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 Support masking of GPEs numbered from 0x00 to 0x7f. 118 119 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 120 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 121 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 122 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 123 auto-serialization feature. 124 This feature is enabled by default. 125 This option allows to turn off the feature. 126 127 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 128 kernels. 129 130 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] 131 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 132 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 133 installed automatically and they will appear under 134 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 135 This option turns off this feature. 136 Note that specifying this option does not affect 137 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 138 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 139 140 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] 141 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 142 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 143 second kernel for kdump. 144 145 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 146 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 147 148 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 149 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 150 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 151 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 152 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 153 154 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 155 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 156 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 157 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 158 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 159 strings 160 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 161 strings 162 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 163 164 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 165 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 166 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 167 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 168 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 169 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 170 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 171 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 172 care about the state of the feature group strings which 173 should be controlled by the OSPM. 174 Examples: 175 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 176 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 177 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 178 179 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 180 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 181 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 182 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 183 multiple times through kernel command line is also 184 meaningless. 185 Examples: 186 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 187 FALSE. 188 189 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 190 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 191 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 192 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 193 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 194 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 195 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 196 there are quirks related to this string. This command 197 is useful when one want to control the state of the 198 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 199 the OSPM features. 200 Examples: 201 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 202 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 203 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 204 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 205 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 206 equivalent to 207 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 208 and 209 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 210 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 211 212 acpi_pm_good [X86] 213 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 214 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 215 and always returns good values. 216 217 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 218 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 219 220 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 221 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 222 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 223 224 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 225 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig, 226 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable } 227 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on 228 s3_bios and s3_mode. 229 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 230 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 231 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 232 used during resume from hibernation. 233 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 234 control method, with respect to putting devices into 235 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 236 of _PTS is used by default). 237 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 238 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 239 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 240 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 241 but some broken systems don't work without it). 242 243 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 244 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 245 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 246 247 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 248 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 249 250 agp= [AGP] 251 { off | try_unsupported } 252 off: disable AGP support 253 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 254 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 255 256 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 257 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt 258 259 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 260 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 261 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 262 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 263 264 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 265 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 266 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 267 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 268 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 269 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 270 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 271 272 32: only for 32-bit processes 273 64: only for 64-bit processes 274 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 275 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 276 277 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 278 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 279 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 280 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 281 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 282 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 283 284 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 285 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 286 Possible values are: 287 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when 288 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are 289 flushed before they will be reused, which 290 is a lot of faster 291 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 292 the system 293 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 294 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 295 allowed anymore to lift isolation 296 requirements as needed. This option 297 does not override iommu=pt 298 299 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 300 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 301 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 302 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 303 IOMMU initialization. 304 305 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 306 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 307 remapping modes: 308 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 309 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 310 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 311 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 312 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 313 314 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 315 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 316 Format: <a>,<b> 317 See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt 318 319 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 320 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 321 connected to one of 16 gameports 322 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 323 324 apc= [HW,SPARC] 325 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 326 Format: noidle 327 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 328 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 329 APC and your system crashes randomly. 330 331 apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 332 Change the output verbosity whilst booting 333 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 334 Change the amount of debugging information output 335 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 336 337 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 338 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 339 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 340 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 341 backup of CPU 0 342 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 343 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 344 shot down by NMI 345 346 autoconf= [IPV6] 347 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 348 349 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 350 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 351 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 352 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 353 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 354 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 355 apic=verbose is specified. 356 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 357 358 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 359 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 360 361 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 362 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 363 364 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 365 366 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 367 368 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 369 EzKey and similar keyboards 370 371 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 372 373 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 374 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 375 376 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 377 keyboards 378 379 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 380 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 381 382 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 383 Use software keyboard repeat 384 385 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 386 Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled) 387 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled 388 until the next reboot 389 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 390 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 391 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled, 392 storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in 393 RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace 394 auditd. 395 Default: unset 396 397 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 398 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 399 Default: 64 400 401 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 402 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 403 Format: { "0" | "1" } 404 0 - Disable the BAU. 405 1 - Enable the BAU. 406 unset - Disable the BAU. 407 408 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 409 Format: <io>,<mode> 410 411 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 412 Format: <io>,<mode> 413 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 414 415 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 416 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 417 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 418 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 419 420 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 421 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 422 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 423 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 424 425 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 426 embedded devices based on command line input. 427 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt 428 429 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 430 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to 431 no delay (0). 432 Format: integer 433 434 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages. 435 436 bert_disable [ACPI] 437 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 438 439 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 440 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 441 kernel args too. 442 bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options 443 bttv.tuner= 444 445 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 446 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 447 at a time. 448 449 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 450 451 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 452 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 453 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 454 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 455 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 456 This option provides an override for these situations. 457 458 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 459 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 460 trust validation. 461 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 462 463 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 464 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 465 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 466 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 467 others). 468 469 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 470 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details. 471 472 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller 473 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable} 474 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 475 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 476 a single hierarchy 477 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 478 subsystem 479 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 480 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 481 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 482 483 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1 484 Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" } 485 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 486 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 487 488 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 489 Format: <string> 490 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 491 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 492 493 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 494 Format: { "0" | "1" } 495 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 496 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 497 any implied execute protection). 498 1 -- check protection requested by application. 499 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 500 Value can be changed at runtime via 501 /selinux/checkreqprot. 502 503 cio_ignore= [S390] 504 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details. 505 clk_ignore_unused 506 [CLK] 507 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 508 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 509 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 510 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 511 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 512 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 513 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 514 platform with proper driver support. For more 515 information, see Documentation/clk.txt. 516 517 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 518 [Deprecated] 519 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 520 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 521 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 522 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 523 524 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 525 Format: <string> 526 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 527 with the name specified. 528 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 529 the platform: 530 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 531 [ACPI] acpi_pm 532 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 533 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 534 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 535 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 536 [MIPS] MIPS 537 [PARISC] cr16 538 [S390] tod 539 [SH] SuperH 540 [SPARC64] tick 541 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 542 543 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 544 [ARM,ARM64] 545 Format: <bool> 546 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 547 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 548 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 549 systems. 550 551 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86] 552 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 553 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 554 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily 555 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific 556 ones should be. 557 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 558 or using the feature without checking anything 559 will still see it. This just prevents it from 560 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 561 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 562 some critical bits. 563 564 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 565 [ARM,X86,KNL] 566 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 567 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 568 placement constraint by the physical address range of 569 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 570 altogether. For more information, see 571 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h 572 573 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 574 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 575 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 576 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 577 a hypervisor. 578 Default: yes 579 580 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 581 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 582 allocations, by default set to 256K. 583 584 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print 585 in an oops report. 586 Range: 0 - 8192 587 Default: 64 588 589 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 590 Format: 591 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 592 593 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 594 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 595 596 com90xx= [HW,NET] 597 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 598 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 599 600 condev= [HW,S390] console device 601 conmode= 602 603 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 604 605 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 606 607 ttyS<n>[,options] 608 ttyUSB0[,options] 609 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 610 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 611 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 612 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 613 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 614 615 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 616 information. See 617 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an 618 alternative. 619 620 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 621 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 622 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 623 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 624 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 625 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 626 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 627 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 628 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 629 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 630 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 631 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 632 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 633 the h/w is not re-initialized. 634 635 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 636 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 637 638 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 639 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 640 console=brl,ttyS0 641 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 642 643 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 644 seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0 645 disables the blank timer. 646 647 coredump_filter= 648 [KNL] Change the default value for 649 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 650 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt. 651 652 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 653 disable the cpuidle sub-system 654 655 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 656 disable the cpufreq sub-system 657 658 cpu_init_udelay=N 659 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 660 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 661 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 662 Default: 10000 663 664 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 665 Format: 666 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 667 668 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 669 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 670 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 671 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 672 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 673 is selected automatically. Check 674 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details. 675 676 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 677 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 678 in the running system. The syntax of range is 679 start-[end] where start and end are both 680 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 681 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example. 682 683 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 684 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 685 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 686 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 687 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 688 available. 689 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 690 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 691 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 692 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 693 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 694 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 695 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 696 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 697 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at 698 at least 256M below 4G automatically. 699 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G 700 for second kernel instead. 701 0: to disable low allocation. 702 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 703 or memory reserved is below 4G. 704 705 cryptomgr.notests 706 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 707 708 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 709 Format: <dma> 710 711 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 712 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 713 714 dasd= [HW,NET] 715 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 716 717 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 718 (one device per port) 719 Format: <port#>,<type> 720 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt 721 722 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot 723 time. See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for 724 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg. 725 726 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 727 728 debug_locks_verbose= 729 [KNL] verbose self-tests 730 Format=<0|1> 731 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 732 self-tests. 733 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to 734 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally 735 only useful to kernel developers. 736 737 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 738 739 no_debug_objects 740 [KNL] Disable object debugging 741 742 debug_guardpage_minorder= 743 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 744 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 745 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 746 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 747 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 748 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 749 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 750 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 751 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 752 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 753 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 754 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 755 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when 756 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 757 bypassed) which are not detectable by 758 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 759 tracking down these problems. 760 761 debug_pagealloc= 762 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 763 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In 764 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge 765 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable 766 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same 767 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 768 on: enable the feature 769 770 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 771 772 decnet.addr= [HW,NET] 773 Format: <area>[,<node>] 774 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt. 775 776 default_hugepagesz= 777 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default 778 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by 779 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and 780 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems. 781 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size 782 if not specified. 783 784 dhash_entries= [KNL] 785 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 786 787 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 788 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 789 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 790 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 791 miss to occur. 792 793 disable= [IPV6] 794 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 795 796 disable_radix [PPC] 797 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 798 799 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 800 Format: <int> 801 The number of initial APIC ID for the 802 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 803 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 804 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 805 causing system reset or hang due to sending 806 INIT from AP to BSP. 807 808 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 809 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if 810 to workaround buggy firmware. 811 812 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 813 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 814 815 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 816 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 817 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 818 entry later. This parameter disables that. 819 820 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 821 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 822 memory out of your available memory pool based on 823 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 824 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 825 826 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 827 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 828 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 829 830 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 831 832 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 833 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 834 835 dma_debug_entries=<number> 836 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 837 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 838 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 839 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 840 architectural default is too low. 841 842 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 843 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 844 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 845 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 846 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 847 driver later using sysfs. 848 849 drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 850 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 851 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 852 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 853 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 854 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 855 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 856 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 857 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 858 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 859 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID 860 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 861 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 862 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 863 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 864 data set with no connector name will be used for 865 any connectors not explicitly specified. 866 867 dscc4.setup= [NET] 868 869 dump_apple_properties [X86] 870 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 871 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 872 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 873 874 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 875 module.dyndbg[="val"] 876 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 877 Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for details. 878 879 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions. 880 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more 881 information about the feature. 882 883 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 884 in some Intel CPUs. 885 886 module.async_probe [KNL] 887 Enable asynchronous probe on this module. 888 889 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 890 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 891 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 892 which are not unmapped. 893 894 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 895 896 When used with no options, the early console is 897 determined by the stdout-path property in device 898 tree's chosen node. 899 900 cdns,<addr>[,options] 901 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 902 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 903 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 904 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 905 configured. 906 907 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 908 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 909 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 910 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options] 911 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 912 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 913 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 914 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 915 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 916 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 917 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 918 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 919 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 920 921 pl011,<addr> 922 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 923 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 924 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 925 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 926 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 927 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 928 the device registers. 929 930 meson,<addr> 931 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 932 port at the specified address. The serial port must 933 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 934 supported. 935 936 msm_serial,<addr> 937 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 938 port at the specified address. The serial port 939 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 940 yet supported. 941 942 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 943 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 944 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 945 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 946 yet supported. 947 948 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 949 950 s3c2410,<addr> 951 s3c2412,<addr> 952 s3c2440,<addr> 953 s3c6400,<addr> 954 s5pv210,<addr> 955 exynos4210,<addr> 956 Use early console provided by serial driver available 957 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 958 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 959 serial port must already be setup and configured. 960 Options are not yet supported. 961 962 lantiq,<addr> 963 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 964 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 965 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 966 yet supported. 967 968 lpuart,<addr> 969 lpuart32,<addr> 970 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 971 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 972 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 973 port must already be setup and configured. 974 975 ar3700_uart,<addr> 976 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 977 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 978 address. The serial port must already be setup 979 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 980 981 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k,S390] 982 earlyprintk=vga 983 earlyprintk=efi 984 earlyprintk=sclp 985 earlyprintk=xen 986 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 987 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 988 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 989 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 990 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate] 991 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 992 993 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 994 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 995 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 996 997 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 998 takes over. 999 1000 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can 1001 be used at a time. 1002 1003 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1004 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1005 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1006 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1007 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1008 You can find the port for a given device in 1009 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1010 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1011 1012 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1013 very good. 1014 1015 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by 1016 the real console. 1017 1018 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests. 1019 1020 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1021 1022 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1023 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1024 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1025 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1026 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1027 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1028 default: on. 1029 1030 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1031 ekgdboc=kbd 1032 1033 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1034 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1035 1036 edd= [EDD] 1037 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1038 1039 efi= [EFI] 1040 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" } 1041 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI 1042 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by 1043 default. 1044 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1045 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1046 firmware implementations. 1047 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1048 debug: enable misc debug output 1049 1050 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1051 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1052 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1053 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1054 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1055 1056 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1057 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1058 updating original EFI memory map. 1059 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1060 from ss to ss+nn. 1061 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1062 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1063 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1064 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1065 1066 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1067 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of 1068 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1069 doesn't support it. 1070 1071 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1072 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1073 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1074 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1075 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details. 1076 1077 1078 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1079 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1080 1081 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1082 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1083 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1084 1085 elevator= [IOSCHED] 1086 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"} 1087 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and 1088 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details. 1089 1090 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1091 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1092 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1093 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1094 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details. 1095 1096 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1097 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1098 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1099 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1100 1101 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1102 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1103 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1104 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1105 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1106 1107 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1108 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1109 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1110 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1111 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1112 Default value is 0. 1113 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce. 1114 1115 erst_disable [ACPI] 1116 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1117 support. 1118 1119 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1120 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1121 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1122 1123 evm= [EVM] 1124 Format: { "fix" } 1125 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1126 current integrity status. 1127 1128 failslab= 1129 fail_page_alloc= 1130 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1131 General fault injection mechanism. 1132 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1133 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1134 1135 floppy= [HW] 1136 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt. 1137 1138 force_pal_cache_flush 1139 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1140 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1141 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1142 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1143 1144 forcepae [X86-32] 1145 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1146 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1147 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1148 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1149 and may cause unknown problems. 1150 1151 ftrace=[tracer] 1152 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1153 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1154 boot debugging. 1155 1156 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1157 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1158 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1159 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1160 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1161 oops. 1162 1163 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1164 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1165 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 1166 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1167 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1168 tracing directory. 1169 1170 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1171 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1172 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1173 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1174 tracing directory. 1175 1176 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1177 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1178 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1179 function-list is a comma separated list of functions 1180 that can be changed at run time by the 1181 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1182 1183 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1184 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1185 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of 1186 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1187 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1188 1189 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1190 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1191 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1192 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1193 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1194 1195 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1196 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1197 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1198 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1199 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt 1200 1201 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1202 1203 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1204 Format: off | on 1205 default: on 1206 1207 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1208 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1209 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1210 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1211 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1212 1213 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1214 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1215 android emulator 1216 1217 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1218 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1219 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1220 GPT to be used instead. 1221 1222 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1223 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1224 Format: 0 | 1 1225 Default: 0 1226 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1227 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1228 Format: 0 | 1 1229 Default: 0 1230 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1231 Format: 0 | 1 1232 Default: 0 1233 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1234 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1235 Default: 1024 1236 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1237 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1238 Default: 1024 1239 1240 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1241 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1242 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1243 1244 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1245 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1246 backtraces on all cpus. 1247 Format: <integer> 1248 1249 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1250 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1251 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1252 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1253 1254 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1255 1256 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1257 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1258 1259 hest_disable [ACPI] 1260 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1261 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1262 logic will be disabled. 1263 1264 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1265 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1266 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1267 size on bigger boxes. 1268 1269 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1270 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1271 Default: "on" 1272 1273 hisax= [HW,ISDN] 1274 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax. 1275 1276 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1277 1278 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1279 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1280 verbose } 1281 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1282 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1283 VIA, nVidia) 1284 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1285 1286 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1287 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1288 1289 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1290 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages. 1291 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified 1292 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve 1293 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on 1294 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G 1295 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag). 1296 1297 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1298 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1299 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1300 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1301 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1302 1303 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to 1304 hardware thread id mappings. 1305 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread> 1306 1307 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1308 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1309 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1310 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1311 the real console. 1312 1313 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1314 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1315 registered from board initialization code. 1316 Format: 1317 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1318 1319 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1320 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1321 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1322 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1323 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1324 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1325 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1326 keyboard and cannot control its state 1327 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1328 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1329 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1330 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1331 for the AUX port 1332 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1333 controller 1334 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1335 controllers 1336 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1337 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1338 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1339 transitions, or never reset 1340 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1341 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1342 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1343 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1344 architectures force reset to be always executed 1345 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1346 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1347 1348 i810= [HW,DRM] 1349 1350 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1351 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1352 hardware. 1353 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature 1354 does not match list of supported models. 1355 i8k.power_status 1356 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1357 (disabled by default) 1358 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1359 capability is set. 1360 1361 i915.invert_brightness= 1362 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1363 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1364 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1365 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1366 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1367 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1368 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1369 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1370 value switches the backlight off. 1371 -1 -- never invert brightness 1372 0 -- machine default 1373 1 -- force brightness inversion 1374 1375 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1376 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1377 1378 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1379 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc 1380 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr 1381 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options 1382 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt. 1383 1384 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1385 Format: <int> 1386 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on 1387 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by 1388 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The 1389 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning. 1390 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the 1391 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which 1392 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value 1393 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it 1394 was 0x3. 1395 1396 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1397 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers. 1398 1399 idle= [X86] 1400 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1401 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1402 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1403 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1404 Not recommended. 1405 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1406 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1407 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1408 1409 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1410 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1411 Default: strict 1412 1413 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1414 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1415 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1416 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1417 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1418 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1419 encoding mode. 1420 1421 Available settings are as follows: 1422 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1423 supported by the FPU 1424 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1425 by the FPU 1426 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1427 by the FPU 1428 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1429 supported by the FPU 1430 1431 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1432 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1433 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1434 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1435 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1436 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1437 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1438 MIPS64 CPUs. 1439 1440 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1441 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1442 except where unsupported by hardware. 1443 1444 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1445 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1446 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1447 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1448 could change it dynamically, usually by 1449 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1450 1451 ignore_rlimit_data 1452 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1453 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1454 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1455 1456 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1457 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1458 1459 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1460 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1461 default: "enforce" 1462 1463 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] 1464 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1465 owned by uid=0. 1466 1467 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1468 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1469 measurements, instead of host native format. 1470 1471 ima_hash= [IMA] 1472 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1473 | sha512 | ... } 1474 default: "sha1" 1475 1476 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1477 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1478 1479 ima_policy= [IMA] 1480 The builtin measurement policy to load during IMA 1481 setup. Specyfing "tcb" as the value, measures all 1482 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1483 opened with the read mode bit set by either the 1484 effective uid (euid=0) or uid=0. 1485 Format: "tcb" 1486 1487 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1488 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1489 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1490 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1491 opened for read by uid=0. 1492 1493 ima_template= [IMA] 1494 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1495 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" } 1496 Default: "ima-ng" 1497 1498 ima_template_fmt= 1499 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1500 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1501 1502 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1503 Format: <min_file_size> 1504 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1505 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1506 1507 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1508 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1509 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1510 1511 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1512 Format: <bufsize> 1513 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1514 1515 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1516 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1517 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1518 1519 init= [KNL] 1520 Format: <full_path> 1521 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1522 process. 1523 1524 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1525 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1526 startup. 1527 1528 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1529 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1530 modules and initcalls. 1531 1532 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 1533 1534 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 1535 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 1536 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 1537 override in debugfs after boot. 1538 1539 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 1540 Format: <irq> 1541 1542 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 1543 1544 integrity_audit=[IMA] 1545 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1546 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 1547 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 1548 1549 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 1550 on 1551 Enable intel iommu driver. 1552 off 1553 Disable intel iommu driver. 1554 igfx_off [Default Off] 1555 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 1556 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 1557 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 1558 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 1559 DMA. 1560 forcedac [x86_64] 1561 With this option iommu will not optimize to look 1562 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual 1563 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater 1564 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look 1565 for translation below 32-bit and if not available 1566 then look in the higher range. 1567 strict [Default Off] 1568 With this option on every unmap_single operation will 1569 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed 1570 to batching them for performance. 1571 sp_off [Default Off] 1572 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 1573 has the capability. With this option, super page will 1574 not be supported. 1575 ecs_off [Default Off] 1576 By default, extended context tables will be supported if 1577 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the 1578 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With 1579 this option set, extended tables will not be used even 1580 on hardware which claims to support them. 1581 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 1582 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 1583 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 1584 could harm performance of some high-throughput 1585 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 1586 mapping is enabled. 1587 Note that using this option lowers the security 1588 provided by tboot because it makes the system 1589 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 1590 1591 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 1592 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 1593 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 1594 1595 intel_pstate= [X86] 1596 disable 1597 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 1598 scaling driver for the supported processors 1599 passive 1600 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 1601 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 1602 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 1603 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 1604 feature. 1605 force 1606 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 1607 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 1608 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 1609 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 1610 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 1611 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 1612 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 1613 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 1614 no_hwp 1615 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 1616 if available. 1617 hwp_only 1618 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 1619 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 1620 support_acpi_ppc 1621 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 1622 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 1623 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 1624 then this feature is turned on by default. 1625 per_cpu_perf_limits 1626 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 1627 cpufreq sysfs interface 1628 1629 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 1630 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 1631 off disable Interrupt Remapping 1632 nosid disable Source ID checking 1633 no_x2apic_optout 1634 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 1635 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 1636 1637 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 1638 strict regions from userspace. 1639 relaxed 1640 1641 iommu= [x86] 1642 off 1643 force 1644 noforce 1645 biomerge 1646 panic 1647 nopanic 1648 merge 1649 nomerge 1650 forcesac 1651 soft 1652 pt [x86, IA-64] 1653 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 1654 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 1655 1656 iommu.passthrough= 1657 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 1658 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1659 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 1660 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 1661 unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 1662 1663 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems 1664 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 1665 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 1666 1667 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 1668 0x80 1669 Standard port 0x80 based delay 1670 0xed 1671 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 1672 udelay 1673 Simple two microseconds delay 1674 none 1675 No delay 1676 1677 ip= [IP_PNP] 1678 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 1679 1680 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 1681 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 1682 1683 irqfixup [HW] 1684 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1685 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1686 firmware running. 1687 1688 irqpoll [HW] 1689 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1690 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 1691 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1692 firmware running. 1693 1694 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 1695 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 1696 1697 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler. 1698 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 1699 1700 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs 1701 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 1702 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an 1703 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 1704 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 1705 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 1706 1707 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The 1708 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all 1709 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and 1710 suboptimal load balancer performance. 1711 1712 iucv= [HW,NET] 1713 1714 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64] 1715 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 1716 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1717 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 1718 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 1719 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 1720 1721 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64] 1722 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 1723 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1724 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to 1725 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 1726 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 1727 1728 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64] 1729 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 1730 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1731 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 1732 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 1733 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 1734 1735 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 1736 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt. 1737 1738 nokaslr [KNL] 1739 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 1740 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 1741 Layout Randomization). 1742 1743 kasan_multi_shot 1744 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 1745 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 1746 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 1747 invalid access. 1748 1749 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 1750 1751 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 1752 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror" 1753 This parameter 1754 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel 1755 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is 1756 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The 1757 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable 1758 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both 1759 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will 1760 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number 1761 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the 1762 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved 1763 by the page migration subsystem. This means that 1764 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone. 1765 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still 1766 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 1767 zone if it does not. 1768 1769 Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]), 1770 you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror" 1771 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 1772 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 1773 for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive, 1774 so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same 1775 time. 1776 1777 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 1778 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 1779 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 1780 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 1781 optional and is the number seconds in between 1782 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 1783 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 1784 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 1785 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 1786 the kernel debugger. 1787 1788 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 1789 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 1790 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 1791 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 1792 keyboard only format: kbd 1793 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 1794 Optional Kernel mode setting: 1795 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 1796 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 1797 1798 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 1799 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 1800 1801 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address. 1802 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 1803 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 1804 1805 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 1806 Valid arguments: on, off 1807 Default: on 1808 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 1809 the default is off. 1810 1811 kmemcheck= [X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode 1812 Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2 1813 kmemcheck=0 (disabled) 1814 kmemcheck=1 (enabled) 1815 kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode) 1816 Default: 2 (one-shot mode) 1817 1818 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 1819 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 1820 1821 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit 1822 KVM MMU at runtime. 1823 Default is 0 (off) 1824 1825 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 1826 Default is 1 (enabled) 1827 1828 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 1829 for all guests. 1830 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 1831 1832 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 1833 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 1834 Default is 1 (enabled) 1835 1836 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 1837 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states 1838 Default is 0 (disabled) 1839 1840 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 1841 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 1842 Default is 1 (enabled) 1843 1844 kvm-intel.nested= 1845 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 1846 Default is 0 (disabled) 1847 1848 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 1849 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 1850 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 1851 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 1852 1853 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 1854 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 1855 Default is 1 (enabled) 1856 1857 l2cr= [PPC] 1858 1859 l3cr= [PPC] 1860 1861 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 1862 disabled it. 1863 1864 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline 1865 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 1866 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 1867 1868 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 1869 in C2 power state. 1870 1871 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 1872 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 1873 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 1874 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 1875 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 1876 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 1877 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 1878 1879 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 1880 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 1881 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 1882 1883 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 1884 when set. 1885 Format: <int> 1886 1887 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma 1888 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is 1889 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers 1890 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches 1891 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If 1892 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE 1893 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the 1894 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices. 1895 1896 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 1897 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 1898 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 1899 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 1900 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 1901 host link and device attached to it. 1902 1903 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 1904 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed. 1905 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 1906 The following configurations can be forced. 1907 1908 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 1909 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 1910 1911 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 1912 1913 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 1914 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 1915 allowed. 1916 1917 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 1918 1919 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM. 1920 1921 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft 1922 and both resets. 1923 1924 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during 1925 hot-unplug link recovery 1926 1927 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data. 1928 1929 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support 1930 1931 * disable: Disable this device. 1932 1933 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 1934 the same attribute, the last one is used. 1935 1936 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 1937 1938 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy 1939 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 1940 1941 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 1942 Format: <integer> 1943 1944 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 1945 Format: <integer> 1946 1947 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 1948 Format: <integer> 1949 1950 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 1951 Format: <integer> 1952 1953 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 1954 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 1955 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 1956 number of online CPUs. 1957 1958 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 1959 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 1960 1961 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 1962 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 1963 1964 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 1965 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 1966 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 1967 1968 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 1969 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 1970 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 1971 mode during the locktorture test. 1972 1973 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 1974 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 1975 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 1976 1977 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 1978 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 1979 1980 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 1981 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 1982 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 1983 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 1984 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 1985 transition abruptly to and from idle. 1986 1987 locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT] 1988 Start locktorture running at boot time. 1989 1990 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 1991 Specify the locking implementation to test. 1992 1993 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 1994 Enable additional printk() statements. 1995 1996 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 1997 Format: <irq> 1998 1999 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2000 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2001 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2002 loglevels are defined as follows: 2003 2004 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2005 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2006 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2007 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2008 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2009 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2010 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2011 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2012 2013 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2014 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2015 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2016 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2017 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2018 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2019 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2020 2021 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2022 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2023 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2024 kernel boot problems. 2025 2026 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2027 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2028 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2029 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2030 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2031 attached printers to be reset. Using 2032 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2033 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2034 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2035 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2036 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2037 port specification list means that device IDs 2038 from each port should be examined, to see if 2039 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2040 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2041 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2042 2043 lpj=n [KNL] 2044 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2045 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2046 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2047 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2048 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2049 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2050 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2051 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2052 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2053 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2054 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2055 hardware. 2056 2057 ltpc= [NET] 2058 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2059 2060 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2061 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2062 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb 2063 2064 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different 2065 yeeloong laptop. 2066 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2067 2068 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater 2069 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2070 2071 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2072 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2073 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2074 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2075 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2076 only takes effect during system bootup. 2077 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2078 which also disables the IO APIC. 2079 2080 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2081 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2082 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2083 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2084 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2085 /dev/loop-control interface. 2086 2087 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2088 2089 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt 2090 2091 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2092 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2093 2094 mdacon= [MDA] 2095 Format: <first>,<last> 2096 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2097 2098 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2099 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able 2100 to see the whole system memory or for test. 2101 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 2102 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 2103 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 2104 belonging to unused RAM. 2105 2106 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 2107 memory. 2108 2109 memchunk=nn[KMG] 2110 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 2111 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 2112 2113 memhp_default_state=online/offline 2114 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 2115 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 2116 set according to the 2117 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 2118 option. 2119 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt. 2120 2121 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 2122 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 2123 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 2124 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 2125 option description. 2126 2127 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 2128 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 2129 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 2130 2131 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 2132 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 2133 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 2134 2135 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 2136 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 2137 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 2138 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 2139 memmap=64K$0x18690000 2140 or 2141 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 2142 2143 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 2144 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 2145 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 2146 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 2147 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 2148 2149 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 2150 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 2151 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 2152 Setting this option will scan the memory 2153 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 2154 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 2155 from using the memory being corrupted. 2156 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 2157 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 2158 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 2159 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 2160 2161 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 2162 By default it checks for corruption in the low 2163 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 2164 use. Use this parameter to scan for 2165 corruption in more or less memory. 2166 2167 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 2168 By default it checks for corruption every 60 2169 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 2170 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 2171 2172 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest 2173 Format: <integer> 2174 default : 0 <disable> 2175 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 2176 performed. Each pass selects another test 2177 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 2178 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 2179 memory contents and reserves bad memory 2180 regions that are detected. 2181 2182 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 2183 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 2184 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 2185 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 2186 See Documentation/power/states.txt. 2187 2188 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 2189 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt. 2190 2191 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 2192 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 2193 platforms. 2194 2195 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 2196 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 2197 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 2198 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 2199 2200 mga= [HW,DRM] 2201 2202 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this 2203 physical address is ignored. 2204 2205 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 2206 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 2207 Default: "0tb" 2208 MINI2440 configuration specification: 2209 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 2210 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 2211 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 2212 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 2213 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 2214 unconfigured. 2215 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 2216 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 2217 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 2218 VGA shield. 2219 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 2220 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 2221 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 2222 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 2223 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 2224 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 2225 2226 mminit_loglevel= 2227 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 2228 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 2229 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 2230 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 2231 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 2232 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 2233 2234 module.sig_enforce 2235 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 2236 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 2237 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 2238 is always true, so this option does nothing. 2239 2240 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 2241 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 2242 2243 mousedev.tap_time= 2244 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 2245 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 2246 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 2247 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 2248 Format: <msecs> 2249 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 2250 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2251 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 2252 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2253 2254 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter 2255 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the 2256 amount of memory used for migratable allocations. 2257 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified, 2258 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified 2259 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own 2260 is specified, the administrator must be careful 2261 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 2262 is not too small. 2263 2264 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to enable the effects 2265 of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details. 2266 2267 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 2268 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 2269 2270 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 2271 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 2272 2273 mtdparts= [MTD] 2274 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c. 2275 2276 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 2277 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 2278 at a time. 2279 2280 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 2281 2282 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 2283 2284 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 2285 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 2286 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 2287 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 2288 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 2289 2290 mtdset= [ARM] 2291 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 2292 2293 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c 2294 2295 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 2296 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 2297 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 2298 2299 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2300 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 2301 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 2302 2303 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2304 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 2305 Default is 1. 2306 Large value could prevent small alignment from 2307 using up MTRRs. 2308 2309 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 2310 Format: <integer> 2311 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 2312 Default : 1 2313 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 2314 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 2315 2316 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 2317 2318 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 2319 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 2320 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 2321 something different and driver-specific. 2322 This usage is only documented in each driver source 2323 file if at all. 2324 2325 nf_conntrack.acct= 2326 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 2327 0 to disable accounting 2328 1 to enable accounting 2329 Default value is 0. 2330 2331 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 2332 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2333 2334 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 2335 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2336 2337 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 2338 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2339 2340 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 2341 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 2342 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 2343 requests. 2344 2345 nfs.callback_tcpport= 2346 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 2347 channel should listen. 2348 2349 nfs.cache_getent= 2350 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 2351 to update the NFS client cache entries. 2352 2353 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 2354 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 2355 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 2356 2357 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 2358 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 2359 entries. 2360 2361 nfs.enable_ino64= 2362 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 2363 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 2364 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 2365 of returning the full 64-bit number. 2366 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 2367 2368 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 2369 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 2370 slots the client will assign to the callback 2371 channel. This determines the maximum number of 2372 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 2373 a particular server. 2374 2375 nfs.max_session_slots= 2376 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 2377 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 2378 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 2379 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 2380 Note that there is little point in setting this 2381 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 2382 2383 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2384 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 2385 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 2386 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 2387 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 2388 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 2389 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 2390 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 2391 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 2392 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 2393 back to using the idmapper. 2394 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 2395 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 2396 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 2397 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 2398 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 2399 UUID that is generated at system install time. 2400 2401 nfs.send_implementation_id = 2402 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 2403 information in exchange_id requests. 2404 If zero, no implementation identification information 2405 will be sent. 2406 The default is to send the implementation identification 2407 information. 2408 2409 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 2410 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 2411 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 2412 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 2413 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 2414 after the locks are lost. 2415 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 2416 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 2417 parameter to '1'. 2418 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 2419 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 2420 2421 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 2422 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 2423 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 2424 2425 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 2426 whatever value is the default set by the layout 2427 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 2428 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 2429 2430 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2431 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 2432 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 2433 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 2434 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 2435 migration from NFSv2/v3. 2436 2437 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 2438 when a NMI is triggered. 2439 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 2440 2441 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 2442 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 2443 Valid num: 0 or 1 2444 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 2445 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 2446 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 2447 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite 2448 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 2449 please see 'nowatchdog'. 2450 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 2451 need the box quickly up again. 2452 2453 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 2454 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 2455 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 2456 waits 4 seconds. 2457 2458 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 2459 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 2460 is present. 2461 2462 no_console_suspend 2463 [HW] Never suspend the console 2464 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 2465 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 2466 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 2467 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 2468 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 2469 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 2470 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 2471 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 2472 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 2473 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 2474 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 2475 turn on/off it dynamically. 2476 2477 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 2478 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 2479 but will impact performance. 2480 2481 noalign [KNL,ARM] 2482 2483 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 2484 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 2485 2486 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 2487 2488 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem 2489 on "Classic" PPC cores. 2490 2491 nocache [ARM] 2492 2493 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction 2494 2495 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting 2496 2497 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 2498 2499 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 2500 2501 noexec [IA-64] 2502 2503 noexec [X86] 2504 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels. 2505 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 2506 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings 2507 2508 nosmap [X86] 2509 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 2510 even if it is supported by processor. 2511 2512 nosmep [X86] 2513 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 2514 even if it is supported by processor. 2515 2516 noexec32 [X86-64] 2517 This affects only 32-bit executables. 2518 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 2519 read doesn't imply executable mappings 2520 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 2521 read implies executable mappings 2522 2523 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 2524 2525 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 2526 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 2527 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 2528 2529 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 2530 2531 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 2532 Equivalent to smt=1. 2533 2534 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 2535 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 2536 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 2537 2538 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 2539 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 2540 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 2541 performance of saving the states is degraded because 2542 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 2543 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 2544 2545 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 2546 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 2547 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 2548 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 2549 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 2550 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 2551 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 2552 2553 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or 2554 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to 2555 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger. 2556 2557 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 2558 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 2559 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 2560 2561 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 2562 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 2563 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 2564 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 2565 in certain environments such as networked servers or 2566 real-time systems. 2567 2568 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 2569 2570 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 2571 Valid arguments: on, off 2572 Default: on 2573 2574 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT] 2575 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2576 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 2577 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 2578 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 2579 the range to maintain the timekeeping. 2580 The CPUs in this range must also be included in the 2581 rcu_nocbs= set. 2582 2583 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 2584 2585 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 2586 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 2587 2588 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 2589 broken timer IRQ sources. 2590 2591 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 2592 2593 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 2594 initial RAM disk. 2595 2596 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 2597 remapping. 2598 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 2599 2600 nointroute [IA-64] 2601 2602 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 2603 2604 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 2605 2606 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 2607 2608 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 2609 fault handling. 2610 2611 no-vmw-sched-clock 2612 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 2613 clock and use the default one. 2614 2615 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. 2616 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler 2617 behaviour 2618 2619 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 2620 2621 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 2622 2623 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel 2624 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx 2625 2626 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 2627 2628 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 2629 2630 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 2631 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 2632 2633 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 2634 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 2635 irq. 2636 2637 nomodule Disable module load 2638 2639 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 2640 pagetables) support. 2641 2642 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 2643 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 2644 2645 noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops 2646 2647 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 2648 with UP alternatives 2649 2650 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and 2651 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported 2652 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still 2653 available to user space applications. 2654 2655 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 2656 space. 2657 2658 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 2659 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 2660 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 2661 2662 nosbagart [IA-64] 2663 2664 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. 2665 2666 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 2667 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 2668 2669 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 2670 2671 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 2672 2673 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter 2674 2675 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 2676 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 2677 2678 nowb [ARM] 2679 2680 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 2681 2682 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 2683 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 2684 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 2685 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 2686 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 2687 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 2688 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 2689 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 2690 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 2691 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 2692 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 2693 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 2694 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 2695 2696 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 2697 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 2698 SAL PALO. 2699 2700 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2701 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 2702 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 2703 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 2704 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 2705 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 2706 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 2707 hot plugging. 2708 2709 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 2710 2711 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing. 2712 Allowed values are enable and disable 2713 2714 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 2715 one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified 2716 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 2717 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details. 2718 2719 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 2720 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more 2721 info. 2722 2723 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 2724 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 2725 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 2726 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 2727 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 2728 interrupts *may* be lost! 2729 2730 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 2731 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 2732 For example, to override I2C bus2: 2733 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 2734 2735 oprofile.timer= [HW] 2736 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters 2737 2738 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type 2739 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile 2740 userland or if you want common events. 2741 Format: { arch_perfmon } 2742 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural 2743 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the 2744 CPU specific event set. 2745 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI 2746 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer 2747 for generic hr timer mode) 2748 2749 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 2750 process, but there is a small probability of 2751 deadlocking the machine. 2752 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 2753 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 2754 2755 OSS [HW,OSS] 2756 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt 2757 2758 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 2759 Storage of the information about who allocated 2760 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 2761 we can turn it on. 2762 on: enable the feature 2763 2764 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 2765 poisoning on the buddy allocator. 2766 off: turn off poisoning 2767 on: turn on poisoning 2768 2769 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 2770 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 2771 timeout = 0: wait forever 2772 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 2773 Format: <timeout> 2774 2775 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 2776 on a WARN(). 2777 2778 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 2779 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 2780 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 2781 succeeds in any situation. 2782 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 2783 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 2784 kernel more unstable. 2785 2786 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 2787 connected to, default is 0. 2788 Format: <parport#> 2789 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 2790 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 2791 Format: <mode> 2792 2793 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 2794 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 2795 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 2796 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 2797 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 2798 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 2799 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 2800 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 2801 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 2802 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 2803 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 2804 are specified on the command line, starting 2805 with parport0. 2806 2807 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 2808 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 2809 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 2810 computer where firmware has no options for setting 2811 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 2812 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 2813 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 2814 2815 pause_on_oops= 2816 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 2817 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 2818 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 2819 2820 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 2821 2822 pcd. [PARIDE] 2823 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 2824 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 2825 2826 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options: 2827 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel 2828 changes anything 2829 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 2830 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 2831 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 2832 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 2833 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 2834 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 2835 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 2836 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 2837 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 2838 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 2839 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 2840 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 2841 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 2842 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 2843 bus number. The config space is then accessed 2844 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 2845 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 2846 on the configuration access mechanisms. 2847 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 2848 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 2849 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 2850 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 2851 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 2852 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 2853 Configuration 2854 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 2855 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 2856 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 2857 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 2858 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 2859 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 2860 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 2861 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 2862 should never be necessary. 2863 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 2864 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 2865 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 2866 when the system masks IRQs. 2867 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 2868 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 2869 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 2870 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 2871 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 2872 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 2873 on several machines and they hang the machine 2874 when used, but on other computers it's the only 2875 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 2876 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 2877 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 2878 motherboard. 2879 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 2880 Use with caution as certain devices share 2881 address decoders between ROMs and other 2882 resources. 2883 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 2884 expansion ROMs that do not already have 2885 BIOS assigned address ranges. 2886 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 2887 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 2888 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 2889 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 2890 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 2891 this way. 2892 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 2893 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 2894 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 2895 F0000h-100000h range. 2896 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 2897 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 2898 secondary buses and you want to tell it 2899 explicitly which ones they are. 2900 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 2901 numbers ourselves, overriding 2902 whatever the firmware may have done. 2903 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 2904 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 2905 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 2906 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 2907 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 2908 IRQ routing is enabled. 2909 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 2910 or for PCI scanning. 2911 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 2912 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 2913 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 2914 please report a bug. 2915 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 2916 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 2917 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 2918 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 2919 so this option is a temporary workaround 2920 for broken drivers that don't call it. 2921 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 2922 handle more pci cards 2923 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 2924 This might help on some broken boards which 2925 machine check when some devices' config space 2926 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 2927 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 2928 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 2929 This sorting is done to get a device 2930 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 2931 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 2932 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 2933 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 2934 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 2935 supported by all devices below the root complex. 2936 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 2937 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 2938 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 2939 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 2940 or bus can support) for best performance. 2941 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 2942 every device is guaranteed to support. This 2943 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 2944 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 2945 reduced performance. This also guarantees 2946 that hot-added devices will work. 2947 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 2948 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 2949 The default value is 256 bytes. 2950 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 2951 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 2952 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 2953 resource_alignment= 2954 Format: 2955 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...] 2956 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\ 2957 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...] 2958 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 2959 aligned memory resources. 2960 If <order of align> is not specified, 2961 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 2962 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource 2963 windows need to be expanded. 2964 To specify the alignment for several 2965 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 2966 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 2967 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 2968 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 2969 end-to-end CRC checking). 2970 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 2971 the default. 2972 off: Turn ECRC off 2973 on: Turn ECRC on. 2974 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 2975 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 2976 Default size is 256 bytes. 2977 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 2978 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window. 2979 Default size is 2 megabytes. 2980 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 2981 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 2982 Default is 1. 2983 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 2984 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 2985 accommodate resources required by all child 2986 devices. 2987 off: Turn realloc off 2988 on: Turn realloc on 2989 realloc same as realloc=on 2990 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 2991 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 2992 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 2993 port. 2994 2995 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 2996 Management. 2997 off Disable ASPM. 2998 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 2999 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 3000 3001 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options: 3002 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this 3003 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services). 3004 3005 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling: 3006 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services 3007 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use 3008 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS. 3009 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports 3010 unconditionally. 3011 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe 3012 ports driver. 3013 3014 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 3015 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 3016 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 3017 3018 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 3019 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 3020 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 3021 3022 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 3023 3024 pd_ignore_unused 3025 [PM] 3026 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 3027 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 3028 for debug and development, but should not be 3029 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 3030 3031 pd. [PARIDE] 3032 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3033 3034 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 3035 boot time. 3036 Format: { 0 | 1 } 3037 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 3038 3039 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 3040 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 3041 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 3042 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 3043 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 3044 and performance comparison. 3045 3046 pf. [PARIDE] 3047 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3048 3049 pg. [PARIDE] 3050 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3051 3052 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 3053 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt. 3054 3055 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 3056 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 3057 See also Documentation/parport.txt. 3058 3059 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 3060 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 3061 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 3062 3063 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 3064 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 3065 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 3066 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 3067 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 3068 possible settings and some assignment information. 3069 3070 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 3071 { off } 3072 3073 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 3074 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 3075 3076 pnp_reserve_irq= 3077 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 3078 3079 pnp_reserve_dma= 3080 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 3081 3082 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 3083 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 3084 3085 pnp_reserve_mem= 3086 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 3087 autoconfiguration. 3088 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 3089 3090 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 3091 Default is 21. 3092 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 3093 may be specified. 3094 Format: <port>,<port>.... 3095 3096 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 3097 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 3098 platform machine description specific power_save 3099 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 3100 execution priority. 3101 3102 ppc_strict_facility_enable 3103 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 3104 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 3105 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 3106 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 3107 3108 print-fatal-signals= 3109 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 3110 3111 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 3112 related application anomalies: too many signals, 3113 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 3114 coredump - etc. 3115 3116 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 3117 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 3118 3119 default: off. 3120 3121 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 3122 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 3123 panics 3124 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3125 default: disabled 3126 3127 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 3128 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 3129 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 3130 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 3131 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 3132 Default: ratelimit 3133 3134 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 3135 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3136 3137 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 3138 Limit processor to maximum C-state 3139 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 3140 3141 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 3142 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 3143 instead using the legacy FADT method 3144 3145 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 3146 Format: [schedule,]<number> 3147 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 3148 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 3149 statistical time based profiling. 3150 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 3151 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 3152 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 3153 3154 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk 3155 before loading. 3156 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 3157 3158 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 3159 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 3160 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 3161 per second. 3162 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 3163 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 3164 (0 = never). 3165 psmouse.resolution= 3166 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 3167 psmouse.smartscroll= 3168 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 3169 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 3170 3171 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 3172 3173 pt. [PARIDE] 3174 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3175 3176 pty.legacy_count= 3177 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 3178 default number. 3179 3180 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 3181 3182 r128= [HW,DRM] 3183 3184 raid= [HW,RAID] 3185 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 3186 3187 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 3188 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 3189 3190 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 3191 3192 cec_disable [X86] 3193 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 3194 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 3195 3196 rcu_nocbs= [KNL] 3197 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3198 3199 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set 3200 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs. 3201 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will 3202 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for 3203 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" 3204 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" 3205 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the 3206 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and 3207 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy 3208 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 3209 3210 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 3211 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 3212 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 3213 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 3214 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 3215 This improves the real-time response for the 3216 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 3217 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 3218 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 3219 periodically wake up to do the polling. 3220 3221 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 3222 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 3223 process in one batch. 3224 3225 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 3226 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 3227 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 3228 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 3229 3230 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 3231 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3232 RCU grace-period cleanup. This only has effect 3233 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP is set. 3234 3235 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 3236 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3237 RCU grace-period initialization. This only has 3238 effect when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT 3239 is set. 3240 3241 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 3242 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3243 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 3244 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 3245 the rcu_node combining tree. This only has effect 3246 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT is set. 3247 3248 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 3249 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 3250 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 3251 possibly be useful for architectures having high 3252 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 3253 3254 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 3255 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 3256 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 3257 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 3258 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 3259 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 3260 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 3261 3262 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 3263 Set required age in jiffies for a 3264 given grace period before RCU starts 3265 soliciting quiescent-state help from 3266 rcu_note_context_switch(). 3267 3268 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 3269 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 3270 first attempt to force quiescent states. 3271 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 3272 and maximum value is HZ. 3273 3274 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 3275 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 3276 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 3277 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 3278 3279 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 3280 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 3281 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 3282 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 3283 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 3284 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 3285 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 3286 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 3287 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 3288 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 3289 3290 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL] 3291 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which 3292 defaults to the square root of the number of 3293 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead 3294 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases 3295 that same overhead on each group's leader. 3296 3297 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 3298 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 3299 batch limiting is disabled. 3300 3301 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 3302 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 3303 batch limiting is re-enabled. 3304 3305 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL] 3306 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 3307 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 3308 3309 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL] 3310 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 3311 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 3312 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can 3313 prove do nothing more than free memory. 3314 3315 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 3316 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 3317 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 3318 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 3319 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 3320 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 3321 3322 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL] 3323 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 3324 grace-period primitives. 3325 3326 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL] 3327 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 3328 this parameter is to delay the start of the 3329 test until boot completes in order to avoid 3330 interference. 3331 3332 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL] 3333 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 3334 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 3335 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 3336 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 3337 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 3338 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 3339 a single reader. 3340 3341 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL] 3342 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 3343 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders. 3344 N, where N is the number of CPUs 3345 3346 rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT] 3347 Start rcuperf running at boot time. 3348 3349 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL] 3350 Shut the system down after performance tests 3351 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 3352 testing. 3353 3354 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL] 3355 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 3356 3357 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL] 3358 Enable additional printk() statements. 3359 3360 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL] 3361 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive 3362 callback-flood tests. 3363 3364 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL] 3365 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive 3366 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood 3367 test. 3368 3369 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL] 3370 Set the number of bursts making up a given 3371 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to 3372 disable callback-flood testing. 3373 3374 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL] 3375 Set the number of callbacks to be registered 3376 in a given burst of a callback-flood test. 3377 3378 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 3379 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 3380 in microseconds. 3381 3382 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 3383 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 3384 in microseconds. 3385 3386 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 3387 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 3388 in seconds. 3389 3390 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 3391 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 3392 primitives, if available. 3393 3394 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 3395 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 3396 3397 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 3398 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 3399 update-side primitives, if available. 3400 3401 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 3402 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 3403 update-side primitives, if available. If all 3404 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 3405 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 3406 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 3407 they are all non-zero. 3408 3409 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 3410 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 3411 3412 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 3413 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 3414 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 3415 test, hence the "fake". 3416 3417 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 3418 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 3419 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 3420 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 3421 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 3422 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 3423 3424 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 3425 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 3426 3427 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 3428 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 3429 3430 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 3431 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 3432 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 3433 3434 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 3435 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 3436 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 3437 during the rcutorture test. 3438 3439 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 3440 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 3441 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 3442 3443 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 3444 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 3445 warnings, zero to disable. 3446 3447 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 3448 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 3449 3450 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 3451 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 3452 3453 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 3454 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 3455 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 3456 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 3457 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 3458 3459 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 3460 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 3461 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 3462 under test support RCU priority boosting. 3463 3464 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 3465 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 3466 3467 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 3468 Interval (s) between each boost test. 3469 3470 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 3471 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 3472 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 3473 3474 rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT] 3475 Start rcutorture running at boot time. 3476 3477 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 3478 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 3479 3480 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 3481 Enable additional printk() statements. 3482 3483 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 3484 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 3485 3486 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 3487 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 3488 3489 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 3490 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 3491 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 3492 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 3493 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 3494 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 3495 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 3496 3497 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 3498 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 3499 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 3500 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 3501 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 3502 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 3503 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 3504 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 3505 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 3506 3507 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 3508 Once boot has completed (that is, after 3509 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 3510 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 3511 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 3512 3513 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 3514 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning 3515 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal 3516 to zero. 3517 3518 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 3519 Run the RCU early boot self tests 3520 3521 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL] 3522 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests 3523 3524 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL] 3525 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests 3526 3527 rdinit= [KNL] 3528 Format: <full_path> 3529 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 3530 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 3531 3532 reboot= [KNL] 3533 Format (x86 or x86_64): 3534 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \ 3535 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 3536 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 3537 [[,]f[orce] 3538 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio, 3539 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 3540 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 3541 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 3542 to be used for rebooting. 3543 3544 relax_domain_level= 3545 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 3546 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt. 3547 3548 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area 3549 3550 reservetop= [X86-32] 3551 Format: nn[KMG] 3552 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 3553 address space. 3554 3555 reservelow= [X86] 3556 Format: nn[K] 3557 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at 3558 the bottom of the address space. 3559 3560 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 3561 during initialization. 3562 3563 resume= [SWSUSP] 3564 Specify the partition device for software suspend 3565 Format: 3566 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 3567 3568 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 3569 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 3570 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 3571 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 3572 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt 3573 3574 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 3575 read the resume files 3576 3577 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 3578 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 3579 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 3580 3581 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 3582 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 3583 present during boot. 3584 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 3585 no Disable hibernation and resume. 3586 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 3587 (that will set all pages holding image data 3588 during restoration read-only). 3589 3590 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 3591 3592 rfkill.default_state= 3593 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 3594 etc. communication is blocked by default. 3595 1 Unblocked. 3596 3597 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 3598 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 3599 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 3600 blocked and the previous configuration. 3601 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 3602 blocked and everything unblocked. 3603 3604 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 3605 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 3606 3607 ring3mwait=disable 3608 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 3609 CPUs. 3610 3611 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 3612 3613 rodata= [KNL] 3614 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 3615 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 3616 3617 rockchip.usb_uart 3618 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 3619 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 3620 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 3621 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 3622 3623 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 3624 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 3625 3626 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 3627 mount the root filesystem 3628 3629 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 3630 3631 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 3632 3633 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 3634 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 3635 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 3636 3637 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 3638 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 3639 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 3640 managed by CMA. 3641 3642 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 3643 3644 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 3645 3646 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 3647 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 3648 strict 3649 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 3650 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 3651 which is faster. 3652 3653 sa1100ir [NET] 3654 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 3655 3656 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter 3657 3658 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 3659 3660 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 3661 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 3662 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 3663 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 3664 3665 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 3666 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 3667 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 3668 Format: { "0" | "1" } 3669 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 3670 1 -- enable. 3671 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 3672 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 3673 3674 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot. 3675 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first 3676 security module asking for security registration will be 3677 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated 3678 as if no module has been chosen. 3679 3680 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 3681 Format: { "0" | "1" } 3682 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 3683 0 -- disable. 3684 1 -- enable. 3685 Default value is set via kernel config option. 3686 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used 3687 later to disable prior to initial policy load. 3688 3689 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 3690 Format: { "0" | "1" } 3691 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 3692 0 -- disable. 3693 1 -- enable. 3694 Default value is set via kernel config option. 3695 3696 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 3697 3698 shapers= [NET] 3699 Maximal number of shapers. 3700 3701 simeth= [IA-64] 3702 simscsi= 3703 3704 slram= [HW,MTD] 3705 3706 slab_nomerge [MM] 3707 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 3708 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 3709 allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable 3710 merging on their own. 3711 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 3712 3713 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 3714 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 3715 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 3716 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 3717 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 3718 3719 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB] 3720 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 3721 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 3722 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 3723 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 3724 last alloc / free. For more information see 3725 Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 3726 3727 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB] 3728 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for 3729 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable. 3730 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON. 3731 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug 3732 directories and files being created under 3733 /sys/kernel/slub. 3734 3735 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 3736 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 3737 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 3738 fragmentation. For more information see 3739 Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 3740 3741 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 3742 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 3743 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 3744 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 3745 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 3746 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 3747 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 3748 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 3749 3750 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 3751 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 3752 lower than slub_max_order. 3753 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 3754 3755 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 3756 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 3757 See slab_nomerge for more information. 3758 3759 smart2= [HW] 3760 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 3761 3762 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 3763 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 3764 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 3765 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 3766 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 3767 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 3768 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 3769 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 3770 1: Fast pin select (default) 3771 2: ATC IRMode 3772 3773 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 3774 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 3775 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 3776 actual hardware limit. 3777 Format: <integer> 3778 Default: -1 (no limit) 3779 3780 softlockup_panic= 3781 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 3782 Format: <integer> 3783 3784 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 3785 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 3786 backtraces on all cpus. 3787 Format: <integer> 3788 3789 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 3790 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt 3791 3792 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 3793 spia_fio_base= 3794 spia_pedr= 3795 spia_peddr= 3796 3797 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 3798 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 3799 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 3800 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 3801 grace period will be considered for automatic 3802 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 3803 expediting. 3804 3805 stacktrace [FTRACE] 3806 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 3807 3808 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 3809 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 3810 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 3811 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 3812 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 3813 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 3814 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 3815 3816 sti= [PARISC,HW] 3817 Format: <num> 3818 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 3819 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 3820 as the initial boot-console. 3821 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 3822 3823 sti_font= [HW] 3824 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 3825 3826 stifb= [HW] 3827 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 3828 3829 sunrpc.min_resvport= 3830 sunrpc.max_resvport= 3831 [NFS,SUNRPC] 3832 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 3833 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 3834 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 3835 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 3836 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 3837 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 3838 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 3839 maximum port values. 3840 3841 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 3842 [NFS,SUNRPC] 3843 Limit the number of requests that the server will 3844 process in parallel from a single connection. 3845 The default value is 0 (no limit). 3846 3847 sunrpc.pool_mode= 3848 [NFS] 3849 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 3850 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 3851 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 3852 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 3853 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 3854 NFS server is running. 3855 3856 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 3857 automatically using heuristics 3858 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 3859 percpu one pool for each CPU 3860 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 3861 to global on non-NUMA machines) 3862 3863 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 3864 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 3865 [NFS,SUNRPC] 3866 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 3867 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 3868 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 3869 improve throughput, but will also increase the 3870 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 3871 3872 suspend.pm_test_delay= 3873 [SUSPEND] 3874 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 3875 mode before resuming the system (see 3876 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 3877 is set. Default value is 5. 3878 3879 swapaccount=[0|1] 3880 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 3881 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 3882 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt) 3883 3884 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 3885 Format: { <int> | force | noforce } 3886 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 3887 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 3888 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 3889 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 3890 3891 switches= [HW,M68k] 3892 3893 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 3894 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 3895 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 3896 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 3897 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 3898 in older udev will not work anymore. 3899 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 3900 the kernel configuration. 3901 3902 sysrq_always_enabled 3903 [KNL] 3904 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 3905 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 3906 Useful for debugging. 3907 3908 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 3909 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 3910 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 3911 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 3912 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt 3913 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 3914 3915 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 3916 3917 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N] 3918 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 3919 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 3920 as the system sleep state during system startup with 3921 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 3922 The system is woken from this state using a 3923 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 3924 3925 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 3926 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 3927 3928 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 3929 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 3930 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 3931 3932 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 3933 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 3934 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 3935 3936 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 3937 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 3938 critical and hot trip points. 3939 3940 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 3941 1: disable ACPI thermal control 3942 3943 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 3944 -1: disable all passive trip points 3945 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 3946 value 3947 3948 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 3949 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 3950 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 3951 0: no polling (default) 3952 3953 threadirqs [KNL] 3954 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 3955 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 3956 3957 tmem [KNL,XEN] 3958 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in. 3959 3960 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 3961 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache 3962 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor. 3963 3964 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 3965 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap 3966 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled 3967 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled. 3968 3969 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 3970 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages 3971 to the hypervisor. 3972 3973 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 3974 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately 3975 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the 3976 kernel based on different criteria. 3977 3978 topology= [S390] 3979 Format: {off | on} 3980 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 3981 topology information if the hardware supports this. 3982 The scheduler will make use of this information and 3983 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 3984 Default is on. 3985 3986 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 3987 Format: {off} 3988 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 3989 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 3990 LPAR. 3991 3992 tp720= [HW,PS2] 3993 3994 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 3995 Format: integer pcr id 3996 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 3997 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 3998 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 3999 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 4000 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 4001 are saved. 4002 4003 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 4004 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 4005 4006 trace_event=[event-list] 4007 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 4008 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 4009 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See 4010 also Documentation/trace/events.txt 4011 4012 trace_options=[option-list] 4013 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 4014 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 4015 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 4016 to echo the option name into 4017 4018 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 4019 4020 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 4021 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 4022 4023 trace_options=stacktrace 4024 4025 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options" 4026 section. 4027 4028 tp_printk[FTRACE] 4029 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 4030 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 4031 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 4032 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 4033 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 4034 4035 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 4036 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 4037 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 4038 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 4039 4040 ** CAUTION ** 4041 4042 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 4043 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 4044 the system to live lock. 4045 4046 traceoff_on_warning 4047 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 4048 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 4049 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 4050 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 4051 4052 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 4053 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 4054 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 4055 4056 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 4057 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 4058 4059 transparent_hugepage= 4060 [KNL] 4061 Format: [always|madvise|never] 4062 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 4063 with respect to transparent hugepages. 4064 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details. 4065 4066 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 4067 Format: <string> 4068 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 4069 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 4070 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 4071 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 4072 virtualized environment. 4073 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 4074 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 4075 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 4076 can add overhead. 4077 4078 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 4079 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 4080 Format: 4081 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 4082 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt 4083 4084 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 4085 happen after console_init() and before a proper 4086 console driver takes over, this boot options might 4087 help "seeing" what's going on. 4088 4089 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4090 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 4091 4092 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 4093 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 4094 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 4095 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 4096 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 4097 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 4098 reported either. 4099 4100 unknown_nmi_panic 4101 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 4102 4103 usbcore.authorized_default= 4104 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 4105 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 4106 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized) 4107 4108 usbcore.autosuspend= 4109 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 4110 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 4111 is the time required before an idle device will be 4112 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 4113 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 4114 4115 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 4116 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 4117 4118 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 4119 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 4120 (default = 65536). 4121 4122 usbcore.blinkenlights= 4123 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 4124 4125 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 4126 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 4127 scheme (default 0 = off). 4128 4129 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 4130 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 4131 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 4132 4133 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 4134 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 4135 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 4136 4137 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 4138 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 4139 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 4140 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 4141 4142 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 4143 4144 usbhid.mousepoll= 4145 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 4146 4147 usbhid.jspoll= 4148 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 4149 4150 usb-storage.delay_use= 4151 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 4152 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 4153 4154 usb-storage.quirks= 4155 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 4156 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 4157 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 4158 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 4159 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 4160 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 4161 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 4162 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 4163 of sense data); 4164 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 4165 bytes of sense data); 4166 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 4167 device capacity by one sector); 4168 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 4169 READ_DISC_INFO command); 4170 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 4171 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 4172 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 4173 command, uas only); 4174 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 4175 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 4176 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 4177 reported device capacity by one 4178 sector if the number is odd); 4179 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 4180 device); 4181 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 4182 command, uas only); 4183 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 4184 unlock ejectable media); 4185 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 4186 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time); 4187 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 4188 initial READ(10) command); 4189 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 4190 reported by the device); 4191 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 4192 by default); 4193 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 4194 bogus residue values); 4195 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 4196 Logical Unit); 4197 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 4198 commands, uas only); 4199 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 4200 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 4201 medium is write-protected). 4202 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 4203 even if the device claims no cache) 4204 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 4205 4206 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 4207 Format: <int> 4208 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 4209 1 - undefined instruction events 4210 2 - system calls 4211 4 - invalid data aborts 4212 8 - SIGSEGV faults 4213 16 - SIGBUS faults 4214 Example: user_debug=31 4215 4216 userpte= 4217 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 4218 4219 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 4220 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 4221 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 4222 4223 vdso= [X86,SH] 4224 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 4225 4226 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 4227 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 4228 4229 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 4230 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 4231 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 4232 4233 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 4234 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 4235 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 4236 4237 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 4238 alias for vdso32=0. 4239 4240 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 4241 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 4242 4243 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 4244 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 4245 4246 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 4247 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt. 4248 4249 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1] 4250 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 4251 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 4252 level and then send out the event to user space through 4253 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver 4254 will only send out the event without touching backlight 4255 brightness level. 4256 default: 1 4257 4258 virtio_mmio.device= 4259 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 4260 4261 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 4262 where: 4263 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 4264 like K, M and G) 4265 <baseaddr> := physical base address 4266 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 4267 request_irq()) 4268 <id> := (optional) platform device id 4269 example: 4270 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 4271 4272 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 4273 4274 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 4275 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and 4276 Documentation/svga.txt. 4277 Use vga=ask for menu. 4278 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 4279 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 4280 4281 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 4282 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 4283 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 4284 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 4285 mapped kernel RAM. 4286 4287 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 4288 Format: <command> 4289 4290 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 4291 Format: <command> 4292 4293 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 4294 Format: <command> 4295 4296 vsyscall= [X86-64] 4297 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 4298 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 4299 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 4300 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 4301 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 4302 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 4303 4304 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 4305 emulated reasonably safely. 4306 4307 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions. 4308 This is a little bit faster than trapping 4309 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work 4310 better than they would in emulation mode. 4311 It also makes exploits much easier to write. 4312 4313 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 4314 them quite hard to use for exploits but 4315 might break your system. 4316 4317 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 4318 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 4319 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 4320 4321 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 4322 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 4323 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 4324 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 4325 4326 vt.default_blu= [VT] 4327 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 4328 Change the default blue palette of the console. 4329 This is a 16-member array composed of values 4330 ranging from 0-255. 4331 4332 vt.default_grn= [VT] 4333 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 4334 Change the default green palette of the console. 4335 This is a 16-member array composed of values 4336 ranging from 0-255. 4337 4338 vt.default_red= [VT] 4339 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 4340 Change the default red palette of the console. 4341 This is a 16-member array composed of values 4342 ranging from 0-255. 4343 4344 vt.default_utf8= 4345 [VT] 4346 Format=<0|1> 4347 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 4348 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 4349 newly opened terminals. 4350 4351 vt.global_cursor_default= 4352 [VT] 4353 Format=<-1|0|1> 4354 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 4355 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 4356 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 4357 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 4358 cursors, 1 will display them. 4359 4360 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 4361 Default: 2 = green. 4362 4363 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 4364 Default: 3 = cyan. 4365 4366 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 4367 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt 4368 or other driver-specific files in the 4369 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 4370 4371 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 4372 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 4373 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 4374 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 4375 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 4376 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 4377 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 4378 corresponding sysfs file. 4379 4380 workqueue.disable_numa 4381 By default, all work items queued to unbound 4382 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 4383 issued on, which results in better behavior in 4384 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 4385 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 4386 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 4387 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 4388 4389 workqueue.power_efficient 4390 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 4391 they show better performance thanks to cache 4392 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 4393 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 4394 4395 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 4396 were observed to contribute significantly to power 4397 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 4398 power usage at the cost of small performance 4399 overhead. 4400 4401 The default value of this parameter is determined by 4402 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 4403 4404 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 4405 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 4406 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 4407 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 4408 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 4409 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 4410 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 4411 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 4412 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 4413 impacted. 4414 4415 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 4416 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 4417 supporting x2apic. 4418 4419 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT] 4420 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform. 4421 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer 4422 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer. 4423 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt 4424 4425 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 4426 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 4427 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 4428 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 4429 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 4430 domains. 4431 4432 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 4433 Unplug Xen emulated devices 4434 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 4435 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 4436 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 4437 nics -- unplug network devices 4438 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 4439 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 4440 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 4441 the unplug protocol 4442 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 4443 4444 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 4445 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV 4446 optimizations. 4447 4448 xen_nopv [X86] 4449 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 4450 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 4451 4452 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 4453 Format: 4454 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 4455