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1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4 copy_dsdt }
5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14 are available
15
16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
17
18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
19 Format: <int>
20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21 1,0: use 1st APIC table
22 default: 0
23
24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
25 acpi_backlight=vendor
26 acpi_backlight=video
27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
31 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
37 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41 This option is useful for developers to identify the
42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
45 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
47 Format: <int>
48 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
55 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
56 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
57 debug layers and levels.
58
59 Enable processor driver info messages:
60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64 object while interpreting AML:
65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69 Some values produce so much output that the system is
70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71 if you need to capture more output.
72
73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
74 { strict | lax | no }
75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79 can interfere with legacy drivers.
80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87 no further checks are performed.
88
89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92 size limitation.
93
94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95 ACPI will balance active IRQs
96 default in APIC mode
97
98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100 default in PIC mode
101
102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106 use by PCI
107 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113 the GPE dispatcher.
114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115 GPE floodings.
116 Format: <byte>
117
118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122 auto-serialization feature.
123 This feature is enabled by default.
124 This option allows to turn off the feature.
125
126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
127 kernels.
128
129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132 installed automatically and they will appear under
133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134 This option turns off this feature.
135 Note that specifying this option does not affect
136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
138
139 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT]
140 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
141 a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
142
143 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
144 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
145 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
146 second kernel for kdump.
147
148 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
149 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
150
151 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
152 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
153 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
154 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
155 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
156
157 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
158 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
159 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
160 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
161 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
162 strings
163 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
164 strings
165 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
166
167 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
168 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
169 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
170 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
171 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
172 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
173 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
174 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
175 care about the state of the feature group strings which
176 should be controlled by the OSPM.
177 Examples:
178 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
179 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
180 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
181
182 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
183 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
184 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
185 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
186 multiple times through kernel command line is also
187 meaningless.
188 Examples:
189 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
190 FALSE.
191
192 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
193 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
194 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
195 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
196 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
197 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
198 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
199 there are quirks related to this string. This command
200 is useful when one want to control the state of the
201 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
202 the OSPM features.
203 Examples:
204 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
205 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
206 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
207 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
208 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
209 equivalent to
210 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
211 and
212 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
213 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
214
215 acpi_pm_good [X86]
216 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
217 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
218 and always returns good values.
219
220 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
221 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
222
223 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
224 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
225 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
226
227 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
228 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
229 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
230 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
231 s3_bios and s3_mode.
232 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
233 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
234 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
235 used during resume from hibernation.
236 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
237 control method, with respect to putting devices into
238 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
239 of _PTS is used by default).
240 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
241 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
242 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
243 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
244 but some broken systems don't work without it).
245 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
246 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
247 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
248
249 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
250 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
251 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
252
253 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
254 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
255
256 agp= [AGP]
257 { off | try_unsupported }
258 off: disable AGP support
259 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
260 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
261
262 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
263 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
264
265 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
266 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
267 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
268 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
269
270 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
271 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
272 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
273 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
274 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
275 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
276 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
277
278 32: only for 32-bit processes
279 64: only for 64-bit processes
280 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
281 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
282
283 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
284 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
285 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
286 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
287 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
288 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
289
290 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
291 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
292 Possible values are:
293 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
294 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
295 flushed before they will be reused, which
296 is a lot of faster
297 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
298 the system
299 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
300 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
301 allowed anymore to lift isolation
302 requirements as needed. This option
303 does not override iommu=pt
304
305 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
306 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
307 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
308 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
309 IOMMU initialization.
310
311 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
312 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
313 remapping modes:
314 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
315 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
316 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
317 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
318 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
319
320 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
321 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
322 Format: <a>,<b>
323 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
324
325 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
326 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
327 connected to one of 16 gameports
328 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
329
330 apc= [HW,SPARC]
331 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
332 Format: noidle
333 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
334 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
335 APC and your system crashes randomly.
336
337 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
338 Change the output verbosity while booting
339 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
340 Change the amount of debugging information output
341 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
342 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
343 driver name.
344 Format: apic=driver_name
345 Examples: apic=bigsmp
346
347 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
348 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
349 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
350 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
351 backup of CPU 0
352 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
353 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
354 shot down by NMI
355
356 autoconf= [IPV6]
357 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
358
359 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
360 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
361 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
362 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
363 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
364 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
365 apic=verbose is specified.
366 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
367
368 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
369 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
370
371 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
372 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
373
374 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
375
376 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
377
378 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
379 EzKey and similar keyboards
380
381 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
382
383 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
384 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
385
386 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
387 keyboards
388
389 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
390 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
391
392 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
393 Use software keyboard repeat
394
395 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
396 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
397 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
398 enabled until the next reboot
399 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
400 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
401 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
402 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
403 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
404 userspace auditd.
405 Default: unset
406
407 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
408 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
409 Default: 64
410
411 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
412 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
413 Format: { "0" | "1" }
414 0 - Disable the BAU.
415 1 - Enable the BAU.
416 unset - Disable the BAU.
417
418 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
419 Format: <io>,<mode>
420
421 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
422 Format: <io>,<mode>
423 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
424
425 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
426 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
427 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
428 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
429
430 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
431 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
432 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
433 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
434
435 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
436 embedded devices based on command line input.
437 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
438
439 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
440 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
441 no delay (0).
442 Format: integer
443
444 bootconfig [KNL]
445 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
446 and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
447
448 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
449
450 bert_disable [ACPI]
451 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
452
453 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
454 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
455 kernel args too.
456 bttv.pll= See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
457 bttv.tuner=
458
459 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
460 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
461 at a time.
462
463 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
464
465 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
466 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
467 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
468 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
469 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
470 This option provides an override for these situations.
471
472 carrier_timeout=
473 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
474 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
475 it waits 120 seconds.
476
477 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
478 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
479 trust validation.
480 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
481
482 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
483 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
484 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
485 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
486 others).
487
488 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
489 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
490
491 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
492 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
493 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
494 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
495 a single hierarchy
496 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
497 subsystem
498 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
499 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
500 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
501
502 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
503 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
504 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
505 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
506 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
507 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
508 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
509 all v1 hierarchies.
510
511 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
512 Format: <string>
513 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
514 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
515
516 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
517 Format: { "0" | "1" }
518 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
519 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
520 any implied execute protection).
521 1 -- check protection requested by application.
522 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
523 Value can be changed at runtime via
524 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
525
526 cio_ignore= [S390]
527 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
528 clk_ignore_unused
529 [CLK]
530 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
531 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
532 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
533 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
534 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
535 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
536 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
537 platform with proper driver support. For more
538 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
539
540 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
541 [Deprecated]
542 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
543 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
544 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
545 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
546
547 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
548 Format: <string>
549 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
550 with the name specified.
551 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
552 the platform:
553 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
554 [ACPI] acpi_pm
555 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
556 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
557 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
558 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
559 [MIPS] MIPS
560 [PARISC] cr16
561 [S390] tod
562 [SH] SuperH
563 [SPARC64] tick
564 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
565
566 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
567 [ARM,ARM64]
568 Format: <bool>
569 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
570 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
571 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
572 systems.
573
574 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
575 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
576 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
577 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
578 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
579 ones should be.
580 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
581 or using the feature without checking anything
582 will still see it. This just prevents it from
583 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
584 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
585 some critical bits.
586
587 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
588 [ARM,X86,KNL]
589 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
590 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
591 placement constraint by the physical address range of
592 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
593 altogether. For more information, see
594 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
595
596 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
597 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
598 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
599 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
600 a hypervisor.
601 Default: yes
602
603 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
604 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
605 allocations, by default set to 256K.
606
607 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
608 Format:
609 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
610
611 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
612 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
613
614 com90xx= [HW,NET]
615 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
616 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
617
618 condev= [HW,S390] console device
619 conmode=
620
621 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
622
623 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
624
625 ttyS<n>[,options]
626 ttyUSB0[,options]
627 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
628 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
629 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
630 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
631 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
632
633 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
634 information. See
635 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
636 alternative.
637
638 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
639 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
640 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
641 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
642 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
643 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
644 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
645 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
646 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
647 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
648 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
649 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
650 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
651 the h/w is not re-initialized.
652
653 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
654 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
655
656 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
657 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
658 console=brl,ttyS0
659 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
660
661 console_msg_format=
662 [KNL] Change console messages format
663 default
664 By default we print messages on consoles in
665 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
666 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
667 `printk_time' param).
668 syslog
669 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
670 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
671 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
672 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
673 from /proc/kmsg.
674
675 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
676 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
677 Defaults to 0.
678
679 coredump_filter=
680 [KNL] Change the default value for
681 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
682 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
683
684 coresight_cpu_debug.enable
685 [ARM,ARM64]
686 Format: <bool>
687 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
688 0: default value, disable debugging
689 1: enable debugging at boot time
690
691 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
692 disable the cpuidle sub-system
693
694 cpuidle.governor=
695 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
696
697 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
698 disable the cpufreq sub-system
699
700 cpu_init_udelay=N
701 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
702 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
703 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
704 Default: 10000
705
706 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
707 Format:
708 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
709
710 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
711 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
712 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
713 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
714 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
715 is selected automatically.
716 [KNL, x86_64] select a region under 4G first, and
717 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
718 hasn't been specified.
719 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
720
721 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
722 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
723 in the running system. The syntax of range is
724 start-[end] where start and end are both
725 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
726 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
727
728 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
729 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
730 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
731 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
732 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
733 available.
734 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
735 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
736 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
737 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
738 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
739 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
740 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
741 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
742 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
743 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
744 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
745 for second kernel instead.
746 0: to disable low allocation.
747 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
748 or memory reserved is below 4G.
749
750 cryptomgr.notests
751 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
752
753 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
754 Format: <dma>
755
756 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
757 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
758
759 dasd= [HW,NET]
760 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
761
762 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
763 (one device per port)
764 Format: <port#>,<type>
765 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
766
767 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
768 time. See
769 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
770 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
771
772 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
773
774 debug_boot_weak_hash
775 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
776 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
777 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are
778 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
779 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
780 insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
781
782 debug_locks_verbose=
783 [KNL] verbose self-tests
784 Format=<0|1>
785 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
786 self-tests.
787 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
788 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
789 only useful to kernel developers.
790
791 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
792
793 no_debug_objects
794 [KNL] Disable object debugging
795
796 debug_guardpage_minorder=
797 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
798 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
799 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
800 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
801 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
802 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
803 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
804 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
805 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
806 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
807 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
808 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
809 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
810 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
811 bypassed) which are not detectable by
812 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
813 tracking down these problems.
814
815 debug_pagealloc=
816 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
817 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
818 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
819 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
820 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
821 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
822 on: enable the feature
823
824 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
825
826 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
827 Format: <area>[,<node>]
828 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
829
830 default_hugepagesz=
831 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
832 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
833 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
834 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
835 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
836 if not specified.
837
838 deferred_probe_timeout=
839 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
840 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
841 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
842 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
843 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
844 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
845 retrying.
846
847 dfltcc= [HW,S390]
848 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
849 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
850 level 1 and decompression (default)
851 off: No s390 zlib hardware support
852 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
853 only (compression on level 1)
854 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
855 only (decompression)
856 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
857 level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
858
859 dhash_entries= [KNL]
860 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
861
862 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
863 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
864 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
865 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
866 miss to occur.
867
868 disable= [IPV6]
869 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
870
871 hardened_usercopy=
872 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
873 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
874 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
875 from reading or writing beyond known memory
876 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
877 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
878 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
879 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
880 off Disable hardened usercopy checks.
881
882 disable_radix [PPC]
883 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
884
885 disable_tlbie [PPC]
886 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
887 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
888
889 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
890 Format: <int>
891 The number of initial APIC ID for the
892 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
893 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
894 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
895 causing system reset or hang due to sending
896 INIT from AP to BSP.
897
898 perf_v4_pmi= [X86,INTEL]
899 Format: <bool>
900 Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature.
901 The feature only exists starting from
902 Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer).
903
904 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
905 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
906 to workaround buggy firmware.
907
908 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
909 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
910
911 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
912 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
913 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
914 entry later. This parameter disables that.
915
916 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
917 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
918 memory out of your available memory pool based on
919 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
920 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
921
922 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
923 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
924 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
925
926 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
927
928 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
929 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
930
931 dma_debug_entries=<number>
932 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
933 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
934 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
935 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
936 architectural default is too low.
937
938 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
939 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
940 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
941 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
942 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
943 driver later using sysfs.
944
945 driver_async_probe= [KNL]
946 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
947 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
948
949 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
950 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
951 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
952 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
953 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
954 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
955 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
956 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
957 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
958 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
959 available in Documentation/driver-api/edid.rst. An EDID
960 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
961 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
962 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
963 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
964 data set with no connector name will be used for
965 any connectors not explicitly specified.
966
967 dscc4.setup= [NET]
968
969 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC]
970 Format: {"off" | "known"}
971 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
972 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
973 exists).
974 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
975 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
976 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
977
978 dump_apple_properties [X86]
979 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
980 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
981 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
982
983 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
984 module.dyndbg[="val"]
985 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
986 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
987 for details.
988
989 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
990 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.rst for more
991 information about the feature.
992
993 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
994 in some Intel CPUs.
995
996 module.async_probe [KNL]
997 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
998
999 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1000 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1001 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1002 which are not unmapped.
1003
1004 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
1005
1006 When used with no options, the early console is
1007 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1008 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1009 the platform.
1010
1011 cdns,<addr>[,options]
1012 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1013 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1014 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1015 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1016 configured.
1017
1018 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1019 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1020 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
1021 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
1022 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1023 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1024 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1025 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1026 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1027 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1028 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1029 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1030 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
1031
1032 pl011,<addr>
1033 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1034 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1035 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1036 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1037 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1038 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1039 the device registers.
1040
1041 meson,<addr>
1042 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1043 port at the specified address. The serial port must
1044 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1045 supported.
1046
1047 msm_serial,<addr>
1048 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1049 port at the specified address. The serial port
1050 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1051 yet supported.
1052
1053 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1054 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1055 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1056 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1057 yet supported.
1058
1059 owl,<addr>
1060 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1061 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1062 specified address. The serial port must already be
1063 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1064
1065 rda,<addr>
1066 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1067 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1068 specified address. The serial port must already be
1069 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1070
1071 sbi
1072 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1073 console.
1074
1075 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1076
1077 s3c2410,<addr>
1078 s3c2412,<addr>
1079 s3c2440,<addr>
1080 s3c6400,<addr>
1081 s5pv210,<addr>
1082 exynos4210,<addr>
1083 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1084 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1085 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1086 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1087 Options are not yet supported.
1088
1089 lantiq,<addr>
1090 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1091 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1092 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1093 yet supported.
1094
1095 lpuart,<addr>
1096 lpuart32,<addr>
1097 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1098 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1099 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1100 port must already be setup and configured.
1101
1102 ec_imx21,<addr>
1103 ec_imx6q,<addr>
1104 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1105 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1106 must already be setup and configured.
1107
1108 ar3700_uart,<addr>
1109 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1110 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1111 address. The serial port must already be setup
1112 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1113
1114 qcom_geni,<addr>
1115 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1116 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1117 specified address. The serial port must already be
1118 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1119
1120 efifb,[options]
1121 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1122 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1123 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1124 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1125 mapped with the correct attributes.
1126
1127 linflex,<addr>
1128 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1129 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1130 address must be provided, and the serial port must
1131 already be setup and configured.
1132
1133 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1134 earlyprintk=vga
1135 earlyprintk=sclp
1136 earlyprintk=xen
1137 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1138 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1139 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1140 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1141 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1142 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1143
1144 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1145 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1146 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1147
1148 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1149 takes over.
1150
1151 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1152 be used at a time.
1153
1154 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1155 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1156 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1157 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1158 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1159 You can find the port for a given device in
1160 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1161 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1162
1163 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1164 very good.
1165
1166 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1167 the real console.
1168
1169 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1170
1171 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1172
1173 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1174 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1175 UART class.
1176
1177 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1178 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1179 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1180 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1181 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1182 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1183 default: on.
1184
1185 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1186 ekgdboc=kbd
1187
1188 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1189 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1190
1191 edd= [EDD]
1192 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1193
1194 efi= [EFI]
1195 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug",
1196 "nosoftreserve", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1197 "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1198 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1199 runtime services mapping. [Needs CONFIG_X86_UV=y]
1200 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1201 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1202 firmware implementations.
1203 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1204 debug: enable misc debug output
1205 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1206 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1207 memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1208 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1209 reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1210 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1211 disable_early_pci_dma: Disable the busmaster bit on all
1212 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1213 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1214 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1215
1216 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1217 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1218 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1219 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1220 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1221
1222 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1223 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1224 updating original EFI memory map.
1225 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1226 from ss to ss+nn.
1227
1228 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1229 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1230 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1231 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1232
1233 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1234 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1235 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1236
1237 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1238 related features. For example, you can do debugging of
1239 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1240 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1241 "soft reserved".
1242
1243 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1244 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1245 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1246 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1247 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1248
1249
1250 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1251 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1252
1253 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1254 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1255 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1256
1257 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1258 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1259 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1260 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1261 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1262
1263 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1264 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1265 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1266 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1267
1268 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1269 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1270 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1271 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1272 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1273
1274 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1275 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1276 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1277 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1278 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1279 Default value is 0.
1280 Value can be changed at runtime via
1281 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1282
1283 erst_disable [ACPI]
1284 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1285 support.
1286
1287 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1288 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1289 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1290
1291 evm= [EVM]
1292 Format: { "fix" }
1293 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1294 current integrity status.
1295
1296 failslab=
1297 fail_page_alloc=
1298 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1299 General fault injection mechanism.
1300 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1301 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1302
1303 floppy= [HW]
1304 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1305
1306 force_pal_cache_flush
1307 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1308 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1309 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1310 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1311
1312 forcepae [X86-32]
1313 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1314 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1315 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1316 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1317 and may cause unknown problems.
1318
1319 ftrace=[tracer]
1320 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1321 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1322 boot debugging.
1323
1324 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1325 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1326 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1327 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1328 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1329 oops.
1330
1331 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1332 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1333 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1334 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1335 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1336 tracing directory.
1337
1338 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1339 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1340 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1341 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1342 tracing directory.
1343
1344 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1345 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1346 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1347 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1348 that can be changed at run time by the
1349 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1350
1351 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1352 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1353 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1354 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1355 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1356
1357 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1358 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1359 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1360 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1361 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1362
1363 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1364 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1365 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1366 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1367 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1368
1369 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1370
1371 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1372 Format: off | on
1373 default: on
1374
1375 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1376 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1377 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1378 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1379 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1380
1381 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1382 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1383 android emulator
1384
1385 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1386 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1387 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1388 GPT to be used instead.
1389
1390 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1391 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1392 Format: 0 | 1
1393 Default: 0
1394 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1395 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1396 Format: 0 | 1
1397 Default: 0
1398 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1399 Format: 0 | 1
1400 Default: 0
1401 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1402 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1403 Default: 1024
1404 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1405 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1406 Default: 1024
1407
1408 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1409 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1410 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1411
1412 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1413 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1414 backtraces on all cpus.
1415 Format: <integer>
1416
1417 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1418 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
1419 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1420 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1421
1422 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1423
1424 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1425 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1426
1427 hest_disable [ACPI]
1428 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1429 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1430 logic will be disabled.
1431
1432 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1433 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1434 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1435 size on bigger boxes.
1436
1437 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1438 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1439 Default: "on"
1440
1441 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1442
1443 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1444 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1445 verbose }
1446 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1447 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1448 VIA, nVidia)
1449 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1450
1451 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1452 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1453
1454 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1455 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
1456 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1457 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1458 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1459 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
1460 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
1461
1462 hung_task_panic=
1463 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1464 Format: <integer>
1465
1466 A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a
1467 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1468 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1469 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1470 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1471
1472 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1473 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1474 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1475 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1476 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1477
1478 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1479 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1480 guest on lock contention.
1481
1482 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1483 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1484 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1485 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1486 the real console.
1487
1488 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1489 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1490 registered from board initialization code.
1491 Format:
1492 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1493
1494 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1495 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1496 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1497 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1498 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1499 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1500 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1501 keyboard and cannot control its state
1502 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1503 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1504 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1505 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1506 for the AUX port
1507 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1508 controller
1509 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1510 controllers
1511 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1512 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1513 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1514 transitions, or never reset
1515 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1516 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1517 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1518 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1519 architectures force reset to be always executed
1520 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1521 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1522
1523 i810= [HW,DRM]
1524
1525 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1526 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1527 hardware.
1528 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1529 does not match list of supported models.
1530 i8k.power_status
1531 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1532 (disabled by default)
1533 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1534 capability is set.
1535
1536 i915.invert_brightness=
1537 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1538 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1539 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1540 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1541 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1542 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1543 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1544 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1545 value switches the backlight off.
1546 -1 -- never invert brightness
1547 0 -- machine default
1548 1 -- force brightness inversion
1549
1550 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1551 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1552
1553 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1554 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1555 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1556 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1557 See Documentation/ide/ide.rst.
1558
1559 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1560 Format: <int>
1561 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1562 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1563 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1564 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1565 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1566 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1567 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1568 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1569 was 0x3.
1570
1571 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1572 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1573
1574 idle= [X86]
1575 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1576 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1577 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1578 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1579 Not recommended.
1580 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1581 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1582 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1583
1584 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1585 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1586 Default: strict
1587
1588 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1589 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1590 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1591 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1592 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1593 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1594 encoding mode.
1595
1596 Available settings are as follows:
1597 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1598 supported by the FPU
1599 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1600 by the FPU
1601 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1602 by the FPU
1603 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1604 supported by the FPU
1605
1606 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1607 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1608 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1609 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1610 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1611 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1612 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1613 MIPS64 CPUs.
1614
1615 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1616 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1617 except where unsupported by hardware.
1618
1619 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1620 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1621 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1622 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1623 could change it dynamically, usually by
1624 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1625
1626 ignore_rlimit_data
1627 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1628 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1629 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1630
1631 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1632 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1633
1634 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1635 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1636 default: "enforce"
1637
1638 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
1639 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1640 owned by uid=0.
1641
1642 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1643 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1644 measurements, instead of host native format.
1645
1646 ima_hash= [IMA]
1647 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1648 | sha512 | ... }
1649 default: "sha1"
1650
1651 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1652 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1653
1654 ima_policy= [IMA]
1655 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1656 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1657 fail_securely"
1658
1659 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1660 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1661 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1662 uid=0.
1663
1664 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1665 all files owned by root.
1666
1667 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1668 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1669 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1670
1671 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1672 verification failure also on privileged mounted
1673 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1674 flag.
1675
1676 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
1677 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1678 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1679 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1680 opened for read by uid=0.
1681
1682 ima_template= [IMA]
1683 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1684 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1685 Default: "ima-ng"
1686
1687 ima_template_fmt=
1688 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1689 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1690
1691 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1692 Format: <min_file_size>
1693 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1694 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1695
1696 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1697 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1698 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1699
1700 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1701 Format: <bufsize>
1702 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1703
1704 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1705 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1706 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1707
1708 init= [KNL]
1709 Format: <full_path>
1710 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1711 process.
1712
1713 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1714 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1715 startup.
1716
1717 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1718 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1719 modules and initcalls.
1720
1721 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1722
1723 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
1724 zeroes.
1725 Format: 0 | 1
1726 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
1727
1728 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
1729 Format: 0 | 1
1730 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
1731
1732 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1733 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1734 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1735 override in debugfs after boot.
1736
1737 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1738 Format: <irq>
1739
1740 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1741
1742 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1743 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1744 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1745 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1746
1747 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1748 on
1749 Enable intel iommu driver.
1750 off
1751 Disable intel iommu driver.
1752 igfx_off [Default Off]
1753 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1754 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1755 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1756 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1757 DMA.
1758 forcedac [x86_64]
1759 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1760 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1761 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1762 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1763 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1764 then look in the higher range.
1765 strict [Default Off]
1766 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1767 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1768 to batching them for performance.
1769 sp_off [Default Off]
1770 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1771 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1772 not be supported.
1773 sm_on [Default Off]
1774 By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the
1775 hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable
1776 mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode
1777 will be used on hardware which claims to support it.
1778 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1779 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1780 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1781 could harm performance of some high-throughput
1782 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1783 mapping is enabled.
1784 Note that using this option lowers the security
1785 provided by tboot because it makes the system
1786 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
1787 nobounce [Default off]
1788 Disable bounce buffer for untrusted devices such as
1789 the Thunderbolt devices. This will treat the untrusted
1790 devices as the trusted ones, hence might expose security
1791 risks of DMA attacks.
1792
1793 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1794 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1795 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
1796
1797 intel_pstate= [X86]
1798 disable
1799 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1800 scaling driver for the supported processors
1801 passive
1802 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1803 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1804 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1805 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1806 feature.
1807 force
1808 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1809 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1810 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1811 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1812 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1813 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1814 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1815 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1816 no_hwp
1817 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1818 if available.
1819 hwp_only
1820 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1821 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1822 support_acpi_ppc
1823 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1824 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1825 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1826 then this feature is turned on by default.
1827 per_cpu_perf_limits
1828 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1829 cpufreq sysfs interface
1830
1831 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1832 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1833 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1834 nosid disable Source ID checking
1835 no_x2apic_optout
1836 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1837 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
1838
1839 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1840 strict regions from userspace.
1841 relaxed
1842
1843 iommu= [x86]
1844 off
1845 force
1846 noforce
1847 biomerge
1848 panic
1849 nopanic
1850 merge
1851 nomerge
1852 soft
1853 pt [x86]
1854 nopt [x86]
1855 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1856 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
1857
1858 iommu.strict= [ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
1859 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1860 0 - Lazy mode.
1861 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
1862 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
1863 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
1864 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
1865 the relevant IOMMU driver.
1866 1 - Strict mode (default).
1867 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
1868 synchronously.
1869
1870 iommu.passthrough=
1871 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1872 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1873 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1874 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1875 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
1876
1877 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1878 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1879 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1880
1881 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
1882 0x80
1883 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1884 0xed
1885 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1886 udelay
1887 Simple two microseconds delay
1888 none
1889 No delay
1890
1891 ip= [IP_PNP]
1892 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
1893
1894 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
1895 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
1896
1897 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
1898 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
1899
1900 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1901 [ARM, ARM64]
1902 Format: <bool>
1903 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1904 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1905 exposed by the device tree is too small.
1906
1907 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
1908 [ARM, ARM64]
1909 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
1910 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
1911 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
1912 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
1913 LPIs.
1914
1915 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
1916 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
1917 requires the kernel to be built with
1918 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
1919
1920 irqfixup [HW]
1921 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1922 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1923 firmware running.
1924
1925 irqpoll [HW]
1926 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1927 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1928 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1929 firmware running.
1930
1931 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
1932 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1933
1934 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
1935 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1936 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
1937
1938 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1939 specified in the flag list (default: domain):
1940
1941 nohz
1942 Disable the tick when a single task runs.
1943
1944 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
1945 need to affine to housekeeping through the global
1946 workqueue's affinity configured via the
1947 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
1948 by using the 'domain' flag described below.
1949
1950 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
1951 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
1952 be configured manually after bootup.
1953
1954 domain
1955 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1956 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1957 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1958 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1959 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1960 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1961 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1962 move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1963
1964 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1965 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1966 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1967 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1968
1969 managed_irq
1970
1971 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
1972 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
1973 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
1974 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
1975 the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
1976
1977 This isolation is best effort and only effective
1978 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
1979 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
1980 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
1981 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
1982 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
1983 cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
1984
1985 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
1986 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
1987 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
1988 only delivered when tasks running on those
1989 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
1990 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
1991 queues.
1992
1993 The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
1994
1995 iucv= [HW,NET]
1996
1997 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1998 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1999 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2000 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2001 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2002 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2003
2004 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
2005 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2006 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2007 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
2008 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2009 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2010
2011 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
2012 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2013 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2014 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2015 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
2016 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2017
2018 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2019 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2020
2021 nokaslr [KNL]
2022 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
2023 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
2024 Layout Randomization).
2025
2026 kasan_multi_shot
2027 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2028 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2029 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2030 invalid access.
2031
2032 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
2033
2034 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2035 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2036 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2037 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested
2038 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2039 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for
2040 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the
2041 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2042 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2043 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2044
2045 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2046 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2047 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2048 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2049 zone if it does not.
2050
2051 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2052 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2053 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror"
2054 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2055 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2056 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2057 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2058
2059 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2060 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2061 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2062 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
2063 optional and is the number seconds in between
2064 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2065 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2066 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
2067 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2068 the kernel debugger.
2069
2070 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2071 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2072 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2073 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2074 keyboard only format: kbd
2075 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2076 Optional Kernel mode setting:
2077 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2078 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2079
2080 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2081 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2082
2083 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
2084 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2085 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2086
2087 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2088 Valid arguments: on, off
2089 Default: on
2090 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2091 the default is off.
2092
2093 kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2094 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2095 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2096 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2097 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2098 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2099 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2100
2101 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2102
2103 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2104 Boot Parameter" section.
2105
2106 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2107 and kernel address spaces.
2108 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2109 0: force disabled
2110 1: force enabled
2111
2112 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2113 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2114
2115 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2116 Default is false (don't support).
2117
2118 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
2119 KVM MMU at runtime.
2120 Default is 0 (off)
2121
2122 kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2123 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2124 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2125 force : Always deploy workaround.
2126 off : Never deploy workaround.
2127 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2128 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2129
2130 Default is 'auto'.
2131
2132 If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2133 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2134
2135 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2136 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2137 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2138 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2139 minute. The default is 60.
2140
2141 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
2142 Default is 1 (enabled)
2143
2144 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2145 for all guests.
2146 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
2147
2148 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2149 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2150 system registers
2151
2152 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2153 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2154 system registers
2155
2156 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2157 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2158 system registers
2159
2160 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2161 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2162 LPIs.
2163
2164 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2165 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2166 Default is 1 (enabled)
2167
2168 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2169 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
2170 Default is 0 (disabled)
2171
2172 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2173 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2174 Default is 1 (enabled)
2175
2176 kvm-intel.nested=
2177 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2178 Default is 0 (disabled)
2179
2180 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2181 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2182 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2183 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2184
2185 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2186 CVE-2018-3620.
2187
2188 Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2189
2190 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2191 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2192 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2193 never: Disables the mitigation
2194
2195 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2196
2197 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2198 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2199 Default is 1 (enabled)
2200
2201 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2202 affected CPUs
2203
2204 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2205 enabled and cannot be disabled.
2206
2207 full
2208 Provides all available mitigations for the
2209 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2210 enables all mitigations in the
2211 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2212
2213 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2214 sysfs interface is still possible after
2215 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2216 when the first VM is started in a
2217 potentially insecure configuration,
2218 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2219
2220 full,force
2221 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2222 flush runtime control. Implies the
2223 'nosmt=force' command line option.
2224 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2225
2226 flush
2227 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2228 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2229 L1D flush.
2230
2231 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2232 sysfs interface is still possible after
2233 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2234 when the first VM is started in a
2235 potentially insecure configuration,
2236 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2237
2238 flush,nosmt
2239
2240 Disables SMT and enables the default
2241 hypervisor mitigation.
2242
2243 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2244 sysfs interface is still possible after
2245 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2246 when the first VM is started in a
2247 potentially insecure configuration,
2248 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2249
2250 flush,nowarn
2251 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2252 warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2253 insecure configuration.
2254
2255 off
2256 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2257 emit any warnings.
2258 It also drops the swap size and available
2259 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2260 bare metal.
2261
2262 Default is 'flush'.
2263
2264 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2265
2266 l2cr= [PPC]
2267
2268 l3cr= [PPC]
2269
2270 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2271 disabled it.
2272
2273 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
2274 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2275 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2276
2277 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2278 in C2 power state.
2279
2280 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
2281 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2282 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2283 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2284 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
2285 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2286 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2287
2288 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2289 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
2290 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
2291
2292 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2293 when set.
2294 Format: <int>
2295
2296 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
2297 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
2298 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
2299 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
2300 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
2301 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2302 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2303 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2304
2305 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2306 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
2307 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2308 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
2309 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2310 host link and device attached to it.
2311
2312 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
2313 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2314 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2315 The following configurations can be forced.
2316
2317 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2318 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2319
2320 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2321
2322 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2323 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2324 allowed.
2325
2326 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2327
2328 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2329
2330 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2331 and both resets.
2332
2333 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2334 hot-unplug link recovery
2335
2336 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2337
2338 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2339
2340 * disable: Disable this device.
2341
2342 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2343 the same attribute, the last one is used.
2344
2345 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2346
2347 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
2348 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
2349
2350 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2351 Format: <integer>
2352
2353 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2354 Format: <integer>
2355
2356 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2357 Format: <integer>
2358
2359 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2360 Format: <integer>
2361
2362 lockdown= [SECURITY]
2363 { integrity | confidentiality }
2364 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2365 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2366 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2367 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2368 to extract confidential information from the kernel
2369 are also disabled.
2370
2371 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2372 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2373 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2374 number of online CPUs.
2375
2376 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2377 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2378
2379 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2380 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2381
2382 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2383 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2384 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2385
2386 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2387 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2388 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2389 mode during the locktorture test.
2390
2391 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2392 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2393 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2394
2395 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2396 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2397
2398 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2399 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2400 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2401 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2402 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2403 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2404
2405 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2406 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2407
2408 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2409 Enable additional printk() statements.
2410
2411 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2412 Format: <irq>
2413
2414 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2415 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2416 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2417 loglevels are defined as follows:
2418
2419 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2420 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2421 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2422 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2423 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2424 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2425 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2426 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2427
2428 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2429 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2430 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2431 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2432 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2433 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2434 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2435
2436 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2437 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2438 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2439 kernel boot problems.
2440
2441 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2442 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2443 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2444 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2445 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2446 attached printers to be reset. Using
2447 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2448 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2449 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2450 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2451 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2452 port specification list means that device IDs
2453 from each port should be examined, to see if
2454 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2455 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2456 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2457
2458 lpj=n [KNL]
2459 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2460 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2461 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2462 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2463 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2464 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2465 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2466 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2467 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2468 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2469 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2470 hardware.
2471
2472 ltpc= [NET]
2473 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2474
2475 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2476
2477 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2478 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
2479 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
2480
2481 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2482 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2483 Example: machvec=hpzx1
2484
2485 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2486 yeeloong laptop.
2487 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2488
2489 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2490 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2491
2492 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2493 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2494 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2495 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2496 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2497 only takes effect during system bootup.
2498 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2499 which also disables the IO APIC.
2500
2501 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2502 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2503 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2504 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2505 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2506 /dev/loop-control interface.
2507
2508 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2509
2510 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
2511
2512 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2513 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2514
2515 mdacon= [MDA]
2516 Format: <first>,<last>
2517 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2518
2519 mds= [X86,INTEL]
2520 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2521 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2522
2523 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2524 internal buffers which can forward information to a
2525 disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2526
2527 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2528 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2529 attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2530 not have direct access.
2531
2532 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2533 options are:
2534
2535 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2536 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2537 SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2538 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
2539
2540 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
2541 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
2542 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
2543 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
2544 too.
2545
2546 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2547 mds=full.
2548
2549 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2550
2551 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2552 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2553 to see the whole system memory or for test.
2554 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2555 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2556 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2557 belonging to unused RAM.
2558
2559 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2560 memory.
2561
2562 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2563 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2564 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2565
2566 memhp_default_state=online/offline
2567 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2568 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2569 set according to the
2570 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2571 option.
2572 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
2573
2574 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2575 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2576 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2577 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2578 option description.
2579
2580 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2581 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2582 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2583 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2584 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2585 Multiple different regions can be specified,
2586 comma delimited.
2587 Example:
2588 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2589
2590 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2591 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2592 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2593
2594 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2595 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2596 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2597 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2598 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2599 or
2600 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2601 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2602 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2603 will be eaten.
2604
2605 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2606 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2607 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2608 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2609 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2610
2611 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2612 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2613 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2614 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2615 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2616 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2617 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2618 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2619
2620 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2621 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2622 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2623 Setting this option will scan the memory
2624 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2625 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2626 from using the memory being corrupted.
2627 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2628 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2629 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2630 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2631
2632 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2633 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2634 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2635 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2636 corruption in more or less memory.
2637
2638 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2639 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2640 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2641 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2642
2643 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest
2644 Format: <integer>
2645 default : 0 <disable>
2646 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2647 performed. Each pass selects another test
2648 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2649 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2650 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2651 regions that are detected.
2652
2653 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2654 Valid arguments: on, off
2655 Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2656 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2657 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2658 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
2659 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
2660
2661 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
2662 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2663
2664 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2665 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2666 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2667 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2668 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
2669
2670 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2671 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
2672
2673 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2674 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2675 platforms.
2676
2677 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2678 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2679 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2680 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2681
2682 mga= [HW,DRM]
2683
2684 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2685 physical address is ignored.
2686
2687 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2688 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2689 Default: "0tb"
2690 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2691 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2692 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2693 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2694 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2695 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2696 unconfigured.
2697 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2698 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2699 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2700 VGA shield.
2701 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2702 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2703 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2704 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2705 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2706 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2707
2708 mitigations=
2709 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
2710 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated,
2711 arch-independent options, each of which is an
2712 aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
2713
2714 off
2715 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This
2716 improves system performance, but it may also
2717 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
2718 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
2719 kpti=0 [ARM64]
2720 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
2721 nobp=0 [S390]
2722 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
2723 spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
2724 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
2725 ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
2726 l1tf=off [X86]
2727 mds=off [X86]
2728 tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
2729 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
2730
2731 Exceptions:
2732 This does not have any effect on
2733 kvm.nx_huge_pages when
2734 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
2735
2736 auto (default)
2737 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
2738 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for
2739 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
2740 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
2741 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
2742 Equivalent to: (default behavior)
2743
2744 auto,nosmt
2745 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
2746 if needed. This is for users who always want to
2747 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
2748 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
2749 mds=full,nosmt [X86]
2750 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
2751
2752 mminit_loglevel=
2753 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2754 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2755 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2756 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2757 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2758 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2759
2760 module.sig_enforce
2761 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2762 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2763 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
2764 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2765
2766 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2767 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2768
2769 mousedev.tap_time=
2770 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2771 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2772 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2773 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2774 Format: <msecs>
2775 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2776 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2777 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2778 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2779
2780 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2781 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2782 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
2783 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
2784 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is
2785 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
2786 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its
2787 own is specified, the administrator must be careful
2788 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2789 is not too small.
2790
2791 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2792 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2793 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2794 allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2795 allocations. Use with caution!
2796
2797 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2798 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2799
2800 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2801 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
2802
2803 mtdparts= [MTD]
2804 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
2805
2806 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2807 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2808 at a time.
2809
2810 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2811
2812 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2813
2814 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2815 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2816 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2817 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2818 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2819
2820 mtdset= [ARM]
2821 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2822
2823 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2824
2825 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
2826 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2827 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
2828
2829 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2830 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
2831 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2832
2833 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2834 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2835 Default is 1.
2836 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2837 using up MTRRs.
2838
2839 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2840 Format: <integer>
2841 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2842 Default : 1
2843 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2844 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2845
2846 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2847
2848 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2849 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2850 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2851 something different and driver-specific.
2852 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2853 file if at all.
2854
2855 nf_conntrack.acct=
2856 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2857 0 to disable accounting
2858 1 to enable accounting
2859 Default value is 0.
2860
2861 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
2862 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2863
2864 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
2865 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2866
2867 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2868 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2869
2870 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2871 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2872 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2873 requests.
2874
2875 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2876 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2877 channel should listen.
2878
2879 nfs.cache_getent=
2880 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2881 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2882
2883 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2884 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2885 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2886
2887 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2888 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2889 entries.
2890
2891 nfs.enable_ino64=
2892 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2893 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2894 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2895 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2896 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2897
2898 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2899 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2900 slots the client will assign to the callback
2901 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2902 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2903 a particular server.
2904
2905 nfs.max_session_slots=
2906 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2907 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2908 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2909 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2910 Note that there is little point in setting this
2911 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2912
2913 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2914 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2915 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2916 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2917 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2918 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2919 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2920 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2921 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2922 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2923 back to using the idmapper.
2924 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
2925 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2926 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2927 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2928 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2929 UUID that is generated at system install time.
2930
2931 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2932 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2933 information in exchange_id requests.
2934 If zero, no implementation identification information
2935 will be sent.
2936 The default is to send the implementation identification
2937 information.
2938
2939 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2940 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2941 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2942 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2943 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2944 after the locks are lost.
2945 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2946 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2947 parameter to '1'.
2948 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2949 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
2950
2951 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2952 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2953 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2954
2955 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2956 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2957 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2958 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2959
2960 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2961 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2962 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2963 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2964 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2965 migration from NFSv2/v3.
2966
2967 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
2968 when a NMI is triggered.
2969 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2970
2971 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
2972 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
2973 Valid num: 0 or 1
2974 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2975 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
2976 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
2977 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
2978 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
2979 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2980 please see 'nowatchdog'.
2981 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2982 need the box quickly up again.
2983
2984 These settings can be accessed at runtime via
2985 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
2986
2987 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2988 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2989 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2990 waits 4 seconds.
2991
2992 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
2993 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2994 is present.
2995
2996 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
2997 kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
2998
2999 no_console_suspend
3000 [HW] Never suspend the console
3001 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3002 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
3003 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3004 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3005 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
3006 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3007 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3008 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3009 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3010 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3011 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3012 turn on/off it dynamically.
3013
3014 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP]
3015 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
3016 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
3017 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data
3018 without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
3019 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling
3020 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
3021 data will be no longer available. This parameter
3022 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
3023 is set.
3024
3025 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
3026 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
3027 but will impact performance.
3028
3029 noalign [KNL,ARM]
3030
3031 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
3032 (CPU alternatives feature).
3033
3034 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3035 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3036
3037 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3038
3039 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
3040 on "Classic" PPC cores.
3041
3042 nocache [ARM]
3043
3044 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
3045
3046 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
3047
3048 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3049
3050 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
3051
3052 noexec [IA-64]
3053
3054 noexec [X86]
3055 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
3056 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3057 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
3058
3059 nosmap [X86,PPC]
3060 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3061 even if it is supported by processor.
3062
3063 nosmep [X86,PPC]
3064 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
3065 even if it is supported by processor.
3066
3067 noexec32 [X86-64]
3068 This affects only 32-bit executables.
3069 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3070 read doesn't imply executable mappings
3071 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3072 read implies executable mappings
3073
3074 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3075
3076 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3077 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3078 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3079
3080 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86,PPC] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3081
3082 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3083 Equivalent to smt=1.
3084
3085 [KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3086 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3087 via the sysfs control file.
3088
3089 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3090 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3091 possible in the system.
3092
3093 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3094 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3095 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3096 option.
3097
3098 nospec_store_bypass_disable
3099 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3100
3101 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
3102 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
3103 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
3104
3105 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3106 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3107 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3108 performance of saving the states is degraded because
3109 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3110 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3111
3112 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3113 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3114 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3115 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3116 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3117 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3118 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3119
3120 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
3121 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
3122 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
3123
3124 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
3125 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3126 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3127
3128 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3129 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3130 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3131 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3132 in certain environments such as networked servers or
3133 real-time systems.
3134
3135 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3136
3137 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3138 Valid arguments: on, off
3139 Default: on
3140
3141 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3142 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3143 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3144 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3145 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3146 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
3147 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3148 just as if they had also been called out in the
3149 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3150
3151 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3152
3153 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3154 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3155
3156 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3157 broken timer IRQ sources.
3158
3159 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3160
3161 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3162 initial RAM disk.
3163
3164 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3165 remapping.
3166 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3167
3168 nointroute [IA-64]
3169
3170 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3171
3172 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3173
3174 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3175
3176 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3177 fault handling.
3178
3179 no-vmw-sched-clock
3180 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3181 clock and use the default one.
3182
3183 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time
3184 accounting. steal time is computed, but won't
3185 influence scheduler behaviour
3186
3187 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3188
3189 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3190
3191 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
3192 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
3193
3194 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3195
3196 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3197
3198 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3199 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3200
3201 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3202 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3203 irq.
3204
3205 nomodule Disable module load
3206
3207 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3208 pagetables) support.
3209
3210 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3211
3212 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
3213 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3214
3215 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3216 with UP alternatives
3217
3218 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3219 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3220 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3221 available to user space applications.
3222
3223 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3224 space.
3225
3226 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
3227 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3228 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3229
3230 nosbagart [IA-64]
3231
3232 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
3233
3234 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3235 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3236
3237 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3238
3239 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3240
3241 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3242 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3243
3244 nowb [ARM]
3245
3246 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3247
3248 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3249 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3250 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3251 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3252 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3253 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3254 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3255 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3256 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3257 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3258 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3259 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3260 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3261
3262 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
3263 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3264 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3265 without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3266 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3267 parameter's value.
3268 Format: integer between 1 and 255
3269 Default: 255
3270
3271 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
3272 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3273 SAL PALO.
3274
3275 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
3276 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
3277 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3278 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3279 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3280 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3281 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3282 hot plugging.
3283
3284 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3285
3286 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
3287 Allowed values are enable and disable
3288
3289 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3290 'node', 'default' can be specified
3291 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3292 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
3293
3294 of_devlink [OF, KNL] Create device links between consumer and
3295 supplier devices by scanning the devictree to infer the
3296 consumer/supplier relationships. A consumer device
3297 will not be probed until all the supplier devices have
3298 probed successfully.
3299
3300 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3301 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
3302 info.
3303
3304 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3305 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3306 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3307 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
3308 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3309 interrupts *may* be lost!
3310
3311 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3312 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3313 For example, to override I2C bus2:
3314 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3315
3316 oprofile.timer= [HW]
3317 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
3318
3319 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
3320 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
3321 userland or if you want common events.
3322 Format: { arch_perfmon }
3323 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
3324 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
3325 CPU specific event set.
3326 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
3327 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
3328 for generic hr timer mode)
3329
3330 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3331 process, but there is a small probability of
3332 deadlocking the machine.
3333 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3334 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3335
3336 page_alloc.shuffle=
3337 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3338 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3339 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3340 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3341 cache, and this parameter can be used to
3342 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3343 can be read from sysfs at:
3344 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3345
3346 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3347 Storage of the information about who allocated
3348 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3349 we can turn it on.
3350 on: enable the feature
3351
3352 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3353 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3354 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3355 off: turn off poisoning (default)
3356 on: turn on poisoning
3357
3358 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3359 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3360 timeout = 0: wait forever
3361 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3362 Format: <timeout>
3363
3364 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3365 User can chose combination of the following bits:
3366 bit 0: print all tasks info
3367 bit 1: print system memory info
3368 bit 2: print timer info
3369 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3370 bit 4: print ftrace buffer
3371 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
3372
3373 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
3374 on a WARN().
3375
3376 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3377 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3378 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3379 succeeds in any situation.
3380 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3381 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3382 kernel more unstable.
3383
3384 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3385 connected to, default is 0.
3386 Format: <parport#>
3387 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3388 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
3389 Format: <mode>
3390
3391 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3392 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3393 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3394 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3395 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3396 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3397 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3398 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3399 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3400 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3401 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3402 are specified on the command line, starting
3403 with parport0.
3404
3405 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
3406 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3407 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3408 computer where firmware has no options for setting
3409 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3410 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
3411 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3412
3413 pause_on_oops=
3414 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3415 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
3416 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3417
3418 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
3419
3420 pcd. [PARIDE]
3421 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
3422 See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3423
3424 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3425
3426 Some options herein operate on a specific device
3427 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3428 specified in one of the following formats:
3429
3430 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
3431 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3432
3433 Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3434 bus/device/function address which may change
3435 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3436 firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3437 by other kernel parameters. If the
3438 domain is left unspecified, it is
3439 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3440 to a device through multiple device/function
3441 addresses can be specified after the base
3442 address (this is more robust against
3443 renumbering issues). The second format
3444 selects devices using IDs from the
3445 configuration space which may match multiple
3446 devices in the system.
3447
3448 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel
3449 changes anything
3450 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
3451 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
3452 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3453 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
3454 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
3455 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3456 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3457 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
3458 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3459 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3460 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3461 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3462 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3463 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3464 bus number. The config space is then accessed
3465 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3466 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3467 on the configuration access mechanisms.
3468 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3469 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3470 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
3471 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3472 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
3473 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
3474 Configuration
3475 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3476 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3477 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
3478 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3479 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3480 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
3481 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3482 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3483 should never be necessary.
3484 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3485 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3486 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3487 when the system masks IRQs.
3488 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3489 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3490 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3491 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
3492 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
3493 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3494 on several machines and they hang the machine
3495 when used, but on other computers it's the only
3496 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3497 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3498 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3499 motherboard.
3500 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
3501 Use with caution as certain devices share
3502 address decoders between ROMs and other
3503 resources.
3504 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
3505 expansion ROMs that do not already have
3506 BIOS assigned address ranges.
3507 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
3508 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
3509 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
3510 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3511 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3512 this way.
3513 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
3514 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3515 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3516 F0000h-100000h range.
3517 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
3518 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3519 secondary buses and you want to tell it
3520 explicitly which ones they are.
3521 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
3522 numbers ourselves, overriding
3523 whatever the firmware may have done.
3524 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
3525 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3526 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3527 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3528 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3529 IRQ routing is enabled.
3530 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
3531 or for PCI scanning.
3532 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3533 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3534 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
3535 please report a bug.
3536 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3537 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
3538 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3539 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3540 so this option is a temporary workaround
3541 for broken drivers that don't call it.
3542 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3543 handle more pci cards
3544 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3545 This might help on some broken boards which
3546 machine check when some devices' config space
3547 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3548 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
3549 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3550 This sorting is done to get a device
3551 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3552 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3553 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3554 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3555 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3556 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3557 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3558 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3559 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3560 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3561 or bus can support) for best performance.
3562 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3563 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3564 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3565 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3566 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3567 that hot-added devices will work.
3568 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3569 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3570 The default value is 256 bytes.
3571 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3572 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3573 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3574 resource_alignment=
3575 Format:
3576 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
3577 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3578 aligned memory resources. How to
3579 specify the device is described above.
3580 If <order of align> is not specified,
3581 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3582 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
3583 windows need to be expanded.
3584 To specify the alignment for several
3585 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3586 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3587 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
3588 for 4096-byte alignment.
3589 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3590 end-to-end CRC checking).
3591 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3592 the default.
3593 off: Turn ECRC off
3594 on: Turn ECRC on.
3595 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3596 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3597 Default size is 256 bytes.
3598 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3599 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
3600 Default size is 2 megabytes.
3601 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3602 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
3603 Default size is 2 megabytes.
3604 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3605 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
3606 MMIO_PREF window.
3607 Default size is 2 megabytes.
3608 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3609 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3610 Default is 1.
3611 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3612 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3613 accommodate resources required by all child
3614 devices.
3615 off: Turn realloc off
3616 on: Turn realloc on
3617 realloc same as realloc=on
3618 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
3619 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3620 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
3621 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3622 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3623 port.
3624 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3625 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3626 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3627 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3628 conflict with unreported devices), so this
3629 taints the kernel.
3630 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
3631 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
3632 specified above) separated by semicolons.
3633 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
3634 redirect capabilities forced off which will
3635 allow P2P traffic between devices through
3636 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
3637 this removes isolation between devices and
3638 may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
3639 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
3640 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
3641
3642 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3643 Management.
3644 off Disable ASPM.
3645 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3646 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3647
3648 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3649 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3650 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3651 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform
3652 also tries to use these services.
3653 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May
3654 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
3655 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3656 hotplug).
3657
3658 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3659 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3660 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3661
3662 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
3663 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
3664 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
3665
3666 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3667
3668 pd_ignore_unused
3669 [PM]
3670 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3671 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3672 for debug and development, but should not be
3673 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3674
3675 pd. [PARIDE]
3676 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3677
3678 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3679 boot time.
3680 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3681 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3682
3683 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
3684 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3685 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3686 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3687 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3688 and performance comparison.
3689
3690 pf. [PARIDE]
3691 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3692
3693 pg. [PARIDE]
3694 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3695
3696 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
3697 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
3698
3699 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3700 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3701 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
3702
3703 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
3704 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3705 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3706
3707 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3708 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3709 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3710 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3711 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3712 possible settings and some assignment information.
3713
3714 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3715 { off }
3716
3717 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3718 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3719
3720 pnp_reserve_irq=
3721 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3722
3723 pnp_reserve_dma=
3724 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3725
3726 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
3727 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
3728
3729 pnp_reserve_mem=
3730 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3731 autoconfiguration.
3732 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3733
3734 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3735 Default is 21.
3736 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3737 may be specified.
3738 Format: <port>,<port>....
3739
3740 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3741 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3742 platform machine description specific power_save
3743 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3744 execution priority.
3745
3746 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3747 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3748 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3749 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3750 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3751
3752 ppc_tm= [PPC]
3753 Format: {"off"}
3754 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3755
3756 print-fatal-signals=
3757 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
3758
3759 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3760 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3761 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3762 coredump - etc.
3763
3764 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3765 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3766
3767 default: off.
3768
3769 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3770 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3771 panics
3772 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3773 default: disabled
3774
3775 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3776 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3777 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3778 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3779 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3780 Default: ratelimit
3781
3782 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3783 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3784
3785 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3786 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3787 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3788
3789 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3790 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3791 instead using the legacy FADT method
3792
3793 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
3794 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3795 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3796 [defaults to kernel profiling]
3797 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3798 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3799 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
3800 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
3801 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3802 statistical time based profiling.
3803
3804 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3805 before loading.
3806 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
3807
3808 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
3809 tracking.
3810 Format: <bool>
3811
3812 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3813 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
3814 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3815 per second.
3816 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3817 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
3818 (0 = never).
3819 psmouse.resolution=
3820 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3821 psmouse.smartscroll=
3822 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
3823 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3824
3825 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3826
3827 pt. [PARIDE]
3828 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3829
3830 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3831 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
3832 removes hardening, but improves performance of
3833 system calls and interrupts.
3834
3835 on - unconditionally enable
3836 off - unconditionally disable
3837 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3838 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3839
3840 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3841
3842 nopti [X86_64]
3843 Equivalent to pti=off
3844
3845 pty.legacy_count=
3846 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3847 default number.
3848
3849 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
3850
3851 r128= [HW,DRM]
3852
3853 raid= [HW,RAID]
3854 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3855
3856 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
3857 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
3858
3859 random.trust_cpu={on,off}
3860 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
3861 CPU's random number generator (if available) to
3862 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
3863 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
3864
3865 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
3866
3867 cec_disable [X86]
3868 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3869 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3870
3871 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
3872 The argument is a cpu list, as described above,
3873 except that the string "all" can be used to
3874 specify every CPU on the system.
3875
3876 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3877 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3878 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be
3879 offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that
3880 purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and
3881 "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number.
3882 This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs,
3883 which can be useful for HPC and real-time
3884 workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency
3885 for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3886
3887 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
3888 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3889 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3890 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3891 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3892 This improves the real-time response for the
3893 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3894 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3895 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3896 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3897
3898 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
3899 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3900 process in one batch.
3901
3902 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3903 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3904 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3905 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3906
3907 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3908 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3909 RCU grace-period cleanup.
3910
3911 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3912 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3913 RCU grace-period initialization.
3914
3915 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3916 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3917 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3918 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3919 the rcu_node combining tree.
3920
3921 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL]
3922 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
3923 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero
3924 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
3925 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
3926
3927 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3928 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3929 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3930 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3931 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
3932
3933 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
3934 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3935 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3936 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3937 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3938 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3939 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
3940
3941 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
3942 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3943 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3944 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3945 and maximum value is HZ.
3946
3947 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
3948 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3949 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3950 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3951
3952 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3953 Set required age in jiffies for a
3954 given grace period before RCU starts
3955 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3956 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
3957 If not specified, the kernel will calculate
3958 a value based on the most recent settings
3959 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
3960 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
3961 This calculated value may be viewed in
3962 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set
3963 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
3964 overwritten.
3965
3966 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
3967 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3968 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3969 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3970 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3971 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3972 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3973 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3974 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3975 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
3976
3977 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
3978 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
3979 each group, which defaults to the square root
3980 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce
3981 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
3982 kthread, but increases that same overhead on
3983 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
3984
3985 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
3986 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3987 batch limiting is disabled.
3988
3989 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
3990 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3991 batch limiting is re-enabled.
3992
3993 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
3994 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3995 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3996
3997 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
3998 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3999 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
4000 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
4001 prove do nothing more than free memory.
4002
4003 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
4004 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
4005 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
4006 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
4007 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
4008 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
4009
4010 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
4011 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
4012 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
4013 why a new grace period has not yet started.
4014
4015 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
4016 Measure performance of asynchronous
4017 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
4018
4019 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
4020 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
4021 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
4022 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
4023 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
4024 previously posted callbacks to drain.
4025
4026 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
4027 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
4028 grace-period primitives.
4029
4030 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
4031 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
4032 this parameter is to delay the start of the
4033 test until boot completes in order to avoid
4034 interference.
4035
4036 rcuperf.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
4037 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
4038
4039 rcuperf.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
4040 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
4041
4042 rcuperf.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
4043 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
4044
4045 rcuperf.kfree_loops= [KNL]
4046 Number of loops doing rcuperf.kfree_alloc_num number
4047 of allocations and frees.
4048
4049 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
4050 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
4051 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
4052 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
4053 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
4054 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4055 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
4056 a single reader.
4057
4058 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
4059 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
4060 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
4061 N, where N is the number of CPUs
4062
4063 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
4064 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4065
4066 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
4067 Shut the system down after performance tests
4068 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
4069 testing.
4070
4071 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
4072 Enable additional printk() statements.
4073
4074 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
4075 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
4076 in microseconds. The default of zero says
4077 no holdoff.
4078
4079 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
4080 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
4081 in microseconds.
4082
4083 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
4084 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
4085 in microseconds.
4086
4087 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
4088 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
4089 in seconds.
4090
4091 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
4092 Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
4093 for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
4094
4095 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
4096 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
4097 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
4098
4099 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
4100 Number of seconds to wait between successive
4101 forward-progress tests.
4102
4103 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
4104 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
4105 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
4106 testing.
4107
4108 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
4109 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
4110 primitives, if available.
4111
4112 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
4113 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4114
4115 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
4116 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
4117 update-side primitives, if available.
4118
4119 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
4120 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
4121 update-side primitives, if available. If all
4122 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
4123 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
4124 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
4125 they are all non-zero.
4126
4127 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
4128 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
4129
4130 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
4131 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
4132 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
4133 test, hence the "fake".
4134
4135 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
4136 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
4137 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
4138 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
4139 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
4140 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4141
4142 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
4143 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
4144
4145 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
4146 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
4147
4148 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
4149 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
4150 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
4151
4152 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
4153 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
4154 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
4155 during the rcutorture test.
4156
4157 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
4158 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
4159 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
4160
4161 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
4162 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
4163 warnings, zero to disable.
4164
4165 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
4166 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
4167
4168 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
4169 Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
4170
4171 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
4172 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
4173
4174 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
4175 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
4176 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
4177 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
4178 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
4179
4180 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
4181 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
4182 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
4183 under test support RCU priority boosting.
4184
4185 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
4186 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
4187
4188 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
4189 Interval (s) between each boost test.
4190
4191 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
4192 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
4193 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
4194
4195 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
4196 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4197
4198 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
4199 Enable additional printk() statements.
4200
4201 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
4202 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
4203 stall warning.
4204
4205 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
4206 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4207
4208 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4209 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4210
4211 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
4212 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
4213 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
4214 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
4215 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
4216 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
4217 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4218
4219 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
4220 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
4221 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
4222 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
4223 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
4224 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
4225 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
4226 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
4227 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4228
4229 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
4230 Once boot has completed (that is, after
4231 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
4232 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
4233 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4234
4235 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4236 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
4237 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
4238 to zero.
4239
4240 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
4241 Run the RCU early boot self tests
4242
4243 rdinit= [KNL]
4244 Format: <full_path>
4245 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
4246 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
4247
4248 rdrand= [X86]
4249 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
4250 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
4251 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
4252 support, specifically around the suspend/resume
4253 path).
4254
4255 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
4256 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
4257 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
4258 mba.
4259 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
4260 rdt=cmt,!mba
4261
4262 reboot= [KNL]
4263 Format (x86 or x86_64):
4264 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
4265 [[,]s[mp]#### \
4266 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
4267 [[,]f[orce]
4268 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
4269 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
4270 reboot only),
4271 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
4272 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
4273 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
4274 to be used for rebooting.
4275
4276 relax_domain_level=
4277 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
4278 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
4279
4280 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
4281 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
4282 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
4283 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
4284 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
4285
4286 reservetop= [X86-32]
4287 Format: nn[KMG]
4288 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
4289 address space.
4290
4291 reservelow= [X86]
4292 Format: nn[K]
4293 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
4294 the bottom of the address space.
4295
4296 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
4297 during initialization.
4298
4299 resume= [SWSUSP]
4300 Specify the partition device for software suspend
4301 Format:
4302 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
4303
4304 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
4305 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
4306 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
4307 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
4308 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
4309
4310 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4311 read the resume files
4312
4313 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
4314 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4315 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4316
4317 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
4318 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
4319 present during boot.
4320 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
4321 no Disable hibernation and resume.
4322 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
4323 (that will set all pages holding image data
4324 during restoration read-only).
4325
4326 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
4327
4328 rfkill.default_state=
4329 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
4330 etc. communication is blocked by default.
4331 1 Unblocked.
4332
4333 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
4334 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
4335 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4336 blocked and the previous configuration.
4337 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4338 blocked and everything unblocked.
4339
4340 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4341 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
4342
4343 ring3mwait=disable
4344 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
4345 CPUs.
4346
4347 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
4348
4349 rodata= [KNL]
4350 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
4351 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
4352
4353 rockchip.usb_uart
4354 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
4355 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
4356 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
4357 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
4358
4359 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
4360 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
4361
4362 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4363 mount the root filesystem
4364
4365 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
4366
4367 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
4368
4369 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
4370 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4371 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4372
4373 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
4374 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
4375 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
4376 managed by CMA.
4377
4378 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
4379
4380 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
4381
4382 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
4383 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
4384 strict
4385 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
4386 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
4387 which is faster.
4388
4389 sa1100ir [NET]
4390 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
4391
4392 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
4393
4394 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
4395
4396 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
4397 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
4398 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
4399 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
4400
4401 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
4402 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
4403 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
4404 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4405 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
4406 1 -- enable.
4407 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
4408 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
4409
4410 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
4411 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
4412 "lsm=" parameter.
4413
4414 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
4415 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4416 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
4417 0 -- disable.
4418 1 -- enable.
4419 Default value is 1.
4420
4421 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
4422 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4423 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
4424 0 -- disable.
4425 1 -- enable.
4426 Default value is set via kernel config option.
4427
4428 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
4429
4430 shapers= [NET]
4431 Maximal number of shapers.
4432
4433 simeth= [IA-64]
4434 simscsi=
4435
4436 slram= [HW,MTD]
4437
4438 slab_nomerge [MM]
4439 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
4440 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
4441 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
4442 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
4443 layout control by attackers can usually be
4444 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
4445 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
4446 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
4447 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
4448 own.
4449 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4450
4451 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
4452 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4453 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4454 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
4455 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
4456
4457 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
4458 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
4459 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
4460 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
4461 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
4462 last alloc / free. For more information see
4463 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4464
4465 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
4466 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
4467 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
4468 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
4469 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
4470 directories and files being created under
4471 /sys/kernel/slub.
4472
4473 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
4474 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4475 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4476 fragmentation. For more information see
4477 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4478
4479 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
4480 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
4481 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
4482 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
4483 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
4484 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
4485 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
4486 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4487
4488 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
4489 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
4490 lower than slub_max_order.
4491 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4492
4493 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
4494 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
4495 See slab_nomerge for more information.
4496
4497 smart2= [HW]
4498 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
4499
4500 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
4501 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
4502 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
4503 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
4504 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
4505 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
4506 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
4507 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
4508 1: Fast pin select (default)
4509 2: ATC IRMode
4510
4511 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4512 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4513 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4514 actual hardware limit.
4515 Format: <integer>
4516 Default: -1 (no limit)
4517
4518 softlockup_panic=
4519 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
4520 Format: <integer>
4521
4522 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
4523 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
4524 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
4525 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
4526 respective build-time switch to that functionality.
4527
4528 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4529 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4530 backtraces on all cpus.
4531 Format: <integer>
4532
4533 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
4534 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
4535
4536 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4537 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
4538 The default operation protects the kernel from
4539 user space attacks.
4540
4541 on - unconditionally enable, implies
4542 spectre_v2_user=on
4543 off - unconditionally disable, implies
4544 spectre_v2_user=off
4545 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4546 vulnerable
4547
4548 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4549 mitigation method at run time according to the
4550 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4551 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4552 compiler with which the kernel was built.
4553
4554 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
4555 against user space to user space task attacks.
4556
4557 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
4558 the user space protections.
4559
4560 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4561
4562 retpoline - replace indirect branches
4563 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4564 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4565
4566 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4567 spectre_v2=auto.
4568
4569 spectre_v2_user=
4570 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4571 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
4572 user space tasks
4573
4574 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
4575 enforced by spectre_v2=on
4576
4577 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
4578 enforced by spectre_v2=off
4579
4580 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
4581 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
4582 per thread. The mitigation control state
4583 is inherited on fork.
4584
4585 prctl,ibpb
4586 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
4587 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4588 always when switching between different user
4589 space processes.
4590
4591 seccomp
4592 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
4593 threads will enable the mitigation unless
4594 they explicitly opt out.
4595
4596 seccomp,ibpb
4597 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
4598 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4599 always when switching between different
4600 user space processes.
4601
4602 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
4603 the available CPU features and vulnerability.
4604
4605 Default mitigation:
4606 If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4607
4608 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4609 spectre_v2_user=auto.
4610
4611 spec_store_bypass_disable=
4612 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
4613 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
4614
4615 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
4616 a common industry wide performance optimization known
4617 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
4618 to the same memory location may not be observed by
4619 later loads during speculative execution. The idea
4620 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
4621 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
4622 end of a particular speculation execution window.
4623
4624 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4625 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
4626 example to read memory to which the attacker does not
4627 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
4628
4629 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
4630 Bypass optimization is used.
4631
4632 On x86 the options are:
4633
4634 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
4635 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
4636 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
4637 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
4638 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
4639 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
4640 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
4641 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
4642 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
4643 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
4644 for a process by default. The state of the control
4645 is inherited on fork.
4646 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
4647 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
4648
4649 Default mitigations:
4650 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4651
4652 On powerpc the options are:
4653
4654 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
4655 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
4656 perform a software flush on kernel entry and
4657 exit.
4658 off - No action.
4659
4660 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4661 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
4662
4663 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
4664 spia_fio_base=
4665 spia_pedr=
4666 spia_peddr=
4667
4668 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4669 Specifies how frequently to check for
4670 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4671 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4672 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4673 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4674 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
4675 are ignored.
4676
4677 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4678 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4679 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4680 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4681 grace period will be considered for automatic
4682 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
4683 expediting.
4684
4685 ssbd= [ARM64,HW]
4686 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
4687
4688 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
4689 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
4690 firmware based mitigation, this parameter
4691 indicates how the mitigation should be used:
4692
4693 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for
4694 for both kernel and userspace
4695 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
4696 for both kernel and userspace
4697 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the
4698 kernel, and offer a prctl interface
4699 to allow userspace to register its
4700 interest in being mitigated too.
4701
4702 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
4703 override the default stack gap protection. The value
4704 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4705 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4706 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4707 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4708
4709 stacktrace [FTRACE]
4710 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4711
4712 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4713 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4714 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4715 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4716 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4717 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4718 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4719
4720 sti= [PARISC,HW]
4721 Format: <num>
4722 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4723 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4724 as the initial boot-console.
4725 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4726
4727 sti_font= [HW]
4728 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4729
4730 stifb= [HW]
4731 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4732
4733 sunrpc.min_resvport=
4734 sunrpc.max_resvport=
4735 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4736 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4737 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4738 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4739 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4740 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4741 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4742 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4743 maximum port values.
4744
4745 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4746 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4747 Limit the number of requests that the server will
4748 process in parallel from a single connection.
4749 The default value is 0 (no limit).
4750
4751 sunrpc.pool_mode=
4752 [NFS]
4753 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4754 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
4755 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4756 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4757 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4758 NFS server is running.
4759
4760 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
4761 automatically using heuristics
4762 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
4763 percpu one pool for each CPU
4764 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4765 to global on non-NUMA machines)
4766
4767 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4768 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4769 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4770 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4771 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4772 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4773 improve throughput, but will also increase the
4774 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4775
4776 suspend.pm_test_delay=
4777 [SUSPEND]
4778 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4779 mode before resuming the system (see
4780 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4781 is set. Default value is 5.
4782
4783 svm= [PPC]
4784 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
4785 This parameter controls use of the Protected
4786 Execution Facility on pSeries.
4787
4788 swapaccount=[0|1]
4789 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4790 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
4791 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
4792
4793 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
4794 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
4795 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4796 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4797 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
4798 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
4799
4800 switches= [HW,M68k]
4801
4802 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4803 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4804 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4805 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4806 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4807 in older udev will not work anymore.
4808 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4809 the kernel configuration.
4810
4811 sysrq_always_enabled
4812 [KNL]
4813 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4814 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4815 Useful for debugging.
4816
4817 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4818 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4819 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4820 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4821 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4822 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4823
4824 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
4825
4826 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
4827 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
4828 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4829 as the system sleep state during system startup with
4830 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4831 The system is woken from this state using a
4832 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
4833
4834 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4835 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4836
4837 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
4838 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4839 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4840
4841 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
4842 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
4843 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
4844
4845 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
4846 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4847 critical and hot trip points.
4848
4849 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
4850 1: disable ACPI thermal control
4851
4852 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
4853 -1: disable all passive trip points
4854 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4855 value
4856
4857 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
4858 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4859 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4860 0: no polling (default)
4861
4862 threadirqs [KNL]
4863 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
4864 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
4865
4866 topology= [S390]
4867 Format: {off | on}
4868 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
4869 topology information if the hardware supports this.
4870 The scheduler will make use of this information and
4871 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
4872 Default is on.
4873
4874 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4875 Format: {off}
4876 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4877 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4878 LPAR.
4879
4880 tp720= [HW,PS2]
4881
4882 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4883 Format: integer pcr id
4884 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4885 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4886 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4887 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4888 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4889 are saved.
4890
4891 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
4892 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
4893
4894 trace_event=[event-list]
4895 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
4896 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4897 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4898 also Documentation/trace/events.rst
4899
4900 trace_options=[option-list]
4901 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4902 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4903 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4904 to echo the option name into
4905
4906 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4907
4908 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4909 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4910
4911 trace_options=stacktrace
4912
4913 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
4914 section.
4915
4916 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4917 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4918 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4919 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4920 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4921 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4922
4923 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4924 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4925 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4926 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4927
4928 ** CAUTION **
4929
4930 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4931 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4932 the system to live lock.
4933
4934 traceoff_on_warning
4935 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4936 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4937 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4938 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4939
4940 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4941 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4942 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4943
4944 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4945 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4946
4947 transparent_hugepage=
4948 [KNL]
4949 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4950 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4951 with respect to transparent hugepages.
4952 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
4953 for more details.
4954
4955 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
4956 Format: <string>
4957 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
4958 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4959 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4960 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4961 virtualized environment.
4962 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4963 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4964 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4965 can add overhead.
4966 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4967 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4968 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
4969 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
4970 in situations with strict latency requirements (where
4971 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
4972 acceptable).
4973
4974 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
4975 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
4976 support TSX control.
4977
4978 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
4979
4980 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
4981 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
4982 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
4983 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
4984 so there may be unknown security risks associated
4985 with leaving it enabled.
4986
4987 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
4988 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
4989 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
4990 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
4991 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
4992 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
4993 deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
4994
4995 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
4996 otherwise enable TSX on the system.
4997
4998 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
4999
5000 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
5001 for more details.
5002
5003 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
5004 Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
5005
5006 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
5007 certain CPUs that support Transactional
5008 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
5009 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
5010 information to a disclosure gadget under certain
5011 conditions.
5012
5013 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5014 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
5015 access data to which the attacker does not have direct
5016 access.
5017
5018 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The
5019 options are:
5020
5021 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
5022 if TSX is enabled.
5023
5024 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
5025 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
5026 is not disabled because CPU is not
5027 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
5028 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
5029
5030 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
5031 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
5032 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
5033 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
5034
5035 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5036 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected
5037 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
5038 required and doesn't provide any additional
5039 mitigation.
5040
5041 For details see:
5042 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
5043
5044 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
5045 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
5046 Format:
5047 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
5048 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
5049
5050 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
5051 happen after console_init() and before a proper
5052 console driver takes over, this boot options might
5053 help "seeing" what's going on.
5054
5055 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
5056 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
5057
5058 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
5059 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
5060 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
5061 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
5062 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
5063 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
5064 reported either.
5065
5066 unknown_nmi_panic
5067 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
5068
5069 usbcore.authorized_default=
5070 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
5071 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
5072 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
5073 if device connected to internal port)
5074
5075 usbcore.autosuspend=
5076 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
5077 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
5078 is the time required before an idle device will be
5079 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
5080 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
5081
5082 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
5083 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
5084
5085 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
5086 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
5087 (default = 65536).
5088
5089 usbcore.blinkenlights=
5090 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
5091
5092 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
5093 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
5094 scheme, applies only to low and full-speed devices
5095 (default 0 = off).
5096
5097 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
5098 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
5099 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
5100
5101 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
5102 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
5103 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
5104
5105 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
5106 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
5107 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
5108 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
5109
5110 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
5111
5112 usbcore.quirks=
5113 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
5114 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
5115 commas. Each entry has the form
5116 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
5117 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
5118 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
5119 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
5120 the following meanings:
5121 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
5122 descriptors must not be fetched using
5123 a 255-byte read);
5124 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
5125 correctly so reset it instead);
5126 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
5127 Set-Interface requests);
5128 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
5129 handle its Configuration or Interface
5130 strings);
5131 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
5132 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
5133 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
5134 more interface descriptions than the
5135 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
5136 talking to these interfaces);
5137 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
5138 during initialization, after we read
5139 the device descriptor);
5140 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
5141 high speed and super speed interrupt
5142 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
5143 require the interval in microframes (1
5144 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
5145 calculated as interval = 2 ^
5146 (bInterval-1).
5147 Devices with this quirk report their
5148 bInterval as the result of this
5149 calculation instead of the exponent
5150 variable used in the calculation);
5151 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
5152 handle device_qualifier descriptor
5153 requests);
5154 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
5155 generates spurious wakeup, ignore
5156 remote wakeup capability);
5157 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
5158 Power Management);
5159 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
5160 (Device reports its bInterval as linear
5161 frames instead of the USB 2.0
5162 calculation);
5163 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
5164 to be disconnected before suspend to
5165 prevent spurious wakeup);
5166 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
5167 pause after every control message);
5168 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
5169 delay after resetting its port);
5170 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
5171
5172 usbhid.mousepoll=
5173 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
5174
5175 usbhid.jspoll=
5176 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
5177
5178 usbhid.kbpoll=
5179 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
5180
5181 usb-storage.delay_use=
5182 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
5183 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
5184
5185 usb-storage.quirks=
5186 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
5187 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
5188 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
5189 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
5190 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
5191 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
5192 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
5193 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
5194 of sense data, not on uas);
5195 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
5196 bytes of sense data, not on uas);
5197 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
5198 device capacity by one sector);
5199 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
5200 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
5201 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
5202 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
5203 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
5204 command, uas only);
5205 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
5206 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
5207 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
5208 reported device capacity by one
5209 sector if the number is odd);
5210 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
5211 device);
5212 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
5213 command, uas only);
5214 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
5215 unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
5216 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
5217 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
5218 not on uas);
5219 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
5220 initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
5221 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
5222 reported by the device, not on uas);
5223 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
5224 by default, not on uas);
5225 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
5226 bogus residue values, not on uas);
5227 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
5228 Logical Unit);
5229 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
5230 commands, uas only);
5231 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
5232 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
5233 medium is write-protected).
5234 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
5235 even if the device claims no cache,
5236 not on uas)
5237 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
5238
5239 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
5240 Format: <int>
5241 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
5242 1 - undefined instruction events
5243 2 - system calls
5244 4 - invalid data aborts
5245 8 - SIGSEGV faults
5246 16 - SIGBUS faults
5247 Example: user_debug=31
5248
5249 userpte=
5250 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
5251
5252 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
5253 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
5254 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
5255
5256 vdso= [X86,SH]
5257 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
5258
5259 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
5260 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
5261
5262 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
5263 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
5264 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
5265
5266 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
5267 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
5268 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
5269
5270 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
5271 alias for vdso32=0.
5272
5273 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
5274 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
5275
5276 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
5277 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
5278
5279 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
5280 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
5281
5282 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
5283 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
5284 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
5285 level and then send out the event to user space through
5286 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
5287 will only send out the event without touching backlight
5288 brightness level.
5289 default: 1
5290
5291 virtio_mmio.device=
5292 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
5293
5294 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
5295 where:
5296 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
5297 like K, M and G)
5298 <baseaddr> := physical base address
5299 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
5300 request_irq())
5301 <id> := (optional) platform device id
5302 example:
5303 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
5304
5305 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
5306
5307 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
5308 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
5309 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
5310 Use vga=ask for menu.
5311 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
5312 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
5313
5314 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
5315 May slow down system boot speed, especially when
5316 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
5317 All options are enabled by default, and this
5318 interface is meant to allow for selectively
5319 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
5320 debugging features.
5321
5322 Available options are:
5323 P Enable page structure init time poisoning
5324 - Disable all of the above options
5325
5326 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
5327 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
5328 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
5329 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
5330 mapped kernel RAM.
5331
5332 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390]
5333 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
5334 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
5335
5336 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
5337 Format: <command>
5338
5339 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
5340 Format: <command>
5341
5342 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
5343 Format: <command>
5344
5345 vsyscall= [X86-64]
5346 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
5347 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
5348 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
5349 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
5350 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
5351 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
5352
5353 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5354 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall
5355 page is readable.
5356
5357 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5358 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall
5359 page is not readable.
5360
5361 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
5362 them quite hard to use for exploits but
5363 might break your system.
5364
5365 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
5366 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
5367 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
5368
5369 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
5370 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
5371 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
5372 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
5373
5374 vt.default_blu= [VT]
5375 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
5376 Change the default blue palette of the console.
5377 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5378 ranging from 0-255.
5379
5380 vt.default_grn= [VT]
5381 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
5382 Change the default green palette of the console.
5383 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5384 ranging from 0-255.
5385
5386 vt.default_red= [VT]
5387 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
5388 Change the default red palette of the console.
5389 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5390 ranging from 0-255.
5391
5392 vt.default_utf8=
5393 [VT]
5394 Format=<0|1>
5395 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
5396 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
5397 newly opened terminals.
5398
5399 vt.global_cursor_default=
5400 [VT]
5401 Format=<-1|0|1>
5402 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
5403 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
5404 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
5405 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
5406 cursors, 1 will display them.
5407
5408 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
5409 Default: 2 = green.
5410
5411 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
5412 Default: 3 = cyan.
5413
5414 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
5415 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
5416 or other driver-specific files in the
5417 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
5418
5419 watchdog_thresh=
5420 [KNL]
5421 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
5422 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
5423 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
5424 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
5425 seconds.
5426
5427 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
5428 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
5429 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
5430 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
5431 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
5432 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
5433 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
5434 corresponding sysfs file.
5435
5436 workqueue.disable_numa
5437 By default, all work items queued to unbound
5438 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
5439 issued on, which results in better behavior in
5440 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
5441 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
5442 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
5443 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
5444
5445 workqueue.power_efficient
5446 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
5447 they show better performance thanks to cache
5448 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
5449 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
5450
5451 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
5452 were observed to contribute significantly to power
5453 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
5454 power usage at the cost of small performance
5455 overhead.
5456
5457 The default value of this parameter is determined by
5458 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
5459
5460 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
5461 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
5462 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
5463 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
5464 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
5465 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
5466 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
5467 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
5468 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
5469 impacted.
5470
5471 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
5472 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
5473 supporting x2apic.
5474
5475 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
5476 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
5477 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
5478 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
5479 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
5480
5481 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
5482 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
5483 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
5484 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
5485 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
5486 domains.
5487
5488 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
5489 Unplug Xen emulated devices
5490 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
5491 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
5492 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
5493 nics -- unplug network devices
5494 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
5495 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
5496 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
5497 the unplug protocol
5498 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
5499
5500 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN]
5501 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
5502 panic() code such as dumping handler.
5503
5504 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
5505 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
5506 optimizations.
5507
5508 xen_nopv [X86]
5509 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
5510 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
5511 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
5512 has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
5513
5514 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN]
5515 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
5516 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
5517 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
5518 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
5519
5520 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN]
5521 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
5522 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
5523 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
5524 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
5525 more timer interrupts.
5526
5527 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
5528 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
5529 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
5530 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
5531
5532 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
5533 Format:
5534 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
5535
5536 xive= [PPC]
5537 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
5538 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
5539 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
5540
5541 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
5542 controller on both pseries and powernv
5543 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
5544
5545 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL]
5546 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
5547 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
5548 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
5549
5550 xmon [PPC]
5551 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
5552 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
5553 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
5554 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
5555 debugger is called from setup_arch().
5556 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
5557 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
5558 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
5559 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
5560 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
5561 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
5562 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
5563 can be written using xmon commands.
5564 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
5565 memory, and other data can't be written using
5566 xmon commands.
5567 off xmon is disabled.