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