1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
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"
16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21 1,0: use 1st APIC table
24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
25 { vendor | video | native | none }
26 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
27 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
28 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
29 If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
30 If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
31 If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
33 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
34 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
35 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
36 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
37 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
39 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
40 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
41 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
42 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
43 This option is useful for developers to identify the
44 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
45 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
47 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
48 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
50 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
51 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
52 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
53 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
54 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
55 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
56 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
57 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
58 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
59 debug layers and levels.
61 Enable processor driver info messages:
62 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
63 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
64 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
65 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
66 object while interpreting AML:
67 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
68 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
69 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
71 Some values produce so much output that the system is
72 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
73 if you need to capture more output.
75 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
77 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
78 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
79 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
80 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
81 can interfere with legacy drivers.
82 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
83 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
84 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
85 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
86 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
87 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
88 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
89 no further checks are performed.
91 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
92 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
93 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
96 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
97 ACPI will balance active IRQs
100 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
101 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
104 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
105 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
107 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
109 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
111 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
112 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
113 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
114 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
116 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
120 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
121 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
122 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
123 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
124 auto-serialization feature.
125 This feature is enabled by default.
126 This option allows to turn off the feature.
128 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
131 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
132 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
133 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
134 installed automatically and they will appear under
135 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
136 This option turns off this feature.
137 Note that specifying this option does not affect
138 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
139 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
141 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT]
142 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
143 a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
145 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
146 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
147 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
148 second kernel for kdump.
150 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
151 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
153 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
154 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
155 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
156 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
157 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
159 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
160 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
161 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
162 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
163 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
165 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
167 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
169 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
170 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
171 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
172 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
173 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
174 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
175 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
176 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
177 care about the state of the feature group strings which
178 should be controlled by the OSPM.
180 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
181 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
182 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
184 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
185 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
186 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
187 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
188 multiple times through kernel command line is also
191 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
194 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
195 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
196 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
197 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
198 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
199 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
200 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
201 there are quirks related to this string. This command
202 is useful when one want to control the state of the
203 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
206 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
207 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
208 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
209 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
210 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
212 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
214 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
215 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
218 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
219 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
220 and always returns good values.
222 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
223 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
225 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
226 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
227 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
229 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
230 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
231 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
232 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
234 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
235 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
236 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
237 used during resume from hibernation.
238 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
239 control method, with respect to putting devices into
240 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
241 of _PTS is used by default).
242 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
243 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
244 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
245 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
246 but some broken systems don't work without it).
247 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
248 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
249 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
251 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
252 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
253 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
255 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
256 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
259 { off | try_unsupported }
260 off: disable AGP support
261 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
262 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
265 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
268 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
269 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
270 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
272 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
273 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
274 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
275 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
276 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
277 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
278 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
280 32: only for 32-bit processes
281 64: only for 64-bit processes
282 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
283 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
285 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
286 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
287 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
288 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
289 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
290 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
292 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
293 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
295 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
296 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
297 flushed before they will be reused, which
299 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
301 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
302 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
303 allowed anymore to lift isolation
304 requirements as needed. This option
305 does not override iommu=pt
307 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
308 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
309 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
310 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
311 IOMMU initialization.
313 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
314 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
316 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
317 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
318 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
319 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
320 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
322 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
323 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
325 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
327 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
328 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
329 connected to one of 16 gameports
330 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
333 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
335 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
336 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
337 APC and your system crashes randomly.
339 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
340 Change the output verbosity while booting
341 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
342 Change the amount of debugging information output
343 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
344 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
346 Format: apic=driver_name
347 Examples: apic=bigsmp
349 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
350 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
351 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
352 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
354 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
355 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
359 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
361 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
362 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
363 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
364 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
365 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
366 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
367 apic=verbose is specified.
368 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
370 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
371 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
373 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
374 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
378 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
380 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
381 EzKey and similar keyboards
383 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
385 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
386 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
388 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
391 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
392 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
394 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
395 Use software keyboard repeat
397 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
398 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
399 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
400 enabled until the next reboot
401 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
402 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
403 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
404 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
405 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
409 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
410 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
413 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
414 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
415 Format: { "0" | "1" }
418 unset - Disable the BAU.
420 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
423 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
425 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
427 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
428 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
429 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
430 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
432 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
433 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
434 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
435 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
437 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
438 embedded devices based on command line input.
439 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
441 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
442 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
447 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
448 and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
450 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
453 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
455 bgrt_disable [ACPI][X86]
456 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
458 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
459 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
461 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
464 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
465 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
468 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
470 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
471 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
472 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
473 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
474 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
475 This option provides an override for these situations.
478 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
479 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
480 it waits 120 seconds.
482 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
483 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
485 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
487 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
488 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
489 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
490 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
493 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
494 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
496 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
497 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
498 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
499 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
501 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
503 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
504 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
505 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
507 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
508 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
509 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
510 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
511 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
512 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
513 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
516 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
518 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
519 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
521 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
522 Format: { "0" | "1" }
523 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
524 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
525 any implied execute protection).
526 1 -- check protection requested by application.
527 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
528 Value can be changed at runtime via
529 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
530 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
533 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
536 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
537 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
538 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
539 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
540 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
541 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
542 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
543 platform with proper driver support. For more
544 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
546 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
548 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
549 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
550 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
551 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
553 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
555 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
556 with the name specified.
557 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
559 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
561 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
562 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
563 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
564 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
572 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
575 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
576 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
577 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
580 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
581 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
582 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
583 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
584 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
586 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
587 or using the feature without checking anything
588 will still see it. This just prevents it from
589 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
590 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
593 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
595 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
596 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
597 placement constraint by the physical address range of
598 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
599 altogether. For more information, see
600 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
602 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
603 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
604 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
605 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
609 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
610 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
611 allocations, by default set to 256K.
613 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
615 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
617 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
621 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
622 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
624 condev= [HW,S390] console device
627 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
629 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
633 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
634 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
635 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
636 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
637 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
639 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
641 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
644 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
645 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
646 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
647 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
648 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
649 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
650 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
651 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
652 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
653 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
654 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
655 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
656 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
657 the h/w is not re-initialized.
659 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
660 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
662 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
663 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
665 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
668 [KNL] Change console messages format
670 By default we print messages on consoles in
671 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
672 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
673 `printk_time' param).
675 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
676 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
677 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
678 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
681 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
682 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
686 [KNL] Change the default value for
687 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
688 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
690 coresight_cpu_debug.enable
693 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
694 0: default value, disable debugging
695 1: enable debugging at boot time
697 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
698 disable the cpuidle sub-system
701 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
703 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
704 disable the cpufreq sub-system
706 cpufreq.default_governor=
707 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
708 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
709 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
712 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
713 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
714 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
717 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
719 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
721 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
722 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
723 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
724 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
725 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
726 is selected automatically.
727 [KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and
728 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
729 hasn't been specified.
730 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
732 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
733 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
734 in the running system. The syntax of range is
735 start-[end] where start and end are both
736 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
737 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
739 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
740 [KNL, X86-64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
741 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
742 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
743 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
745 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
746 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
747 [KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
748 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
749 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
750 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
751 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
752 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
753 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
754 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
755 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
756 for second kernel instead.
757 0: to disable low allocation.
758 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
759 or memory reserved is below 4G.
762 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
767 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
768 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
771 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
773 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
774 (one device per port)
775 Format: <port#>,<type>
776 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
778 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
780 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
781 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
783 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
786 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
787 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
788 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are
789 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
790 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
791 insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
794 [KNL] verbose self-tests
796 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
798 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
799 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
800 only useful to kernel developers.
802 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
805 [KNL] Disable object debugging
807 debug_guardpage_minorder=
808 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
809 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
810 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
811 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
812 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
813 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
814 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
815 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
816 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
817 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
818 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
819 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
820 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
821 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
822 bypassed) which are not detectable by
823 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
824 tracking down these problems.
827 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
828 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
829 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
830 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
831 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
832 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
833 on: enable the feature
835 debugfs= [KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace
836 and debugfs internal clients.
837 Format: { on, no-mount, off }
838 on: All functions are enabled.
840 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
841 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
842 its content. There is nothing to mount.
843 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients
844 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
845 or directories within debugfs.
846 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
847 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
848 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
850 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
852 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
853 Format: <area>[,<node>]
854 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.rst.
857 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
858 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
859 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
860 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
861 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the
862 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page
863 sizes are architecture dependent. See also
864 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
867 deferred_probe_timeout=
868 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
869 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
870 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
871 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
872 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
873 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
877 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
878 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
879 level 1 and decompression (default)
880 off: No s390 zlib hardware support
881 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
882 only (compression on level 1)
883 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
885 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
886 level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
889 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
891 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
892 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
893 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
894 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
898 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
899 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
903 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
906 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
907 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
908 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
909 from reading or writing beyond known memory
910 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
911 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
912 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
913 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
914 off Disable hardened usercopy checks.
917 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
919 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES]
920 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
924 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
925 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
927 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
929 The number of initial APIC ID for the
930 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
931 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
932 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
933 causing system reset or hang due to sending
936 perf_v4_pmi= [X86,INTEL]
938 Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature.
939 The feature only exists starting from
940 Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer).
942 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
943 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
944 to workaround buggy firmware.
947 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
949 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
950 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
951 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
952 entry later. This parameter disables that.
954 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
955 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
956 memory out of your available memory pool based on
957 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
958 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
960 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
961 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
962 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
964 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
966 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
967 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
969 dma_debug_entries=<number>
970 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
971 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
972 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
973 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
974 architectural default is too low.
976 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
977 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
978 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
979 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
980 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
981 driver later using sysfs.
983 driver_async_probe= [KNL]
984 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
985 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
987 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
988 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
989 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
990 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
991 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
992 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
993 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
994 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
995 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
996 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
997 available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID
998 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
999 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
1000 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
1001 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
1002 data set with no connector name will be used for
1003 any connectors not explicitly specified.
1008 Format: {"off" | "known"}
1009 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1010 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1012 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1013 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1014 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1016 dump_apple_properties [X86]
1017 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1018 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
1019 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1021 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1022 module.dyndbg[="val"]
1023 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
1024 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1027 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
1030 module.async_probe [KNL]
1031 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
1033 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1034 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1035 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1036 which are not unmapped.
1038 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
1040 When used with no options, the early console is
1041 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1042 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1045 cdns,<addr>[,options]
1046 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1047 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1048 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1049 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1052 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1053 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1054 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
1055 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
1056 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1057 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1058 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1059 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1060 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1061 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1062 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1063 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1064 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
1068 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1069 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1070 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1071 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1072 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1073 the device registers.
1076 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1077 port at the specified address. The serial port must
1078 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1082 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1083 port at the specified address. The serial port
1084 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1087 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1088 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1089 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1090 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1094 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1095 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1096 specified address. The serial port must already be
1097 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1100 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1101 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1102 specified address. The serial port must already be
1103 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1106 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1109 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1117 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1118 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1119 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1120 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1121 Options are not yet supported.
1124 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1125 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1126 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1131 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1132 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1133 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1134 port must already be setup and configured.
1138 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1139 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1140 must already be setup and configured.
1143 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1144 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1145 address. The serial port must already be setup
1146 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1149 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1150 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1151 specified address. The serial port must already be
1152 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1155 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1156 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1157 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1158 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1159 mapped with the correct attributes.
1162 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1163 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1164 address must be provided, and the serial port must
1165 already be setup and configured.
1167 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1171 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1172 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1173 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1174 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1175 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1176 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1178 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1179 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1180 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1182 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1185 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1188 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1189 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1190 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1191 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1192 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1193 You can find the port for a given device in
1194 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1195 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1197 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1200 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1203 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1205 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1207 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1208 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1211 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1212 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1213 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1214 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1215 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1216 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1219 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1222 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1223 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1225 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1226 but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1227 very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1228 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1231 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1234 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1235 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1236 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1237 debug: enable misc debug output.
1238 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1239 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1240 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1241 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1242 firmware implementations.
1243 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1244 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1245 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1246 memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1247 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1248 reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1249 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1250 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1251 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1252 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1254 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1255 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1256 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1257 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1258 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1260 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1261 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1262 updating original EFI memory map.
1263 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1266 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1267 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1268 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1269 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1271 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1272 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1273 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1275 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1276 related features. For example, you can do debugging of
1277 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1278 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1281 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1282 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1283 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1284 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1285 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1288 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1289 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1292 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1293 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1295 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1296 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1297 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1298 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1299 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1301 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1302 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1303 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1304 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1306 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1307 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1308 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1309 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1310 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1312 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1314 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1315 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1316 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1318 Value can be changed at runtime via
1319 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1322 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1325 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1326 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1327 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1331 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1332 current integrity status.
1336 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1337 General fault injection mechanism.
1338 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1339 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1342 Format: { initns | none }
1343 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1344 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1347 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1349 force_pal_cache_flush
1350 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1351 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1352 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1353 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1356 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1357 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1358 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1359 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1360 and may cause unknown problems.
1363 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1364 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1367 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1368 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1369 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1370 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1371 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1374 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1375 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1376 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1377 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1378 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1381 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1382 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1383 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1384 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1387 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1388 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1389 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1390 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1391 that can be changed at run time by the
1392 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1394 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1395 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1396 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1397 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1398 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1400 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1401 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1402 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1403 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1404 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1406 fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1407 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1408 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1409 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1410 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1411 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1412 clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1413 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1415 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1416 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info.
1417 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1418 but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1419 up (sync_state() calls).
1420 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it
1421 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1422 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1425 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1426 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1427 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1428 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1432 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1436 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1437 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1438 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1439 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1440 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1442 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1443 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1446 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1447 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1448 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1449 GPT to be used instead.
1451 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1452 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1455 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1456 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1459 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1462 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1463 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1465 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1466 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1469 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1470 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1471 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1473 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1474 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1475 backtraces on all cpus.
1478 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1479 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
1480 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1481 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1483 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1485 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1486 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1489 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1490 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1491 logic will be disabled.
1493 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1494 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1495 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1496 size on bigger boxes.
1498 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1499 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1504 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1505 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1507 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1508 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1510 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1512 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1513 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1515 hugetlb_cma= [HW] The size of a cma area used for allocation
1516 of gigantic hugepages.
1519 Reserve a cma area of given size and allocate gigantic
1520 hugepages using the cma allocator. If enabled, the
1521 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1523 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1524 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1525 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1526 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1527 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1528 the default huge page size. See also
1529 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1533 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in
1534 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge
1535 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair
1536 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
1537 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are
1538 architecture dependent. See also
1539 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1543 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1546 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
1547 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1548 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1549 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1550 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1552 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1553 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1554 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1555 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1556 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1558 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1559 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1560 guest on lock contention.
1563 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1564 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1565 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1568 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1569 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1570 registered from board initialization code.
1574 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1575 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1576 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1577 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1578 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1579 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1580 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1581 keyboard and cannot control its state
1582 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1583 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1584 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1585 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1587 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1589 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1591 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1592 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1593 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1594 transitions, or never reset
1595 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1596 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1597 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1598 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1599 architectures force reset to be always executed
1600 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1601 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1605 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1606 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1608 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1609 does not match list of supported models.
1611 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1612 (disabled by default)
1613 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1616 i915.invert_brightness=
1617 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1618 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1619 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1620 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1621 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1622 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1623 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1624 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1625 value switches the backlight off.
1626 -1 -- never invert brightness
1627 0 -- machine default
1628 1 -- force brightness inversion
1631 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1633 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1634 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1635 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1636 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1637 See Documentation/ide/ide.rst.
1639 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1641 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1642 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1643 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1644 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1645 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1646 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1647 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1648 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1651 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1652 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1655 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1656 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1657 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1658 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1660 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1661 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1662 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1664 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1665 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1668 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1669 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1670 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1671 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1672 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1673 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1676 Available settings are as follows:
1677 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1678 supported by the FPU
1679 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1681 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1683 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1684 supported by the FPU
1686 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1687 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1688 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1689 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1690 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1691 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1692 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1695 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1696 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1697 except where unsupported by hardware.
1699 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1700 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1701 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1702 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1703 could change it dynamically, usually by
1704 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1707 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1708 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1709 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1711 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1712 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1714 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1715 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1718 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
1719 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1722 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1723 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1724 measurements, instead of host native format.
1727 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1731 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1732 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1735 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1736 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1739 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1740 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1741 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1744 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1745 all files owned by root.
1747 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1748 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1749 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1751 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1752 verification failure also on privileged mounted
1753 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1756 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
1757 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1758 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1759 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1760 opened for read by uid=0.
1763 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1764 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1768 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1769 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1771 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1772 Format: <min_file_size>
1773 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1774 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1776 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1777 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1778 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1780 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1782 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1784 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1785 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1786 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1790 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1793 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1794 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1797 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1798 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1799 modules and initcalls.
1801 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1803 initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to
1804 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
1805 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
1807 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
1810 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
1813 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
1815 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
1817 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
1819 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1820 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1821 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1822 override in debugfs after boot.
1824 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1827 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1829 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1830 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1831 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1832 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1834 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1836 Enable intel iommu driver.
1838 Disable intel iommu driver.
1839 igfx_off [Default Off]
1840 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1841 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1842 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1843 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1846 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1847 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1848 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1849 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1850 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1851 then look in the higher range.
1852 strict [Default Off]
1853 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1854 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1855 to batching them for performance.
1856 sp_off [Default Off]
1857 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1858 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1861 By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the
1862 hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable
1863 mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode
1864 will be used on hardware which claims to support it.
1865 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1866 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1867 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1868 could harm performance of some high-throughput
1869 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1871 Note that using this option lowers the security
1872 provided by tboot because it makes the system
1873 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
1874 nobounce [Default off]
1875 Disable bounce buffer for untrusted devices such as
1876 the Thunderbolt devices. This will treat the untrusted
1877 devices as the trusted ones, hence might expose security
1878 risks of DMA attacks.
1880 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1881 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1882 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
1886 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1887 scaling driver for the supported processors
1889 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1890 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1891 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1892 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1895 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1896 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1897 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1898 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1899 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1900 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1901 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1902 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1904 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1907 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1908 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1910 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1911 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1912 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1913 then this feature is turned on by default.
1915 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1916 cpufreq sysfs interface
1918 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1919 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1920 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1921 nosid disable Source ID checking
1923 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1924 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
1926 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1927 strict regions from userspace.
1942 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1943 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
1945 iommu.strict= [ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
1946 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1948 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
1949 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
1950 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
1951 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
1952 the relevant IOMMU driver.
1953 1 - Strict mode (default).
1954 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
1958 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1959 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1960 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1961 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1962 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
1964 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1965 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1966 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1968 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
1970 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1972 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1974 Simple two microseconds delay
1979 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
1981 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
1982 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
1984 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
1985 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
1987 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1990 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1991 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1992 exposed by the device tree is too small.
1994 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
1996 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
1997 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
1998 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
1999 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2002 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
2003 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2004 requires the kernel to be built with
2005 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2008 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2009 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2013 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2014 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2015 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2019 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2021 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2022 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2023 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2025 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2026 specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2029 Disable the tick when a single task runs.
2031 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2032 need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2033 workqueue's affinity configured via the
2034 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2035 by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2037 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2038 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2039 be configured manually after bootup.
2042 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2043 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2044 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2045 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2046 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2047 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2048 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2049 move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2051 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2052 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2053 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2054 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2058 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2059 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2060 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2061 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2062 the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2064 This isolation is best effort and only effective
2065 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2066 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2067 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2068 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2069 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2070 cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2072 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2073 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2074 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2075 only delivered when tasks running on those
2076 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2077 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2080 The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2084 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64]
2085 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2086 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2087 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2088 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2089 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2091 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64]
2092 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2093 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2094 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
2095 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2096 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2098 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64]
2099 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2100 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2101 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2102 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
2103 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2105 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2106 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2109 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
2110 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
2111 Layout Randomization).
2114 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2115 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2116 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2121 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2122 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2123 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2124 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested
2125 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2126 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for
2127 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the
2128 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2129 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2130 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2132 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2133 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2134 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2135 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2136 zone if it does not.
2138 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2139 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2140 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror"
2141 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2142 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2143 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2144 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2146 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2147 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2148 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2149 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
2150 optional and is the number seconds in between
2151 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2152 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2153 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
2154 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2155 the kernel debugger.
2157 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2158 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2159 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2160 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2161 keyboard only format: kbd
2162 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2163 Optional Kernel mode setting:
2164 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2165 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2167 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW]
2168 If the boot console provides the ability to read
2169 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2170 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2171 until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2172 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2173 specifies the normal console to transition to.
2175 The name of the early console should be specified
2176 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2177 the early console might be different than the tty
2178 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2179 blank and the first boot console that implements
2180 read() will be picked.
2182 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2183 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2185 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
2186 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2187 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2189 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2190 Valid arguments: on, off
2192 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2195 kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2196 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2197 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2198 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2199 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2200 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2201 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2203 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2205 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2206 Boot Parameter" section.
2208 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2209 and kernel address spaces.
2210 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2214 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2215 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2217 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2218 Default is false (don't support).
2220 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
2225 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2226 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2227 force : Always deploy workaround.
2228 off : Never deploy workaround.
2229 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2230 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2234 If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2235 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2237 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2238 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2239 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2240 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2241 minute. The default is 60.
2243 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
2244 Default is 1 (enabled)
2246 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2248 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
2250 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2251 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2254 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2255 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2258 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2259 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2262 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2263 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2266 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2267 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2268 Default is 1 (enabled)
2270 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2271 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
2272 Default is 0 (disabled)
2274 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2275 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2276 Default is 1 (enabled)
2279 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2280 Default is 0 (disabled)
2282 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2283 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2284 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2285 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2287 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2290 Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2292 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2293 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2294 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2295 never: Disables the mitigation
2297 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2299 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2300 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2301 Default is 1 (enabled)
2303 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2306 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2307 enabled and cannot be disabled.
2310 Provides all available mitigations for the
2311 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2312 enables all mitigations in the
2313 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2315 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2316 sysfs interface is still possible after
2317 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2318 when the first VM is started in a
2319 potentially insecure configuration,
2320 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2323 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2324 flush runtime control. Implies the
2325 'nosmt=force' command line option.
2326 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2329 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2330 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2333 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2334 sysfs interface is still possible after
2335 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2336 when the first VM is started in a
2337 potentially insecure configuration,
2338 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2342 Disables SMT and enables the default
2343 hypervisor mitigation.
2345 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2346 sysfs interface is still possible after
2347 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2348 when the first VM is started in a
2349 potentially insecure configuration,
2350 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2353 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2354 warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2355 insecure configuration.
2358 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2360 It also drops the swap size and available
2361 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2366 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2372 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2375 lapic= [X86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
2376 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2377 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2379 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2382 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
2383 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2384 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2385 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2386 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
2387 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2388 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2390 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2391 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
2392 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
2394 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2398 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
2399 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
2400 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
2401 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
2402 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
2403 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2404 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2405 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2407 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2408 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
2409 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2410 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
2411 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2412 host link and device attached to it.
2414 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
2415 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2416 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2417 The following configurations can be forced.
2419 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2420 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2422 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2424 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2425 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2428 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2430 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2432 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2435 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2436 hot-unplug link recovery
2438 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2440 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2442 * disable: Disable this device.
2444 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2445 the same attribute, the last one is used.
2447 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2449 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
2450 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
2452 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2455 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2458 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2461 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2464 lockdown= [SECURITY]
2465 { integrity | confidentiality }
2466 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2467 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2468 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2469 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2470 to extract confidential information from the kernel
2473 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2474 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2475 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2476 number of online CPUs.
2478 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2479 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2481 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2482 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2484 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2485 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2486 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2488 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2489 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2490 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2491 mode during the locktorture test.
2493 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2494 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2495 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2497 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2498 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2500 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2501 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2502 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2503 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2504 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2505 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2507 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2508 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2510 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2511 Enable additional printk() statements.
2513 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2516 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2517 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2518 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2519 loglevels are defined as follows:
2521 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2522 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2523 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2524 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2525 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2526 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2527 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2528 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2530 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2531 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2532 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2533 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2534 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2535 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2536 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2538 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2539 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2540 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2541 kernel boot problems.
2543 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2544 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2545 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2546 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2547 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2548 attached printers to be reset. Using
2549 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2550 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2551 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2552 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2553 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2554 port specification list means that device IDs
2555 from each port should be examined, to see if
2556 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2557 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2558 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2561 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2562 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2563 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2564 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2565 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2566 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2567 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2568 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2569 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2570 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2571 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2575 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2577 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2580 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
2581 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
2583 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2584 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2585 Example: machvec=hpzx1
2587 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2589 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2591 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2592 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2594 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2595 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2596 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2597 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2598 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2599 only takes effect during system bootup.
2600 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2601 which also disables the IO APIC.
2603 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2604 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2605 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2606 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2607 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2608 /dev/loop-control interface.
2610 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2612 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
2614 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2615 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2618 Format: <first>,<last>
2619 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2622 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2623 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2625 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2626 internal buffers which can forward information to a
2627 disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2629 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2630 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2631 attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2632 not have direct access.
2634 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2637 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2638 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2639 SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2640 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
2642 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
2643 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
2644 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
2645 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
2648 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2651 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2653 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2654 Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows:
2657 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
2658 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
2659 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
2661 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2662 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2663 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2664 belonging to unused RAM.
2666 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
2667 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
2668 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
2670 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2674 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2675 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2677 memhp_default_state=online/offline
2678 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2679 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2680 set according to the
2681 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2683 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
2685 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2686 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2687 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2688 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2691 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2692 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2693 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2694 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2695 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2696 Multiple different regions can be specified,
2699 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2701 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2702 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2703 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2705 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2706 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2707 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2708 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2709 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2711 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2712 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2713 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2716 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2717 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2718 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2719 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2720 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2722 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2723 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2724 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2725 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2726 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2727 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2728 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2729 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2731 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2732 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2733 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2734 Setting this option will scan the memory
2735 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2736 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2737 from using the memory being corrupted.
2738 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2739 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2740 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2741 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2743 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2744 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2745 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2746 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2747 corruption in more or less memory.
2749 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2750 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2751 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2752 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2754 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest
2756 default : 0 <disable>
2757 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2758 performed. Each pass selects another test
2759 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2760 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2761 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2762 regions that are detected.
2764 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2765 Valid arguments: on, off
2766 Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2767 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2768 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2769 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
2770 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
2772 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
2773 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2775 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2776 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2777 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2778 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2779 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
2781 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2782 See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst.
2784 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2785 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2788 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2789 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2790 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2791 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2795 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2796 physical address is ignored.
2798 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2799 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2801 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2802 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2803 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2804 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2805 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2806 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2808 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2809 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2810 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2812 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2813 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2814 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2815 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2816 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2817 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2820 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
2821 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated,
2822 arch-independent options, each of which is an
2823 aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
2826 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This
2827 improves system performance, but it may also
2828 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
2829 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
2831 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
2833 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
2834 spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
2835 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
2836 ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
2839 tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
2840 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
2843 This does not have any effect on
2844 kvm.nx_huge_pages when
2845 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
2848 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
2849 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for
2850 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
2851 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
2852 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
2853 Equivalent to: (default behavior)
2856 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
2857 if needed. This is for users who always want to
2858 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
2859 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
2860 mds=full,nosmt [X86]
2861 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
2864 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2865 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2866 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2867 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2868 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2869 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2872 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2873 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2874 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
2875 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2877 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2878 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2881 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2882 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2883 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2884 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2886 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2887 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2888 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2889 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2891 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2892 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2893 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
2894 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
2895 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is
2896 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
2897 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its
2898 own is specified, the administrator must be careful
2899 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2902 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2903 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2904 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2905 allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2906 allocations. Use with caution!
2908 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2909 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2911 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2912 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
2915 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
2917 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2918 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2921 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2923 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2925 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2926 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2927 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2928 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2929 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2932 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2934 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2936 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
2937 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2938 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
2940 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2941 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
2942 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2944 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2945 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2947 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2950 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2952 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2954 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2955 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2957 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2959 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2960 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2961 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2962 something different and driver-specific.
2963 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2967 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2968 0 to disable accounting
2969 1 to enable accounting
2972 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
2973 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2975 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
2976 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2978 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2979 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2981 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2982 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2983 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2986 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2987 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2988 channel should listen.
2991 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2992 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2994 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2995 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2996 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2998 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2999 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
3003 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
3004 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
3005 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
3006 of returning the full 64-bit number.
3007 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
3009 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
3010 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
3011 slots the client will assign to the callback
3012 channel. This determines the maximum number of
3013 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
3014 a particular server.
3016 nfs.max_session_slots=
3017 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
3018 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
3019 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
3020 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
3021 Note that there is little point in setting this
3022 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
3024 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3025 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
3026 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
3027 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
3028 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
3029 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
3030 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
3031 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
3032 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
3033 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
3034 back to using the idmapper.
3035 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
3037 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
3038 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
3039 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
3040 UUID that is generated at system install time.
3042 nfs.send_implementation_id =
3043 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
3044 information in exchange_id requests.
3045 If zero, no implementation identification information
3047 The default is to send the implementation identification
3050 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
3051 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
3052 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
3053 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
3054 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
3055 after the locks are lost.
3056 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
3057 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
3059 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
3060 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
3062 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
3063 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
3064 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
3066 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
3067 whatever value is the default set by the layout
3068 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
3069 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
3071 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3072 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
3073 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
3074 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
3075 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
3076 migration from NFSv2/v3.
3078 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
3079 when a NMI is triggered.
3080 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
3082 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
3083 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
3085 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
3086 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
3087 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
3088 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
3089 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
3090 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
3091 please see 'nowatchdog'.
3092 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
3093 need the box quickly up again.
3095 These settings can be accessed at runtime via
3096 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
3098 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3099 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3100 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3103 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
3104 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3107 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3108 kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3110 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
3113 [HW] Never suspend the console
3114 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3115 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
3116 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3117 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3118 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
3119 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3120 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3121 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3122 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3123 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3124 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3125 turn on/off it dynamically.
3127 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP]
3128 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
3129 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
3130 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data
3131 without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
3132 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling
3133 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
3134 data will be no longer available. This parameter
3135 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
3138 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
3139 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
3140 but will impact performance.
3144 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
3145 (CPU alternatives feature).
3147 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3148 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3150 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3152 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
3153 on "Classic" PPC cores.
3157 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
3159 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
3161 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3163 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
3168 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
3169 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3170 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
3173 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3174 even if it is supported by processor.
3177 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
3178 even if it is supported by processor.
3181 This affects only 32-bit executables.
3182 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3183 read doesn't imply executable mappings
3184 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3185 read implies executable mappings
3187 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3189 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3190 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3191 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3193 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3195 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3196 Equivalent to smt=1.
3198 [KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3199 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3200 via the sysfs control file.
3202 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3203 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3204 possible in the system.
3206 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3207 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3208 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3211 nospec_store_bypass_disable
3212 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3214 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
3215 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
3216 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
3218 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3219 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3220 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3221 performance of saving the states is degraded because
3222 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3223 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3225 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3226 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3227 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3228 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3229 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3230 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3231 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3233 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
3234 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
3235 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
3237 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
3238 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3239 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3241 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3242 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3243 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3244 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3245 in certain environments such as networked servers or
3248 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3250 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3251 Valid arguments: on, off
3254 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3255 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3256 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3257 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3258 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3259 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
3260 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3261 just as if they had also been called out in the
3262 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3264 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3266 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3267 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3269 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3270 broken timer IRQ sources.
3272 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3274 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3277 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3279 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3283 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3285 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3287 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3289 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3293 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3294 clock and use the default one.
3296 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time
3297 accounting. steal time is computed, but won't
3298 influence scheduler behaviour
3300 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3302 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3304 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
3305 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
3307 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3309 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3311 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3312 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3314 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3315 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3318 nomodule Disable module load
3320 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3321 pagetables) support.
3323 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3325 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
3326 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3328 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3329 with UP alternatives
3331 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3332 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3333 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3334 available to user space applications.
3336 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3339 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
3340 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3341 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3345 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
3347 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3348 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3350 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3352 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3354 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3355 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3359 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3361 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3362 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3363 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3364 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3365 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3366 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3367 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3368 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3369 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3370 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3371 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3372 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3373 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3375 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
3376 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3377 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3378 without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3379 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3381 Format: integer between 1 and 255
3384 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
3385 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3388 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
3389 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
3390 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3391 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3392 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3393 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3394 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3397 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3399 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
3400 Allowed values are enable and disable
3402 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3403 'node', 'default' can be specified
3404 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3405 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
3407 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3408 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
3411 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3412 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3413 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3414 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
3415 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3416 interrupts *may* be lost!
3418 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3419 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3420 For example, to override I2C bus2:
3421 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3423 oprofile.timer= [HW]
3424 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
3426 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
3427 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
3428 userland or if you want common events.
3429 Format: { arch_perfmon }
3430 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
3431 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
3432 CPU specific event set.
3433 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
3434 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
3435 for generic hr timer mode)
3437 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3438 process, but there is a small probability of
3439 deadlocking the machine.
3440 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3441 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3444 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3445 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3446 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3447 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3448 cache, and this parameter can be used to
3449 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3450 can be read from sysfs at:
3451 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3453 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3454 Storage of the information about who allocated
3455 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3457 on: enable the feature
3459 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3460 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3461 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3462 off: turn off poisoning (default)
3463 on: turn on poisoning
3465 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3466 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3467 timeout = 0: wait forever
3468 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3471 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3472 User can chose combination of the following bits:
3473 bit 0: print all tasks info
3474 bit 1: print system memory info
3475 bit 2: print timer info
3476 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3477 bit 4: print ftrace buffer
3478 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
3480 panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
3481 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
3482 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
3483 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
3484 called with any of the flags in this set.
3485 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
3486 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
3487 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
3488 bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
3489 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
3490 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
3491 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
3493 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
3496 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3497 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3498 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3499 succeeds in any situation.
3500 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3501 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3502 kernel more unstable.
3504 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3505 connected to, default is 0.
3507 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3508 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
3511 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3512 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3513 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3514 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3515 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3516 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3517 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3518 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3519 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3520 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3521 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3522 are specified on the command line, starting
3525 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
3526 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3527 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3528 computer where firmware has no options for setting
3529 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3530 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
3531 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3534 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3535 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
3536 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3541 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
3542 See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3544 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3546 Some options herein operate on a specific device
3547 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3548 specified in one of the following formats:
3550 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
3551 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3553 Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3554 bus/device/function address which may change
3555 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3556 firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3557 by other kernel parameters. If the
3558 domain is left unspecified, it is
3559 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3560 to a device through multiple device/function
3561 addresses can be specified after the base
3562 address (this is more robust against
3563 renumbering issues). The second format
3564 selects devices using IDs from the
3565 configuration space which may match multiple
3566 devices in the system.
3568 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel
3570 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
3571 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
3572 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3573 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
3574 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
3575 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3576 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3577 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
3578 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3579 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3580 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3581 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3582 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3583 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3584 bus number. The config space is then accessed
3585 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3586 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3587 on the configuration access mechanisms.
3588 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3589 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3590 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
3591 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3592 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
3593 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
3595 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3596 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3597 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
3598 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3599 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3600 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
3601 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3602 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3603 should never be necessary.
3604 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3605 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3606 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3607 when the system masks IRQs.
3608 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3609 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3610 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3611 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
3612 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
3613 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3614 on several machines and they hang the machine
3615 when used, but on other computers it's the only
3616 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3617 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3618 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3620 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
3621 Use with caution as certain devices share
3622 address decoders between ROMs and other
3624 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
3625 expansion ROMs that do not already have
3626 BIOS assigned address ranges.
3627 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
3628 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
3629 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
3630 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3631 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3633 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
3634 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3635 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3636 F0000h-100000h range.
3637 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
3638 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3639 secondary buses and you want to tell it
3640 explicitly which ones they are.
3641 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
3642 numbers ourselves, overriding
3643 whatever the firmware may have done.
3644 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
3645 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3646 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3647 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3648 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3649 IRQ routing is enabled.
3650 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
3651 or for PCI scanning.
3652 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3653 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3654 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
3655 please report a bug.
3656 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3657 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
3658 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3659 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3660 so this option is a temporary workaround
3661 for broken drivers that don't call it.
3662 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3663 handle more pci cards
3664 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3665 This might help on some broken boards which
3666 machine check when some devices' config space
3667 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3668 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
3669 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3670 This sorting is done to get a device
3671 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3672 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3673 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3674 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3675 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3676 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3677 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3678 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3679 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3680 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3681 or bus can support) for best performance.
3682 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3683 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3684 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3685 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3686 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3687 that hot-added devices will work.
3688 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3689 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3690 The default value is 256 bytes.
3691 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3692 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3693 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3696 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
3697 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3698 aligned memory resources. How to
3699 specify the device is described above.
3700 If <order of align> is not specified,
3701 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3702 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
3703 windows need to be expanded.
3704 To specify the alignment for several
3705 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3706 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3707 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
3708 for 4096-byte alignment.
3709 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3710 end-to-end CRC checking).
3711 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3715 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3716 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3717 Default size is 256 bytes.
3718 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3719 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
3720 Default size is 2 megabytes.
3721 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3722 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
3723 Default size is 2 megabytes.
3724 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3725 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
3727 Default size is 2 megabytes.
3728 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3729 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3731 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3732 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3733 accommodate resources required by all child
3735 off: Turn realloc off
3737 realloc same as realloc=on
3738 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
3739 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3740 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
3741 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3742 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3744 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3745 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3746 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3747 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3748 conflict with unreported devices), so this
3750 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
3751 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
3752 specified above) separated by semicolons.
3753 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
3754 redirect capabilities forced off which will
3755 allow P2P traffic between devices through
3756 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
3757 this removes isolation between devices and
3758 may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
3759 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
3760 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
3761 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
3762 one PCI domain per PCI function
3764 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3767 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3768 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3770 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3771 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3772 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3773 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform
3774 also tries to use these services.
3775 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May
3776 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
3777 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3780 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3781 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3782 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3784 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
3785 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
3786 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
3788 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3792 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3793 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3794 for debug and development, but should not be
3795 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3798 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3800 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3803 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3805 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
3806 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3807 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3808 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3809 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3810 and performance comparison.
3813 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3816 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3818 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
3819 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
3821 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3822 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3823 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
3825 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
3826 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3829 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL]
3830 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
3833 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3834 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3835 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3836 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3837 possible settings and some assignment information.
3843 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3846 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3849 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3851 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
3852 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
3855 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3857 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3859 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3861 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3863 Format: <port>,<port>....
3865 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3866 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3867 platform machine description specific power_save
3868 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3871 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3872 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3873 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3874 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3875 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3879 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3881 print-fatal-signals=
3882 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
3884 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3885 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3886 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3889 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3890 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3894 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3895 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3897 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3900 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3901 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3902 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3903 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3904 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3907 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3908 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3910 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3911 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3912 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3914 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3915 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3916 instead using the legacy FADT method
3918 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
3919 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3920 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3921 [defaults to kernel profiling]
3922 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3923 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3924 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
3925 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
3926 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3927 statistical time based profiling.
3929 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3931 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
3933 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
3934 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
3938 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
3942 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3943 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
3944 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3946 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3947 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
3950 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3951 psmouse.smartscroll=
3952 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
3953 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3955 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3958 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3960 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3961 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
3962 removes hardening, but improves performance of
3963 system calls and interrupts.
3965 on - unconditionally enable
3966 off - unconditionally disable
3967 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3968 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3970 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3973 Equivalent to pti=off
3976 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3979 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
3984 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3986 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
3987 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
3989 random.trust_cpu={on,off}
3990 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
3991 CPU's random number generator (if available) to
3992 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
3993 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
3995 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
3998 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3999 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
4002 The argument is a cpu list, as described above,
4003 except that the string "all" can be used to
4004 specify every CPU on the system.
4006 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
4007 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
4008 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be
4009 offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that
4010 purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and
4011 "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number.
4012 This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs,
4013 which can be useful for HPC and real-time
4014 workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency
4015 for asymmetric multiprocessors.
4018 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
4019 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
4020 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
4021 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
4022 This improves the real-time response for the
4023 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
4024 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
4025 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
4026 periodically wake up to do the polling.
4028 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
4029 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
4030 process in one batch.
4032 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
4033 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
4034 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
4035 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
4037 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
4038 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4039 RCU grace-period cleanup.
4041 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
4042 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4043 RCU grace-period initialization.
4045 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
4046 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4047 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
4048 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
4049 the rcu_node combining tree.
4051 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL]
4052 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
4053 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero
4054 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
4055 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
4057 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
4058 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
4059 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
4060 possibly be useful for architectures having high
4061 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
4063 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
4064 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
4065 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
4066 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
4067 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
4068 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
4069 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
4071 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
4072 Minimum number of objects which are cached and
4073 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
4074 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
4075 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
4076 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
4079 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
4080 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
4081 first attempt to force quiescent states.
4082 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
4083 and maximum value is HZ.
4085 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
4086 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
4087 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
4088 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
4090 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
4091 Set required age in jiffies for a
4092 given grace period before RCU starts
4093 soliciting quiescent-state help from
4094 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
4095 If not specified, the kernel will calculate
4096 a value based on the most recent settings
4097 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
4098 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
4099 This calculated value may be viewed in
4100 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set
4101 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
4104 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
4105 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
4106 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
4107 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
4108 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
4109 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
4110 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
4111 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
4112 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
4113 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
4115 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
4116 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
4117 each group, which defaults to the square root
4118 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce
4119 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
4120 kthread, but increases that same overhead on
4121 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
4123 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
4124 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4125 batch limiting is disabled.
4127 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
4128 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
4129 batch limiting is re-enabled.
4131 rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
4132 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4133 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
4134 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
4135 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
4136 Set to less than zero to make this be set based
4137 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
4138 disable more aggressive help enlistment.
4140 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
4141 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
4142 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
4144 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
4145 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
4146 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
4147 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
4148 prove do nothing more than free memory.
4150 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
4151 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
4152 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
4153 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
4154 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
4155 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
4157 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
4158 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
4159 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
4160 why a new grace period has not yet started.
4162 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
4163 Measure performance of asynchronous
4164 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
4166 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
4167 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
4168 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
4169 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
4170 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
4171 previously posted callbacks to drain.
4173 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
4174 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
4175 grace-period primitives.
4177 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
4178 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
4179 this parameter is to delay the start of the
4180 test until boot completes in order to avoid
4183 rcuperf.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
4184 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
4186 rcuperf.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
4187 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
4189 rcuperf.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
4190 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
4192 rcuperf.kfree_loops= [KNL]
4193 Number of loops doing rcuperf.kfree_alloc_num number
4194 of allocations and frees.
4196 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
4197 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
4198 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
4199 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
4200 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
4201 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4202 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
4205 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
4206 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
4207 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
4208 N, where N is the number of CPUs
4210 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
4211 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4213 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
4214 Shut the system down after performance tests
4215 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
4218 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
4219 Enable additional printk() statements.
4221 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
4222 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
4223 in microseconds. The default of zero says
4226 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
4227 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
4230 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
4231 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
4234 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
4235 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
4238 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
4239 Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
4240 for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
4242 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
4243 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
4244 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
4246 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
4247 Number of seconds to wait between successive
4248 forward-progress tests.
4250 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
4251 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
4252 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
4255 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
4256 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
4257 primitives, if available.
4259 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
4260 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4262 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
4263 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
4264 update-side primitives, if available.
4266 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
4267 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
4268 update-side primitives, if available. If all
4269 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
4270 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
4271 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
4272 they are all non-zero.
4274 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
4275 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
4277 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
4278 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
4279 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
4280 test, hence the "fake".
4282 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
4283 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
4284 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
4285 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
4286 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
4287 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4289 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
4290 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
4292 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
4293 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
4295 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
4296 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
4297 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
4299 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
4300 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
4301 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
4302 task-exit processing.
4304 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
4305 The number of times in a given read-then-exit
4306 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
4309 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
4310 The delay, in seconds, between successive
4311 read-then-exit testing episodes.
4313 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
4314 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
4315 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
4316 during the rcutorture test.
4318 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
4319 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
4320 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
4322 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
4323 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
4324 warnings, zero to disable.
4326 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
4327 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result
4328 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition
4329 to any other stall-related activity.
4331 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
4332 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
4334 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
4335 Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
4337 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
4338 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
4339 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
4340 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu
4341 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
4342 kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
4344 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
4345 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
4347 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
4348 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
4349 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
4350 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
4351 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
4353 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
4354 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
4355 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
4356 under test support RCU priority boosting.
4358 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
4359 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
4361 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
4362 Interval (s) between each boost test.
4364 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
4365 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
4366 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
4368 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
4369 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4371 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
4372 Enable additional printk() statements.
4374 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
4375 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
4378 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
4379 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4381 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
4382 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
4383 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
4384 during early boot, that is, during the time
4385 before the init task is spawned.
4387 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4388 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4390 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
4391 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
4392 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
4393 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
4394 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
4395 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
4396 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4398 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
4399 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
4400 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
4401 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
4402 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
4403 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
4404 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
4405 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
4406 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4408 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
4409 Once boot has completed (that is, after
4410 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
4411 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
4412 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4414 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
4415 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
4416 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
4417 of a given grace period. Setting a large
4418 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
4419 but lengthens grace periods.
4421 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4422 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
4423 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
4426 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
4427 Run the RCU early boot self tests
4431 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
4432 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
4435 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
4436 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
4437 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
4438 support, specifically around the suspend/resume
4442 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
4443 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
4445 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
4449 Format (x86 or x86_64):
4450 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
4452 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
4454 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
4455 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
4457 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
4458 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
4459 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
4460 to be used for rebooting.
4462 refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
4463 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
4464 this parameter is to delay the start of the
4465 test until boot completes in order to avoid
4468 refscale.loops= [KNL]
4469 Set the number of loops over the synchronization
4470 primitive under test. Increasing this number
4471 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
4472 but the default has already reduced the per-pass
4473 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
4476 refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
4477 Set number of readers. The default value of -1
4478 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
4479 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice.
4481 refscale.nruns= [KNL]
4482 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
4485 refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
4486 Set the read-side critical-section duration,
4487 measured in microseconds.
4489 refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
4490 Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
4492 refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
4493 Shut down the system at the end of the performance
4494 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
4495 rcuperf is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
4496 it running) when rcuperf is built as a module.
4498 refscale.verbose= [KNL]
4499 Enable additional printk() statements.
4502 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
4503 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
4505 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
4506 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
4507 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
4508 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
4509 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
4511 reservetop= [X86-32]
4513 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
4518 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
4519 the bottom of the address space.
4521 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
4522 during initialization.
4525 Specify the partition device for software suspend
4527 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
4529 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
4530 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
4531 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
4532 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
4533 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
4535 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4536 read the resume files
4538 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
4539 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4540 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4542 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
4543 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
4544 present during boot.
4545 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
4546 no Disable hibernation and resume.
4547 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
4548 (that will set all pages holding image data
4549 during restoration read-only).
4551 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
4553 rfkill.default_state=
4554 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
4555 etc. communication is blocked by default.
4558 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
4559 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
4560 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4561 blocked and the previous configuration.
4562 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4563 blocked and everything unblocked.
4565 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4566 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
4569 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
4572 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
4575 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
4576 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
4579 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
4580 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
4581 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
4582 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
4584 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
4585 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
4587 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4588 mount the root filesystem
4590 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
4592 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
4594 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
4595 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4596 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4598 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
4599 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
4600 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
4603 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
4605 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
4607 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
4608 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
4610 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
4611 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
4615 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
4617 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
4619 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
4621 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
4622 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
4623 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
4624 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
4626 sched_thermal_decay_shift=
4627 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
4628 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
4629 default decay period of other scheduler pelt
4630 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
4631 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
4632 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
4634 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
4635 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr
4639 Format: integer between 0 and 10
4642 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
4643 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
4644 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
4645 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4646 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
4648 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
4649 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
4651 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
4652 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
4655 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
4656 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4657 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
4662 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
4663 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4664 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
4667 Default value is set via kernel config option.
4669 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
4672 Maximal number of shapers.
4680 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
4681 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
4682 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
4683 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
4684 layout control by attackers can usually be
4685 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
4686 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
4687 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
4688 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
4690 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4692 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
4693 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4694 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4695 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
4696 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
4698 slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB]
4699 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
4700 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
4701 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
4702 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
4703 last alloc / free. For more information see
4704 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4706 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
4707 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
4708 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
4709 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
4710 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
4711 directories and files being created under
4714 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
4715 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4716 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4717 fragmentation. For more information see
4718 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4720 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
4721 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
4722 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
4723 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
4724 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
4725 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
4726 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
4727 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4729 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
4730 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
4731 lower than slub_max_order.
4732 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4734 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
4735 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
4736 See slab_nomerge for more information.
4739 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
4741 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
4742 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
4743 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
4744 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
4745 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
4746 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
4747 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
4748 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
4749 1: Fast pin select (default)
4752 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4753 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4754 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4755 actual hardware limit.
4757 Default: -1 (no limit)
4760 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
4763 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
4764 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
4765 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
4766 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
4767 respective build-time switch to that functionality.
4769 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4770 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4771 backtraces on all cpus.
4774 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
4775 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
4777 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4778 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
4779 The default operation protects the kernel from
4782 on - unconditionally enable, implies
4784 off - unconditionally disable, implies
4786 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4789 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4790 mitigation method at run time according to the
4791 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4792 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4793 compiler with which the kernel was built.
4795 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
4796 against user space to user space task attacks.
4798 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
4799 the user space protections.
4801 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4803 retpoline - replace indirect branches
4804 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4805 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4807 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4811 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4812 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
4815 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
4816 enforced by spectre_v2=on
4818 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
4819 enforced by spectre_v2=off
4821 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
4822 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
4823 per thread. The mitigation control state
4824 is inherited on fork.
4827 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
4828 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4829 always when switching between different user
4833 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
4834 threads will enable the mitigation unless
4835 they explicitly opt out.
4838 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
4839 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4840 always when switching between different
4841 user space processes.
4843 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
4844 the available CPU features and vulnerability.
4847 If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4849 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4850 spectre_v2_user=auto.
4852 spec_store_bypass_disable=
4853 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
4854 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
4856 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
4857 a common industry wide performance optimization known
4858 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
4859 to the same memory location may not be observed by
4860 later loads during speculative execution. The idea
4861 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
4862 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
4863 end of a particular speculation execution window.
4865 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4866 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
4867 example to read memory to which the attacker does not
4868 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
4870 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
4871 Bypass optimization is used.
4873 On x86 the options are:
4875 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
4876 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
4877 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
4878 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
4879 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
4880 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
4881 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
4882 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
4883 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
4884 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
4885 for a process by default. The state of the control
4886 is inherited on fork.
4887 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
4888 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
4890 Default mitigations:
4891 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4893 On powerpc the options are:
4895 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
4896 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
4897 perform a software flush on kernel entry and
4901 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4902 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
4904 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
4910 [X86] Enable split lock detection
4912 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
4913 instructions that access data across cache line
4914 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception.
4918 warn - the kernel will emit rate limited warnings
4919 about applications triggering the #AC
4920 exception. This mode is the default on CPUs
4921 that supports split lock detection.
4923 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
4924 that trigger the #AC exception.
4926 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
4927 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
4928 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
4932 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
4935 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
4936 exploit which can leak bits from the random
4939 By default, this issue is mitigated by
4940 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause
4941 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
4942 much slower. Among other effects, this will
4943 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
4945 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
4946 the following option:
4948 off: Disable mitigation and remove
4949 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
4951 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4952 Specifies how frequently to check for
4953 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4954 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4955 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4956 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4957 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
4960 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4961 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4962 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4963 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4964 grace period will be considered for automatic
4965 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
4969 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
4971 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
4972 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
4973 firmware based mitigation, this parameter
4974 indicates how the mitigation should be used:
4976 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for
4977 for both kernel and userspace
4978 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
4979 for both kernel and userspace
4980 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the
4981 kernel, and offer a prctl interface
4982 to allow userspace to register its
4983 interest in being mitigated too.
4985 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
4986 override the default stack gap protection. The value
4987 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4988 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4989 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4990 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4993 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4995 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4996 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4997 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4998 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4999 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
5000 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
5001 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
5005 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
5006 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
5007 as the initial boot-console.
5008 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5011 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5014 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
5016 sunrpc.min_resvport=
5017 sunrpc.max_resvport=
5019 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
5020 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
5021 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
5022 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
5023 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
5024 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
5025 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
5026 maximum port values.
5028 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
5030 Limit the number of requests that the server will
5031 process in parallel from a single connection.
5032 The default value is 0 (no limit).
5036 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
5037 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
5038 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
5039 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
5040 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
5041 NFS server is running.
5043 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
5044 automatically using heuristics
5045 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
5046 percpu one pool for each CPU
5047 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
5048 to global on non-NUMA machines)
5050 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
5051 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
5053 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
5054 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
5055 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
5056 improve throughput, but will also increase the
5057 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
5059 suspend.pm_test_delay=
5061 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
5062 mode before resuming the system (see
5063 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
5064 is set. Default value is 5.
5067 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
5068 This parameter controls use of the Protected
5069 Execution Facility on pSeries.
5072 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
5073 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
5074 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
5076 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
5077 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
5078 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
5079 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
5080 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
5081 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
5086 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
5087 process, as if the value was written to the respective
5088 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
5089 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
5090 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
5091 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
5092 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
5094 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
5095 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
5096 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
5097 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
5098 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
5099 in older udev will not work anymore.
5100 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
5101 the kernel configuration.
5103 sysrq_always_enabled
5105 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
5106 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
5107 Useful for debugging.
5109 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
5110 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
5111 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
5112 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
5113 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
5114 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
5118 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
5119 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
5120 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
5121 as the system sleep state during system startup with
5122 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
5123 The system is woken from this state using a
5124 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
5126 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
5127 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
5129 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
5130 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
5131 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
5133 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
5134 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
5135 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
5137 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
5138 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
5139 critical and hot trip points.
5141 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
5142 1: disable ACPI thermal control
5144 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
5145 -1: disable all passive trip points
5146 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
5149 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
5150 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
5151 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
5152 0: no polling (default)
5155 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
5156 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
5160 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
5161 topology information if the hardware supports this.
5162 The scheduler will make use of this information and
5163 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
5166 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
5168 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
5169 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
5172 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
5173 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
5174 until after init has spawned.
5176 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
5177 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
5178 even if there were no errors. This can be a
5179 very costly operation when many torture tests
5180 are running concurrently, especially on systems
5181 with rotating-rust storage.
5185 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
5186 Format: integer pcr id
5187 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
5188 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
5189 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
5190 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
5191 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
5194 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
5195 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
5197 trace_event=[event-list]
5198 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
5199 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
5200 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
5201 also Documentation/trace/events.rst
5203 trace_options=[option-list]
5204 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
5205 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
5206 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
5207 to echo the option name into
5209 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
5211 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
5212 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
5214 trace_options=stacktrace
5216 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
5220 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
5221 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
5222 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
5223 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
5224 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
5226 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
5227 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
5228 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
5229 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
5233 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
5234 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
5235 the system to live lock.
5238 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
5239 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
5240 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
5241 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
5243 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
5244 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
5245 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
5247 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
5248 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
5250 transparent_hugepage=
5252 Format: [always|madvise|never]
5253 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
5254 with respect to transparent hugepages.
5255 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
5258 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
5260 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
5261 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
5262 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
5263 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
5264 virtualized environment.
5265 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
5266 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
5267 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
5269 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
5270 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
5271 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
5272 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
5273 in situations with strict latency requirements (where
5274 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
5277 tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
5278 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
5279 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
5280 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
5281 Format: <unsigned int>
5283 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
5284 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
5285 support TSX control.
5287 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
5289 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
5290 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
5291 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
5292 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
5293 so there may be unknown security risks associated
5294 with leaving it enabled.
5296 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
5297 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
5298 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
5299 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
5300 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
5301 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
5302 deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
5304 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
5305 otherwise enable TSX on the system.
5307 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
5309 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
5312 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
5313 Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
5315 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
5316 certain CPUs that support Transactional
5317 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
5318 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
5319 information to a disclosure gadget under certain
5322 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5323 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
5324 access data to which the attacker does not have direct
5327 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The
5330 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
5333 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
5334 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
5335 is not disabled because CPU is not
5336 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
5337 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
5339 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
5340 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
5341 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
5342 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
5344 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5345 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected
5346 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
5347 required and doesn't provide any additional
5351 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
5353 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
5354 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
5356 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
5357 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
5359 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
5360 happen after console_init() and before a proper
5361 console driver takes over, this boot options might
5362 help "seeing" what's going on.
5364 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
5365 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
5368 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
5369 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
5370 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
5371 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
5372 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
5376 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
5378 usbcore.authorized_default=
5379 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
5380 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
5381 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
5382 if device connected to internal port)
5384 usbcore.autosuspend=
5385 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
5386 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
5387 is the time required before an idle device will be
5388 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
5389 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
5391 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
5392 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
5394 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
5395 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
5398 usbcore.blinkenlights=
5399 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
5401 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
5402 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
5403 scheme (default 0 = off).
5405 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
5406 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
5407 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
5409 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
5410 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
5411 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
5413 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
5414 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
5415 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
5416 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
5418 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
5421 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
5422 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
5423 commas. Each entry has the form
5424 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
5425 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
5426 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
5427 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
5428 the following meanings:
5429 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
5430 descriptors must not be fetched using
5432 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
5433 correctly so reset it instead);
5434 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
5435 Set-Interface requests);
5436 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
5437 handle its Configuration or Interface
5439 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
5440 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
5441 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
5442 more interface descriptions than the
5443 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
5444 talking to these interfaces);
5445 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
5446 during initialization, after we read
5447 the device descriptor);
5448 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
5449 high speed and super speed interrupt
5450 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
5451 require the interval in microframes (1
5452 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
5453 calculated as interval = 2 ^
5455 Devices with this quirk report their
5456 bInterval as the result of this
5457 calculation instead of the exponent
5458 variable used in the calculation);
5459 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
5460 handle device_qualifier descriptor
5462 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
5463 generates spurious wakeup, ignore
5464 remote wakeup capability);
5465 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
5467 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
5468 (Device reports its bInterval as linear
5469 frames instead of the USB 2.0
5471 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
5472 to be disconnected before suspend to
5473 prevent spurious wakeup);
5474 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
5475 pause after every control message);
5476 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
5477 delay after resetting its port);
5478 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
5481 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
5484 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
5487 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
5489 usb-storage.delay_use=
5490 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
5491 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
5494 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
5495 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
5496 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
5497 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
5498 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
5499 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
5500 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
5501 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
5502 of sense data, not on uas);
5503 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
5504 bytes of sense data, not on uas);
5505 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
5506 device capacity by one sector);
5507 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
5508 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
5509 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
5510 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
5511 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
5513 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
5514 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
5515 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
5516 reported device capacity by one
5517 sector if the number is odd);
5518 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
5520 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
5522 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
5523 unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
5524 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
5525 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
5527 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
5528 initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
5529 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
5530 reported by the device, not on uas);
5531 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
5532 by default, not on uas);
5533 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
5534 bogus residue values, not on uas);
5535 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
5537 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
5538 commands, uas only);
5539 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
5540 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
5541 medium is write-protected).
5542 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
5543 even if the device claims no cache,
5545 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
5547 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
5549 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
5550 1 - undefined instruction events
5552 4 - invalid data aborts
5555 Example: user_debug=31
5558 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
5560 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
5561 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
5565 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
5567 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
5568 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
5570 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
5571 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
5572 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
5574 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
5575 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
5576 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
5578 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
5581 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
5582 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
5585 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
5587 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
5588 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
5590 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
5591 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
5592 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
5593 level and then send out the event to user space through
5594 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
5595 will only send out the event without touching backlight
5600 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
5602 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
5604 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
5606 <baseaddr> := physical base address
5607 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
5609 <id> := (optional) platform device id
5611 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
5613 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
5615 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
5616 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
5617 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
5618 Use vga=ask for menu.
5619 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
5620 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
5622 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
5623 May slow down system boot speed, especially when
5624 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
5625 All options are enabled by default, and this
5626 interface is meant to allow for selectively
5627 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
5630 Available options are:
5631 P Enable page structure init time poisoning
5632 - Disable all of the above options
5634 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
5635 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
5636 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
5637 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
5640 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390]
5641 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
5642 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
5644 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
5647 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
5650 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
5654 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
5655 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
5656 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
5657 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
5658 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
5659 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
5661 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5662 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall
5665 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5666 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall
5667 page is not readable.
5669 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
5670 them quite hard to use for exploits but
5671 might break your system.
5673 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
5674 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
5675 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
5677 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
5678 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
5679 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
5680 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
5682 vt.default_blu= [VT]
5683 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
5684 Change the default blue palette of the console.
5685 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5688 vt.default_grn= [VT]
5689 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
5690 Change the default green palette of the console.
5691 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5694 vt.default_red= [VT]
5695 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
5696 Change the default red palette of the console.
5697 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5703 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
5704 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
5705 newly opened terminals.
5707 vt.global_cursor_default=
5710 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
5711 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
5712 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
5713 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
5714 cursors, 1 will display them.
5716 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
5719 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
5722 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
5723 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
5724 or other driver-specific files in the
5725 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
5729 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
5730 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
5731 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
5732 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
5735 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
5736 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
5737 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
5738 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
5739 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
5740 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
5741 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
5742 corresponding sysfs file.
5744 workqueue.disable_numa
5745 By default, all work items queued to unbound
5746 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
5747 issued on, which results in better behavior in
5748 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
5749 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
5750 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
5751 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
5753 workqueue.power_efficient
5754 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
5755 they show better performance thanks to cache
5756 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
5757 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
5759 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
5760 were observed to contribute significantly to power
5761 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
5762 power usage at the cost of small performance
5765 The default value of this parameter is determined by
5766 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
5768 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
5769 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
5770 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
5771 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
5772 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
5773 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
5774 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
5775 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
5776 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
5779 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
5780 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
5783 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
5784 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
5785 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
5786 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
5787 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
5789 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
5790 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
5791 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
5792 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
5793 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
5796 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
5797 Unplug Xen emulated devices
5798 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
5799 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
5800 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
5801 nics -- unplug network devices
5802 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
5803 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
5804 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
5806 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
5808 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN]
5809 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
5810 panic() code such as dumping handler.
5812 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
5813 Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations.
5814 This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which
5815 has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
5818 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
5819 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
5820 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
5821 has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
5823 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN]
5824 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
5825 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
5826 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
5827 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
5829 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN]
5830 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
5831 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
5832 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
5833 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
5834 more timer interrupts.
5836 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
5837 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
5838 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
5839 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
5841 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM]
5842 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
5843 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
5846 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
5848 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
5851 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
5852 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
5853 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
5855 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
5856 controller on both pseries and powernv
5857 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
5859 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL]
5860 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
5861 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
5862 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
5865 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
5866 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
5867 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
5868 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
5869 debugger is called from setup_arch().
5870 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
5871 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
5872 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
5873 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
5874 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
5875 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
5876 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
5877 can be written using xmon commands.
5878 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
5879 memory, and other data can't be written using
5881 off xmon is disabled.