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/joystick.txt 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/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options 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. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0 645 disables the blank timer. 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/joystick-parport.txt 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/joystick-parport.txt 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 irqfixup [HW] 1720 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1721 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1722 firmware running. 1723 1724 irqpoll [HW] 1725 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1726 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 1727 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1728 firmware running. 1729 1730 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 1731 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 1732 1733 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler. 1734 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 1735 1736 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs 1737 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 1738 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an 1739 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 1740 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 1741 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 1742 1743 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The 1744 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all 1745 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and 1746 suboptimal load balancer performance. 1747 1748 iucv= [HW,NET] 1749 1750 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64] 1751 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 1752 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1753 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 1754 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 1755 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 1756 1757 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64] 1758 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 1759 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1760 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to 1761 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 1762 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 1763 1764 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64] 1765 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 1766 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1767 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 1768 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 1769 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 1770 1771 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 1772 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt. 1773 1774 nokaslr [KNL] 1775 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 1776 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 1777 Layout Randomization). 1778 1779 kasan_multi_shot 1780 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 1781 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 1782 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 1783 invalid access. 1784 1785 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 1786 1787 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 1788 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror" 1789 This parameter 1790 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel 1791 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is 1792 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The 1793 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable 1794 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both 1795 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will 1796 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number 1797 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the 1798 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved 1799 by the page migration subsystem. This means that 1800 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone. 1801 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still 1802 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 1803 zone if it does not. 1804 1805 Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]), 1806 you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror" 1807 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 1808 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 1809 for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive, 1810 so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same 1811 time. 1812 1813 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 1814 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 1815 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 1816 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 1817 optional and is the number seconds in between 1818 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 1819 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 1820 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 1821 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 1822 the kernel debugger. 1823 1824 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 1825 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 1826 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 1827 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 1828 keyboard only format: kbd 1829 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 1830 Optional Kernel mode setting: 1831 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 1832 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 1833 1834 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 1835 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 1836 1837 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address. 1838 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 1839 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 1840 1841 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 1842 Valid arguments: on, off 1843 Default: on 1844 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 1845 the default is off. 1846 1847 kmemcheck= [X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode 1848 Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2 1849 kmemcheck=0 (disabled) 1850 kmemcheck=1 (enabled) 1851 kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode) 1852 Default: 2 (one-shot mode) 1853 1854 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 1855 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 1856 1857 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit 1858 KVM MMU at runtime. 1859 Default is 0 (off) 1860 1861 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 1862 Default is 1 (enabled) 1863 1864 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 1865 for all guests. 1866 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 1867 1868 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 1869 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 1870 system registers 1871 1872 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 1873 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 1874 system registers 1875 1876 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 1877 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 1878 system registers 1879 1880 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 1881 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 1882 Default is 1 (enabled) 1883 1884 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 1885 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states 1886 Default is 0 (disabled) 1887 1888 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 1889 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 1890 Default is 1 (enabled) 1891 1892 kvm-intel.nested= 1893 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 1894 Default is 0 (disabled) 1895 1896 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 1897 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 1898 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 1899 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 1900 1901 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 1902 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 1903 Default is 1 (enabled) 1904 1905 l2cr= [PPC] 1906 1907 l3cr= [PPC] 1908 1909 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 1910 disabled it. 1911 1912 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline 1913 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 1914 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 1915 1916 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 1917 in C2 power state. 1918 1919 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 1920 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 1921 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 1922 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 1923 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 1924 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 1925 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 1926 1927 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 1928 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 1929 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 1930 1931 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 1932 when set. 1933 Format: <int> 1934 1935 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma 1936 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is 1937 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers 1938 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches 1939 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If 1940 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE 1941 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the 1942 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices. 1943 1944 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 1945 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 1946 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 1947 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 1948 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 1949 host link and device attached to it. 1950 1951 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 1952 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed. 1953 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 1954 The following configurations can be forced. 1955 1956 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 1957 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 1958 1959 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 1960 1961 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 1962 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 1963 allowed. 1964 1965 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 1966 1967 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM. 1968 1969 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft 1970 and both resets. 1971 1972 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during 1973 hot-unplug link recovery 1974 1975 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data. 1976 1977 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support 1978 1979 * disable: Disable this device. 1980 1981 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 1982 the same attribute, the last one is used. 1983 1984 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 1985 1986 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy 1987 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 1988 1989 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 1990 Format: <integer> 1991 1992 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 1993 Format: <integer> 1994 1995 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 1996 Format: <integer> 1997 1998 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 1999 Format: <integer> 2000 2001 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2002 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2003 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2004 number of online CPUs. 2005 2006 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2007 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2008 2009 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2010 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2011 2012 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2013 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2014 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2015 2016 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2017 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2018 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2019 mode during the locktorture test. 2020 2021 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2022 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2023 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2024 2025 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2026 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2027 2028 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2029 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2030 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2031 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2032 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2033 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2034 2035 locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT] 2036 Start locktorture running at boot time. 2037 2038 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2039 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2040 2041 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2042 Enable additional printk() statements. 2043 2044 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2045 Format: <irq> 2046 2047 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2048 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2049 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2050 loglevels are defined as follows: 2051 2052 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2053 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2054 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2055 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2056 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2057 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2058 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2059 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2060 2061 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2062 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2063 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2064 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2065 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2066 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2067 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2068 2069 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2070 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2071 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2072 kernel boot problems. 2073 2074 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2075 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2076 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2077 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2078 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2079 attached printers to be reset. Using 2080 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2081 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2082 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2083 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2084 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2085 port specification list means that device IDs 2086 from each port should be examined, to see if 2087 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2088 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2089 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2090 2091 lpj=n [KNL] 2092 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2093 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2094 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2095 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2096 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2097 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2098 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2099 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2100 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2101 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2102 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2103 hardware. 2104 2105 ltpc= [NET] 2106 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2107 2108 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2109 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2110 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb 2111 2112 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different 2113 yeeloong laptop. 2114 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2115 2116 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater 2117 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2118 2119 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2120 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2121 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2122 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2123 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2124 only takes effect during system bootup. 2125 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2126 which also disables the IO APIC. 2127 2128 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2129 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2130 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2131 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2132 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2133 /dev/loop-control interface. 2134 2135 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2136 2137 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt 2138 2139 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2140 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2141 2142 mdacon= [MDA] 2143 Format: <first>,<last> 2144 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2145 2146 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2147 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able 2148 to see the whole system memory or for test. 2149 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 2150 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 2151 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 2152 belonging to unused RAM. 2153 2154 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 2155 memory. 2156 2157 memchunk=nn[KMG] 2158 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 2159 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 2160 2161 memhp_default_state=online/offline 2162 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 2163 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 2164 set according to the 2165 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 2166 option. 2167 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt. 2168 2169 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 2170 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 2171 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 2172 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 2173 option description. 2174 2175 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 2176 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 2177 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 2178 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 2179 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 2180 Multiple different regions can be specified, 2181 comma delimited. 2182 Example: 2183 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 2184 2185 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 2186 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 2187 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 2188 2189 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 2190 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 2191 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 2192 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 2193 memmap=64K$0x18690000 2194 or 2195 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 2196 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 2197 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 2198 will be eaten. 2199 2200 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 2201 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 2202 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 2203 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 2204 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 2205 2206 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 2207 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 2208 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 2209 Setting this option will scan the memory 2210 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 2211 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 2212 from using the memory being corrupted. 2213 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 2214 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 2215 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 2216 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 2217 2218 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 2219 By default it checks for corruption in the low 2220 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 2221 use. Use this parameter to scan for 2222 corruption in more or less memory. 2223 2224 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 2225 By default it checks for corruption every 60 2226 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 2227 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 2228 2229 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest 2230 Format: <integer> 2231 default : 0 <disable> 2232 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 2233 performed. Each pass selects another test 2234 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 2235 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 2236 memory contents and reserves bad memory 2237 regions that are detected. 2238 2239 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 2240 Valid arguments: on, off 2241 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 2242 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 2243 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 2244 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 2245 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 2246 2247 Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt 2248 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 2249 2250 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 2251 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 2252 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 2253 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 2254 See Documentation/power/states.txt. 2255 2256 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 2257 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt. 2258 2259 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 2260 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 2261 platforms. 2262 2263 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 2264 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 2265 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 2266 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 2267 2268 mga= [HW,DRM] 2269 2270 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this 2271 physical address is ignored. 2272 2273 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 2274 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 2275 Default: "0tb" 2276 MINI2440 configuration specification: 2277 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 2278 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 2279 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 2280 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 2281 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 2282 unconfigured. 2283 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 2284 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 2285 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 2286 VGA shield. 2287 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 2288 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 2289 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 2290 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 2291 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 2292 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 2293 2294 mminit_loglevel= 2295 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 2296 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 2297 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 2298 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 2299 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 2300 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 2301 2302 module.sig_enforce 2303 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 2304 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 2305 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 2306 is always true, so this option does nothing. 2307 2308 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 2309 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 2310 2311 mousedev.tap_time= 2312 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 2313 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 2314 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 2315 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 2316 Format: <msecs> 2317 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 2318 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2319 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 2320 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2321 2322 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter 2323 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the 2324 amount of memory used for migratable allocations. 2325 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified, 2326 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified 2327 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own 2328 is specified, the administrator must be careful 2329 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 2330 is not too small. 2331 2332 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 2333 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 2334 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 2335 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 2336 allocations. Use with caution! 2337 2338 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 2339 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 2340 2341 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 2342 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 2343 2344 mtdparts= [MTD] 2345 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c. 2346 2347 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 2348 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 2349 at a time. 2350 2351 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 2352 2353 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 2354 2355 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 2356 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 2357 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 2358 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 2359 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 2360 2361 mtdset= [ARM] 2362 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 2363 2364 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c 2365 2366 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 2367 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 2368 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 2369 2370 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2371 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 2372 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 2373 2374 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2375 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 2376 Default is 1. 2377 Large value could prevent small alignment from 2378 using up MTRRs. 2379 2380 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 2381 Format: <integer> 2382 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 2383 Default : 1 2384 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 2385 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 2386 2387 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 2388 2389 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 2390 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 2391 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 2392 something different and driver-specific. 2393 This usage is only documented in each driver source 2394 file if at all. 2395 2396 nf_conntrack.acct= 2397 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 2398 0 to disable accounting 2399 1 to enable accounting 2400 Default value is 0. 2401 2402 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 2403 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2404 2405 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 2406 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2407 2408 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 2409 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2410 2411 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 2412 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 2413 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 2414 requests. 2415 2416 nfs.callback_tcpport= 2417 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 2418 channel should listen. 2419 2420 nfs.cache_getent= 2421 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 2422 to update the NFS client cache entries. 2423 2424 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 2425 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 2426 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 2427 2428 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 2429 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 2430 entries. 2431 2432 nfs.enable_ino64= 2433 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 2434 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 2435 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 2436 of returning the full 64-bit number. 2437 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 2438 2439 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 2440 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 2441 slots the client will assign to the callback 2442 channel. This determines the maximum number of 2443 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 2444 a particular server. 2445 2446 nfs.max_session_slots= 2447 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 2448 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 2449 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 2450 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 2451 Note that there is little point in setting this 2452 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 2453 2454 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2455 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 2456 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 2457 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 2458 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 2459 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 2460 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 2461 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 2462 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 2463 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 2464 back to using the idmapper. 2465 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 2466 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 2467 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 2468 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 2469 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 2470 UUID that is generated at system install time. 2471 2472 nfs.send_implementation_id = 2473 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 2474 information in exchange_id requests. 2475 If zero, no implementation identification information 2476 will be sent. 2477 The default is to send the implementation identification 2478 information. 2479 2480 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 2481 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 2482 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 2483 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 2484 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 2485 after the locks are lost. 2486 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 2487 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 2488 parameter to '1'. 2489 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 2490 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 2491 2492 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 2493 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 2494 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 2495 2496 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 2497 whatever value is the default set by the layout 2498 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 2499 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 2500 2501 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2502 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 2503 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 2504 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 2505 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 2506 migration from NFSv2/v3. 2507 2508 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 2509 when a NMI is triggered. 2510 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 2511 2512 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 2513 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 2514 Valid num: 0 or 1 2515 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 2516 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 2517 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 2518 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite 2519 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 2520 please see 'nowatchdog'. 2521 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 2522 need the box quickly up again. 2523 2524 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 2525 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 2526 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 2527 waits 4 seconds. 2528 2529 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 2530 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 2531 is present. 2532 2533 no_console_suspend 2534 [HW] Never suspend the console 2535 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 2536 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 2537 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 2538 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 2539 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 2540 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 2541 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 2542 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 2543 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 2544 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 2545 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 2546 turn on/off it dynamically. 2547 2548 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 2549 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 2550 but will impact performance. 2551 2552 noalign [KNL,ARM] 2553 2554 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 2555 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 2556 2557 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 2558 2559 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem 2560 on "Classic" PPC cores. 2561 2562 nocache [ARM] 2563 2564 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction 2565 2566 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting 2567 2568 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 2569 2570 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 2571 2572 noexec [IA-64] 2573 2574 noexec [X86] 2575 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels. 2576 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 2577 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings 2578 2579 nosmap [X86] 2580 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 2581 even if it is supported by processor. 2582 2583 nosmep [X86] 2584 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 2585 even if it is supported by processor. 2586 2587 noexec32 [X86-64] 2588 This affects only 32-bit executables. 2589 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 2590 read doesn't imply executable mappings 2591 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 2592 read implies executable mappings 2593 2594 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 2595 2596 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 2597 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 2598 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 2599 2600 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 2601 2602 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 2603 Equivalent to smt=1. 2604 2605 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 2606 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 2607 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 2608 2609 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 2610 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 2611 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 2612 performance of saving the states is degraded because 2613 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 2614 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 2615 2616 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 2617 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 2618 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 2619 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 2620 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 2621 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 2622 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 2623 2624 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or 2625 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to 2626 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger. 2627 2628 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 2629 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 2630 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 2631 2632 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 2633 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 2634 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 2635 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 2636 in certain environments such as networked servers or 2637 real-time systems. 2638 2639 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 2640 2641 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 2642 Valid arguments: on, off 2643 Default: on 2644 2645 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT] 2646 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2647 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 2648 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 2649 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 2650 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 2651 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 2652 just as if they had also been called out in the 2653 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 2654 2655 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 2656 2657 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 2658 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 2659 2660 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 2661 broken timer IRQ sources. 2662 2663 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 2664 2665 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 2666 initial RAM disk. 2667 2668 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 2669 remapping. 2670 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 2671 2672 nointroute [IA-64] 2673 2674 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 2675 2676 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 2677 2678 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 2679 2680 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 2681 fault handling. 2682 2683 no-vmw-sched-clock 2684 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 2685 clock and use the default one. 2686 2687 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. 2688 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler 2689 behaviour 2690 2691 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 2692 2693 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 2694 2695 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel 2696 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx 2697 2698 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 2699 2700 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 2701 2702 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 2703 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 2704 2705 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 2706 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 2707 irq. 2708 2709 nomodule Disable module load 2710 2711 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 2712 pagetables) support. 2713 2714 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 2715 2716 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 2717 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 2718 2719 noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops 2720 2721 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 2722 with UP alternatives 2723 2724 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and 2725 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported 2726 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still 2727 available to user space applications. 2728 2729 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 2730 space. 2731 2732 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 2733 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 2734 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 2735 2736 nosbagart [IA-64] 2737 2738 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. 2739 2740 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 2741 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 2742 2743 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 2744 2745 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 2746 2747 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter 2748 2749 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 2750 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 2751 2752 nowb [ARM] 2753 2754 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 2755 2756 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 2757 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 2758 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 2759 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 2760 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 2761 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 2762 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 2763 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 2764 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 2765 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 2766 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 2767 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 2768 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 2769 2770 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 2771 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 2772 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 2773 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 2774 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 2775 parameter's value. 2776 Format: integer between 1 and 255 2777 Default: 255 2778 2779 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 2780 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 2781 SAL PALO. 2782 2783 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2784 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 2785 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 2786 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 2787 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 2788 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 2789 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 2790 hot plugging. 2791 2792 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 2793 2794 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing. 2795 Allowed values are enable and disable 2796 2797 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 2798 'node', 'default' can be specified 2799 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 2800 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details. 2801 2802 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 2803 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more 2804 info. 2805 2806 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 2807 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 2808 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 2809 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 2810 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 2811 interrupts *may* be lost! 2812 2813 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 2814 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 2815 For example, to override I2C bus2: 2816 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 2817 2818 oprofile.timer= [HW] 2819 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters 2820 2821 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type 2822 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile 2823 userland or if you want common events. 2824 Format: { arch_perfmon } 2825 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural 2826 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the 2827 CPU specific event set. 2828 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI 2829 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer 2830 for generic hr timer mode) 2831 2832 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 2833 process, but there is a small probability of 2834 deadlocking the machine. 2835 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 2836 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 2837 2838 OSS [HW,OSS] 2839 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt 2840 2841 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 2842 Storage of the information about who allocated 2843 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 2844 we can turn it on. 2845 on: enable the feature 2846 2847 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 2848 poisoning on the buddy allocator. 2849 off: turn off poisoning 2850 on: turn on poisoning 2851 2852 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 2853 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 2854 timeout = 0: wait forever 2855 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 2856 Format: <timeout> 2857 2858 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 2859 on a WARN(). 2860 2861 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 2862 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 2863 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 2864 succeeds in any situation. 2865 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 2866 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 2867 kernel more unstable. 2868 2869 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 2870 connected to, default is 0. 2871 Format: <parport#> 2872 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 2873 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 2874 Format: <mode> 2875 2876 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 2877 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 2878 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 2879 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 2880 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 2881 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 2882 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 2883 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 2884 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 2885 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 2886 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 2887 are specified on the command line, starting 2888 with parport0. 2889 2890 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 2891 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 2892 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 2893 computer where firmware has no options for setting 2894 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 2895 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 2896 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 2897 2898 pause_on_oops= 2899 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 2900 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 2901 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 2902 2903 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 2904 2905 pcd. [PARIDE] 2906 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 2907 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 2908 2909 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options: 2910 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel 2911 changes anything 2912 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 2913 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 2914 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 2915 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 2916 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 2917 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 2918 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 2919 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 2920 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 2921 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 2922 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 2923 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 2924 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 2925 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 2926 bus number. The config space is then accessed 2927 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 2928 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 2929 on the configuration access mechanisms. 2930 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 2931 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 2932 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 2933 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 2934 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 2935 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 2936 Configuration 2937 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 2938 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 2939 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 2940 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 2941 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 2942 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 2943 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 2944 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 2945 should never be necessary. 2946 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 2947 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 2948 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 2949 when the system masks IRQs. 2950 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 2951 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 2952 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 2953 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 2954 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 2955 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 2956 on several machines and they hang the machine 2957 when used, but on other computers it's the only 2958 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 2959 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 2960 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 2961 motherboard. 2962 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 2963 Use with caution as certain devices share 2964 address decoders between ROMs and other 2965 resources. 2966 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 2967 expansion ROMs that do not already have 2968 BIOS assigned address ranges. 2969 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 2970 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 2971 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 2972 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 2973 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 2974 this way. 2975 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 2976 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 2977 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 2978 F0000h-100000h range. 2979 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 2980 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 2981 secondary buses and you want to tell it 2982 explicitly which ones they are. 2983 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 2984 numbers ourselves, overriding 2985 whatever the firmware may have done. 2986 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 2987 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 2988 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 2989 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 2990 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 2991 IRQ routing is enabled. 2992 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 2993 or for PCI scanning. 2994 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 2995 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 2996 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 2997 please report a bug. 2998 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 2999 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 3000 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 3001 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 3002 so this option is a temporary workaround 3003 for broken drivers that don't call it. 3004 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 3005 handle more pci cards 3006 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 3007 This might help on some broken boards which 3008 machine check when some devices' config space 3009 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 3010 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 3011 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3012 This sorting is done to get a device 3013 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 3014 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3015 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 3016 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 3017 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 3018 supported by all devices below the root complex. 3019 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 3020 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 3021 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 3022 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 3023 or bus can support) for best performance. 3024 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 3025 every device is guaranteed to support. This 3026 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 3027 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 3028 reduced performance. This also guarantees 3029 that hot-added devices will work. 3030 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3031 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 3032 The default value is 256 bytes. 3033 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3034 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 3035 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 3036 resource_alignment= 3037 Format: 3038 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...] 3039 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\ 3040 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...] 3041 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 3042 aligned memory resources. 3043 If <order of align> is not specified, 3044 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 3045 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource 3046 windows need to be expanded. 3047 To specify the alignment for several 3048 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 3049 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 3050 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 3051 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 3052 end-to-end CRC checking). 3053 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 3054 the default. 3055 off: Turn ECRC off 3056 on: Turn ECRC on. 3057 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3058 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 3059 Default size is 256 bytes. 3060 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3061 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window. 3062 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3063 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 3064 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 3065 Default is 1. 3066 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 3067 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 3068 accommodate resources required by all child 3069 devices. 3070 off: Turn realloc off 3071 on: Turn realloc on 3072 realloc same as realloc=on 3073 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 3074 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 3075 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 3076 port. 3077 3078 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 3079 Management. 3080 off Disable ASPM. 3081 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 3082 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 3083 3084 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options: 3085 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this 3086 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services). 3087 3088 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling: 3089 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services 3090 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use 3091 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS. 3092 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports 3093 unconditionally. 3094 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe 3095 ports driver. 3096 3097 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 3098 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 3099 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 3100 3101 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 3102 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 3103 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 3104 3105 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 3106 3107 pd_ignore_unused 3108 [PM] 3109 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 3110 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 3111 for debug and development, but should not be 3112 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 3113 3114 pd. [PARIDE] 3115 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3116 3117 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 3118 boot time. 3119 Format: { 0 | 1 } 3120 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 3121 3122 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 3123 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 3124 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 3125 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 3126 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 3127 and performance comparison. 3128 3129 pf. [PARIDE] 3130 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3131 3132 pg. [PARIDE] 3133 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3134 3135 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 3136 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt. 3137 3138 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 3139 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 3140 See also Documentation/parport.txt. 3141 3142 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 3143 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 3144 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 3145 3146 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 3147 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 3148 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 3149 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 3150 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 3151 possible settings and some assignment information. 3152 3153 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 3154 { off } 3155 3156 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 3157 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 3158 3159 pnp_reserve_irq= 3160 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 3161 3162 pnp_reserve_dma= 3163 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 3164 3165 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 3166 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 3167 3168 pnp_reserve_mem= 3169 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 3170 autoconfiguration. 3171 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 3172 3173 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 3174 Default is 21. 3175 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 3176 may be specified. 3177 Format: <port>,<port>.... 3178 3179 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 3180 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 3181 platform machine description specific power_save 3182 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 3183 execution priority. 3184 3185 ppc_strict_facility_enable 3186 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 3187 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 3188 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 3189 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 3190 3191 print-fatal-signals= 3192 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 3193 3194 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 3195 related application anomalies: too many signals, 3196 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 3197 coredump - etc. 3198 3199 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 3200 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 3201 3202 default: off. 3203 3204 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 3205 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 3206 panics 3207 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3208 default: disabled 3209 3210 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 3211 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 3212 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 3213 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 3214 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 3215 Default: ratelimit 3216 3217 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 3218 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3219 3220 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 3221 Limit processor to maximum C-state 3222 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 3223 3224 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 3225 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 3226 instead using the legacy FADT method 3227 3228 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 3229 Format: [schedule,]<number> 3230 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 3231 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 3232 statistical time based profiling. 3233 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 3234 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 3235 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 3236 3237 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk 3238 before loading. 3239 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 3240 3241 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 3242 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 3243 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 3244 per second. 3245 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 3246 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 3247 (0 = never). 3248 psmouse.resolution= 3249 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 3250 psmouse.smartscroll= 3251 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 3252 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 3253 3254 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 3255 3256 pt. [PARIDE] 3257 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3258 3259 pty.legacy_count= 3260 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 3261 default number. 3262 3263 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 3264 3265 r128= [HW,DRM] 3266 3267 raid= [HW,RAID] 3268 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 3269 3270 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 3271 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 3272 3273 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 3274 3275 cec_disable [X86] 3276 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 3277 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 3278 3279 rcu_nocbs= [KNL] 3280 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3281 3282 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set 3283 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs. 3284 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will 3285 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for 3286 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" 3287 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" 3288 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the 3289 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and 3290 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy 3291 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 3292 3293 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 3294 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 3295 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 3296 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 3297 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 3298 This improves the real-time response for the 3299 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 3300 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 3301 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 3302 periodically wake up to do the polling. 3303 3304 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 3305 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 3306 process in one batch. 3307 3308 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 3309 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 3310 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 3311 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 3312 3313 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 3314 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3315 RCU grace-period cleanup. 3316 3317 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 3318 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3319 RCU grace-period initialization. 3320 3321 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 3322 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3323 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 3324 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 3325 the rcu_node combining tree. 3326 3327 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 3328 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 3329 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 3330 possibly be useful for architectures having high 3331 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 3332 3333 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 3334 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 3335 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 3336 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 3337 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 3338 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 3339 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 3340 3341 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 3342 Set required age in jiffies for a 3343 given grace period before RCU starts 3344 soliciting quiescent-state help from 3345 rcu_note_context_switch(). 3346 3347 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 3348 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 3349 first attempt to force quiescent states. 3350 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 3351 and maximum value is HZ. 3352 3353 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 3354 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 3355 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 3356 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 3357 3358 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 3359 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 3360 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 3361 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 3362 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 3363 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 3364 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 3365 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 3366 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 3367 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 3368 3369 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL] 3370 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which 3371 defaults to the square root of the number of 3372 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead 3373 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases 3374 that same overhead on each group's leader. 3375 3376 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 3377 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 3378 batch limiting is disabled. 3379 3380 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 3381 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 3382 batch limiting is re-enabled. 3383 3384 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL] 3385 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 3386 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 3387 3388 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL] 3389 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 3390 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 3391 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can 3392 prove do nothing more than free memory. 3393 3394 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 3395 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 3396 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 3397 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 3398 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 3399 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 3400 3401 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL] 3402 Measure performance of asynchronous 3403 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 3404 3405 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL] 3406 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 3407 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 3408 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 3409 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 3410 previously posted callbacks to drain. 3411 3412 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL] 3413 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 3414 grace-period primitives. 3415 3416 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL] 3417 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 3418 this parameter is to delay the start of the 3419 test until boot completes in order to avoid 3420 interference. 3421 3422 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL] 3423 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 3424 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 3425 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 3426 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 3427 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 3428 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 3429 a single reader. 3430 3431 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL] 3432 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 3433 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders. 3434 N, where N is the number of CPUs 3435 3436 rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT] 3437 Start rcuperf running at boot time. 3438 3439 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL] 3440 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 3441 3442 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL] 3443 Shut the system down after performance tests 3444 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 3445 testing. 3446 3447 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL] 3448 Enable additional printk() statements. 3449 3450 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 3451 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 3452 in microseconds. The default of zero says 3453 no holdoff. 3454 3455 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL] 3456 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive 3457 callback-flood tests. 3458 3459 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL] 3460 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive 3461 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood 3462 test. 3463 3464 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL] 3465 Set the number of bursts making up a given 3466 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to 3467 disable callback-flood testing. 3468 3469 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL] 3470 Set the number of callbacks to be registered 3471 in a given burst of a callback-flood test. 3472 3473 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 3474 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 3475 in microseconds. 3476 3477 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 3478 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 3479 in microseconds. 3480 3481 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 3482 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 3483 in seconds. 3484 3485 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 3486 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 3487 primitives, if available. 3488 3489 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 3490 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 3491 3492 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 3493 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 3494 update-side primitives, if available. 3495 3496 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 3497 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 3498 update-side primitives, if available. If all 3499 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 3500 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 3501 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 3502 they are all non-zero. 3503 3504 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 3505 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 3506 3507 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 3508 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 3509 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 3510 test, hence the "fake". 3511 3512 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 3513 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 3514 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 3515 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 3516 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 3517 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 3518 3519 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 3520 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 3521 3522 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 3523 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 3524 3525 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 3526 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 3527 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 3528 3529 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 3530 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 3531 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 3532 during the rcutorture test. 3533 3534 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 3535 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 3536 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 3537 3538 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 3539 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 3540 warnings, zero to disable. 3541 3542 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 3543 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 3544 3545 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 3546 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 3547 3548 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 3549 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 3550 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 3551 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 3552 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 3553 3554 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 3555 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 3556 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 3557 under test support RCU priority boosting. 3558 3559 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 3560 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 3561 3562 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 3563 Interval (s) between each boost test. 3564 3565 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 3566 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 3567 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 3568 3569 rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT] 3570 Start rcutorture running at boot time. 3571 3572 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 3573 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 3574 3575 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 3576 Enable additional printk() statements. 3577 3578 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 3579 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 3580 3581 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 3582 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 3583 3584 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 3585 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 3586 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 3587 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 3588 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 3589 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 3590 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 3591 3592 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 3593 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 3594 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 3595 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 3596 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 3597 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 3598 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 3599 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 3600 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 3601 3602 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 3603 Once boot has completed (that is, after 3604 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 3605 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 3606 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 3607 3608 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 3609 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning 3610 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal 3611 to zero. 3612 3613 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 3614 Run the RCU early boot self tests 3615 3616 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL] 3617 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests 3618 3619 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL] 3620 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests 3621 3622 rdinit= [KNL] 3623 Format: <full_path> 3624 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 3625 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 3626 3627 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 3628 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 3629 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, mba. 3630 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 3631 rdt=cmt,!mba 3632 3633 reboot= [KNL] 3634 Format (x86 or x86_64): 3635 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \ 3636 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 3637 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 3638 [[,]f[orce] 3639 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio, 3640 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 3641 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 3642 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 3643 to be used for rebooting. 3644 3645 relax_domain_level= 3646 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 3647 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt. 3648 3649 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area 3650 3651 reservetop= [X86-32] 3652 Format: nn[KMG] 3653 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 3654 address space. 3655 3656 reservelow= [X86] 3657 Format: nn[K] 3658 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at 3659 the bottom of the address space. 3660 3661 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 3662 during initialization. 3663 3664 resume= [SWSUSP] 3665 Specify the partition device for software suspend 3666 Format: 3667 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 3668 3669 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 3670 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 3671 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 3672 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 3673 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt 3674 3675 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 3676 read the resume files 3677 3678 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 3679 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 3680 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 3681 3682 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 3683 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 3684 present during boot. 3685 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 3686 no Disable hibernation and resume. 3687 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 3688 (that will set all pages holding image data 3689 during restoration read-only). 3690 3691 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 3692 3693 rfkill.default_state= 3694 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 3695 etc. communication is blocked by default. 3696 1 Unblocked. 3697 3698 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 3699 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 3700 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 3701 blocked and the previous configuration. 3702 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 3703 blocked and everything unblocked. 3704 3705 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 3706 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 3707 3708 ring3mwait=disable 3709 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 3710 CPUs. 3711 3712 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 3713 3714 rodata= [KNL] 3715 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 3716 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 3717 3718 rockchip.usb_uart 3719 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 3720 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 3721 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 3722 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 3723 3724 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 3725 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 3726 3727 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 3728 mount the root filesystem 3729 3730 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 3731 3732 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 3733 3734 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 3735 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 3736 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 3737 3738 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 3739 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 3740 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 3741 managed by CMA. 3742 3743 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 3744 3745 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 3746 3747 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 3748 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 3749 strict 3750 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 3751 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 3752 which is faster. 3753 3754 sa1100ir [NET] 3755 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 3756 3757 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter 3758 3759 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 3760 3761 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 3762 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 3763 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 3764 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 3765 3766 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 3767 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 3768 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 3769 Format: { "0" | "1" } 3770 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 3771 1 -- enable. 3772 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 3773 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 3774 3775 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot. 3776 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first 3777 security module asking for security registration will be 3778 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated 3779 as if no module has been chosen. 3780 3781 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 3782 Format: { "0" | "1" } 3783 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 3784 0 -- disable. 3785 1 -- enable. 3786 Default value is set via kernel config option. 3787 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used 3788 later to disable prior to initial policy load. 3789 3790 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 3791 Format: { "0" | "1" } 3792 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 3793 0 -- disable. 3794 1 -- enable. 3795 Default value is set via kernel config option. 3796 3797 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 3798 3799 shapers= [NET] 3800 Maximal number of shapers. 3801 3802 simeth= [IA-64] 3803 simscsi= 3804 3805 slram= [HW,MTD] 3806 3807 slab_nomerge [MM] 3808 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 3809 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 3810 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 3811 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 3812 layout control by attackers can usually be 3813 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 3814 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 3815 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 3816 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 3817 own. 3818 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 3819 3820 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 3821 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 3822 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 3823 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 3824 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 3825 3826 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB] 3827 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 3828 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 3829 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 3830 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 3831 last alloc / free. For more information see 3832 Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 3833 3834 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB] 3835 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for 3836 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable. 3837 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON. 3838 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug 3839 directories and files being created under 3840 /sys/kernel/slub. 3841 3842 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 3843 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 3844 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 3845 fragmentation. For more information see 3846 Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 3847 3848 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 3849 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 3850 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 3851 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 3852 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 3853 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 3854 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 3855 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 3856 3857 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 3858 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 3859 lower than slub_max_order. 3860 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 3861 3862 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 3863 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 3864 See slab_nomerge for more information. 3865 3866 smart2= [HW] 3867 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 3868 3869 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 3870 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 3871 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 3872 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 3873 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 3874 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 3875 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 3876 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 3877 1: Fast pin select (default) 3878 2: ATC IRMode 3879 3880 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 3881 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 3882 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 3883 actual hardware limit. 3884 Format: <integer> 3885 Default: -1 (no limit) 3886 3887 softlockup_panic= 3888 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 3889 Format: <integer> 3890 3891 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 3892 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 3893 backtraces on all cpus. 3894 Format: <integer> 3895 3896 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 3897 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt 3898 3899 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 3900 spia_fio_base= 3901 spia_pedr= 3902 spia_peddr= 3903 3904 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 3905 Specifies how frequently to check for 3906 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 3907 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 3908 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 3909 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 3910 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 3911 are ignored. 3912 3913 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 3914 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 3915 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 3916 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 3917 grace period will be considered for automatic 3918 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 3919 expediting. 3920 3921 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 3922 override the default stack gap protection. The value 3923 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 3924 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 3925 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 3926 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 3927 3928 stacktrace [FTRACE] 3929 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 3930 3931 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 3932 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 3933 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 3934 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 3935 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 3936 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 3937 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 3938 3939 sti= [PARISC,HW] 3940 Format: <num> 3941 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 3942 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 3943 as the initial boot-console. 3944 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 3945 3946 sti_font= [HW] 3947 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 3948 3949 stifb= [HW] 3950 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 3951 3952 sunrpc.min_resvport= 3953 sunrpc.max_resvport= 3954 [NFS,SUNRPC] 3955 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 3956 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 3957 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 3958 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 3959 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 3960 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 3961 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 3962 maximum port values. 3963 3964 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 3965 [NFS,SUNRPC] 3966 Limit the number of requests that the server will 3967 process in parallel from a single connection. 3968 The default value is 0 (no limit). 3969 3970 sunrpc.pool_mode= 3971 [NFS] 3972 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 3973 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 3974 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 3975 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 3976 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 3977 NFS server is running. 3978 3979 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 3980 automatically using heuristics 3981 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 3982 percpu one pool for each CPU 3983 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 3984 to global on non-NUMA machines) 3985 3986 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 3987 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 3988 [NFS,SUNRPC] 3989 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 3990 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 3991 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 3992 improve throughput, but will also increase the 3993 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 3994 3995 suspend.pm_test_delay= 3996 [SUSPEND] 3997 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 3998 mode before resuming the system (see 3999 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 4000 is set. Default value is 5. 4001 4002 swapaccount=[0|1] 4003 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 4004 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 4005 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt) 4006 4007 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 4008 Format: { <int> | force | noforce } 4009 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 4010 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 4011 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 4012 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 4013 4014 switches= [HW,M68k] 4015 4016 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 4017 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 4018 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 4019 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 4020 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 4021 in older udev will not work anymore. 4022 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 4023 the kernel configuration. 4024 4025 sysrq_always_enabled 4026 [KNL] 4027 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 4028 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 4029 Useful for debugging. 4030 4031 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4032 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 4033 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 4034 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 4035 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt 4036 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 4037 4038 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 4039 4040 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N] 4041 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 4042 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 4043 as the system sleep state during system startup with 4044 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 4045 The system is woken from this state using a 4046 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 4047 4048 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4049 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 4050 4051 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 4052 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 4053 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 4054 4055 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 4056 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 4057 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 4058 4059 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 4060 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 4061 critical and hot trip points. 4062 4063 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 4064 1: disable ACPI thermal control 4065 4066 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 4067 -1: disable all passive trip points 4068 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 4069 value 4070 4071 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 4072 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 4073 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 4074 0: no polling (default) 4075 4076 threadirqs [KNL] 4077 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 4078 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 4079 4080 tmem [KNL,XEN] 4081 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in. 4082 4083 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4084 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache 4085 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor. 4086 4087 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4088 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap 4089 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled 4090 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled. 4091 4092 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4093 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages 4094 to the hypervisor. 4095 4096 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4097 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately 4098 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the 4099 kernel based on different criteria. 4100 4101 topology= [S390] 4102 Format: {off | on} 4103 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 4104 topology information if the hardware supports this. 4105 The scheduler will make use of this information and 4106 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 4107 Default is on. 4108 4109 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 4110 Format: {off} 4111 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 4112 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 4113 LPAR. 4114 4115 tp720= [HW,PS2] 4116 4117 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 4118 Format: integer pcr id 4119 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 4120 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 4121 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 4122 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 4123 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 4124 are saved. 4125 4126 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 4127 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 4128 4129 trace_event=[event-list] 4130 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 4131 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 4132 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See 4133 also Documentation/trace/events.txt 4134 4135 trace_options=[option-list] 4136 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 4137 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 4138 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 4139 to echo the option name into 4140 4141 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 4142 4143 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 4144 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 4145 4146 trace_options=stacktrace 4147 4148 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options" 4149 section. 4150 4151 tp_printk[FTRACE] 4152 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 4153 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 4154 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 4155 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 4156 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 4157 4158 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 4159 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 4160 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 4161 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 4162 4163 ** CAUTION ** 4164 4165 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 4166 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 4167 the system to live lock. 4168 4169 traceoff_on_warning 4170 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 4171 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 4172 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 4173 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 4174 4175 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 4176 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 4177 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 4178 4179 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 4180 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 4181 4182 transparent_hugepage= 4183 [KNL] 4184 Format: [always|madvise|never] 4185 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 4186 with respect to transparent hugepages. 4187 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details. 4188 4189 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 4190 Format: <string> 4191 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 4192 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 4193 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 4194 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 4195 virtualized environment. 4196 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 4197 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 4198 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 4199 can add overhead. 4200 4201 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 4202 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 4203 Format: 4204 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 4205 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt 4206 4207 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 4208 happen after console_init() and before a proper 4209 console driver takes over, this boot options might 4210 help "seeing" what's going on. 4211 4212 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4213 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 4214 4215 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 4216 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 4217 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 4218 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 4219 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 4220 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 4221 reported either. 4222 4223 unknown_nmi_panic 4224 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 4225 4226 usbcore.authorized_default= 4227 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 4228 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 4229 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized) 4230 4231 usbcore.autosuspend= 4232 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 4233 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 4234 is the time required before an idle device will be 4235 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 4236 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 4237 4238 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 4239 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 4240 4241 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 4242 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 4243 (default = 65536). 4244 4245 usbcore.blinkenlights= 4246 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 4247 4248 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 4249 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 4250 scheme (default 0 = off). 4251 4252 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 4253 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 4254 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 4255 4256 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 4257 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 4258 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 4259 4260 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 4261 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 4262 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 4263 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 4264 4265 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 4266 4267 usbhid.mousepoll= 4268 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 4269 4270 usbhid.jspoll= 4271 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 4272 4273 usb-storage.delay_use= 4274 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 4275 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 4276 4277 usb-storage.quirks= 4278 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 4279 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 4280 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 4281 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 4282 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 4283 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 4284 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 4285 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 4286 of sense data); 4287 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 4288 bytes of sense data); 4289 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 4290 device capacity by one sector); 4291 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 4292 READ_DISC_INFO command); 4293 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 4294 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 4295 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 4296 command, uas only); 4297 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 4298 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 4299 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 4300 reported device capacity by one 4301 sector if the number is odd); 4302 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 4303 device); 4304 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 4305 command, uas only); 4306 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 4307 unlock ejectable media); 4308 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 4309 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time); 4310 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 4311 initial READ(10) command); 4312 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 4313 reported by the device); 4314 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 4315 by default); 4316 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 4317 bogus residue values); 4318 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 4319 Logical Unit); 4320 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 4321 commands, uas only); 4322 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 4323 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 4324 medium is write-protected). 4325 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 4326 even if the device claims no cache) 4327 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 4328 4329 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 4330 Format: <int> 4331 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 4332 1 - undefined instruction events 4333 2 - system calls 4334 4 - invalid data aborts 4335 8 - SIGSEGV faults 4336 16 - SIGBUS faults 4337 Example: user_debug=31 4338 4339 userpte= 4340 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 4341 4342 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 4343 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 4344 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 4345 4346 vdso= [X86,SH] 4347 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 4348 4349 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 4350 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 4351 4352 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 4353 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 4354 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 4355 4356 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 4357 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 4358 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 4359 4360 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 4361 alias for vdso32=0. 4362 4363 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 4364 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 4365 4366 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 4367 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 4368 4369 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 4370 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt. 4371 4372 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1] 4373 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 4374 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 4375 level and then send out the event to user space through 4376 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver 4377 will only send out the event without touching backlight 4378 brightness level. 4379 default: 1 4380 4381 virtio_mmio.device= 4382 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 4383 4384 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 4385 where: 4386 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 4387 like K, M and G) 4388 <baseaddr> := physical base address 4389 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 4390 request_irq()) 4391 <id> := (optional) platform device id 4392 example: 4393 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 4394 4395 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 4396 4397 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 4398 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and 4399 Documentation/svga.txt. 4400 Use vga=ask for menu. 4401 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 4402 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 4403 4404 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 4405 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 4406 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 4407 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 4408 mapped kernel RAM. 4409 4410 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 4411 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 4412 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 4413 4414 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 4415 Format: <command> 4416 4417 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 4418 Format: <command> 4419 4420 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 4421 Format: <command> 4422 4423 vsyscall= [X86-64] 4424 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 4425 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 4426 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 4427 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 4428 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 4429 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 4430 4431 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 4432 emulated reasonably safely. 4433 4434 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions. 4435 This is a little bit faster than trapping 4436 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work 4437 better than they would in emulation mode. 4438 It also makes exploits much easier to write. 4439 4440 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 4441 them quite hard to use for exploits but 4442 might break your system. 4443 4444 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 4445 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 4446 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 4447 4448 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 4449 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 4450 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 4451 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 4452 4453 vt.default_blu= [VT] 4454 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 4455 Change the default blue palette of the console. 4456 This is a 16-member array composed of values 4457 ranging from 0-255. 4458 4459 vt.default_grn= [VT] 4460 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 4461 Change the default green palette of the console. 4462 This is a 16-member array composed of values 4463 ranging from 0-255. 4464 4465 vt.default_red= [VT] 4466 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 4467 Change the default red palette of the console. 4468 This is a 16-member array composed of values 4469 ranging from 0-255. 4470 4471 vt.default_utf8= 4472 [VT] 4473 Format=<0|1> 4474 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 4475 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 4476 newly opened terminals. 4477 4478 vt.global_cursor_default= 4479 [VT] 4480 Format=<-1|0|1> 4481 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 4482 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 4483 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 4484 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 4485 cursors, 1 will display them. 4486 4487 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 4488 Default: 2 = green. 4489 4490 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 4491 Default: 3 = cyan. 4492 4493 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 4494 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt 4495 or other driver-specific files in the 4496 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 4497 4498 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 4499 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 4500 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 4501 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 4502 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 4503 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 4504 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 4505 corresponding sysfs file. 4506 4507 workqueue.disable_numa 4508 By default, all work items queued to unbound 4509 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 4510 issued on, which results in better behavior in 4511 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 4512 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 4513 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 4514 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 4515 4516 workqueue.power_efficient 4517 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 4518 they show better performance thanks to cache 4519 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 4520 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 4521 4522 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 4523 were observed to contribute significantly to power 4524 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 4525 power usage at the cost of small performance 4526 overhead. 4527 4528 The default value of this parameter is determined by 4529 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 4530 4531 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 4532 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 4533 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 4534 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 4535 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 4536 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 4537 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 4538 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 4539 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 4540 impacted. 4541 4542 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 4543 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 4544 supporting x2apic. 4545 4546 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT] 4547 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform. 4548 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer 4549 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer. 4550 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt 4551 4552 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 4553 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 4554 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 4555 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 4556 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 4557 domains. 4558 4559 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 4560 Unplug Xen emulated devices 4561 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 4562 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 4563 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 4564 nics -- unplug network devices 4565 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 4566 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 4567 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 4568 the unplug protocol 4569 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 4570 4571 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 4572 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV 4573 optimizations. 4574 4575 xen_nopv [X86] 4576 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 4577 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 4578 4579 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 4580 Format: 4581 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 4582