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