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4628 grace period will be considered for automatic
4629 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
4630 expediting.
4631
4632 ssbd= [ARM64,HW]
4633 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
4634
4635 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
4636 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
4637 firmware based mitigation, this parameter
4638 indicates how the mitigation should be used:
4639
4640 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for
4641 for both kernel and userspace
4642 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
4643 for both kernel and userspace
4644 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the
4645 kernel, and offer a prctl interface
4646 to allow userspace to register its
4647 interest in being mitigated too.
4648
4649 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
4650 override the default stack gap protection. The value
4651 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4652 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4653 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4654 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4655
4656 stacktrace [FTRACE]
4657 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4658
4659 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4660 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4661 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4662 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4663 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4664 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4665 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4666
4667 sti= [PARISC,HW]
4668 Format: <num>
4669 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4670 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4671 as the initial boot-console.
4672 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4673
4674 sti_font= [HW]
4675 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4676
4677 stifb= [HW]
4678 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4679
4680 sunrpc.min_resvport=
4681 sunrpc.max_resvport=
4682 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4683 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4684 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4685 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4686 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4687 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4688 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4689 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4690 maximum port values.
4691
4692 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4693 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4694 Limit the number of requests that the server will
4695 process in parallel from a single connection.
4696 The default value is 0 (no limit).
4697
4698 sunrpc.pool_mode=
4699 [NFS]
4700 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4701 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
4702 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4703 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4704 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4705 NFS server is running.
4706
4707 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
4708 automatically using heuristics
4709 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
4710 percpu one pool for each CPU
4711 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4712 to global on non-NUMA machines)
4713
4714 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4715 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4716 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4717 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4718 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4719 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4720 improve throughput, but will also increase the
4721 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4722
4723 suspend.pm_test_delay=
4724 [SUSPEND]
4725 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4726 mode before resuming the system (see
4727 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4728 is set. Default value is 5.
4729
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00004730 svm= [PPC]
4731 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
4732 This parameter controls use of the Protected
4733 Execution Facility on pSeries.
4734
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004735 swapaccount=[0|1]
4736 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4737 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00004738 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004739
4740 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
4741 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
4742 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4743 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4744 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
4745 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
4746
4747 switches= [HW,M68k]
4748
4749 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4750 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4751 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4752 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4753 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4754 in older udev will not work anymore.
4755 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4756 the kernel configuration.
4757
4758 sysrq_always_enabled
4759 [KNL]
4760 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4761 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4762 Useful for debugging.
4763
4764 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4765 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4766 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4767 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4768 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4769 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4770
4771 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
4772
4773 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
4774 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
4775 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4776 as the system sleep state during system startup with
4777 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4778 The system is woken from this state using a
4779 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
4780
4781 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4782 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4783
4784 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
4785 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4786 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4787
4788 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
4789 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
4790 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
4791
4792 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
4793 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4794 critical and hot trip points.
4795
4796 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
4797 1: disable ACPI thermal control
4798
4799 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
4800 -1: disable all passive trip points
4801 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4802 value
4803
4804 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
4805 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4806 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4807 0: no polling (default)
4808
4809 threadirqs [KNL]
4810 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
4811 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
4812
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004813 topology= [S390]
4814 Format: {off | on}
4815 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
4816 topology information if the hardware supports this.
4817 The scheduler will make use of this information and
4818 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
4819 Default is on.
4820
4821 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4822 Format: {off}
4823 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4824 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4825 LPAR.
4826
4827 tp720= [HW,PS2]
4828
4829 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4830 Format: integer pcr id
4831 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4832 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4833 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4834 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4835 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4836 are saved.
4837
4838 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
4839 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
4840
4841 trace_event=[event-list]
4842 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
4843 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4844 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4845 also Documentation/trace/events.rst
4846
4847 trace_options=[option-list]
4848 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4849 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4850 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4851 to echo the option name into
4852
4853 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4854
4855 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4856 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4857
4858 trace_options=stacktrace
4859
4860 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
4861 section.
4862
4863 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4864 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4865 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4866 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4867 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4868 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4869
4870 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4871 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4872 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4873 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4874
4875 ** CAUTION **
4876
4877 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4878 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4879 the system to live lock.
4880
4881 traceoff_on_warning
4882 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4883 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4884 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4885 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4886
4887 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4888 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4889 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4890
4891 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4892 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4893
4894 transparent_hugepage=
4895 [KNL]
4896 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4897 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4898 with respect to transparent hugepages.
4899 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
4900 for more details.
4901
4902 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
4903 Format: <string>
4904 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
4905 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4906 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4907 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4908 virtualized environment.
4909 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4910 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4911 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4912 can add overhead.
4913 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4914 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4915 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00004916 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
4917 in situations with strict latency requirements (where
4918 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
4919 acceptable).
4920
4921 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
4922 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
4923 support TSX control.
4924
4925 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
4926
4927 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
4928 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
4929 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
4930 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
4931 so there may be unknown security risks associated
4932 with leaving it enabled.
4933
4934 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
4935 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
4936 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
4937 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
4938 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
4939 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
4940 deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
4941
4942 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
4943 otherwise enable TSX on the system.
4944
4945 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
4946
4947 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
4948 for more details.
4949
4950 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
4951 Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
4952
4953 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
4954 certain CPUs that support Transactional
4955 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
4956 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
4957 information to a disclosure gadget under certain
4958 conditions.
4959
4960 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4961 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
4962 access data to which the attacker does not have direct
4963 access.
4964
4965 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The
4966 options are:
4967
4968 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
4969 if TSX is enabled.
4970
4971 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
4972 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
4973 is not disabled because CPU is not
4974 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
4975 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
4976
4977 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
4978 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
4979 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
4980 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
4981
4982 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4983 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected
4984 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
4985 required and doesn't provide any additional
4986 mitigation.
4987
4988 For details see:
4989 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004990
4991 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4992 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4993 Format:
4994 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
4995 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
4996
4997 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
4998 happen after console_init() and before a proper
4999 console driver takes over, this boot options might
5000 help "seeing" what's going on.
5001
5002 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
5003 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
5004
5005 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
5006 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
5007 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
5008 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
5009 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
5010 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
5011 reported either.
5012
5013 unknown_nmi_panic
5014 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
5015
5016 usbcore.authorized_default=
5017 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
5018 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00005019 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
5020 if device connected to internal port)
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005021
5022 usbcore.autosuspend=
5023 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
5024 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
5025 is the time required before an idle device will be
5026 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
5027 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
5028
5029 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
5030 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
5031
5032 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
5033 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
5034 (default = 65536).
5035
5036 usbcore.blinkenlights=
5037 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
5038
5039 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
5040 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +02005041 scheme (default 0 = off).
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005042
5043 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
5044 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
5045 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
5046
5047 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
5048 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
5049 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
5050
5051 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
5052 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
5053 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
5054 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
5055
5056 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
5057
5058 usbcore.quirks=
5059 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
5060 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
5061 commas. Each entry has the form
5062 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
5063 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
5064 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
5065 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
5066 the following meanings:
5067 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
5068 descriptors must not be fetched using
5069 a 255-byte read);
5070 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
5071 correctly so reset it instead);
5072 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
5073 Set-Interface requests);
5074 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
5075 handle its Configuration or Interface
5076 strings);
5077 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
5078 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
5079 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
5080 more interface descriptions than the
5081 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
5082 talking to these interfaces);
5083 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
5084 during initialization, after we read
5085 the device descriptor);
5086 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
5087 high speed and super speed interrupt
5088 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
5089 require the interval in microframes (1
5090 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
5091 calculated as interval = 2 ^
5092 (bInterval-1).
5093 Devices with this quirk report their
5094 bInterval as the result of this
5095 calculation instead of the exponent
5096 variable used in the calculation);
5097 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
5098 handle device_qualifier descriptor
5099 requests);
5100 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
5101 generates spurious wakeup, ignore
5102 remote wakeup capability);
5103 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
5104 Power Management);
5105 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
5106 (Device reports its bInterval as linear
5107 frames instead of the USB 2.0
5108 calculation);
5109 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
5110 to be disconnected before suspend to
5111 prevent spurious wakeup);
5112 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
5113 pause after every control message);
5114 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
5115 delay after resetting its port);
5116 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
5117
5118 usbhid.mousepoll=
5119 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
5120
5121 usbhid.jspoll=
5122 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
5123
5124 usbhid.kbpoll=
5125 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
5126
5127 usb-storage.delay_use=
5128 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
5129 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
5130
5131 usb-storage.quirks=
5132 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
5133 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
5134 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
5135 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
5136 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
5137 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
5138 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
5139 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +02005140 of sense data, not on uas);
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005141 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +02005142 bytes of sense data, not on uas);
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005143 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
5144 device capacity by one sector);
5145 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +02005146 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005147 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
5148 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
5149 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
5150 command, uas only);
5151 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
5152 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
5153 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
5154 reported device capacity by one
5155 sector if the number is odd);
5156 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
5157 device);
5158 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
5159 command, uas only);
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +02005160 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005161 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +02005162 unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005163 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +02005164 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
5165 not on uas);
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005166 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +02005167 initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005168 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +02005169 reported by the device, not on uas);
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005170 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +02005171 by default, not on uas);
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005172 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +02005173 bogus residue values, not on uas);
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005174 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
5175 Logical Unit);
5176 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
5177 commands, uas only);
5178 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
5179 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
5180 medium is write-protected).
5181 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +02005182 even if the device claims no cache,
5183 not on uas)
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005184 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
5185
5186 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
5187 Format: <int>
5188 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
5189 1 - undefined instruction events
5190 2 - system calls
5191 4 - invalid data aborts
5192 8 - SIGSEGV faults
5193 16 - SIGBUS faults
5194 Example: user_debug=31
5195
5196 userpte=
5197 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
5198
5199 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
5200 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
5201 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
5202
5203 vdso= [X86,SH]
5204 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
5205
5206 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
5207 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
5208
5209 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
5210 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
5211 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
5212
5213 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
5214 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
5215 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
5216
5217 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
5218 alias for vdso32=0.
5219
5220 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
5221 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
5222
5223 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
5224 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
5225
5226 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00005227 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005228
5229 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
5230 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
5231 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
5232 level and then send out the event to user space through
5233 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
5234 will only send out the event without touching backlight
5235 brightness level.
5236 default: 1
5237
5238 virtio_mmio.device=
5239 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
5240
5241 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
5242 where:
5243 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
5244 like K, M and G)
5245 <baseaddr> := physical base address
5246 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
5247 request_irq())
5248 <id> := (optional) platform device id
5249 example:
5250 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
5251
5252 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
5253
5254 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00005255 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
5256 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005257 Use vga=ask for menu.
5258 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
5259 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
5260
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00005261 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
5262 May slow down system boot speed, especially when
5263 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
5264 All options are enabled by default, and this
5265 interface is meant to allow for selectively
5266 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
5267 debugging features.
5268
5269 Available options are:
5270 P Enable page structure init time poisoning
5271 - Disable all of the above options
5272
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005273 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
5274 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
5275 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
5276 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
5277 mapped kernel RAM.
5278
5279 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390]
5280 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
5281 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
5282
5283 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
5284 Format: <command>
5285
5286 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
5287 Format: <command>
5288
5289 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
5290 Format: <command>
5291
5292 vsyscall= [X86-64]
5293 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
5294 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
5295 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
5296 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
5297 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
5298 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
5299
5300 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00005301 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall
5302 page is readable.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005303
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00005304 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5305 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall
5306 page is not readable.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005307
5308 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
5309 them quite hard to use for exploits but
5310 might break your system.
5311
5312 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
5313 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
5314 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
5315
5316 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
5317 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
5318 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
5319 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
5320
5321 vt.default_blu= [VT]
5322 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
5323 Change the default blue palette of the console.
5324 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5325 ranging from 0-255.
5326
5327 vt.default_grn= [VT]
5328 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
5329 Change the default green palette of the console.
5330 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5331 ranging from 0-255.
5332
5333 vt.default_red= [VT]
5334 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
5335 Change the default red palette of the console.
5336 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5337 ranging from 0-255.
5338
5339 vt.default_utf8=
5340 [VT]
5341 Format=<0|1>
5342 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
5343 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
5344 newly opened terminals.
5345
5346 vt.global_cursor_default=
5347 [VT]
5348 Format=<-1|0|1>
5349 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
5350 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
5351 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
5352 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
5353 cursors, 1 will display them.
5354
5355 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
5356 Default: 2 = green.
5357
5358 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
5359 Default: 3 = cyan.
5360
5361 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00005362 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005363 or other driver-specific files in the
5364 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
5365
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00005366 watchdog_thresh=
5367 [KNL]
5368 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
5369 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
5370 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
5371 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
5372 seconds.
5373
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005374 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
5375 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
5376 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
5377 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
5378 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
5379 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
5380 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
5381 corresponding sysfs file.
5382
5383 workqueue.disable_numa
5384 By default, all work items queued to unbound
5385 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
5386 issued on, which results in better behavior in
5387 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
5388 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
5389 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
5390 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
5391
5392 workqueue.power_efficient
5393 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
5394 they show better performance thanks to cache
5395 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
5396 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
5397
5398 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
5399 were observed to contribute significantly to power
5400 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
5401 power usage at the cost of small performance
5402 overhead.
5403
5404 The default value of this parameter is determined by
5405 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
5406
5407 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
5408 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
5409 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
5410 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
5411 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
5412 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
5413 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
5414 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
5415 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
5416 impacted.
5417
5418 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
5419 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
5420 supporting x2apic.
5421
5422 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
5423 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
5424 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
5425 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
5426 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
5427
5428 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
5429 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
5430 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
5431 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
5432 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
5433 domains.
5434
5435 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
5436 Unplug Xen emulated devices
5437 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
5438 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
5439 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
5440 nics -- unplug network devices
5441 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
5442 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
5443 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
5444 the unplug protocol
5445 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
5446
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00005447 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN]
5448 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
5449 panic() code such as dumping handler.
5450
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005451 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
5452 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
5453 optimizations.
5454
5455 xen_nopv [X86]
5456 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
5457 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00005458 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
5459 has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005460
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +02005461 xen_no_vector_callback
5462 [KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen
5463 event channel interrupts.
5464
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005465 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN]
5466 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
5467 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
5468 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
5469 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
5470
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00005471 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN]
5472 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
5473 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
5474 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
5475 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
5476 more timer interrupts.
5477
5478 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
5479 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
5480 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
5481 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
5482
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +02005483 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN]
5484 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
5485 storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
5486
5487 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN]
5488 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
5489 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
5490
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005491 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
5492 Format:
5493 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
5494
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00005495 xive= [PPC]
5496 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
5497 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
5498 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
5499
5500 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
5501 controller on both pseries and powernv
5502 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
5503
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005504 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL]
5505 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
5506 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
5507 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00005508
5509 xmon [PPC]
5510 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
5511 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
5512 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
5513 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
5514 debugger is called from setup_arch().
5515 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
5516 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
5517 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
5518 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
5519 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
5520 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
5521 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
5522 can be written using xmon commands.
5523 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
5524 memory, and other data can't be written using
5525 xmon commands.
5526 off xmon is disabled.