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