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