1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64] 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt | 4 copy_dsdt } 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64] 7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on 8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant. 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory 13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force" 14 are available 15 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi 17 18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC] 19 Format: <int> 20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 21 1,0: use 1st APIC table 22 default: 0 23 24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 25 acpi_backlight=vendor 26 acpi_backlight=video 27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver 28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 29 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 30 31 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr 32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 36 37 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 41 This option is useful for developers to identify the 42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 43 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 44 45 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 47 Format: <int> 48 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT 52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 55 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 56 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about 57 debug layers and levels. 58 59 Enable processor driver info messages: 60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages: 62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000 63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 64 object while interpreting AML: 65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 68 69 Some values produce so much output that the system is 70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 71 if you need to capture more output. 72 73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 74 { strict | lax | no } 75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 79 can interfere with legacy drivers. 80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 82 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 87 no further checks are performed. 88 89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI] 90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 92 size limitation. 93 94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 95 ACPI will balance active IRQs 96 default in APIC mode 97 98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 100 default in PIC mode 101 102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 103 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 104 105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 106 use by PCI 107 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 108 109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 113 the GPE dispatcher. 114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 115 GPE floodings. 116 Format: <int> 117 Support masking of GPEs numbered from 0x00 to 0x7f. 118 119 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 120 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 121 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 122 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 123 auto-serialization feature. 124 This feature is enabled by default. 125 This option allows to turn off the feature. 126 127 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 128 kernels. 129 130 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] 131 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 132 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 133 installed automatically and they will appear under 134 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 135 This option turns off this feature. 136 Note that specifying this option does not affect 137 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 138 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 139 140 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] 141 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 142 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 143 second kernel for kdump. 144 145 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 146 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 147 148 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 149 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 150 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 151 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 152 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 153 154 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 155 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 156 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 157 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 158 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 159 strings 160 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 161 strings 162 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 163 164 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 165 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 166 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 167 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 168 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 169 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 170 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 171 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 172 care about the state of the feature group strings which 173 should be controlled by the OSPM. 174 Examples: 175 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 176 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 177 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 178 179 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 180 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 181 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 182 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 183 multiple times through kernel command line is also 184 meaningless. 185 Examples: 186 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 187 FALSE. 188 189 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 190 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 191 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 192 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 193 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 194 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 195 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 196 there are quirks related to this string. This command 197 is useful when one want to control the state of the 198 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 199 the OSPM features. 200 Examples: 201 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 202 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 203 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 204 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 205 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 206 equivalent to 207 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 208 and 209 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 210 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 211 212 acpi_pm_good [X86] 213 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 214 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 215 and always returns good values. 216 217 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 218 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 219 220 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 221 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 222 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 223 224 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 225 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig, 226 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable } 227 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on 228 s3_bios and s3_mode. 229 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 230 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 231 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 232 used during resume from hibernation. 233 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 234 control method, with respect to putting devices into 235 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 236 of _PTS is used by default). 237 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 238 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 239 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 240 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 241 but some broken systems don't work without it). 242 243 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 244 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 245 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 246 247 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 248 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 249 250 agp= [AGP] 251 { off | try_unsupported } 252 off: disable AGP support 253 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 254 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 255 256 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 257 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt 258 259 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 260 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 261 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 262 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 263 264 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 265 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 266 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 267 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 268 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 269 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 270 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 271 272 32: only for 32-bit processes 273 64: only for 64-bit processes 274 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 275 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 276 277 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 278 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 279 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 280 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 281 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 282 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 283 284 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 285 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 286 Possible values are: 287 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when 288 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are 289 flushed before they will be reused, which 290 is a lot of faster 291 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 292 the system 293 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 294 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 295 allowed anymore to lift isolation 296 requirements as needed. This option 297 does not override iommu=pt 298 299 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 300 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 301 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 302 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 303 IOMMU initialization. 304 305 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 306 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 307 remapping modes: 308 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 309 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 310 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 311 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 312 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 313 314 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 315 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 316 Format: <a>,<b> 317 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 318 319 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 320 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 321 connected to one of 16 gameports 322 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 323 324 apc= [HW,SPARC] 325 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 326 Format: noidle 327 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 328 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 329 APC and your system crashes randomly. 330 331 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 332 Change the output verbosity whilst booting 333 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 334 Change the amount of debugging information output 335 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 336 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 337 driver name. 338 Format: apic=driver_name 339 Examples: apic=bigsmp 340 341 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 342 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 343 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 344 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 345 backup of CPU 0 346 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 347 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 348 shot down by NMI 349 350 autoconf= [IPV6] 351 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 352 353 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 354 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 355 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 356 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 357 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 358 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 359 apic=verbose is specified. 360 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 361 362 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 363 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 364 365 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 366 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 367 368 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 369 370 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 371 372 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 373 EzKey and similar keyboards 374 375 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 376 377 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 378 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 379 380 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 381 keyboards 382 383 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 384 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 385 386 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 387 Use software keyboard repeat 388 389 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 390 Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled) 391 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled 392 until the next reboot 393 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 394 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 395 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled, 396 storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in 397 RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace 398 auditd. 399 Default: unset 400 401 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 402 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 403 Default: 64 404 405 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 406 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 407 Format: { "0" | "1" } 408 0 - Disable the BAU. 409 1 - Enable the BAU. 410 unset - Disable the BAU. 411 412 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 413 Format: <io>,<mode> 414 415 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 416 Format: <io>,<mode> 417 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 418 419 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 420 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 421 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 422 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 423 424 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 425 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 426 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 427 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 428 429 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 430 embedded devices based on command line input. 431 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt 432 433 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 434 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to 435 no delay (0). 436 Format: integer 437 438 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages. 439 440 bert_disable [ACPI] 441 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 442 443 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 444 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 445 kernel args too. 446 bttv.pll= See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst 447 bttv.tuner= 448 449 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 450 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 451 at a time. 452 453 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 454 455 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 456 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 457 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 458 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 459 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 460 This option provides an override for these situations. 461 462 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 463 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 464 trust validation. 465 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 466 467 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 468 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 469 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 470 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 471 others). 472 473 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 474 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details. 475 476 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller 477 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable} 478 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 479 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 480 a single hierarchy 481 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 482 subsystem 483 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 484 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 485 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 486 487 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1 488 Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" } 489 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 490 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 491 492 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 493 Format: <string> 494 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 495 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 496 497 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 498 Format: { "0" | "1" } 499 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 500 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 501 any implied execute protection). 502 1 -- check protection requested by application. 503 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 504 Value can be changed at runtime via 505 /selinux/checkreqprot. 506 507 cio_ignore= [S390] 508 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details. 509 clk_ignore_unused 510 [CLK] 511 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 512 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 513 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 514 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 515 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 516 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 517 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 518 platform with proper driver support. For more 519 information, see Documentation/clk.txt. 520 521 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 522 [Deprecated] 523 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 524 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 525 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 526 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 527 528 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 529 Format: <string> 530 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 531 with the name specified. 532 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 533 the platform: 534 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 535 [ACPI] acpi_pm 536 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 537 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 538 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 539 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 540 [MIPS] MIPS 541 [PARISC] cr16 542 [S390] tod 543 [SH] SuperH 544 [SPARC64] tick 545 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 546 547 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 548 [ARM,ARM64] 549 Format: <bool> 550 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 551 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 552 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 553 systems. 554 555 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86] 556 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 557 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 558 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily 559 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific 560 ones should be. 561 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 562 or using the feature without checking anything 563 will still see it. This just prevents it from 564 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 565 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 566 some critical bits. 567 568 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 569 [ARM,X86,KNL] 570 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 571 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 572 placement constraint by the physical address range of 573 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 574 altogether. For more information, see 575 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h 576 577 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 578 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 579 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 580 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 581 a hypervisor. 582 Default: yes 583 584 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 585 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 586 allocations, by default set to 256K. 587 588 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print 589 in an oops report. 590 Range: 0 - 8192 591 Default: 64 592 593 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 594 Format: 595 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 596 597 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 598 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 599 600 com90xx= [HW,NET] 601 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 602 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 603 604 condev= [HW,S390] console device 605 conmode= 606 607 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 608 609 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 610 611 ttyS<n>[,options] 612 ttyUSB0[,options] 613 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 614 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 615 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 616 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 617 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 618 619 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 620 information. See 621 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an 622 alternative. 623 624 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 625 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 626 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 627 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 628 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 629 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 630 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 631 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 632 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 633 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 634 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 635 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 636 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 637 the h/w is not re-initialized. 638 639 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 640 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 641 642 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 643 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 644 console=brl,ttyS0 645 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 646 647 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 648 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 649 Defaults to 0. 650 651 coredump_filter= 652 [KNL] Change the default value for 653 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 654 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt. 655 656 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 657 [ARM,ARM64] 658 Format: <bool> 659 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 660 0: default value, disable debugging 661 1: enable debugging at boot time 662 663 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 664 disable the cpuidle sub-system 665 666 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 667 disable the cpufreq sub-system 668 669 cpu_init_udelay=N 670 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 671 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 672 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 673 Default: 10000 674 675 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 676 Format: 677 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 678 679 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 680 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 681 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 682 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 683 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 684 is selected automatically. Check 685 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details. 686 687 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 688 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 689 in the running system. The syntax of range is 690 start-[end] where start and end are both 691 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 692 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example. 693 694 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 695 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 696 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 697 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 698 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 699 available. 700 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 701 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 702 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 703 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 704 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 705 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 706 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 707 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 708 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at 709 at least 256M below 4G automatically. 710 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G 711 for second kernel instead. 712 0: to disable low allocation. 713 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 714 or memory reserved is below 4G. 715 716 cryptomgr.notests 717 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 718 719 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 720 Format: <dma> 721 722 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 723 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 724 725 dasd= [HW,NET] 726 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 727 728 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 729 (one device per port) 730 Format: <port#>,<type> 731 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 732 733 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot 734 time. See 735 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for 736 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg. 737 738 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 739 740 debug_locks_verbose= 741 [KNL] verbose self-tests 742 Format=<0|1> 743 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 744 self-tests. 745 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to 746 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally 747 only useful to kernel developers. 748 749 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 750 751 no_debug_objects 752 [KNL] Disable object debugging 753 754 debug_guardpage_minorder= 755 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 756 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 757 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 758 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 759 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 760 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 761 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 762 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 763 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 764 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 765 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 766 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 767 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when 768 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 769 bypassed) which are not detectable by 770 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 771 tracking down these problems. 772 773 debug_pagealloc= 774 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 775 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In 776 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge 777 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable 778 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same 779 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 780 on: enable the feature 781 782 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 783 784 decnet.addr= [HW,NET] 785 Format: <area>[,<node>] 786 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt. 787 788 default_hugepagesz= 789 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default 790 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by 791 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and 792 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems. 793 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size 794 if not specified. 795 796 dhash_entries= [KNL] 797 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 798 799 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 800 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 801 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 802 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 803 miss to occur. 804 805 disable= [IPV6] 806 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 807 808 disable_radix [PPC] 809 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 810 811 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 812 Format: <int> 813 The number of initial APIC ID for the 814 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 815 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 816 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 817 causing system reset or hang due to sending 818 INIT from AP to BSP. 819 820 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 821 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if 822 to workaround buggy firmware. 823 824 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 825 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 826 827 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 828 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 829 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 830 entry later. This parameter disables that. 831 832 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 833 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 834 memory out of your available memory pool based on 835 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 836 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 837 838 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 839 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 840 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 841 842 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 843 844 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 845 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 846 847 dma_debug_entries=<number> 848 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 849 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 850 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 851 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 852 architectural default is too low. 853 854 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 855 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 856 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 857 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 858 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 859 driver later using sysfs. 860 861 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 862 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 863 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 864 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 865 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 866 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 867 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 868 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 869 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 870 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 871 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID 872 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 873 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 874 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 875 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 876 data set with no connector name will be used for 877 any connectors not explicitly specified. 878 879 dscc4.setup= [NET] 880 881 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 882 Format: {"off" | "known"} 883 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 884 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 885 exists). 886 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 887 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 888 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 889 890 dump_apple_properties [X86] 891 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 892 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 893 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 894 895 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 896 module.dyndbg[="val"] 897 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 898 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 899 for details. 900 901 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions. 902 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more 903 information about the feature. 904 905 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 906 in some Intel CPUs. 907 908 module.async_probe [KNL] 909 Enable asynchronous probe on this module. 910 911 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 912 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 913 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 914 which are not unmapped. 915 916 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 917 918 When used with no options, the early console is 919 determined by the stdout-path property in device 920 tree's chosen node. 921 922 cdns,<addr>[,options] 923 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 924 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 925 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 926 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 927 configured. 928 929 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 930 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 931 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 932 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options] 933 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 934 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 935 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 936 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 937 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 938 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 939 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 940 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 941 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 942 943 pl011,<addr> 944 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 945 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 946 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 947 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 948 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 949 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 950 the device registers. 951 952 meson,<addr> 953 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 954 port at the specified address. The serial port must 955 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 956 supported. 957 958 msm_serial,<addr> 959 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 960 port at the specified address. The serial port 961 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 962 yet supported. 963 964 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 965 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 966 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 967 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 968 yet supported. 969 970 owl,<addr> 971 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 972 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 973 specified address. The serial port must already be 974 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 975 976 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 977 978 s3c2410,<addr> 979 s3c2412,<addr> 980 s3c2440,<addr> 981 s3c6400,<addr> 982 s5pv210,<addr> 983 exynos4210,<addr> 984 Use early console provided by serial driver available 985 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 986 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 987 serial port must already be setup and configured. 988 Options are not yet supported. 989 990 lantiq,<addr> 991 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 992 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 993 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 994 yet supported. 995 996 lpuart,<addr> 997 lpuart32,<addr> 998 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 999 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1000 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1001 port must already be setup and configured. 1002 1003 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1004 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1005 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1006 address. The serial port must already be setup 1007 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1008 1009 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k,S390] 1010 earlyprintk=vga 1011 earlyprintk=efi 1012 earlyprintk=sclp 1013 earlyprintk=xen 1014 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1015 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1016 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1017 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1018 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1019 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1020 1021 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1022 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1023 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1024 1025 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1026 takes over. 1027 1028 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can 1029 be used at a time. 1030 1031 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1032 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1033 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1034 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1035 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1036 You can find the port for a given device in 1037 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1038 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1039 1040 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1041 very good. 1042 1043 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by 1044 the real console. 1045 1046 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests. 1047 1048 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1049 1050 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1051 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1052 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1053 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1054 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1055 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1056 default: on. 1057 1058 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1059 ekgdboc=kbd 1060 1061 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1062 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1063 1064 edd= [EDD] 1065 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1066 1067 efi= [EFI] 1068 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" } 1069 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI 1070 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by 1071 default. 1072 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1073 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1074 firmware implementations. 1075 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1076 debug: enable misc debug output 1077 1078 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1079 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1080 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1081 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1082 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1083 1084 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1085 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1086 updating original EFI memory map. 1087 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1088 from ss to ss+nn. 1089 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1090 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1091 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1092 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1093 1094 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1095 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of 1096 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1097 doesn't support it. 1098 1099 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1100 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1101 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1102 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1103 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details. 1104 1105 1106 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1107 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1108 1109 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1110 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1111 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1112 1113 elevator= [IOSCHED] 1114 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"} 1115 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and 1116 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details. 1117 1118 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1119 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1120 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1121 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1122 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details. 1123 1124 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1125 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1126 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1127 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1128 1129 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1130 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1131 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1132 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1133 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1134 1135 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1136 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1137 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1138 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1139 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1140 Default value is 0. 1141 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce. 1142 1143 erst_disable [ACPI] 1144 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1145 support. 1146 1147 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1148 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1149 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1150 1151 evm= [EVM] 1152 Format: { "fix" } 1153 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1154 current integrity status. 1155 1156 failslab= 1157 fail_page_alloc= 1158 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1159 General fault injection mechanism. 1160 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1161 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1162 1163 floppy= [HW] 1164 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt. 1165 1166 force_pal_cache_flush 1167 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1168 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1169 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1170 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1171 1172 forcepae [X86-32] 1173 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1174 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1175 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1176 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1177 and may cause unknown problems. 1178 1179 ftrace=[tracer] 1180 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1181 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1182 boot debugging. 1183 1184 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1185 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1186 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1187 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1188 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1189 oops. 1190 1191 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1192 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1193 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 1194 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1195 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1196 tracing directory. 1197 1198 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1199 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1200 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1201 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1202 tracing directory. 1203 1204 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1205 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1206 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1207 function-list is a comma separated list of functions 1208 that can be changed at run time by the 1209 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1210 1211 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1212 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1213 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of 1214 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1215 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1216 1217 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1218 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1219 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1220 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1221 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1222 1223 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1224 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1225 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1226 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1227 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1228 1229 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1230 1231 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1232 Format: off | on 1233 default: on 1234 1235 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1236 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1237 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1238 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1239 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1240 1241 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1242 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1243 android emulator 1244 1245 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1246 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1247 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1248 GPT to be used instead. 1249 1250 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1251 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1252 Format: 0 | 1 1253 Default: 0 1254 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1255 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1256 Format: 0 | 1 1257 Default: 0 1258 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1259 Format: 0 | 1 1260 Default: 0 1261 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1262 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1263 Default: 1024 1264 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1265 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1266 Default: 1024 1267 1268 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1269 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1270 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1271 1272 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1273 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1274 backtraces on all cpus. 1275 Format: <integer> 1276 1277 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1278 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1279 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1280 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1281 1282 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1283 1284 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1285 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1286 1287 hest_disable [ACPI] 1288 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1289 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1290 logic will be disabled. 1291 1292 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1293 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1294 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1295 size on bigger boxes. 1296 1297 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1298 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1299 Default: "on" 1300 1301 hisax= [HW,ISDN] 1302 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax. 1303 1304 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1305 1306 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1307 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1308 verbose } 1309 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1310 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1311 VIA, nVidia) 1312 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1313 1314 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1315 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1316 1317 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1318 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages. 1319 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified 1320 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve 1321 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on 1322 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G 1323 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag). 1324 1325 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1326 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1327 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1328 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1329 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1330 1331 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to 1332 hardware thread id mappings. 1333 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread> 1334 1335 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1336 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1337 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1338 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1339 the real console. 1340 1341 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1342 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1343 registered from board initialization code. 1344 Format: 1345 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1346 1347 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1348 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1349 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1350 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1351 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1352 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1353 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1354 keyboard and cannot control its state 1355 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1356 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1357 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1358 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1359 for the AUX port 1360 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1361 controller 1362 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1363 controllers 1364 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1365 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1366 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1367 transitions, or never reset 1368 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1369 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1370 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1371 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1372 architectures force reset to be always executed 1373 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1374 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1375 1376 i810= [HW,DRM] 1377 1378 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1379 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1380 hardware. 1381 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature 1382 does not match list of supported models. 1383 i8k.power_status 1384 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1385 (disabled by default) 1386 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1387 capability is set. 1388 1389 i915.invert_brightness= 1390 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1391 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1392 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1393 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1394 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1395 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1396 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1397 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1398 value switches the backlight off. 1399 -1 -- never invert brightness 1400 0 -- machine default 1401 1 -- force brightness inversion 1402 1403 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1404 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1405 1406 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1407 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc 1408 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr 1409 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options 1410 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt. 1411 1412 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1413 Format: <int> 1414 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on 1415 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by 1416 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The 1417 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning. 1418 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the 1419 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which 1420 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value 1421 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it 1422 was 0x3. 1423 1424 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1425 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers. 1426 1427 idle= [X86] 1428 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1429 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1430 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1431 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1432 Not recommended. 1433 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1434 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1435 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1436 1437 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1438 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1439 Default: strict 1440 1441 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1442 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1443 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1444 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1445 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1446 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1447 encoding mode. 1448 1449 Available settings are as follows: 1450 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1451 supported by the FPU 1452 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1453 by the FPU 1454 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1455 by the FPU 1456 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1457 supported by the FPU 1458 1459 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1460 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1461 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1462 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1463 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1464 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1465 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1466 MIPS64 CPUs. 1467 1468 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1469 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1470 except where unsupported by hardware. 1471 1472 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1473 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1474 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1475 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1476 could change it dynamically, usually by 1477 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1478 1479 ignore_rlimit_data 1480 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1481 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1482 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1483 1484 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1485 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1486 1487 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1488 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1489 default: "enforce" 1490 1491 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] 1492 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1493 owned by uid=0. 1494 1495 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1496 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1497 measurements, instead of host native format. 1498 1499 ima_hash= [IMA] 1500 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1501 | sha512 | ... } 1502 default: "sha1" 1503 1504 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1505 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1506 1507 ima_policy= [IMA] 1508 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1509 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot" 1510 1511 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1512 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1513 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1514 uid=0. 1515 1516 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1517 all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent 1518 of ima_appraise_tcb.) 1519 1520 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1521 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1522 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1523 1524 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1525 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1526 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1527 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1528 opened for read by uid=0. 1529 1530 ima_template= [IMA] 1531 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1532 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" } 1533 Default: "ima-ng" 1534 1535 ima_template_fmt= 1536 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1537 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1538 1539 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1540 Format: <min_file_size> 1541 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1542 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1543 1544 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1545 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1546 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1547 1548 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1549 Format: <bufsize> 1550 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1551 1552 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1553 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1554 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1555 1556 init= [KNL] 1557 Format: <full_path> 1558 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1559 process. 1560 1561 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1562 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1563 startup. 1564 1565 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1566 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1567 modules and initcalls. 1568 1569 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 1570 1571 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 1572 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 1573 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 1574 override in debugfs after boot. 1575 1576 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 1577 Format: <irq> 1578 1579 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 1580 1581 integrity_audit=[IMA] 1582 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1583 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 1584 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 1585 1586 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 1587 on 1588 Enable intel iommu driver. 1589 off 1590 Disable intel iommu driver. 1591 igfx_off [Default Off] 1592 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 1593 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 1594 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 1595 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 1596 DMA. 1597 forcedac [x86_64] 1598 With this option iommu will not optimize to look 1599 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual 1600 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater 1601 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look 1602 for translation below 32-bit and if not available 1603 then look in the higher range. 1604 strict [Default Off] 1605 With this option on every unmap_single operation will 1606 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed 1607 to batching them for performance. 1608 sp_off [Default Off] 1609 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 1610 has the capability. With this option, super page will 1611 not be supported. 1612 ecs_off [Default Off] 1613 By default, extended context tables will be supported if 1614 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the 1615 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With 1616 this option set, extended tables will not be used even 1617 on hardware which claims to support them. 1618 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 1619 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 1620 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 1621 could harm performance of some high-throughput 1622 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 1623 mapping is enabled. 1624 Note that using this option lowers the security 1625 provided by tboot because it makes the system 1626 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 1627 1628 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 1629 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 1630 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 1631 1632 intel_pstate= [X86] 1633 disable 1634 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 1635 scaling driver for the supported processors 1636 passive 1637 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 1638 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 1639 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 1640 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 1641 feature. 1642 force 1643 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 1644 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 1645 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 1646 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 1647 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 1648 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 1649 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 1650 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 1651 no_hwp 1652 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 1653 if available. 1654 hwp_only 1655 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 1656 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 1657 support_acpi_ppc 1658 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 1659 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 1660 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 1661 then this feature is turned on by default. 1662 per_cpu_perf_limits 1663 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 1664 cpufreq sysfs interface 1665 1666 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 1667 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 1668 off disable Interrupt Remapping 1669 nosid disable Source ID checking 1670 no_x2apic_optout 1671 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 1672 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 1673 1674 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 1675 strict regions from userspace. 1676 relaxed 1677 1678 iommu= [x86] 1679 off 1680 force 1681 noforce 1682 biomerge 1683 panic 1684 nopanic 1685 merge 1686 nomerge 1687 forcesac 1688 soft 1689 pt [x86, IA-64] 1690 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 1691 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 1692 1693 iommu.passthrough= 1694 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 1695 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1696 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 1697 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 1698 unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 1699 1700 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems 1701 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 1702 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 1703 1704 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 1705 0x80 1706 Standard port 0x80 based delay 1707 0xed 1708 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 1709 udelay 1710 Simple two microseconds delay 1711 none 1712 No delay 1713 1714 ip= [IP_PNP] 1715 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 1716 1717 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 1718 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 1719 1720 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 1721 [ARM, ARM64] 1722 Format: <bool> 1723 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 1724 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 1725 exposed by the device tree is too small. 1726 1727 irqfixup [HW] 1728 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1729 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1730 firmware running. 1731 1732 irqpoll [HW] 1733 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1734 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 1735 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1736 firmware running. 1737 1738 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 1739 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 1740 1741 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 1742 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 1743 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 1744 1745 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 1746 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 1747 1748 nohz 1749 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 1750 domain 1751 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 1752 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 1753 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 1754 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 1755 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 1756 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 1757 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 1758 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 1759 1760 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 1761 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 1762 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 1763 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 1764 1765 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 1766 1767 1768 1769 iucv= [HW,NET] 1770 1771 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64] 1772 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 1773 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1774 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 1775 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 1776 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 1777 1778 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64] 1779 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 1780 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1781 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to 1782 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 1783 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 1784 1785 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64] 1786 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 1787 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1788 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 1789 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 1790 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 1791 1792 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 1793 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 1794 1795 nokaslr [KNL] 1796 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 1797 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 1798 Layout Randomization). 1799 1800 kasan_multi_shot 1801 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 1802 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 1803 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 1804 invalid access. 1805 1806 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 1807 1808 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 1809 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror" 1810 This parameter 1811 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel 1812 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is 1813 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The 1814 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable 1815 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both 1816 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will 1817 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number 1818 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the 1819 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved 1820 by the page migration subsystem. This means that 1821 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone. 1822 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still 1823 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 1824 zone if it does not. 1825 1826 Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]), 1827 you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror" 1828 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 1829 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 1830 for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive, 1831 so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same 1832 time. 1833 1834 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 1835 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 1836 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 1837 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 1838 optional and is the number seconds in between 1839 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 1840 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 1841 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 1842 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 1843 the kernel debugger. 1844 1845 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 1846 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 1847 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 1848 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 1849 keyboard only format: kbd 1850 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 1851 Optional Kernel mode setting: 1852 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 1853 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 1854 1855 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 1856 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 1857 1858 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address. 1859 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 1860 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 1861 1862 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 1863 Valid arguments: on, off 1864 Default: on 1865 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 1866 the default is off. 1867 1868 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 1869 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 1870 1871 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit 1872 KVM MMU at runtime. 1873 Default is 0 (off) 1874 1875 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 1876 Default is 1 (enabled) 1877 1878 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 1879 for all guests. 1880 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 1881 1882 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 1883 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 1884 system registers 1885 1886 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 1887 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 1888 system registers 1889 1890 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 1891 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 1892 system registers 1893 1894 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 1895 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 1896 LPIs. 1897 1898 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 1899 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 1900 Default is 1 (enabled) 1901 1902 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 1903 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states 1904 Default is 0 (disabled) 1905 1906 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 1907 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 1908 Default is 1 (enabled) 1909 1910 kvm-intel.nested= 1911 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 1912 Default is 0 (disabled) 1913 1914 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 1915 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 1916 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 1917 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 1918 1919 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 1920 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 1921 Default is 1 (enabled) 1922 1923 l2cr= [PPC] 1924 1925 l3cr= [PPC] 1926 1927 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 1928 disabled it. 1929 1930 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline 1931 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 1932 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 1933 1934 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 1935 in C2 power state. 1936 1937 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 1938 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 1939 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 1940 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 1941 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 1942 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 1943 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 1944 1945 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 1946 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 1947 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 1948 1949 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 1950 when set. 1951 Format: <int> 1952 1953 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma 1954 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is 1955 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers 1956 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches 1957 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If 1958 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE 1959 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the 1960 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices. 1961 1962 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 1963 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 1964 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 1965 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 1966 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 1967 host link and device attached to it. 1968 1969 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 1970 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed. 1971 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 1972 The following configurations can be forced. 1973 1974 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 1975 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 1976 1977 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 1978 1979 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 1980 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 1981 allowed. 1982 1983 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 1984 1985 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM. 1986 1987 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft 1988 and both resets. 1989 1990 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during 1991 hot-unplug link recovery 1992 1993 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data. 1994 1995 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support 1996 1997 * disable: Disable this device. 1998 1999 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2000 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2001 2002 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 2003 2004 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy 2005 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 2006 2007 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2008 Format: <integer> 2009 2010 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2011 Format: <integer> 2012 2013 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2014 Format: <integer> 2015 2016 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2017 Format: <integer> 2018 2019 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2020 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2021 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2022 number of online CPUs. 2023 2024 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2025 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2026 2027 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2028 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2029 2030 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2031 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2032 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2033 2034 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2035 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2036 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2037 mode during the locktorture test. 2038 2039 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2040 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2041 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2042 2043 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2044 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2045 2046 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2047 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2048 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2049 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2050 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2051 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2052 2053 locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT] 2054 Start locktorture running at boot time. 2055 2056 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2057 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2058 2059 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2060 Enable additional printk() statements. 2061 2062 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2063 Format: <irq> 2064 2065 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2066 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2067 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2068 loglevels are defined as follows: 2069 2070 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2071 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2072 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2073 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2074 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2075 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2076 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2077 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2078 2079 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2080 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2081 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2082 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2083 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2084 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2085 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2086 2087 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2088 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2089 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2090 kernel boot problems. 2091 2092 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2093 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2094 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2095 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2096 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2097 attached printers to be reset. Using 2098 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2099 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2100 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2101 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2102 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2103 port specification list means that device IDs 2104 from each port should be examined, to see if 2105 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2106 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2107 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2108 2109 lpj=n [KNL] 2110 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2111 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2112 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2113 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2114 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2115 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2116 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2117 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2118 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2119 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2120 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2121 hardware. 2122 2123 ltpc= [NET] 2124 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2125 2126 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2127 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2128 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb 2129 2130 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different 2131 yeeloong laptop. 2132 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2133 2134 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater 2135 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2136 2137 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2138 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2139 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2140 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2141 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2142 only takes effect during system bootup. 2143 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2144 which also disables the IO APIC. 2145 2146 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2147 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2148 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2149 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2150 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2151 /dev/loop-control interface. 2152 2153 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2154 2155 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt 2156 2157 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2158 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2159 2160 mdacon= [MDA] 2161 Format: <first>,<last> 2162 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2163 2164 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2165 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able 2166 to see the whole system memory or for test. 2167 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 2168 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 2169 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 2170 belonging to unused RAM. 2171 2172 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 2173 memory. 2174 2175 memchunk=nn[KMG] 2176 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 2177 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 2178 2179 memhp_default_state=online/offline 2180 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 2181 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 2182 set according to the 2183 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 2184 option. 2185 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt. 2186 2187 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 2188 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 2189 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 2190 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 2191 option description. 2192 2193 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 2194 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 2195 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 2196 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 2197 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 2198 Multiple different regions can be specified, 2199 comma delimited. 2200 Example: 2201 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 2202 2203 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 2204 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 2205 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 2206 2207 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 2208 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 2209 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 2210 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 2211 memmap=64K$0x18690000 2212 or 2213 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 2214 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 2215 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 2216 will be eaten. 2217 2218 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 2219 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 2220 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 2221 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 2222 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 2223 2224 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 2225 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 2226 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 2227 Setting this option will scan the memory 2228 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 2229 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 2230 from using the memory being corrupted. 2231 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 2232 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 2233 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 2234 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 2235 2236 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 2237 By default it checks for corruption in the low 2238 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 2239 use. Use this parameter to scan for 2240 corruption in more or less memory. 2241 2242 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 2243 By default it checks for corruption every 60 2244 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 2245 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 2246 2247 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest 2248 Format: <integer> 2249 default : 0 <disable> 2250 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 2251 performed. Each pass selects another test 2252 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 2253 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 2254 memory contents and reserves bad memory 2255 regions that are detected. 2256 2257 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 2258 Valid arguments: on, off 2259 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 2260 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 2261 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 2262 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 2263 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 2264 2265 Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt 2266 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 2267 2268 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 2269 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 2270 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 2271 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 2272 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 2273 2274 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 2275 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst. 2276 2277 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 2278 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 2279 platforms. 2280 2281 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 2282 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 2283 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 2284 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 2285 2286 mga= [HW,DRM] 2287 2288 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this 2289 physical address is ignored. 2290 2291 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 2292 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 2293 Default: "0tb" 2294 MINI2440 configuration specification: 2295 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 2296 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 2297 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 2298 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 2299 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 2300 unconfigured. 2301 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 2302 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 2303 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 2304 VGA shield. 2305 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 2306 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 2307 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 2308 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 2309 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 2310 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 2311 2312 mminit_loglevel= 2313 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 2314 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 2315 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 2316 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 2317 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 2318 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 2319 2320 module.sig_enforce 2321 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 2322 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 2323 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 2324 is always true, so this option does nothing. 2325 2326 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 2327 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 2328 2329 mousedev.tap_time= 2330 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 2331 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 2332 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 2333 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 2334 Format: <msecs> 2335 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 2336 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2337 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 2338 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2339 2340 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter 2341 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the 2342 amount of memory used for migratable allocations. 2343 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified, 2344 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified 2345 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own 2346 is specified, the administrator must be careful 2347 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 2348 is not too small. 2349 2350 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 2351 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 2352 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 2353 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 2354 allocations. Use with caution! 2355 2356 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 2357 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 2358 2359 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 2360 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 2361 2362 mtdparts= [MTD] 2363 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c. 2364 2365 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 2366 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 2367 at a time. 2368 2369 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 2370 2371 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 2372 2373 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 2374 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 2375 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 2376 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 2377 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 2378 2379 mtdset= [ARM] 2380 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 2381 2382 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c 2383 2384 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 2385 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 2386 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 2387 2388 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2389 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 2390 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 2391 2392 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2393 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 2394 Default is 1. 2395 Large value could prevent small alignment from 2396 using up MTRRs. 2397 2398 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 2399 Format: <integer> 2400 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 2401 Default : 1 2402 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 2403 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 2404 2405 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 2406 2407 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 2408 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 2409 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 2410 something different and driver-specific. 2411 This usage is only documented in each driver source 2412 file if at all. 2413 2414 nf_conntrack.acct= 2415 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 2416 0 to disable accounting 2417 1 to enable accounting 2418 Default value is 0. 2419 2420 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 2421 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2422 2423 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 2424 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2425 2426 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 2427 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2428 2429 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 2430 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 2431 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 2432 requests. 2433 2434 nfs.callback_tcpport= 2435 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 2436 channel should listen. 2437 2438 nfs.cache_getent= 2439 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 2440 to update the NFS client cache entries. 2441 2442 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 2443 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 2444 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 2445 2446 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 2447 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 2448 entries. 2449 2450 nfs.enable_ino64= 2451 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 2452 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 2453 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 2454 of returning the full 64-bit number. 2455 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 2456 2457 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 2458 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 2459 slots the client will assign to the callback 2460 channel. This determines the maximum number of 2461 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 2462 a particular server. 2463 2464 nfs.max_session_slots= 2465 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 2466 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 2467 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 2468 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 2469 Note that there is little point in setting this 2470 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 2471 2472 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2473 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 2474 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 2475 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 2476 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 2477 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 2478 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 2479 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 2480 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 2481 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 2482 back to using the idmapper. 2483 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 2484 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 2485 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 2486 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 2487 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 2488 UUID that is generated at system install time. 2489 2490 nfs.send_implementation_id = 2491 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 2492 information in exchange_id requests. 2493 If zero, no implementation identification information 2494 will be sent. 2495 The default is to send the implementation identification 2496 information. 2497 2498 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 2499 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 2500 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 2501 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 2502 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 2503 after the locks are lost. 2504 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 2505 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 2506 parameter to '1'. 2507 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 2508 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 2509 2510 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 2511 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 2512 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 2513 2514 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 2515 whatever value is the default set by the layout 2516 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 2517 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 2518 2519 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2520 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 2521 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 2522 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 2523 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 2524 migration from NFSv2/v3. 2525 2526 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 2527 when a NMI is triggered. 2528 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 2529 2530 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 2531 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 2532 Valid num: 0 or 1 2533 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 2534 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 2535 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 2536 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite 2537 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 2538 please see 'nowatchdog'. 2539 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 2540 need the box quickly up again. 2541 2542 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 2543 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 2544 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 2545 waits 4 seconds. 2546 2547 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 2548 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 2549 is present. 2550 2551 no_console_suspend 2552 [HW] Never suspend the console 2553 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 2554 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 2555 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 2556 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 2557 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 2558 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 2559 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 2560 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 2561 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 2562 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 2563 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 2564 turn on/off it dynamically. 2565 2566 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 2567 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 2568 but will impact performance. 2569 2570 noalign [KNL,ARM] 2571 2572 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 2573 (CPU alternatives feature). 2574 2575 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 2576 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 2577 2578 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 2579 2580 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem 2581 on "Classic" PPC cores. 2582 2583 nocache [ARM] 2584 2585 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction 2586 2587 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting 2588 2589 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 2590 2591 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 2592 2593 noexec [IA-64] 2594 2595 noexec [X86] 2596 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels. 2597 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 2598 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings 2599 2600 nosmap [X86] 2601 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 2602 even if it is supported by processor. 2603 2604 nosmep [X86] 2605 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 2606 even if it is supported by processor. 2607 2608 noexec32 [X86-64] 2609 This affects only 32-bit executables. 2610 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 2611 read doesn't imply executable mappings 2612 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 2613 read implies executable mappings 2614 2615 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 2616 2617 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 2618 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 2619 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 2620 2621 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 2622 2623 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 2624 Equivalent to smt=1. 2625 2626 nospectre_v2 [X86] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2 2627 (indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may 2628 allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent 2629 to spectre_v2=off. 2630 2631 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 2632 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 2633 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 2634 2635 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 2636 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 2637 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 2638 performance of saving the states is degraded because 2639 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 2640 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 2641 2642 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 2643 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 2644 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 2645 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 2646 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 2647 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 2648 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 2649 2650 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or 2651 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to 2652 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger. 2653 2654 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 2655 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 2656 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 2657 2658 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 2659 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 2660 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 2661 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 2662 in certain environments such as networked servers or 2663 real-time systems. 2664 2665 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 2666 2667 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 2668 Valid arguments: on, off 2669 Default: on 2670 2671 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 2672 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2673 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 2674 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 2675 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 2676 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 2677 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 2678 just as if they had also been called out in the 2679 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 2680 2681 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 2682 2683 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 2684 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 2685 2686 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 2687 broken timer IRQ sources. 2688 2689 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 2690 2691 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 2692 initial RAM disk. 2693 2694 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 2695 remapping. 2696 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 2697 2698 nointroute [IA-64] 2699 2700 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 2701 2702 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 2703 2704 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 2705 2706 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 2707 fault handling. 2708 2709 no-vmw-sched-clock 2710 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 2711 clock and use the default one. 2712 2713 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. 2714 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler 2715 behaviour 2716 2717 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 2718 2719 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 2720 2721 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel 2722 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx 2723 2724 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 2725 2726 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 2727 2728 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 2729 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 2730 2731 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 2732 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 2733 irq. 2734 2735 nomodule Disable module load 2736 2737 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 2738 pagetables) support. 2739 2740 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 2741 2742 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 2743 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 2744 2745 noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops 2746 2747 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 2748 with UP alternatives 2749 2750 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and 2751 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported 2752 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still 2753 available to user space applications. 2754 2755 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 2756 space. 2757 2758 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 2759 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 2760 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 2761 2762 nosbagart [IA-64] 2763 2764 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. 2765 2766 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 2767 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 2768 2769 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 2770 2771 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 2772 2773 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter 2774 2775 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 2776 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 2777 2778 nowb [ARM] 2779 2780 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 2781 2782 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 2783 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 2784 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 2785 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 2786 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 2787 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 2788 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 2789 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 2790 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 2791 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 2792 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 2793 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 2794 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 2795 2796 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 2797 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 2798 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 2799 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 2800 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 2801 parameter's value. 2802 Format: integer between 1 and 255 2803 Default: 255 2804 2805 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 2806 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 2807 SAL PALO. 2808 2809 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2810 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 2811 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 2812 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 2813 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 2814 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 2815 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 2816 hot plugging. 2817 2818 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 2819 2820 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing. 2821 Allowed values are enable and disable 2822 2823 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 2824 'node', 'default' can be specified 2825 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 2826 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details. 2827 2828 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 2829 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more 2830 info. 2831 2832 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 2833 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 2834 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 2835 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 2836 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 2837 interrupts *may* be lost! 2838 2839 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 2840 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 2841 For example, to override I2C bus2: 2842 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 2843 2844 oprofile.timer= [HW] 2845 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters 2846 2847 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type 2848 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile 2849 userland or if you want common events. 2850 Format: { arch_perfmon } 2851 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural 2852 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the 2853 CPU specific event set. 2854 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI 2855 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer 2856 for generic hr timer mode) 2857 2858 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 2859 process, but there is a small probability of 2860 deadlocking the machine. 2861 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 2862 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 2863 2864 OSS [HW,OSS] 2865 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt 2866 2867 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 2868 Storage of the information about who allocated 2869 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 2870 we can turn it on. 2871 on: enable the feature 2872 2873 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 2874 poisoning on the buddy allocator. 2875 off: turn off poisoning 2876 on: turn on poisoning 2877 2878 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 2879 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 2880 timeout = 0: wait forever 2881 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 2882 Format: <timeout> 2883 2884 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 2885 on a WARN(). 2886 2887 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 2888 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 2889 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 2890 succeeds in any situation. 2891 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 2892 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 2893 kernel more unstable. 2894 2895 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 2896 connected to, default is 0. 2897 Format: <parport#> 2898 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 2899 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 2900 Format: <mode> 2901 2902 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 2903 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 2904 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 2905 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 2906 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 2907 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 2908 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 2909 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 2910 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 2911 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 2912 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 2913 are specified on the command line, starting 2914 with parport0. 2915 2916 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 2917 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 2918 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 2919 computer where firmware has no options for setting 2920 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 2921 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 2922 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 2923 2924 pause_on_oops= 2925 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 2926 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 2927 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 2928 2929 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 2930 2931 pcd. [PARIDE] 2932 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 2933 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 2934 2935 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options: 2936 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel 2937 changes anything 2938 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 2939 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 2940 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 2941 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 2942 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 2943 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 2944 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 2945 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 2946 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 2947 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 2948 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 2949 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 2950 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 2951 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 2952 bus number. The config space is then accessed 2953 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 2954 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 2955 on the configuration access mechanisms. 2956 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 2957 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 2958 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 2959 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 2960 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 2961 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 2962 Configuration 2963 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 2964 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 2965 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 2966 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 2967 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 2968 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 2969 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 2970 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 2971 should never be necessary. 2972 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 2973 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 2974 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 2975 when the system masks IRQs. 2976 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 2977 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 2978 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 2979 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 2980 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 2981 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 2982 on several machines and they hang the machine 2983 when used, but on other computers it's the only 2984 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 2985 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 2986 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 2987 motherboard. 2988 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 2989 Use with caution as certain devices share 2990 address decoders between ROMs and other 2991 resources. 2992 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 2993 expansion ROMs that do not already have 2994 BIOS assigned address ranges. 2995 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 2996 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 2997 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 2998 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 2999 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 3000 this way. 3001 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 3002 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 3003 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 3004 F0000h-100000h range. 3005 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 3006 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 3007 secondary buses and you want to tell it 3008 explicitly which ones they are. 3009 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 3010 numbers ourselves, overriding 3011 whatever the firmware may have done. 3012 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 3013 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 3014 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 3015 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 3016 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 3017 IRQ routing is enabled. 3018 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 3019 or for PCI scanning. 3020 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 3021 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 3022 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 3023 please report a bug. 3024 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 3025 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 3026 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 3027 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 3028 so this option is a temporary workaround 3029 for broken drivers that don't call it. 3030 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 3031 handle more pci cards 3032 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 3033 This might help on some broken boards which 3034 machine check when some devices' config space 3035 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 3036 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 3037 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3038 This sorting is done to get a device 3039 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 3040 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3041 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 3042 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 3043 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 3044 supported by all devices below the root complex. 3045 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 3046 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 3047 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 3048 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 3049 or bus can support) for best performance. 3050 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 3051 every device is guaranteed to support. This 3052 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 3053 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 3054 reduced performance. This also guarantees 3055 that hot-added devices will work. 3056 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3057 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 3058 The default value is 256 bytes. 3059 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3060 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 3061 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 3062 resource_alignment= 3063 Format: 3064 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...] 3065 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\ 3066 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...] 3067 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 3068 aligned memory resources. 3069 If <order of align> is not specified, 3070 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 3071 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource 3072 windows need to be expanded. 3073 To specify the alignment for several 3074 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 3075 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 3076 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 3077 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 3078 end-to-end CRC checking). 3079 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 3080 the default. 3081 off: Turn ECRC off 3082 on: Turn ECRC on. 3083 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3084 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 3085 Default size is 256 bytes. 3086 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3087 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window. 3088 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3089 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 3090 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 3091 Default is 1. 3092 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 3093 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 3094 accommodate resources required by all child 3095 devices. 3096 off: Turn realloc off 3097 on: Turn realloc on 3098 realloc same as realloc=on 3099 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 3100 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 3101 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 3102 port. 3103 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 3104 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 3105 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 3106 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 3107 conflict with unreported devices), so this 3108 taints the kernel. 3109 3110 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 3111 Management. 3112 off Disable ASPM. 3113 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 3114 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 3115 3116 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options: 3117 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this 3118 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services). 3119 3120 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling: 3121 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services 3122 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use 3123 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS. 3124 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports 3125 unconditionally. 3126 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe 3127 ports driver. 3128 3129 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 3130 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 3131 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 3132 3133 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 3134 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 3135 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 3136 3137 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 3138 3139 pd_ignore_unused 3140 [PM] 3141 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 3142 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 3143 for debug and development, but should not be 3144 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 3145 3146 pd. [PARIDE] 3147 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3148 3149 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 3150 boot time. 3151 Format: { 0 | 1 } 3152 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 3153 3154 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 3155 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 3156 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 3157 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 3158 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 3159 and performance comparison. 3160 3161 pf. [PARIDE] 3162 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3163 3164 pg. [PARIDE] 3165 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3166 3167 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 3168 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt. 3169 3170 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 3171 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 3172 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 3173 3174 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 3175 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 3176 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 3177 3178 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 3179 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 3180 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 3181 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 3182 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 3183 possible settings and some assignment information. 3184 3185 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 3186 { off } 3187 3188 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 3189 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 3190 3191 pnp_reserve_irq= 3192 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 3193 3194 pnp_reserve_dma= 3195 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 3196 3197 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 3198 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 3199 3200 pnp_reserve_mem= 3201 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 3202 autoconfiguration. 3203 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 3204 3205 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 3206 Default is 21. 3207 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 3208 may be specified. 3209 Format: <port>,<port>.... 3210 3211 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 3212 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 3213 platform machine description specific power_save 3214 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 3215 execution priority. 3216 3217 ppc_strict_facility_enable 3218 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 3219 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 3220 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 3221 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 3222 3223 ppc_tm= [PPC] 3224 Format: {"off"} 3225 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 3226 3227 print-fatal-signals= 3228 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 3229 3230 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 3231 related application anomalies: too many signals, 3232 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 3233 coredump - etc. 3234 3235 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 3236 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 3237 3238 default: off. 3239 3240 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 3241 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 3242 panics 3243 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3244 default: disabled 3245 3246 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 3247 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 3248 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 3249 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 3250 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 3251 Default: ratelimit 3252 3253 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 3254 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3255 3256 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 3257 Limit processor to maximum C-state 3258 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 3259 3260 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 3261 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 3262 instead using the legacy FADT method 3263 3264 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 3265 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 3266 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 3267 [defaults to kernel profiling] 3268 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 3269 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 3270 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 3271 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 3272 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 3273 statistical time based profiling. 3274 3275 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk 3276 before loading. 3277 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 3278 3279 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 3280 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 3281 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 3282 per second. 3283 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 3284 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 3285 (0 = never). 3286 psmouse.resolution= 3287 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 3288 psmouse.smartscroll= 3289 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 3290 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 3291 3292 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 3293 3294 pt. [PARIDE] 3295 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3296 3297 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 3298 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 3299 removes hardening, but improves performance of 3300 system calls and interrupts. 3301 3302 on - unconditionally enable 3303 off - unconditionally disable 3304 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 3305 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 3306 3307 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 3308 3309 nopti [X86_64] 3310 Equivalent to pti=off 3311 3312 pty.legacy_count= 3313 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 3314 default number. 3315 3316 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 3317 3318 r128= [HW,DRM] 3319 3320 raid= [HW,RAID] 3321 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 3322 3323 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 3324 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 3325 3326 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 3327 3328 cec_disable [X86] 3329 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 3330 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 3331 3332 rcu_nocbs= [KNL] 3333 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3334 3335 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set 3336 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs. 3337 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will 3338 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for 3339 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" 3340 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" 3341 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the 3342 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and 3343 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy 3344 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 3345 3346 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 3347 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 3348 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 3349 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 3350 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 3351 This improves the real-time response for the 3352 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 3353 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 3354 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 3355 periodically wake up to do the polling. 3356 3357 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 3358 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 3359 process in one batch. 3360 3361 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 3362 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 3363 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 3364 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 3365 3366 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 3367 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3368 RCU grace-period cleanup. 3369 3370 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 3371 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3372 RCU grace-period initialization. 3373 3374 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 3375 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3376 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 3377 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 3378 the rcu_node combining tree. 3379 3380 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 3381 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 3382 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 3383 possibly be useful for architectures having high 3384 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 3385 3386 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 3387 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 3388 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 3389 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 3390 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 3391 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 3392 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 3393 3394 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 3395 Set required age in jiffies for a 3396 given grace period before RCU starts 3397 soliciting quiescent-state help from 3398 rcu_note_context_switch(). 3399 3400 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 3401 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 3402 first attempt to force quiescent states. 3403 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 3404 and maximum value is HZ. 3405 3406 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 3407 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 3408 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 3409 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 3410 3411 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 3412 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 3413 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 3414 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 3415 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 3416 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 3417 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 3418 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 3419 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 3420 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 3421 3422 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL] 3423 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which 3424 defaults to the square root of the number of 3425 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead 3426 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases 3427 that same overhead on each group's leader. 3428 3429 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 3430 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 3431 batch limiting is disabled. 3432 3433 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 3434 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 3435 batch limiting is re-enabled. 3436 3437 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL] 3438 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 3439 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 3440 3441 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL] 3442 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 3443 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 3444 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can 3445 prove do nothing more than free memory. 3446 3447 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 3448 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 3449 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 3450 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 3451 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 3452 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 3453 3454 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL] 3455 Measure performance of asynchronous 3456 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 3457 3458 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL] 3459 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 3460 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 3461 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 3462 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 3463 previously posted callbacks to drain. 3464 3465 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL] 3466 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 3467 grace-period primitives. 3468 3469 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL] 3470 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 3471 this parameter is to delay the start of the 3472 test until boot completes in order to avoid 3473 interference. 3474 3475 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL] 3476 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 3477 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 3478 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 3479 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 3480 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 3481 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 3482 a single reader. 3483 3484 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL] 3485 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 3486 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders. 3487 N, where N is the number of CPUs 3488 3489 rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT] 3490 Start rcuperf running at boot time. 3491 3492 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL] 3493 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 3494 3495 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL] 3496 Shut the system down after performance tests 3497 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 3498 testing. 3499 3500 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL] 3501 Enable additional printk() statements. 3502 3503 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 3504 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 3505 in microseconds. The default of zero says 3506 no holdoff. 3507 3508 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL] 3509 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive 3510 callback-flood tests. 3511 3512 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL] 3513 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive 3514 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood 3515 test. 3516 3517 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL] 3518 Set the number of bursts making up a given 3519 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to 3520 disable callback-flood testing. 3521 3522 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL] 3523 Set the number of callbacks to be registered 3524 in a given burst of a callback-flood test. 3525 3526 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 3527 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 3528 in microseconds. 3529 3530 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 3531 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 3532 in microseconds. 3533 3534 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 3535 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 3536 in seconds. 3537 3538 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 3539 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 3540 primitives, if available. 3541 3542 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 3543 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 3544 3545 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 3546 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 3547 update-side primitives, if available. 3548 3549 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 3550 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 3551 update-side primitives, if available. If all 3552 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 3553 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 3554 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 3555 they are all non-zero. 3556 3557 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 3558 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 3559 3560 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 3561 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 3562 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 3563 test, hence the "fake". 3564 3565 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 3566 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 3567 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 3568 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 3569 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 3570 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 3571 3572 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 3573 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 3574 3575 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 3576 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 3577 3578 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 3579 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 3580 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 3581 3582 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 3583 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 3584 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 3585 during the rcutorture test. 3586 3587 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 3588 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 3589 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 3590 3591 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 3592 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 3593 warnings, zero to disable. 3594 3595 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 3596 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 3597 3598 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 3599 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 3600 3601 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 3602 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 3603 3604 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 3605 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 3606 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 3607 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 3608 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 3609 3610 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 3611 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 3612 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 3613 under test support RCU priority boosting. 3614 3615 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 3616 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 3617 3618 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 3619 Interval (s) between each boost test. 3620 3621 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 3622 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 3623 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 3624 3625 rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT] 3626 Start rcutorture running at boot time. 3627 3628 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 3629 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 3630 3631 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 3632 Enable additional printk() statements. 3633 3634 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 3635 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 3636 3637 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 3638 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 3639 3640 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 3641 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 3642 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 3643 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 3644 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 3645 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 3646 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 3647 3648 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 3649 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 3650 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 3651 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 3652 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 3653 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 3654 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 3655 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 3656 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 3657 3658 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 3659 Once boot has completed (that is, after 3660 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 3661 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 3662 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 3663 3664 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 3665 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning 3666 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal 3667 to zero. 3668 3669 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 3670 Run the RCU early boot self tests 3671 3672 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL] 3673 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests 3674 3675 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL] 3676 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests 3677 3678 rdinit= [KNL] 3679 Format: <full_path> 3680 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 3681 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 3682 3683 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 3684 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 3685 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, mba. 3686 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 3687 rdt=cmt,!mba 3688 3689 reboot= [KNL] 3690 Format (x86 or x86_64): 3691 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \ 3692 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 3693 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 3694 [[,]f[orce] 3695 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio, 3696 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 3697 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 3698 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 3699 to be used for rebooting. 3700 3701 relax_domain_level= 3702 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 3703 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt. 3704 3705 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area 3706 3707 reservetop= [X86-32] 3708 Format: nn[KMG] 3709 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 3710 address space. 3711 3712 reservelow= [X86] 3713 Format: nn[K] 3714 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at 3715 the bottom of the address space. 3716 3717 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 3718 during initialization. 3719 3720 resume= [SWSUSP] 3721 Specify the partition device for software suspend 3722 Format: 3723 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 3724 3725 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 3726 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 3727 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 3728 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 3729 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt 3730 3731 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 3732 read the resume files 3733 3734 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 3735 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 3736 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 3737 3738 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 3739 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 3740 present during boot. 3741 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 3742 no Disable hibernation and resume. 3743 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 3744 (that will set all pages holding image data 3745 during restoration read-only). 3746 3747 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 3748 3749 rfkill.default_state= 3750 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 3751 etc. communication is blocked by default. 3752 1 Unblocked. 3753 3754 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 3755 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 3756 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 3757 blocked and the previous configuration. 3758 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 3759 blocked and everything unblocked. 3760 3761 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 3762 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 3763 3764 ring3mwait=disable 3765 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 3766 CPUs. 3767 3768 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 3769 3770 rodata= [KNL] 3771 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 3772 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 3773 3774 rockchip.usb_uart 3775 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 3776 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 3777 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 3778 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 3779 3780 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 3781 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 3782 3783 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 3784 mount the root filesystem 3785 3786 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 3787 3788 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 3789 3790 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 3791 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 3792 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 3793 3794 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 3795 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 3796 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 3797 managed by CMA. 3798 3799 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 3800 3801 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 3802 3803 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 3804 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 3805 strict 3806 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 3807 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 3808 which is faster. 3809 3810 sa1100ir [NET] 3811 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 3812 3813 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter 3814 3815 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 3816 3817 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 3818 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 3819 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 3820 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 3821 3822 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 3823 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 3824 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 3825 Format: { "0" | "1" } 3826 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 3827 1 -- enable. 3828 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 3829 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 3830 3831 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot. 3832 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first 3833 security module asking for security registration will be 3834 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated 3835 as if no module has been chosen. 3836 3837 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 3838 Format: { "0" | "1" } 3839 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 3840 0 -- disable. 3841 1 -- enable. 3842 Default value is set via kernel config option. 3843 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used 3844 later to disable prior to initial policy load. 3845 3846 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 3847 Format: { "0" | "1" } 3848 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 3849 0 -- disable. 3850 1 -- enable. 3851 Default value is set via kernel config option. 3852 3853 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 3854 3855 shapers= [NET] 3856 Maximal number of shapers. 3857 3858 simeth= [IA-64] 3859 simscsi= 3860 3861 slram= [HW,MTD] 3862 3863 slab_nomerge [MM] 3864 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 3865 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 3866 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 3867 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 3868 layout control by attackers can usually be 3869 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 3870 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 3871 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 3872 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 3873 own. 3874 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 3875 3876 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 3877 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 3878 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 3879 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 3880 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 3881 3882 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB] 3883 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 3884 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 3885 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 3886 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 3887 last alloc / free. For more information see 3888 Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 3889 3890 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB] 3891 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for 3892 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable. 3893 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON. 3894 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug 3895 directories and files being created under 3896 /sys/kernel/slub. 3897 3898 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 3899 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 3900 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 3901 fragmentation. For more information see 3902 Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 3903 3904 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 3905 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 3906 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 3907 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 3908 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 3909 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 3910 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 3911 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 3912 3913 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 3914 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 3915 lower than slub_max_order. 3916 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 3917 3918 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 3919 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 3920 See slab_nomerge for more information. 3921 3922 smart2= [HW] 3923 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 3924 3925 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 3926 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 3927 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 3928 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 3929 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 3930 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 3931 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 3932 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 3933 1: Fast pin select (default) 3934 2: ATC IRMode 3935 3936 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 3937 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 3938 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 3939 actual hardware limit. 3940 Format: <integer> 3941 Default: -1 (no limit) 3942 3943 softlockup_panic= 3944 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 3945 Format: <integer> 3946 3947 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector 3948 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This 3949 is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 3950 which is the respective build-time switch to that 3951 functionality. 3952 3953 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 3954 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 3955 backtraces on all cpus. 3956 Format: <integer> 3957 3958 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 3959 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt 3960 3961 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 3962 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 3963 3964 on - unconditionally enable 3965 off - unconditionally disable 3966 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 3967 vulnerable 3968 3969 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 3970 mitigation method at run time according to the 3971 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 3972 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 3973 compiler with which the kernel was built. 3974 3975 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 3976 3977 retpoline - replace indirect branches 3978 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline 3979 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk 3980 3981 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3982 spectre_v2=auto. 3983 3984 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 3985 spia_fio_base= 3986 spia_pedr= 3987 spia_peddr= 3988 3989 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 3990 Specifies how frequently to check for 3991 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 3992 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 3993 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 3994 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 3995 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 3996 are ignored. 3997 3998 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 3999 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 4000 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 4001 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 4002 grace period will be considered for automatic 4003 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 4004 expediting. 4005 4006 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 4007 override the default stack gap protection. The value 4008 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 4009 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 4010 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 4011 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 4012 4013 stacktrace [FTRACE] 4014 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 4015 4016 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 4017 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 4018 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 4019 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 4020 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 4021 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 4022 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 4023 4024 sti= [PARISC,HW] 4025 Format: <num> 4026 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 4027 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 4028 as the initial boot-console. 4029 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 4030 4031 sti_font= [HW] 4032 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 4033 4034 stifb= [HW] 4035 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 4036 4037 sunrpc.min_resvport= 4038 sunrpc.max_resvport= 4039 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4040 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 4041 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 4042 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 4043 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 4044 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 4045 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 4046 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 4047 maximum port values. 4048 4049 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 4050 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4051 Limit the number of requests that the server will 4052 process in parallel from a single connection. 4053 The default value is 0 (no limit). 4054 4055 sunrpc.pool_mode= 4056 [NFS] 4057 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 4058 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 4059 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 4060 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 4061 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 4062 NFS server is running. 4063 4064 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 4065 automatically using heuristics 4066 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 4067 percpu one pool for each CPU 4068 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 4069 to global on non-NUMA machines) 4070 4071 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 4072 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 4073 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4074 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 4075 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 4076 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 4077 improve throughput, but will also increase the 4078 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 4079 4080 suspend.pm_test_delay= 4081 [SUSPEND] 4082 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 4083 mode before resuming the system (see 4084 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 4085 is set. Default value is 5. 4086 4087 swapaccount=[0|1] 4088 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 4089 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 4090 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt) 4091 4092 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 4093 Format: { <int> | force | noforce } 4094 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 4095 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 4096 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 4097 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 4098 4099 switches= [HW,M68k] 4100 4101 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 4102 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 4103 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 4104 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 4105 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 4106 in older udev will not work anymore. 4107 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 4108 the kernel configuration. 4109 4110 sysrq_always_enabled 4111 [KNL] 4112 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 4113 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 4114 Useful for debugging. 4115 4116 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4117 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 4118 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 4119 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 4120 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt 4121 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 4122 4123 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 4124 4125 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N] 4126 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 4127 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 4128 as the system sleep state during system startup with 4129 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 4130 The system is woken from this state using a 4131 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 4132 4133 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4134 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 4135 4136 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 4137 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 4138 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 4139 4140 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 4141 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 4142 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 4143 4144 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 4145 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 4146 critical and hot trip points. 4147 4148 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 4149 1: disable ACPI thermal control 4150 4151 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 4152 -1: disable all passive trip points 4153 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 4154 value 4155 4156 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 4157 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 4158 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 4159 0: no polling (default) 4160 4161 threadirqs [KNL] 4162 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 4163 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 4164 4165 tmem [KNL,XEN] 4166 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in. 4167 4168 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4169 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache 4170 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor. 4171 4172 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4173 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap 4174 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled 4175 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled. 4176 4177 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4178 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages 4179 to the hypervisor. 4180 4181 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4182 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately 4183 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the 4184 kernel based on different criteria. 4185 4186 topology= [S390] 4187 Format: {off | on} 4188 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 4189 topology information if the hardware supports this. 4190 The scheduler will make use of this information and 4191 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 4192 Default is on. 4193 4194 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 4195 Format: {off} 4196 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 4197 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 4198 LPAR. 4199 4200 tp720= [HW,PS2] 4201 4202 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 4203 Format: integer pcr id 4204 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 4205 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 4206 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 4207 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 4208 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 4209 are saved. 4210 4211 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 4212 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 4213 4214 trace_event=[event-list] 4215 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 4216 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 4217 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See 4218 also Documentation/trace/events.txt 4219 4220 trace_options=[option-list] 4221 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 4222 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 4223 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 4224 to echo the option name into 4225 4226 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 4227 4228 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 4229 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 4230 4231 trace_options=stacktrace 4232 4233 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options" 4234 section. 4235 4236 tp_printk[FTRACE] 4237 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 4238 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 4239 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 4240 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 4241 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 4242 4243 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 4244 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 4245 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 4246 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 4247 4248 ** CAUTION ** 4249 4250 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 4251 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 4252 the system to live lock. 4253 4254 traceoff_on_warning 4255 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 4256 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 4257 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 4258 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 4259 4260 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 4261 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 4262 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 4263 4264 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 4265 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 4266 4267 transparent_hugepage= 4268 [KNL] 4269 Format: [always|madvise|never] 4270 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 4271 with respect to transparent hugepages. 4272 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details. 4273 4274 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 4275 Format: <string> 4276 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 4277 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 4278 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 4279 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 4280 virtualized environment. 4281 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 4282 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 4283 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 4284 can add overhead. 4285 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 4286 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 4287 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 4288 4289 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 4290 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 4291 Format: 4292 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 4293 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 4294 4295 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 4296 happen after console_init() and before a proper 4297 console driver takes over, this boot options might 4298 help "seeing" what's going on. 4299 4300 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4301 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 4302 4303 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 4304 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 4305 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 4306 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 4307 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 4308 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 4309 reported either. 4310 4311 unknown_nmi_panic 4312 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 4313 4314 usbcore.authorized_default= 4315 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 4316 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 4317 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized) 4318 4319 usbcore.autosuspend= 4320 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 4321 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 4322 is the time required before an idle device will be 4323 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 4324 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 4325 4326 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 4327 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 4328 4329 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 4330 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 4331 (default = 65536). 4332 4333 usbcore.blinkenlights= 4334 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 4335 4336 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 4337 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 4338 scheme (default 0 = off). 4339 4340 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 4341 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 4342 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 4343 4344 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 4345 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 4346 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 4347 4348 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 4349 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 4350 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 4351 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 4352 4353 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 4354 4355 usbhid.mousepoll= 4356 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 4357 4358 usbhid.jspoll= 4359 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 4360 4361 usb-storage.delay_use= 4362 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 4363 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 4364 4365 usb-storage.quirks= 4366 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 4367 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 4368 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 4369 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 4370 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 4371 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 4372 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 4373 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 4374 of sense data); 4375 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 4376 bytes of sense data); 4377 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 4378 device capacity by one sector); 4379 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 4380 READ_DISC_INFO command); 4381 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 4382 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 4383 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 4384 command, uas only); 4385 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 4386 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 4387 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 4388 reported device capacity by one 4389 sector if the number is odd); 4390 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 4391 device); 4392 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 4393 command, uas only); 4394 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 4395 unlock ejectable media); 4396 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 4397 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time); 4398 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 4399 initial READ(10) command); 4400 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 4401 reported by the device); 4402 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 4403 by default); 4404 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 4405 bogus residue values); 4406 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 4407 Logical Unit); 4408 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 4409 commands, uas only); 4410 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 4411 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 4412 medium is write-protected). 4413 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 4414 even if the device claims no cache) 4415 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 4416 4417 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 4418 Format: <int> 4419 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 4420 1 - undefined instruction events 4421 2 - system calls 4422 4 - invalid data aborts 4423 8 - SIGSEGV faults 4424 16 - SIGBUS faults 4425 Example: user_debug=31 4426 4427 userpte= 4428 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 4429 4430 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 4431 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 4432 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 4433 4434 vdso= [X86,SH] 4435 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 4436 4437 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 4438 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 4439 4440 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 4441 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 4442 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 4443 4444 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 4445 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 4446 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 4447 4448 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 4449 alias for vdso32=0. 4450 4451 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 4452 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 4453 4454 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 4455 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 4456 4457 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 4458 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt. 4459 4460 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1] 4461 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 4462 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 4463 level and then send out the event to user space through 4464 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver 4465 will only send out the event without touching backlight 4466 brightness level. 4467 default: 1 4468 4469 virtio_mmio.device= 4470 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 4471 4472 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 4473 where: 4474 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 4475 like K, M and G) 4476 <baseaddr> := physical base address 4477 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 4478 request_irq()) 4479 <id> := (optional) platform device id 4480 example: 4481 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 4482 4483 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 4484 4485 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 4486 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and 4487 Documentation/svga.txt. 4488 Use vga=ask for menu. 4489 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 4490 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 4491 4492 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 4493 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 4494 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 4495 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 4496 mapped kernel RAM. 4497 4498 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 4499 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 4500 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 4501 4502 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 4503 Format: <command> 4504 4505 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 4506 Format: <command> 4507 4508 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 4509 Format: <command> 4510 4511 vsyscall= [X86-64] 4512 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 4513 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 4514 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 4515 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 4516 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 4517 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 4518 4519 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 4520 emulated reasonably safely. 4521 4522 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions. 4523 This is a little bit faster than trapping 4524 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work 4525 better than they would in emulation mode. 4526 It also makes exploits much easier to write. 4527 4528 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 4529 them quite hard to use for exploits but 4530 might break your system. 4531 4532 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 4533 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 4534 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 4535 4536 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 4537 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 4538 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 4539 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 4540 4541 vt.default_blu= [VT] 4542 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 4543 Change the default blue palette of the console. 4544 This is a 16-member array composed of values 4545 ranging from 0-255. 4546 4547 vt.default_grn= [VT] 4548 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 4549 Change the default green palette of the console. 4550 This is a 16-member array composed of values 4551 ranging from 0-255. 4552 4553 vt.default_red= [VT] 4554 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 4555 Change the default red palette of the console. 4556 This is a 16-member array composed of values 4557 ranging from 0-255. 4558 4559 vt.default_utf8= 4560 [VT] 4561 Format=<0|1> 4562 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 4563 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 4564 newly opened terminals. 4565 4566 vt.global_cursor_default= 4567 [VT] 4568 Format=<-1|0|1> 4569 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 4570 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 4571 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 4572 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 4573 cursors, 1 will display them. 4574 4575 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 4576 Default: 2 = green. 4577 4578 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 4579 Default: 3 = cyan. 4580 4581 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 4582 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt 4583 or other driver-specific files in the 4584 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 4585 4586 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 4587 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 4588 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 4589 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 4590 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 4591 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 4592 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 4593 corresponding sysfs file. 4594 4595 workqueue.disable_numa 4596 By default, all work items queued to unbound 4597 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 4598 issued on, which results in better behavior in 4599 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 4600 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 4601 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 4602 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 4603 4604 workqueue.power_efficient 4605 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 4606 they show better performance thanks to cache 4607 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 4608 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 4609 4610 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 4611 were observed to contribute significantly to power 4612 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 4613 power usage at the cost of small performance 4614 overhead. 4615 4616 The default value of this parameter is determined by 4617 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 4618 4619 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 4620 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 4621 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 4622 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 4623 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 4624 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 4625 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 4626 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 4627 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 4628 impacted. 4629 4630 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 4631 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 4632 supporting x2apic. 4633 4634 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT] 4635 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform. 4636 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer 4637 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer. 4638 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt 4639 4640 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 4641 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 4642 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 4643 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 4644 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 4645 domains. 4646 4647 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 4648 Unplug Xen emulated devices 4649 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 4650 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 4651 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 4652 nics -- unplug network devices 4653 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 4654 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 4655 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 4656 the unplug protocol 4657 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 4658 4659 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 4660 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV 4661 optimizations. 4662 4663 xen_nopv [X86] 4664 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 4665 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 4666 4667 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 4668 Format: 4669 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 4670