1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64] 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt | 4 copy_dsdt } 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64] 7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on 8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant. 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory 13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force" 14 are available 15 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi 17 18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC] 19 Format: <int> 20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 21 1,0: use 1st APIC table 22 default: 0 23 24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 25 acpi_backlight=vendor 26 acpi_backlight=video 27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver 28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 29 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 30 31 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr 32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 36 37 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 41 This option is useful for developers to identify the 42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 43 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 44 45 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 47 Format: <int> 48 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT 52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 55 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 56 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about 57 debug layers and levels. 58 59 Enable processor driver info messages: 60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages: 62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000 63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 64 object while interpreting AML: 65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 68 69 Some values produce so much output that the system is 70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 71 if you need to capture more output. 72 73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 74 { strict | lax | no } 75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 79 can interfere with legacy drivers. 80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 82 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 87 no further checks are performed. 88 89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI] 90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 92 size limitation. 93 94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 95 ACPI will balance active IRQs 96 default in APIC mode 97 98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 100 default in PIC mode 101 102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 103 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 104 105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 106 use by PCI 107 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 108 109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 113 the GPE dispatcher. 114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 115 GPE floodings. 116 Format: <int> 117 118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 122 auto-serialization feature. 123 This feature is enabled by default. 124 This option allows to turn off the feature. 125 126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 127 kernels. 128 129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] 130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 132 installed automatically and they will appear under 133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 134 This option turns off this feature. 135 Note that specifying this option does not affect 136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 138 139 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] 140 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 141 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 142 second kernel for kdump. 143 144 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 145 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 146 147 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 148 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 149 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 150 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 151 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 152 153 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 154 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 155 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 156 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 157 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 158 strings 159 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 160 strings 161 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 162 163 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 164 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 165 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 166 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 167 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 168 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 169 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 170 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 171 care about the state of the feature group strings which 172 should be controlled by the OSPM. 173 Examples: 174 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 175 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 176 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 177 178 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 179 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 180 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 181 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 182 multiple times through kernel command line is also 183 meaningless. 184 Examples: 185 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 186 FALSE. 187 188 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 189 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 190 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 191 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 192 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 193 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 194 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 195 there are quirks related to this string. This command 196 is useful when one want to control the state of the 197 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 198 the OSPM features. 199 Examples: 200 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 201 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 202 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 203 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 204 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 205 equivalent to 206 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 207 and 208 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 209 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 210 211 acpi_pm_good [X86] 212 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 213 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 214 and always returns good values. 215 216 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 217 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 218 219 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 220 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 221 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 222 223 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 224 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig, 225 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl } 226 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on 227 s3_bios and s3_mode. 228 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 229 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 230 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 231 used during resume from hibernation. 232 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 233 control method, with respect to putting devices into 234 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 235 of _PTS is used by default). 236 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 237 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 238 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 239 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 240 but some broken systems don't work without it). 241 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 242 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 243 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 244 245 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 246 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 247 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 248 249 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 250 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 251 252 agp= [AGP] 253 { off | try_unsupported } 254 off: disable AGP support 255 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 256 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 257 258 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 259 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 260 261 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 262 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 263 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 264 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 265 266 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 267 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 268 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 269 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 270 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 271 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 272 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 273 274 32: only for 32-bit processes 275 64: only for 64-bit processes 276 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 277 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 278 279 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 280 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 281 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 282 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 283 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 284 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 285 286 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 287 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 288 Possible values are: 289 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when 290 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are 291 flushed before they will be reused, which 292 is a lot of faster 293 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 294 the system 295 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 296 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 297 allowed anymore to lift isolation 298 requirements as needed. This option 299 does not override iommu=pt 300 301 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 302 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 303 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 304 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 305 IOMMU initialization. 306 307 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 308 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 309 remapping modes: 310 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 311 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 312 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 313 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 314 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 315 316 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 317 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 318 Format: <a>,<b> 319 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 320 321 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 322 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 323 connected to one of 16 gameports 324 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 325 326 apc= [HW,SPARC] 327 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 328 Format: noidle 329 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 330 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 331 APC and your system crashes randomly. 332 333 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 334 Change the output verbosity whilst booting 335 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 336 Change the amount of debugging information output 337 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 338 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 339 driver name. 340 Format: apic=driver_name 341 Examples: apic=bigsmp 342 343 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 344 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 345 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 346 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 347 backup of CPU 0 348 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 349 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 350 shot down by NMI 351 352 autoconf= [IPV6] 353 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 354 355 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 356 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 357 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 358 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 359 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 360 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 361 apic=verbose is specified. 362 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 363 364 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 365 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 366 367 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 368 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 369 370 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 371 372 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 373 374 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 375 EzKey and similar keyboards 376 377 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 378 379 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 380 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 381 382 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 383 keyboards 384 385 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 386 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 387 388 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 389 Use software keyboard repeat 390 391 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 392 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 393 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 394 enabled until the next reboot 395 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 396 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 397 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 398 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 399 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 400 userspace auditd. 401 Default: unset 402 403 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 404 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 405 Default: 64 406 407 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 408 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 409 Format: { "0" | "1" } 410 0 - Disable the BAU. 411 1 - Enable the BAU. 412 unset - Disable the BAU. 413 414 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 415 Format: <io>,<mode> 416 417 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 418 Format: <io>,<mode> 419 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 420 421 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 422 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 423 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 424 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 425 426 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 427 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 428 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 429 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 430 431 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 432 embedded devices based on command line input. 433 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt 434 435 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 436 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to 437 no delay (0). 438 Format: integer 439 440 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages. 441 442 bert_disable [ACPI] 443 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 444 445 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 446 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 447 kernel args too. 448 bttv.pll= See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst 449 bttv.tuner= 450 451 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 452 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 453 at a time. 454 455 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 456 457 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 458 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 459 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 460 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 461 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 462 This option provides an override for these situations. 463 464 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 465 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 466 trust validation. 467 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 468 469 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 470 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 471 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 472 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 473 others). 474 475 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 476 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details. 477 478 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller 479 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable} 480 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 481 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 482 a single hierarchy 483 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 484 subsystem 485 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 486 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 487 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 488 489 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1 490 Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" } 491 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 492 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 493 494 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 495 Format: <string> 496 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 497 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 498 499 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 500 Format: { "0" | "1" } 501 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 502 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 503 any implied execute protection). 504 1 -- check protection requested by application. 505 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 506 Value can be changed at runtime via 507 /selinux/checkreqprot. 508 509 cio_ignore= [S390] 510 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details. 511 clk_ignore_unused 512 [CLK] 513 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 514 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 515 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 516 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 517 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 518 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 519 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 520 platform with proper driver support. For more 521 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 522 523 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 524 [Deprecated] 525 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 526 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 527 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 528 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 529 530 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 531 Format: <string> 532 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 533 with the name specified. 534 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 535 the platform: 536 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 537 [ACPI] acpi_pm 538 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 539 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 540 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 541 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 542 [MIPS] MIPS 543 [PARISC] cr16 544 [S390] tod 545 [SH] SuperH 546 [SPARC64] tick 547 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 548 549 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 550 [ARM,ARM64] 551 Format: <bool> 552 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 553 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 554 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 555 systems. 556 557 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86] 558 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 559 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 560 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily 561 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific 562 ones should be. 563 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 564 or using the feature without checking anything 565 will still see it. This just prevents it from 566 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 567 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 568 some critical bits. 569 570 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 571 [ARM,X86,KNL] 572 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 573 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 574 placement constraint by the physical address range of 575 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 576 altogether. For more information, see 577 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h 578 579 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 580 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 581 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 582 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 583 a hypervisor. 584 Default: yes 585 586 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 587 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 588 allocations, by default set to 256K. 589 590 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 591 Format: 592 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 593 594 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 595 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 596 597 com90xx= [HW,NET] 598 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 599 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 600 601 condev= [HW,S390] console device 602 conmode= 603 604 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 605 606 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 607 608 ttyS<n>[,options] 609 ttyUSB0[,options] 610 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 611 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 612 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 613 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 614 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 615 616 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 617 information. See 618 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an 619 alternative. 620 621 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 622 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 623 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 624 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 625 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 626 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 627 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 628 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 629 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 630 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 631 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 632 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 633 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 634 the h/w is not re-initialized. 635 636 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 637 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 638 639 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 640 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 641 console=brl,ttyS0 642 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 643 644 console_msg_format= 645 [KNL] Change console messages format 646 default 647 By default we print messages on consoles in 648 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 649 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 650 `printk_time' param). 651 syslog 652 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 653 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 654 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 655 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 656 from /proc/kmsg. 657 658 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 659 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 660 Defaults to 0. 661 662 coredump_filter= 663 [KNL] Change the default value for 664 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 665 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt. 666 667 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 668 [ARM,ARM64] 669 Format: <bool> 670 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 671 0: default value, disable debugging 672 1: enable debugging at boot time 673 674 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 675 disable the cpuidle sub-system 676 677 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 678 disable the cpufreq sub-system 679 680 cpu_init_udelay=N 681 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 682 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 683 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 684 Default: 10000 685 686 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 687 Format: 688 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 689 690 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 691 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 692 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 693 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 694 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 695 is selected automatically. Check 696 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details. 697 698 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 699 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 700 in the running system. The syntax of range is 701 start-[end] where start and end are both 702 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 703 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example. 704 705 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 706 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 707 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 708 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 709 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 710 available. 711 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 712 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 713 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 714 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 715 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 716 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 717 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 718 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 719 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at 720 at least 256M below 4G automatically. 721 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G 722 for second kernel instead. 723 0: to disable low allocation. 724 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 725 or memory reserved is below 4G. 726 727 cryptomgr.notests 728 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 729 730 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 731 Format: <dma> 732 733 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 734 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 735 736 dasd= [HW,NET] 737 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 738 739 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 740 (one device per port) 741 Format: <port#>,<type> 742 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 743 744 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot 745 time. See 746 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for 747 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg. 748 749 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 750 751 debug_locks_verbose= 752 [KNL] verbose self-tests 753 Format=<0|1> 754 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 755 self-tests. 756 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to 757 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally 758 only useful to kernel developers. 759 760 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 761 762 no_debug_objects 763 [KNL] Disable object debugging 764 765 debug_guardpage_minorder= 766 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 767 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 768 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 769 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 770 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 771 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 772 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 773 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 774 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 775 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 776 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 777 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 778 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when 779 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 780 bypassed) which are not detectable by 781 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 782 tracking down these problems. 783 784 debug_pagealloc= 785 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 786 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In 787 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge 788 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable 789 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same 790 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 791 on: enable the feature 792 793 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 794 795 decnet.addr= [HW,NET] 796 Format: <area>[,<node>] 797 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt. 798 799 default_hugepagesz= 800 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default 801 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by 802 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and 803 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems. 804 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size 805 if not specified. 806 807 dhash_entries= [KNL] 808 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 809 810 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 811 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 812 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 813 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 814 miss to occur. 815 816 disable= [IPV6] 817 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 818 819 disable_radix [PPC] 820 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 821 822 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 823 Format: <int> 824 The number of initial APIC ID for the 825 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 826 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 827 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 828 causing system reset or hang due to sending 829 INIT from AP to BSP. 830 831 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 832 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if 833 to workaround buggy firmware. 834 835 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 836 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 837 838 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 839 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 840 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 841 entry later. This parameter disables that. 842 843 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 844 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 845 memory out of your available memory pool based on 846 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 847 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 848 849 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 850 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 851 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 852 853 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 854 855 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 856 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 857 858 dma_debug_entries=<number> 859 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 860 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 861 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 862 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 863 architectural default is too low. 864 865 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 866 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 867 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 868 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 869 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 870 driver later using sysfs. 871 872 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 873 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 874 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 875 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 876 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 877 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 878 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 879 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 880 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 881 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 882 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID 883 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 884 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 885 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 886 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 887 data set with no connector name will be used for 888 any connectors not explicitly specified. 889 890 dscc4.setup= [NET] 891 892 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 893 Format: {"off" | "known"} 894 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 895 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 896 exists). 897 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 898 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 899 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 900 901 dump_apple_properties [X86] 902 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 903 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 904 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 905 906 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 907 module.dyndbg[="val"] 908 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 909 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 910 for details. 911 912 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions. 913 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more 914 information about the feature. 915 916 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 917 in some Intel CPUs. 918 919 module.async_probe [KNL] 920 Enable asynchronous probe on this module. 921 922 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 923 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 924 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 925 which are not unmapped. 926 927 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 928 929 [ARM64] The early console is determined by the 930 stdout-path property in device tree's chosen node, 931 or determined by the ACPI SPCR table. 932 933 [X86] When used with no options the early console is 934 determined by the ACPI SPCR table. 935 936 cdns,<addr>[,options] 937 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 938 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 939 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 940 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 941 configured. 942 943 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 944 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 945 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 946 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options] 947 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 948 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 949 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 950 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 951 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 952 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 953 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 954 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 955 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 956 957 pl011,<addr> 958 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 959 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 960 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 961 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 962 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 963 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 964 the device registers. 965 966 meson,<addr> 967 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 968 port at the specified address. The serial port must 969 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 970 supported. 971 972 msm_serial,<addr> 973 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 974 port at the specified address. The serial port 975 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 976 yet supported. 977 978 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 979 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 980 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 981 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 982 yet supported. 983 984 owl,<addr> 985 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 986 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 987 specified address. The serial port must already be 988 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 989 990 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 991 992 s3c2410,<addr> 993 s3c2412,<addr> 994 s3c2440,<addr> 995 s3c6400,<addr> 996 s5pv210,<addr> 997 exynos4210,<addr> 998 Use early console provided by serial driver available 999 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1000 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1001 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1002 Options are not yet supported. 1003 1004 lantiq,<addr> 1005 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1006 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1007 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1008 yet supported. 1009 1010 lpuart,<addr> 1011 lpuart32,<addr> 1012 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1013 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1014 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1015 port must already be setup and configured. 1016 1017 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1018 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1019 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1020 address. The serial port must already be setup 1021 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1022 1023 qcom_geni,<addr> 1024 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1025 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1026 specified address. The serial port must already be 1027 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1028 1029 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1030 earlyprintk=vga 1031 earlyprintk=efi 1032 earlyprintk=sclp 1033 earlyprintk=xen 1034 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1035 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1036 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1037 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1038 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1039 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1040 1041 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1042 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1043 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1044 1045 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1046 takes over. 1047 1048 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can 1049 be used at a time. 1050 1051 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1052 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1053 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1054 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1055 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1056 You can find the port for a given device in 1057 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1058 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1059 1060 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1061 very good. 1062 1063 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by 1064 the real console. 1065 1066 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests. 1067 1068 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1069 1070 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1071 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1072 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1073 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1074 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1075 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1076 default: on. 1077 1078 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1079 ekgdboc=kbd 1080 1081 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1082 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1083 1084 edd= [EDD] 1085 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1086 1087 efi= [EFI] 1088 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" } 1089 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI 1090 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by 1091 default. 1092 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1093 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1094 firmware implementations. 1095 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1096 debug: enable misc debug output 1097 1098 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1099 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1100 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1101 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1102 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1103 1104 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1105 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1106 updating original EFI memory map. 1107 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1108 from ss to ss+nn. 1109 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1110 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1111 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1112 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1113 1114 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1115 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of 1116 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1117 doesn't support it. 1118 1119 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1120 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1121 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1122 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1123 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details. 1124 1125 1126 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1127 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1128 1129 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1130 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1131 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1132 1133 elevator= [IOSCHED] 1134 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"} 1135 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and 1136 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details. 1137 1138 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1139 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1140 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1141 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1142 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details. 1143 1144 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1145 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1146 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1147 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1148 1149 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1150 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1151 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1152 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1153 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1154 1155 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1156 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1157 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1158 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1159 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1160 Default value is 0. 1161 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce. 1162 1163 erst_disable [ACPI] 1164 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1165 support. 1166 1167 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1168 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1169 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1170 1171 evm= [EVM] 1172 Format: { "fix" } 1173 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1174 current integrity status. 1175 1176 failslab= 1177 fail_page_alloc= 1178 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1179 General fault injection mechanism. 1180 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1181 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1182 1183 floppy= [HW] 1184 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt. 1185 1186 force_pal_cache_flush 1187 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1188 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1189 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1190 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1191 1192 forcepae [X86-32] 1193 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1194 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1195 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1196 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1197 and may cause unknown problems. 1198 1199 ftrace=[tracer] 1200 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1201 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1202 boot debugging. 1203 1204 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1205 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1206 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1207 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1208 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1209 oops. 1210 1211 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1212 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1213 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 1214 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1215 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1216 tracing directory. 1217 1218 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1219 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1220 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1221 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1222 tracing directory. 1223 1224 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1225 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1226 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1227 function-list is a comma separated list of functions 1228 that can be changed at run time by the 1229 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1230 1231 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1232 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1233 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of 1234 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1235 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1236 1237 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1238 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1239 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1240 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1241 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1242 1243 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1244 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1245 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1246 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1247 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1248 1249 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1250 1251 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1252 Format: off | on 1253 default: on 1254 1255 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1256 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1257 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1258 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1259 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1260 1261 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1262 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1263 android emulator 1264 1265 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1266 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1267 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1268 GPT to be used instead. 1269 1270 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1271 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1272 Format: 0 | 1 1273 Default: 0 1274 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1275 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1276 Format: 0 | 1 1277 Default: 0 1278 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1279 Format: 0 | 1 1280 Default: 0 1281 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1282 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1283 Default: 1024 1284 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1285 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1286 Default: 1024 1287 1288 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1289 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1290 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1291 1292 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1293 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1294 backtraces on all cpus. 1295 Format: <integer> 1296 1297 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1298 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1299 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1300 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1301 1302 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1303 1304 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1305 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1306 1307 hest_disable [ACPI] 1308 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1309 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1310 logic will be disabled. 1311 1312 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1313 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1314 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1315 size on bigger boxes. 1316 1317 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1318 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1319 Default: "on" 1320 1321 hisax= [HW,ISDN] 1322 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax. 1323 1324 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1325 1326 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1327 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1328 verbose } 1329 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1330 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1331 VIA, nVidia) 1332 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1333 1334 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1335 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1336 1337 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1338 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages. 1339 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified 1340 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve 1341 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on 1342 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G 1343 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag). 1344 1345 hung_task_panic= 1346 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1347 Format: <integer> 1348 1349 A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a 1350 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1351 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1352 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1353 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1354 1355 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1356 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1357 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1358 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1359 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1360 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1361 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1362 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1363 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1364 the real console. 1365 1366 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1367 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1368 registered from board initialization code. 1369 Format: 1370 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1371 1372 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1373 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1374 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1375 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1376 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1377 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1378 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1379 keyboard and cannot control its state 1380 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1381 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1382 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1383 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1384 for the AUX port 1385 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1386 controller 1387 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1388 controllers 1389 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1390 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1391 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1392 transitions, or never reset 1393 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1394 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1395 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1396 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1397 architectures force reset to be always executed 1398 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1399 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1400 1401 i810= [HW,DRM] 1402 1403 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1404 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1405 hardware. 1406 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature 1407 does not match list of supported models. 1408 i8k.power_status 1409 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1410 (disabled by default) 1411 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1412 capability is set. 1413 1414 i915.invert_brightness= 1415 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1416 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1417 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1418 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1419 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1420 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1421 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1422 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1423 value switches the backlight off. 1424 -1 -- never invert brightness 1425 0 -- machine default 1426 1 -- force brightness inversion 1427 1428 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1429 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1430 1431 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1432 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc 1433 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr 1434 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options 1435 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt. 1436 1437 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1438 Format: <int> 1439 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on 1440 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by 1441 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The 1442 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning. 1443 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the 1444 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which 1445 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value 1446 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it 1447 was 0x3. 1448 1449 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1450 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers. 1451 1452 idle= [X86] 1453 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1454 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1455 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1456 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1457 Not recommended. 1458 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1459 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1460 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1461 1462 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1463 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1464 Default: strict 1465 1466 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1467 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1468 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1469 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1470 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1471 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1472 encoding mode. 1473 1474 Available settings are as follows: 1475 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1476 supported by the FPU 1477 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1478 by the FPU 1479 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1480 by the FPU 1481 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1482 supported by the FPU 1483 1484 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1485 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1486 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1487 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1488 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1489 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1490 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1491 MIPS64 CPUs. 1492 1493 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1494 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1495 except where unsupported by hardware. 1496 1497 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1498 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1499 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1500 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1501 could change it dynamically, usually by 1502 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1503 1504 ignore_rlimit_data 1505 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1506 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1507 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1508 1509 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1510 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1511 1512 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1513 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1514 default: "enforce" 1515 1516 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] 1517 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1518 owned by uid=0. 1519 1520 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1521 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1522 measurements, instead of host native format. 1523 1524 ima_hash= [IMA] 1525 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1526 | sha512 | ... } 1527 default: "sha1" 1528 1529 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1530 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1531 1532 ima_policy= [IMA] 1533 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1534 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1535 fail_securely" 1536 1537 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1538 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1539 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1540 uid=0. 1541 1542 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1543 all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent 1544 of ima_appraise_tcb.) 1545 1546 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1547 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1548 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1549 1550 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1551 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1552 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1553 flag. 1554 1555 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1556 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1557 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1558 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1559 opened for read by uid=0. 1560 1561 ima_template= [IMA] 1562 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1563 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" } 1564 Default: "ima-ng" 1565 1566 ima_template_fmt= 1567 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1568 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1569 1570 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1571 Format: <min_file_size> 1572 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1573 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1574 1575 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1576 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1577 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1578 1579 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1580 Format: <bufsize> 1581 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1582 1583 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1584 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1585 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1586 1587 init= [KNL] 1588 Format: <full_path> 1589 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1590 process. 1591 1592 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1593 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1594 startup. 1595 1596 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1597 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1598 modules and initcalls. 1599 1600 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 1601 1602 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 1603 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 1604 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 1605 override in debugfs after boot. 1606 1607 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 1608 Format: <irq> 1609 1610 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 1611 1612 integrity_audit=[IMA] 1613 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1614 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 1615 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 1616 1617 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 1618 on 1619 Enable intel iommu driver. 1620 off 1621 Disable intel iommu driver. 1622 igfx_off [Default Off] 1623 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 1624 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 1625 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 1626 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 1627 DMA. 1628 forcedac [x86_64] 1629 With this option iommu will not optimize to look 1630 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual 1631 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater 1632 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look 1633 for translation below 32-bit and if not available 1634 then look in the higher range. 1635 strict [Default Off] 1636 With this option on every unmap_single operation will 1637 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed 1638 to batching them for performance. 1639 sp_off [Default Off] 1640 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 1641 has the capability. With this option, super page will 1642 not be supported. 1643 ecs_off [Default Off] 1644 By default, extended context tables will be supported if 1645 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the 1646 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With 1647 this option set, extended tables will not be used even 1648 on hardware which claims to support them. 1649 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 1650 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 1651 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 1652 could harm performance of some high-throughput 1653 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 1654 mapping is enabled. 1655 Note that using this option lowers the security 1656 provided by tboot because it makes the system 1657 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 1658 1659 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 1660 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 1661 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 1662 1663 intel_pstate= [X86] 1664 disable 1665 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 1666 scaling driver for the supported processors 1667 passive 1668 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 1669 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 1670 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 1671 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 1672 feature. 1673 force 1674 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 1675 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 1676 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 1677 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 1678 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 1679 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 1680 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 1681 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 1682 no_hwp 1683 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 1684 if available. 1685 hwp_only 1686 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 1687 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 1688 support_acpi_ppc 1689 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 1690 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 1691 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 1692 then this feature is turned on by default. 1693 per_cpu_perf_limits 1694 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 1695 cpufreq sysfs interface 1696 1697 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 1698 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 1699 off disable Interrupt Remapping 1700 nosid disable Source ID checking 1701 no_x2apic_optout 1702 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 1703 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 1704 1705 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 1706 strict regions from userspace. 1707 relaxed 1708 1709 iommu= [x86] 1710 off 1711 force 1712 noforce 1713 biomerge 1714 panic 1715 nopanic 1716 merge 1717 nomerge 1718 soft 1719 pt [x86, IA-64] 1720 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 1721 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 1722 1723 iommu.passthrough= 1724 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 1725 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1726 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 1727 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 1728 unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 1729 1730 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems 1731 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 1732 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 1733 1734 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 1735 0x80 1736 Standard port 0x80 based delay 1737 0xed 1738 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 1739 udelay 1740 Simple two microseconds delay 1741 none 1742 No delay 1743 1744 ip= [IP_PNP] 1745 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 1746 1747 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 1748 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 1749 1750 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 1751 [ARM, ARM64] 1752 Format: <bool> 1753 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 1754 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 1755 exposed by the device tree is too small. 1756 1757 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 1758 [ARM, ARM64] 1759 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 1760 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 1761 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 1762 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 1763 LPIs. 1764 1765 irqfixup [HW] 1766 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1767 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1768 firmware running. 1769 1770 irqpoll [HW] 1771 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1772 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 1773 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1774 firmware running. 1775 1776 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 1777 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 1778 1779 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 1780 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 1781 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 1782 1783 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 1784 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 1785 1786 nohz 1787 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 1788 1789 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 1790 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 1791 workqueue's affinity configured via the 1792 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 1793 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 1794 1795 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 1796 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 1797 be configured manually after bootup. 1798 1799 domain 1800 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 1801 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 1802 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 1803 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 1804 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 1805 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 1806 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 1807 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 1808 1809 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 1810 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 1811 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 1812 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 1813 1814 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 1815 1816 1817 1818 iucv= [HW,NET] 1819 1820 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64] 1821 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 1822 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1823 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 1824 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 1825 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 1826 1827 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64] 1828 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 1829 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1830 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to 1831 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 1832 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 1833 1834 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64] 1835 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 1836 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1837 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 1838 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 1839 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 1840 1841 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 1842 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 1843 1844 nokaslr [KNL] 1845 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 1846 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 1847 Layout Randomization). 1848 1849 kasan_multi_shot 1850 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 1851 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 1852 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 1853 invalid access. 1854 1855 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 1856 1857 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 1858 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 1859 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 1860 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 1861 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 1862 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 1863 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 1864 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 1865 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 1866 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 1867 1868 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 1869 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 1870 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 1871 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 1872 zone if it does not. 1873 1874 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 1875 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 1876 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 1877 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 1878 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 1879 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 1880 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 1881 1882 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 1883 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 1884 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 1885 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 1886 optional and is the number seconds in between 1887 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 1888 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 1889 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 1890 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 1891 the kernel debugger. 1892 1893 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 1894 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 1895 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 1896 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 1897 keyboard only format: kbd 1898 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 1899 Optional Kernel mode setting: 1900 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 1901 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 1902 1903 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 1904 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 1905 1906 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address. 1907 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 1908 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 1909 1910 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 1911 Valid arguments: on, off 1912 Default: on 1913 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 1914 the default is off. 1915 1916 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 1917 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 1918 1919 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 1920 Default is false (don't support). 1921 1922 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit 1923 KVM MMU at runtime. 1924 Default is 0 (off) 1925 1926 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 1927 Default is 1 (enabled) 1928 1929 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 1930 for all guests. 1931 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 1932 1933 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 1934 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 1935 system registers 1936 1937 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 1938 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 1939 system registers 1940 1941 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 1942 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 1943 system registers 1944 1945 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 1946 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 1947 LPIs. 1948 1949 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 1950 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 1951 Default is 1 (enabled) 1952 1953 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 1954 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states 1955 Default is 0 (disabled) 1956 1957 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 1958 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 1959 Default is 1 (enabled) 1960 1961 kvm-intel.nested= 1962 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 1963 Default is 0 (disabled) 1964 1965 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 1966 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 1967 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 1968 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 1969 1970 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 1971 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 1972 Default is 1 (enabled) 1973 1974 l2cr= [PPC] 1975 1976 l3cr= [PPC] 1977 1978 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 1979 disabled it. 1980 1981 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline 1982 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 1983 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 1984 1985 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 1986 in C2 power state. 1987 1988 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 1989 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 1990 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 1991 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 1992 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 1993 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 1994 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 1995 1996 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 1997 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 1998 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 1999 2000 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2001 when set. 2002 Format: <int> 2003 2004 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma 2005 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is 2006 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers 2007 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches 2008 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If 2009 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE 2010 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the 2011 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices. 2012 2013 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2014 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2015 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2016 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2017 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2018 host link and device attached to it. 2019 2020 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2021 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed. 2022 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2023 The following configurations can be forced. 2024 2025 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2026 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2027 2028 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2029 2030 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2031 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2032 allowed. 2033 2034 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2035 2036 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM. 2037 2038 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft 2039 and both resets. 2040 2041 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during 2042 hot-unplug link recovery 2043 2044 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data. 2045 2046 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support 2047 2048 * disable: Disable this device. 2049 2050 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2051 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2052 2053 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 2054 2055 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy 2056 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 2057 2058 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2059 Format: <integer> 2060 2061 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2062 Format: <integer> 2063 2064 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2065 Format: <integer> 2066 2067 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2068 Format: <integer> 2069 2070 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2071 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2072 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2073 number of online CPUs. 2074 2075 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2076 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2077 2078 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2079 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2080 2081 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2082 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2083 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2084 2085 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2086 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2087 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2088 mode during the locktorture test. 2089 2090 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2091 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2092 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2093 2094 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2095 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2096 2097 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2098 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2099 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2100 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2101 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2102 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2103 2104 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2105 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2106 2107 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2108 Enable additional printk() statements. 2109 2110 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2111 Format: <irq> 2112 2113 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2114 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2115 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2116 loglevels are defined as follows: 2117 2118 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2119 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2120 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2121 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2122 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2123 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2124 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2125 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2126 2127 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2128 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2129 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2130 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2131 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2132 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2133 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2134 2135 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2136 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2137 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2138 kernel boot problems. 2139 2140 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2141 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2142 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2143 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2144 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2145 attached printers to be reset. Using 2146 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2147 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2148 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2149 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2150 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2151 port specification list means that device IDs 2152 from each port should be examined, to see if 2153 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2154 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2155 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2156 2157 lpj=n [KNL] 2158 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2159 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2160 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2161 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2162 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2163 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2164 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2165 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2166 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2167 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2168 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2169 hardware. 2170 2171 ltpc= [NET] 2172 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2173 2174 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2175 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2176 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb 2177 2178 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different 2179 yeeloong laptop. 2180 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2181 2182 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater 2183 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2184 2185 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2186 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2187 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2188 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2189 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2190 only takes effect during system bootup. 2191 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2192 which also disables the IO APIC. 2193 2194 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2195 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2196 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2197 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2198 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2199 /dev/loop-control interface. 2200 2201 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2202 2203 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt 2204 2205 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2206 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2207 2208 mdacon= [MDA] 2209 Format: <first>,<last> 2210 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2211 2212 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2213 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able 2214 to see the whole system memory or for test. 2215 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 2216 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 2217 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 2218 belonging to unused RAM. 2219 2220 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 2221 memory. 2222 2223 memchunk=nn[KMG] 2224 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 2225 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 2226 2227 memhp_default_state=online/offline 2228 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 2229 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 2230 set according to the 2231 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 2232 option. 2233 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt. 2234 2235 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 2236 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 2237 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 2238 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 2239 option description. 2240 2241 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 2242 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 2243 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 2244 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 2245 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 2246 Multiple different regions can be specified, 2247 comma delimited. 2248 Example: 2249 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 2250 2251 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 2252 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 2253 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 2254 2255 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 2256 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 2257 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 2258 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 2259 memmap=64K$0x18690000 2260 or 2261 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 2262 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 2263 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 2264 will be eaten. 2265 2266 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 2267 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 2268 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 2269 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 2270 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 2271 2272 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 2273 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 2274 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 2275 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 2276 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 2277 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 2278 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 2279 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 2280 2281 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 2282 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 2283 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 2284 Setting this option will scan the memory 2285 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 2286 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 2287 from using the memory being corrupted. 2288 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 2289 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 2290 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 2291 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 2292 2293 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 2294 By default it checks for corruption in the low 2295 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 2296 use. Use this parameter to scan for 2297 corruption in more or less memory. 2298 2299 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 2300 By default it checks for corruption every 60 2301 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 2302 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 2303 2304 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest 2305 Format: <integer> 2306 default : 0 <disable> 2307 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 2308 performed. Each pass selects another test 2309 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 2310 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 2311 memory contents and reserves bad memory 2312 regions that are detected. 2313 2314 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 2315 Valid arguments: on, off 2316 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 2317 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 2318 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 2319 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 2320 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 2321 2322 Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt 2323 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 2324 2325 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 2326 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 2327 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 2328 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 2329 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 2330 2331 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 2332 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst. 2333 2334 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 2335 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 2336 platforms. 2337 2338 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 2339 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 2340 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 2341 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 2342 2343 mga= [HW,DRM] 2344 2345 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this 2346 physical address is ignored. 2347 2348 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 2349 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 2350 Default: "0tb" 2351 MINI2440 configuration specification: 2352 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 2353 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 2354 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 2355 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 2356 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 2357 unconfigured. 2358 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 2359 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 2360 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 2361 VGA shield. 2362 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 2363 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 2364 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 2365 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 2366 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 2367 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 2368 2369 mminit_loglevel= 2370 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 2371 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 2372 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 2373 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 2374 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 2375 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 2376 2377 module.sig_enforce 2378 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 2379 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 2380 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 2381 is always true, so this option does nothing. 2382 2383 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 2384 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 2385 2386 mousedev.tap_time= 2387 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 2388 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 2389 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 2390 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 2391 Format: <msecs> 2392 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 2393 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2394 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 2395 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2396 2397 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2398 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 2399 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 2400 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 2401 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 2402 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 2403 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 2404 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 2405 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 2406 is not too small. 2407 2408 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 2409 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 2410 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 2411 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 2412 allocations. Use with caution! 2413 2414 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 2415 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 2416 2417 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 2418 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 2419 2420 mtdparts= [MTD] 2421 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c. 2422 2423 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 2424 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 2425 at a time. 2426 2427 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 2428 2429 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 2430 2431 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 2432 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 2433 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 2434 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 2435 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 2436 2437 mtdset= [ARM] 2438 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 2439 2440 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c 2441 2442 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 2443 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 2444 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 2445 2446 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2447 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 2448 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 2449 2450 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2451 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 2452 Default is 1. 2453 Large value could prevent small alignment from 2454 using up MTRRs. 2455 2456 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 2457 Format: <integer> 2458 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 2459 Default : 1 2460 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 2461 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 2462 2463 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 2464 2465 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 2466 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 2467 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 2468 something different and driver-specific. 2469 This usage is only documented in each driver source 2470 file if at all. 2471 2472 nf_conntrack.acct= 2473 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 2474 0 to disable accounting 2475 1 to enable accounting 2476 Default value is 0. 2477 2478 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 2479 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2480 2481 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 2482 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2483 2484 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 2485 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2486 2487 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 2488 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 2489 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 2490 requests. 2491 2492 nfs.callback_tcpport= 2493 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 2494 channel should listen. 2495 2496 nfs.cache_getent= 2497 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 2498 to update the NFS client cache entries. 2499 2500 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 2501 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 2502 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 2503 2504 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 2505 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 2506 entries. 2507 2508 nfs.enable_ino64= 2509 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 2510 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 2511 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 2512 of returning the full 64-bit number. 2513 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 2514 2515 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 2516 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 2517 slots the client will assign to the callback 2518 channel. This determines the maximum number of 2519 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 2520 a particular server. 2521 2522 nfs.max_session_slots= 2523 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 2524 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 2525 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 2526 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 2527 Note that there is little point in setting this 2528 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 2529 2530 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2531 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 2532 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 2533 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 2534 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 2535 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 2536 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 2537 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 2538 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 2539 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 2540 back to using the idmapper. 2541 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 2542 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 2543 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 2544 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 2545 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 2546 UUID that is generated at system install time. 2547 2548 nfs.send_implementation_id = 2549 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 2550 information in exchange_id requests. 2551 If zero, no implementation identification information 2552 will be sent. 2553 The default is to send the implementation identification 2554 information. 2555 2556 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 2557 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 2558 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 2559 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 2560 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 2561 after the locks are lost. 2562 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 2563 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 2564 parameter to '1'. 2565 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 2566 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 2567 2568 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 2569 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 2570 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 2571 2572 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 2573 whatever value is the default set by the layout 2574 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 2575 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 2576 2577 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2578 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 2579 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 2580 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 2581 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 2582 migration from NFSv2/v3. 2583 2584 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 2585 when a NMI is triggered. 2586 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 2587 2588 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 2589 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 2590 Valid num: 0 or 1 2591 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 2592 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 2593 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 2594 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite 2595 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 2596 please see 'nowatchdog'. 2597 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 2598 need the box quickly up again. 2599 2600 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 2601 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 2602 2603 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 2604 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 2605 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 2606 waits 4 seconds. 2607 2608 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 2609 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 2610 is present. 2611 2612 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 2613 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 2614 2615 no_console_suspend 2616 [HW] Never suspend the console 2617 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 2618 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 2619 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 2620 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 2621 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 2622 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 2623 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 2624 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 2625 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 2626 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 2627 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 2628 turn on/off it dynamically. 2629 2630 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 2631 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 2632 but will impact performance. 2633 2634 noalign [KNL,ARM] 2635 2636 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 2637 (CPU alternatives feature). 2638 2639 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 2640 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 2641 2642 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 2643 2644 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem 2645 on "Classic" PPC cores. 2646 2647 nocache [ARM] 2648 2649 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction 2650 2651 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting 2652 2653 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 2654 2655 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 2656 2657 noexec [IA-64] 2658 2659 noexec [X86] 2660 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels. 2661 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 2662 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings 2663 2664 nosmap [X86] 2665 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 2666 even if it is supported by processor. 2667 2668 nosmep [X86] 2669 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 2670 even if it is supported by processor. 2671 2672 noexec32 [X86-64] 2673 This affects only 32-bit executables. 2674 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 2675 read doesn't imply executable mappings 2676 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 2677 read implies executable mappings 2678 2679 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 2680 2681 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 2682 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 2683 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 2684 2685 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 2686 2687 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 2688 Equivalent to smt=1. 2689 2690 nospectre_v2 [X86] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2 2691 (indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may 2692 allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent 2693 to spectre_v2=off. 2694 2695 nospec_store_bypass_disable 2696 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 2697 2698 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 2699 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 2700 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 2701 2702 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 2703 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 2704 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 2705 performance of saving the states is degraded because 2706 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 2707 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 2708 2709 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 2710 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 2711 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 2712 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 2713 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 2714 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 2715 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 2716 2717 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or 2718 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to 2719 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger. 2720 2721 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 2722 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 2723 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 2724 2725 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 2726 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 2727 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 2728 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 2729 in certain environments such as networked servers or 2730 real-time systems. 2731 2732 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 2733 2734 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 2735 Valid arguments: on, off 2736 Default: on 2737 2738 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 2739 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2740 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 2741 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 2742 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 2743 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 2744 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 2745 just as if they had also been called out in the 2746 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 2747 2748 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 2749 2750 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 2751 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 2752 2753 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 2754 broken timer IRQ sources. 2755 2756 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 2757 2758 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 2759 initial RAM disk. 2760 2761 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 2762 remapping. 2763 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 2764 2765 nointroute [IA-64] 2766 2767 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 2768 2769 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 2770 2771 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 2772 2773 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 2774 fault handling. 2775 2776 no-vmw-sched-clock 2777 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 2778 clock and use the default one. 2779 2780 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. 2781 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler 2782 behaviour 2783 2784 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 2785 2786 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 2787 2788 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel 2789 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx 2790 2791 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 2792 2793 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 2794 2795 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 2796 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 2797 2798 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 2799 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 2800 irq. 2801 2802 nomodule Disable module load 2803 2804 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 2805 pagetables) support. 2806 2807 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 2808 2809 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 2810 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 2811 2812 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 2813 with UP alternatives 2814 2815 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and 2816 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported 2817 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still 2818 available to user space applications. 2819 2820 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 2821 space. 2822 2823 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 2824 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 2825 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 2826 2827 nosbagart [IA-64] 2828 2829 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. 2830 2831 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 2832 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 2833 2834 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 2835 2836 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 2837 2838 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 2839 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 2840 2841 nowb [ARM] 2842 2843 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 2844 2845 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 2846 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 2847 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 2848 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 2849 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 2850 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 2851 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 2852 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 2853 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 2854 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 2855 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 2856 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 2857 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 2858 2859 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 2860 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 2861 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 2862 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 2863 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 2864 parameter's value. 2865 Format: integer between 1 and 255 2866 Default: 255 2867 2868 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 2869 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 2870 SAL PALO. 2871 2872 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2873 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 2874 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 2875 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 2876 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 2877 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 2878 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 2879 hot plugging. 2880 2881 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 2882 2883 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing. 2884 Allowed values are enable and disable 2885 2886 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 2887 'node', 'default' can be specified 2888 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 2889 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details. 2890 2891 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 2892 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more 2893 info. 2894 2895 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 2896 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 2897 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 2898 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 2899 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 2900 interrupts *may* be lost! 2901 2902 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 2903 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 2904 For example, to override I2C bus2: 2905 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 2906 2907 oprofile.timer= [HW] 2908 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters 2909 2910 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type 2911 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile 2912 userland or if you want common events. 2913 Format: { arch_perfmon } 2914 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural 2915 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the 2916 CPU specific event set. 2917 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI 2918 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer 2919 for generic hr timer mode) 2920 2921 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 2922 process, but there is a small probability of 2923 deadlocking the machine. 2924 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 2925 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 2926 2927 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 2928 Storage of the information about who allocated 2929 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 2930 we can turn it on. 2931 on: enable the feature 2932 2933 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 2934 poisoning on the buddy allocator. 2935 off: turn off poisoning 2936 on: turn on poisoning 2937 2938 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 2939 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 2940 timeout = 0: wait forever 2941 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 2942 Format: <timeout> 2943 2944 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 2945 on a WARN(). 2946 2947 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 2948 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 2949 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 2950 succeeds in any situation. 2951 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 2952 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 2953 kernel more unstable. 2954 2955 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 2956 connected to, default is 0. 2957 Format: <parport#> 2958 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 2959 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 2960 Format: <mode> 2961 2962 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 2963 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 2964 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 2965 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 2966 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 2967 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 2968 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 2969 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 2970 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 2971 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 2972 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 2973 are specified on the command line, starting 2974 with parport0. 2975 2976 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 2977 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 2978 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 2979 computer where firmware has no options for setting 2980 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 2981 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 2982 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 2983 2984 pause_on_oops= 2985 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 2986 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 2987 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 2988 2989 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 2990 2991 pcd. [PARIDE] 2992 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 2993 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 2994 2995 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options: 2996 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel 2997 changes anything 2998 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 2999 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 3000 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 3001 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 3002 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 3003 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 3004 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 3005 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 3006 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3007 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 3008 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 3009 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3010 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 3011 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 3012 bus number. The config space is then accessed 3013 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 3014 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 3015 on the configuration access mechanisms. 3016 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 3017 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3018 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 3019 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 3020 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 3021 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 3022 Configuration 3023 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 3024 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 3025 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 3026 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 3027 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3028 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 3029 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 3030 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 3031 should never be necessary. 3032 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 3033 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 3034 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 3035 when the system masks IRQs. 3036 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 3037 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 3038 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 3039 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 3040 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 3041 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 3042 on several machines and they hang the machine 3043 when used, but on other computers it's the only 3044 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 3045 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 3046 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 3047 motherboard. 3048 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 3049 Use with caution as certain devices share 3050 address decoders between ROMs and other 3051 resources. 3052 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 3053 expansion ROMs that do not already have 3054 BIOS assigned address ranges. 3055 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 3056 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 3057 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 3058 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 3059 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 3060 this way. 3061 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 3062 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 3063 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 3064 F0000h-100000h range. 3065 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 3066 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 3067 secondary buses and you want to tell it 3068 explicitly which ones they are. 3069 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 3070 numbers ourselves, overriding 3071 whatever the firmware may have done. 3072 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 3073 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 3074 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 3075 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 3076 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 3077 IRQ routing is enabled. 3078 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 3079 or for PCI scanning. 3080 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 3081 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 3082 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 3083 please report a bug. 3084 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 3085 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 3086 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 3087 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 3088 so this option is a temporary workaround 3089 for broken drivers that don't call it. 3090 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 3091 handle more pci cards 3092 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 3093 This might help on some broken boards which 3094 machine check when some devices' config space 3095 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 3096 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 3097 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3098 This sorting is done to get a device 3099 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 3100 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3101 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 3102 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 3103 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 3104 supported by all devices below the root complex. 3105 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 3106 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 3107 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 3108 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 3109 or bus can support) for best performance. 3110 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 3111 every device is guaranteed to support. This 3112 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 3113 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 3114 reduced performance. This also guarantees 3115 that hot-added devices will work. 3116 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3117 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 3118 The default value is 256 bytes. 3119 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3120 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 3121 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 3122 resource_alignment= 3123 Format: 3124 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...] 3125 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\ 3126 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...] 3127 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 3128 aligned memory resources. 3129 If <order of align> is not specified, 3130 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 3131 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource 3132 windows need to be expanded. 3133 To specify the alignment for several 3134 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 3135 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 3136 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 3137 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 3138 end-to-end CRC checking). 3139 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 3140 the default. 3141 off: Turn ECRC off 3142 on: Turn ECRC on. 3143 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3144 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 3145 Default size is 256 bytes. 3146 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3147 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window. 3148 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3149 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 3150 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 3151 Default is 1. 3152 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 3153 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 3154 accommodate resources required by all child 3155 devices. 3156 off: Turn realloc off 3157 on: Turn realloc on 3158 realloc same as realloc=on 3159 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 3160 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 3161 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 3162 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 3163 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 3164 port. 3165 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 3166 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 3167 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 3168 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 3169 conflict with unreported devices), so this 3170 taints the kernel. 3171 3172 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 3173 Management. 3174 off Disable ASPM. 3175 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 3176 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 3177 3178 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 3179 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 3180 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 3181 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 3182 also tries to use these services. 3183 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 3184 hotplug). 3185 3186 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 3187 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 3188 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 3189 3190 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 3191 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 3192 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 3193 3194 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 3195 3196 pd_ignore_unused 3197 [PM] 3198 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 3199 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 3200 for debug and development, but should not be 3201 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 3202 3203 pd. [PARIDE] 3204 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3205 3206 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 3207 boot time. 3208 Format: { 0 | 1 } 3209 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 3210 3211 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 3212 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 3213 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 3214 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 3215 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 3216 and performance comparison. 3217 3218 pf. [PARIDE] 3219 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3220 3221 pg. [PARIDE] 3222 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3223 3224 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 3225 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt. 3226 3227 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 3228 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 3229 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 3230 3231 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 3232 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 3233 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 3234 3235 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 3236 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 3237 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 3238 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 3239 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 3240 possible settings and some assignment information. 3241 3242 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 3243 { off } 3244 3245 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 3246 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 3247 3248 pnp_reserve_irq= 3249 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 3250 3251 pnp_reserve_dma= 3252 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 3253 3254 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 3255 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 3256 3257 pnp_reserve_mem= 3258 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 3259 autoconfiguration. 3260 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 3261 3262 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 3263 Default is 21. 3264 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 3265 may be specified. 3266 Format: <port>,<port>.... 3267 3268 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 3269 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 3270 platform machine description specific power_save 3271 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 3272 execution priority. 3273 3274 ppc_strict_facility_enable 3275 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 3276 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 3277 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 3278 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 3279 3280 ppc_tm= [PPC] 3281 Format: {"off"} 3282 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 3283 3284 print-fatal-signals= 3285 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 3286 3287 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 3288 related application anomalies: too many signals, 3289 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 3290 coredump - etc. 3291 3292 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 3293 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 3294 3295 default: off. 3296 3297 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 3298 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 3299 panics 3300 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3301 default: disabled 3302 3303 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 3304 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 3305 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 3306 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 3307 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 3308 Default: ratelimit 3309 3310 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 3311 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3312 3313 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 3314 Limit processor to maximum C-state 3315 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 3316 3317 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 3318 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 3319 instead using the legacy FADT method 3320 3321 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 3322 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 3323 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 3324 [defaults to kernel profiling] 3325 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 3326 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 3327 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 3328 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 3329 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 3330 statistical time based profiling. 3331 3332 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk 3333 before loading. 3334 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 3335 3336 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 3337 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 3338 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 3339 per second. 3340 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 3341 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 3342 (0 = never). 3343 psmouse.resolution= 3344 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 3345 psmouse.smartscroll= 3346 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 3347 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 3348 3349 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 3350 3351 pt. [PARIDE] 3352 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3353 3354 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 3355 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 3356 removes hardening, but improves performance of 3357 system calls and interrupts. 3358 3359 on - unconditionally enable 3360 off - unconditionally disable 3361 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 3362 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 3363 3364 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 3365 3366 nopti [X86_64] 3367 Equivalent to pti=off 3368 3369 pty.legacy_count= 3370 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 3371 default number. 3372 3373 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 3374 3375 r128= [HW,DRM] 3376 3377 raid= [HW,RAID] 3378 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 3379 3380 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 3381 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 3382 3383 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 3384 3385 cec_disable [X86] 3386 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 3387 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 3388 3389 rcu_nocbs= [KNL] 3390 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3391 3392 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set 3393 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs. 3394 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will 3395 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for 3396 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" 3397 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" 3398 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the 3399 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and 3400 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy 3401 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 3402 3403 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 3404 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 3405 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 3406 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 3407 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 3408 This improves the real-time response for the 3409 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 3410 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 3411 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 3412 periodically wake up to do the polling. 3413 3414 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 3415 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 3416 process in one batch. 3417 3418 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 3419 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 3420 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 3421 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 3422 3423 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 3424 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3425 RCU grace-period cleanup. 3426 3427 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 3428 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3429 RCU grace-period initialization. 3430 3431 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 3432 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3433 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 3434 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 3435 the rcu_node combining tree. 3436 3437 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 3438 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 3439 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 3440 possibly be useful for architectures having high 3441 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 3442 3443 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 3444 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 3445 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 3446 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 3447 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 3448 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 3449 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 3450 3451 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 3452 Set required age in jiffies for a 3453 given grace period before RCU starts 3454 soliciting quiescent-state help from 3455 rcu_note_context_switch(). 3456 3457 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 3458 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 3459 first attempt to force quiescent states. 3460 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 3461 and maximum value is HZ. 3462 3463 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 3464 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 3465 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 3466 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 3467 3468 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 3469 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 3470 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 3471 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 3472 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 3473 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 3474 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 3475 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 3476 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 3477 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 3478 3479 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL] 3480 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which 3481 defaults to the square root of the number of 3482 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead 3483 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases 3484 that same overhead on each group's leader. 3485 3486 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 3487 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 3488 batch limiting is disabled. 3489 3490 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 3491 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 3492 batch limiting is re-enabled. 3493 3494 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL] 3495 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 3496 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 3497 3498 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL] 3499 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 3500 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 3501 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can 3502 prove do nothing more than free memory. 3503 3504 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 3505 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 3506 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 3507 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 3508 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 3509 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 3510 3511 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL] 3512 Measure performance of asynchronous 3513 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 3514 3515 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL] 3516 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 3517 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 3518 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 3519 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 3520 previously posted callbacks to drain. 3521 3522 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL] 3523 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 3524 grace-period primitives. 3525 3526 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL] 3527 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 3528 this parameter is to delay the start of the 3529 test until boot completes in order to avoid 3530 interference. 3531 3532 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL] 3533 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 3534 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 3535 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 3536 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 3537 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 3538 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 3539 a single reader. 3540 3541 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL] 3542 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 3543 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders. 3544 N, where N is the number of CPUs 3545 3546 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL] 3547 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 3548 3549 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL] 3550 Shut the system down after performance tests 3551 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 3552 testing. 3553 3554 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL] 3555 Enable additional printk() statements. 3556 3557 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 3558 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 3559 in microseconds. The default of zero says 3560 no holdoff. 3561 3562 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL] 3563 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive 3564 callback-flood tests. 3565 3566 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL] 3567 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive 3568 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood 3569 test. 3570 3571 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL] 3572 Set the number of bursts making up a given 3573 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to 3574 disable callback-flood testing. 3575 3576 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL] 3577 Set the number of callbacks to be registered 3578 in a given burst of a callback-flood test. 3579 3580 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 3581 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 3582 in microseconds. 3583 3584 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 3585 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 3586 in microseconds. 3587 3588 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 3589 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 3590 in seconds. 3591 3592 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 3593 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 3594 primitives, if available. 3595 3596 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 3597 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 3598 3599 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 3600 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 3601 update-side primitives, if available. 3602 3603 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 3604 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 3605 update-side primitives, if available. If all 3606 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 3607 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 3608 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 3609 they are all non-zero. 3610 3611 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 3612 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 3613 3614 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 3615 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 3616 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 3617 test, hence the "fake". 3618 3619 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 3620 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 3621 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 3622 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 3623 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 3624 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 3625 3626 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 3627 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 3628 3629 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 3630 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 3631 3632 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 3633 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 3634 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 3635 3636 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 3637 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 3638 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 3639 during the rcutorture test. 3640 3641 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 3642 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 3643 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 3644 3645 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 3646 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 3647 warnings, zero to disable. 3648 3649 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 3650 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 3651 3652 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 3653 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 3654 3655 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 3656 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 3657 3658 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 3659 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 3660 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 3661 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 3662 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 3663 3664 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 3665 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 3666 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 3667 under test support RCU priority boosting. 3668 3669 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 3670 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 3671 3672 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 3673 Interval (s) between each boost test. 3674 3675 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 3676 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 3677 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 3678 3679 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 3680 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 3681 3682 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 3683 Enable additional printk() statements. 3684 3685 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 3686 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 3687 3688 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 3689 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 3690 3691 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 3692 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 3693 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 3694 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 3695 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 3696 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 3697 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 3698 3699 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 3700 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 3701 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 3702 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 3703 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 3704 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 3705 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 3706 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 3707 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 3708 3709 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 3710 Once boot has completed (that is, after 3711 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 3712 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 3713 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 3714 3715 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 3716 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning 3717 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal 3718 to zero. 3719 3720 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 3721 Run the RCU early boot self tests 3722 3723 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL] 3724 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests 3725 3726 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL] 3727 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests 3728 3729 rdinit= [KNL] 3730 Format: <full_path> 3731 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 3732 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 3733 3734 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 3735 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 3736 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 3737 mba. 3738 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 3739 rdt=cmt,!mba 3740 3741 reboot= [KNL] 3742 Format (x86 or x86_64): 3743 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \ 3744 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 3745 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 3746 [[,]f[orce] 3747 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio, 3748 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 3749 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 3750 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 3751 to be used for rebooting. 3752 3753 relax_domain_level= 3754 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 3755 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt. 3756 3757 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 3758 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 3759 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 3760 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 3761 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 3762 3763 reservetop= [X86-32] 3764 Format: nn[KMG] 3765 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 3766 address space. 3767 3768 reservelow= [X86] 3769 Format: nn[K] 3770 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at 3771 the bottom of the address space. 3772 3773 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 3774 during initialization. 3775 3776 resume= [SWSUSP] 3777 Specify the partition device for software suspend 3778 Format: 3779 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 3780 3781 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 3782 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 3783 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 3784 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 3785 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt 3786 3787 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 3788 read the resume files 3789 3790 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 3791 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 3792 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 3793 3794 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 3795 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 3796 present during boot. 3797 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 3798 no Disable hibernation and resume. 3799 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 3800 (that will set all pages holding image data 3801 during restoration read-only). 3802 3803 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 3804 3805 rfkill.default_state= 3806 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 3807 etc. communication is blocked by default. 3808 1 Unblocked. 3809 3810 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 3811 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 3812 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 3813 blocked and the previous configuration. 3814 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 3815 blocked and everything unblocked. 3816 3817 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 3818 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 3819 3820 ring3mwait=disable 3821 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 3822 CPUs. 3823 3824 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 3825 3826 rodata= [KNL] 3827 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 3828 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 3829 3830 rockchip.usb_uart 3831 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 3832 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 3833 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 3834 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 3835 3836 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 3837 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 3838 3839 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 3840 mount the root filesystem 3841 3842 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 3843 3844 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 3845 3846 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 3847 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 3848 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 3849 3850 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 3851 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 3852 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 3853 managed by CMA. 3854 3855 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 3856 3857 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 3858 3859 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 3860 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 3861 strict 3862 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 3863 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 3864 which is faster. 3865 3866 sa1100ir [NET] 3867 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 3868 3869 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter 3870 3871 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 3872 3873 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 3874 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 3875 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 3876 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 3877 3878 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 3879 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 3880 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 3881 Format: { "0" | "1" } 3882 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 3883 1 -- enable. 3884 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 3885 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 3886 3887 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot. 3888 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first 3889 security module asking for security registration will be 3890 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated 3891 as if no module has been chosen. 3892 3893 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 3894 Format: { "0" | "1" } 3895 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 3896 0 -- disable. 3897 1 -- enable. 3898 Default value is set via kernel config option. 3899 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used 3900 later to disable prior to initial policy load. 3901 3902 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 3903 Format: { "0" | "1" } 3904 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 3905 0 -- disable. 3906 1 -- enable. 3907 Default value is set via kernel config option. 3908 3909 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 3910 3911 shapers= [NET] 3912 Maximal number of shapers. 3913 3914 simeth= [IA-64] 3915 simscsi= 3916 3917 slram= [HW,MTD] 3918 3919 slab_nomerge [MM] 3920 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 3921 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 3922 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 3923 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 3924 layout control by attackers can usually be 3925 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 3926 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 3927 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 3928 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 3929 own. 3930 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 3931 3932 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 3933 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 3934 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 3935 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 3936 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 3937 3938 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB] 3939 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 3940 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 3941 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 3942 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 3943 last alloc / free. For more information see 3944 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 3945 3946 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB] 3947 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for 3948 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable. 3949 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON. 3950 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug 3951 directories and files being created under 3952 /sys/kernel/slub. 3953 3954 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 3955 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 3956 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 3957 fragmentation. For more information see 3958 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 3959 3960 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 3961 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 3962 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 3963 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 3964 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 3965 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 3966 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 3967 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 3968 3969 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 3970 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 3971 lower than slub_max_order. 3972 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 3973 3974 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 3975 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 3976 See slab_nomerge for more information. 3977 3978 smart2= [HW] 3979 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 3980 3981 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 3982 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 3983 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 3984 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 3985 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 3986 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 3987 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 3988 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 3989 1: Fast pin select (default) 3990 2: ATC IRMode 3991 3992 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 3993 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 3994 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 3995 actual hardware limit. 3996 Format: <integer> 3997 Default: -1 (no limit) 3998 3999 softlockup_panic= 4000 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 4001 Format: <integer> 4002 4003 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector 4004 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This 4005 is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 4006 which is the respective build-time switch to that 4007 functionality. 4008 4009 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 4010 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 4011 backtraces on all cpus. 4012 Format: <integer> 4013 4014 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 4015 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt 4016 4017 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 4018 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 4019 4020 on - unconditionally enable 4021 off - unconditionally disable 4022 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4023 vulnerable 4024 4025 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 4026 mitigation method at run time according to the 4027 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 4028 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 4029 compiler with which the kernel was built. 4030 4031 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 4032 4033 retpoline - replace indirect branches 4034 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline 4035 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk 4036 4037 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4038 spectre_v2=auto. 4039 4040 spec_store_bypass_disable= 4041 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 4042 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 4043 4044 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 4045 a common industry wide performance optimization known 4046 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 4047 to the same memory location may not be observed by 4048 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 4049 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 4050 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 4051 end of a particular speculation execution window. 4052 4053 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 4054 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 4055 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 4056 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 4057 4058 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 4059 Bypass optimization is used. 4060 4061 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 4062 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 4063 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 4064 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 4065 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 4066 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 4067 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 4068 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 4069 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 4070 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 4071 for a process by default. The state of the control 4072 is inherited on fork. 4073 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 4074 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 4075 4076 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4077 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 4078 4079 Default mitigations: 4080 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 4081 4082 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 4083 spia_fio_base= 4084 spia_pedr= 4085 spia_peddr= 4086 4087 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 4088 Specifies how frequently to check for 4089 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 4090 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 4091 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 4092 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 4093 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 4094 are ignored. 4095 4096 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 4097 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 4098 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 4099 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 4100 grace period will be considered for automatic 4101 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 4102 expediting. 4103 4104 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 4105 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 4106 4107 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 4108 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 4109 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 4110 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 4111 4112 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 4113 for both kernel and userspace 4114 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 4115 for both kernel and userspace 4116 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 4117 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 4118 to allow userspace to register its 4119 interest in being mitigated too. 4120 4121 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 4122 override the default stack gap protection. The value 4123 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 4124 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 4125 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 4126 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 4127 4128 stacktrace [FTRACE] 4129 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 4130 4131 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 4132 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 4133 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 4134 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 4135 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 4136 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 4137 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 4138 4139 sti= [PARISC,HW] 4140 Format: <num> 4141 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 4142 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 4143 as the initial boot-console. 4144 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 4145 4146 sti_font= [HW] 4147 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 4148 4149 stifb= [HW] 4150 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 4151 4152 sunrpc.min_resvport= 4153 sunrpc.max_resvport= 4154 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4155 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 4156 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 4157 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 4158 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 4159 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 4160 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 4161 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 4162 maximum port values. 4163 4164 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 4165 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4166 Limit the number of requests that the server will 4167 process in parallel from a single connection. 4168 The default value is 0 (no limit). 4169 4170 sunrpc.pool_mode= 4171 [NFS] 4172 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 4173 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 4174 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 4175 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 4176 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 4177 NFS server is running. 4178 4179 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 4180 automatically using heuristics 4181 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 4182 percpu one pool for each CPU 4183 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 4184 to global on non-NUMA machines) 4185 4186 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 4187 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 4188 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4189 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 4190 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 4191 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 4192 improve throughput, but will also increase the 4193 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 4194 4195 suspend.pm_test_delay= 4196 [SUSPEND] 4197 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 4198 mode before resuming the system (see 4199 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 4200 is set. Default value is 5. 4201 4202 swapaccount=[0|1] 4203 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 4204 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 4205 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt) 4206 4207 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 4208 Format: { <int> | force | noforce } 4209 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 4210 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 4211 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 4212 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 4213 4214 switches= [HW,M68k] 4215 4216 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 4217 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 4218 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 4219 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 4220 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 4221 in older udev will not work anymore. 4222 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 4223 the kernel configuration. 4224 4225 sysrq_always_enabled 4226 [KNL] 4227 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 4228 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 4229 Useful for debugging. 4230 4231 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4232 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 4233 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 4234 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 4235 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt 4236 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 4237 4238 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 4239 4240 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N] 4241 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 4242 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 4243 as the system sleep state during system startup with 4244 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 4245 The system is woken from this state using a 4246 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 4247 4248 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4249 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 4250 4251 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 4252 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 4253 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 4254 4255 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 4256 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 4257 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 4258 4259 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 4260 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 4261 critical and hot trip points. 4262 4263 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 4264 1: disable ACPI thermal control 4265 4266 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 4267 -1: disable all passive trip points 4268 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 4269 value 4270 4271 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 4272 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 4273 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 4274 0: no polling (default) 4275 4276 threadirqs [KNL] 4277 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 4278 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 4279 4280 tmem [KNL,XEN] 4281 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in. 4282 4283 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4284 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache 4285 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor. 4286 4287 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4288 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap 4289 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled 4290 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled. 4291 4292 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4293 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages 4294 to the hypervisor. 4295 4296 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4297 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately 4298 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the 4299 kernel based on different criteria. 4300 4301 topology= [S390] 4302 Format: {off | on} 4303 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 4304 topology information if the hardware supports this. 4305 The scheduler will make use of this information and 4306 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 4307 Default is on. 4308 4309 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 4310 Format: {off} 4311 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 4312 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 4313 LPAR. 4314 4315 tp720= [HW,PS2] 4316 4317 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 4318 Format: integer pcr id 4319 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 4320 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 4321 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 4322 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 4323 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 4324 are saved. 4325 4326 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 4327 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 4328 4329 trace_event=[event-list] 4330 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 4331 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 4332 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See 4333 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 4334 4335 trace_options=[option-list] 4336 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 4337 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 4338 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 4339 to echo the option name into 4340 4341 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 4342 4343 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 4344 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 4345 4346 trace_options=stacktrace 4347 4348 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 4349 section. 4350 4351 tp_printk[FTRACE] 4352 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 4353 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 4354 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 4355 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 4356 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 4357 4358 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 4359 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 4360 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 4361 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 4362 4363 ** CAUTION ** 4364 4365 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 4366 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 4367 the system to live lock. 4368 4369 traceoff_on_warning 4370 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 4371 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 4372 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 4373 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 4374 4375 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 4376 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 4377 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 4378 4379 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 4380 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 4381 4382 transparent_hugepage= 4383 [KNL] 4384 Format: [always|madvise|never] 4385 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 4386 with respect to transparent hugepages. 4387 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 4388 for more details. 4389 4390 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 4391 Format: <string> 4392 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 4393 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 4394 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 4395 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 4396 virtualized environment. 4397 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 4398 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 4399 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 4400 can add overhead. 4401 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 4402 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 4403 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 4404 4405 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 4406 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 4407 Format: 4408 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 4409 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 4410 4411 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 4412 happen after console_init() and before a proper 4413 console driver takes over, this boot options might 4414 help "seeing" what's going on. 4415 4416 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4417 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 4418 4419 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 4420 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 4421 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 4422 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 4423 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 4424 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 4425 reported either. 4426 4427 unknown_nmi_panic 4428 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 4429 4430 usbcore.authorized_default= 4431 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 4432 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 4433 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized) 4434 4435 usbcore.autosuspend= 4436 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 4437 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 4438 is the time required before an idle device will be 4439 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 4440 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 4441 4442 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 4443 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 4444 4445 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 4446 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 4447 (default = 65536). 4448 4449 usbcore.blinkenlights= 4450 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 4451 4452 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 4453 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 4454 scheme (default 0 = off). 4455 4456 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 4457 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 4458 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 4459 4460 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 4461 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 4462 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 4463 4464 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 4465 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 4466 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 4467 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 4468 4469 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 4470 4471 usbcore.quirks= 4472 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 4473 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 4474 commas. Each entry has the form 4475 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 4476 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 4477 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 4478 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 4479 the following meanings: 4480 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 4481 descriptors must not be fetched using 4482 a 255-byte read); 4483 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 4484 correctly so reset it instead); 4485 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 4486 Set-Interface requests); 4487 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 4488 handle its Configuration or Interface 4489 strings); 4490 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 4491 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 4492 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 4493 more interface descriptions than the 4494 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 4495 talking to these interfaces); 4496 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 4497 during initialization, after we read 4498 the device descriptor); 4499 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 4500 high speed and super speed interrupt 4501 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 4502 require the interval in microframes (1 4503 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 4504 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 4505 (bInterval-1). 4506 Devices with this quirk report their 4507 bInterval as the result of this 4508 calculation instead of the exponent 4509 variable used in the calculation); 4510 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 4511 handle device_qualifier descriptor 4512 requests); 4513 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 4514 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 4515 remote wakeup capability); 4516 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 4517 Power Management); 4518 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 4519 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 4520 frames instead of the USB 2.0 4521 calculation); 4522 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 4523 to be disconnected before suspend to 4524 prevent spurious wakeup); 4525 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 4526 pause after every control message); 4527 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 4528 4529 usbhid.mousepoll= 4530 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 4531 4532 usbhid.jspoll= 4533 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 4534 4535 usbhid.kbpoll= 4536 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 4537 4538 usb-storage.delay_use= 4539 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 4540 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 4541 4542 usb-storage.quirks= 4543 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 4544 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 4545 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 4546 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 4547 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 4548 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 4549 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 4550 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 4551 of sense data); 4552 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 4553 bytes of sense data); 4554 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 4555 device capacity by one sector); 4556 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 4557 READ_DISC_INFO command); 4558 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 4559 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 4560 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 4561 command, uas only); 4562 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 4563 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 4564 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 4565 reported device capacity by one 4566 sector if the number is odd); 4567 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 4568 device); 4569 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 4570 command, uas only); 4571 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 4572 unlock ejectable media); 4573 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 4574 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time); 4575 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 4576 initial READ(10) command); 4577 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 4578 reported by the device); 4579 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 4580 by default); 4581 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 4582 bogus residue values); 4583 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 4584 Logical Unit); 4585 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 4586 commands, uas only); 4587 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 4588 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 4589 medium is write-protected). 4590 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 4591 even if the device claims no cache) 4592 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 4593 4594 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 4595 Format: <int> 4596 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 4597 1 - undefined instruction events 4598 2 - system calls 4599 4 - invalid data aborts 4600 8 - SIGSEGV faults 4601 16 - SIGBUS faults 4602 Example: user_debug=31 4603 4604 userpte= 4605 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 4606 4607 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 4608 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 4609 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 4610 4611 vdso= [X86,SH] 4612 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 4613 4614 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 4615 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 4616 4617 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 4618 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 4619 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 4620 4621 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 4622 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 4623 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 4624 4625 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 4626 alias for vdso32=0. 4627 4628 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 4629 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 4630 4631 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 4632 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 4633 4634 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 4635 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt. 4636 4637 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1] 4638 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 4639 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 4640 level and then send out the event to user space through 4641 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver 4642 will only send out the event without touching backlight 4643 brightness level. 4644 default: 1 4645 4646 virtio_mmio.device= 4647 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 4648 4649 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 4650 where: 4651 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 4652 like K, M and G) 4653 <baseaddr> := physical base address 4654 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 4655 request_irq()) 4656 <id> := (optional) platform device id 4657 example: 4658 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 4659 4660 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 4661 4662 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 4663 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and 4664 Documentation/svga.txt. 4665 Use vga=ask for menu. 4666 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 4667 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 4668 4669 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 4670 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 4671 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 4672 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 4673 mapped kernel RAM. 4674 4675 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 4676 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 4677 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 4678 4679 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 4680 Format: <command> 4681 4682 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 4683 Format: <command> 4684 4685 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 4686 Format: <command> 4687 4688 vsyscall= [X86-64] 4689 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 4690 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 4691 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 4692 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 4693 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 4694 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 4695 4696 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 4697 emulated reasonably safely. 4698 4699 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions. 4700 This is a little bit faster than trapping 4701 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work 4702 better than they would in emulation mode. 4703 It also makes exploits much easier to write. 4704 4705 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 4706 them quite hard to use for exploits but 4707 might break your system. 4708 4709 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 4710 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 4711 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 4712 4713 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 4714 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 4715 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 4716 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 4717 4718 vt.default_blu= [VT] 4719 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 4720 Change the default blue palette of the console. 4721 This is a 16-member array composed of values 4722 ranging from 0-255. 4723 4724 vt.default_grn= [VT] 4725 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 4726 Change the default green palette of the console. 4727 This is a 16-member array composed of values 4728 ranging from 0-255. 4729 4730 vt.default_red= [VT] 4731 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 4732 Change the default red palette of the console. 4733 This is a 16-member array composed of values 4734 ranging from 0-255. 4735 4736 vt.default_utf8= 4737 [VT] 4738 Format=<0|1> 4739 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 4740 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 4741 newly opened terminals. 4742 4743 vt.global_cursor_default= 4744 [VT] 4745 Format=<-1|0|1> 4746 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 4747 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 4748 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 4749 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 4750 cursors, 1 will display them. 4751 4752 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 4753 Default: 2 = green. 4754 4755 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 4756 Default: 3 = cyan. 4757 4758 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 4759 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt 4760 or other driver-specific files in the 4761 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 4762 4763 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 4764 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 4765 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 4766 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 4767 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 4768 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 4769 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 4770 corresponding sysfs file. 4771 4772 workqueue.disable_numa 4773 By default, all work items queued to unbound 4774 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 4775 issued on, which results in better behavior in 4776 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 4777 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 4778 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 4779 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 4780 4781 workqueue.power_efficient 4782 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 4783 they show better performance thanks to cache 4784 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 4785 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 4786 4787 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 4788 were observed to contribute significantly to power 4789 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 4790 power usage at the cost of small performance 4791 overhead. 4792 4793 The default value of this parameter is determined by 4794 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 4795 4796 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 4797 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 4798 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 4799 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 4800 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 4801 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 4802 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 4803 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 4804 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 4805 impacted. 4806 4807 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 4808 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 4809 supporting x2apic. 4810 4811 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT] 4812 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform. 4813 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer 4814 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer. 4815 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt 4816 4817 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 4818 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 4819 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 4820 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 4821 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 4822 domains. 4823 4824 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 4825 Unplug Xen emulated devices 4826 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 4827 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 4828 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 4829 nics -- unplug network devices 4830 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 4831 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 4832 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 4833 the unplug protocol 4834 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 4835 4836 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 4837 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV 4838 optimizations. 4839 4840 xen_nopv [X86] 4841 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 4842 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 4843 4844 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 4845 Format: 4846 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 4847 4848 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 4849 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 4850 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 4851 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 4852