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_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 110 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 111 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 112 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 113 auto-serialization feature. 114 This feature is enabled by default. 115 This option allows to turn off the feature. 116 117 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 118 kernels. 119 120 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] 121 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 122 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 123 installed automatically and they will appear under 124 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 125 This option turns off this feature. 126 Note that specifying this option does not affect 127 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 128 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 129 130 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] 131 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 132 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 133 second kernel for kdump. 134 135 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 136 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 137 138 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 139 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 140 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 141 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 142 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 143 144 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 145 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 146 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 147 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 148 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 149 strings 150 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 151 strings 152 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 153 154 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 155 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 156 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 157 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 158 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 159 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 160 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 161 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 162 care about the state of the feature group strings which 163 should be controlled by the OSPM. 164 Examples: 165 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 166 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 167 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 168 169 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 170 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 171 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 172 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 173 multiple times through kernel command line is also 174 meaningless. 175 Examples: 176 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 177 FALSE. 178 179 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 180 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 181 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 182 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 183 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 184 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 185 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 186 there are quirks related to this string. This command 187 is useful when one want to control the state of the 188 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 189 the OSPM features. 190 Examples: 191 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 192 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 193 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 194 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 195 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 196 equivalent to 197 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 198 and 199 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 200 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 201 202 acpi_pm_good [X86] 203 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 204 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 205 and always returns good values. 206 207 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 208 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 209 210 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 211 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 212 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 213 214 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 215 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig, 216 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable } 217 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on 218 s3_bios and s3_mode. 219 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 220 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 221 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 222 used during resume from hibernation. 223 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 224 control method, with respect to putting devices into 225 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 226 of _PTS is used by default). 227 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 228 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 229 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 230 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 231 but some broken systems don't work without it). 232 233 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 234 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 235 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 236 237 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 238 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 239 240 agp= [AGP] 241 { off | try_unsupported } 242 off: disable AGP support 243 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 244 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 245 246 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 247 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt 248 249 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 250 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 251 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 252 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 253 254 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 255 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 256 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 257 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 258 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 259 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 260 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 261 262 32: only for 32-bit processes 263 64: only for 64-bit processes 264 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 265 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 266 267 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 268 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 269 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 270 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 271 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 272 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 273 274 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 275 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 276 Possible values are: 277 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when 278 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are 279 flushed before they will be reused, which 280 is a lot of faster 281 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 282 the system 283 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 284 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 285 allowed anymore to lift isolation 286 requirements as needed. This option 287 does not override iommu=pt 288 289 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 290 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 291 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 292 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 293 IOMMU initialization. 294 295 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 296 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 297 remapping modes: 298 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 299 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 300 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 301 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 302 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 303 304 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 305 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 306 Format: <a>,<b> 307 See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt 308 309 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 310 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 311 connected to one of 16 gameports 312 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 313 314 apc= [HW,SPARC] 315 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 316 Format: noidle 317 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 318 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 319 APC and your system crashes randomly. 320 321 apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 322 Change the output verbosity whilst booting 323 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 324 Change the amount of debugging information output 325 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 326 327 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 328 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 329 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 330 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 331 backup of CPU 0 332 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 333 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 334 shot down by NMI 335 336 autoconf= [IPV6] 337 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 338 339 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 340 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 341 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 342 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 343 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 344 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 345 apic=verbose is specified. 346 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 347 348 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 349 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 350 351 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 352 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 353 354 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 355 356 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 357 358 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 359 EzKey and similar keyboards 360 361 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 362 363 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 364 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 365 366 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 367 keyboards 368 369 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 370 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 371 372 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 373 Use software keyboard repeat 374 375 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 376 Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled) 377 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled 378 until the next reboot 379 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 380 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 381 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled, 382 storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in 383 RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace 384 auditd. 385 Default: unset 386 387 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 388 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 389 Default: 64 390 391 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 392 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 393 Format: { "0" | "1" } 394 0 - Disable the BAU. 395 1 - Enable the BAU. 396 unset - Disable the BAU. 397 398 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 399 Format: <io>,<mode> 400 401 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 402 Format: <io>,<mode> 403 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 404 405 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 406 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 407 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 408 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 409 410 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 411 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 412 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 413 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 414 415 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 416 embedded devices based on command line input. 417 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt 418 419 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 420 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to 421 no delay (0). 422 Format: integer 423 424 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages. 425 426 bert_disable [ACPI] 427 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 428 429 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 430 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 431 kernel args too. 432 bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options 433 bttv.tuner= 434 435 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 436 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 437 at a time. 438 439 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 440 441 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 442 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 443 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 444 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 445 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 446 This option provides an override for these situations. 447 448 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 449 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 450 trust validation. 451 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 452 453 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 454 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 455 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 456 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 457 others). 458 459 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 460 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details. 461 462 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller 463 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable} 464 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 465 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 466 a single hierarchy 467 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 468 subsystem 469 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 470 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 471 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 472 473 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1 474 Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" } 475 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 476 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 477 478 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 479 Format: <string> 480 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 481 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 482 483 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 484 Format: { "0" | "1" } 485 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 486 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 487 any implied execute protection). 488 1 -- check protection requested by application. 489 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 490 Value can be changed at runtime via 491 /selinux/checkreqprot. 492 493 cio_ignore= [S390] 494 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details. 495 clk_ignore_unused 496 [CLK] 497 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 498 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 499 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 500 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 501 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 502 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 503 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 504 platform with proper driver support. For more 505 information, see Documentation/clk.txt. 506 507 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 508 [Deprecated] 509 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 510 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 511 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 512 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 513 514 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 515 Format: <string> 516 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 517 with the name specified. 518 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 519 the platform: 520 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 521 [ACPI] acpi_pm 522 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 523 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 524 [AVR32] avr32 525 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 526 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 527 [MIPS] MIPS 528 [PARISC] cr16 529 [S390] tod 530 [SH] SuperH 531 [SPARC64] tick 532 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 533 534 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 535 [ARM,ARM64] 536 Format: <bool> 537 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 538 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 539 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 540 systems. 541 542 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.fsl-a008585= 543 [ARM64] 544 Format: <bool> 545 Enable/disable the workaround of Freescale/NXP 546 erratum A-008585. This can be useful for KVM 547 guests, if the guest device tree doesn't show the 548 erratum. If unspecified, the workaround is 549 enabled based on the device tree. 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 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 653 disable the cpuidle sub-system 654 655 cpu_init_udelay=N 656 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 657 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 658 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 659 Default: 10000 660 661 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 662 Format: 663 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 664 665 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 666 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 667 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 668 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 669 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 670 is selected automatically. Check 671 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details. 672 673 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 674 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 675 in the running system. The syntax of range is 676 start-[end] where start and end are both 677 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 678 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example. 679 680 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 681 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 682 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 683 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 684 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 685 available. 686 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 687 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 688 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 689 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 690 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 691 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 692 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 693 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 694 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at 695 at least 256M below 4G automatically. 696 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G 697 for second kernel instead. 698 0: to disable low allocation. 699 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 700 or memory reserved is below 4G. 701 702 cryptomgr.notests 703 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 704 705 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 706 Format: <dma> 707 708 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 709 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 710 711 dasd= [HW,NET] 712 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 713 714 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 715 (one device per port) 716 Format: <port#>,<type> 717 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt 718 719 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot 720 time. See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for 721 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg. 722 723 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 724 725 debug_locks_verbose= 726 [KNL] verbose self-tests 727 Format=<0|1> 728 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 729 self-tests. 730 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to 731 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally 732 only useful to kernel developers. 733 734 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 735 736 no_debug_objects 737 [KNL] Disable object debugging 738 739 debug_guardpage_minorder= 740 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 741 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 742 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 743 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 744 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 745 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 746 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 747 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 748 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 749 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 750 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 751 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 752 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when 753 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 754 bypassed) which are not detectable by 755 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 756 tracking down these problems. 757 758 debug_pagealloc= 759 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 760 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In 761 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge 762 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable 763 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same 764 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 765 on: enable the feature 766 767 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 768 769 decnet.addr= [HW,NET] 770 Format: <area>[,<node>] 771 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt. 772 773 default_hugepagesz= 774 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default 775 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by 776 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and 777 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems. 778 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size 779 if not specified. 780 781 dhash_entries= [KNL] 782 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 783 784 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 785 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 786 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 787 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 788 miss to occur. 789 790 disable= [IPV6] 791 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 792 793 disable_radix [PPC] 794 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 795 796 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 797 Format: <int> 798 The number of initial APIC ID for the 799 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 800 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 801 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 802 causing system reset or hang due to sending 803 INIT from AP to BSP. 804 805 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 806 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if 807 to workaround buggy firmware. 808 809 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 810 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 811 812 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 813 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 814 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 815 entry later. This parameter disables that. 816 817 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 818 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 819 memory out of your available memory pool based on 820 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 821 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 822 823 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 824 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 825 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 826 827 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 828 829 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 830 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 831 832 dma_debug_entries=<number> 833 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 834 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 835 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 836 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 837 architectural default is too low. 838 839 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 840 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 841 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 842 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 843 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 844 driver later using sysfs. 845 846 drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 847 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 848 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 849 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 850 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 851 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 852 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 853 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 854 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 855 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 856 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID 857 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 858 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 859 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 860 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 861 data set with no connector name will be used for 862 any connectors not explicitly specified. 863 864 dscc4.setup= [NET] 865 866 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 867 module.dyndbg[="val"] 868 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 869 Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for details. 870 871 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions. 872 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more 873 information about the feature. 874 875 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 876 in some Intel CPUs. 877 878 eagerfpu= [X86] 879 on enable eager fpu restore 880 off disable eager fpu restore 881 auto selects the default scheme, which automatically 882 enables eagerfpu restore for xsaveopt. 883 884 module.async_probe [KNL] 885 Enable asynchronous probe on this module. 886 887 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 888 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 889 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 890 which are not unmapped. 891 892 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 893 894 When used with no options, the early console is 895 determined by the stdout-path property in device 896 tree's chosen node. 897 898 cdns,<addr>[,options] 899 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 900 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 901 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 902 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 903 configured. 904 905 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 906 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 907 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 908 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options] 909 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 910 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 911 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 912 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 913 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 914 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 915 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 916 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 917 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 918 919 pl011,<addr> 920 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 921 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 922 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 923 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 924 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 925 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 926 the device registers. 927 928 meson,<addr> 929 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 930 port at the specified address. The serial port must 931 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 932 supported. 933 934 msm_serial,<addr> 935 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 936 port at the specified address. The serial port 937 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 938 yet supported. 939 940 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 941 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 942 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 943 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 944 yet supported. 945 946 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 947 948 s3c2410,<addr> 949 s3c2412,<addr> 950 s3c2440,<addr> 951 s3c6400,<addr> 952 s5pv210,<addr> 953 exynos4210,<addr> 954 Use early console provided by serial driver available 955 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 956 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 957 serial port must already be setup and configured. 958 Options are not yet supported. 959 960 lpuart,<addr> 961 lpuart32,<addr> 962 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 963 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 964 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 965 port must already be setup and configured. 966 967 armada3700_uart,<addr> 968 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 969 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 970 address. The serial port must already be setup 971 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 972 973 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k] 974 earlyprintk=vga 975 earlyprintk=efi 976 earlyprintk=xen 977 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 978 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 979 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 980 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 981 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate] 982 983 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 984 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 985 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 986 987 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 988 takes over. 989 990 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can 991 be used at a time. 992 993 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 994 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 995 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 996 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 997 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 998 You can find the port for a given device in 999 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1000 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1001 1002 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1003 very good. 1004 1005 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by 1006 the real console. 1007 1008 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests. 1009 1010 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1011 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1012 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1013 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1014 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1015 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1016 default: on. 1017 1018 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1019 ekgdboc=kbd 1020 1021 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1022 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1023 1024 edd= [EDD] 1025 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1026 1027 efi= [EFI] 1028 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" } 1029 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI 1030 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by 1031 default. 1032 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1033 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1034 firmware implementations. 1035 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1036 debug: enable misc debug output 1037 1038 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1039 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1040 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1041 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1042 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1043 1044 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1045 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1046 updating original EFI memory map. 1047 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1048 from ss to ss+nn. 1049 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1050 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1051 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1052 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1053 1054 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1055 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of 1056 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1057 doesn't support it. 1058 1059 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1060 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1061 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1062 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1063 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details. 1064 1065 1066 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1067 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1068 1069 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1070 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1071 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1072 1073 elevator= [IOSCHED] 1074 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"} 1075 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and 1076 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details. 1077 1078 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1079 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1080 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1081 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1082 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details. 1083 1084 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1085 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1086 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1087 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1088 1089 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1090 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1091 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1092 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1093 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1094 1095 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1096 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1097 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1098 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1099 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1100 Default value is 0. 1101 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce. 1102 1103 erst_disable [ACPI] 1104 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1105 support. 1106 1107 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1108 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1109 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1110 1111 evm= [EVM] 1112 Format: { "fix" } 1113 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1114 current integrity status. 1115 1116 failslab= 1117 fail_page_alloc= 1118 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1119 General fault injection mechanism. 1120 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1121 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1122 1123 floppy= [HW] 1124 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt. 1125 1126 force_pal_cache_flush 1127 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1128 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1129 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1130 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1131 1132 forcepae [X86-32] 1133 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1134 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1135 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1136 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1137 and may cause unknown problems. 1138 1139 ftrace=[tracer] 1140 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1141 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1142 boot debugging. 1143 1144 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1145 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1146 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1147 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1148 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1149 oops. 1150 1151 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1152 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1153 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 1154 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1155 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1156 tracing directory. 1157 1158 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1159 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1160 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1161 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1162 tracing directory. 1163 1164 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1165 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1166 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1167 function-list is a comma separated list of functions 1168 that can be changed at run time by the 1169 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1170 1171 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1172 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1173 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of 1174 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1175 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1176 1177 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1178 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1179 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1180 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1181 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt 1182 1183 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1184 1185 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1186 Format: off | on 1187 default: on 1188 1189 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1190 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1191 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1192 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1193 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1194 1195 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1196 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1197 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1198 GPT to be used instead. 1199 1200 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1201 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1202 Format: 0 | 1 1203 Default: 0 1204 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1205 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1206 Format: 0 | 1 1207 Default: 0 1208 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1209 Format: 0 | 1 1210 Default: 0 1211 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1212 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1213 Default: 1024 1214 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1215 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1216 Default: 1024 1217 1218 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1219 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1220 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1221 1222 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1223 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1224 backtraces on all cpus. 1225 Format: <integer> 1226 1227 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1228 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1229 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1230 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1231 1232 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1233 1234 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1235 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1236 1237 hest_disable [ACPI] 1238 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1239 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1240 logic will be disabled. 1241 1242 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1243 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1244 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1245 size on bigger boxes. 1246 1247 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1248 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1249 Default: "on" 1250 1251 hisax= [HW,ISDN] 1252 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax. 1253 1254 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1255 1256 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1257 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1258 verbose } 1259 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1260 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1261 VIA, nVidia) 1262 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1263 1264 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1265 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1266 1267 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1268 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages. 1269 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified 1270 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve 1271 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on 1272 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G 1273 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag). 1274 1275 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1276 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1277 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1278 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1279 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1280 1281 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to 1282 hardware thread id mappings. 1283 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread> 1284 1285 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1286 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1287 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1288 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1289 the real console. 1290 1291 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1292 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1293 registered from board initialization code. 1294 Format: 1295 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1296 1297 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1298 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1299 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1300 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1301 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1302 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1303 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1304 keyboard and cannot control its state 1305 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1306 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1307 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1308 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1309 for the AUX port 1310 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1311 controller 1312 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1313 controllers 1314 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1315 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1316 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1317 transitions, or never reset 1318 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1319 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1320 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1321 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1322 architectures force reset to be always executed 1323 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1324 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1325 1326 i810= [HW,DRM] 1327 1328 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1329 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1330 hardware. 1331 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature 1332 does not match list of supported models. 1333 i8k.power_status 1334 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1335 (disabled by default) 1336 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1337 capability is set. 1338 1339 i915.invert_brightness= 1340 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1341 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1342 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1343 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1344 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1345 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1346 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1347 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1348 value switches the backlight off. 1349 -1 -- never invert brightness 1350 0 -- machine default 1351 1 -- force brightness inversion 1352 1353 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1354 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1355 1356 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1357 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc 1358 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr 1359 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options 1360 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt. 1361 1362 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1363 Format: <int> 1364 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on 1365 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by 1366 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The 1367 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning. 1368 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the 1369 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which 1370 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value 1371 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it 1372 was 0x3. 1373 1374 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1375 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers. 1376 1377 idle= [X86] 1378 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1379 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1380 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1381 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1382 Not recommended. 1383 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1384 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1385 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1386 1387 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1388 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1389 Default: strict 1390 1391 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1392 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1393 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1394 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1395 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1396 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1397 encoding mode. 1398 1399 Available settings are as follows: 1400 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1401 supported by the FPU 1402 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1403 by the FPU 1404 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1405 by the FPU 1406 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1407 supported by the FPU 1408 1409 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1410 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1411 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1412 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1413 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1414 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1415 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1416 MIPS64 CPUs. 1417 1418 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1419 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1420 except where unsupported by hardware. 1421 1422 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1423 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1424 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1425 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1426 could change it dynamically, usually by 1427 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1428 1429 ignore_rlimit_data 1430 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1431 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1432 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1433 1434 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1435 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1436 1437 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1438 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1439 default: "enforce" 1440 1441 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] 1442 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1443 owned by uid=0. 1444 1445 ima_hash= [IMA] 1446 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1447 | sha512 | ... } 1448 default: "sha1" 1449 1450 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1451 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1452 1453 ima_policy= [IMA] 1454 The builtin measurement policy to load during IMA 1455 setup. Specyfing "tcb" as the value, measures all 1456 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1457 opened with the read mode bit set by either the 1458 effective uid (euid=0) or uid=0. 1459 Format: "tcb" 1460 1461 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1462 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1463 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1464 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1465 opened for read by uid=0. 1466 1467 ima_template= [IMA] 1468 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1469 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" } 1470 Default: "ima-ng" 1471 1472 ima_template_fmt= 1473 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1474 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1475 1476 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1477 Format: <min_file_size> 1478 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1479 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1480 1481 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1482 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1483 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1484 1485 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1486 Format: <bufsize> 1487 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1488 1489 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1490 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1491 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1492 1493 init= [KNL] 1494 Format: <full_path> 1495 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1496 process. 1497 1498 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1499 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1500 startup. 1501 1502 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1503 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1504 modules and initcalls. 1505 1506 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 1507 1508 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 1509 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 1510 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 1511 override in debugfs after boot. 1512 1513 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 1514 Format: <irq> 1515 1516 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 1517 1518 integrity_audit=[IMA] 1519 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1520 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 1521 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 1522 1523 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 1524 on 1525 Enable intel iommu driver. 1526 off 1527 Disable intel iommu driver. 1528 igfx_off [Default Off] 1529 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 1530 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 1531 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 1532 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 1533 DMA. 1534 forcedac [x86_64] 1535 With this option iommu will not optimize to look 1536 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual 1537 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater 1538 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look 1539 for translation below 32-bit and if not available 1540 then look in the higher range. 1541 strict [Default Off] 1542 With this option on every unmap_single operation will 1543 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed 1544 to batching them for performance. 1545 sp_off [Default Off] 1546 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 1547 has the capability. With this option, super page will 1548 not be supported. 1549 ecs_off [Default Off] 1550 By default, extended context tables will be supported if 1551 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the 1552 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With 1553 this option set, extended tables will not be used even 1554 on hardware which claims to support them. 1555 1556 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 1557 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 1558 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 1559 1560 intel_pstate= [X86] 1561 disable 1562 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 1563 scaling driver for the supported processors 1564 force 1565 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 1566 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 1567 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 1568 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 1569 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 1570 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 1571 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 1572 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 1573 no_hwp 1574 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 1575 if available. 1576 hwp_only 1577 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 1578 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 1579 support_acpi_ppc 1580 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 1581 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 1582 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 1583 then this feature is turned on by default. 1584 1585 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 1586 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 1587 off disable Interrupt Remapping 1588 nosid disable Source ID checking 1589 no_x2apic_optout 1590 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 1591 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 1592 1593 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 1594 strict regions from userspace. 1595 relaxed 1596 1597 iommu= [x86] 1598 off 1599 force 1600 noforce 1601 biomerge 1602 panic 1603 nopanic 1604 merge 1605 nomerge 1606 forcesac 1607 soft 1608 pt [x86, IA-64] 1609 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 1610 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 1611 1612 1613 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems 1614 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 1615 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 1616 1617 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 1618 0x80 1619 Standard port 0x80 based delay 1620 0xed 1621 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 1622 udelay 1623 Simple two microseconds delay 1624 none 1625 No delay 1626 1627 ip= [IP_PNP] 1628 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 1629 1630 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 1631 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 1632 1633 irqfixup [HW] 1634 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1635 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1636 firmware running. 1637 1638 irqpoll [HW] 1639 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1640 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 1641 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1642 firmware running. 1643 1644 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 1645 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 1646 1647 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler. 1648 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 1649 1650 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs 1651 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 1652 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an 1653 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 1654 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 1655 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 1656 1657 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The 1658 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all 1659 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and 1660 suboptimal load balancer performance. 1661 1662 iucv= [HW,NET] 1663 1664 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64] 1665 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 1666 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1667 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 1668 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 1669 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 1670 1671 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64] 1672 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 1673 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1674 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to 1675 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 1676 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 1677 1678 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64] 1679 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 1680 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1681 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 1682 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 1683 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 1684 1685 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 1686 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt. 1687 1688 nokaslr [KNL] 1689 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 1690 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 1691 Layout Randomization). 1692 1693 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 1694 1695 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 1696 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror" 1697 This parameter 1698 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel 1699 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is 1700 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The 1701 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable 1702 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both 1703 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will 1704 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number 1705 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the 1706 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved 1707 by the page migration subsystem. This means that 1708 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone. 1709 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still 1710 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 1711 zone if it does not. 1712 1713 Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]), 1714 you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror" 1715 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 1716 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 1717 for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive, 1718 so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same 1719 time. 1720 1721 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 1722 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 1723 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 1724 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 1725 optional and is the number seconds in between 1726 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 1727 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 1728 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 1729 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 1730 the kernel debugger. 1731 1732 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 1733 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 1734 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 1735 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 1736 keyboard only format: kbd 1737 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 1738 Optional Kernel mode setting: 1739 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 1740 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 1741 1742 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 1743 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 1744 1745 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address. 1746 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 1747 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 1748 1749 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 1750 Valid arguments: on, off 1751 Default: on 1752 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 1753 the default is off. 1754 1755 kmemcheck= [X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode 1756 Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2 1757 kmemcheck=0 (disabled) 1758 kmemcheck=1 (enabled) 1759 kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode) 1760 Default: 2 (one-shot mode) 1761 1762 kstack=N [X86] Print N words from the kernel stack 1763 in oops dumps. 1764 1765 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 1766 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 1767 1768 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit 1769 KVM MMU at runtime. 1770 Default is 0 (off) 1771 1772 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 1773 Default is 1 (enabled) 1774 1775 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 1776 for all guests. 1777 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 1778 1779 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 1780 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 1781 Default is 1 (enabled) 1782 1783 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 1784 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states 1785 Default is 0 (disabled) 1786 1787 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 1788 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 1789 Default is 1 (enabled) 1790 1791 kvm-intel.nested= 1792 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 1793 Default is 0 (disabled) 1794 1795 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 1796 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 1797 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 1798 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 1799 1800 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 1801 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 1802 Default is 1 (enabled) 1803 1804 l2cr= [PPC] 1805 1806 l3cr= [PPC] 1807 1808 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 1809 disabled it. 1810 1811 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline 1812 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 1813 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 1814 1815 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 1816 in C2 power state. 1817 1818 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 1819 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 1820 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 1821 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 1822 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 1823 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 1824 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 1825 1826 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 1827 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 1828 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 1829 1830 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 1831 when set. 1832 Format: <int> 1833 1834 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma 1835 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is 1836 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers 1837 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches 1838 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If 1839 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE 1840 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the 1841 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices. 1842 1843 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 1844 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 1845 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 1846 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 1847 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 1848 host link and device attached to it. 1849 1850 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 1851 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed. 1852 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 1853 The following configurations can be forced. 1854 1855 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 1856 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 1857 1858 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 1859 1860 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 1861 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 1862 allowed. 1863 1864 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 1865 1866 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM. 1867 1868 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft 1869 and both resets. 1870 1871 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during 1872 hot-unplug link recovery 1873 1874 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data. 1875 1876 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support 1877 1878 * disable: Disable this device. 1879 1880 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 1881 the same attribute, the last one is used. 1882 1883 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 1884 1885 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy 1886 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 1887 1888 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 1889 Format: <integer> 1890 1891 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 1892 Format: <integer> 1893 1894 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 1895 Format: <integer> 1896 1897 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 1898 Format: <integer> 1899 1900 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 1901 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 1902 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 1903 number of online CPUs. 1904 1905 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 1906 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 1907 1908 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 1909 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 1910 1911 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 1912 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 1913 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 1914 1915 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 1916 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 1917 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 1918 mode during the locktorture test. 1919 1920 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 1921 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 1922 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 1923 1924 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 1925 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 1926 1927 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 1928 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 1929 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 1930 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 1931 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 1932 transition abruptly to and from idle. 1933 1934 locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT] 1935 Start locktorture running at boot time. 1936 1937 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 1938 Specify the locking implementation to test. 1939 1940 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 1941 Enable additional printk() statements. 1942 1943 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 1944 Format: <irq> 1945 1946 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 1947 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 1948 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 1949 loglevels are defined as follows: 1950 1951 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 1952 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 1953 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 1954 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 1955 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 1956 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 1957 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 1958 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 1959 1960 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 1961 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 1962 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 1963 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 1964 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 1965 that allows to increase the default size depending on 1966 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 1967 1968 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 1969 This may be used to provide more screen space for 1970 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 1971 kernel boot problems. 1972 1973 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 1974 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 1975 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 1976 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 1977 specified in addition to the ports) causes 1978 attached printers to be reset. Using 1979 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 1980 to associate lp devices with, starting with 1981 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 1982 that lp device, or a parport name such as 1983 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 1984 port specification list means that device IDs 1985 from each port should be examined, to see if 1986 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 1987 so, the driver will manage that printer. 1988 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 1989 1990 lpj=n [KNL] 1991 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 1992 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 1993 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 1994 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 1995 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 1996 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 1997 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 1998 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 1999 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2000 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2001 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2002 hardware. 2003 2004 ltpc= [NET] 2005 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2006 2007 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2008 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2009 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb 2010 2011 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different 2012 yeeloong laptop. 2013 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2014 2015 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater 2016 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2017 2018 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2019 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2020 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2021 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2022 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2023 only takes effect during system bootup. 2024 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2025 which also disables the IO APIC. 2026 2027 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2028 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2029 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2030 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2031 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2032 /dev/loop-control interface. 2033 2034 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2035 2036 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt 2037 2038 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2039 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2040 2041 mdacon= [MDA] 2042 Format: <first>,<last> 2043 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2044 2045 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2046 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able 2047 to see the whole system memory or for test. 2048 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 2049 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 2050 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 2051 belonging to unused RAM. 2052 2053 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 2054 memory. 2055 2056 memchunk=nn[KMG] 2057 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 2058 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 2059 2060 memhp_default_state=online/offline 2061 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 2062 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 2063 set according to the 2064 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 2065 option. 2066 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt. 2067 2068 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 2069 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 2070 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 2071 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 2072 option description. 2073 2074 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 2075 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 2076 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 2077 2078 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 2079 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 2080 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 2081 2082 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 2083 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 2084 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 2085 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 2086 memmap=64K$0x18690000 2087 or 2088 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 2089 2090 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 2091 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 2092 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 2093 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 2094 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 2095 2096 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 2097 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 2098 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 2099 Setting this option will scan the memory 2100 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 2101 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 2102 from using the memory being corrupted. 2103 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 2104 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 2105 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 2106 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 2107 2108 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 2109 By default it checks for corruption in the low 2110 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 2111 use. Use this parameter to scan for 2112 corruption in more or less memory. 2113 2114 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 2115 By default it checks for corruption every 60 2116 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 2117 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 2118 2119 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest 2120 Format: <integer> 2121 default : 0 <disable> 2122 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 2123 performed. Each pass selects another test 2124 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 2125 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 2126 memory contents and reserves bad memory 2127 regions that are detected. 2128 2129 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 2130 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt. 2131 2132 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 2133 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 2134 platforms. 2135 2136 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 2137 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 2138 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 2139 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 2140 2141 mga= [HW,DRM] 2142 2143 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this 2144 physical address is ignored. 2145 2146 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 2147 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 2148 Default: "0tb" 2149 MINI2440 configuration specification: 2150 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 2151 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 2152 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 2153 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 2154 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 2155 unconfigured. 2156 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 2157 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 2158 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 2159 VGA shield. 2160 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 2161 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 2162 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 2163 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 2164 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 2165 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 2166 2167 mminit_loglevel= 2168 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 2169 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 2170 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 2171 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 2172 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 2173 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 2174 2175 module.sig_enforce 2176 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 2177 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 2178 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 2179 is always true, so this option does nothing. 2180 2181 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 2182 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 2183 2184 mousedev.tap_time= 2185 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 2186 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 2187 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 2188 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 2189 Format: <msecs> 2190 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 2191 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2192 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 2193 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2194 2195 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter 2196 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the 2197 amount of memory used for migratable allocations. 2198 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified, 2199 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified 2200 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own 2201 is specified, the administrator must be careful 2202 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 2203 is not too small. 2204 2205 movable_node [KNL,X86] Boot-time switch to enable the effects 2206 of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details. 2207 2208 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 2209 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 2210 2211 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 2212 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 2213 2214 mtdparts= [MTD] 2215 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c. 2216 2217 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 2218 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 2219 at a time. 2220 2221 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 2222 2223 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 2224 2225 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 2226 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 2227 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 2228 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 2229 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 2230 2231 mtdset= [ARM] 2232 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 2233 2234 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c 2235 2236 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 2237 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 2238 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 2239 2240 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2241 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 2242 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 2243 2244 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2245 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 2246 Default is 1. 2247 Large value could prevent small alignment from 2248 using up MTRRs. 2249 2250 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 2251 Format: <integer> 2252 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 2253 Default : 1 2254 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 2255 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 2256 2257 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 2258 2259 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 2260 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 2261 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 2262 something different and driver-specific. 2263 This usage is only documented in each driver source 2264 file if at all. 2265 2266 nf_conntrack.acct= 2267 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 2268 0 to disable accounting 2269 1 to enable accounting 2270 Default value is 0. 2271 2272 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 2273 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2274 2275 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 2276 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2277 2278 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 2279 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2280 2281 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 2282 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 2283 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 2284 requests. 2285 2286 nfs.callback_tcpport= 2287 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 2288 channel should listen. 2289 2290 nfs.cache_getent= 2291 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 2292 to update the NFS client cache entries. 2293 2294 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 2295 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 2296 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 2297 2298 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 2299 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 2300 entries. 2301 2302 nfs.enable_ino64= 2303 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 2304 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 2305 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 2306 of returning the full 64-bit number. 2307 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 2308 2309 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 2310 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 2311 slots the client will assign to the callback 2312 channel. This determines the maximum number of 2313 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 2314 a particular server. 2315 2316 nfs.max_session_slots= 2317 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 2318 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 2319 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 2320 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 2321 Note that there is little point in setting this 2322 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 2323 2324 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2325 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 2326 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 2327 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 2328 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 2329 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 2330 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 2331 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 2332 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 2333 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 2334 back to using the idmapper. 2335 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 2336 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 2337 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 2338 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 2339 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 2340 UUID that is generated at system install time. 2341 2342 nfs.send_implementation_id = 2343 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 2344 information in exchange_id requests. 2345 If zero, no implementation identification information 2346 will be sent. 2347 The default is to send the implementation identification 2348 information. 2349 2350 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 2351 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 2352 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 2353 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 2354 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 2355 after the locks are lost. 2356 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 2357 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 2358 parameter to '1'. 2359 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 2360 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 2361 2362 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 2363 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 2364 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 2365 2366 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 2367 whatever value is the default set by the layout 2368 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 2369 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 2370 2371 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2372 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 2373 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 2374 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 2375 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 2376 migration from NFSv2/v3. 2377 2378 objlayoutdriver.osd_login_prog= 2379 [NFS] [OBJLAYOUT] sets the pathname to the program which 2380 is used to automatically discover and login into new 2381 osd-targets. Please see: 2382 Documentation/filesystems/pnfs.txt for more explanations 2383 2384 nmi_debug= [KNL,AVR32,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 2385 when a NMI is triggered. 2386 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 2387 2388 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 2389 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 2390 Valid num: 0 or 1 2391 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 2392 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 2393 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 2394 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite 2395 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 2396 please see 'nowatchdog'. 2397 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 2398 need the box quickly up again. 2399 2400 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 2401 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 2402 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 2403 waits 4 seconds. 2404 2405 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 2406 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 2407 is present. 2408 2409 no_console_suspend 2410 [HW] Never suspend the console 2411 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 2412 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 2413 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 2414 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 2415 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 2416 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 2417 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 2418 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 2419 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 2420 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 2421 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 2422 turn on/off it dynamically. 2423 2424 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 2425 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 2426 but will impact performance. 2427 2428 noalign [KNL,ARM] 2429 2430 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 2431 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 2432 2433 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 2434 2435 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem 2436 on "Classic" PPC cores. 2437 2438 nocache [ARM] 2439 2440 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction 2441 2442 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting 2443 2444 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 2445 2446 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 2447 2448 noexec [IA-64] 2449 2450 noexec [X86] 2451 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels. 2452 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 2453 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings 2454 2455 nosmap [X86] 2456 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 2457 even if it is supported by processor. 2458 2459 nosmep [X86] 2460 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 2461 even if it is supported by processor. 2462 2463 noexec32 [X86-64] 2464 This affects only 32-bit executables. 2465 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 2466 read doesn't imply executable mappings 2467 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 2468 read implies executable mappings 2469 2470 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 2471 2472 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 2473 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 2474 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 2475 2476 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 2477 2478 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 2479 Equivalent to smt=1. 2480 2481 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 2482 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 2483 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 2484 2485 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 2486 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 2487 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 2488 performance of saving the states is degraded because 2489 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 2490 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 2491 2492 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 2493 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 2494 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 2495 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 2496 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 2497 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 2498 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 2499 2500 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or 2501 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to 2502 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger. 2503 2504 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 2505 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 2506 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 2507 2508 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 2509 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 2510 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 2511 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 2512 in certain environments such as networked servers or 2513 real-time systems. 2514 2515 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 2516 2517 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 2518 Valid arguments: on, off 2519 Default: on 2520 2521 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT] 2522 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2523 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 2524 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 2525 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 2526 the range to maintain the timekeeping. 2527 The CPUs in this range must also be included in the 2528 rcu_nocbs= set. 2529 2530 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 2531 2532 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 2533 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 2534 2535 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 2536 broken timer IRQ sources. 2537 2538 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 2539 2540 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 2541 initial RAM disk. 2542 2543 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 2544 remapping. 2545 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 2546 2547 nointroute [IA-64] 2548 2549 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 2550 2551 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 2552 2553 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 2554 2555 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 2556 fault handling. 2557 2558 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. 2559 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler 2560 behaviour 2561 2562 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 2563 2564 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 2565 2566 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel 2567 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx 2568 2569 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 2570 2571 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 2572 2573 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 2574 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 2575 2576 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 2577 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 2578 irq. 2579 2580 nomodule Disable module load 2581 2582 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 2583 pagetables) support. 2584 2585 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 2586 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 2587 2588 noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops 2589 2590 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 2591 with UP alternatives 2592 2593 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and 2594 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported 2595 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still 2596 available to user space applications. 2597 2598 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 2599 space. 2600 2601 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 2602 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 2603 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 2604 2605 nosbagart [IA-64] 2606 2607 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. 2608 2609 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 2610 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 2611 2612 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 2613 2614 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 2615 2616 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter 2617 2618 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 2619 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 2620 2621 nowb [ARM] 2622 2623 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 2624 2625 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 2626 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 2627 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 2628 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 2629 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 2630 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 2631 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 2632 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 2633 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 2634 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 2635 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 2636 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 2637 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 2638 2639 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 2640 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 2641 SAL PALO. 2642 2643 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2644 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 2645 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 2646 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 2647 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 2648 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 2649 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 2650 hot plugging. 2651 2652 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 2653 2654 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing. 2655 Allowed values are enable and disable 2656 2657 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 2658 one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified 2659 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 2660 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details. 2661 2662 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 2663 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more 2664 info. 2665 2666 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 2667 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 2668 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 2669 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 2670 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 2671 interrupts *may* be lost! 2672 2673 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 2674 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 2675 For example, to override I2C bus2: 2676 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 2677 2678 oprofile.timer= [HW] 2679 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters 2680 2681 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type 2682 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile 2683 userland or if you want common events. 2684 Format: { arch_perfmon } 2685 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural 2686 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the 2687 CPU specific event set. 2688 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI 2689 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer 2690 for generic hr timer mode) 2691 2692 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 2693 process, but there is a small probability of 2694 deadlocking the machine. 2695 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 2696 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 2697 2698 OSS [HW,OSS] 2699 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt 2700 2701 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 2702 Storage of the information about who allocated 2703 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 2704 we can turn it on. 2705 on: enable the feature 2706 2707 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 2708 poisoning on the buddy allocator. 2709 off: turn off poisoning 2710 on: turn on poisoning 2711 2712 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 2713 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 2714 timeout = 0: wait forever 2715 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 2716 Format: <timeout> 2717 2718 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 2719 on a WARN(). 2720 2721 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 2722 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 2723 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 2724 succeeds in any situation. 2725 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 2726 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 2727 kernel more unstable. 2728 2729 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 2730 connected to, default is 0. 2731 Format: <parport#> 2732 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 2733 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 2734 Format: <mode> 2735 2736 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 2737 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 2738 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 2739 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 2740 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 2741 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 2742 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 2743 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 2744 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 2745 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 2746 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 2747 are specified on the command line, starting 2748 with parport0. 2749 2750 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 2751 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 2752 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 2753 computer where firmware has no options for setting 2754 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 2755 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 2756 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 2757 2758 pause_on_oops= 2759 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 2760 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 2761 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 2762 2763 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 2764 2765 pcd. [PARIDE] 2766 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 2767 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 2768 2769 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options: 2770 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel 2771 changes anything 2772 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 2773 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 2774 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 2775 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 2776 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 2777 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 2778 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 2779 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 2780 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 2781 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 2782 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 2783 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 2784 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 2785 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 2786 bus number. The config space is then accessed 2787 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 2788 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 2789 on the configuration access mechanisms. 2790 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 2791 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 2792 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 2793 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 2794 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 2795 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 2796 Configuration 2797 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 2798 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 2799 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 2800 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 2801 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 2802 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 2803 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 2804 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 2805 should never be necessary. 2806 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 2807 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 2808 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 2809 when the system masks IRQs. 2810 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 2811 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 2812 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 2813 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 2814 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 2815 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 2816 on several machines and they hang the machine 2817 when used, but on other computers it's the only 2818 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 2819 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 2820 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 2821 motherboard. 2822 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 2823 Use with caution as certain devices share 2824 address decoders between ROMs and other 2825 resources. 2826 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 2827 expansion ROMs that do not already have 2828 BIOS assigned address ranges. 2829 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 2830 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 2831 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 2832 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 2833 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 2834 this way. 2835 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 2836 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 2837 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 2838 F0000h-100000h range. 2839 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 2840 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 2841 secondary buses and you want to tell it 2842 explicitly which ones they are. 2843 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 2844 numbers ourselves, overriding 2845 whatever the firmware may have done. 2846 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 2847 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 2848 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 2849 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 2850 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 2851 IRQ routing is enabled. 2852 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 2853 or for PCI scanning. 2854 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 2855 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 2856 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 2857 please report a bug. 2858 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 2859 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 2860 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 2861 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 2862 so this option is a temporary workaround 2863 for broken drivers that don't call it. 2864 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 2865 handle more pci cards 2866 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 2867 This might help on some broken boards which 2868 machine check when some devices' config space 2869 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 2870 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 2871 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 2872 This sorting is done to get a device 2873 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 2874 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 2875 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 2876 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 2877 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 2878 supported by all devices below the root complex. 2879 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 2880 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 2881 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 2882 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 2883 or bus can support) for best performance. 2884 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 2885 every device is guaranteed to support. This 2886 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 2887 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 2888 reduced performance. This also guarantees 2889 that hot-added devices will work. 2890 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 2891 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 2892 The default value is 256 bytes. 2893 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 2894 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 2895 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 2896 resource_alignment= 2897 Format: 2898 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...] 2899 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\ 2900 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...] 2901 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 2902 aligned memory resources. 2903 If <order of align> is not specified, 2904 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 2905 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource 2906 windows need to be expanded. 2907 To specify the alignment for several 2908 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 2909 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 2910 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 2911 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 2912 end-to-end CRC checking). 2913 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 2914 the default. 2915 off: Turn ECRC off 2916 on: Turn ECRC on. 2917 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 2918 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 2919 Default size is 256 bytes. 2920 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 2921 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window. 2922 Default size is 2 megabytes. 2923 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 2924 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 2925 Default is 1. 2926 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 2927 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 2928 accommodate resources required by all child 2929 devices. 2930 off: Turn realloc off 2931 on: Turn realloc on 2932 realloc same as realloc=on 2933 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 2934 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 2935 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 2936 port. 2937 2938 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 2939 Management. 2940 off Disable ASPM. 2941 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 2942 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 2943 2944 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options: 2945 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this 2946 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services). 2947 2948 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling: 2949 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services 2950 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use 2951 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS. 2952 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports 2953 unconditionally. 2954 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe 2955 ports driver. 2956 2957 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 2958 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 2959 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 2960 2961 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 2962 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 2963 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 2964 2965 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 2966 2967 pd_ignore_unused 2968 [PM] 2969 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 2970 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 2971 for debug and development, but should not be 2972 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 2973 2974 pd. [PARIDE] 2975 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 2976 2977 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 2978 boot time. 2979 Format: { 0 | 1 } 2980 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 2981 2982 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 2983 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 2984 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 2985 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 2986 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 2987 and performance comparison. 2988 2989 pf. [PARIDE] 2990 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 2991 2992 pg. [PARIDE] 2993 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 2994 2995 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 2996 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt. 2997 2998 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 2999 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 3000 See also Documentation/parport.txt. 3001 3002 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 3003 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 3004 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 3005 3006 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 3007 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 3008 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 3009 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 3010 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 3011 possible settings and some assignment information. 3012 3013 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 3014 { off } 3015 3016 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 3017 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 3018 3019 pnp_reserve_irq= 3020 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 3021 3022 pnp_reserve_dma= 3023 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 3024 3025 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 3026 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 3027 3028 pnp_reserve_mem= 3029 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 3030 autoconfiguration. 3031 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 3032 3033 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 3034 Default is 21. 3035 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 3036 may be specified. 3037 Format: <port>,<port>.... 3038 3039 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 3040 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 3041 platform machine description specific power_save 3042 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 3043 execution priority. 3044 3045 ppc_strict_facility_enable 3046 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 3047 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 3048 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 3049 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 3050 3051 print-fatal-signals= 3052 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 3053 3054 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 3055 related application anomalies: too many signals, 3056 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 3057 coredump - etc. 3058 3059 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 3060 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 3061 3062 default: off. 3063 3064 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 3065 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 3066 panics 3067 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3068 default: disabled 3069 3070 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 3071 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 3072 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 3073 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 3074 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 3075 Default: ratelimit 3076 3077 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 3078 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3079 3080 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 3081 Limit processor to maximum C-state 3082 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 3083 3084 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 3085 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 3086 instead using the legacy FADT method 3087 3088 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 3089 Format: [schedule,]<number> 3090 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 3091 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 3092 statistical time based profiling. 3093 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 3094 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 3095 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 3096 3097 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk 3098 before loading. 3099 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 3100 3101 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 3102 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 3103 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 3104 per second. 3105 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 3106 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 3107 (0 = never). 3108 psmouse.resolution= 3109 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 3110 psmouse.smartscroll= 3111 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 3112 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 3113 3114 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 3115 3116 pt. [PARIDE] 3117 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3118 3119 pty.legacy_count= 3120 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 3121 default number. 3122 3123 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 3124 3125 r128= [HW,DRM] 3126 3127 raid= [HW,RAID] 3128 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 3129 3130 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 3131 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 3132 3133 rcu_nocbs= [KNL] 3134 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3135 3136 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set 3137 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs. 3138 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will 3139 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for 3140 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" 3141 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" 3142 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the 3143 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and 3144 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy 3145 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 3146 3147 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 3148 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 3149 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 3150 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 3151 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 3152 This improves the real-time response for the 3153 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 3154 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 3155 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 3156 periodically wake up to do the polling. 3157 3158 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 3159 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 3160 process in one batch. 3161 3162 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 3163 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 3164 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 3165 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 3166 3167 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 3168 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3169 RCU grace-period cleanup. This only has effect 3170 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP is set. 3171 3172 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 3173 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3174 RCU grace-period initialization. This only has 3175 effect when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT 3176 is set. 3177 3178 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 3179 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3180 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 3181 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 3182 the rcu_node combining tree. This only has effect 3183 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT is set. 3184 3185 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 3186 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 3187 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 3188 possibly be useful for architectures having high 3189 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 3190 3191 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 3192 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 3193 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 3194 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 3195 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 3196 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 3197 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 3198 3199 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 3200 Set required age in jiffies for a 3201 given grace period before RCU starts 3202 soliciting quiescent-state help from 3203 rcu_note_context_switch(). 3204 3205 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 3206 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 3207 first attempt to force quiescent states. 3208 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 3209 and maximum value is HZ. 3210 3211 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 3212 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 3213 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 3214 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 3215 3216 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 3217 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 3218 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 3219 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 3220 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 3221 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 3222 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 3223 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 3224 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 3225 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 3226 3227 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL] 3228 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which 3229 defaults to the square root of the number of 3230 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead 3231 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases 3232 that same overhead on each group's leader. 3233 3234 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 3235 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 3236 batch limiting is disabled. 3237 3238 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 3239 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 3240 batch limiting is re-enabled. 3241 3242 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL] 3243 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 3244 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 3245 3246 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL] 3247 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 3248 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 3249 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can 3250 prove do nothing more than free memory. 3251 3252 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL] 3253 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 3254 grace-period primitives. 3255 3256 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL] 3257 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 3258 this parameter is to delay the start of the 3259 test until boot completes in order to avoid 3260 interference. 3261 3262 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL] 3263 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 3264 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 3265 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 3266 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 3267 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 3268 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 3269 a single reader. 3270 3271 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL] 3272 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 3273 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders. 3274 N, where N is the number of CPUs 3275 3276 rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT] 3277 Start rcuperf running at boot time. 3278 3279 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL] 3280 Shut the system down after performance tests 3281 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 3282 testing. 3283 3284 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL] 3285 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 3286 3287 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL] 3288 Enable additional printk() statements. 3289 3290 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL] 3291 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive 3292 callback-flood tests. 3293 3294 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL] 3295 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive 3296 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood 3297 test. 3298 3299 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL] 3300 Set the number of bursts making up a given 3301 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to 3302 disable callback-flood testing. 3303 3304 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL] 3305 Set the number of callbacks to be registered 3306 in a given burst of a callback-flood test. 3307 3308 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 3309 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 3310 in microseconds. 3311 3312 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 3313 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 3314 in microseconds. 3315 3316 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 3317 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 3318 in seconds. 3319 3320 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 3321 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 3322 primitives, if available. 3323 3324 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 3325 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 3326 3327 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 3328 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 3329 update-side primitives, if available. 3330 3331 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 3332 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 3333 update-side primitives, if available. If all 3334 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 3335 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 3336 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 3337 they are all non-zero. 3338 3339 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 3340 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 3341 3342 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 3343 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 3344 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 3345 test, hence the "fake". 3346 3347 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 3348 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 3349 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 3350 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 3351 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 3352 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 3353 3354 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 3355 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 3356 3357 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 3358 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 3359 3360 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 3361 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 3362 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 3363 3364 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 3365 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 3366 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 3367 during the rcutorture test. 3368 3369 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 3370 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 3371 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 3372 3373 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 3374 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 3375 warnings, zero to disable. 3376 3377 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 3378 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 3379 3380 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 3381 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 3382 3383 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 3384 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 3385 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 3386 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 3387 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 3388 3389 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 3390 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 3391 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 3392 under test support RCU priority boosting. 3393 3394 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 3395 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 3396 3397 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 3398 Interval (s) between each boost test. 3399 3400 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 3401 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 3402 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 3403 3404 rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT] 3405 Start rcutorture running at boot time. 3406 3407 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 3408 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 3409 3410 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 3411 Enable additional printk() statements. 3412 3413 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 3414 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 3415 3416 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 3417 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 3418 3419 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 3420 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 3421 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 3422 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 3423 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 3424 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 3425 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 3426 3427 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 3428 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 3429 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 3430 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 3431 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 3432 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 3433 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 3434 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 3435 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 3436 3437 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 3438 Once boot has completed (that is, after 3439 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 3440 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 3441 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 3442 3443 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 3444 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning 3445 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal 3446 to zero. 3447 3448 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 3449 Run the RCU early boot self tests 3450 3451 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL] 3452 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests 3453 3454 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL] 3455 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests 3456 3457 rdinit= [KNL] 3458 Format: <full_path> 3459 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 3460 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 3461 3462 reboot= [KNL] 3463 Format (x86 or x86_64): 3464 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \ 3465 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 3466 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 3467 [[,]f[orce] 3468 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio, 3469 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 3470 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 3471 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 3472 to be used for rebooting. 3473 3474 relax_domain_level= 3475 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 3476 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt. 3477 3478 relative_sleep_states= 3479 [SUSPEND] Use sleep state labeling where the deepest 3480 state available other than hibernation is always "mem". 3481 Format: { "0" | "1" } 3482 0 -- Traditional sleep state labels. 3483 1 -- Relative sleep state labels. 3484 3485 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area 3486 3487 reservetop= [X86-32] 3488 Format: nn[KMG] 3489 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 3490 address space. 3491 3492 reservelow= [X86] 3493 Format: nn[K] 3494 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at 3495 the bottom of the address space. 3496 3497 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 3498 during initialization. 3499 3500 resume= [SWSUSP] 3501 Specify the partition device for software suspend 3502 Format: 3503 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 3504 3505 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 3506 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 3507 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 3508 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 3509 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt 3510 3511 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 3512 read the resume files 3513 3514 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 3515 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 3516 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 3517 3518 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 3519 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 3520 present during boot. 3521 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 3522 no Disable hibernation and resume. 3523 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 3524 (that will set all pages holding image data 3525 during restoration read-only). 3526 3527 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 3528 3529 rfkill.default_state= 3530 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 3531 etc. communication is blocked by default. 3532 1 Unblocked. 3533 3534 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 3535 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 3536 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 3537 blocked and the previous configuration. 3538 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 3539 blocked and everything unblocked. 3540 3541 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 3542 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 3543 3544 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 3545 3546 rodata= [KNL] 3547 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 3548 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 3549 3550 rockchip.usb_uart 3551 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 3552 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 3553 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 3554 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 3555 3556 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 3557 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 3558 3559 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 3560 mount the root filesystem 3561 3562 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 3563 3564 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 3565 3566 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 3567 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 3568 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 3569 3570 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 3571 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 3572 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 3573 managed by CMA. 3574 3575 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 3576 3577 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 3578 3579 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 3580 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 3581 strict 3582 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 3583 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 3584 which is faster. 3585 3586 sa1100ir [NET] 3587 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 3588 3589 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter 3590 3591 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 3592 3593 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 3594 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 3595 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 3596 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 3597 3598 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 3599 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 3600 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 3601 Format: { "0" | "1" } 3602 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 3603 1 -- enable. 3604 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 3605 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 3606 3607 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot. 3608 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first 3609 security module asking for security registration will be 3610 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated 3611 as if no module has been chosen. 3612 3613 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 3614 Format: { "0" | "1" } 3615 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 3616 0 -- disable. 3617 1 -- enable. 3618 Default value is set via kernel config option. 3619 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used 3620 later to disable prior to initial policy load. 3621 3622 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 3623 Format: { "0" | "1" } 3624 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 3625 0 -- disable. 3626 1 -- enable. 3627 Default value is set via kernel config option. 3628 3629 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 3630 3631 shapers= [NET] 3632 Maximal number of shapers. 3633 3634 show_msr= [x86] show boot-time MSR settings 3635 Format: { <integer> } 3636 Show boot-time (BIOS-initialized) MSR settings. 3637 The parameter means the number of CPUs to show, 3638 for example 1 means boot CPU only. 3639 3640 simeth= [IA-64] 3641 simscsi= 3642 3643 slram= [HW,MTD] 3644 3645 slab_nomerge [MM] 3646 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 3647 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 3648 allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable 3649 merging on their own. 3650 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 3651 3652 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 3653 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 3654 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 3655 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 3656 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 3657 3658 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB] 3659 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 3660 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 3661 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 3662 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 3663 last alloc / free. For more information see 3664 Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 3665 3666 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 3667 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 3668 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 3669 fragmentation. For more information see 3670 Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 3671 3672 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 3673 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 3674 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 3675 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 3676 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 3677 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 3678 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 3679 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 3680 3681 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 3682 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 3683 lower than slub_max_order. 3684 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 3685 3686 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 3687 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 3688 See slab_nomerge for more information. 3689 3690 smart2= [HW] 3691 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 3692 3693 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 3694 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 3695 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 3696 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 3697 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 3698 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 3699 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 3700 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 3701 1: Fast pin select (default) 3702 2: ATC IRMode 3703 3704 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 3705 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 3706 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 3707 actual hardware limit. 3708 Format: <integer> 3709 Default: -1 (no limit) 3710 3711 softlockup_panic= 3712 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 3713 Format: <integer> 3714 3715 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 3716 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 3717 backtraces on all cpus. 3718 Format: <integer> 3719 3720 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 3721 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt 3722 3723 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 3724 spia_fio_base= 3725 spia_pedr= 3726 spia_peddr= 3727 3728 stacktrace [FTRACE] 3729 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 3730 3731 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 3732 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 3733 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 3734 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 3735 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 3736 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 3737 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 3738 3739 sti= [PARISC,HW] 3740 Format: <num> 3741 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 3742 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 3743 as the initial boot-console. 3744 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 3745 3746 sti_font= [HW] 3747 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 3748 3749 stifb= [HW] 3750 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 3751 3752 sunrpc.min_resvport= 3753 sunrpc.max_resvport= 3754 [NFS,SUNRPC] 3755 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 3756 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 3757 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 3758 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 3759 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 3760 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 3761 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 3762 maximum port values. 3763 3764 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 3765 [NFS,SUNRPC] 3766 Limit the number of requests that the server will 3767 process in parallel from a single connection. 3768 The default value is 0 (no limit). 3769 3770 sunrpc.pool_mode= 3771 [NFS] 3772 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 3773 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 3774 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 3775 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 3776 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 3777 NFS server is running. 3778 3779 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 3780 automatically using heuristics 3781 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 3782 percpu one pool for each CPU 3783 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 3784 to global on non-NUMA machines) 3785 3786 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 3787 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 3788 [NFS,SUNRPC] 3789 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 3790 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 3791 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 3792 improve throughput, but will also increase the 3793 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 3794 3795 suspend.pm_test_delay= 3796 [SUSPEND] 3797 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 3798 mode before resuming the system (see 3799 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 3800 is set. Default value is 5. 3801 3802 swapaccount=[0|1] 3803 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 3804 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 3805 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt) 3806 3807 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 3808 Format: { <int> | force } 3809 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 3810 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 3811 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 3812 3813 switches= [HW,M68k] 3814 3815 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 3816 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 3817 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 3818 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 3819 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 3820 in older udev will not work anymore. 3821 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 3822 the kernel configuration. 3823 3824 sysrq_always_enabled 3825 [KNL] 3826 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 3827 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 3828 Useful for debugging. 3829 3830 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 3831 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 3832 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 3833 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 3834 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt 3835 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 3836 3837 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 3838 3839 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N] 3840 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 3841 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 3842 as the system sleep state during system startup with 3843 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 3844 The system is woken from this state using a 3845 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 3846 3847 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 3848 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 3849 3850 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 3851 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 3852 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 3853 3854 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 3855 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 3856 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 3857 3858 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 3859 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 3860 critical and hot trip points. 3861 3862 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 3863 1: disable ACPI thermal control 3864 3865 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 3866 -1: disable all passive trip points 3867 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 3868 value 3869 3870 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 3871 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 3872 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 3873 0: no polling (default) 3874 3875 threadirqs [KNL] 3876 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 3877 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 3878 3879 tmem [KNL,XEN] 3880 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in. 3881 3882 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 3883 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache 3884 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor. 3885 3886 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 3887 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap 3888 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled 3889 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled. 3890 3891 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 3892 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages 3893 to the hypervisor. 3894 3895 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 3896 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately 3897 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the 3898 kernel based on different criteria. 3899 3900 topology= [S390] 3901 Format: {off | on} 3902 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 3903 topology information if the hardware supports this. 3904 The scheduler will make use of this information and 3905 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 3906 Default is on. 3907 3908 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 3909 Format: {off} 3910 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 3911 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 3912 LPAR. 3913 3914 tp720= [HW,PS2] 3915 3916 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 3917 Format: integer pcr id 3918 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 3919 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 3920 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 3921 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 3922 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 3923 are saved. 3924 3925 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 3926 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 3927 3928 trace_event=[event-list] 3929 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 3930 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 3931 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See 3932 also Documentation/trace/events.txt 3933 3934 trace_options=[option-list] 3935 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 3936 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 3937 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 3938 to echo the option name into 3939 3940 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 3941 3942 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 3943 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 3944 3945 trace_options=stacktrace 3946 3947 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options" 3948 section. 3949 3950 tp_printk[FTRACE] 3951 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 3952 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 3953 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 3954 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 3955 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 3956 3957 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 3958 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 3959 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 3960 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 3961 3962 ** CAUTION ** 3963 3964 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 3965 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 3966 the system to live lock. 3967 3968 traceoff_on_warning 3969 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 3970 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 3971 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 3972 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 3973 3974 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 3975 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 3976 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 3977 3978 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 3979 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 3980 3981 transparent_hugepage= 3982 [KNL] 3983 Format: [always|madvise|never] 3984 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 3985 with respect to transparent hugepages. 3986 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details. 3987 3988 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 3989 Format: <string> 3990 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 3991 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 3992 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 3993 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 3994 virtualized environment. 3995 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 3996 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 3997 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 3998 can add overhead. 3999 4000 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 4001 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 4002 Format: 4003 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 4004 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt 4005 4006 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 4007 happen after console_init() and before a proper 4008 console driver takes over, this boot options might 4009 help "seeing" what's going on. 4010 4011 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4012 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 4013 4014 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 4015 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 4016 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 4017 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 4018 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 4019 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 4020 reported either. 4021 4022 unknown_nmi_panic 4023 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 4024 4025 usbcore.authorized_default= 4026 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 4027 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 4028 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized) 4029 4030 usbcore.autosuspend= 4031 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 4032 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 4033 is the time required before an idle device will be 4034 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 4035 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 4036 4037 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 4038 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 4039 4040 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 4041 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 4042 (default = 65536). 4043 4044 usbcore.blinkenlights= 4045 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 4046 4047 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 4048 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 4049 scheme (default 0 = off). 4050 4051 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 4052 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 4053 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 4054 4055 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 4056 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 4057 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 4058 4059 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 4060 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 4061 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 4062 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 4063 4064 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 4065 4066 usbhid.mousepoll= 4067 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 4068 4069 usb-storage.delay_use= 4070 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 4071 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 4072 4073 usb-storage.quirks= 4074 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 4075 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 4076 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 4077 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 4078 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 4079 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 4080 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 4081 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 4082 of sense data); 4083 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 4084 bytes of sense data); 4085 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 4086 device capacity by one sector); 4087 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 4088 READ_DISC_INFO command); 4089 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 4090 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 4091 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 4092 command, uas only); 4093 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 4094 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 4095 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 4096 reported device capacity by one 4097 sector if the number is odd); 4098 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 4099 device); 4100 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 4101 command, uas only); 4102 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 4103 unlock ejectable media); 4104 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 4105 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time); 4106 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 4107 initial READ(10) command); 4108 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 4109 reported by the device); 4110 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 4111 by default); 4112 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 4113 bogus residue values); 4114 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 4115 Logical Unit); 4116 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 4117 commands, uas only); 4118 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 4119 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 4120 medium is write-protected). 4121 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 4122 even if the device claims no cache) 4123 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 4124 4125 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 4126 Format: <int> 4127 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 4128 1 - undefined instruction events 4129 2 - system calls 4130 4 - invalid data aborts 4131 8 - SIGSEGV faults 4132 16 - SIGBUS faults 4133 Example: user_debug=31 4134 4135 userpte= 4136 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 4137 4138 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 4139 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 4140 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 4141 4142 vdso= [X86,SH] 4143 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 4144 4145 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 4146 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 4147 4148 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 4149 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 4150 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 4151 4152 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 4153 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 4154 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 4155 4156 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 4157 alias for vdso32=0. 4158 4159 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 4160 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 4161 4162 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 4163 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 4164 4165 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 4166 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt. 4167 4168 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1] 4169 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 4170 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 4171 level and then send out the event to user space through 4172 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver 4173 will only send out the event without touching backlight 4174 brightness level. 4175 default: 1 4176 4177 virtio_mmio.device= 4178 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 4179 4180 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 4181 where: 4182 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 4183 like K, M and G) 4184 <baseaddr> := physical base address 4185 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 4186 request_irq()) 4187 <id> := (optional) platform device id 4188 example: 4189 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 4190 4191 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 4192 4193 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 4194 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and 4195 Documentation/svga.txt. 4196 Use vga=ask for menu. 4197 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 4198 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 4199 4200 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 4201 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 4202 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 4203 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 4204 mapped kernel RAM. 4205 4206 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 4207 Format: <command> 4208 4209 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 4210 Format: <command> 4211 4212 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 4213 Format: <command> 4214 4215 vsyscall= [X86-64] 4216 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 4217 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 4218 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 4219 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 4220 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 4221 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 4222 4223 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 4224 emulated reasonably safely. 4225 4226 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions. 4227 This is a little bit faster than trapping 4228 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work 4229 better than they would in emulation mode. 4230 It also makes exploits much easier to write. 4231 4232 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 4233 them quite hard to use for exploits but 4234 might break your system. 4235 4236 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 4237 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 4238 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 4239 4240 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 4241 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 4242 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 4243 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 4244 4245 vt.default_blu= [VT] 4246 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 4247 Change the default blue palette of the console. 4248 This is a 16-member array composed of values 4249 ranging from 0-255. 4250 4251 vt.default_grn= [VT] 4252 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 4253 Change the default green palette of the console. 4254 This is a 16-member array composed of values 4255 ranging from 0-255. 4256 4257 vt.default_red= [VT] 4258 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 4259 Change the default red palette of the console. 4260 This is a 16-member array composed of values 4261 ranging from 0-255. 4262 4263 vt.default_utf8= 4264 [VT] 4265 Format=<0|1> 4266 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 4267 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 4268 newly opened terminals. 4269 4270 vt.global_cursor_default= 4271 [VT] 4272 Format=<-1|0|1> 4273 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 4274 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 4275 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 4276 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 4277 cursors, 1 will display them. 4278 4279 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 4280 Default: 2 = green. 4281 4282 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 4283 Default: 3 = cyan. 4284 4285 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 4286 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt 4287 or other driver-specific files in the 4288 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 4289 4290 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 4291 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 4292 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 4293 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 4294 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 4295 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 4296 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 4297 corresponding sysfs file. 4298 4299 workqueue.disable_numa 4300 By default, all work items queued to unbound 4301 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 4302 issued on, which results in better behavior in 4303 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 4304 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 4305 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 4306 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 4307 4308 workqueue.power_efficient 4309 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 4310 they show better performance thanks to cache 4311 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 4312 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 4313 4314 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 4315 were observed to contribute significantly to power 4316 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 4317 power usage at the cost of small performance 4318 overhead. 4319 4320 The default value of this parameter is determined by 4321 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 4322 4323 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 4324 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 4325 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 4326 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 4327 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 4328 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 4329 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 4330 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 4331 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 4332 impacted. 4333 4334 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 4335 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 4336 supporting x2apic. 4337 4338 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT] 4339 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform. 4340 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer 4341 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer. 4342 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt 4343 4344 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 4345 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 4346 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 4347 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 4348 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 4349 domains. 4350 4351 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 4352 Unplug Xen emulated devices 4353 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 4354 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 4355 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 4356 nics -- unplug network devices 4357 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 4358 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 4359 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 4360 the unplug protocol 4361 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 4362 4363 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 4364 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV 4365 optimizations. 4366 4367 xen_nopv [X86] 4368 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 4369 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 4370 4371 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 4372 Format: 4373 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 4374