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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]
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +020025 { vendor | video | native | none }
26 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +000027 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
28 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +020029 If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
30 If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
31 If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +000032
33 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
34 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
35 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
36 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
37 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
38
39 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
40 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
41 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
42 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
43 This option is useful for developers to identify the
44 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
45 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
46
47 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
48 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
49 Format: <int>
50 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
51 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
52 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
53 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
54 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
55 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
56 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
57 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +000058 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +000059 debug layers and levels.
60
61 Enable processor driver info messages:
62 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
63 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
64 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
65 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
66 object while interpreting AML:
67 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
68 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
69 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
70
71 Some values produce so much output that the system is
72 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
73 if you need to capture more output.
74
75 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
76 { strict | lax | no }
77 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
78 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
79 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
80 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
81 can interfere with legacy drivers.
82 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
83 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
84 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
85 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
86 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
87 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
88 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
89 no further checks are performed.
90
91 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
92 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
93 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
94 size limitation.
95
96 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
97 ACPI will balance active IRQs
98 default in APIC mode
99
100 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
101 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
102 default in PIC mode
103
104 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
105 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
106
107 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
108 use by PCI
109 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
110
111 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
112 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
113 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
114 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
115 the GPE dispatcher.
116 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
117 GPE floodings.
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +0200118 Format: <byte>
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000119
120 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
121 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
122 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
123 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
124 auto-serialization feature.
125 This feature is enabled by default.
126 This option allows to turn off the feature.
127
128 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
129 kernels.
130
131 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
132 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
133 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
134 installed automatically and they will appear under
135 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
136 This option turns off this feature.
137 Note that specifying this option does not affect
138 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
139 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
140
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +0200141 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT]
142 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
143 a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
144
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000145 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
146 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
147 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
148 second kernel for kdump.
149
150 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
151 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
152
153 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
154 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
155 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
156 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
157 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
158
159 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
160 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
161 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
162 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
163 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
164 strings
165 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
166 strings
167 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
168
169 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
170 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
171 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
172 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
173 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
174 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
175 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
176 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
177 care about the state of the feature group strings which
178 should be controlled by the OSPM.
179 Examples:
180 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
181 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
182 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
183
184 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
185 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
186 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
187 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
188 multiple times through kernel command line is also
189 meaningless.
190 Examples:
191 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
192 FALSE.
193
194 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
195 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
196 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
197 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
198 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
199 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
200 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
201 there are quirks related to this string. This command
202 is useful when one want to control the state of the
203 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
204 the OSPM features.
205 Examples:
206 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
207 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
208 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
209 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
210 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
211 equivalent to
212 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
213 and
214 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
215 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
216
217 acpi_pm_good [X86]
218 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
219 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
220 and always returns good values.
221
222 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
223 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
224
225 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
226 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
227 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
228
229 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
230 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
231 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +0000232 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000233 s3_bios and s3_mode.
234 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
235 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
236 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
237 used during resume from hibernation.
238 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
239 control method, with respect to putting devices into
240 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
241 of _PTS is used by default).
242 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
243 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
244 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
245 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
246 but some broken systems don't work without it).
247 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
248 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
249 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
250
251 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
252 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
253 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
254
255 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
256 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
257
258 agp= [AGP]
259 { off | try_unsupported }
260 off: disable AGP support
261 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
262 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
263
264 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
265 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
266
267 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
268 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
269 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
270 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
271
272 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
273 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
274 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
275 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
276 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
277 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
278 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
279
280 32: only for 32-bit processes
281 64: only for 64-bit processes
282 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
283 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
284
285 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
286 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
287 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
288 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
289 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
290 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
291
292 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
293 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
294 Possible values are:
295 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
296 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
297 flushed before they will be reused, which
298 is a lot of faster
299 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
300 the system
301 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
302 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
303 allowed anymore to lift isolation
304 requirements as needed. This option
305 does not override iommu=pt
306
307 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
308 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
309 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
310 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
311 IOMMU initialization.
312
313 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
314 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
315 remapping modes:
316 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
317 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
318 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
319 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
320 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
321
322 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
323 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
324 Format: <a>,<b>
325 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
326
327 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
328 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
329 connected to one of 16 gameports
330 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
331
332 apc= [HW,SPARC]
333 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
334 Format: noidle
335 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
336 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
337 APC and your system crashes randomly.
338
339 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +0000340 Change the output verbosity while booting
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000341 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
342 Change the amount of debugging information output
343 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
344 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
345 driver name.
346 Format: apic=driver_name
347 Examples: apic=bigsmp
348
349 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
350 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
351 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
352 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
353 backup of CPU 0
354 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
355 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
356 shot down by NMI
357
358 autoconf= [IPV6]
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +0200359 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000360
361 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
362 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
363 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
364 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
365 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
366 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
367 apic=verbose is specified.
368 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
369
370 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
371 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
372
373 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
374 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
375
376 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
377
378 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
379
380 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
381 EzKey and similar keyboards
382
383 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
384
385 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
386 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
387
388 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
389 keyboards
390
391 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
392 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
393
394 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
395 Use software keyboard repeat
396
397 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
398 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
399 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
400 enabled until the next reboot
401 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
402 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
403 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
404 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
405 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
406 userspace auditd.
407 Default: unset
408
409 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
410 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
411 Default: 64
412
413 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
414 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
415 Format: { "0" | "1" }
416 0 - Disable the BAU.
417 1 - Enable the BAU.
418 unset - Disable the BAU.
419
420 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
421 Format: <io>,<mode>
422
423 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
424 Format: <io>,<mode>
425 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
426
427 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
428 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
429 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
430 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
431
432 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
433 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
434 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
435 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
436
437 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
438 embedded devices based on command line input.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +0000439 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000440
441 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
442 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
443 no delay (0).
444 Format: integer
445
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +0200446 bootconfig [KNL]
447 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
448 and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
449
450 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000451
452 bert_disable [ACPI]
453 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
454
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +0200455 bgrt_disable [ACPI][X86]
456 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
457
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000458 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
459 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
460 kernel args too.
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +0200461 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000462 bttv.tuner=
463
464 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
465 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
466 at a time.
467
468 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
469
470 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
471 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
472 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
473 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
474 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
475 This option provides an override for these situations.
476
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +0000477 carrier_timeout=
478 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
479 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
480 it waits 120 seconds.
481
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000482 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
483 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
484 trust validation.
485 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
486
487 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
488 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
489 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
490 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
491 others).
492
493 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +0000494 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000495
496 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
497 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
498 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
499 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
500 a single hierarchy
501 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
502 subsystem
503 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
504 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
505 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
506
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +0000507 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
508 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
509 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000510 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
511 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +0000512 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
513 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
514 all v1 hierarchies.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000515
516 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
517 Format: <string>
518 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
519 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
520
521 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
522 Format: { "0" | "1" }
523 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
524 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
525 any implied execute protection).
526 1 -- check protection requested by application.
527 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
528 Value can be changed at runtime via
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +0200529 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
530 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000531
532 cio_ignore= [S390]
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +0000533 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000534 clk_ignore_unused
535 [CLK]
536 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
537 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
538 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
539 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
540 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
541 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
542 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
543 platform with proper driver support. For more
544 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
545
546 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
547 [Deprecated]
548 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
549 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
550 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
551 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
552
553 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
554 Format: <string>
555 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
556 with the name specified.
557 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
558 the platform:
559 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
560 [ACPI] acpi_pm
561 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
562 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
563 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
564 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
565 [MIPS] MIPS
566 [PARISC] cr16
567 [S390] tod
568 [SH] SuperH
569 [SPARC64] tick
570 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
571
572 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
573 [ARM,ARM64]
574 Format: <bool>
575 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
576 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
577 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
578 systems.
579
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +0200580 clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL]
581 Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to
582 external delays before the clock will be marked
583 unstable. Defaults to three retries, that is,
584 four attempts to read the clock under test.
585
586 clearcpuid=BITNUM[,BITNUM...] [X86]
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000587 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
588 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
589 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
590 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
591 ones should be.
592 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
593 or using the feature without checking anything
594 will still see it. This just prevents it from
595 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
596 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
597 some critical bits.
598
599 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +0200600 [KNL,CMA]
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000601 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
602 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
603 placement constraint by the physical address range of
604 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
605 altogether. For more information, see
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +0200606 kernel/dma/contiguous.c
607
608 cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
609 [ARM64,KNL]
610 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
611 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
612 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
613 specificed, the default value is 0.
614 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
615 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
616 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
617 they will fallback to the global default memory area.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000618
619 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
620 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
621 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
622 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
623 a hypervisor.
624 Default: yes
625
626 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
627 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
628 allocations, by default set to 256K.
629
630 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
631 Format:
632 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
633
634 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
635 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
636
637 com90xx= [HW,NET]
638 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
639 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
640
641 condev= [HW,S390] console device
642 conmode=
643
644 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
645
646 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
647
648 ttyS<n>[,options]
649 ttyUSB0[,options]
650 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
651 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
652 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
653 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
654 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
655
656 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
657 information. See
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +0200658 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000659 alternative.
660
661 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
662 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
663 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
664 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
665 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
666 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
667 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
668 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
669 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
670 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
671 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
672 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
673 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
674 the h/w is not re-initialized.
675
676 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
677 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
678
679 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
680 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
681 console=brl,ttyS0
682 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
683
684 console_msg_format=
685 [KNL] Change console messages format
686 default
687 By default we print messages on consoles in
688 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
689 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
690 `printk_time' param).
691 syslog
692 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
693 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
694 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
695 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
696 from /proc/kmsg.
697
698 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
699 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
700 Defaults to 0.
701
702 coredump_filter=
703 [KNL] Change the default value for
704 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +0200705 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000706
707 coresight_cpu_debug.enable
708 [ARM,ARM64]
709 Format: <bool>
710 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
711 0: default value, disable debugging
712 1: enable debugging at boot time
713
714 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
715 disable the cpuidle sub-system
716
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +0000717 cpuidle.governor=
718 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
719
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000720 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
721 disable the cpufreq sub-system
722
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +0200723 cpufreq.default_governor=
724 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
725 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
726 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
727
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000728 cpu_init_udelay=N
729 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
730 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
731 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
732 Default: 10000
733
734 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
735 Format:
736 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
737
738 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
739 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
740 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
741 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
742 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +0000743 is selected automatically.
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +0200744 [KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +0000745 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
746 hasn't been specified.
747 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000748
749 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
750 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
751 in the running system. The syntax of range is
752 start-[end] where start and end are both
753 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +0000754 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000755
756 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +0200757 [KNL, X86-64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000758 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
759 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
760 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
761 available.
762 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
763 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +0200764 [KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000765 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
766 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
767 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
768 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
769 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
770 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
771 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
772 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
773 for second kernel instead.
774 0: to disable low allocation.
775 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
776 or memory reserved is below 4G.
777
778 cryptomgr.notests
779 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
780
781 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
782 Format: <dma>
783
784 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
785 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
786
787 dasd= [HW,NET]
788 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
789
790 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
791 (one device per port)
792 Format: <port#>,<type>
793 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
794
795 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
796 time. See
797 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
798 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
799
800 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
801
802 debug_boot_weak_hash
803 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
804 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
805 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are
806 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
807 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
808 insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
809
810 debug_locks_verbose=
811 [KNL] verbose self-tests
812 Format=<0|1>
813 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
814 self-tests.
815 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
816 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
817 only useful to kernel developers.
818
819 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
820
821 no_debug_objects
822 [KNL] Disable object debugging
823
824 debug_guardpage_minorder=
825 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
826 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
827 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
828 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
829 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
830 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
831 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
832 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
833 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
834 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
835 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
836 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
837 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
838 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
839 bypassed) which are not detectable by
840 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
841 tracking down these problems.
842
843 debug_pagealloc=
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +0000844 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
845 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
846 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
847 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
848 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
849 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000850 on: enable the feature
851
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +0200852 debugfs= [KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace
853 and debugfs internal clients.
854 Format: { on, no-mount, off }
855 on: All functions are enabled.
856 no-mount:
857 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
858 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
859 its content. There is nothing to mount.
860 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients
861 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
862 or directories within debugfs.
863 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
864 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
865 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
866
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000867 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
868
869 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
870 Format: <area>[,<node>]
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +0200871 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.rst.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000872
873 default_hugepagesz=
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +0200874 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
875 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
876 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
877 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
878 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the
879 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page
880 sizes are architecture dependent. See also
881 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
882 Format: size[KMG]
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000883
884 deferred_probe_timeout=
885 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
886 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
887 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
888 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
889 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
890 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
891 retrying.
892
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +0200893 dfltcc= [HW,S390]
894 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
895 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
896 level 1 and decompression (default)
897 off: No s390 zlib hardware support
898 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
899 only (compression on level 1)
900 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
901 only (decompression)
902 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
903 level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
904
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000905 dhash_entries= [KNL]
906 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
907
908 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
909 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
910 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
911 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
912 miss to occur.
913
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +0200914 stress_slb [PPC]
915 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
916 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
917 on kernel addresses.
918
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000919 disable= [IPV6]
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +0200920 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000921
922 hardened_usercopy=
923 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
924 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
925 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
926 from reading or writing beyond known memory
927 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
928 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
929 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
930 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
931 off Disable hardened usercopy checks.
932
933 disable_radix [PPC]
934 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
935
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +0200936 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES]
937 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
938 invalidate.
939
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +0000940 disable_tlbie [PPC]
941 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
942 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
943
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000944 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
945 Format: <int>
946 The number of initial APIC ID for the
947 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
948 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
949 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
950 causing system reset or hang due to sending
951 INIT from AP to BSP.
952
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +0000953 perf_v4_pmi= [X86,INTEL]
954 Format: <bool>
955 Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature.
956 The feature only exists starting from
957 Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer).
958
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000959 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +0200960 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000961 to workaround buggy firmware.
962
963 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +0200964 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +0000965
966 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
967 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
968 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
969 entry later. This parameter disables that.
970
971 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
972 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
973 memory out of your available memory pool based on
974 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
975 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
976
977 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
978 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
979 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
980
981 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
982
983 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
984 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
985
986 dma_debug_entries=<number>
987 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
988 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
989 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
990 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
991 architectural default is too low.
992
993 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
994 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
995 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
996 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
997 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
998 driver later using sysfs.
999
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00001000 driver_async_probe= [KNL]
1001 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
1002 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1003
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001004 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1005 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1006 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1007 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1008 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1009 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
1010 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
1011 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
1012 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
1013 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02001014 available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001015 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
1016 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
1017 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
1018 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
1019 data set with no connector name will be used for
1020 any connectors not explicitly specified.
1021
1022 dscc4.setup= [NET]
1023
1024 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC]
1025 Format: {"off" | "known"}
1026 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1027 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1028 exists).
1029 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1030 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1031 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1032
1033 dump_apple_properties [X86]
1034 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1035 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
1036 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1037
1038 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02001039 <module>.dyndbg[="val"]
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001040 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
1041 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1042 for details.
1043
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001044 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
1045 in some Intel CPUs.
1046
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02001047 <module>.async_probe [KNL]
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001048 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
1049
1050 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1051 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1052 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1053 which are not unmapped.
1054
1055 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
1056
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02001057 When used with no options, the early console is
1058 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1059 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1060 the platform.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001061
1062 cdns,<addr>[,options]
1063 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1064 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1065 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1066 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1067 configured.
1068
1069 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1070 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1071 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
1072 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
1073 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1074 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1075 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1076 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1077 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1078 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1079 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1080 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1081 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
1082
1083 pl011,<addr>
1084 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1085 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1086 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1087 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1088 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1089 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1090 the device registers.
1091
1092 meson,<addr>
1093 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1094 port at the specified address. The serial port must
1095 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1096 supported.
1097
1098 msm_serial,<addr>
1099 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1100 port at the specified address. The serial port
1101 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1102 yet supported.
1103
1104 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1105 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1106 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1107 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1108 yet supported.
1109
1110 owl,<addr>
1111 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1112 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1113 specified address. The serial port must already be
1114 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1115
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00001116 rda,<addr>
1117 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1118 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1119 specified address. The serial port must already be
1120 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1121
1122 sbi
1123 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1124 console.
1125
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001126 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1127
1128 s3c2410,<addr>
1129 s3c2412,<addr>
1130 s3c2440,<addr>
1131 s3c6400,<addr>
1132 s5pv210,<addr>
1133 exynos4210,<addr>
1134 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1135 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1136 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1137 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1138 Options are not yet supported.
1139
1140 lantiq,<addr>
1141 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1142 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1143 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1144 yet supported.
1145
1146 lpuart,<addr>
1147 lpuart32,<addr>
1148 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1149 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1150 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1151 port must already be setup and configured.
1152
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02001153 ec_imx21,<addr>
1154 ec_imx6q,<addr>
1155 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1156 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1157 must already be setup and configured.
1158
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001159 ar3700_uart,<addr>
1160 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1161 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1162 address. The serial port must already be setup
1163 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1164
1165 qcom_geni,<addr>
1166 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1167 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1168 specified address. The serial port must already be
1169 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1170
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00001171 efifb,[options]
1172 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1173 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1174 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1175 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1176 mapped with the correct attributes.
1177
1178 linflex,<addr>
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02001179 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00001180 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1181 address must be provided, and the serial port must
1182 already be setup and configured.
1183
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001184 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1185 earlyprintk=vga
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001186 earlyprintk=sclp
1187 earlyprintk=xen
1188 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1189 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1190 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1191 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1192 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1193 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1194
1195 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1196 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1197 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1198
1199 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1200 takes over.
1201
1202 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1203 be used at a time.
1204
1205 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1206 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1207 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1208 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1209 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1210 You can find the port for a given device in
1211 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1212 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1213
1214 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1215 very good.
1216
1217 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1218 the real console.
1219
1220 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1221
1222 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1223
1224 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1225 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1226 UART class.
1227
1228 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1229 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1230 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1231 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1232 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1233 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1234 default: on.
1235
1236 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1237 ekgdboc=kbd
1238
1239 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1240 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1241
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02001242 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1243 but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1244 very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1245 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1246
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001247 edd= [EDD]
1248 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1249
1250 efi= [EFI]
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02001251 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1252 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1253 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1254 debug: enable misc debug output.
1255 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1256 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001257 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1258 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1259 firmware implementations.
1260 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02001261 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1262 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1263 memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1264 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1265 reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1266 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1267 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1268 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1269 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001270
1271 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1272 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1273 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1274 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1275 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1276
1277 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1278 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1279 updating original EFI memory map.
1280 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1281 from ss to ss+nn.
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02001282
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001283 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1284 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1285 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1286 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1287
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02001288 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1289 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1290 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1291
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001292 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02001293 related features. For example, you can do debugging of
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001294 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02001295 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1296 "soft reserved".
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001297
1298 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1299 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1300 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1301 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00001302 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001303
1304
1305 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1306 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1307
1308 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1309 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1310 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1311
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001312 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1313 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1314 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1315 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00001316 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001317
1318 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1319 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1320 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1321 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1322
1323 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1324 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1325 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1326 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1327 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1328
1329 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1330 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1331 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1332 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1333 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1334 Default value is 0.
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02001335 Value can be changed at runtime via
1336 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001337
1338 erst_disable [ACPI]
1339 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1340 support.
1341
1342 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1343 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1344 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1345
1346 evm= [EVM]
1347 Format: { "fix" }
1348 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1349 current integrity status.
1350
1351 failslab=
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02001352 fail_usercopy=
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001353 fail_page_alloc=
1354 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1355 General fault injection mechanism.
1356 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1357 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1358
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02001359 fb_tunnels= [NET]
1360 Format: { initns | none }
1361 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1362 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1363
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001364 floppy= [HW]
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00001365 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001366
1367 force_pal_cache_flush
1368 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1369 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1370 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1371 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1372
1373 forcepae [X86-32]
1374 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1375 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1376 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1377 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1378 and may cause unknown problems.
1379
1380 ftrace=[tracer]
1381 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1382 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1383 boot debugging.
1384
1385 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1386 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1387 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1388 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1389 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1390 oops.
1391
1392 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1393 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1394 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1395 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1396 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1397 tracing directory.
1398
1399 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1400 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1401 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1402 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1403 tracing directory.
1404
1405 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1406 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1407 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1408 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1409 that can be changed at run time by the
1410 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1411
1412 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1413 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1414 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1415 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1416 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1417
1418 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1419 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1420 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1421 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1422 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1423
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02001424 fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1425 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1426 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1427 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1428 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1429 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1430 clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1431 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1432 suppliers).
1433 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1434 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info.
1435 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1436 but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1437 up (sync_state() calls).
1438 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it
1439 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1440 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1441
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001442 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1443 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1444 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1445 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1446 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1447
1448 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1449
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02001450 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001451 Format: off | on
1452 default: on
1453
1454 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1455 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1456 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1457 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1458 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1459
1460 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1461 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1462 android emulator
1463
1464 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1465 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1466 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1467 GPT to be used instead.
1468
1469 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1470 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1471 Format: 0 | 1
1472 Default: 0
1473 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1474 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1475 Format: 0 | 1
1476 Default: 0
1477 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1478 Format: 0 | 1
1479 Default: 0
1480 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1481 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1482 Default: 1024
1483 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1484 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1485 Default: 1024
1486
1487 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1488 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1489 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1490
1491 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1492 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1493 backtraces on all cpus.
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02001494 Format: 0 | 1
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001495
1496 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1497 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
1498 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1499 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1500
1501 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1502
1503 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1504 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1505
1506 hest_disable [ACPI]
1507 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1508 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1509 logic will be disabled.
1510
1511 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1512 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1513 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1514 size on bigger boxes.
1515
1516 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1517 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1518 Default: "on"
1519
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001520 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1521
1522 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1523 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1524 verbose }
1525 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1526 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1527 VIA, nVidia)
1528 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1529
1530 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1531 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1532
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02001533 hugetlb_cma= [HW] The size of a cma area used for allocation
1534 of gigantic hugepages.
1535 Format: nn[KMGTPE]
1536
1537 Reserve a cma area of given size and allocate gigantic
1538 hugepages using the cma allocator. If enabled, the
1539 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1540
1541 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1542 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1543 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1544 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1545 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1546 the default huge page size. See also
1547 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1548 Format: <integer>
1549
1550 hugepagesz=
1551 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in
1552 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge
1553 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair
1554 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
1555 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are
1556 architecture dependent. See also
1557 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1558 Format: size[KMG]
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001559
1560 hung_task_panic=
1561 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02001562 Format: 0 | 1
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001563
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02001564 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001565 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1566 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1567 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1568 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1569
1570 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1571 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1572 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1573 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1574 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00001575
1576 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1577 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1578 guest on lock contention.
1579
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001580 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1581 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1582 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1583 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1584 the real console.
1585
1586 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1587 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1588 registered from board initialization code.
1589 Format:
1590 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1591
1592 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1593 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1594 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1595 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1596 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1597 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1598 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1599 keyboard and cannot control its state
1600 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1601 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1602 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1603 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1604 for the AUX port
1605 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1606 controller
1607 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1608 controllers
1609 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1610 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1611 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1612 transitions, or never reset
1613 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1614 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1615 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1616 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1617 architectures force reset to be always executed
1618 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1619 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02001620 i8042.probe_defer
1621 [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001622
1623 i810= [HW,DRM]
1624
1625 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1626 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1627 hardware.
1628 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1629 does not match list of supported models.
1630 i8k.power_status
1631 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1632 (disabled by default)
1633 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1634 capability is set.
1635
1636 i915.invert_brightness=
1637 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1638 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1639 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1640 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1641 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1642 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1643 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1644 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1645 value switches the backlight off.
1646 -1 -- never invert brightness
1647 0 -- machine default
1648 1 -- force brightness inversion
1649
1650 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1651 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1652
1653 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1654 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1655 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1656 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00001657 See Documentation/ide/ide.rst.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001658
1659 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1660 Format: <int>
1661 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1662 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1663 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1664 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1665 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1666 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1667 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1668 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1669 was 0x3.
1670
1671 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1672 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1673
1674 idle= [X86]
1675 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1676 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1677 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1678 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1679 Not recommended.
1680 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1681 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1682 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1683
1684 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1685 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1686 Default: strict
1687
1688 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1689 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1690 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1691 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1692 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1693 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1694 encoding mode.
1695
1696 Available settings are as follows:
1697 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1698 supported by the FPU
1699 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1700 by the FPU
1701 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1702 by the FPU
1703 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1704 supported by the FPU
1705
1706 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1707 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1708 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1709 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1710 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1711 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1712 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1713 MIPS64 CPUs.
1714
1715 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1716 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1717 except where unsupported by hardware.
1718
1719 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1720 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1721 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1722 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1723 could change it dynamically, usually by
1724 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1725
1726 ignore_rlimit_data
1727 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1728 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1729 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1730
1731 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1732 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1733
1734 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1735 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1736 default: "enforce"
1737
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00001738 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001739 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1740 owned by uid=0.
1741
1742 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1743 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1744 measurements, instead of host native format.
1745
1746 ima_hash= [IMA]
1747 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1748 | sha512 | ... }
1749 default: "sha1"
1750
1751 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1752 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1753
1754 ima_policy= [IMA]
1755 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1756 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1757 fail_securely"
1758
1759 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1760 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1761 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1762 uid=0.
1763
1764 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00001765 all files owned by root.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001766
1767 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1768 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1769 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1770
1771 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1772 verification failure also on privileged mounted
1773 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1774 flag.
1775
1776 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
1777 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1778 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1779 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1780 opened for read by uid=0.
1781
1782 ima_template= [IMA]
1783 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1784 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1785 Default: "ima-ng"
1786
1787 ima_template_fmt=
1788 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1789 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1790
1791 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1792 Format: <min_file_size>
1793 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1794 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1795
1796 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1797 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1798 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1799
1800 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1801 Format: <bufsize>
1802 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1803
1804 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1805 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1806 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1807
1808 init= [KNL]
1809 Format: <full_path>
1810 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1811 process.
1812
1813 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1814 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1815 startup.
1816
1817 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1818 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1819 modules and initcalls.
1820
1821 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1822
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02001823 initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to
1824 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
1825 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
1826 setting.
1827 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
1828 Default is 0, 0
1829
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00001830 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
1831 zeroes.
1832 Format: 0 | 1
1833 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
1834
1835 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
1836 Format: 0 | 1
1837 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
1838
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02001839 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001840 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1841 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1842 override in debugfs after boot.
1843
1844 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1845 Format: <irq>
1846
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02001847 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001848
1849 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1850 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1851 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1852 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1853
1854 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1855 on
1856 Enable intel iommu driver.
1857 off
1858 Disable intel iommu driver.
1859 igfx_off [Default Off]
1860 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1861 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1862 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1863 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1864 DMA.
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02001865 forcedac [X86-64]
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001866 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1867 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1868 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1869 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1870 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1871 then look in the higher range.
1872 strict [Default Off]
1873 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1874 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1875 to batching them for performance.
1876 sp_off [Default Off]
1877 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1878 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1879 not be supported.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00001880 sm_on [Default Off]
1881 By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the
1882 hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable
1883 mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode
1884 will be used on hardware which claims to support it.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001885 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1886 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1887 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1888 could harm performance of some high-throughput
1889 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1890 mapping is enabled.
1891 Note that using this option lowers the security
1892 provided by tboot because it makes the system
1893 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00001894 nobounce [Default off]
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02001895 Disable bounce buffer for untrusted devices such as
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00001896 the Thunderbolt devices. This will treat the untrusted
1897 devices as the trusted ones, hence might expose security
1898 risks of DMA attacks.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001899
1900 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1901 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1902 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
1903
1904 intel_pstate= [X86]
1905 disable
1906 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1907 scaling driver for the supported processors
1908 passive
1909 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1910 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1911 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1912 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1913 feature.
1914 force
1915 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1916 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1917 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1918 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1919 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1920 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1921 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1922 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1923 no_hwp
1924 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1925 if available.
1926 hwp_only
1927 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1928 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1929 support_acpi_ppc
1930 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1931 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1932 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1933 then this feature is turned on by default.
1934 per_cpu_perf_limits
1935 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1936 cpufreq sysfs interface
1937
1938 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1939 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1940 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1941 nosid disable Source ID checking
1942 no_x2apic_optout
1943 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1944 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
1945
1946 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1947 strict regions from userspace.
1948 relaxed
1949
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02001950 iommu= [X86]
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001951 off
1952 force
1953 noforce
1954 biomerge
1955 panic
1956 nopanic
1957 merge
1958 nomerge
1959 soft
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02001960 pt [X86]
1961 nopt [X86]
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001962 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1963 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
1964
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00001965 iommu.strict= [ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
1966 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1967 0 - Lazy mode.
1968 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
1969 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
1970 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
1971 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
1972 the relevant IOMMU driver.
1973 1 - Strict mode (default).
1974 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
1975 synchronously.
1976
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001977 iommu.passthrough=
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00001978 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001979 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1980 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1981 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00001982 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001983
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02001984 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00001985 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1986 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1987
1988 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
1989 0x80
1990 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1991 0xed
1992 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1993 udelay
1994 Simple two microseconds delay
1995 none
1996 No delay
1997
1998 ip= [IP_PNP]
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02001999 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002000
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00002001 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2002 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2003
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002004 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2005 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2006
2007 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2008 [ARM, ARM64]
2009 Format: <bool>
2010 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2011 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2012 exposed by the device tree is too small.
2013
2014 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2015 [ARM, ARM64]
2016 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2017 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2018 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2019 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2020 LPIs.
2021
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00002022 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
2023 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2024 requires the kernel to be built with
2025 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2026
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002027 irqfixup [HW]
2028 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2029 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2030 firmware running.
2031
2032 irqpoll [HW]
2033 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2034 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2035 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2036 firmware running.
2037
2038 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
2039 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2040
2041 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2042 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2043 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2044
2045 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2046 specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2047
2048 nohz
2049 Disable the tick when a single task runs.
2050
2051 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2052 need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2053 workqueue's affinity configured via the
2054 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2055 by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2056
2057 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2058 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2059 be configured manually after bootup.
2060
2061 domain
2062 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2063 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2064 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2065 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2066 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2067 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2068 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2069 move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2070
2071 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2072 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2073 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2074 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2075
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02002076 managed_irq
2077
2078 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2079 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2080 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2081 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2082 the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2083
2084 This isolation is best effort and only effective
2085 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2086 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2087 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2088 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2089 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2090 cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2091
2092 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2093 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2094 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2095 only delivered when tasks running on those
2096 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2097 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2098 queues.
2099
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002100 The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2101
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002102 iucv= [HW,NET]
2103
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02002104 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64]
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002105 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2106 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2107 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2108 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2109 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2110
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02002111 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64]
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002112 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2113 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2114 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
2115 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2116 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2117
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02002118 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64]
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002119 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2120 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2121 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2122 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
2123 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2124
2125 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2126 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2127
2128 nokaslr [KNL]
2129 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
2130 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
2131 Layout Randomization).
2132
2133 kasan_multi_shot
2134 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2135 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2136 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2137 invalid access.
2138
2139 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
2140
2141 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2142 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2143 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2144 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested
2145 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2146 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for
2147 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the
2148 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2149 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2150 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2151
2152 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2153 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2154 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2155 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2156 zone if it does not.
2157
2158 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2159 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2160 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror"
2161 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2162 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2163 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2164 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2165
2166 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2167 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2168 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2169 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
2170 optional and is the number seconds in between
2171 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2172 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2173 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
2174 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2175 the kernel debugger.
2176
2177 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2178 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2179 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2180 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2181 keyboard only format: kbd
2182 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2183 Optional Kernel mode setting:
2184 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2185 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2186
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02002187 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW]
2188 If the boot console provides the ability to read
2189 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2190 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2191 until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2192 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2193 specifies the normal console to transition to.
2194
2195 The name of the early console should be specified
2196 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2197 the early console might be different than the tty
2198 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2199 blank and the first boot console that implements
2200 read() will be picked.
2201
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002202 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2203 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2204
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02002205 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002206 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2207 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2208
2209 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2210 Valid arguments: on, off
2211 Default: on
2212 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2213 the default is off.
2214
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00002215 kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2216 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2217 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2218 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2219 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2220 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2221 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2222
2223 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2224
2225 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2226 Boot Parameter" section.
2227
2228 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2229 and kernel address spaces.
2230 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2231 0: force disabled
2232 1: force enabled
2233
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002234 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2235 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2236
2237 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2238 Default is false (don't support).
2239
2240 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
2241 KVM MMU at runtime.
2242 Default is 0 (off)
2243
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00002244 kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2245 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2246 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2247 force : Always deploy workaround.
2248 off : Never deploy workaround.
2249 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2250 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2251
2252 Default is 'auto'.
2253
2254 If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2255 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2256
2257 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2258 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2259 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2260 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2261 minute. The default is 60.
2262
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002263 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
2264 Default is 1 (enabled)
2265
2266 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2267 for all guests.
2268 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
2269
2270 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2271 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2272 system registers
2273
2274 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2275 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2276 system registers
2277
2278 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2279 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2280 system registers
2281
2282 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2283 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2284 LPIs.
2285
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02002286 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC]
2287 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2288 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2289 allocation.
2290 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
2291 Format: <integer>
2292 Default: 5
2293
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002294 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2295 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2296 Default is 1 (enabled)
2297
2298 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02002299 [KVM,Intel] Disable emulation of invalid guest state.
2300 Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, as
2301 guest state is never invalid for unrestricted guests.
2302 This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), as KVM
2303 never emulates invalid L2 guest state.
2304 Default is 1 (enabled)
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002305
2306 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2307 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2308 Default is 1 (enabled)
2309
2310 kvm-intel.nested=
2311 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2312 Default is 0 (disabled)
2313
2314 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2315 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2316 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2317 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2318
2319 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2320 CVE-2018-3620.
2321
2322 Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2323
2324 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2325 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2326 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2327 never: Disables the mitigation
2328
2329 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2330
2331 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2332 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2333 Default is 1 (enabled)
2334
2335 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2336 affected CPUs
2337
2338 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2339 enabled and cannot be disabled.
2340
2341 full
2342 Provides all available mitigations for the
2343 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2344 enables all mitigations in the
2345 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2346
2347 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2348 sysfs interface is still possible after
2349 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2350 when the first VM is started in a
2351 potentially insecure configuration,
2352 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2353
2354 full,force
2355 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2356 flush runtime control. Implies the
2357 'nosmt=force' command line option.
2358 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2359
2360 flush
2361 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2362 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2363 L1D flush.
2364
2365 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2366 sysfs interface is still possible after
2367 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2368 when the first VM is started in a
2369 potentially insecure configuration,
2370 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2371
2372 flush,nosmt
2373
2374 Disables SMT and enables the default
2375 hypervisor mitigation.
2376
2377 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2378 sysfs interface is still possible after
2379 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2380 when the first VM is started in a
2381 potentially insecure configuration,
2382 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2383
2384 flush,nowarn
2385 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2386 warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2387 insecure configuration.
2388
2389 off
2390 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2391 emit any warnings.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00002392 It also drops the swap size and available
2393 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2394 bare metal.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002395
2396 Default is 'flush'.
2397
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00002398 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002399
2400 l2cr= [PPC]
2401
2402 l3cr= [PPC]
2403
2404 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2405 disabled it.
2406
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02002407 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002408 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2409 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02002410 Format: notscdeadline
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002411
2412 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2413 in C2 power state.
2414
2415 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
2416 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2417 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2418 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2419 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
2420 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2421 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2422
2423 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2424 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
2425 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
2426
2427 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2428 when set.
2429 Format: <int>
2430
2431 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
2432 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
2433 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
2434 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
2435 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
2436 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2437 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2438 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2439
2440 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2441 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
2442 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2443 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
2444 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2445 host link and device attached to it.
2446
2447 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
2448 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2449 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2450 The following configurations can be forced.
2451
2452 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2453 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2454
2455 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2456
2457 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2458 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2459 allowed.
2460
2461 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2462
2463 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2464
2465 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2466 and both resets.
2467
2468 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2469 hot-unplug link recovery
2470
2471 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2472
2473 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2474
2475 * disable: Disable this device.
2476
2477 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2478 the same attribute, the last one is used.
2479
2480 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2481
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02002482 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated]
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002483
2484 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2485 Format: <integer>
2486
2487 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2488 Format: <integer>
2489
2490 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2491 Format: <integer>
2492
2493 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2494 Format: <integer>
2495
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00002496 lockdown= [SECURITY]
2497 { integrity | confidentiality }
2498 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2499 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2500 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2501 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2502 to extract confidential information from the kernel
2503 are also disabled.
2504
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002505 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2506 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2507 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2508 number of online CPUs.
2509
2510 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2511 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2512
2513 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2514 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2515
2516 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2517 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2518 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2519
2520 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2521 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2522 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2523 mode during the locktorture test.
2524
2525 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2526 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2527 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2528
2529 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2530 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2531
2532 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2533 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2534 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2535 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2536 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2537 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2538
2539 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2540 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2541
2542 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2543 Enable additional printk() statements.
2544
2545 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2546 Format: <irq>
2547
2548 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2549 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2550 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2551 loglevels are defined as follows:
2552
2553 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2554 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2555 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2556 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2557 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2558 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2559 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2560 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2561
2562 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2563 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2564 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2565 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2566 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2567 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2568 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2569
2570 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2571 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2572 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2573 kernel boot problems.
2574
2575 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2576 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2577 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2578 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2579 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2580 attached printers to be reset. Using
2581 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2582 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2583 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2584 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2585 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2586 port specification list means that device IDs
2587 from each port should be examined, to see if
2588 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2589 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2590 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2591
2592 lpj=n [KNL]
2593 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2594 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2595 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2596 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2597 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2598 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2599 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2600 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2601 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2602 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2603 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2604 hardware.
2605
2606 ltpc= [NET]
2607 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2608
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00002609 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2610
2611 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2612 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
2613 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
2614
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002615 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2616 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00002617 Example: machvec=hpzx1
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002618
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02002619 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
2620 different yeeloong laptops.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002621 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2622
2623 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2624 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2625
2626 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2627 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2628 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2629 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2630 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2631 only takes effect during system bootup.
2632 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2633 which also disables the IO APIC.
2634
2635 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2636 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2637 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2638 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2639 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2640 /dev/loop-control interface.
2641
2642 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2643
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00002644 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002645
2646 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2647 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2648
2649 mdacon= [MDA]
2650 Format: <first>,<last>
2651 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2652
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00002653 mds= [X86,INTEL]
2654 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2655 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2656
2657 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2658 internal buffers which can forward information to a
2659 disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2660
2661 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2662 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2663 attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2664 not have direct access.
2665
2666 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2667 options are:
2668
2669 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2670 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2671 SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2672 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
2673
2674 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
2675 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
2676 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
2677 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
2678 too.
2679
2680 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2681 mds=full.
2682
2683 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2684
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002685 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02002686 Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows:
2687
2688 1 for test;
2689 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
2690 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
2691 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
2692
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002693 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2694 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2695 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2696 belonging to unused RAM.
2697
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02002698 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
2699 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
2700 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
2701
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002702 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2703 memory.
2704
2705 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2706 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2707 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2708
2709 memhp_default_state=online/offline
2710 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2711 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2712 set according to the
2713 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2714 option.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00002715 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002716
2717 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2718 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2719 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2720 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2721 option description.
2722
2723 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2724 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2725 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2726 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2727 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2728 Multiple different regions can be specified,
2729 comma delimited.
2730 Example:
2731 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2732
2733 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2734 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2735 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2736
2737 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2738 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2739 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2740 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2741 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2742 or
2743 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2744 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2745 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2746 will be eaten.
2747
2748 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2749 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2750 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2751 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2752 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2753
2754 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2755 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2756 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2757 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2758 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2759 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2760 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2761 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2762
2763 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2764 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2765 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2766 Setting this option will scan the memory
2767 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2768 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2769 from using the memory being corrupted.
2770 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2771 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2772 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2773 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2774
2775 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2776 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2777 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2778 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2779 corruption in more or less memory.
2780
2781 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2782 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2783 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2784 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2785
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00002786 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002787 Format: <integer>
2788 default : 0 <disable>
2789 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2790 performed. Each pass selects another test
2791 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2792 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2793 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2794 regions that are detected.
2795
2796 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2797 Valid arguments: on, off
2798 Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2799 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2800 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2801 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
2802 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
2803
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00002804 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002805 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2806
2807 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2808 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2809 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2810 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2811 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
2812
2813 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02002814 See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002815
2816 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2817 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2818 platforms.
2819
2820 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2821 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2822 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2823 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2824
2825 mga= [HW,DRM]
2826
2827 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2828 physical address is ignored.
2829
2830 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2831 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2832 Default: "0tb"
2833 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2834 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2835 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2836 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2837 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2838 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2839 unconfigured.
2840 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2841 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2842 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2843 VGA shield.
2844 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2845 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2846 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2847 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2848 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02002849 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002850
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00002851 mitigations=
2852 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
2853 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated,
2854 arch-independent options, each of which is an
2855 aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
2856
2857 off
2858 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This
2859 improves system performance, but it may also
2860 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
2861 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
2862 kpti=0 [ARM64]
2863 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
2864 nobp=0 [S390]
2865 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
2866 spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
2867 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
2868 ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
2869 l1tf=off [X86]
2870 mds=off [X86]
2871 tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
2872 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +02002873 no_entry_flush [PPC]
2874 no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
Olivier Deprez92d4c212022-12-06 15:05:30 +01002875 mmio_stale_data=off [X86]
2876 retbleed=off [X86]
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00002877
2878 Exceptions:
2879 This does not have any effect on
2880 kvm.nx_huge_pages when
2881 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
2882
2883 auto (default)
2884 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
2885 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for
2886 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
2887 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
2888 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
2889 Equivalent to: (default behavior)
2890
2891 auto,nosmt
2892 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
2893 if needed. This is for users who always want to
2894 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
2895 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
2896 mds=full,nosmt [X86]
2897 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
Olivier Deprez92d4c212022-12-06 15:05:30 +01002898 mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86]
2899 retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86]
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00002900
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002901 mminit_loglevel=
2902 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2903 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2904 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2905 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2906 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2907 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2908
Olivier Deprez92d4c212022-12-06 15:05:30 +01002909 mmio_stale_data=
2910 [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the Processor
2911 MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities.
2912
2913 Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of
2914 vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO
2915 operation. Exposed data could originate or end in
2916 the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA.
2917 Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation
2918 is to clear the affected CPU buffers.
2919
2920 This parameter controls the mitigation. The
2921 options are:
2922
2923 full - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2924
2925 full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on
2926 vulnerable CPUs.
2927
2928 off - Unconditionally disable mitigation
2929
2930 On MDS or TAA affected machines,
2931 mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active
2932 MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are
2933 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to
2934 disable this mitigation, you need to specify
2935 mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too.
2936
2937 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2938 mmio_stale_data=full.
2939
2940 For details see:
2941 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst
2942
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002943 module.sig_enforce
2944 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2945 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2946 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
2947 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2948
2949 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2950 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2951
2952 mousedev.tap_time=
2953 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2954 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2955 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2956 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2957 Format: <msecs>
2958 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2959 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2960 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2961 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2962
2963 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2964 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2965 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
2966 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
2967 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is
2968 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
2969 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its
2970 own is specified, the administrator must be careful
2971 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2972 is not too small.
2973
2974 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2975 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2976 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2977 allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2978 allocations. Use with caution!
2979
2980 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2981 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2982
2983 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2984 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
2985
2986 mtdparts= [MTD]
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +02002987 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00002988
2989 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2990 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2991 at a time.
2992
2993 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2994
2995 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2996
2997 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2998 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2999 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
3000 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
3001 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
3002
3003 mtdset= [ARM]
3004 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
3005
3006 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
3007
3008 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
3009 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
3010 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
3011
3012 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3013 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
3014 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
3015
3016 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3017 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
3018 Default is 1.
3019 Large value could prevent small alignment from
3020 using up MTRRs.
3021
3022 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
3023 Format: <integer>
3024 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
3025 Default : 1
3026 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3027 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
3028
3029 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
3030
3031 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
3032 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
3033 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
3034 something different and driver-specific.
3035 This usage is only documented in each driver source
3036 file if at all.
3037
3038 nf_conntrack.acct=
3039 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
3040 0 to disable accounting
3041 1 to enable accounting
3042 Default value is 0.
3043
3044 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02003045 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003046
3047 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02003048 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003049
3050 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02003051 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003052
3053 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
3054 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
3055 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
3056 requests.
3057
3058 nfs.callback_tcpport=
3059 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
3060 channel should listen.
3061
3062 nfs.cache_getent=
3063 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
3064 to update the NFS client cache entries.
3065
3066 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
3067 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
3068 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
3069
3070 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
3071 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
3072 entries.
3073
3074 nfs.enable_ino64=
3075 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
3076 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
3077 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
3078 of returning the full 64-bit number.
3079 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
3080
3081 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
3082 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
3083 slots the client will assign to the callback
3084 channel. This determines the maximum number of
3085 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
3086 a particular server.
3087
3088 nfs.max_session_slots=
3089 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
3090 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
3091 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
3092 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
3093 Note that there is little point in setting this
3094 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
3095
3096 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3097 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
3098 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
3099 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
3100 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
3101 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
3102 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
3103 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
3104 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
3105 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
3106 back to using the idmapper.
3107 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
3108 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
3109 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
3110 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
3111 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
3112 UUID that is generated at system install time.
3113
3114 nfs.send_implementation_id =
3115 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
3116 information in exchange_id requests.
3117 If zero, no implementation identification information
3118 will be sent.
3119 The default is to send the implementation identification
3120 information.
3121
3122 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
3123 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
3124 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
3125 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
3126 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
3127 after the locks are lost.
3128 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
3129 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
3130 parameter to '1'.
3131 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
3132 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
3133
3134 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
3135 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
3136 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
3137
3138 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
3139 whatever value is the default set by the layout
3140 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
3141 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
3142
3143 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3144 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
3145 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
3146 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
3147 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
3148 migration from NFSv2/v3.
3149
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02003150 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
3151 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
3152 NMI stack-backtrace request.
3153
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003154 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
3155 when a NMI is triggered.
3156 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
3157
3158 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
3159 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
3160 Valid num: 0 or 1
3161 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
3162 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
3163 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003164 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
3165 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
3166 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003167 please see 'nowatchdog'.
3168 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
3169 need the box quickly up again.
3170
3171 These settings can be accessed at runtime via
3172 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
3173
3174 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3175 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3176 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3177 waits 4 seconds.
3178
3179 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
3180 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3181 is present.
3182
3183 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3184 kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3185
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02003186 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
3187
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003188 no_console_suspend
3189 [HW] Never suspend the console
3190 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3191 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
3192 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3193 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3194 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
3195 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3196 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3197 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3198 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3199 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3200 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3201 turn on/off it dynamically.
3202
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003203 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP]
3204 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
3205 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
3206 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data
3207 without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
3208 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling
3209 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
3210 data will be no longer available. This parameter
3211 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
3212 is set.
3213
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003214 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
3215 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
3216 but will impact performance.
3217
3218 noalign [KNL,ARM]
3219
3220 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
3221 (CPU alternatives feature).
3222
3223 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3224 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3225
3226 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3227
3228 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
3229 on "Classic" PPC cores.
3230
3231 nocache [ARM]
3232
3233 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
3234
3235 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
3236
3237 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3238
3239 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
3240
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +02003241 no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
3242
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003243 noexec [IA-64]
3244
3245 noexec [X86]
3246 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
3247 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3248 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
3249
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003250 nosmap [X86,PPC]
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003251 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3252 even if it is supported by processor.
3253
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003254 nosmep [X86,PPC]
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003255 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
3256 even if it is supported by processor.
3257
3258 noexec32 [X86-64]
3259 This affects only 32-bit executables.
3260 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3261 read doesn't imply executable mappings
3262 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3263 read implies executable mappings
3264
3265 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3266
3267 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3268 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3269 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3270
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02003271 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003272
3273 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3274 Equivalent to smt=1.
3275
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02003276 [KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003277 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3278 via the sysfs control file.
3279
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003280 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3281 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3282 possible in the system.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003283
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003284 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3285 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3286 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3287 option.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003288
3289 nospec_store_bypass_disable
3290 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3291
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +02003292 no_uaccess_flush
3293 [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
3294
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003295 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
3296 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
3297 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
3298
3299 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3300 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3301 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3302 performance of saving the states is degraded because
3303 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3304 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3305
3306 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3307 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3308 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3309 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3310 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3311 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3312 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3313
3314 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
3315 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
3316 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
3317
3318 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
3319 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3320 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3321
3322 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3323 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3324 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3325 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3326 in certain environments such as networked servers or
3327 real-time systems.
3328
3329 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3330
3331 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3332 Valid arguments: on, off
3333 Default: on
3334
3335 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3336 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3337 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3338 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3339 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3340 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
3341 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3342 just as if they had also been called out in the
3343 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3344
3345 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3346
3347 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3348 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3349
3350 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3351 broken timer IRQ sources.
3352
3353 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3354
3355 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3356 initial RAM disk.
3357
3358 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3359 remapping.
3360 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3361
3362 nointroute [IA-64]
3363
3364 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3365
3366 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3367
3368 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3369
3370 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3371 fault handling.
3372
3373 no-vmw-sched-clock
3374 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3375 clock and use the default one.
3376
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02003377 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time
3378 accounting. steal time is computed, but won't
3379 influence scheduler behaviour
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003380
3381 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3382
3383 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3384
3385 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
3386 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
3387
3388 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3389
3390 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3391
3392 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3393 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3394
3395 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3396 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3397 irq.
3398
3399 nomodule Disable module load
3400
3401 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3402 pagetables) support.
3403
3404 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3405
3406 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
3407 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3408
3409 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3410 with UP alternatives
3411
3412 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3413 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3414 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3415 available to user space applications.
3416
3417 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3418 space.
3419
3420 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
3421 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3422 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3423
3424 nosbagart [IA-64]
3425
3426 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
3427
3428 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3429 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3430
3431 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3432
3433 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3434
3435 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3436 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3437
3438 nowb [ARM]
3439
3440 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3441
3442 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3443 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3444 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3445 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3446 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3447 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3448 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3449 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3450 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3451 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3452 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3453 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3454 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3455
3456 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
3457 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3458 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3459 without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3460 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3461 parameter's value.
3462 Format: integer between 1 and 255
3463 Default: 255
3464
3465 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
3466 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3467 SAL PALO.
3468
3469 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
3470 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
3471 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3472 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3473 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3474 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3475 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3476 hot plugging.
3477
3478 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3479
3480 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
3481 Allowed values are enable and disable
3482
3483 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3484 'node', 'default' can be specified
3485 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003486 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003487
3488 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02003489 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003490 info.
3491
3492 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3493 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3494 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3495 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
3496 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3497 interrupts *may* be lost!
3498
3499 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3500 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3501 For example, to override I2C bus2:
3502 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3503
3504 oprofile.timer= [HW]
3505 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
3506
3507 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
3508 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
3509 userland or if you want common events.
3510 Format: { arch_perfmon }
3511 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
3512 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
3513 CPU specific event set.
3514 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
3515 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
3516 for generic hr timer mode)
3517
3518 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3519 process, but there is a small probability of
3520 deadlocking the machine.
3521 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3522 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3523
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003524 page_alloc.shuffle=
3525 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3526 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3527 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3528 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3529 cache, and this parameter can be used to
3530 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3531 can be read from sysfs at:
3532 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3533
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003534 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3535 Storage of the information about who allocated
3536 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3537 we can turn it on.
3538 on: enable the feature
3539
3540 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3541 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3542 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3543 off: turn off poisoning (default)
3544 on: turn on poisoning
3545
3546 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3547 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3548 timeout = 0: wait forever
3549 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3550 Format: <timeout>
3551
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003552 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3553 User can chose combination of the following bits:
3554 bit 0: print all tasks info
3555 bit 1: print system memory info
3556 bit 2: print timer info
3557 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3558 bit 4: print ftrace buffer
3559 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
3560
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02003561 panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
3562 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
3563 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
3564 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
3565 called with any of the flags in this set.
3566 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
3567 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
3568 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
3569 bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
3570 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
3571 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
3572 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
3573
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003574 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
3575 on a WARN().
3576
3577 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3578 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3579 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3580 succeeds in any situation.
3581 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3582 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3583 kernel more unstable.
3584
3585 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3586 connected to, default is 0.
3587 Format: <parport#>
3588 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3589 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
3590 Format: <mode>
3591
3592 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3593 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3594 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3595 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3596 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3597 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3598 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3599 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3600 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3601 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3602 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3603 are specified on the command line, starting
3604 with parport0.
3605
3606 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
3607 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3608 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3609 computer where firmware has no options for setting
3610 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3611 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
3612 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3613
3614 pause_on_oops=
3615 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3616 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
3617 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3618
3619 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
3620
3621 pcd. [PARIDE]
3622 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003623 See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003624
3625 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3626
3627 Some options herein operate on a specific device
3628 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3629 specified in one of the following formats:
3630
3631 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
3632 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3633
3634 Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3635 bus/device/function address which may change
3636 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3637 firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3638 by other kernel parameters. If the
3639 domain is left unspecified, it is
3640 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3641 to a device through multiple device/function
3642 addresses can be specified after the base
3643 address (this is more robust against
3644 renumbering issues). The second format
3645 selects devices using IDs from the
3646 configuration space which may match multiple
3647 devices in the system.
3648
3649 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel
3650 changes anything
3651 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
3652 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
3653 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3654 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
3655 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
3656 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3657 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3658 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
3659 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3660 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3661 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3662 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3663 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3664 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3665 bus number. The config space is then accessed
3666 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3667 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3668 on the configuration access mechanisms.
3669 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3670 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3671 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
3672 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3673 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
3674 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
3675 Configuration
3676 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3677 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3678 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
3679 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3680 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3681 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
3682 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3683 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3684 should never be necessary.
3685 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3686 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3687 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3688 when the system masks IRQs.
3689 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3690 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3691 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3692 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
3693 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
3694 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3695 on several machines and they hang the machine
3696 when used, but on other computers it's the only
3697 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3698 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3699 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3700 motherboard.
3701 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
3702 Use with caution as certain devices share
3703 address decoders between ROMs and other
3704 resources.
3705 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
3706 expansion ROMs that do not already have
3707 BIOS assigned address ranges.
3708 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
3709 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
3710 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
3711 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3712 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3713 this way.
3714 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
3715 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3716 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3717 F0000h-100000h range.
3718 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
3719 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3720 secondary buses and you want to tell it
3721 explicitly which ones they are.
3722 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
3723 numbers ourselves, overriding
3724 whatever the firmware may have done.
3725 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
3726 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3727 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3728 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3729 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3730 IRQ routing is enabled.
3731 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
3732 or for PCI scanning.
3733 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3734 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3735 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
3736 please report a bug.
3737 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3738 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
3739 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3740 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3741 so this option is a temporary workaround
3742 for broken drivers that don't call it.
3743 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3744 handle more pci cards
3745 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3746 This might help on some broken boards which
3747 machine check when some devices' config space
3748 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3749 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
3750 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3751 This sorting is done to get a device
3752 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3753 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3754 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3755 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3756 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3757 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3758 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3759 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3760 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3761 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3762 or bus can support) for best performance.
3763 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3764 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3765 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3766 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3767 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3768 that hot-added devices will work.
3769 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3770 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3771 The default value is 256 bytes.
3772 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3773 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3774 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3775 resource_alignment=
3776 Format:
3777 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
3778 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3779 aligned memory resources. How to
3780 specify the device is described above.
3781 If <order of align> is not specified,
3782 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003783 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003784 windows need to be expanded.
3785 To specify the alignment for several
3786 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3787 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003788 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
3789 for 4096-byte alignment.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003790 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3791 end-to-end CRC checking).
3792 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3793 the default.
3794 off: Turn ECRC off
3795 on: Turn ECRC on.
3796 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3797 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3798 Default size is 256 bytes.
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02003799 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3800 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
3801 Default size is 2 megabytes.
3802 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3803 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
3804 Default size is 2 megabytes.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003805 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02003806 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
3807 MMIO_PREF window.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003808 Default size is 2 megabytes.
3809 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3810 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3811 Default is 1.
3812 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3813 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3814 accommodate resources required by all child
3815 devices.
3816 off: Turn realloc off
3817 on: Turn realloc on
3818 realloc same as realloc=on
3819 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
3820 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3821 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
3822 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3823 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3824 port.
3825 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3826 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3827 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3828 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3829 conflict with unreported devices), so this
3830 taints the kernel.
3831 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
3832 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
3833 specified above) separated by semicolons.
3834 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
3835 redirect capabilities forced off which will
3836 allow P2P traffic between devices through
3837 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
3838 this removes isolation between devices and
3839 may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003840 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
3841 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02003842 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
3843 one PCI domain per PCI function
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003844
3845 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3846 Management.
3847 off Disable ASPM.
3848 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3849 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3850
3851 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3852 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3853 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3854 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform
3855 also tries to use these services.
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02003856 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May
3857 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003858 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3859 hotplug).
3860
3861 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3862 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3863 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3864
3865 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
3866 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
3867 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
3868
3869 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3870
3871 pd_ignore_unused
3872 [PM]
3873 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3874 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3875 for debug and development, but should not be
3876 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3877
3878 pd. [PARIDE]
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003879 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003880
3881 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3882 boot time.
3883 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3884 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3885
3886 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
3887 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3888 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3889 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3890 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3891 and performance comparison.
3892
3893 pf. [PARIDE]
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003894 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003895
3896 pg. [PARIDE]
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003897 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003898
3899 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00003900 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003901
3902 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3903 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3904 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
3905
3906 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
3907 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3908 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3909
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02003910 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL]
3911 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
3912
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00003913 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3914 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3915 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3916 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3917 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3918 possible settings and some assignment information.
3919
3920 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3921 { off }
3922
3923 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3924 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3925
3926 pnp_reserve_irq=
3927 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3928
3929 pnp_reserve_dma=
3930 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3931
3932 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
3933 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
3934
3935 pnp_reserve_mem=
3936 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3937 autoconfiguration.
3938 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3939
3940 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3941 Default is 21.
3942 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3943 may be specified.
3944 Format: <port>,<port>....
3945
3946 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3947 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3948 platform machine description specific power_save
3949 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3950 execution priority.
3951
3952 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3953 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3954 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3955 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3956 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3957
3958 ppc_tm= [PPC]
3959 Format: {"off"}
3960 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3961
3962 print-fatal-signals=
3963 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
3964
3965 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3966 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3967 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3968 coredump - etc.
3969
3970 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3971 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3972
3973 default: off.
3974
3975 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3976 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3977 panics
3978 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3979 default: disabled
3980
3981 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3982 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3983 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3984 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3985 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3986 Default: ratelimit
3987
3988 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3989 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3990
3991 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3992 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3993 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3994
3995 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3996 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3997 instead using the legacy FADT method
3998
3999 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
4000 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
4001 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
4002 [defaults to kernel profiling]
4003 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
4004 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
4005 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
4006 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
4007 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
4008 statistical time based profiling.
4009
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02004010 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated]
4011
4012 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
4013 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
4014 that).
4015 Format: <bool>
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00004016
4017 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
4018 tracking.
4019 Format: <bool>
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004020
4021 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
4022 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
4023 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
4024 per second.
4025 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
4026 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
4027 (0 = never).
4028 psmouse.resolution=
4029 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
4030 psmouse.smartscroll=
4031 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
4032 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
4033
4034 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
4035
4036 pt. [PARIDE]
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00004037 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004038
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02004039 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004040 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
4041 removes hardening, but improves performance of
4042 system calls and interrupts.
4043
4044 on - unconditionally enable
4045 off - unconditionally disable
4046 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4047 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
4048
4049 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
4050
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02004051 nopti [X86-64]
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004052 Equivalent to pti=off
4053
4054 pty.legacy_count=
4055 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
4056 default number.
4057
4058 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
4059
4060 r128= [HW,DRM]
4061
4062 raid= [HW,RAID]
4063 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
4064
4065 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00004066 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004067
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02004068 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address
4069
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004070 random.trust_cpu={on,off}
4071 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
4072 CPU's random number generator (if available) to
4073 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
4074 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
4075
Olivier Deprez92d4c212022-12-06 15:05:30 +01004076 random.trust_bootloader={on,off}
4077 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of a
4078 seed passed by the bootloader (if available) to
4079 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
4080 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER.
4081
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004082 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
4083
4084 cec_disable [X86]
4085 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
4086 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
4087
4088 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00004089 The argument is a cpu list, as described above,
4090 except that the string "all" can be used to
4091 specify every CPU on the system.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004092
4093 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
4094 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00004095 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be
4096 offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that
4097 purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and
4098 "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number.
4099 This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs,
4100 which can be useful for HPC and real-time
4101 workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency
4102 for asymmetric multiprocessors.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004103
4104 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
4105 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
4106 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
4107 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
4108 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
4109 This improves the real-time response for the
4110 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
4111 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
4112 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
4113 periodically wake up to do the polling.
4114
4115 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
4116 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
4117 process in one batch.
4118
4119 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
4120 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
4121 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
4122 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
4123
4124 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
4125 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4126 RCU grace-period cleanup.
4127
4128 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
4129 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4130 RCU grace-period initialization.
4131
4132 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
4133 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4134 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
4135 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
4136 the rcu_node combining tree.
4137
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00004138 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL]
4139 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
4140 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero
4141 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
4142 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
4143
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004144 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
4145 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
4146 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
4147 possibly be useful for architectures having high
4148 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
4149
4150 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
4151 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
4152 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
4153 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
4154 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
4155 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
4156 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
4157
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02004158 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
4159 Minimum number of objects which are cached and
4160 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
4161 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
4162 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
4163 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
4164 condition.
4165
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004166 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
4167 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
4168 first attempt to force quiescent states.
4169 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
4170 and maximum value is HZ.
4171
4172 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
4173 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
4174 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
4175 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
4176
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00004177 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
4178 Set required age in jiffies for a
4179 given grace period before RCU starts
4180 soliciting quiescent-state help from
4181 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
4182 If not specified, the kernel will calculate
4183 a value based on the most recent settings
4184 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
4185 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
4186 This calculated value may be viewed in
4187 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set
4188 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
4189 overwritten.
4190
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004191 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
4192 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
4193 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
4194 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
4195 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
4196 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
4197 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
4198 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
4199 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
4200 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
4201
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00004202 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
4203 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
4204 each group, which defaults to the square root
4205 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce
4206 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
4207 kthread, but increases that same overhead on
4208 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004209
4210 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
4211 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4212 batch limiting is disabled.
4213
4214 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
4215 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
4216 batch limiting is re-enabled.
4217
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02004218 rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
4219 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4220 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
4221 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
4222 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
4223 Set to less than zero to make this be set based
4224 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
4225 disable more aggressive help enlistment.
4226
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004227 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
4228 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
4229 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
4230
4231 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
4232 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
4233 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
4234 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
4235 prove do nothing more than free memory.
4236
4237 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
4238 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
4239 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
4240 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
4241 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
4242 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
4243
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02004244 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
4245 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
4246 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
4247 in microseconds. This defaults to zero.
4248 Larger delays increase the probability of
4249 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
4250 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
4251 rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
4252
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00004253 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
4254 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
4255 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
4256 why a new grace period has not yet started.
4257
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02004258 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004259 Measure performance of asynchronous
4260 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
4261
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02004262 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004263 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
4264 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
4265 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
4266 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
4267 previously posted callbacks to drain.
4268
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02004269 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004270 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
4271 grace-period primitives.
4272
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02004273 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004274 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
4275 this parameter is to delay the start of the
4276 test until boot completes in order to avoid
4277 interference.
4278
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02004279 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
4280 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
4281
4282 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
4283 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
4284
4285 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
4286 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
4287
4288 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
4289 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
4290 of allocations and frees.
4291
4292 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004293 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
4294 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
4295 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
4296 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
4297 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4298 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
4299 a single reader.
4300
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02004301 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004302 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02004303 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004304 N, where N is the number of CPUs
4305
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02004306 rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL]
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004307 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4308
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02004309 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004310 Shut the system down after performance tests
4311 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
4312 testing.
4313
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02004314 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004315 Enable additional printk() statements.
4316
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02004317 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004318 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
4319 in microseconds. The default of zero says
4320 no holdoff.
4321
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004322 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
4323 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
4324 in microseconds.
4325
4326 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
4327 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
4328 in microseconds.
4329
4330 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
4331 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
4332 in seconds.
4333
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00004334 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
4335 Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
4336 for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
4337
4338 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
4339 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
4340 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
4341
4342 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
4343 Number of seconds to wait between successive
4344 forward-progress tests.
4345
4346 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
4347 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
4348 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
4349 testing.
4350
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004351 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
4352 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
4353 primitives, if available.
4354
4355 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
4356 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4357
4358 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
4359 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
4360 update-side primitives, if available.
4361
4362 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
4363 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
4364 update-side primitives, if available. If all
4365 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
4366 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
4367 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
4368 they are all non-zero.
4369
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02004370 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
4371 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
4372 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU
4373 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
4374
4375 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
4376 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
4377 This can of course result in splats, and is
4378 intended to test the ability of things like
4379 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
4380 such leaks.
4381
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004382 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
4383 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
4384
4385 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
4386 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
4387 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
4388 test, hence the "fake".
4389
4390 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
4391 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
4392 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
4393 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
4394 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
4395 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4396
4397 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
4398 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
4399
4400 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
4401 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
4402
4403 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
4404 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
4405 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
4406
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02004407 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
4408 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
4409 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
4410 task-exit processing.
4411
4412 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
4413 The number of times in a given read-then-exit
4414 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
4415 is spawned.
4416
4417 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
4418 The delay, in seconds, between successive
4419 read-then-exit testing episodes.
4420
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004421 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
4422 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
4423 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
4424 during the rcutorture test.
4425
4426 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
4427 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
4428 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
4429
4430 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
4431 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
4432 warnings, zero to disable.
4433
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02004434 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
4435 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result
4436 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition
4437 to any other stall-related activity.
4438
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004439 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
4440 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
4441
4442 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
4443 Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
4444
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02004445 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
4446 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
4447 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
4448 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu
4449 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
4450 kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
4451
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004452 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
4453 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
4454
4455 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
4456 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
4457 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
4458 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
4459 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
4460
4461 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
4462 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
4463 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
4464 under test support RCU priority boosting.
4465
4466 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
4467 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
4468
4469 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
4470 Interval (s) between each boost test.
4471
4472 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
4473 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
4474 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
4475
4476 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
4477 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4478
4479 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
4480 Enable additional printk() statements.
4481
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00004482 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
4483 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
4484 stall warning.
4485
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004486 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
4487 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4488
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02004489 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
4490 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
4491 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
4492 during early boot, that is, during the time
4493 before the init task is spawned.
4494
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004495 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4496 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4497
4498 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
4499 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
4500 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
4501 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
4502 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
4503 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
4504 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4505
4506 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
4507 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
4508 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
4509 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
4510 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
4511 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
4512 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
4513 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
4514 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4515
4516 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
4517 Once boot has completed (that is, after
4518 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
4519 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
4520 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4521
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02004522 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
4523 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
4524 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
4525 of a given grace period. Setting a large
4526 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
4527 but lengthens grace periods.
4528
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004529 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4530 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
4531 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
4532 to zero.
4533
4534 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
4535 Run the RCU early boot self tests
4536
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004537 rdinit= [KNL]
4538 Format: <full_path>
4539 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
4540 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
4541
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00004542 rdrand= [X86]
4543 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
4544 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
4545 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
4546 support, specifically around the suspend/resume
4547 path).
4548
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004549 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
4550 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
4551 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
4552 mba.
4553 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
4554 rdt=cmt,!mba
4555
4556 reboot= [KNL]
4557 Format (x86 or x86_64):
4558 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
4559 [[,]s[mp]#### \
4560 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
4561 [[,]f[orce]
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00004562 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
4563 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
4564 reboot only),
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004565 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
4566 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
4567 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
4568 to be used for rebooting.
4569
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02004570 refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
4571 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
4572 this parameter is to delay the start of the
4573 test until boot completes in order to avoid
4574 interference.
4575
4576 refscale.loops= [KNL]
4577 Set the number of loops over the synchronization
4578 primitive under test. Increasing this number
4579 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
4580 but the default has already reduced the per-pass
4581 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
4582 x86 laptops.
4583
4584 refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
4585 Set number of readers. The default value of -1
4586 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
4587 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice.
4588
4589 refscale.nruns= [KNL]
4590 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
4591 the console log.
4592
4593 refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
4594 Set the read-side critical-section duration,
4595 measured in microseconds.
4596
4597 refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
4598 Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
4599
4600 refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
4601 Shut down the system at the end of the performance
4602 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
4603 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
4604 it running) when refscale is built as a module.
4605
4606 refscale.verbose= [KNL]
4607 Enable additional printk() statements.
4608
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004609 relax_domain_level=
4610 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00004611 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004612
4613 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
4614 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
4615 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
4616 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
4617 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
4618
4619 reservetop= [X86-32]
4620 Format: nn[KMG]
4621 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
4622 address space.
4623
4624 reservelow= [X86]
4625 Format: nn[K]
4626 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
4627 the bottom of the address space.
4628
4629 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
4630 during initialization.
4631
4632 resume= [SWSUSP]
4633 Specify the partition device for software suspend
4634 Format:
4635 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
4636
4637 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
4638 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
4639 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
4640 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00004641 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004642
4643 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4644 read the resume files
4645
4646 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
4647 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4648 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4649
4650 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
4651 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
4652 present during boot.
4653 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
4654 no Disable hibernation and resume.
4655 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
4656 (that will set all pages holding image data
4657 during restoration read-only).
4658
4659 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
4660
Olivier Deprez92d4c212022-12-06 15:05:30 +01004661 retbleed= [X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary
4662 Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions)
4663 vulnerability.
4664
4665 AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop
4666 sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other
4667 sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro-
4668 cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors
4669 that don't.
4670
4671 off - no mitigation
4672 auto - automatically select a migitation
4673 auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation,
4674 disabling SMT if necessary for
4675 the full mitigation (only on Zen1
4676 and older without STIBP).
4677 ibpb - On AMD, mitigate short speculation
4678 windows on basic block boundaries too.
4679 Safe, highest perf impact. It also
4680 enables STIBP if present. Not suitable
4681 on Intel.
4682 ibpb,nosmt - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT
4683 when STIBP is not available. This is
4684 the alternative for systems which do not
4685 have STIBP.
4686 unret - Force enable untrained return thunks,
4687 only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based
4688 systems.
4689 unret,nosmt - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP
4690 is not available. This is the alternative for
4691 systems which do not have STIBP.
4692
4693 Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run
4694 time according to the CPU.
4695
4696 Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto.
4697
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004698 rfkill.default_state=
4699 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
4700 etc. communication is blocked by default.
4701 1 Unblocked.
4702
4703 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
4704 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
4705 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4706 blocked and the previous configuration.
4707 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4708 blocked and everything unblocked.
4709
4710 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4711 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
4712
4713 ring3mwait=disable
4714 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
4715 CPUs.
4716
4717 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
4718
4719 rodata= [KNL]
4720 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
4721 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
4722
4723 rockchip.usb_uart
4724 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
4725 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
4726 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
4727 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
4728
4729 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
4730 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
4731
4732 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4733 mount the root filesystem
4734
4735 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
4736
4737 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
4738
4739 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
4740 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4741 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4742
4743 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
4744 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
4745 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
4746 managed by CMA.
4747
4748 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
4749
4750 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
4751
4752 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
4753 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
4754 strict
4755 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
4756 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
4757 which is faster.
4758
4759 sa1100ir [NET]
4760 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
4761
4762 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
4763
4764 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
4765
4766 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
4767 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
4768 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
4769 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
4770
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02004771 sched_thermal_decay_shift=
4772 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
4773 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
4774 default decay period of other scheduler pelt
4775 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
4776 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
4777 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
4778 value.
4779 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
4780 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr
4781 1 64 ms
4782 2 128 ms
4783 and so on.
4784 Format: integer between 0 and 10
4785 Default is 0.
4786
4787 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
4788 Number of seconds to hold off before starting
4789 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and
4790 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
4791 tests.
4792
4793 scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
4794 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
4795 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the
4796 default) disables this feature. Please note
4797 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
4798 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
4799 softlockup complaints, and so on.
4800
4801 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
4802 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
4803 smp_call_function() family of functions.
4804 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
4805 equal to the number of CPUs.
4806
4807 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
4808 Number seconds to wait after the start of the
4809 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
4810
4811 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
4812 Number seconds to wait between successive
4813 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which
4814 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
4815
4816 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
4817 The number of seconds following the start of the
4818 test after which to shut down the system. The
4819 default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
4820 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
4821
4822 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
4823 The number of seconds between outputting the
4824 current test statistics to the console. A value
4825 of zero disables statistics output.
4826
4827 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
4828 The number of jiffies to wait between each change
4829 to the set of CPUs under test.
4830
4831 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
4832 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
4833 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
4834 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
4835 functions.
4836
4837 scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
4838 Enable additional printk() statements.
4839
4840 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
4841 The probability weighting to use for the
4842 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
4843 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the
4844 default if all other weights are -1. However,
4845 if at least one weight has some other value, a
4846 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
4847
4848 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
4849 The probability weighting to use for the
4850 smp_call_function_single() function with a
4851 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single.
4852
4853 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
4854 The probability weighting to use for the
4855 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
4856 "wait" parameter. See weight_single.
4857 Note well that setting a high probability for
4858 this weighting can place serious IPI load
4859 on the system.
4860
4861 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
4862 The probability weighting to use for the
4863 smp_call_function_many() function with a
4864 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single
4865 and weight_many.
4866
4867 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
4868 The probability weighting to use for the
4869 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
4870 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and
4871 weight_many.
4872
4873 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
4874 The probability weighting to use for the
4875 smp_call_function_all() function with a
4876 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single
4877 and weight_many.
4878
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004879 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
4880 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
4881 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
4882 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4883 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
4884 1 -- enable.
4885 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
4886 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
4887
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00004888 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
4889 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
4890 "lsm=" parameter.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004891
4892 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
4893 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4894 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
4895 0 -- disable.
4896 1 -- enable.
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02004897 Default value is 1.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004898
4899 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
4900 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4901 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
4902 0 -- disable.
4903 1 -- enable.
4904 Default value is set via kernel config option.
4905
4906 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
4907
4908 shapers= [NET]
4909 Maximal number of shapers.
4910
4911 simeth= [IA-64]
4912 simscsi=
4913
4914 slram= [HW,MTD]
4915
4916 slab_nomerge [MM]
4917 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
4918 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
4919 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
4920 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
4921 layout control by attackers can usually be
4922 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
4923 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
4924 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
4925 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
4926 own.
4927 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4928
4929 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
4930 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4931 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4932 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
4933 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
4934
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02004935 slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB]
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004936 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
4937 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
4938 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
4939 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
4940 last alloc / free. For more information see
4941 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4942
4943 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
4944 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
4945 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
4946 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
4947 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
4948 directories and files being created under
4949 /sys/kernel/slub.
4950
4951 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
4952 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4953 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4954 fragmentation. For more information see
4955 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4956
4957 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
4958 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
4959 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
4960 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
4961 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
4962 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
4963 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
4964 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4965
4966 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
4967 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
4968 lower than slub_max_order.
4969 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4970
4971 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
4972 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
4973 See slab_nomerge for more information.
4974
4975 smart2= [HW]
4976 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
4977
4978 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
4979 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
4980 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
4981 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
4982 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
4983 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
4984 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
4985 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
4986 1: Fast pin select (default)
4987 2: ATC IRMode
4988
4989 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4990 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4991 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4992 actual hardware limit.
4993 Format: <integer>
4994 Default: -1 (no limit)
4995
4996 softlockup_panic=
4997 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02004998 Format: 0 | 1
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00004999
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02005000 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
5001 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
5002 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
5003 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
5004 respective build-time switch to that functionality.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005005
5006 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
5007 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
5008 backtraces on all cpus.
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02005009 Format: 0 | 1
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005010
5011 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00005012 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005013
5014 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5015 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
5016 The default operation protects the kernel from
5017 user space attacks.
5018
5019 on - unconditionally enable, implies
5020 spectre_v2_user=on
5021 off - unconditionally disable, implies
5022 spectre_v2_user=off
5023 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
5024 vulnerable
5025
5026 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
5027 mitigation method at run time according to the
5028 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
5029 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
5030 compiler with which the kernel was built.
5031
5032 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
5033 against user space to user space task attacks.
5034
5035 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
5036 the user space protections.
5037
5038 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
5039
5040 retpoline - replace indirect branches
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02005041 retpoline,generic - Retpolines
5042 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch
5043 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence
5044 eibrs - enhanced IBRS
5045 eibrs,retpoline - enhanced IBRS + Retpolines
5046 eibrs,lfence - enhanced IBRS + LFENCE
Olivier Deprez92d4c212022-12-06 15:05:30 +01005047 ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005048
5049 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5050 spectre_v2=auto.
5051
5052 spectre_v2_user=
5053 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5054 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
5055 user space tasks
5056
5057 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
5058 enforced by spectre_v2=on
5059
5060 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
5061 enforced by spectre_v2=off
5062
5063 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
5064 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
5065 per thread. The mitigation control state
5066 is inherited on fork.
5067
5068 prctl,ibpb
5069 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
5070 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5071 always when switching between different user
5072 space processes.
5073
5074 seccomp
5075 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
5076 threads will enable the mitigation unless
5077 they explicitly opt out.
5078
5079 seccomp,ibpb
5080 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
5081 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5082 always when switching between different
5083 user space processes.
5084
5085 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
5086 the available CPU features and vulnerability.
5087
5088 Default mitigation:
5089 If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
5090
5091 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5092 spectre_v2_user=auto.
5093
5094 spec_store_bypass_disable=
5095 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
5096 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
5097
5098 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
5099 a common industry wide performance optimization known
5100 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
5101 to the same memory location may not be observed by
5102 later loads during speculative execution. The idea
5103 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
5104 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
5105 end of a particular speculation execution window.
5106
5107 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5108 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
5109 example to read memory to which the attacker does not
5110 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
5111
5112 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
5113 Bypass optimization is used.
5114
5115 On x86 the options are:
5116
5117 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
5118 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
5119 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
5120 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
5121 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
5122 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
5123 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
5124 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
5125 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
5126 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
5127 for a process by default. The state of the control
5128 is inherited on fork.
5129 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
5130 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
5131
5132 Default mitigations:
5133 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
5134
5135 On powerpc the options are:
5136
5137 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
5138 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
5139 perform a software flush on kernel entry and
5140 exit.
5141 off - No action.
5142
5143 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5144 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
5145
5146 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
5147 spia_fio_base=
5148 spia_pedr=
5149 spia_peddr=
5150
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02005151 split_lock_detect=
5152 [X86] Enable split lock detection
5153
5154 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
5155 instructions that access data across cache line
5156 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception.
5157
5158 off - not enabled
5159
5160 warn - the kernel will emit rate limited warnings
5161 about applications triggering the #AC
5162 exception. This mode is the default on CPUs
5163 that supports split lock detection.
5164
5165 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
5166 that trigger the #AC exception.
5167
5168 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
5169 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
5170 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
5171 mode.
5172
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +02005173 srbds= [X86,INTEL]
5174 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
5175 (SRBDS) mitigation.
5176
5177 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
5178 exploit which can leak bits from the random
5179 number generator.
5180
5181 By default, this issue is mitigated by
5182 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause
5183 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
5184 much slower. Among other effects, this will
5185 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
5186
5187 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
5188 the following option:
5189
5190 off: Disable mitigation and remove
5191 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
5192
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005193 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
5194 Specifies how frequently to check for
5195 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
5196 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
5197 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
5198 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
5199 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
5200 are ignored.
5201
5202 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
5203 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
5204 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
5205 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
5206 grace period will be considered for automatic
5207 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
5208 expediting.
5209
5210 ssbd= [ARM64,HW]
5211 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
5212
5213 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
5214 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
5215 firmware based mitigation, this parameter
5216 indicates how the mitigation should be used:
5217
5218 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for
5219 for both kernel and userspace
5220 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
5221 for both kernel and userspace
5222 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the
5223 kernel, and offer a prctl interface
5224 to allow userspace to register its
5225 interest in being mitigated too.
5226
5227 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
5228 override the default stack gap protection. The value
5229 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
5230 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
5231 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
5232 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
5233
5234 stacktrace [FTRACE]
5235 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
5236
5237 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
5238 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
5239 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
5240 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
5241 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
5242 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
5243 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
5244
5245 sti= [PARISC,HW]
5246 Format: <num>
5247 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
5248 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
5249 as the initial boot-console.
5250 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5251
5252 sti_font= [HW]
5253 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5254
5255 stifb= [HW]
5256 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
5257
5258 sunrpc.min_resvport=
5259 sunrpc.max_resvport=
5260 [NFS,SUNRPC]
5261 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
5262 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
5263 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
5264 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
5265 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
5266 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
5267 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
5268 maximum port values.
5269
5270 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
5271 [NFS,SUNRPC]
5272 Limit the number of requests that the server will
5273 process in parallel from a single connection.
5274 The default value is 0 (no limit).
5275
5276 sunrpc.pool_mode=
5277 [NFS]
5278 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
5279 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
5280 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
5281 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
5282 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
5283 NFS server is running.
5284
5285 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
5286 automatically using heuristics
5287 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
5288 percpu one pool for each CPU
5289 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
5290 to global on non-NUMA machines)
5291
5292 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
5293 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
5294 [NFS,SUNRPC]
5295 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
5296 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
5297 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
5298 improve throughput, but will also increase the
5299 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
5300
5301 suspend.pm_test_delay=
5302 [SUSPEND]
5303 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
5304 mode before resuming the system (see
5305 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
5306 is set. Default value is 5.
5307
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00005308 svm= [PPC]
5309 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
5310 This parameter controls use of the Protected
5311 Execution Facility on pSeries.
5312
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005313 swapaccount=[0|1]
5314 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
5315 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00005316 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005317
5318 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
5319 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
5320 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
5321 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
5322 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
5323 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
5324
5325 switches= [HW,M68k]
5326
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02005327 sysctl.*= [KNL]
5328 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
5329 process, as if the value was written to the respective
5330 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
5331 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
5332 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
5333 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
5334 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
5335
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005336 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
5337 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
5338 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
5339 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
5340 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
5341 in older udev will not work anymore.
5342 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
5343 the kernel configuration.
5344
5345 sysrq_always_enabled
5346 [KNL]
5347 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
5348 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
5349 Useful for debugging.
5350
5351 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
5352 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
5353 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
5354 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02005355 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005356 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
5357
5358 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
5359
5360 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
5361 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
5362 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
5363 as the system sleep state during system startup with
5364 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
5365 The system is woken from this state using a
5366 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
5367
5368 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
5369 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
5370
5371 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
5372 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
5373 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
5374
5375 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
5376 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
5377 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
5378
5379 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
5380 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
5381 critical and hot trip points.
5382
5383 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
5384 1: disable ACPI thermal control
5385
5386 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
5387 -1: disable all passive trip points
5388 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
5389 value
5390
5391 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
5392 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
5393 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
5394 0: no polling (default)
5395
5396 threadirqs [KNL]
5397 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
5398 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
5399
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005400 topology= [S390]
5401 Format: {off | on}
5402 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
5403 topology information if the hardware supports this.
5404 The scheduler will make use of this information and
5405 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
5406 Default is on.
5407
5408 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
5409 Format: {off}
5410 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
5411 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
5412 LPAR.
5413
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02005414 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
5415 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
5416 until after init has spawned.
5417
5418 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
5419 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
5420 even if there were no errors. This can be a
5421 very costly operation when many torture tests
5422 are running concurrently, especially on systems
5423 with rotating-rust storage.
5424
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005425 tp720= [HW,PS2]
5426
5427 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
5428 Format: integer pcr id
5429 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
5430 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
5431 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
5432 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
5433 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
5434 are saved.
5435
5436 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
5437 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
5438
5439 trace_event=[event-list]
5440 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
5441 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
5442 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
5443 also Documentation/trace/events.rst
5444
5445 trace_options=[option-list]
5446 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
5447 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
5448 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
5449 to echo the option name into
5450
5451 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
5452
5453 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
5454 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
5455
5456 trace_options=stacktrace
5457
5458 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
5459 section.
5460
5461 tp_printk[FTRACE]
5462 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
5463 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
5464 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
5465 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
5466 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
5467
5468 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
5469 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
5470 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
5471 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
5472
5473 ** CAUTION **
5474
5475 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
5476 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
5477 the system to live lock.
5478
5479 traceoff_on_warning
5480 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
5481 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
5482 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
5483 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
5484
5485 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
5486 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
5487 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
5488
5489 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
5490 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
5491
5492 transparent_hugepage=
5493 [KNL]
5494 Format: [always|madvise|never]
5495 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
5496 with respect to transparent hugepages.
5497 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
5498 for more details.
5499
5500 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
5501 Format: <string>
5502 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
5503 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
5504 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
5505 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
5506 virtualized environment.
5507 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
5508 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
5509 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
5510 can add overhead.
5511 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
5512 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
5513 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00005514 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
5515 in situations with strict latency requirements (where
5516 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
5517 acceptable).
5518
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02005519 tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
5520 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
5521 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
5522 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
5523 Format: <unsigned int>
5524
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00005525 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
5526 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
5527 support TSX control.
5528
5529 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
5530
5531 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
5532 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
5533 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
5534 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
5535 so there may be unknown security risks associated
5536 with leaving it enabled.
5537
5538 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
5539 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
5540 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
5541 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
5542 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
5543 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
5544 deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
5545
5546 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
5547 otherwise enable TSX on the system.
5548
5549 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
5550
5551 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
5552 for more details.
5553
5554 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
5555 Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
5556
5557 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
5558 certain CPUs that support Transactional
5559 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
5560 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
5561 information to a disclosure gadget under certain
5562 conditions.
5563
5564 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5565 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
5566 access data to which the attacker does not have direct
5567 access.
5568
5569 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The
5570 options are:
5571
5572 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
5573 if TSX is enabled.
5574
5575 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
5576 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
5577 is not disabled because CPU is not
5578 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
5579 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
5580
5581 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
5582 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
5583 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
5584 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
5585
5586 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5587 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected
5588 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
5589 required and doesn't provide any additional
5590 mitigation.
5591
5592 For details see:
5593 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005594
5595 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
5596 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
5597 Format:
5598 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
5599 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
5600
5601 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
5602 happen after console_init() and before a proper
5603 console driver takes over, this boot options might
5604 help "seeing" what's going on.
5605
5606 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
5607 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
5608
5609 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
5610 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
5611 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
5612 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
5613 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
5614 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
5615 reported either.
5616
5617 unknown_nmi_panic
5618 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
5619
5620 usbcore.authorized_default=
5621 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
5622 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00005623 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
5624 if device connected to internal port)
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005625
5626 usbcore.autosuspend=
5627 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
5628 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
5629 is the time required before an idle device will be
5630 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
5631 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
5632
5633 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
5634 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
5635
5636 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
5637 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
5638 (default = 65536).
5639
5640 usbcore.blinkenlights=
5641 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
5642
5643 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
5644 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +02005645 scheme (default 0 = off).
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005646
5647 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
5648 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
5649 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
5650
5651 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
5652 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
5653 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
5654
5655 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
5656 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
5657 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
5658 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
5659
5660 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
5661
5662 usbcore.quirks=
5663 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
5664 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
5665 commas. Each entry has the form
5666 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
5667 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
5668 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
5669 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
5670 the following meanings:
5671 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
5672 descriptors must not be fetched using
5673 a 255-byte read);
5674 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
5675 correctly so reset it instead);
5676 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
5677 Set-Interface requests);
5678 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
5679 handle its Configuration or Interface
5680 strings);
5681 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
5682 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
5683 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
5684 more interface descriptions than the
5685 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
5686 talking to these interfaces);
5687 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
5688 during initialization, after we read
5689 the device descriptor);
5690 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
5691 high speed and super speed interrupt
5692 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
5693 require the interval in microframes (1
5694 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
5695 calculated as interval = 2 ^
5696 (bInterval-1).
5697 Devices with this quirk report their
5698 bInterval as the result of this
5699 calculation instead of the exponent
5700 variable used in the calculation);
5701 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
5702 handle device_qualifier descriptor
5703 requests);
5704 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
5705 generates spurious wakeup, ignore
5706 remote wakeup capability);
5707 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
5708 Power Management);
5709 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
5710 (Device reports its bInterval as linear
5711 frames instead of the USB 2.0
5712 calculation);
5713 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
5714 to be disconnected before suspend to
5715 prevent spurious wakeup);
5716 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
5717 pause after every control message);
5718 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
5719 delay after resetting its port);
5720 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
5721
5722 usbhid.mousepoll=
5723 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
5724
5725 usbhid.jspoll=
5726 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
5727
5728 usbhid.kbpoll=
5729 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
5730
5731 usb-storage.delay_use=
5732 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
5733 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
5734
5735 usb-storage.quirks=
5736 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
5737 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
5738 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
5739 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
5740 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
5741 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
5742 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
5743 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +02005744 of sense data, not on uas);
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005745 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +02005746 bytes of sense data, not on uas);
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005747 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
5748 device capacity by one sector);
5749 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +02005750 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005751 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
5752 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
5753 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
5754 command, uas only);
5755 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
5756 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
5757 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
5758 reported device capacity by one
5759 sector if the number is odd);
5760 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
5761 device);
5762 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
5763 command, uas only);
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +02005764 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005765 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +02005766 unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005767 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +02005768 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
5769 not on uas);
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005770 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +02005771 initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005772 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +02005773 reported by the device, not on uas);
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005774 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +02005775 by default, not on uas);
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005776 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +02005777 bogus residue values, not on uas);
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005778 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
5779 Logical Unit);
5780 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
5781 commands, uas only);
5782 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
5783 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
5784 medium is write-protected).
5785 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +02005786 even if the device claims no cache,
5787 not on uas)
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005788 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
5789
5790 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
5791 Format: <int>
5792 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
5793 1 - undefined instruction events
5794 2 - system calls
5795 4 - invalid data aborts
5796 8 - SIGSEGV faults
5797 16 - SIGBUS faults
5798 Example: user_debug=31
5799
5800 userpte=
5801 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
5802
5803 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
5804 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
5805 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
5806
5807 vdso= [X86,SH]
5808 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
5809
5810 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
5811 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
5812
5813 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
5814 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
5815 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
5816
5817 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
5818 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
5819 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
5820
5821 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
5822 alias for vdso32=0.
5823
5824 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
5825 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
5826
5827 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
5828 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
5829
5830 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00005831 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005832
5833 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
5834 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
5835 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
5836 level and then send out the event to user space through
5837 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
5838 will only send out the event without touching backlight
5839 brightness level.
5840 default: 1
5841
5842 virtio_mmio.device=
5843 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
5844
5845 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
5846 where:
5847 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
5848 like K, M and G)
5849 <baseaddr> := physical base address
5850 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
5851 request_irq())
5852 <id> := (optional) platform device id
5853 example:
5854 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
5855
5856 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
5857
5858 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00005859 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
5860 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005861 Use vga=ask for menu.
5862 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
5863 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
5864
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00005865 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
5866 May slow down system boot speed, especially when
5867 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
5868 All options are enabled by default, and this
5869 interface is meant to allow for selectively
5870 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
5871 debugging features.
5872
5873 Available options are:
5874 P Enable page structure init time poisoning
5875 - Disable all of the above options
5876
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005877 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
5878 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
5879 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
5880 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
5881 mapped kernel RAM.
5882
5883 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390]
5884 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
5885 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
5886
5887 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
5888 Format: <command>
5889
5890 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
5891 Format: <command>
5892
5893 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
5894 Format: <command>
5895
5896 vsyscall= [X86-64]
5897 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
5898 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
5899 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
5900 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
5901 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
5902 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
5903
5904 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00005905 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall
5906 page is readable.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005907
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00005908 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5909 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall
5910 page is not readable.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005911
5912 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
5913 them quite hard to use for exploits but
5914 might break your system.
5915
5916 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
5917 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
5918 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
5919
5920 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
5921 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
5922 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
5923 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
5924
5925 vt.default_blu= [VT]
5926 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
5927 Change the default blue palette of the console.
5928 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5929 ranging from 0-255.
5930
5931 vt.default_grn= [VT]
5932 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
5933 Change the default green palette of the console.
5934 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5935 ranging from 0-255.
5936
5937 vt.default_red= [VT]
5938 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
5939 Change the default red palette of the console.
5940 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5941 ranging from 0-255.
5942
5943 vt.default_utf8=
5944 [VT]
5945 Format=<0|1>
5946 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
5947 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
5948 newly opened terminals.
5949
5950 vt.global_cursor_default=
5951 [VT]
5952 Format=<-1|0|1>
5953 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
5954 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
5955 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
5956 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
5957 cursors, 1 will display them.
5958
5959 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
5960 Default: 2 = green.
5961
5962 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
5963 Default: 3 = cyan.
5964
5965 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00005966 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005967 or other driver-specific files in the
5968 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
5969
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00005970 watchdog_thresh=
5971 [KNL]
5972 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
5973 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
5974 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
5975 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
5976 seconds.
5977
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00005978 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
5979 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
5980 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
5981 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
5982 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
5983 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
5984 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
5985 corresponding sysfs file.
5986
5987 workqueue.disable_numa
5988 By default, all work items queued to unbound
5989 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
5990 issued on, which results in better behavior in
5991 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
5992 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
5993 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
5994 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
5995
5996 workqueue.power_efficient
5997 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
5998 they show better performance thanks to cache
5999 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
6000 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
6001
6002 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
6003 were observed to contribute significantly to power
6004 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
6005 power usage at the cost of small performance
6006 overhead.
6007
6008 The default value of this parameter is determined by
6009 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
6010
6011 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
6012 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
6013 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
6014 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
6015 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
6016 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
6017 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
6018 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
6019 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
6020 impacted.
6021
6022 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
6023 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
6024 supporting x2apic.
6025
6026 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
6027 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
6028 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
6029 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
6030 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
6031
6032 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
6033 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
6034 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
6035 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
6036 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
6037 domains.
6038
6039 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
6040 Unplug Xen emulated devices
6041 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
6042 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
6043 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
6044 nics -- unplug network devices
6045 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
6046 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
6047 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
6048 the unplug protocol
6049 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
6050
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00006051 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN]
6052 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
6053 panic() code such as dumping handler.
6054
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00006055 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02006056 Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations.
6057 This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which
6058 has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00006059
6060 xen_nopv [X86]
6061 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
6062 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00006063 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
6064 has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00006065
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +02006066 xen_no_vector_callback
6067 [KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen
6068 event channel interrupts.
6069
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00006070 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN]
6071 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
6072 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
6073 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
6074 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
6075
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00006076 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN]
6077 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
6078 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
6079 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
6080 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
6081 more timer interrupts.
6082
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02006083 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN]
6084 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
6085 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory.
6086 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and
6087 started with less memory configured than allowed at
6088 max. Default is 180.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00006089
Olivier Deprez0e641232021-09-23 10:07:05 +02006090 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN]
6091 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
6092 storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
6093
6094 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN]
6095 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
6096 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
6097
Olivier Deprez157378f2022-04-04 15:47:50 +02006098 xen.fifo_events= [XEN]
6099 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
6100 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
6101 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
6102 fairer and the number of possible event channels is
6103 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
6104
6105 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
6106 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
6107 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
6108 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
6109
6110 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM]
6111 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
6112 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
6113 contention.
6114
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00006115 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
6116 Format:
6117 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
6118
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00006119 xive= [PPC]
6120 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
6121 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
6122 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
6123
6124 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
6125 controller on both pseries and powernv
6126 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
6127
Andrew Scullb4b6d4a2019-01-02 15:54:55 +00006128 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL]
6129 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
6130 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
6131 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
David Brazdil0f672f62019-12-10 10:32:29 +00006132
6133 xmon [PPC]
6134 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
6135 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
6136 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
6137 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
6138 debugger is called from setup_arch().
6139 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
6140 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
6141 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
6142 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
6143 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
6144 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
6145 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
6146 can be written using xmon commands.
6147 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
6148 memory, and other data can't be written using
6149 xmon commands.
6150 off xmon is disabled.