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 domain 1766 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 1767 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 1768 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 1769 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 1770 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 1771 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 1772 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 1773 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 1774 1775 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 1776 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 1777 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 1778 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 1779 1780 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 1781 1782 1783 1784 iucv= [HW,NET] 1785 1786 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64] 1787 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 1788 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1789 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 1790 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 1791 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 1792 1793 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64] 1794 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 1795 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1796 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to 1797 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 1798 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 1799 1800 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64] 1801 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 1802 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1803 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 1804 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 1805 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 1806 1807 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 1808 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 1809 1810 nokaslr [KNL] 1811 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 1812 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 1813 Layout Randomization). 1814 1815 kasan_multi_shot 1816 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 1817 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 1818 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 1819 invalid access. 1820 1821 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 1822 1823 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 1824 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror" 1825 This parameter 1826 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel 1827 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is 1828 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The 1829 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable 1830 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both 1831 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will 1832 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number 1833 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the 1834 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved 1835 by the page migration subsystem. This means that 1836 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone. 1837 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still 1838 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 1839 zone if it does not. 1840 1841 Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]), 1842 you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror" 1843 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 1844 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 1845 for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive, 1846 so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same 1847 time. 1848 1849 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 1850 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 1851 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 1852 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 1853 optional and is the number seconds in between 1854 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 1855 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 1856 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 1857 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 1858 the kernel debugger. 1859 1860 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 1861 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 1862 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 1863 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 1864 keyboard only format: kbd 1865 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 1866 Optional Kernel mode setting: 1867 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 1868 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 1869 1870 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 1871 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 1872 1873 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address. 1874 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 1875 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 1876 1877 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 1878 Valid arguments: on, off 1879 Default: on 1880 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 1881 the default is off. 1882 1883 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 1884 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 1885 1886 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit 1887 KVM MMU at runtime. 1888 Default is 0 (off) 1889 1890 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 1891 Default is 1 (enabled) 1892 1893 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 1894 for all guests. 1895 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 1896 1897 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 1898 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 1899 system registers 1900 1901 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 1902 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 1903 system registers 1904 1905 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 1906 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 1907 system registers 1908 1909 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 1910 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 1911 LPIs. 1912 1913 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 1914 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 1915 Default is 1 (enabled) 1916 1917 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 1918 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states 1919 Default is 0 (disabled) 1920 1921 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 1922 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 1923 Default is 1 (enabled) 1924 1925 kvm-intel.nested= 1926 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 1927 Default is 0 (disabled) 1928 1929 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 1930 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 1931 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 1932 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 1933 1934 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 1935 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 1936 Default is 1 (enabled) 1937 1938 l2cr= [PPC] 1939 1940 l3cr= [PPC] 1941 1942 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 1943 disabled it. 1944 1945 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline 1946 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 1947 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 1948 1949 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 1950 in C2 power state. 1951 1952 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 1953 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 1954 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 1955 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 1956 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 1957 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 1958 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 1959 1960 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 1961 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 1962 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 1963 1964 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 1965 when set. 1966 Format: <int> 1967 1968 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma 1969 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is 1970 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers 1971 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches 1972 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If 1973 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE 1974 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the 1975 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices. 1976 1977 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 1978 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 1979 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 1980 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 1981 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 1982 host link and device attached to it. 1983 1984 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 1985 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed. 1986 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 1987 The following configurations can be forced. 1988 1989 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 1990 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 1991 1992 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 1993 1994 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 1995 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 1996 allowed. 1997 1998 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 1999 2000 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM. 2001 2002 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft 2003 and both resets. 2004 2005 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during 2006 hot-unplug link recovery 2007 2008 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data. 2009 2010 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support 2011 2012 * disable: Disable this device. 2013 2014 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2015 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2016 2017 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 2018 2019 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy 2020 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 2021 2022 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2023 Format: <integer> 2024 2025 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2026 Format: <integer> 2027 2028 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2029 Format: <integer> 2030 2031 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2032 Format: <integer> 2033 2034 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2035 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2036 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2037 number of online CPUs. 2038 2039 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2040 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2041 2042 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2043 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2044 2045 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2046 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2047 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2048 2049 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2050 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2051 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2052 mode during the locktorture test. 2053 2054 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2055 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2056 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2057 2058 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2059 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2060 2061 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2062 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2063 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2064 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2065 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2066 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2067 2068 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2069 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2070 2071 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2072 Enable additional printk() statements. 2073 2074 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2075 Format: <irq> 2076 2077 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2078 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2079 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2080 loglevels are defined as follows: 2081 2082 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2083 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2084 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2085 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2086 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2087 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2088 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2089 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2090 2091 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2092 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2093 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2094 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2095 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2096 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2097 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2098 2099 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2100 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2101 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2102 kernel boot problems. 2103 2104 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2105 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2106 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2107 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2108 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2109 attached printers to be reset. Using 2110 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2111 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2112 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2113 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2114 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2115 port specification list means that device IDs 2116 from each port should be examined, to see if 2117 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2118 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2119 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2120 2121 lpj=n [KNL] 2122 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2123 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2124 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2125 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2126 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2127 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2128 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2129 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2130 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2131 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2132 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2133 hardware. 2134 2135 ltpc= [NET] 2136 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2137 2138 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2139 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2140 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb 2141 2142 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different 2143 yeeloong laptop. 2144 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2145 2146 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater 2147 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2148 2149 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2150 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2151 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2152 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2153 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2154 only takes effect during system bootup. 2155 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2156 which also disables the IO APIC. 2157 2158 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2159 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2160 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2161 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2162 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2163 /dev/loop-control interface. 2164 2165 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2166 2167 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt 2168 2169 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2170 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2171 2172 mdacon= [MDA] 2173 Format: <first>,<last> 2174 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2175 2176 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2177 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able 2178 to see the whole system memory or for test. 2179 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 2180 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 2181 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 2182 belonging to unused RAM. 2183 2184 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 2185 memory. 2186 2187 memchunk=nn[KMG] 2188 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 2189 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 2190 2191 memhp_default_state=online/offline 2192 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 2193 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 2194 set according to the 2195 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 2196 option. 2197 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt. 2198 2199 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 2200 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 2201 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 2202 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 2203 option description. 2204 2205 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 2206 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 2207 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 2208 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 2209 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 2210 Multiple different regions can be specified, 2211 comma delimited. 2212 Example: 2213 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 2214 2215 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 2216 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 2217 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 2218 2219 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 2220 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 2221 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 2222 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 2223 memmap=64K$0x18690000 2224 or 2225 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 2226 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 2227 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 2228 will be eaten. 2229 2230 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 2231 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 2232 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 2233 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 2234 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 2235 2236 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 2237 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 2238 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 2239 Setting this option will scan the memory 2240 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 2241 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 2242 from using the memory being corrupted. 2243 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 2244 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 2245 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 2246 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 2247 2248 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 2249 By default it checks for corruption in the low 2250 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 2251 use. Use this parameter to scan for 2252 corruption in more or less memory. 2253 2254 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 2255 By default it checks for corruption every 60 2256 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 2257 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 2258 2259 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest 2260 Format: <integer> 2261 default : 0 <disable> 2262 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 2263 performed. Each pass selects another test 2264 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 2265 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 2266 memory contents and reserves bad memory 2267 regions that are detected. 2268 2269 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 2270 Valid arguments: on, off 2271 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 2272 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 2273 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 2274 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 2275 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 2276 2277 Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt 2278 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 2279 2280 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 2281 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 2282 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 2283 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 2284 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 2285 2286 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 2287 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst. 2288 2289 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 2290 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 2291 platforms. 2292 2293 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 2294 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 2295 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 2296 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 2297 2298 mga= [HW,DRM] 2299 2300 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this 2301 physical address is ignored. 2302 2303 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 2304 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 2305 Default: "0tb" 2306 MINI2440 configuration specification: 2307 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 2308 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 2309 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 2310 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 2311 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 2312 unconfigured. 2313 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 2314 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 2315 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 2316 VGA shield. 2317 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 2318 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 2319 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 2320 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 2321 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 2322 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 2323 2324 mminit_loglevel= 2325 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 2326 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 2327 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 2328 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 2329 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 2330 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 2331 2332 module.sig_enforce 2333 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 2334 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 2335 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 2336 is always true, so this option does nothing. 2337 2338 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 2339 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 2340 2341 mousedev.tap_time= 2342 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 2343 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 2344 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 2345 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 2346 Format: <msecs> 2347 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 2348 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2349 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 2350 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2351 2352 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter 2353 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the 2354 amount of memory used for migratable allocations. 2355 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified, 2356 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified 2357 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own 2358 is specified, the administrator must be careful 2359 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 2360 is not too small. 2361 2362 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 2363 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 2364 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 2365 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 2366 allocations. Use with caution! 2367 2368 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 2369 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 2370 2371 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 2372 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 2373 2374 mtdparts= [MTD] 2375 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c. 2376 2377 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 2378 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 2379 at a time. 2380 2381 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 2382 2383 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 2384 2385 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 2386 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 2387 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 2388 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 2389 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 2390 2391 mtdset= [ARM] 2392 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 2393 2394 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c 2395 2396 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 2397 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 2398 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 2399 2400 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2401 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 2402 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 2403 2404 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2405 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 2406 Default is 1. 2407 Large value could prevent small alignment from 2408 using up MTRRs. 2409 2410 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 2411 Format: <integer> 2412 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 2413 Default : 1 2414 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 2415 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 2416 2417 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 2418 2419 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 2420 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 2421 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 2422 something different and driver-specific. 2423 This usage is only documented in each driver source 2424 file if at all. 2425 2426 nf_conntrack.acct= 2427 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 2428 0 to disable accounting 2429 1 to enable accounting 2430 Default value is 0. 2431 2432 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 2433 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2434 2435 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 2436 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2437 2438 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 2439 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2440 2441 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 2442 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 2443 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 2444 requests. 2445 2446 nfs.callback_tcpport= 2447 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 2448 channel should listen. 2449 2450 nfs.cache_getent= 2451 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 2452 to update the NFS client cache entries. 2453 2454 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 2455 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 2456 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 2457 2458 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 2459 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 2460 entries. 2461 2462 nfs.enable_ino64= 2463 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 2464 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 2465 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 2466 of returning the full 64-bit number. 2467 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 2468 2469 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 2470 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 2471 slots the client will assign to the callback 2472 channel. This determines the maximum number of 2473 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 2474 a particular server. 2475 2476 nfs.max_session_slots= 2477 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 2478 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 2479 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 2480 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 2481 Note that there is little point in setting this 2482 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 2483 2484 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2485 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 2486 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 2487 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 2488 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 2489 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 2490 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 2491 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 2492 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 2493 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 2494 back to using the idmapper. 2495 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 2496 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 2497 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 2498 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 2499 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 2500 UUID that is generated at system install time. 2501 2502 nfs.send_implementation_id = 2503 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 2504 information in exchange_id requests. 2505 If zero, no implementation identification information 2506 will be sent. 2507 The default is to send the implementation identification 2508 information. 2509 2510 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 2511 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 2512 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 2513 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 2514 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 2515 after the locks are lost. 2516 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 2517 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 2518 parameter to '1'. 2519 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 2520 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 2521 2522 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 2523 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 2524 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 2525 2526 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 2527 whatever value is the default set by the layout 2528 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 2529 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 2530 2531 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2532 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 2533 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 2534 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 2535 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 2536 migration from NFSv2/v3. 2537 2538 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 2539 when a NMI is triggered. 2540 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 2541 2542 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 2543 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 2544 Valid num: 0 or 1 2545 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 2546 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 2547 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 2548 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite 2549 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 2550 please see 'nowatchdog'. 2551 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 2552 need the box quickly up again. 2553 2554 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 2555 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 2556 2557 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 2558 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 2559 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 2560 waits 4 seconds. 2561 2562 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 2563 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 2564 is present. 2565 2566 no_console_suspend 2567 [HW] Never suspend the console 2568 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 2569 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 2570 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 2571 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 2572 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 2573 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 2574 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 2575 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 2576 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 2577 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 2578 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 2579 turn on/off it dynamically. 2580 2581 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 2582 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 2583 but will impact performance. 2584 2585 noalign [KNL,ARM] 2586 2587 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 2588 (CPU alternatives feature). 2589 2590 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 2591 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 2592 2593 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 2594 2595 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem 2596 on "Classic" PPC cores. 2597 2598 nocache [ARM] 2599 2600 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction 2601 2602 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting 2603 2604 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 2605 2606 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 2607 2608 noexec [IA-64] 2609 2610 noexec [X86] 2611 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels. 2612 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 2613 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings 2614 2615 nosmap [X86] 2616 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 2617 even if it is supported by processor. 2618 2619 nosmep [X86] 2620 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 2621 even if it is supported by processor. 2622 2623 noexec32 [X86-64] 2624 This affects only 32-bit executables. 2625 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 2626 read doesn't imply executable mappings 2627 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 2628 read implies executable mappings 2629 2630 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 2631 2632 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 2633 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 2634 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 2635 2636 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 2637 2638 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 2639 Equivalent to smt=1. 2640 2641 nospectre_v2 [X86] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2 2642 (indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may 2643 allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent 2644 to spectre_v2=off. 2645 2646 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 2647 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 2648 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 2649 2650 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 2651 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 2652 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 2653 performance of saving the states is degraded because 2654 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 2655 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 2656 2657 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 2658 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 2659 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 2660 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 2661 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 2662 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 2663 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 2664 2665 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or 2666 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to 2667 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger. 2668 2669 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 2670 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 2671 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 2672 2673 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 2674 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 2675 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 2676 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 2677 in certain environments such as networked servers or 2678 real-time systems. 2679 2680 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 2681 2682 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 2683 Valid arguments: on, off 2684 Default: on 2685 2686 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 2687 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2688 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 2689 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 2690 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 2691 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 2692 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 2693 just as if they had also been called out in the 2694 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 2695 2696 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 2697 2698 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 2699 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 2700 2701 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 2702 broken timer IRQ sources. 2703 2704 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 2705 2706 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 2707 initial RAM disk. 2708 2709 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 2710 remapping. 2711 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 2712 2713 nointroute [IA-64] 2714 2715 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 2716 2717 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 2718 2719 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 2720 2721 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 2722 fault handling. 2723 2724 no-vmw-sched-clock 2725 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 2726 clock and use the default one. 2727 2728 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. 2729 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler 2730 behaviour 2731 2732 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 2733 2734 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 2735 2736 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel 2737 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx 2738 2739 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 2740 2741 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 2742 2743 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 2744 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 2745 2746 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 2747 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 2748 irq. 2749 2750 nomodule Disable module load 2751 2752 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 2753 pagetables) support. 2754 2755 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 2756 2757 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 2758 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 2759 2760 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 2761 with UP alternatives 2762 2763 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and 2764 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported 2765 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still 2766 available to user space applications. 2767 2768 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 2769 space. 2770 2771 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 2772 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 2773 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 2774 2775 nosbagart [IA-64] 2776 2777 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. 2778 2779 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 2780 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 2781 2782 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 2783 2784 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 2785 2786 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter 2787 2788 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 2789 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 2790 2791 nowb [ARM] 2792 2793 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 2794 2795 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 2796 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 2797 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 2798 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 2799 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 2800 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 2801 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 2802 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 2803 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 2804 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 2805 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 2806 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 2807 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 2808 2809 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 2810 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 2811 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 2812 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 2813 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 2814 parameter's value. 2815 Format: integer between 1 and 255 2816 Default: 255 2817 2818 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 2819 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 2820 SAL PALO. 2821 2822 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2823 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 2824 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 2825 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 2826 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 2827 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 2828 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 2829 hot plugging. 2830 2831 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 2832 2833 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing. 2834 Allowed values are enable and disable 2835 2836 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 2837 'node', 'default' can be specified 2838 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 2839 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details. 2840 2841 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 2842 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more 2843 info. 2844 2845 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 2846 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 2847 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 2848 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 2849 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 2850 interrupts *may* be lost! 2851 2852 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 2853 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 2854 For example, to override I2C bus2: 2855 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 2856 2857 oprofile.timer= [HW] 2858 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters 2859 2860 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type 2861 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile 2862 userland or if you want common events. 2863 Format: { arch_perfmon } 2864 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural 2865 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the 2866 CPU specific event set. 2867 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI 2868 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer 2869 for generic hr timer mode) 2870 2871 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 2872 process, but there is a small probability of 2873 deadlocking the machine. 2874 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 2875 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 2876 2877 OSS [HW,OSS] 2878 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt 2879 2880 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 2881 Storage of the information about who allocated 2882 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 2883 we can turn it on. 2884 on: enable the feature 2885 2886 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 2887 poisoning on the buddy allocator. 2888 off: turn off poisoning 2889 on: turn on poisoning 2890 2891 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 2892 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 2893 timeout = 0: wait forever 2894 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 2895 Format: <timeout> 2896 2897 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 2898 on a WARN(). 2899 2900 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 2901 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 2902 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 2903 succeeds in any situation. 2904 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 2905 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 2906 kernel more unstable. 2907 2908 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 2909 connected to, default is 0. 2910 Format: <parport#> 2911 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 2912 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 2913 Format: <mode> 2914 2915 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 2916 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 2917 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 2918 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 2919 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 2920 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 2921 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 2922 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 2923 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 2924 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 2925 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 2926 are specified on the command line, starting 2927 with parport0. 2928 2929 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 2930 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 2931 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 2932 computer where firmware has no options for setting 2933 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 2934 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 2935 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 2936 2937 pause_on_oops= 2938 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 2939 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 2940 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 2941 2942 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 2943 2944 pcd. [PARIDE] 2945 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 2946 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 2947 2948 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options: 2949 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel 2950 changes anything 2951 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 2952 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 2953 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 2954 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 2955 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 2956 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 2957 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 2958 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 2959 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 2960 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 2961 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 2962 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 2963 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 2964 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 2965 bus number. The config space is then accessed 2966 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 2967 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 2968 on the configuration access mechanisms. 2969 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 2970 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 2971 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 2972 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 2973 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 2974 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 2975 Configuration 2976 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 2977 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 2978 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 2979 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 2980 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 2981 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 2982 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 2983 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 2984 should never be necessary. 2985 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 2986 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 2987 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 2988 when the system masks IRQs. 2989 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 2990 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 2991 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 2992 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 2993 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 2994 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 2995 on several machines and they hang the machine 2996 when used, but on other computers it's the only 2997 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 2998 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 2999 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 3000 motherboard. 3001 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 3002 Use with caution as certain devices share 3003 address decoders between ROMs and other 3004 resources. 3005 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 3006 expansion ROMs that do not already have 3007 BIOS assigned address ranges. 3008 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 3009 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 3010 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 3011 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 3012 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 3013 this way. 3014 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 3015 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 3016 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 3017 F0000h-100000h range. 3018 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 3019 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 3020 secondary buses and you want to tell it 3021 explicitly which ones they are. 3022 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 3023 numbers ourselves, overriding 3024 whatever the firmware may have done. 3025 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 3026 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 3027 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 3028 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 3029 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 3030 IRQ routing is enabled. 3031 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 3032 or for PCI scanning. 3033 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 3034 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 3035 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 3036 please report a bug. 3037 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 3038 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 3039 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 3040 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 3041 so this option is a temporary workaround 3042 for broken drivers that don't call it. 3043 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 3044 handle more pci cards 3045 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 3046 This might help on some broken boards which 3047 machine check when some devices' config space 3048 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 3049 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 3050 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3051 This sorting is done to get a device 3052 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 3053 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3054 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 3055 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 3056 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 3057 supported by all devices below the root complex. 3058 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 3059 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 3060 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 3061 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 3062 or bus can support) for best performance. 3063 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 3064 every device is guaranteed to support. This 3065 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 3066 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 3067 reduced performance. This also guarantees 3068 that hot-added devices will work. 3069 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3070 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 3071 The default value is 256 bytes. 3072 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3073 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 3074 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 3075 resource_alignment= 3076 Format: 3077 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...] 3078 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\ 3079 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...] 3080 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 3081 aligned memory resources. 3082 If <order of align> is not specified, 3083 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 3084 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource 3085 windows need to be expanded. 3086 To specify the alignment for several 3087 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 3088 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 3089 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 3090 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 3091 end-to-end CRC checking). 3092 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 3093 the default. 3094 off: Turn ECRC off 3095 on: Turn ECRC on. 3096 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3097 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 3098 Default size is 256 bytes. 3099 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3100 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window. 3101 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3102 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 3103 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 3104 Default is 1. 3105 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 3106 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 3107 accommodate resources required by all child 3108 devices. 3109 off: Turn realloc off 3110 on: Turn realloc on 3111 realloc same as realloc=on 3112 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 3113 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 3114 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 3115 port. 3116 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 3117 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 3118 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 3119 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 3120 conflict with unreported devices), so this 3121 taints the kernel. 3122 3123 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 3124 Management. 3125 off Disable ASPM. 3126 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 3127 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 3128 3129 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options: 3130 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this 3131 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services). 3132 3133 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling: 3134 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services 3135 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use 3136 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS. 3137 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports 3138 unconditionally. 3139 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe 3140 ports driver. 3141 3142 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 3143 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 3144 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 3145 3146 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 3147 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 3148 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 3149 3150 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 3151 3152 pd_ignore_unused 3153 [PM] 3154 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 3155 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 3156 for debug and development, but should not be 3157 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 3158 3159 pd. [PARIDE] 3160 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3161 3162 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 3163 boot time. 3164 Format: { 0 | 1 } 3165 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 3166 3167 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 3168 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 3169 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 3170 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 3171 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 3172 and performance comparison. 3173 3174 pf. [PARIDE] 3175 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3176 3177 pg. [PARIDE] 3178 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3179 3180 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 3181 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt. 3182 3183 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 3184 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 3185 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 3186 3187 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 3188 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 3189 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 3190 3191 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 3192 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 3193 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 3194 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 3195 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 3196 possible settings and some assignment information. 3197 3198 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 3199 { off } 3200 3201 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 3202 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 3203 3204 pnp_reserve_irq= 3205 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 3206 3207 pnp_reserve_dma= 3208 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 3209 3210 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 3211 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 3212 3213 pnp_reserve_mem= 3214 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 3215 autoconfiguration. 3216 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 3217 3218 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 3219 Default is 21. 3220 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 3221 may be specified. 3222 Format: <port>,<port>.... 3223 3224 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 3225 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 3226 platform machine description specific power_save 3227 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 3228 execution priority. 3229 3230 ppc_strict_facility_enable 3231 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 3232 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 3233 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 3234 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 3235 3236 ppc_tm= [PPC] 3237 Format: {"off"} 3238 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 3239 3240 print-fatal-signals= 3241 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 3242 3243 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 3244 related application anomalies: too many signals, 3245 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 3246 coredump - etc. 3247 3248 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 3249 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 3250 3251 default: off. 3252 3253 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 3254 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 3255 panics 3256 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3257 default: disabled 3258 3259 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 3260 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 3261 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 3262 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 3263 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 3264 Default: ratelimit 3265 3266 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 3267 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3268 3269 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 3270 Limit processor to maximum C-state 3271 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 3272 3273 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 3274 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 3275 instead using the legacy FADT method 3276 3277 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 3278 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 3279 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 3280 [defaults to kernel profiling] 3281 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 3282 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 3283 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 3284 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 3285 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 3286 statistical time based profiling. 3287 3288 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk 3289 before loading. 3290 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 3291 3292 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 3293 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 3294 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 3295 per second. 3296 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 3297 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 3298 (0 = never). 3299 psmouse.resolution= 3300 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 3301 psmouse.smartscroll= 3302 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 3303 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 3304 3305 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 3306 3307 pt. [PARIDE] 3308 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3309 3310 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 3311 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 3312 removes hardening, but improves performance of 3313 system calls and interrupts. 3314 3315 on - unconditionally enable 3316 off - unconditionally disable 3317 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 3318 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 3319 3320 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 3321 3322 nopti [X86_64] 3323 Equivalent to pti=off 3324 3325 pty.legacy_count= 3326 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 3327 default number. 3328 3329 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 3330 3331 r128= [HW,DRM] 3332 3333 raid= [HW,RAID] 3334 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 3335 3336 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 3337 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 3338 3339 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 3340 3341 cec_disable [X86] 3342 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 3343 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 3344 3345 rcu_nocbs= [KNL] 3346 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3347 3348 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set 3349 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs. 3350 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will 3351 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for 3352 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" 3353 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" 3354 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the 3355 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and 3356 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy 3357 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 3358 3359 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 3360 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 3361 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 3362 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 3363 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 3364 This improves the real-time response for the 3365 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 3366 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 3367 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 3368 periodically wake up to do the polling. 3369 3370 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 3371 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 3372 process in one batch. 3373 3374 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 3375 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 3376 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 3377 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 3378 3379 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 3380 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3381 RCU grace-period cleanup. 3382 3383 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 3384 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3385 RCU grace-period initialization. 3386 3387 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 3388 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3389 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 3390 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 3391 the rcu_node combining tree. 3392 3393 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 3394 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 3395 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 3396 possibly be useful for architectures having high 3397 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 3398 3399 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 3400 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 3401 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 3402 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 3403 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 3404 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 3405 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 3406 3407 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 3408 Set required age in jiffies for a 3409 given grace period before RCU starts 3410 soliciting quiescent-state help from 3411 rcu_note_context_switch(). 3412 3413 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 3414 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 3415 first attempt to force quiescent states. 3416 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 3417 and maximum value is HZ. 3418 3419 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 3420 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 3421 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 3422 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 3423 3424 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 3425 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 3426 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 3427 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 3428 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 3429 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 3430 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 3431 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 3432 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 3433 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 3434 3435 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL] 3436 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which 3437 defaults to the square root of the number of 3438 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead 3439 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases 3440 that same overhead on each group's leader. 3441 3442 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 3443 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 3444 batch limiting is disabled. 3445 3446 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 3447 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 3448 batch limiting is re-enabled. 3449 3450 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL] 3451 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 3452 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 3453 3454 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL] 3455 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 3456 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 3457 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can 3458 prove do nothing more than free memory. 3459 3460 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 3461 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 3462 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 3463 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 3464 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 3465 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 3466 3467 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL] 3468 Measure performance of asynchronous 3469 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 3470 3471 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL] 3472 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 3473 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 3474 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 3475 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 3476 previously posted callbacks to drain. 3477 3478 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL] 3479 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 3480 grace-period primitives. 3481 3482 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL] 3483 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 3484 this parameter is to delay the start of the 3485 test until boot completes in order to avoid 3486 interference. 3487 3488 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL] 3489 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 3490 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 3491 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 3492 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 3493 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 3494 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 3495 a single reader. 3496 3497 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL] 3498 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 3499 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders. 3500 N, where N is the number of CPUs 3501 3502 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL] 3503 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 3504 3505 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL] 3506 Shut the system down after performance tests 3507 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 3508 testing. 3509 3510 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL] 3511 Enable additional printk() statements. 3512 3513 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 3514 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 3515 in microseconds. The default of zero says 3516 no holdoff. 3517 3518 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL] 3519 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive 3520 callback-flood tests. 3521 3522 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL] 3523 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive 3524 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood 3525 test. 3526 3527 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL] 3528 Set the number of bursts making up a given 3529 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to 3530 disable callback-flood testing. 3531 3532 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL] 3533 Set the number of callbacks to be registered 3534 in a given burst of a callback-flood test. 3535 3536 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 3537 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 3538 in microseconds. 3539 3540 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 3541 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 3542 in microseconds. 3543 3544 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 3545 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 3546 in seconds. 3547 3548 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 3549 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 3550 primitives, if available. 3551 3552 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 3553 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 3554 3555 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 3556 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 3557 update-side primitives, if available. 3558 3559 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 3560 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 3561 update-side primitives, if available. If all 3562 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 3563 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 3564 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 3565 they are all non-zero. 3566 3567 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 3568 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 3569 3570 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 3571 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 3572 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 3573 test, hence the "fake". 3574 3575 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 3576 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 3577 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 3578 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 3579 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 3580 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 3581 3582 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 3583 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 3584 3585 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 3586 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 3587 3588 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 3589 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 3590 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 3591 3592 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 3593 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 3594 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 3595 during the rcutorture test. 3596 3597 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 3598 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 3599 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 3600 3601 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 3602 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 3603 warnings, zero to disable. 3604 3605 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 3606 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 3607 3608 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 3609 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 3610 3611 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 3612 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 3613 3614 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 3615 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 3616 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 3617 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 3618 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 3619 3620 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 3621 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 3622 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 3623 under test support RCU priority boosting. 3624 3625 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 3626 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 3627 3628 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 3629 Interval (s) between each boost test. 3630 3631 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 3632 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 3633 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 3634 3635 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 3636 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 3637 3638 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 3639 Enable additional printk() statements. 3640 3641 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 3642 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 3643 3644 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 3645 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 3646 3647 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 3648 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 3649 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 3650 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 3651 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 3652 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 3653 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 3654 3655 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 3656 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 3657 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 3658 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 3659 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 3660 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 3661 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 3662 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 3663 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 3664 3665 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 3666 Once boot has completed (that is, after 3667 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 3668 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 3669 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 3670 3671 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 3672 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning 3673 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal 3674 to zero. 3675 3676 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 3677 Run the RCU early boot self tests 3678 3679 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL] 3680 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests 3681 3682 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL] 3683 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests 3684 3685 rdinit= [KNL] 3686 Format: <full_path> 3687 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 3688 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 3689 3690 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 3691 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 3692 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 3693 mba. 3694 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 3695 rdt=cmt,!mba 3696 3697 reboot= [KNL] 3698 Format (x86 or x86_64): 3699 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \ 3700 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 3701 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 3702 [[,]f[orce] 3703 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio, 3704 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 3705 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 3706 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 3707 to be used for rebooting. 3708 3709 relax_domain_level= 3710 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 3711 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt. 3712 3713 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 3714 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 3715 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 3716 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 3717 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 3718 3719 reservetop= [X86-32] 3720 Format: nn[KMG] 3721 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 3722 address space. 3723 3724 reservelow= [X86] 3725 Format: nn[K] 3726 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at 3727 the bottom of the address space. 3728 3729 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 3730 during initialization. 3731 3732 resume= [SWSUSP] 3733 Specify the partition device for software suspend 3734 Format: 3735 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 3736 3737 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 3738 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 3739 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 3740 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 3741 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt 3742 3743 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 3744 read the resume files 3745 3746 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 3747 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 3748 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 3749 3750 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 3751 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 3752 present during boot. 3753 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 3754 no Disable hibernation and resume. 3755 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 3756 (that will set all pages holding image data 3757 during restoration read-only). 3758 3759 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 3760 3761 rfkill.default_state= 3762 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 3763 etc. communication is blocked by default. 3764 1 Unblocked. 3765 3766 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 3767 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 3768 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 3769 blocked and the previous configuration. 3770 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 3771 blocked and everything unblocked. 3772 3773 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 3774 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 3775 3776 ring3mwait=disable 3777 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 3778 CPUs. 3779 3780 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 3781 3782 rodata= [KNL] 3783 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 3784 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 3785 3786 rockchip.usb_uart 3787 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 3788 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 3789 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 3790 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 3791 3792 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 3793 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 3794 3795 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 3796 mount the root filesystem 3797 3798 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 3799 3800 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 3801 3802 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 3803 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 3804 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 3805 3806 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 3807 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 3808 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 3809 managed by CMA. 3810 3811 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 3812 3813 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 3814 3815 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 3816 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 3817 strict 3818 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 3819 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 3820 which is faster. 3821 3822 sa1100ir [NET] 3823 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 3824 3825 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter 3826 3827 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 3828 3829 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 3830 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 3831 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 3832 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 3833 3834 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 3835 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 3836 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 3837 Format: { "0" | "1" } 3838 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 3839 1 -- enable. 3840 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 3841 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 3842 3843 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot. 3844 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first 3845 security module asking for security registration will be 3846 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated 3847 as if no module has been chosen. 3848 3849 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 3850 Format: { "0" | "1" } 3851 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 3852 0 -- disable. 3853 1 -- enable. 3854 Default value is set via kernel config option. 3855 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used 3856 later to disable prior to initial policy load. 3857 3858 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 3859 Format: { "0" | "1" } 3860 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 3861 0 -- disable. 3862 1 -- enable. 3863 Default value is set via kernel config option. 3864 3865 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 3866 3867 shapers= [NET] 3868 Maximal number of shapers. 3869 3870 simeth= [IA-64] 3871 simscsi= 3872 3873 slram= [HW,MTD] 3874 3875 slab_nomerge [MM] 3876 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 3877 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 3878 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 3879 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 3880 layout control by attackers can usually be 3881 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 3882 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 3883 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 3884 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 3885 own. 3886 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 3887 3888 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 3889 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 3890 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 3891 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 3892 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 3893 3894 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB] 3895 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 3896 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 3897 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 3898 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 3899 last alloc / free. For more information see 3900 Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 3901 3902 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB] 3903 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for 3904 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable. 3905 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON. 3906 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug 3907 directories and files being created under 3908 /sys/kernel/slub. 3909 3910 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 3911 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 3912 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 3913 fragmentation. For more information see 3914 Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 3915 3916 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 3917 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 3918 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 3919 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 3920 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 3921 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 3922 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 3923 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 3924 3925 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 3926 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 3927 lower than slub_max_order. 3928 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 3929 3930 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 3931 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 3932 See slab_nomerge for more information. 3933 3934 smart2= [HW] 3935 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 3936 3937 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 3938 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 3939 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 3940 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 3941 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 3942 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 3943 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 3944 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 3945 1: Fast pin select (default) 3946 2: ATC IRMode 3947 3948 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 3949 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 3950 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 3951 actual hardware limit. 3952 Format: <integer> 3953 Default: -1 (no limit) 3954 3955 softlockup_panic= 3956 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 3957 Format: <integer> 3958 3959 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector 3960 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This 3961 is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 3962 which is the respective build-time switch to that 3963 functionality. 3964 3965 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 3966 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 3967 backtraces on all cpus. 3968 Format: <integer> 3969 3970 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 3971 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt 3972 3973 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 3974 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 3975 3976 on - unconditionally enable 3977 off - unconditionally disable 3978 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 3979 vulnerable 3980 3981 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 3982 mitigation method at run time according to the 3983 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 3984 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 3985 compiler with which the kernel was built. 3986 3987 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 3988 3989 retpoline - replace indirect branches 3990 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline 3991 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk 3992 3993 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3994 spectre_v2=auto. 3995 3996 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 3997 spia_fio_base= 3998 spia_pedr= 3999 spia_peddr= 4000 4001 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 4002 Specifies how frequently to check for 4003 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 4004 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 4005 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 4006 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 4007 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 4008 are ignored. 4009 4010 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 4011 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 4012 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 4013 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 4014 grace period will be considered for automatic 4015 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 4016 expediting. 4017 4018 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 4019 override the default stack gap protection. The value 4020 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 4021 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 4022 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 4023 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 4024 4025 stacktrace [FTRACE] 4026 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 4027 4028 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 4029 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 4030 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 4031 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 4032 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 4033 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 4034 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 4035 4036 sti= [PARISC,HW] 4037 Format: <num> 4038 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 4039 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 4040 as the initial boot-console. 4041 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 4042 4043 sti_font= [HW] 4044 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 4045 4046 stifb= [HW] 4047 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 4048 4049 sunrpc.min_resvport= 4050 sunrpc.max_resvport= 4051 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4052 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 4053 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 4054 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 4055 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 4056 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 4057 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 4058 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 4059 maximum port values. 4060 4061 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 4062 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4063 Limit the number of requests that the server will 4064 process in parallel from a single connection. 4065 The default value is 0 (no limit). 4066 4067 sunrpc.pool_mode= 4068 [NFS] 4069 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 4070 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 4071 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 4072 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 4073 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 4074 NFS server is running. 4075 4076 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 4077 automatically using heuristics 4078 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 4079 percpu one pool for each CPU 4080 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 4081 to global on non-NUMA machines) 4082 4083 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 4084 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 4085 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4086 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 4087 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 4088 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 4089 improve throughput, but will also increase the 4090 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 4091 4092 suspend.pm_test_delay= 4093 [SUSPEND] 4094 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 4095 mode before resuming the system (see 4096 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 4097 is set. Default value is 5. 4098 4099 swapaccount=[0|1] 4100 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 4101 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 4102 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt) 4103 4104 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 4105 Format: { <int> | force | noforce } 4106 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 4107 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 4108 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 4109 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 4110 4111 switches= [HW,M68k] 4112 4113 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 4114 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 4115 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 4116 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 4117 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 4118 in older udev will not work anymore. 4119 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 4120 the kernel configuration. 4121 4122 sysrq_always_enabled 4123 [KNL] 4124 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 4125 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 4126 Useful for debugging. 4127 4128 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4129 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 4130 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 4131 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 4132 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt 4133 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 4134 4135 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 4136 4137 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N] 4138 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 4139 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 4140 as the system sleep state during system startup with 4141 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 4142 The system is woken from this state using a 4143 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 4144 4145 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4146 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 4147 4148 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 4149 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 4150 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 4151 4152 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 4153 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 4154 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 4155 4156 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 4157 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 4158 critical and hot trip points. 4159 4160 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 4161 1: disable ACPI thermal control 4162 4163 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 4164 -1: disable all passive trip points 4165 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 4166 value 4167 4168 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 4169 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 4170 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 4171 0: no polling (default) 4172 4173 threadirqs [KNL] 4174 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 4175 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 4176 4177 tmem [KNL,XEN] 4178 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in. 4179 4180 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4181 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache 4182 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor. 4183 4184 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4185 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap 4186 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled 4187 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled. 4188 4189 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4190 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages 4191 to the hypervisor. 4192 4193 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4194 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately 4195 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the 4196 kernel based on different criteria. 4197 4198 topology= [S390] 4199 Format: {off | on} 4200 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 4201 topology information if the hardware supports this. 4202 The scheduler will make use of this information and 4203 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 4204 Default is on. 4205 4206 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 4207 Format: {off} 4208 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 4209 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 4210 LPAR. 4211 4212 tp720= [HW,PS2] 4213 4214 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 4215 Format: integer pcr id 4216 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 4217 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 4218 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 4219 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 4220 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 4221 are saved. 4222 4223 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 4224 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 4225 4226 trace_event=[event-list] 4227 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 4228 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 4229 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See 4230 also Documentation/trace/events.txt 4231 4232 trace_options=[option-list] 4233 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 4234 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 4235 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 4236 to echo the option name into 4237 4238 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 4239 4240 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 4241 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 4242 4243 trace_options=stacktrace 4244 4245 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options" 4246 section. 4247 4248 tp_printk[FTRACE] 4249 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 4250 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 4251 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 4252 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 4253 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 4254 4255 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 4256 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 4257 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 4258 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 4259 4260 ** CAUTION ** 4261 4262 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 4263 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 4264 the system to live lock. 4265 4266 traceoff_on_warning 4267 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 4268 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 4269 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 4270 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 4271 4272 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 4273 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 4274 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 4275 4276 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 4277 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 4278 4279 transparent_hugepage= 4280 [KNL] 4281 Format: [always|madvise|never] 4282 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 4283 with respect to transparent hugepages. 4284 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details. 4285 4286 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 4287 Format: <string> 4288 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 4289 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 4290 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 4291 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 4292 virtualized environment. 4293 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 4294 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 4295 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 4296 can add overhead. 4297 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 4298 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 4299 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 4300 4301 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 4302 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 4303 Format: 4304 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 4305 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 4306 4307 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 4308 happen after console_init() and before a proper 4309 console driver takes over, this boot options might 4310 help "seeing" what's going on. 4311 4312 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4313 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 4314 4315 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 4316 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 4317 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 4318 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 4319 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 4320 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 4321 reported either. 4322 4323 unknown_nmi_panic 4324 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 4325 4326 usbcore.authorized_default= 4327 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 4328 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 4329 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized) 4330 4331 usbcore.autosuspend= 4332 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 4333 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 4334 is the time required before an idle device will be 4335 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 4336 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 4337 4338 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 4339 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 4340 4341 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 4342 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 4343 (default = 65536). 4344 4345 usbcore.blinkenlights= 4346 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 4347 4348 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 4349 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 4350 scheme (default 0 = off). 4351 4352 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 4353 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 4354 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 4355 4356 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 4357 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 4358 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 4359 4360 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 4361 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 4362 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 4363 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 4364 4365 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 4366 4367 usbhid.mousepoll= 4368 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 4369 4370 usbhid.jspoll= 4371 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 4372 4373 usb-storage.delay_use= 4374 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 4375 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 4376 4377 usb-storage.quirks= 4378 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 4379 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 4380 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 4381 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 4382 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 4383 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 4384 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 4385 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 4386 of sense data); 4387 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 4388 bytes of sense data); 4389 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 4390 device capacity by one sector); 4391 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 4392 READ_DISC_INFO command); 4393 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 4394 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 4395 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 4396 command, uas only); 4397 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 4398 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 4399 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 4400 reported device capacity by one 4401 sector if the number is odd); 4402 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 4403 device); 4404 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 4405 command, uas only); 4406 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 4407 unlock ejectable media); 4408 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 4409 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time); 4410 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 4411 initial READ(10) command); 4412 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 4413 reported by the device); 4414 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 4415 by default); 4416 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 4417 bogus residue values); 4418 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 4419 Logical Unit); 4420 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 4421 commands, uas only); 4422 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 4423 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 4424 medium is write-protected). 4425 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 4426 even if the device claims no cache) 4427 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 4428 4429 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 4430 Format: <int> 4431 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 4432 1 - undefined instruction events 4433 2 - system calls 4434 4 - invalid data aborts 4435 8 - SIGSEGV faults 4436 16 - SIGBUS faults 4437 Example: user_debug=31 4438 4439 userpte= 4440 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 4441 4442 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 4443 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 4444 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 4445 4446 vdso= [X86,SH] 4447 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 4448 4449 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 4450 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 4451 4452 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 4453 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 4454 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 4455 4456 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 4457 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 4458 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 4459 4460 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 4461 alias for vdso32=0. 4462 4463 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 4464 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 4465 4466 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 4467 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 4468 4469 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 4470 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt. 4471 4472 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1] 4473 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 4474 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 4475 level and then send out the event to user space through 4476 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver 4477 will only send out the event without touching backlight 4478 brightness level. 4479 default: 1 4480 4481 virtio_mmio.device= 4482 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 4483 4484 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 4485 where: 4486 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 4487 like K, M and G) 4488 <baseaddr> := physical base address 4489 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 4490 request_irq()) 4491 <id> := (optional) platform device id 4492 example: 4493 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 4494 4495 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 4496 4497 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 4498 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and 4499 Documentation/svga.txt. 4500 Use vga=ask for menu. 4501 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 4502 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 4503 4504 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 4505 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 4506 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 4507 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 4508 mapped kernel RAM. 4509 4510 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 4511 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 4512 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 4513 4514 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 4515 Format: <command> 4516 4517 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 4518 Format: <command> 4519 4520 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 4521 Format: <command> 4522 4523 vsyscall= [X86-64] 4524 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 4525 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 4526 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 4527 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 4528 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 4529 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 4530 4531 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 4532 emulated reasonably safely. 4533 4534 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions. 4535 This is a little bit faster than trapping 4536 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work 4537 better than they would in emulation mode. 4538 It also makes exploits much easier to write. 4539 4540 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 4541 them quite hard to use for exploits but 4542 might break your system. 4543 4544 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 4545 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 4546 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 4547 4548 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 4549 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 4550 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 4551 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 4552 4553 vt.default_blu= [VT] 4554 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 4555 Change the default blue palette of the console. 4556 This is a 16-member array composed of values 4557 ranging from 0-255. 4558 4559 vt.default_grn= [VT] 4560 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 4561 Change the default green palette of the console. 4562 This is a 16-member array composed of values 4563 ranging from 0-255. 4564 4565 vt.default_red= [VT] 4566 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 4567 Change the default red palette of the console. 4568 This is a 16-member array composed of values 4569 ranging from 0-255. 4570 4571 vt.default_utf8= 4572 [VT] 4573 Format=<0|1> 4574 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 4575 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 4576 newly opened terminals. 4577 4578 vt.global_cursor_default= 4579 [VT] 4580 Format=<-1|0|1> 4581 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 4582 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 4583 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 4584 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 4585 cursors, 1 will display them. 4586 4587 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 4588 Default: 2 = green. 4589 4590 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 4591 Default: 3 = cyan. 4592 4593 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 4594 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt 4595 or other driver-specific files in the 4596 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 4597 4598 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 4599 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 4600 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 4601 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 4602 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 4603 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 4604 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 4605 corresponding sysfs file. 4606 4607 workqueue.disable_numa 4608 By default, all work items queued to unbound 4609 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 4610 issued on, which results in better behavior in 4611 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 4612 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 4613 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 4614 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 4615 4616 workqueue.power_efficient 4617 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 4618 they show better performance thanks to cache 4619 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 4620 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 4621 4622 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 4623 were observed to contribute significantly to power 4624 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 4625 power usage at the cost of small performance 4626 overhead. 4627 4628 The default value of this parameter is determined by 4629 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 4630 4631 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 4632 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 4633 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 4634 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 4635 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 4636 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 4637 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 4638 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 4639 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 4640 impacted. 4641 4642 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 4643 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 4644 supporting x2apic. 4645 4646 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT] 4647 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform. 4648 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer 4649 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer. 4650 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt 4651 4652 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 4653 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 4654 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 4655 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 4656 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 4657 domains. 4658 4659 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 4660 Unplug Xen emulated devices 4661 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 4662 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 4663 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 4664 nics -- unplug network devices 4665 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 4666 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 4667 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 4668 the unplug protocol 4669 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 4670 4671 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 4672 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV 4673 optimizations. 4674 4675 xen_nopv [X86] 4676 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 4677 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 4678 4679 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 4680 Format: 4681 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 4682