1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64] 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt | 4 copy_dsdt } 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64] 7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on 8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant. 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory 13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force" 14 are available 15 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi 17 18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC] 19 Format: <int> 20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 21 1,0: use 1st APIC table 22 default: 0 23 24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 25 acpi_backlight=vendor 26 acpi_backlight=video 27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver 28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 29 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 30 31 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr 32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 36 37 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 41 This option is useful for developers to identify the 42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 43 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 44 45 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 47 Format: <int> 48 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT 52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 55 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 56 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about 57 debug layers and levels. 58 59 Enable processor driver info messages: 60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages: 62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000 63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 64 object while interpreting AML: 65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 68 69 Some values produce so much output that the system is 70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 71 if you need to capture more output. 72 73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 74 { strict | lax | no } 75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 79 can interfere with legacy drivers. 80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 82 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 87 no further checks are performed. 88 89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI] 90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 92 size limitation. 93 94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 95 ACPI will balance active IRQs 96 default in APIC mode 97 98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 100 default in PIC mode 101 102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 103 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 104 105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 106 use by PCI 107 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 108 109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 113 the GPE dispatcher. 114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 115 GPE floodings. 116 Format: <int> 117 118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 122 auto-serialization feature. 123 This feature is enabled by default. 124 This option allows to turn off the feature. 125 126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 127 kernels. 128 129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] 130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 132 installed automatically and they will appear under 133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 134 This option turns off this feature. 135 Note that specifying this option does not affect 136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 138 139 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] 140 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 141 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 142 second kernel for kdump. 143 144 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 145 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 146 147 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 148 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 149 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 150 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 151 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 152 153 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 154 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 155 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 156 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 157 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 158 strings 159 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 160 strings 161 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 162 163 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 164 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 165 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 166 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 167 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 168 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 169 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 170 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 171 care about the state of the feature group strings which 172 should be controlled by the OSPM. 173 Examples: 174 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 175 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 176 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 177 178 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 179 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 180 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 181 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 182 multiple times through kernel command line is also 183 meaningless. 184 Examples: 185 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 186 FALSE. 187 188 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 189 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 190 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 191 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 192 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 193 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 194 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 195 there are quirks related to this string. This command 196 is useful when one want to control the state of the 197 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 198 the OSPM features. 199 Examples: 200 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 201 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 202 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 203 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 204 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 205 equivalent to 206 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 207 and 208 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 209 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 210 211 acpi_pm_good [X86] 212 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 213 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 214 and always returns good values. 215 216 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 217 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 218 219 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 220 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 221 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 222 223 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 224 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig, 225 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl } 226 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on 227 s3_bios and s3_mode. 228 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 229 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 230 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 231 used during resume from hibernation. 232 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 233 control method, with respect to putting devices into 234 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 235 of _PTS is used by default). 236 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 237 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 238 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 239 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 240 but some broken systems don't work without it). 241 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 242 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 243 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 244 245 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 246 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 247 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 248 249 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 250 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 251 252 agp= [AGP] 253 { off | try_unsupported } 254 off: disable AGP support 255 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 256 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 257 258 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 259 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt 260 261 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 262 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 263 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 264 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 265 266 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 267 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 268 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 269 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 270 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 271 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 272 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 273 274 32: only for 32-bit processes 275 64: only for 64-bit processes 276 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 277 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 278 279 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 280 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 281 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 282 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 283 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 284 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 285 286 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 287 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 288 Possible values are: 289 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when 290 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are 291 flushed before they will be reused, which 292 is a lot of faster 293 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 294 the system 295 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 296 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 297 allowed anymore to lift isolation 298 requirements as needed. This option 299 does not override iommu=pt 300 301 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 302 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 303 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 304 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 305 IOMMU initialization. 306 307 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 308 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 309 remapping modes: 310 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 311 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 312 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 313 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 314 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 315 316 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 317 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 318 Format: <a>,<b> 319 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 320 321 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 322 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 323 connected to one of 16 gameports 324 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 325 326 apc= [HW,SPARC] 327 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 328 Format: noidle 329 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 330 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 331 APC and your system crashes randomly. 332 333 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 334 Change the output verbosity whilst booting 335 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 336 Change the amount of debugging information output 337 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 338 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 339 driver name. 340 Format: apic=driver_name 341 Examples: apic=bigsmp 342 343 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 344 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 345 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 346 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 347 backup of CPU 0 348 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 349 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 350 shot down by NMI 351 352 autoconf= [IPV6] 353 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 354 355 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 356 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 357 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 358 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 359 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 360 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 361 apic=verbose is specified. 362 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 363 364 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 365 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 366 367 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 368 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 369 370 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 371 372 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 373 374 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 375 EzKey and similar keyboards 376 377 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 378 379 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 380 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 381 382 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 383 keyboards 384 385 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 386 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 387 388 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 389 Use software keyboard repeat 390 391 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 392 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 393 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 394 enabled until the next reboot 395 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 396 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 397 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 398 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 399 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 400 userspace auditd. 401 Default: unset 402 403 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 404 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 405 Default: 64 406 407 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 408 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 409 Format: { "0" | "1" } 410 0 - Disable the BAU. 411 1 - Enable the BAU. 412 unset - Disable the BAU. 413 414 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 415 Format: <io>,<mode> 416 417 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 418 Format: <io>,<mode> 419 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 420 421 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 422 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 423 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 424 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 425 426 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 427 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 428 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 429 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 430 431 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 432 embedded devices based on command line input. 433 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt 434 435 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 436 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to 437 no delay (0). 438 Format: integer 439 440 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages. 441 442 bert_disable [ACPI] 443 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 444 445 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 446 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 447 kernel args too. 448 bttv.pll= See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst 449 bttv.tuner= 450 451 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 452 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 453 at a time. 454 455 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 456 457 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 458 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 459 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 460 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 461 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 462 This option provides an override for these situations. 463 464 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 465 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 466 trust validation. 467 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 468 469 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 470 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 471 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 472 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 473 others). 474 475 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 476 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details. 477 478 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller 479 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable} 480 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 481 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 482 a single hierarchy 483 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 484 subsystem 485 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 486 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 487 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 488 489 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1 490 Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" } 491 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 492 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 493 494 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 495 Format: <string> 496 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 497 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 498 499 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 500 Format: { "0" | "1" } 501 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 502 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 503 any implied execute protection). 504 1 -- check protection requested by application. 505 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 506 Value can be changed at runtime via 507 /selinux/checkreqprot. 508 509 cio_ignore= [S390] 510 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details. 511 clk_ignore_unused 512 [CLK] 513 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 514 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 515 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 516 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 517 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 518 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 519 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 520 platform with proper driver support. For more 521 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 522 523 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 524 [Deprecated] 525 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 526 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 527 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 528 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 529 530 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 531 Format: <string> 532 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 533 with the name specified. 534 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 535 the platform: 536 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 537 [ACPI] acpi_pm 538 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 539 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 540 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 541 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 542 [MIPS] MIPS 543 [PARISC] cr16 544 [S390] tod 545 [SH] SuperH 546 [SPARC64] tick 547 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 548 549 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 550 [ARM,ARM64] 551 Format: <bool> 552 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 553 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 554 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 555 systems. 556 557 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86] 558 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 559 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 560 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily 561 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific 562 ones should be. 563 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 564 or using the feature without checking anything 565 will still see it. This just prevents it from 566 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 567 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 568 some critical bits. 569 570 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 571 [ARM,X86,KNL] 572 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 573 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 574 placement constraint by the physical address range of 575 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 576 altogether. For more information, see 577 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h 578 579 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 580 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 581 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 582 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 583 a hypervisor. 584 Default: yes 585 586 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 587 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 588 allocations, by default set to 256K. 589 590 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 591 Format: 592 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 593 594 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 595 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 596 597 com90xx= [HW,NET] 598 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 599 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 600 601 condev= [HW,S390] console device 602 conmode= 603 604 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 605 606 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 607 608 ttyS<n>[,options] 609 ttyUSB0[,options] 610 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 611 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 612 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 613 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 614 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 615 616 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 617 information. See 618 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an 619 alternative. 620 621 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 622 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 623 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 624 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 625 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 626 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 627 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 628 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 629 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 630 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 631 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 632 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 633 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 634 the h/w is not re-initialized. 635 636 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 637 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 638 639 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 640 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 641 console=brl,ttyS0 642 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 643 644 console_msg_format= 645 [KNL] Change console messages format 646 default 647 By default we print messages on consoles in 648 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 649 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 650 `printk_time' param). 651 syslog 652 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 653 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 654 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 655 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 656 from /proc/kmsg. 657 658 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 659 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 660 Defaults to 0. 661 662 coredump_filter= 663 [KNL] Change the default value for 664 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 665 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt. 666 667 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 668 [ARM,ARM64] 669 Format: <bool> 670 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 671 0: default value, disable debugging 672 1: enable debugging at boot time 673 674 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 675 disable the cpuidle sub-system 676 677 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 678 disable the cpufreq sub-system 679 680 cpu_init_udelay=N 681 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 682 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 683 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 684 Default: 10000 685 686 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 687 Format: 688 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 689 690 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 691 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 692 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 693 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 694 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 695 is selected automatically. Check 696 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details. 697 698 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 699 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 700 in the running system. The syntax of range is 701 start-[end] where start and end are both 702 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 703 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example. 704 705 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 706 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 707 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 708 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 709 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 710 available. 711 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 712 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 713 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 714 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 715 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 716 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 717 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 718 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 719 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at 720 at least 256M below 4G automatically. 721 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G 722 for second kernel instead. 723 0: to disable low allocation. 724 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 725 or memory reserved is below 4G. 726 727 cryptomgr.notests 728 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 729 730 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 731 Format: <dma> 732 733 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 734 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 735 736 dasd= [HW,NET] 737 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 738 739 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 740 (one device per port) 741 Format: <port#>,<type> 742 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 743 744 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot 745 time. See 746 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for 747 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg. 748 749 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 750 751 debug_locks_verbose= 752 [KNL] verbose self-tests 753 Format=<0|1> 754 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 755 self-tests. 756 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to 757 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally 758 only useful to kernel developers. 759 760 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 761 762 no_debug_objects 763 [KNL] Disable object debugging 764 765 debug_guardpage_minorder= 766 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 767 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 768 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 769 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 770 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 771 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 772 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 773 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 774 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 775 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 776 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 777 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 778 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when 779 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 780 bypassed) which are not detectable by 781 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 782 tracking down these problems. 783 784 debug_pagealloc= 785 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 786 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In 787 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge 788 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable 789 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same 790 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 791 on: enable the feature 792 793 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 794 795 decnet.addr= [HW,NET] 796 Format: <area>[,<node>] 797 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt. 798 799 default_hugepagesz= 800 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default 801 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by 802 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and 803 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems. 804 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size 805 if not specified. 806 807 dhash_entries= [KNL] 808 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 809 810 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 811 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 812 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 813 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 814 miss to occur. 815 816 disable= [IPV6] 817 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 818 819 disable_radix [PPC] 820 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 821 822 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 823 Format: <int> 824 The number of initial APIC ID for the 825 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 826 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 827 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 828 causing system reset or hang due to sending 829 INIT from AP to BSP. 830 831 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 832 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if 833 to workaround buggy firmware. 834 835 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 836 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 837 838 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 839 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 840 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 841 entry later. This parameter disables that. 842 843 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 844 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 845 memory out of your available memory pool based on 846 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 847 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 848 849 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 850 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 851 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 852 853 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 854 855 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 856 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 857 858 dma_debug_entries=<number> 859 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 860 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 861 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 862 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 863 architectural default is too low. 864 865 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 866 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 867 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 868 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 869 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 870 driver later using sysfs. 871 872 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 873 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 874 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 875 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 876 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 877 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 878 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 879 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 880 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 881 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 882 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID 883 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 884 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 885 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 886 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 887 data set with no connector name will be used for 888 any connectors not explicitly specified. 889 890 dscc4.setup= [NET] 891 892 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 893 Format: {"off" | "known"} 894 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 895 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 896 exists). 897 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 898 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 899 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 900 901 dump_apple_properties [X86] 902 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 903 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 904 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 905 906 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 907 module.dyndbg[="val"] 908 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 909 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 910 for details. 911 912 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions. 913 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more 914 information about the feature. 915 916 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 917 in some Intel CPUs. 918 919 module.async_probe [KNL] 920 Enable asynchronous probe on this module. 921 922 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 923 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 924 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 925 which are not unmapped. 926 927 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 928 929 [ARM64] The early console is determined by the 930 stdout-path property in device tree's chosen node, 931 or determined by the ACPI SPCR table. 932 933 [X86] When used with no options the early console is 934 determined by the ACPI SPCR table. 935 936 cdns,<addr>[,options] 937 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 938 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 939 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 940 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 941 configured. 942 943 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 944 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 945 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 946 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options] 947 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 948 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 949 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 950 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 951 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 952 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 953 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 954 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 955 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 956 957 pl011,<addr> 958 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 959 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 960 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 961 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 962 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 963 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 964 the device registers. 965 966 meson,<addr> 967 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 968 port at the specified address. The serial port must 969 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 970 supported. 971 972 msm_serial,<addr> 973 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 974 port at the specified address. The serial port 975 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 976 yet supported. 977 978 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 979 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 980 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 981 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 982 yet supported. 983 984 owl,<addr> 985 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 986 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 987 specified address. The serial port must already be 988 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 989 990 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 991 992 s3c2410,<addr> 993 s3c2412,<addr> 994 s3c2440,<addr> 995 s3c6400,<addr> 996 s5pv210,<addr> 997 exynos4210,<addr> 998 Use early console provided by serial driver available 999 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1000 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1001 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1002 Options are not yet supported. 1003 1004 lantiq,<addr> 1005 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1006 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1007 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1008 yet supported. 1009 1010 lpuart,<addr> 1011 lpuart32,<addr> 1012 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1013 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1014 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1015 port must already be setup and configured. 1016 1017 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1018 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1019 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1020 address. The serial port must already be setup 1021 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1022 1023 qcom_geni,<addr> 1024 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1025 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1026 specified address. The serial port must already be 1027 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1028 1029 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1030 earlyprintk=vga 1031 earlyprintk=efi 1032 earlyprintk=sclp 1033 earlyprintk=xen 1034 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1035 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1036 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1037 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1038 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1039 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1040 1041 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1042 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1043 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1044 1045 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1046 takes over. 1047 1048 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can 1049 be used at a time. 1050 1051 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1052 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1053 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1054 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1055 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1056 You can find the port for a given device in 1057 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1058 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1059 1060 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1061 very good. 1062 1063 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by 1064 the real console. 1065 1066 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests. 1067 1068 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1069 1070 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1071 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1072 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1073 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1074 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1075 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1076 default: on. 1077 1078 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1079 ekgdboc=kbd 1080 1081 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1082 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1083 1084 edd= [EDD] 1085 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1086 1087 efi= [EFI] 1088 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" } 1089 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI 1090 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by 1091 default. 1092 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1093 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1094 firmware implementations. 1095 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1096 debug: enable misc debug output 1097 1098 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1099 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1100 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1101 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1102 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1103 1104 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1105 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1106 updating original EFI memory map. 1107 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1108 from ss to ss+nn. 1109 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1110 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1111 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1112 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1113 1114 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1115 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of 1116 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1117 doesn't support it. 1118 1119 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1120 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1121 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1122 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1123 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details. 1124 1125 1126 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1127 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1128 1129 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1130 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1131 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1132 1133 elevator= [IOSCHED] 1134 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"} 1135 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and 1136 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details. 1137 1138 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1139 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1140 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1141 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1142 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details. 1143 1144 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1145 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1146 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1147 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1148 1149 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1150 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1151 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1152 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1153 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1154 1155 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1156 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1157 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1158 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1159 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1160 Default value is 0. 1161 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce. 1162 1163 erst_disable [ACPI] 1164 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1165 support. 1166 1167 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1168 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1169 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1170 1171 evm= [EVM] 1172 Format: { "fix" } 1173 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1174 current integrity status. 1175 1176 failslab= 1177 fail_page_alloc= 1178 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1179 General fault injection mechanism. 1180 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1181 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1182 1183 floppy= [HW] 1184 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt. 1185 1186 force_pal_cache_flush 1187 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1188 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1189 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1190 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1191 1192 forcepae [X86-32] 1193 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1194 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1195 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1196 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1197 and may cause unknown problems. 1198 1199 ftrace=[tracer] 1200 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1201 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1202 boot debugging. 1203 1204 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1205 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1206 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1207 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1208 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1209 oops. 1210 1211 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1212 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1213 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 1214 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1215 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1216 tracing directory. 1217 1218 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1219 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1220 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1221 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1222 tracing directory. 1223 1224 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1225 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1226 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1227 function-list is a comma separated list of functions 1228 that can be changed at run time by the 1229 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1230 1231 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1232 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1233 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of 1234 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1235 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1236 1237 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1238 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1239 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1240 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1241 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1242 1243 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1244 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1245 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1246 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1247 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1248 1249 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1250 1251 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1252 Format: off | on 1253 default: on 1254 1255 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1256 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1257 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1258 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1259 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1260 1261 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1262 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1263 android emulator 1264 1265 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1266 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1267 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1268 GPT to be used instead. 1269 1270 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1271 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1272 Format: 0 | 1 1273 Default: 0 1274 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1275 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1276 Format: 0 | 1 1277 Default: 0 1278 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1279 Format: 0 | 1 1280 Default: 0 1281 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1282 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1283 Default: 1024 1284 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1285 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1286 Default: 1024 1287 1288 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1289 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1290 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1291 1292 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1293 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1294 backtraces on all cpus. 1295 Format: <integer> 1296 1297 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1298 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1299 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1300 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1301 1302 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1303 1304 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1305 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1306 1307 hest_disable [ACPI] 1308 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1309 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1310 logic will be disabled. 1311 1312 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1313 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1314 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1315 size on bigger boxes. 1316 1317 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1318 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1319 Default: "on" 1320 1321 hisax= [HW,ISDN] 1322 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax. 1323 1324 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1325 1326 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1327 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1328 verbose } 1329 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1330 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1331 VIA, nVidia) 1332 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1333 1334 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1335 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1336 1337 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1338 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages. 1339 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified 1340 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve 1341 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on 1342 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G 1343 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag). 1344 1345 hung_task_panic= 1346 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1347 Format: <integer> 1348 1349 A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a 1350 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1351 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1352 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1353 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1354 1355 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1356 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1357 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1358 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1359 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1360 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1361 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1362 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1363 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1364 the real console. 1365 1366 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1367 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1368 registered from board initialization code. 1369 Format: 1370 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1371 1372 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1373 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1374 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1375 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1376 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1377 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1378 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1379 keyboard and cannot control its state 1380 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1381 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1382 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1383 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1384 for the AUX port 1385 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1386 controller 1387 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1388 controllers 1389 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1390 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1391 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1392 transitions, or never reset 1393 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1394 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1395 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1396 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1397 architectures force reset to be always executed 1398 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1399 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1400 1401 i810= [HW,DRM] 1402 1403 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1404 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1405 hardware. 1406 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature 1407 does not match list of supported models. 1408 i8k.power_status 1409 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1410 (disabled by default) 1411 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1412 capability is set. 1413 1414 i915.invert_brightness= 1415 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1416 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1417 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1418 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1419 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1420 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1421 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1422 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1423 value switches the backlight off. 1424 -1 -- never invert brightness 1425 0 -- machine default 1426 1 -- force brightness inversion 1427 1428 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1429 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1430 1431 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1432 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc 1433 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr 1434 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options 1435 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt. 1436 1437 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1438 Format: <int> 1439 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on 1440 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by 1441 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The 1442 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning. 1443 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the 1444 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which 1445 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value 1446 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it 1447 was 0x3. 1448 1449 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1450 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers. 1451 1452 idle= [X86] 1453 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1454 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1455 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1456 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1457 Not recommended. 1458 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1459 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1460 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1461 1462 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1463 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1464 Default: strict 1465 1466 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1467 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1468 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1469 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1470 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1471 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1472 encoding mode. 1473 1474 Available settings are as follows: 1475 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1476 supported by the FPU 1477 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1478 by the FPU 1479 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1480 by the FPU 1481 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1482 supported by the FPU 1483 1484 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1485 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1486 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1487 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1488 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1489 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1490 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1491 MIPS64 CPUs. 1492 1493 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1494 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1495 except where unsupported by hardware. 1496 1497 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1498 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1499 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1500 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1501 could change it dynamically, usually by 1502 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1503 1504 ignore_rlimit_data 1505 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1506 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1507 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1508 1509 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1510 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1511 1512 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1513 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1514 default: "enforce" 1515 1516 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] 1517 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1518 owned by uid=0. 1519 1520 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1521 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1522 measurements, instead of host native format. 1523 1524 ima_hash= [IMA] 1525 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1526 | sha512 | ... } 1527 default: "sha1" 1528 1529 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1530 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1531 1532 ima_policy= [IMA] 1533 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1534 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1535 fail_securely" 1536 1537 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1538 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1539 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1540 uid=0. 1541 1542 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1543 all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent 1544 of ima_appraise_tcb.) 1545 1546 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1547 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1548 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1549 1550 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1551 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1552 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1553 flag. 1554 1555 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1556 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1557 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1558 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1559 opened for read by uid=0. 1560 1561 ima_template= [IMA] 1562 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1563 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" } 1564 Default: "ima-ng" 1565 1566 ima_template_fmt= 1567 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1568 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1569 1570 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1571 Format: <min_file_size> 1572 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1573 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1574 1575 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1576 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1577 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1578 1579 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1580 Format: <bufsize> 1581 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1582 1583 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1584 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1585 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1586 1587 init= [KNL] 1588 Format: <full_path> 1589 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1590 process. 1591 1592 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1593 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1594 startup. 1595 1596 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1597 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1598 modules and initcalls. 1599 1600 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 1601 1602 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 1603 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 1604 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 1605 override in debugfs after boot. 1606 1607 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 1608 Format: <irq> 1609 1610 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 1611 1612 integrity_audit=[IMA] 1613 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1614 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 1615 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 1616 1617 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 1618 on 1619 Enable intel iommu driver. 1620 off 1621 Disable intel iommu driver. 1622 igfx_off [Default Off] 1623 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 1624 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 1625 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 1626 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 1627 DMA. 1628 forcedac [x86_64] 1629 With this option iommu will not optimize to look 1630 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual 1631 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater 1632 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look 1633 for translation below 32-bit and if not available 1634 then look in the higher range. 1635 strict [Default Off] 1636 With this option on every unmap_single operation will 1637 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed 1638 to batching them for performance. 1639 sp_off [Default Off] 1640 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 1641 has the capability. With this option, super page will 1642 not be supported. 1643 ecs_off [Default Off] 1644 By default, extended context tables will be supported if 1645 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the 1646 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With 1647 this option set, extended tables will not be used even 1648 on hardware which claims to support them. 1649 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 1650 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 1651 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 1652 could harm performance of some high-throughput 1653 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 1654 mapping is enabled. 1655 Note that using this option lowers the security 1656 provided by tboot because it makes the system 1657 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 1658 1659 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 1660 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 1661 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 1662 1663 intel_pstate= [X86] 1664 disable 1665 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 1666 scaling driver for the supported processors 1667 passive 1668 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 1669 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 1670 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 1671 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 1672 feature. 1673 force 1674 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 1675 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 1676 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 1677 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 1678 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 1679 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 1680 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 1681 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 1682 no_hwp 1683 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 1684 if available. 1685 hwp_only 1686 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 1687 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 1688 support_acpi_ppc 1689 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 1690 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 1691 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 1692 then this feature is turned on by default. 1693 per_cpu_perf_limits 1694 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 1695 cpufreq sysfs interface 1696 1697 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 1698 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 1699 off disable Interrupt Remapping 1700 nosid disable Source ID checking 1701 no_x2apic_optout 1702 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 1703 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 1704 1705 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 1706 strict regions from userspace. 1707 relaxed 1708 1709 iommu= [x86] 1710 off 1711 force 1712 noforce 1713 biomerge 1714 panic 1715 nopanic 1716 merge 1717 nomerge 1718 soft 1719 pt [x86, IA-64] 1720 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 1721 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 1722 1723 iommu.passthrough= 1724 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 1725 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1726 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 1727 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 1728 unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 1729 1730 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems 1731 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 1732 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 1733 1734 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 1735 0x80 1736 Standard port 0x80 based delay 1737 0xed 1738 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 1739 udelay 1740 Simple two microseconds delay 1741 none 1742 No delay 1743 1744 ip= [IP_PNP] 1745 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 1746 1747 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 1748 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 1749 1750 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 1751 [ARM, ARM64] 1752 Format: <bool> 1753 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 1754 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 1755 exposed by the device tree is too small. 1756 1757 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 1758 [ARM, ARM64] 1759 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 1760 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 1761 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 1762 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 1763 LPIs. 1764 1765 irqfixup [HW] 1766 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1767 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1768 firmware running. 1769 1770 irqpoll [HW] 1771 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1772 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 1773 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1774 firmware running. 1775 1776 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 1777 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 1778 1779 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 1780 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 1781 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 1782 1783 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 1784 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 1785 1786 nohz 1787 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 1788 1789 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 1790 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 1791 workqueue's affinity configured via the 1792 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 1793 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 1794 1795 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 1796 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 1797 be configured manually after bootup. 1798 1799 domain 1800 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 1801 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 1802 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 1803 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 1804 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 1805 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 1806 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 1807 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 1808 1809 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 1810 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 1811 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 1812 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 1813 1814 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 1815 1816 1817 1818 iucv= [HW,NET] 1819 1820 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64] 1821 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 1822 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1823 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 1824 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 1825 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 1826 1827 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64] 1828 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 1829 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1830 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to 1831 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 1832 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 1833 1834 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64] 1835 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 1836 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1837 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 1838 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 1839 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 1840 1841 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 1842 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 1843 1844 nokaslr [KNL] 1845 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 1846 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 1847 Layout Randomization). 1848 1849 kasan_multi_shot 1850 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 1851 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 1852 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 1853 invalid access. 1854 1855 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 1856 1857 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 1858 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 1859 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 1860 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 1861 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 1862 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 1863 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 1864 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 1865 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 1866 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 1867 1868 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 1869 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 1870 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 1871 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 1872 zone if it does not. 1873 1874 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 1875 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 1876 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 1877 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 1878 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 1879 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 1880 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 1881 1882 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 1883 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 1884 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 1885 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 1886 optional and is the number seconds in between 1887 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 1888 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 1889 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 1890 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 1891 the kernel debugger. 1892 1893 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 1894 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 1895 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 1896 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 1897 keyboard only format: kbd 1898 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 1899 Optional Kernel mode setting: 1900 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 1901 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 1902 1903 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 1904 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 1905 1906 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address. 1907 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 1908 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 1909 1910 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 1911 Valid arguments: on, off 1912 Default: on 1913 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 1914 the default is off. 1915 1916 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 1917 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 1918 1919 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 1920 Default is false (don't support). 1921 1922 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit 1923 KVM MMU at runtime. 1924 Default is 0 (off) 1925 1926 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 1927 Default is 1 (enabled) 1928 1929 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 1930 for all guests. 1931 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 1932 1933 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 1934 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 1935 system registers 1936 1937 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 1938 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 1939 system registers 1940 1941 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 1942 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 1943 system registers 1944 1945 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 1946 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 1947 LPIs. 1948 1949 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 1950 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 1951 Default is 1 (enabled) 1952 1953 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 1954 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states 1955 Default is 0 (disabled) 1956 1957 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 1958 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 1959 Default is 1 (enabled) 1960 1961 kvm-intel.nested= 1962 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 1963 Default is 0 (disabled) 1964 1965 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 1966 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 1967 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 1968 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 1969 1970 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 1971 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 1972 Default is 1 (enabled) 1973 1974 l2cr= [PPC] 1975 1976 l3cr= [PPC] 1977 1978 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 1979 disabled it. 1980 1981 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline 1982 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 1983 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 1984 1985 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 1986 in C2 power state. 1987 1988 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 1989 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 1990 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 1991 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 1992 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 1993 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 1994 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 1995 1996 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 1997 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 1998 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 1999 2000 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2001 when set. 2002 Format: <int> 2003 2004 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma 2005 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is 2006 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers 2007 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches 2008 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If 2009 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE 2010 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the 2011 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices. 2012 2013 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2014 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2015 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2016 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2017 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2018 host link and device attached to it. 2019 2020 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2021 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed. 2022 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2023 The following configurations can be forced. 2024 2025 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2026 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2027 2028 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2029 2030 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2031 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2032 allowed. 2033 2034 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2035 2036 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM. 2037 2038 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft 2039 and both resets. 2040 2041 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during 2042 hot-unplug link recovery 2043 2044 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data. 2045 2046 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support 2047 2048 * disable: Disable this device. 2049 2050 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2051 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2052 2053 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 2054 2055 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy 2056 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 2057 2058 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2059 Format: <integer> 2060 2061 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2062 Format: <integer> 2063 2064 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2065 Format: <integer> 2066 2067 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2068 Format: <integer> 2069 2070 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2071 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2072 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2073 number of online CPUs. 2074 2075 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2076 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2077 2078 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2079 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2080 2081 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2082 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2083 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2084 2085 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2086 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2087 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2088 mode during the locktorture test. 2089 2090 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2091 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2092 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2093 2094 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2095 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2096 2097 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2098 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2099 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2100 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2101 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2102 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2103 2104 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2105 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2106 2107 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2108 Enable additional printk() statements. 2109 2110 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2111 Format: <irq> 2112 2113 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2114 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2115 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2116 loglevels are defined as follows: 2117 2118 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2119 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2120 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2121 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2122 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2123 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2124 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2125 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2126 2127 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2128 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2129 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2130 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2131 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2132 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2133 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2134 2135 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2136 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2137 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2138 kernel boot problems. 2139 2140 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2141 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2142 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2143 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2144 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2145 attached printers to be reset. Using 2146 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2147 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2148 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2149 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2150 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2151 port specification list means that device IDs 2152 from each port should be examined, to see if 2153 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2154 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2155 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2156 2157 lpj=n [KNL] 2158 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2159 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2160 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2161 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2162 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2163 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2164 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2165 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2166 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2167 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2168 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2169 hardware. 2170 2171 ltpc= [NET] 2172 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2173 2174 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2175 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2176 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb 2177 2178 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different 2179 yeeloong laptop. 2180 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2181 2182 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater 2183 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2184 2185 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2186 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2187 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2188 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2189 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2190 only takes effect during system bootup. 2191 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2192 which also disables the IO APIC. 2193 2194 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2195 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2196 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2197 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2198 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2199 /dev/loop-control interface. 2200 2201 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2202 2203 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt 2204 2205 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2206 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2207 2208 mdacon= [MDA] 2209 Format: <first>,<last> 2210 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2211 2212 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2213 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able 2214 to see the whole system memory or for test. 2215 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 2216 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 2217 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 2218 belonging to unused RAM. 2219 2220 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 2221 memory. 2222 2223 memchunk=nn[KMG] 2224 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 2225 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 2226 2227 memhp_default_state=online/offline 2228 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 2229 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 2230 set according to the 2231 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 2232 option. 2233 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt. 2234 2235 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 2236 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 2237 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 2238 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 2239 option description. 2240 2241 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 2242 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 2243 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 2244 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 2245 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 2246 Multiple different regions can be specified, 2247 comma delimited. 2248 Example: 2249 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 2250 2251 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 2252 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 2253 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 2254 2255 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 2256 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 2257 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 2258 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 2259 memmap=64K$0x18690000 2260 or 2261 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 2262 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 2263 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 2264 will be eaten. 2265 2266 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 2267 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 2268 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 2269 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 2270 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 2271 2272 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 2273 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 2274 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 2275 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 2276 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 2277 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 2278 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 2279 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 2280 2281 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 2282 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 2283 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 2284 Setting this option will scan the memory 2285 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 2286 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 2287 from using the memory being corrupted. 2288 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 2289 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 2290 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 2291 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 2292 2293 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 2294 By default it checks for corruption in the low 2295 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 2296 use. Use this parameter to scan for 2297 corruption in more or less memory. 2298 2299 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 2300 By default it checks for corruption every 60 2301 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 2302 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 2303 2304 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest 2305 Format: <integer> 2306 default : 0 <disable> 2307 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 2308 performed. Each pass selects another test 2309 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 2310 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 2311 memory contents and reserves bad memory 2312 regions that are detected. 2313 2314 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 2315 Valid arguments: on, off 2316 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 2317 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 2318 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 2319 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 2320 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 2321 2322 Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt 2323 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 2324 2325 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 2326 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 2327 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 2328 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 2329 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 2330 2331 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 2332 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst. 2333 2334 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 2335 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 2336 platforms. 2337 2338 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 2339 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 2340 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 2341 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 2342 2343 mga= [HW,DRM] 2344 2345 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this 2346 physical address is ignored. 2347 2348 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 2349 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 2350 Default: "0tb" 2351 MINI2440 configuration specification: 2352 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 2353 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 2354 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 2355 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 2356 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 2357 unconfigured. 2358 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 2359 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 2360 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 2361 VGA shield. 2362 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 2363 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 2364 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 2365 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 2366 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 2367 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 2368 2369 mminit_loglevel= 2370 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 2371 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 2372 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 2373 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 2374 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 2375 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 2376 2377 module.sig_enforce 2378 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 2379 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 2380 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 2381 is always true, so this option does nothing. 2382 2383 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 2384 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 2385 2386 mousedev.tap_time= 2387 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 2388 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 2389 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 2390 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 2391 Format: <msecs> 2392 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 2393 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2394 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 2395 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2396 2397 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2398 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 2399 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 2400 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 2401 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 2402 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 2403 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 2404 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 2405 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 2406 is not too small. 2407 2408 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 2409 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 2410 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 2411 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 2412 allocations. Use with caution! 2413 2414 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 2415 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 2416 2417 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 2418 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 2419 2420 mtdparts= [MTD] 2421 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c. 2422 2423 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 2424 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 2425 at a time. 2426 2427 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 2428 2429 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 2430 2431 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 2432 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 2433 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 2434 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 2435 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 2436 2437 mtdset= [ARM] 2438 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 2439 2440 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c 2441 2442 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 2443 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 2444 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 2445 2446 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2447 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 2448 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 2449 2450 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2451 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 2452 Default is 1. 2453 Large value could prevent small alignment from 2454 using up MTRRs. 2455 2456 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 2457 Format: <integer> 2458 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 2459 Default : 1 2460 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 2461 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 2462 2463 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 2464 2465 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 2466 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 2467 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 2468 something different and driver-specific. 2469 This usage is only documented in each driver source 2470 file if at all. 2471 2472 nf_conntrack.acct= 2473 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 2474 0 to disable accounting 2475 1 to enable accounting 2476 Default value is 0. 2477 2478 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 2479 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2480 2481 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 2482 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2483 2484 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 2485 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2486 2487 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 2488 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 2489 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 2490 requests. 2491 2492 nfs.callback_tcpport= 2493 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 2494 channel should listen. 2495 2496 nfs.cache_getent= 2497 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 2498 to update the NFS client cache entries. 2499 2500 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 2501 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 2502 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 2503 2504 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 2505 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 2506 entries. 2507 2508 nfs.enable_ino64= 2509 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 2510 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 2511 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 2512 of returning the full 64-bit number. 2513 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 2514 2515 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 2516 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 2517 slots the client will assign to the callback 2518 channel. This determines the maximum number of 2519 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 2520 a particular server. 2521 2522 nfs.max_session_slots= 2523 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 2524 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 2525 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 2526 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 2527 Note that there is little point in setting this 2528 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 2529 2530 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2531 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 2532 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 2533 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 2534 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 2535 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 2536 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 2537 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 2538 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 2539 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 2540 back to using the idmapper. 2541 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 2542 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 2543 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 2544 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 2545 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 2546 UUID that is generated at system install time. 2547 2548 nfs.send_implementation_id = 2549 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 2550 information in exchange_id requests. 2551 If zero, no implementation identification information 2552 will be sent. 2553 The default is to send the implementation identification 2554 information. 2555 2556 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 2557 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 2558 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 2559 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 2560 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 2561 after the locks are lost. 2562 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 2563 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 2564 parameter to '1'. 2565 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 2566 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 2567 2568 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 2569 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 2570 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 2571 2572 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 2573 whatever value is the default set by the layout 2574 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 2575 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 2576 2577 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2578 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 2579 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 2580 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 2581 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 2582 migration from NFSv2/v3. 2583 2584 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 2585 when a NMI is triggered. 2586 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 2587 2588 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 2589 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 2590 Valid num: 0 or 1 2591 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 2592 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 2593 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 2594 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite 2595 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 2596 please see 'nowatchdog'. 2597 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 2598 need the box quickly up again. 2599 2600 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 2601 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 2602 2603 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 2604 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 2605 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 2606 waits 4 seconds. 2607 2608 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 2609 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 2610 is present. 2611 2612 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 2613 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 2614 2615 no_console_suspend 2616 [HW] Never suspend the console 2617 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 2618 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 2619 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 2620 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 2621 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 2622 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 2623 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 2624 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 2625 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 2626 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 2627 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 2628 turn on/off it dynamically. 2629 2630 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 2631 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 2632 but will impact performance. 2633 2634 noalign [KNL,ARM] 2635 2636 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 2637 (CPU alternatives feature). 2638 2639 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 2640 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 2641 2642 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 2643 2644 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem 2645 on "Classic" PPC cores. 2646 2647 nocache [ARM] 2648 2649 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction 2650 2651 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting 2652 2653 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 2654 2655 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 2656 2657 noexec [IA-64] 2658 2659 noexec [X86] 2660 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels. 2661 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 2662 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings 2663 2664 nosmap [X86] 2665 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 2666 even if it is supported by processor. 2667 2668 nosmep [X86] 2669 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 2670 even if it is supported by processor. 2671 2672 noexec32 [X86-64] 2673 This affects only 32-bit executables. 2674 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 2675 read doesn't imply executable mappings 2676 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 2677 read implies executable mappings 2678 2679 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 2680 2681 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 2682 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 2683 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 2684 2685 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 2686 2687 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 2688 Equivalent to smt=1. 2689 2690 nospectre_v2 [X86] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2 2691 (indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may 2692 allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent 2693 to spectre_v2=off. 2694 2695 nospec_store_bypass_disable 2696 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 2697 2698 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 2699 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 2700 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 2701 2702 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 2703 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 2704 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 2705 performance of saving the states is degraded because 2706 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 2707 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 2708 2709 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 2710 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 2711 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 2712 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 2713 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 2714 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 2715 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 2716 2717 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or 2718 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to 2719 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger. 2720 2721 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 2722 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 2723 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 2724 2725 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 2726 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 2727 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 2728 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 2729 in certain environments such as networked servers or 2730 real-time systems. 2731 2732 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 2733 2734 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 2735 Valid arguments: on, off 2736 Default: on 2737 2738 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 2739 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2740 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 2741 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 2742 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 2743 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 2744 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 2745 just as if they had also been called out in the 2746 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 2747 2748 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 2749 2750 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 2751 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 2752 2753 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 2754 broken timer IRQ sources. 2755 2756 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 2757 2758 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 2759 initial RAM disk. 2760 2761 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 2762 remapping. 2763 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 2764 2765 nointroute [IA-64] 2766 2767 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 2768 2769 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 2770 2771 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 2772 2773 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 2774 fault handling. 2775 2776 no-vmw-sched-clock 2777 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 2778 clock and use the default one. 2779 2780 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. 2781 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler 2782 behaviour 2783 2784 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 2785 2786 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 2787 2788 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel 2789 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx 2790 2791 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 2792 2793 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 2794 2795 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 2796 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 2797 2798 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 2799 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 2800 irq. 2801 2802 nomodule Disable module load 2803 2804 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 2805 pagetables) support. 2806 2807 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 2808 2809 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 2810 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 2811 2812 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 2813 with UP alternatives 2814 2815 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and 2816 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported 2817 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still 2818 available to user space applications. 2819 2820 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 2821 space. 2822 2823 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 2824 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 2825 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 2826 2827 nosbagart [IA-64] 2828 2829 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. 2830 2831 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 2832 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 2833 2834 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 2835 2836 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 2837 2838 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter 2839 2840 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 2841 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 2842 2843 nowb [ARM] 2844 2845 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 2846 2847 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 2848 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 2849 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 2850 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 2851 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 2852 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 2853 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 2854 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 2855 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 2856 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 2857 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 2858 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 2859 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 2860 2861 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 2862 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 2863 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 2864 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 2865 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 2866 parameter's value. 2867 Format: integer between 1 and 255 2868 Default: 255 2869 2870 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 2871 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 2872 SAL PALO. 2873 2874 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2875 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 2876 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 2877 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 2878 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 2879 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 2880 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 2881 hot plugging. 2882 2883 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 2884 2885 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing. 2886 Allowed values are enable and disable 2887 2888 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 2889 'node', 'default' can be specified 2890 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 2891 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details. 2892 2893 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 2894 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more 2895 info. 2896 2897 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 2898 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 2899 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 2900 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 2901 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 2902 interrupts *may* be lost! 2903 2904 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 2905 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 2906 For example, to override I2C bus2: 2907 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 2908 2909 oprofile.timer= [HW] 2910 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters 2911 2912 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type 2913 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile 2914 userland or if you want common events. 2915 Format: { arch_perfmon } 2916 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural 2917 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the 2918 CPU specific event set. 2919 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI 2920 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer 2921 for generic hr timer mode) 2922 2923 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 2924 process, but there is a small probability of 2925 deadlocking the machine. 2926 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 2927 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 2928 2929 OSS [HW,OSS] 2930 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt 2931 2932 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 2933 Storage of the information about who allocated 2934 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 2935 we can turn it on. 2936 on: enable the feature 2937 2938 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 2939 poisoning on the buddy allocator. 2940 off: turn off poisoning 2941 on: turn on poisoning 2942 2943 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 2944 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 2945 timeout = 0: wait forever 2946 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 2947 Format: <timeout> 2948 2949 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 2950 on a WARN(). 2951 2952 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 2953 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 2954 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 2955 succeeds in any situation. 2956 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 2957 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 2958 kernel more unstable. 2959 2960 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 2961 connected to, default is 0. 2962 Format: <parport#> 2963 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 2964 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 2965 Format: <mode> 2966 2967 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 2968 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 2969 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 2970 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 2971 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 2972 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 2973 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 2974 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 2975 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 2976 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 2977 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 2978 are specified on the command line, starting 2979 with parport0. 2980 2981 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 2982 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 2983 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 2984 computer where firmware has no options for setting 2985 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 2986 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 2987 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 2988 2989 pause_on_oops= 2990 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 2991 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 2992 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 2993 2994 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 2995 2996 pcd. [PARIDE] 2997 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 2998 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 2999 3000 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options: 3001 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel 3002 changes anything 3003 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 3004 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 3005 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 3006 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 3007 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 3008 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 3009 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 3010 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 3011 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3012 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 3013 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 3014 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3015 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 3016 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 3017 bus number. The config space is then accessed 3018 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 3019 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 3020 on the configuration access mechanisms. 3021 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 3022 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3023 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 3024 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 3025 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 3026 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 3027 Configuration 3028 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 3029 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 3030 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 3031 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 3032 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3033 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 3034 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 3035 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 3036 should never be necessary. 3037 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 3038 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 3039 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 3040 when the system masks IRQs. 3041 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 3042 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 3043 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 3044 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 3045 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 3046 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 3047 on several machines and they hang the machine 3048 when used, but on other computers it's the only 3049 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 3050 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 3051 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 3052 motherboard. 3053 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 3054 Use with caution as certain devices share 3055 address decoders between ROMs and other 3056 resources. 3057 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 3058 expansion ROMs that do not already have 3059 BIOS assigned address ranges. 3060 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 3061 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 3062 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 3063 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 3064 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 3065 this way. 3066 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 3067 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 3068 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 3069 F0000h-100000h range. 3070 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 3071 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 3072 secondary buses and you want to tell it 3073 explicitly which ones they are. 3074 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 3075 numbers ourselves, overriding 3076 whatever the firmware may have done. 3077 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 3078 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 3079 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 3080 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 3081 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 3082 IRQ routing is enabled. 3083 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 3084 or for PCI scanning. 3085 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 3086 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 3087 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 3088 please report a bug. 3089 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 3090 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 3091 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 3092 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 3093 so this option is a temporary workaround 3094 for broken drivers that don't call it. 3095 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 3096 handle more pci cards 3097 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 3098 This might help on some broken boards which 3099 machine check when some devices' config space 3100 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 3101 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 3102 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3103 This sorting is done to get a device 3104 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 3105 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3106 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 3107 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 3108 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 3109 supported by all devices below the root complex. 3110 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 3111 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 3112 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 3113 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 3114 or bus can support) for best performance. 3115 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 3116 every device is guaranteed to support. This 3117 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 3118 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 3119 reduced performance. This also guarantees 3120 that hot-added devices will work. 3121 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3122 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 3123 The default value is 256 bytes. 3124 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3125 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 3126 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 3127 resource_alignment= 3128 Format: 3129 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...] 3130 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\ 3131 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...] 3132 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 3133 aligned memory resources. 3134 If <order of align> is not specified, 3135 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 3136 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource 3137 windows need to be expanded. 3138 To specify the alignment for several 3139 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 3140 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 3141 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 3142 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 3143 end-to-end CRC checking). 3144 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 3145 the default. 3146 off: Turn ECRC off 3147 on: Turn ECRC on. 3148 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3149 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 3150 Default size is 256 bytes. 3151 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3152 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window. 3153 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3154 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 3155 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 3156 Default is 1. 3157 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 3158 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 3159 accommodate resources required by all child 3160 devices. 3161 off: Turn realloc off 3162 on: Turn realloc on 3163 realloc same as realloc=on 3164 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 3165 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 3166 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 3167 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 3168 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 3169 port. 3170 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 3171 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 3172 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 3173 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 3174 conflict with unreported devices), so this 3175 taints the kernel. 3176 3177 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 3178 Management. 3179 off Disable ASPM. 3180 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 3181 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 3182 3183 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 3184 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 3185 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 3186 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 3187 also tries to use these services. 3188 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 3189 hotplug). 3190 3191 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 3192 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 3193 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 3194 3195 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 3196 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 3197 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 3198 3199 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 3200 3201 pd_ignore_unused 3202 [PM] 3203 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 3204 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 3205 for debug and development, but should not be 3206 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 3207 3208 pd. [PARIDE] 3209 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3210 3211 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 3212 boot time. 3213 Format: { 0 | 1 } 3214 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 3215 3216 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 3217 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 3218 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 3219 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 3220 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 3221 and performance comparison. 3222 3223 pf. [PARIDE] 3224 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3225 3226 pg. [PARIDE] 3227 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3228 3229 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 3230 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt. 3231 3232 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 3233 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 3234 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 3235 3236 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 3237 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 3238 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 3239 3240 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 3241 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 3242 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 3243 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 3244 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 3245 possible settings and some assignment information. 3246 3247 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 3248 { off } 3249 3250 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 3251 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 3252 3253 pnp_reserve_irq= 3254 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 3255 3256 pnp_reserve_dma= 3257 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 3258 3259 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 3260 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 3261 3262 pnp_reserve_mem= 3263 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 3264 autoconfiguration. 3265 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 3266 3267 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 3268 Default is 21. 3269 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 3270 may be specified. 3271 Format: <port>,<port>.... 3272 3273 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 3274 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 3275 platform machine description specific power_save 3276 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 3277 execution priority. 3278 3279 ppc_strict_facility_enable 3280 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 3281 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 3282 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 3283 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 3284 3285 ppc_tm= [PPC] 3286 Format: {"off"} 3287 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 3288 3289 print-fatal-signals= 3290 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 3291 3292 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 3293 related application anomalies: too many signals, 3294 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 3295 coredump - etc. 3296 3297 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 3298 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 3299 3300 default: off. 3301 3302 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 3303 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 3304 panics 3305 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3306 default: disabled 3307 3308 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 3309 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 3310 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 3311 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 3312 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 3313 Default: ratelimit 3314 3315 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 3316 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3317 3318 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 3319 Limit processor to maximum C-state 3320 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 3321 3322 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 3323 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 3324 instead using the legacy FADT method 3325 3326 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 3327 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 3328 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 3329 [defaults to kernel profiling] 3330 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 3331 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 3332 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 3333 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 3334 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 3335 statistical time based profiling. 3336 3337 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk 3338 before loading. 3339 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 3340 3341 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 3342 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 3343 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 3344 per second. 3345 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 3346 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 3347 (0 = never). 3348 psmouse.resolution= 3349 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 3350 psmouse.smartscroll= 3351 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 3352 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 3353 3354 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 3355 3356 pt. [PARIDE] 3357 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3358 3359 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 3360 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 3361 removes hardening, but improves performance of 3362 system calls and interrupts. 3363 3364 on - unconditionally enable 3365 off - unconditionally disable 3366 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 3367 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 3368 3369 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 3370 3371 nopti [X86_64] 3372 Equivalent to pti=off 3373 3374 pty.legacy_count= 3375 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 3376 default number. 3377 3378 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 3379 3380 r128= [HW,DRM] 3381 3382 raid= [HW,RAID] 3383 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 3384 3385 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 3386 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 3387 3388 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 3389 3390 cec_disable [X86] 3391 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 3392 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 3393 3394 rcu_nocbs= [KNL] 3395 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3396 3397 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set 3398 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs. 3399 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will 3400 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for 3401 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" 3402 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" 3403 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the 3404 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and 3405 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy 3406 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 3407 3408 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 3409 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 3410 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 3411 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 3412 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 3413 This improves the real-time response for the 3414 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 3415 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 3416 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 3417 periodically wake up to do the polling. 3418 3419 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 3420 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 3421 process in one batch. 3422 3423 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 3424 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 3425 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 3426 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 3427 3428 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 3429 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3430 RCU grace-period cleanup. 3431 3432 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 3433 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3434 RCU grace-period initialization. 3435 3436 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 3437 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3438 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 3439 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 3440 the rcu_node combining tree. 3441 3442 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 3443 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 3444 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 3445 possibly be useful for architectures having high 3446 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 3447 3448 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 3449 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 3450 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 3451 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 3452 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 3453 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 3454 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 3455 3456 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 3457 Set required age in jiffies for a 3458 given grace period before RCU starts 3459 soliciting quiescent-state help from 3460 rcu_note_context_switch(). 3461 3462 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 3463 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 3464 first attempt to force quiescent states. 3465 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 3466 and maximum value is HZ. 3467 3468 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 3469 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 3470 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 3471 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 3472 3473 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 3474 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 3475 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 3476 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 3477 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 3478 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 3479 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 3480 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 3481 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 3482 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 3483 3484 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL] 3485 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which 3486 defaults to the square root of the number of 3487 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead 3488 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases 3489 that same overhead on each group's leader. 3490 3491 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 3492 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 3493 batch limiting is disabled. 3494 3495 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 3496 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 3497 batch limiting is re-enabled. 3498 3499 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL] 3500 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 3501 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 3502 3503 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL] 3504 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 3505 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 3506 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can 3507 prove do nothing more than free memory. 3508 3509 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 3510 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 3511 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 3512 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 3513 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 3514 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 3515 3516 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL] 3517 Measure performance of asynchronous 3518 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 3519 3520 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL] 3521 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 3522 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 3523 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 3524 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 3525 previously posted callbacks to drain. 3526 3527 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL] 3528 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 3529 grace-period primitives. 3530 3531 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL] 3532 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 3533 this parameter is to delay the start of the 3534 test until boot completes in order to avoid 3535 interference. 3536 3537 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL] 3538 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 3539 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 3540 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 3541 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 3542 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 3543 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 3544 a single reader. 3545 3546 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL] 3547 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 3548 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders. 3549 N, where N is the number of CPUs 3550 3551 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL] 3552 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 3553 3554 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL] 3555 Shut the system down after performance tests 3556 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 3557 testing. 3558 3559 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL] 3560 Enable additional printk() statements. 3561 3562 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 3563 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 3564 in microseconds. The default of zero says 3565 no holdoff. 3566 3567 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL] 3568 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive 3569 callback-flood tests. 3570 3571 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL] 3572 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive 3573 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood 3574 test. 3575 3576 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL] 3577 Set the number of bursts making up a given 3578 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to 3579 disable callback-flood testing. 3580 3581 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL] 3582 Set the number of callbacks to be registered 3583 in a given burst of a callback-flood test. 3584 3585 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 3586 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 3587 in microseconds. 3588 3589 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 3590 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 3591 in microseconds. 3592 3593 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 3594 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 3595 in seconds. 3596 3597 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 3598 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 3599 primitives, if available. 3600 3601 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 3602 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 3603 3604 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 3605 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 3606 update-side primitives, if available. 3607 3608 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 3609 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 3610 update-side primitives, if available. If all 3611 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 3612 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 3613 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 3614 they are all non-zero. 3615 3616 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 3617 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 3618 3619 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 3620 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 3621 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 3622 test, hence the "fake". 3623 3624 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 3625 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 3626 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 3627 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 3628 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 3629 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 3630 3631 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 3632 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 3633 3634 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 3635 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 3636 3637 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 3638 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 3639 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 3640 3641 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 3642 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 3643 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 3644 during the rcutorture test. 3645 3646 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 3647 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 3648 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 3649 3650 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 3651 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 3652 warnings, zero to disable. 3653 3654 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 3655 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 3656 3657 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 3658 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 3659 3660 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 3661 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 3662 3663 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 3664 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 3665 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 3666 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 3667 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 3668 3669 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 3670 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 3671 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 3672 under test support RCU priority boosting. 3673 3674 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 3675 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 3676 3677 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 3678 Interval (s) between each boost test. 3679 3680 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 3681 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 3682 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 3683 3684 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 3685 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 3686 3687 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 3688 Enable additional printk() statements. 3689 3690 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 3691 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 3692 3693 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 3694 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 3695 3696 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 3697 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 3698 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 3699 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 3700 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 3701 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 3702 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 3703 3704 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 3705 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 3706 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 3707 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 3708 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 3709 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 3710 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 3711 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 3712 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 3713 3714 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 3715 Once boot has completed (that is, after 3716 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 3717 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 3718 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 3719 3720 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 3721 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning 3722 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal 3723 to zero. 3724 3725 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 3726 Run the RCU early boot self tests 3727 3728 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL] 3729 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests 3730 3731 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL] 3732 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests 3733 3734 rdinit= [KNL] 3735 Format: <full_path> 3736 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 3737 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 3738 3739 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 3740 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 3741 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 3742 mba. 3743 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 3744 rdt=cmt,!mba 3745 3746 reboot= [KNL] 3747 Format (x86 or x86_64): 3748 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \ 3749 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 3750 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 3751 [[,]f[orce] 3752 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio, 3753 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 3754 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 3755 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 3756 to be used for rebooting. 3757 3758 relax_domain_level= 3759 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 3760 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt. 3761 3762 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 3763 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 3764 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 3765 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 3766 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 3767 3768 reservetop= [X86-32] 3769 Format: nn[KMG] 3770 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 3771 address space. 3772 3773 reservelow= [X86] 3774 Format: nn[K] 3775 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at 3776 the bottom of the address space. 3777 3778 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 3779 during initialization. 3780 3781 resume= [SWSUSP] 3782 Specify the partition device for software suspend 3783 Format: 3784 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 3785 3786 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 3787 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 3788 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 3789 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 3790 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt 3791 3792 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 3793 read the resume files 3794 3795 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 3796 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 3797 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 3798 3799 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 3800 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 3801 present during boot. 3802 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 3803 no Disable hibernation and resume. 3804 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 3805 (that will set all pages holding image data 3806 during restoration read-only). 3807 3808 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 3809 3810 rfkill.default_state= 3811 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 3812 etc. communication is blocked by default. 3813 1 Unblocked. 3814 3815 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 3816 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 3817 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 3818 blocked and the previous configuration. 3819 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 3820 blocked and everything unblocked. 3821 3822 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 3823 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 3824 3825 ring3mwait=disable 3826 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 3827 CPUs. 3828 3829 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 3830 3831 rodata= [KNL] 3832 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 3833 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 3834 3835 rockchip.usb_uart 3836 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 3837 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 3838 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 3839 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 3840 3841 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 3842 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 3843 3844 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 3845 mount the root filesystem 3846 3847 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 3848 3849 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 3850 3851 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 3852 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 3853 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 3854 3855 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 3856 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 3857 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 3858 managed by CMA. 3859 3860 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 3861 3862 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 3863 3864 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 3865 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 3866 strict 3867 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 3868 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 3869 which is faster. 3870 3871 sa1100ir [NET] 3872 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 3873 3874 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter 3875 3876 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 3877 3878 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 3879 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 3880 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 3881 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 3882 3883 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 3884 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 3885 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 3886 Format: { "0" | "1" } 3887 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 3888 1 -- enable. 3889 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 3890 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 3891 3892 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot. 3893 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first 3894 security module asking for security registration will be 3895 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated 3896 as if no module has been chosen. 3897 3898 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 3899 Format: { "0" | "1" } 3900 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 3901 0 -- disable. 3902 1 -- enable. 3903 Default value is set via kernel config option. 3904 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used 3905 later to disable prior to initial policy load. 3906 3907 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 3908 Format: { "0" | "1" } 3909 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 3910 0 -- disable. 3911 1 -- enable. 3912 Default value is set via kernel config option. 3913 3914 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 3915 3916 shapers= [NET] 3917 Maximal number of shapers. 3918 3919 simeth= [IA-64] 3920 simscsi= 3921 3922 slram= [HW,MTD] 3923 3924 slab_nomerge [MM] 3925 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 3926 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 3927 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 3928 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 3929 layout control by attackers can usually be 3930 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 3931 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 3932 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 3933 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 3934 own. 3935 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 3936 3937 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 3938 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 3939 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 3940 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 3941 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 3942 3943 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB] 3944 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 3945 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 3946 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 3947 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 3948 last alloc / free. For more information see 3949 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 3950 3951 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB] 3952 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for 3953 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable. 3954 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON. 3955 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug 3956 directories and files being created under 3957 /sys/kernel/slub. 3958 3959 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 3960 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 3961 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 3962 fragmentation. For more information see 3963 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 3964 3965 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 3966 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 3967 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 3968 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 3969 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 3970 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 3971 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 3972 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 3973 3974 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 3975 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 3976 lower than slub_max_order. 3977 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 3978 3979 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 3980 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 3981 See slab_nomerge for more information. 3982 3983 smart2= [HW] 3984 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 3985 3986 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 3987 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 3988 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 3989 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 3990 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 3991 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 3992 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 3993 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 3994 1: Fast pin select (default) 3995 2: ATC IRMode 3996 3997 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 3998 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 3999 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 4000 actual hardware limit. 4001 Format: <integer> 4002 Default: -1 (no limit) 4003 4004 softlockup_panic= 4005 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 4006 Format: <integer> 4007 4008 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector 4009 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This 4010 is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 4011 which is the respective build-time switch to that 4012 functionality. 4013 4014 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 4015 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 4016 backtraces on all cpus. 4017 Format: <integer> 4018 4019 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 4020 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt 4021 4022 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 4023 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 4024 4025 on - unconditionally enable 4026 off - unconditionally disable 4027 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4028 vulnerable 4029 4030 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 4031 mitigation method at run time according to the 4032 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 4033 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 4034 compiler with which the kernel was built. 4035 4036 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 4037 4038 retpoline - replace indirect branches 4039 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline 4040 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk 4041 4042 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4043 spectre_v2=auto. 4044 4045 spec_store_bypass_disable= 4046 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 4047 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 4048 4049 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 4050 a common industry wide performance optimization known 4051 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 4052 to the same memory location may not be observed by 4053 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 4054 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 4055 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 4056 end of a particular speculation execution window. 4057 4058 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 4059 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 4060 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 4061 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 4062 4063 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 4064 Bypass optimization is used. 4065 4066 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 4067 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 4068 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 4069 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 4070 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 4071 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 4072 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 4073 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 4074 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 4075 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 4076 for a process by default. The state of the control 4077 is inherited on fork. 4078 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 4079 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 4080 4081 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4082 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 4083 4084 Default mitigations: 4085 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 4086 4087 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 4088 spia_fio_base= 4089 spia_pedr= 4090 spia_peddr= 4091 4092 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 4093 Specifies how frequently to check for 4094 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 4095 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 4096 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 4097 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 4098 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 4099 are ignored. 4100 4101 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 4102 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 4103 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 4104 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 4105 grace period will be considered for automatic 4106 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 4107 expediting. 4108 4109 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 4110 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 4111 4112 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 4113 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 4114 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 4115 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 4116 4117 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 4118 for both kernel and userspace 4119 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 4120 for both kernel and userspace 4121 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 4122 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 4123 to allow userspace to register its 4124 interest in being mitigated too. 4125 4126 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 4127 override the default stack gap protection. The value 4128 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 4129 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 4130 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 4131 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 4132 4133 stacktrace [FTRACE] 4134 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 4135 4136 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 4137 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 4138 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 4139 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 4140 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 4141 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 4142 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 4143 4144 sti= [PARISC,HW] 4145 Format: <num> 4146 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 4147 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 4148 as the initial boot-console. 4149 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 4150 4151 sti_font= [HW] 4152 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 4153 4154 stifb= [HW] 4155 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 4156 4157 sunrpc.min_resvport= 4158 sunrpc.max_resvport= 4159 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4160 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 4161 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 4162 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 4163 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 4164 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 4165 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 4166 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 4167 maximum port values. 4168 4169 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 4170 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4171 Limit the number of requests that the server will 4172 process in parallel from a single connection. 4173 The default value is 0 (no limit). 4174 4175 sunrpc.pool_mode= 4176 [NFS] 4177 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 4178 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 4179 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 4180 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 4181 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 4182 NFS server is running. 4183 4184 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 4185 automatically using heuristics 4186 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 4187 percpu one pool for each CPU 4188 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 4189 to global on non-NUMA machines) 4190 4191 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 4192 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 4193 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4194 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 4195 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 4196 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 4197 improve throughput, but will also increase the 4198 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 4199 4200 suspend.pm_test_delay= 4201 [SUSPEND] 4202 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 4203 mode before resuming the system (see 4204 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 4205 is set. Default value is 5. 4206 4207 swapaccount=[0|1] 4208 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 4209 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 4210 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt) 4211 4212 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 4213 Format: { <int> | force | noforce } 4214 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 4215 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 4216 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 4217 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 4218 4219 switches= [HW,M68k] 4220 4221 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 4222 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 4223 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 4224 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 4225 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 4226 in older udev will not work anymore. 4227 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 4228 the kernel configuration. 4229 4230 sysrq_always_enabled 4231 [KNL] 4232 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 4233 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 4234 Useful for debugging. 4235 4236 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4237 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 4238 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 4239 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 4240 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt 4241 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 4242 4243 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 4244 4245 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N] 4246 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 4247 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 4248 as the system sleep state during system startup with 4249 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 4250 The system is woken from this state using a 4251 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 4252 4253 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4254 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 4255 4256 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 4257 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 4258 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 4259 4260 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 4261 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 4262 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 4263 4264 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 4265 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 4266 critical and hot trip points. 4267 4268 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 4269 1: disable ACPI thermal control 4270 4271 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 4272 -1: disable all passive trip points 4273 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 4274 value 4275 4276 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 4277 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 4278 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 4279 0: no polling (default) 4280 4281 threadirqs [KNL] 4282 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 4283 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 4284 4285 tmem [KNL,XEN] 4286 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in. 4287 4288 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4289 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache 4290 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor. 4291 4292 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4293 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap 4294 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled 4295 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled. 4296 4297 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4298 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages 4299 to the hypervisor. 4300 4301 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4302 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately 4303 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the 4304 kernel based on different criteria. 4305 4306 topology= [S390] 4307 Format: {off | on} 4308 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 4309 topology information if the hardware supports this. 4310 The scheduler will make use of this information and 4311 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 4312 Default is on. 4313 4314 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 4315 Format: {off} 4316 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 4317 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 4318 LPAR. 4319 4320 tp720= [HW,PS2] 4321 4322 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 4323 Format: integer pcr id 4324 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 4325 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 4326 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 4327 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 4328 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 4329 are saved. 4330 4331 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 4332 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 4333 4334 trace_event=[event-list] 4335 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 4336 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 4337 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See 4338 also Documentation/trace/events.txt 4339 4340 trace_options=[option-list] 4341 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 4342 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 4343 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 4344 to echo the option name into 4345 4346 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 4347 4348 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 4349 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 4350 4351 trace_options=stacktrace 4352 4353 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options" 4354 section. 4355 4356 tp_printk[FTRACE] 4357 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 4358 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 4359 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 4360 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 4361 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 4362 4363 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 4364 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 4365 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 4366 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 4367 4368 ** CAUTION ** 4369 4370 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 4371 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 4372 the system to live lock. 4373 4374 traceoff_on_warning 4375 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 4376 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 4377 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 4378 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 4379 4380 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 4381 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 4382 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 4383 4384 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 4385 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 4386 4387 transparent_hugepage= 4388 [KNL] 4389 Format: [always|madvise|never] 4390 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 4391 with respect to transparent hugepages. 4392 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 4393 for more details. 4394 4395 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 4396 Format: <string> 4397 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 4398 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 4399 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 4400 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 4401 virtualized environment. 4402 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 4403 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 4404 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 4405 can add overhead. 4406 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 4407 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 4408 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 4409 4410 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 4411 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 4412 Format: 4413 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 4414 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 4415 4416 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 4417 happen after console_init() and before a proper 4418 console driver takes over, this boot options might 4419 help "seeing" what's going on. 4420 4421 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4422 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 4423 4424 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 4425 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 4426 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 4427 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 4428 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 4429 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 4430 reported either. 4431 4432 unknown_nmi_panic 4433 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 4434 4435 usbcore.authorized_default= 4436 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 4437 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 4438 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized) 4439 4440 usbcore.autosuspend= 4441 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 4442 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 4443 is the time required before an idle device will be 4444 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 4445 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 4446 4447 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 4448 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 4449 4450 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 4451 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 4452 (default = 65536). 4453 4454 usbcore.blinkenlights= 4455 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 4456 4457 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 4458 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 4459 scheme (default 0 = off). 4460 4461 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 4462 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 4463 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 4464 4465 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 4466 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 4467 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 4468 4469 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 4470 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 4471 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 4472 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 4473 4474 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 4475 4476 usbcore.quirks= 4477 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 4478 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 4479 commas. Each entry has the form 4480 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 4481 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 4482 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 4483 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 4484 the following meanings: 4485 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 4486 descriptors must not be fetched using 4487 a 255-byte read); 4488 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 4489 correctly so reset it instead); 4490 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 4491 Set-Interface requests); 4492 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 4493 handle its Configuration or Interface 4494 strings); 4495 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 4496 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 4497 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 4498 more interface descriptions than the 4499 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 4500 talking to these interfaces); 4501 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 4502 during initialization, after we read 4503 the device descriptor); 4504 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 4505 high speed and super speed interrupt 4506 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 4507 require the interval in microframes (1 4508 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 4509 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 4510 (bInterval-1). 4511 Devices with this quirk report their 4512 bInterval as the result of this 4513 calculation instead of the exponent 4514 variable used in the calculation); 4515 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 4516 handle device_qualifier descriptor 4517 requests); 4518 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 4519 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 4520 remote wakeup capability); 4521 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 4522 Power Management); 4523 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 4524 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 4525 frames instead of the USB 2.0 4526 calculation); 4527 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 4528 to be disconnected before suspend to 4529 prevent spurious wakeup); 4530 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 4531 pause after every control message); 4532 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 4533 4534 usbhid.mousepoll= 4535 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 4536 4537 usbhid.jspoll= 4538 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 4539 4540 usbhid.kbpoll= 4541 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 4542 4543 usb-storage.delay_use= 4544 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 4545 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 4546 4547 usb-storage.quirks= 4548 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 4549 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 4550 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 4551 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 4552 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 4553 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 4554 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 4555 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 4556 of sense data); 4557 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 4558 bytes of sense data); 4559 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 4560 device capacity by one sector); 4561 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 4562 READ_DISC_INFO command); 4563 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 4564 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 4565 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 4566 command, uas only); 4567 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 4568 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 4569 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 4570 reported device capacity by one 4571 sector if the number is odd); 4572 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 4573 device); 4574 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 4575 command, uas only); 4576 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 4577 unlock ejectable media); 4578 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 4579 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time); 4580 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 4581 initial READ(10) command); 4582 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 4583 reported by the device); 4584 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 4585 by default); 4586 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 4587 bogus residue values); 4588 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 4589 Logical Unit); 4590 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 4591 commands, uas only); 4592 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 4593 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 4594 medium is write-protected). 4595 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 4596 even if the device claims no cache) 4597 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 4598 4599 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 4600 Format: <int> 4601 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 4602 1 - undefined instruction events 4603 2 - system calls 4604 4 - invalid data aborts 4605 8 - SIGSEGV faults 4606 16 - SIGBUS faults 4607 Example: user_debug=31 4608 4609 userpte= 4610 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 4611 4612 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 4613 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 4614 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 4615 4616 vdso= [X86,SH] 4617 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 4618 4619 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 4620 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 4621 4622 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 4623 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 4624 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 4625 4626 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 4627 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 4628 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 4629 4630 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 4631 alias for vdso32=0. 4632 4633 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 4634 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 4635 4636 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 4637 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 4638 4639 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 4640 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt. 4641 4642 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1] 4643 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 4644 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 4645 level and then send out the event to user space through 4646 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver 4647 will only send out the event without touching backlight 4648 brightness level. 4649 default: 1 4650 4651 virtio_mmio.device= 4652 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 4653 4654 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 4655 where: 4656 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 4657 like K, M and G) 4658 <baseaddr> := physical base address 4659 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 4660 request_irq()) 4661 <id> := (optional) platform device id 4662 example: 4663 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 4664 4665 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 4666 4667 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 4668 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and 4669 Documentation/svga.txt. 4670 Use vga=ask for menu. 4671 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 4672 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 4673 4674 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 4675 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 4676 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 4677 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 4678 mapped kernel RAM. 4679 4680 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 4681 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 4682 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 4683 4684 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 4685 Format: <command> 4686 4687 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 4688 Format: <command> 4689 4690 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 4691 Format: <command> 4692 4693 vsyscall= [X86-64] 4694 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 4695 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 4696 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 4697 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 4698 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 4699 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 4700 4701 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 4702 emulated reasonably safely. 4703 4704 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions. 4705 This is a little bit faster than trapping 4706 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work 4707 better than they would in emulation mode. 4708 It also makes exploits much easier to write. 4709 4710 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 4711 them quite hard to use for exploits but 4712 might break your system. 4713 4714 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 4715 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 4716 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 4717 4718 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 4719 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 4720 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 4721 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 4722 4723 vt.default_blu= [VT] 4724 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 4725 Change the default blue palette of the console. 4726 This is a 16-member array composed of values 4727 ranging from 0-255. 4728 4729 vt.default_grn= [VT] 4730 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 4731 Change the default green palette of the console. 4732 This is a 16-member array composed of values 4733 ranging from 0-255. 4734 4735 vt.default_red= [VT] 4736 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 4737 Change the default red palette of the console. 4738 This is a 16-member array composed of values 4739 ranging from 0-255. 4740 4741 vt.default_utf8= 4742 [VT] 4743 Format=<0|1> 4744 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 4745 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 4746 newly opened terminals. 4747 4748 vt.global_cursor_default= 4749 [VT] 4750 Format=<-1|0|1> 4751 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 4752 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 4753 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 4754 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 4755 cursors, 1 will display them. 4756 4757 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 4758 Default: 2 = green. 4759 4760 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 4761 Default: 3 = cyan. 4762 4763 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 4764 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt 4765 or other driver-specific files in the 4766 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 4767 4768 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 4769 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 4770 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 4771 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 4772 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 4773 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 4774 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 4775 corresponding sysfs file. 4776 4777 workqueue.disable_numa 4778 By default, all work items queued to unbound 4779 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 4780 issued on, which results in better behavior in 4781 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 4782 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 4783 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 4784 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 4785 4786 workqueue.power_efficient 4787 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 4788 they show better performance thanks to cache 4789 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 4790 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 4791 4792 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 4793 were observed to contribute significantly to power 4794 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 4795 power usage at the cost of small performance 4796 overhead. 4797 4798 The default value of this parameter is determined by 4799 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 4800 4801 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 4802 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 4803 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 4804 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 4805 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 4806 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 4807 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 4808 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 4809 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 4810 impacted. 4811 4812 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 4813 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 4814 supporting x2apic. 4815 4816 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT] 4817 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform. 4818 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer 4819 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer. 4820 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt 4821 4822 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 4823 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 4824 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 4825 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 4826 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 4827 domains. 4828 4829 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 4830 Unplug Xen emulated devices 4831 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 4832 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 4833 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 4834 nics -- unplug network devices 4835 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 4836 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 4837 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 4838 the unplug protocol 4839 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 4840 4841 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 4842 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV 4843 optimizations. 4844 4845 xen_nopv [X86] 4846 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 4847 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 4848 4849 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 4850 Format: 4851 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 4852