1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64] 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt | 4 copy_dsdt } 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64] 7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on 8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant. 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory 13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force" 14 are available 15 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi 17 18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC] 19 Format: <int> 20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 21 1,0: use 1st APIC table 22 default: 0 23 24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 25 acpi_backlight=vendor 26 acpi_backlight=video 27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver 28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 29 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 30 31 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr 32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 36 37 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 41 This option is useful for developers to identify the 42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 43 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 44 45 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 47 Format: <int> 48 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT 52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 55 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 56 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about 57 debug layers and levels. 58 59 Enable processor driver info messages: 60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages: 62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000 63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 64 object while interpreting AML: 65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 68 69 Some values produce so much output that the system is 70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 71 if you need to capture more output. 72 73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 74 { strict | lax | no } 75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 79 can interfere with legacy drivers. 80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 82 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 87 no further checks are performed. 88 89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI] 90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 92 size limitation. 93 94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 95 ACPI will balance active IRQs 96 default in APIC mode 97 98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 100 default in PIC mode 101 102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 103 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 104 105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 106 use by PCI 107 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 108 109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 113 the GPE dispatcher. 114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 115 GPE floodings. 116 Format: <int> 117 Support masking of GPEs numbered from 0x00 to 0x7f. 118 119 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 120 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 121 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 122 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 123 auto-serialization feature. 124 This feature is enabled by default. 125 This option allows to turn off the feature. 126 127 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 128 kernels. 129 130 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] 131 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 132 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 133 installed automatically and they will appear under 134 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 135 This option turns off this feature. 136 Note that specifying this option does not affect 137 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 138 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 139 140 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] 141 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 142 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 143 second kernel for kdump. 144 145 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 146 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 147 148 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 149 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 150 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 151 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 152 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 153 154 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 155 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 156 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 157 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 158 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 159 strings 160 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 161 strings 162 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 163 164 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 165 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 166 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 167 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 168 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 169 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 170 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 171 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 172 care about the state of the feature group strings which 173 should be controlled by the OSPM. 174 Examples: 175 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 176 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 177 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 178 179 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 180 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 181 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 182 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 183 multiple times through kernel command line is also 184 meaningless. 185 Examples: 186 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 187 FALSE. 188 189 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 190 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 191 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 192 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 193 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 194 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 195 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 196 there are quirks related to this string. This command 197 is useful when one want to control the state of the 198 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 199 the OSPM features. 200 Examples: 201 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 202 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 203 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 204 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 205 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 206 equivalent to 207 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 208 and 209 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 210 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 211 212 acpi_pm_good [X86] 213 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 214 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 215 and always returns good values. 216 217 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 218 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 219 220 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 221 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 222 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 223 224 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 225 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig, 226 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable } 227 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on 228 s3_bios and s3_mode. 229 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 230 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 231 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 232 used during resume from hibernation. 233 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 234 control method, with respect to putting devices into 235 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 236 of _PTS is used by default). 237 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 238 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 239 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 240 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 241 but some broken systems don't work without it). 242 243 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 244 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 245 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 246 247 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 248 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 249 250 agp= [AGP] 251 { off | try_unsupported } 252 off: disable AGP support 253 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 254 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 255 256 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 257 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt 258 259 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 260 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 261 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 262 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 263 264 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 265 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 266 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 267 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 268 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 269 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 270 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 271 272 32: only for 32-bit processes 273 64: only for 64-bit processes 274 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 275 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 276 277 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 278 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 279 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 280 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 281 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 282 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 283 284 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 285 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 286 Possible values are: 287 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when 288 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are 289 flushed before they will be reused, which 290 is a lot of faster 291 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 292 the system 293 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 294 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 295 allowed anymore to lift isolation 296 requirements as needed. This option 297 does not override iommu=pt 298 299 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 300 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 301 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 302 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 303 IOMMU initialization. 304 305 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 306 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 307 remapping modes: 308 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 309 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 310 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 311 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 312 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 313 314 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 315 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 316 Format: <a>,<b> 317 See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt 318 319 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 320 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 321 connected to one of 16 gameports 322 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 323 324 apc= [HW,SPARC] 325 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 326 Format: noidle 327 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 328 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 329 APC and your system crashes randomly. 330 331 apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 332 Change the output verbosity whilst booting 333 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 334 Change the amount of debugging information output 335 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 336 337 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 338 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 339 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 340 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 341 backup of CPU 0 342 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 343 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 344 shot down by NMI 345 346 autoconf= [IPV6] 347 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 348 349 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 350 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 351 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 352 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 353 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 354 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 355 apic=verbose is specified. 356 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 357 358 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 359 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 360 361 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 362 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 363 364 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 365 366 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 367 368 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 369 EzKey and similar keyboards 370 371 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 372 373 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 374 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 375 376 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 377 keyboards 378 379 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 380 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 381 382 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 383 Use software keyboard repeat 384 385 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 386 Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled) 387 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled 388 until the next reboot 389 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 390 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 391 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled, 392 storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in 393 RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace 394 auditd. 395 Default: unset 396 397 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 398 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 399 Default: 64 400 401 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 402 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 403 Format: { "0" | "1" } 404 0 - Disable the BAU. 405 1 - Enable the BAU. 406 unset - Disable the BAU. 407 408 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 409 Format: <io>,<mode> 410 411 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 412 Format: <io>,<mode> 413 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 414 415 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 416 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 417 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 418 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 419 420 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 421 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 422 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 423 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 424 425 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 426 embedded devices based on command line input. 427 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt 428 429 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 430 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to 431 no delay (0). 432 Format: integer 433 434 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages. 435 436 bert_disable [ACPI] 437 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 438 439 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 440 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 441 kernel args too. 442 bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options 443 bttv.tuner= 444 445 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 446 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 447 at a time. 448 449 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 450 451 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 452 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 453 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 454 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 455 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 456 This option provides an override for these situations. 457 458 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 459 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 460 trust validation. 461 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 462 463 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 464 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 465 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 466 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 467 others). 468 469 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 470 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details. 471 472 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller 473 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable} 474 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 475 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 476 a single hierarchy 477 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 478 subsystem 479 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 480 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 481 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 482 483 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1 484 Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" } 485 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 486 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 487 488 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 489 Format: <string> 490 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 491 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 492 493 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 494 Format: { "0" | "1" } 495 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 496 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 497 any implied execute protection). 498 1 -- check protection requested by application. 499 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 500 Value can be changed at runtime via 501 /selinux/checkreqprot. 502 503 cio_ignore= [S390] 504 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details. 505 clk_ignore_unused 506 [CLK] 507 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 508 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 509 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 510 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 511 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 512 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 513 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 514 platform with proper driver support. For more 515 information, see Documentation/clk.txt. 516 517 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 518 [Deprecated] 519 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 520 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 521 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 522 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 523 524 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 525 Format: <string> 526 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 527 with the name specified. 528 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 529 the platform: 530 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 531 [ACPI] acpi_pm 532 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 533 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 534 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 535 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 536 [MIPS] MIPS 537 [PARISC] cr16 538 [S390] tod 539 [SH] SuperH 540 [SPARC64] tick 541 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 542 543 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 544 [ARM,ARM64] 545 Format: <bool> 546 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 547 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 548 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 549 systems. 550 551 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86] 552 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 553 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 554 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily 555 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific 556 ones should be. 557 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 558 or using the feature without checking anything 559 will still see it. This just prevents it from 560 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 561 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 562 some critical bits. 563 564 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 565 [ARM,X86,KNL] 566 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 567 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 568 placement constraint by the physical address range of 569 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 570 altogether. For more information, see 571 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h 572 573 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 574 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 575 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 576 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 577 a hypervisor. 578 Default: yes 579 580 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 581 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 582 allocations, by default set to 256K. 583 584 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print 585 in an oops report. 586 Range: 0 - 8192 587 Default: 64 588 589 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 590 Format: 591 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 592 593 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 594 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 595 596 com90xx= [HW,NET] 597 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 598 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 599 600 condev= [HW,S390] console device 601 conmode= 602 603 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 604 605 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 606 607 ttyS<n>[,options] 608 ttyUSB0[,options] 609 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 610 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 611 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 612 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 613 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 614 615 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 616 information. See 617 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an 618 alternative. 619 620 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 621 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 622 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 623 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 624 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 625 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 626 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 627 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 628 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 629 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 630 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 631 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 632 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 633 the h/w is not re-initialized. 634 635 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 636 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 637 638 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 639 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 640 console=brl,ttyS0 641 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 642 643 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 644 seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0 645 disables the blank timer. 646 647 coredump_filter= 648 [KNL] Change the default value for 649 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 650 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt. 651 652 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 653 [ARM,ARM64] 654 Format: <bool> 655 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 656 0: default value, disable debugging 657 1: enable debugging at boot time 658 659 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 660 disable the cpuidle sub-system 661 662 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 663 disable the cpufreq sub-system 664 665 cpu_init_udelay=N 666 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 667 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 668 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 669 Default: 10000 670 671 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 672 Format: 673 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 674 675 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 676 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 677 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 678 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 679 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 680 is selected automatically. Check 681 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details. 682 683 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 684 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 685 in the running system. The syntax of range is 686 start-[end] where start and end are both 687 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 688 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example. 689 690 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 691 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 692 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 693 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 694 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 695 available. 696 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 697 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 698 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 699 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 700 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 701 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 702 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 703 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 704 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at 705 at least 256M below 4G automatically. 706 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G 707 for second kernel instead. 708 0: to disable low allocation. 709 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 710 or memory reserved is below 4G. 711 712 cryptomgr.notests 713 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 714 715 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 716 Format: <dma> 717 718 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 719 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 720 721 dasd= [HW,NET] 722 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 723 724 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 725 (one device per port) 726 Format: <port#>,<type> 727 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt 728 729 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot 730 time. See 731 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for 732 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg. 733 734 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 735 736 debug_locks_verbose= 737 [KNL] verbose self-tests 738 Format=<0|1> 739 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 740 self-tests. 741 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to 742 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally 743 only useful to kernel developers. 744 745 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 746 747 no_debug_objects 748 [KNL] Disable object debugging 749 750 debug_guardpage_minorder= 751 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 752 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 753 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 754 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 755 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 756 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 757 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 758 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 759 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 760 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 761 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 762 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 763 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when 764 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 765 bypassed) which are not detectable by 766 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 767 tracking down these problems. 768 769 debug_pagealloc= 770 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 771 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In 772 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge 773 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable 774 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same 775 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 776 on: enable the feature 777 778 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 779 780 decnet.addr= [HW,NET] 781 Format: <area>[,<node>] 782 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt. 783 784 default_hugepagesz= 785 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default 786 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by 787 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and 788 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems. 789 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size 790 if not specified. 791 792 dhash_entries= [KNL] 793 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 794 795 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 796 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 797 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 798 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 799 miss to occur. 800 801 disable= [IPV6] 802 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 803 804 disable_radix [PPC] 805 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 806 807 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 808 Format: <int> 809 The number of initial APIC ID for the 810 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 811 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 812 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 813 causing system reset or hang due to sending 814 INIT from AP to BSP. 815 816 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 817 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if 818 to workaround buggy firmware. 819 820 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 821 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 822 823 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 824 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 825 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 826 entry later. This parameter disables that. 827 828 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 829 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 830 memory out of your available memory pool based on 831 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 832 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 833 834 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 835 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 836 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 837 838 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 839 840 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 841 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 842 843 dma_debug_entries=<number> 844 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 845 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 846 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 847 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 848 architectural default is too low. 849 850 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 851 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 852 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 853 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 854 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 855 driver later using sysfs. 856 857 drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 858 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 859 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 860 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 861 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 862 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 863 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 864 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 865 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 866 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 867 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID 868 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 869 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 870 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 871 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 872 data set with no connector name will be used for 873 any connectors not explicitly specified. 874 875 dscc4.setup= [NET] 876 877 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 878 Format: {"off" | "known"} 879 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 880 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 881 exists). 882 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 883 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 884 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 885 886 dump_apple_properties [X86] 887 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 888 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 889 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 890 891 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 892 module.dyndbg[="val"] 893 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 894 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 895 for details. 896 897 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions. 898 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more 899 information about the feature. 900 901 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 902 in some Intel CPUs. 903 904 module.async_probe [KNL] 905 Enable asynchronous probe on this module. 906 907 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 908 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 909 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 910 which are not unmapped. 911 912 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 913 914 When used with no options, the early console is 915 determined by the stdout-path property in device 916 tree's chosen node. 917 918 cdns,<addr>[,options] 919 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 920 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 921 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 922 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 923 configured. 924 925 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 926 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 927 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 928 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options] 929 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 930 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 931 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 932 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 933 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 934 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 935 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 936 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 937 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 938 939 pl011,<addr> 940 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 941 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 942 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 943 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 944 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 945 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 946 the device registers. 947 948 meson,<addr> 949 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 950 port at the specified address. The serial port must 951 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 952 supported. 953 954 msm_serial,<addr> 955 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 956 port at the specified address. The serial port 957 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 958 yet supported. 959 960 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 961 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 962 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 963 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 964 yet supported. 965 966 owl,<addr> 967 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 968 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 969 specified address. The serial port must already be 970 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 971 972 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 973 974 s3c2410,<addr> 975 s3c2412,<addr> 976 s3c2440,<addr> 977 s3c6400,<addr> 978 s5pv210,<addr> 979 exynos4210,<addr> 980 Use early console provided by serial driver available 981 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 982 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 983 serial port must already be setup and configured. 984 Options are not yet supported. 985 986 lantiq,<addr> 987 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 988 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 989 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 990 yet supported. 991 992 lpuart,<addr> 993 lpuart32,<addr> 994 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 995 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 996 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 997 port must already be setup and configured. 998 999 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1000 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1001 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1002 address. The serial port must already be setup 1003 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1004 1005 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k,S390] 1006 earlyprintk=vga 1007 earlyprintk=efi 1008 earlyprintk=sclp 1009 earlyprintk=xen 1010 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1011 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1012 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1013 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1014 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1015 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1016 1017 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1018 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1019 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1020 1021 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1022 takes over. 1023 1024 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can 1025 be used at a time. 1026 1027 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1028 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1029 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1030 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1031 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1032 You can find the port for a given device in 1033 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1034 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1035 1036 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1037 very good. 1038 1039 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by 1040 the real console. 1041 1042 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests. 1043 1044 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1045 1046 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1047 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1048 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1049 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1050 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1051 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1052 default: on. 1053 1054 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1055 ekgdboc=kbd 1056 1057 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1058 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1059 1060 edd= [EDD] 1061 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1062 1063 efi= [EFI] 1064 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" } 1065 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI 1066 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by 1067 default. 1068 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1069 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1070 firmware implementations. 1071 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1072 debug: enable misc debug output 1073 1074 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1075 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1076 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1077 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1078 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1079 1080 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1081 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1082 updating original EFI memory map. 1083 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1084 from ss to ss+nn. 1085 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1086 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1087 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1088 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1089 1090 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1091 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of 1092 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1093 doesn't support it. 1094 1095 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1096 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1097 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1098 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1099 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details. 1100 1101 1102 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1103 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1104 1105 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1106 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1107 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1108 1109 elevator= [IOSCHED] 1110 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"} 1111 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and 1112 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details. 1113 1114 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1115 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1116 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1117 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1118 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details. 1119 1120 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1121 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1122 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1123 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1124 1125 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1126 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1127 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1128 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1129 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1130 1131 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1132 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1133 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1134 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1135 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1136 Default value is 0. 1137 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce. 1138 1139 erst_disable [ACPI] 1140 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1141 support. 1142 1143 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1144 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1145 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1146 1147 evm= [EVM] 1148 Format: { "fix" } 1149 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1150 current integrity status. 1151 1152 failslab= 1153 fail_page_alloc= 1154 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1155 General fault injection mechanism. 1156 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1157 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1158 1159 floppy= [HW] 1160 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt. 1161 1162 force_pal_cache_flush 1163 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1164 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1165 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1166 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1167 1168 forcepae [X86-32] 1169 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1170 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1171 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1172 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1173 and may cause unknown problems. 1174 1175 ftrace=[tracer] 1176 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1177 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1178 boot debugging. 1179 1180 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1181 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1182 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1183 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1184 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1185 oops. 1186 1187 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1188 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1189 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 1190 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1191 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1192 tracing directory. 1193 1194 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1195 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1196 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1197 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1198 tracing directory. 1199 1200 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1201 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1202 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1203 function-list is a comma separated list of functions 1204 that can be changed at run time by the 1205 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1206 1207 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1208 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1209 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of 1210 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1211 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1212 1213 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1214 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1215 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1216 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1217 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1218 1219 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1220 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1221 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1222 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1223 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt 1224 1225 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1226 1227 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1228 Format: off | on 1229 default: on 1230 1231 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1232 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1233 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1234 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1235 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1236 1237 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1238 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1239 android emulator 1240 1241 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1242 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1243 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1244 GPT to be used instead. 1245 1246 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1247 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1248 Format: 0 | 1 1249 Default: 0 1250 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1251 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1252 Format: 0 | 1 1253 Default: 0 1254 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1255 Format: 0 | 1 1256 Default: 0 1257 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1258 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1259 Default: 1024 1260 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1261 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1262 Default: 1024 1263 1264 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1265 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1266 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1267 1268 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1269 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1270 backtraces on all cpus. 1271 Format: <integer> 1272 1273 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1274 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1275 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1276 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1277 1278 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1279 1280 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1281 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1282 1283 hest_disable [ACPI] 1284 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1285 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1286 logic will be disabled. 1287 1288 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1289 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1290 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1291 size on bigger boxes. 1292 1293 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1294 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1295 Default: "on" 1296 1297 hisax= [HW,ISDN] 1298 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax. 1299 1300 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1301 1302 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1303 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1304 verbose } 1305 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1306 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1307 VIA, nVidia) 1308 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1309 1310 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1311 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1312 1313 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1314 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages. 1315 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified 1316 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve 1317 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on 1318 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G 1319 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag). 1320 1321 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1322 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1323 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1324 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1325 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1326 1327 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to 1328 hardware thread id mappings. 1329 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread> 1330 1331 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1332 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1333 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1334 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1335 the real console. 1336 1337 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1338 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1339 registered from board initialization code. 1340 Format: 1341 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1342 1343 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1344 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1345 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1346 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1347 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1348 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1349 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1350 keyboard and cannot control its state 1351 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1352 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1353 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1354 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1355 for the AUX port 1356 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1357 controller 1358 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1359 controllers 1360 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1361 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1362 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1363 transitions, or never reset 1364 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1365 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1366 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1367 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1368 architectures force reset to be always executed 1369 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1370 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1371 1372 i810= [HW,DRM] 1373 1374 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1375 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1376 hardware. 1377 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature 1378 does not match list of supported models. 1379 i8k.power_status 1380 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1381 (disabled by default) 1382 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1383 capability is set. 1384 1385 i915.invert_brightness= 1386 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1387 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1388 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1389 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1390 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1391 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1392 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1393 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1394 value switches the backlight off. 1395 -1 -- never invert brightness 1396 0 -- machine default 1397 1 -- force brightness inversion 1398 1399 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1400 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1401 1402 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1403 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc 1404 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr 1405 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options 1406 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt. 1407 1408 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1409 Format: <int> 1410 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on 1411 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by 1412 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The 1413 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning. 1414 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the 1415 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which 1416 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value 1417 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it 1418 was 0x3. 1419 1420 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1421 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers. 1422 1423 idle= [X86] 1424 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1425 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1426 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1427 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1428 Not recommended. 1429 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1430 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1431 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1432 1433 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1434 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1435 Default: strict 1436 1437 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1438 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1439 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1440 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1441 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1442 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1443 encoding mode. 1444 1445 Available settings are as follows: 1446 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1447 supported by the FPU 1448 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1449 by the FPU 1450 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1451 by the FPU 1452 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1453 supported by the FPU 1454 1455 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1456 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1457 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1458 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1459 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1460 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1461 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1462 MIPS64 CPUs. 1463 1464 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1465 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1466 except where unsupported by hardware. 1467 1468 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1469 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1470 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1471 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1472 could change it dynamically, usually by 1473 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1474 1475 ignore_rlimit_data 1476 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1477 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1478 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1479 1480 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1481 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1482 1483 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1484 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1485 default: "enforce" 1486 1487 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] 1488 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1489 owned by uid=0. 1490 1491 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1492 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1493 measurements, instead of host native format. 1494 1495 ima_hash= [IMA] 1496 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1497 | sha512 | ... } 1498 default: "sha1" 1499 1500 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1501 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1502 1503 ima_policy= [IMA] 1504 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1505 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot" 1506 1507 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1508 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1509 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1510 uid=0. 1511 1512 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1513 all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent 1514 of ima_appraise_tcb.) 1515 1516 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1517 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1518 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1519 1520 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1521 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1522 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1523 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1524 opened for read by uid=0. 1525 1526 ima_template= [IMA] 1527 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1528 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" } 1529 Default: "ima-ng" 1530 1531 ima_template_fmt= 1532 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1533 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1534 1535 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1536 Format: <min_file_size> 1537 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1538 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1539 1540 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1541 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1542 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1543 1544 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1545 Format: <bufsize> 1546 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1547 1548 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1549 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1550 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1551 1552 init= [KNL] 1553 Format: <full_path> 1554 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1555 process. 1556 1557 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1558 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1559 startup. 1560 1561 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1562 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1563 modules and initcalls. 1564 1565 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 1566 1567 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 1568 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 1569 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 1570 override in debugfs after boot. 1571 1572 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 1573 Format: <irq> 1574 1575 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 1576 1577 integrity_audit=[IMA] 1578 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1579 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 1580 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 1581 1582 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 1583 on 1584 Enable intel iommu driver. 1585 off 1586 Disable intel iommu driver. 1587 igfx_off [Default Off] 1588 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 1589 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 1590 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 1591 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 1592 DMA. 1593 forcedac [x86_64] 1594 With this option iommu will not optimize to look 1595 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual 1596 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater 1597 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look 1598 for translation below 32-bit and if not available 1599 then look in the higher range. 1600 strict [Default Off] 1601 With this option on every unmap_single operation will 1602 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed 1603 to batching them for performance. 1604 sp_off [Default Off] 1605 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 1606 has the capability. With this option, super page will 1607 not be supported. 1608 ecs_off [Default Off] 1609 By default, extended context tables will be supported if 1610 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the 1611 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With 1612 this option set, extended tables will not be used even 1613 on hardware which claims to support them. 1614 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 1615 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 1616 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 1617 could harm performance of some high-throughput 1618 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 1619 mapping is enabled. 1620 Note that using this option lowers the security 1621 provided by tboot because it makes the system 1622 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 1623 1624 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 1625 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 1626 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 1627 1628 intel_pstate= [X86] 1629 disable 1630 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 1631 scaling driver for the supported processors 1632 passive 1633 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 1634 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 1635 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 1636 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 1637 feature. 1638 force 1639 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 1640 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 1641 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 1642 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 1643 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 1644 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 1645 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 1646 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 1647 no_hwp 1648 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 1649 if available. 1650 hwp_only 1651 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 1652 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 1653 support_acpi_ppc 1654 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 1655 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 1656 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 1657 then this feature is turned on by default. 1658 per_cpu_perf_limits 1659 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 1660 cpufreq sysfs interface 1661 1662 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 1663 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 1664 off disable Interrupt Remapping 1665 nosid disable Source ID checking 1666 no_x2apic_optout 1667 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 1668 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 1669 1670 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 1671 strict regions from userspace. 1672 relaxed 1673 1674 iommu= [x86] 1675 off 1676 force 1677 noforce 1678 biomerge 1679 panic 1680 nopanic 1681 merge 1682 nomerge 1683 forcesac 1684 soft 1685 pt [x86, IA-64] 1686 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 1687 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 1688 1689 iommu.passthrough= 1690 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 1691 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1692 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 1693 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 1694 unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 1695 1696 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems 1697 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 1698 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 1699 1700 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 1701 0x80 1702 Standard port 0x80 based delay 1703 0xed 1704 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 1705 udelay 1706 Simple two microseconds delay 1707 none 1708 No delay 1709 1710 ip= [IP_PNP] 1711 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 1712 1713 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 1714 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 1715 1716 irqfixup [HW] 1717 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1718 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1719 firmware running. 1720 1721 irqpoll [HW] 1722 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1723 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 1724 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1725 firmware running. 1726 1727 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 1728 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 1729 1730 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler. 1731 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 1732 1733 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs 1734 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 1735 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an 1736 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 1737 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 1738 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 1739 1740 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The 1741 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all 1742 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and 1743 suboptimal load balancer performance. 1744 1745 iucv= [HW,NET] 1746 1747 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64] 1748 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 1749 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1750 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 1751 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 1752 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 1753 1754 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64] 1755 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 1756 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1757 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to 1758 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 1759 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 1760 1761 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64] 1762 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 1763 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1764 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 1765 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 1766 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 1767 1768 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 1769 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt. 1770 1771 nokaslr [KNL] 1772 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 1773 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 1774 Layout Randomization). 1775 1776 kasan_multi_shot 1777 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 1778 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 1779 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 1780 invalid access. 1781 1782 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 1783 1784 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 1785 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror" 1786 This parameter 1787 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel 1788 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is 1789 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The 1790 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable 1791 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both 1792 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will 1793 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number 1794 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the 1795 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved 1796 by the page migration subsystem. This means that 1797 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone. 1798 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still 1799 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 1800 zone if it does not. 1801 1802 Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]), 1803 you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror" 1804 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 1805 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 1806 for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive, 1807 so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same 1808 time. 1809 1810 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 1811 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 1812 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 1813 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 1814 optional and is the number seconds in between 1815 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 1816 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 1817 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 1818 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 1819 the kernel debugger. 1820 1821 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 1822 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 1823 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 1824 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 1825 keyboard only format: kbd 1826 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 1827 Optional Kernel mode setting: 1828 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 1829 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 1830 1831 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 1832 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 1833 1834 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address. 1835 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 1836 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 1837 1838 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 1839 Valid arguments: on, off 1840 Default: on 1841 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 1842 the default is off. 1843 1844 kmemcheck= [X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode 1845 Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2 1846 kmemcheck=0 (disabled) 1847 kmemcheck=1 (enabled) 1848 kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode) 1849 Default: 2 (one-shot mode) 1850 1851 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 1852 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 1853 1854 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit 1855 KVM MMU at runtime. 1856 Default is 0 (off) 1857 1858 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 1859 Default is 1 (enabled) 1860 1861 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 1862 for all guests. 1863 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 1864 1865 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 1866 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 1867 system registers 1868 1869 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 1870 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 1871 system registers 1872 1873 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 1874 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 1875 system registers 1876 1877 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 1878 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 1879 Default is 1 (enabled) 1880 1881 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 1882 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states 1883 Default is 0 (disabled) 1884 1885 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 1886 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 1887 Default is 1 (enabled) 1888 1889 kvm-intel.nested= 1890 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 1891 Default is 0 (disabled) 1892 1893 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 1894 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 1895 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 1896 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 1897 1898 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 1899 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 1900 Default is 1 (enabled) 1901 1902 l2cr= [PPC] 1903 1904 l3cr= [PPC] 1905 1906 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 1907 disabled it. 1908 1909 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline 1910 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 1911 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 1912 1913 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 1914 in C2 power state. 1915 1916 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 1917 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 1918 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 1919 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 1920 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 1921 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 1922 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 1923 1924 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 1925 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 1926 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 1927 1928 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 1929 when set. 1930 Format: <int> 1931 1932 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma 1933 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is 1934 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers 1935 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches 1936 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If 1937 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE 1938 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the 1939 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices. 1940 1941 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 1942 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 1943 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 1944 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 1945 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 1946 host link and device attached to it. 1947 1948 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 1949 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed. 1950 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 1951 The following configurations can be forced. 1952 1953 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 1954 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 1955 1956 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 1957 1958 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 1959 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 1960 allowed. 1961 1962 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 1963 1964 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM. 1965 1966 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft 1967 and both resets. 1968 1969 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during 1970 hot-unplug link recovery 1971 1972 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data. 1973 1974 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support 1975 1976 * disable: Disable this device. 1977 1978 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 1979 the same attribute, the last one is used. 1980 1981 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 1982 1983 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy 1984 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 1985 1986 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 1987 Format: <integer> 1988 1989 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 1990 Format: <integer> 1991 1992 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 1993 Format: <integer> 1994 1995 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 1996 Format: <integer> 1997 1998 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 1999 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2000 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2001 number of online CPUs. 2002 2003 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2004 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2005 2006 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2007 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2008 2009 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2010 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2011 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2012 2013 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2014 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2015 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2016 mode during the locktorture test. 2017 2018 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2019 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2020 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2021 2022 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2023 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2024 2025 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2026 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2027 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2028 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2029 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2030 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2031 2032 locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT] 2033 Start locktorture running at boot time. 2034 2035 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2036 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2037 2038 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2039 Enable additional printk() statements. 2040 2041 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2042 Format: <irq> 2043 2044 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2045 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2046 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2047 loglevels are defined as follows: 2048 2049 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2050 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2051 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2052 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2053 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2054 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2055 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2056 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2057 2058 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2059 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2060 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2061 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2062 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2063 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2064 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2065 2066 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2067 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2068 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2069 kernel boot problems. 2070 2071 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2072 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2073 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2074 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2075 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2076 attached printers to be reset. Using 2077 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2078 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2079 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2080 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2081 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2082 port specification list means that device IDs 2083 from each port should be examined, to see if 2084 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2085 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2086 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2087 2088 lpj=n [KNL] 2089 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2090 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2091 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2092 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2093 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2094 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2095 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2096 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2097 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2098 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2099 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2100 hardware. 2101 2102 ltpc= [NET] 2103 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2104 2105 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2106 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2107 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb 2108 2109 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different 2110 yeeloong laptop. 2111 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2112 2113 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater 2114 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2115 2116 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2117 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2118 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2119 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2120 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2121 only takes effect during system bootup. 2122 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2123 which also disables the IO APIC. 2124 2125 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2126 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2127 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2128 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2129 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2130 /dev/loop-control interface. 2131 2132 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2133 2134 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt 2135 2136 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2137 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2138 2139 mdacon= [MDA] 2140 Format: <first>,<last> 2141 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2142 2143 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2144 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able 2145 to see the whole system memory or for test. 2146 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 2147 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 2148 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 2149 belonging to unused RAM. 2150 2151 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 2152 memory. 2153 2154 memchunk=nn[KMG] 2155 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 2156 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 2157 2158 memhp_default_state=online/offline 2159 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 2160 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 2161 set according to the 2162 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 2163 option. 2164 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt. 2165 2166 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 2167 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 2168 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 2169 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 2170 option description. 2171 2172 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 2173 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 2174 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 2175 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 2176 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 2177 Multiple different regions can be specified, 2178 comma delimited. 2179 Example: 2180 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 2181 2182 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 2183 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 2184 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 2185 2186 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 2187 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 2188 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 2189 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 2190 memmap=64K$0x18690000 2191 or 2192 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 2193 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 2194 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 2195 will be eaten. 2196 2197 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 2198 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 2199 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 2200 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 2201 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 2202 2203 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 2204 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 2205 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 2206 Setting this option will scan the memory 2207 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 2208 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 2209 from using the memory being corrupted. 2210 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 2211 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 2212 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 2213 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 2214 2215 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 2216 By default it checks for corruption in the low 2217 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 2218 use. Use this parameter to scan for 2219 corruption in more or less memory. 2220 2221 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 2222 By default it checks for corruption every 60 2223 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 2224 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 2225 2226 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest 2227 Format: <integer> 2228 default : 0 <disable> 2229 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 2230 performed. Each pass selects another test 2231 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 2232 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 2233 memory contents and reserves bad memory 2234 regions that are detected. 2235 2236 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 2237 Valid arguments: on, off 2238 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 2239 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 2240 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 2241 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 2242 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 2243 2244 Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt 2245 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 2246 2247 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 2248 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 2249 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 2250 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 2251 See Documentation/power/states.txt. 2252 2253 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 2254 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt. 2255 2256 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 2257 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 2258 platforms. 2259 2260 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 2261 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 2262 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 2263 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 2264 2265 mga= [HW,DRM] 2266 2267 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this 2268 physical address is ignored. 2269 2270 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 2271 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 2272 Default: "0tb" 2273 MINI2440 configuration specification: 2274 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 2275 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 2276 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 2277 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 2278 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 2279 unconfigured. 2280 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 2281 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 2282 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 2283 VGA shield. 2284 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 2285 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 2286 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 2287 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 2288 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 2289 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 2290 2291 mminit_loglevel= 2292 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 2293 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 2294 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 2295 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 2296 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 2297 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 2298 2299 module.sig_enforce 2300 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 2301 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 2302 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 2303 is always true, so this option does nothing. 2304 2305 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 2306 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 2307 2308 mousedev.tap_time= 2309 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 2310 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 2311 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 2312 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 2313 Format: <msecs> 2314 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 2315 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2316 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 2317 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2318 2319 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter 2320 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the 2321 amount of memory used for migratable allocations. 2322 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified, 2323 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified 2324 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own 2325 is specified, the administrator must be careful 2326 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 2327 is not too small. 2328 2329 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 2330 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 2331 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 2332 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 2333 allocations. Use with caution! 2334 2335 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 2336 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 2337 2338 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 2339 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 2340 2341 mtdparts= [MTD] 2342 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c. 2343 2344 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 2345 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 2346 at a time. 2347 2348 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 2349 2350 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 2351 2352 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 2353 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 2354 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 2355 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 2356 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 2357 2358 mtdset= [ARM] 2359 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 2360 2361 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c 2362 2363 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 2364 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 2365 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 2366 2367 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2368 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 2369 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 2370 2371 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2372 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 2373 Default is 1. 2374 Large value could prevent small alignment from 2375 using up MTRRs. 2376 2377 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 2378 Format: <integer> 2379 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 2380 Default : 1 2381 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 2382 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 2383 2384 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 2385 2386 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 2387 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 2388 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 2389 something different and driver-specific. 2390 This usage is only documented in each driver source 2391 file if at all. 2392 2393 nf_conntrack.acct= 2394 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 2395 0 to disable accounting 2396 1 to enable accounting 2397 Default value is 0. 2398 2399 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 2400 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2401 2402 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 2403 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2404 2405 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 2406 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2407 2408 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 2409 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 2410 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 2411 requests. 2412 2413 nfs.callback_tcpport= 2414 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 2415 channel should listen. 2416 2417 nfs.cache_getent= 2418 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 2419 to update the NFS client cache entries. 2420 2421 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 2422 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 2423 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 2424 2425 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 2426 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 2427 entries. 2428 2429 nfs.enable_ino64= 2430 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 2431 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 2432 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 2433 of returning the full 64-bit number. 2434 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 2435 2436 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 2437 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 2438 slots the client will assign to the callback 2439 channel. This determines the maximum number of 2440 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 2441 a particular server. 2442 2443 nfs.max_session_slots= 2444 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 2445 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 2446 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 2447 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 2448 Note that there is little point in setting this 2449 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 2450 2451 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2452 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 2453 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 2454 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 2455 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 2456 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 2457 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 2458 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 2459 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 2460 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 2461 back to using the idmapper. 2462 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 2463 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 2464 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 2465 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 2466 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 2467 UUID that is generated at system install time. 2468 2469 nfs.send_implementation_id = 2470 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 2471 information in exchange_id requests. 2472 If zero, no implementation identification information 2473 will be sent. 2474 The default is to send the implementation identification 2475 information. 2476 2477 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 2478 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 2479 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 2480 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 2481 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 2482 after the locks are lost. 2483 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 2484 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 2485 parameter to '1'. 2486 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 2487 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 2488 2489 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 2490 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 2491 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 2492 2493 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 2494 whatever value is the default set by the layout 2495 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 2496 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 2497 2498 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2499 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 2500 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 2501 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 2502 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 2503 migration from NFSv2/v3. 2504 2505 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 2506 when a NMI is triggered. 2507 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 2508 2509 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 2510 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 2511 Valid num: 0 or 1 2512 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 2513 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 2514 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 2515 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite 2516 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 2517 please see 'nowatchdog'. 2518 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 2519 need the box quickly up again. 2520 2521 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 2522 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 2523 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 2524 waits 4 seconds. 2525 2526 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 2527 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 2528 is present. 2529 2530 no_console_suspend 2531 [HW] Never suspend the console 2532 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 2533 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 2534 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 2535 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 2536 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 2537 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 2538 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 2539 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 2540 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 2541 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 2542 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 2543 turn on/off it dynamically. 2544 2545 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 2546 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 2547 but will impact performance. 2548 2549 noalign [KNL,ARM] 2550 2551 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 2552 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 2553 2554 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 2555 2556 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem 2557 on "Classic" PPC cores. 2558 2559 nocache [ARM] 2560 2561 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction 2562 2563 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting 2564 2565 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 2566 2567 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 2568 2569 noexec [IA-64] 2570 2571 noexec [X86] 2572 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels. 2573 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 2574 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings 2575 2576 nosmap [X86] 2577 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 2578 even if it is supported by processor. 2579 2580 nosmep [X86] 2581 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 2582 even if it is supported by processor. 2583 2584 noexec32 [X86-64] 2585 This affects only 32-bit executables. 2586 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 2587 read doesn't imply executable mappings 2588 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 2589 read implies executable mappings 2590 2591 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 2592 2593 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 2594 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 2595 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 2596 2597 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 2598 2599 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 2600 Equivalent to smt=1. 2601 2602 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 2603 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 2604 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 2605 2606 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 2607 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 2608 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 2609 performance of saving the states is degraded because 2610 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 2611 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 2612 2613 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 2614 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 2615 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 2616 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 2617 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 2618 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 2619 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 2620 2621 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or 2622 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to 2623 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger. 2624 2625 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 2626 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 2627 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 2628 2629 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 2630 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 2631 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 2632 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 2633 in certain environments such as networked servers or 2634 real-time systems. 2635 2636 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 2637 2638 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 2639 Valid arguments: on, off 2640 Default: on 2641 2642 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT] 2643 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2644 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 2645 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 2646 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 2647 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 2648 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 2649 just as if they had also been called out in the 2650 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 2651 2652 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 2653 2654 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 2655 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 2656 2657 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 2658 broken timer IRQ sources. 2659 2660 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 2661 2662 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 2663 initial RAM disk. 2664 2665 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 2666 remapping. 2667 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 2668 2669 nointroute [IA-64] 2670 2671 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 2672 2673 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 2674 2675 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 2676 2677 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 2678 fault handling. 2679 2680 no-vmw-sched-clock 2681 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 2682 clock and use the default one. 2683 2684 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. 2685 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler 2686 behaviour 2687 2688 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 2689 2690 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 2691 2692 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel 2693 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx 2694 2695 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 2696 2697 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 2698 2699 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 2700 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 2701 2702 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 2703 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 2704 irq. 2705 2706 nomodule Disable module load 2707 2708 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 2709 pagetables) support. 2710 2711 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 2712 2713 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 2714 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 2715 2716 noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops 2717 2718 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 2719 with UP alternatives 2720 2721 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and 2722 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported 2723 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still 2724 available to user space applications. 2725 2726 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 2727 space. 2728 2729 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 2730 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 2731 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 2732 2733 nosbagart [IA-64] 2734 2735 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. 2736 2737 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 2738 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 2739 2740 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 2741 2742 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 2743 2744 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter 2745 2746 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 2747 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 2748 2749 nowb [ARM] 2750 2751 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 2752 2753 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 2754 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 2755 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 2756 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 2757 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 2758 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 2759 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 2760 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 2761 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 2762 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 2763 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 2764 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 2765 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 2766 2767 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 2768 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 2769 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 2770 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 2771 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 2772 parameter's value. 2773 Format: integer between 1 and 255 2774 Default: 255 2775 2776 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 2777 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 2778 SAL PALO. 2779 2780 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2781 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 2782 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 2783 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 2784 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 2785 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 2786 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 2787 hot plugging. 2788 2789 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 2790 2791 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing. 2792 Allowed values are enable and disable 2793 2794 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 2795 'node', 'default' can be specified 2796 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 2797 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details. 2798 2799 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 2800 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more 2801 info. 2802 2803 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 2804 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 2805 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 2806 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 2807 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 2808 interrupts *may* be lost! 2809 2810 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 2811 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 2812 For example, to override I2C bus2: 2813 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 2814 2815 oprofile.timer= [HW] 2816 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters 2817 2818 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type 2819 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile 2820 userland or if you want common events. 2821 Format: { arch_perfmon } 2822 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural 2823 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the 2824 CPU specific event set. 2825 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI 2826 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer 2827 for generic hr timer mode) 2828 2829 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 2830 process, but there is a small probability of 2831 deadlocking the machine. 2832 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 2833 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 2834 2835 OSS [HW,OSS] 2836 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt 2837 2838 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 2839 Storage of the information about who allocated 2840 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 2841 we can turn it on. 2842 on: enable the feature 2843 2844 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 2845 poisoning on the buddy allocator. 2846 off: turn off poisoning 2847 on: turn on poisoning 2848 2849 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 2850 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 2851 timeout = 0: wait forever 2852 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 2853 Format: <timeout> 2854 2855 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 2856 on a WARN(). 2857 2858 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 2859 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 2860 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 2861 succeeds in any situation. 2862 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 2863 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 2864 kernel more unstable. 2865 2866 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 2867 connected to, default is 0. 2868 Format: <parport#> 2869 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 2870 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 2871 Format: <mode> 2872 2873 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 2874 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 2875 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 2876 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 2877 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 2878 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 2879 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 2880 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 2881 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 2882 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 2883 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 2884 are specified on the command line, starting 2885 with parport0. 2886 2887 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 2888 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 2889 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 2890 computer where firmware has no options for setting 2891 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 2892 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 2893 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 2894 2895 pause_on_oops= 2896 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 2897 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 2898 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 2899 2900 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 2901 2902 pcd. [PARIDE] 2903 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 2904 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 2905 2906 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options: 2907 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel 2908 changes anything 2909 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 2910 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 2911 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 2912 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 2913 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 2914 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 2915 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 2916 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 2917 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 2918 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 2919 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 2920 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 2921 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 2922 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 2923 bus number. The config space is then accessed 2924 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 2925 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 2926 on the configuration access mechanisms. 2927 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 2928 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 2929 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 2930 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 2931 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 2932 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 2933 Configuration 2934 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 2935 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 2936 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 2937 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 2938 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 2939 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 2940 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 2941 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 2942 should never be necessary. 2943 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 2944 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 2945 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 2946 when the system masks IRQs. 2947 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 2948 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 2949 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 2950 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 2951 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 2952 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 2953 on several machines and they hang the machine 2954 when used, but on other computers it's the only 2955 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 2956 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 2957 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 2958 motherboard. 2959 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 2960 Use with caution as certain devices share 2961 address decoders between ROMs and other 2962 resources. 2963 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 2964 expansion ROMs that do not already have 2965 BIOS assigned address ranges. 2966 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 2967 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 2968 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 2969 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 2970 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 2971 this way. 2972 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 2973 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 2974 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 2975 F0000h-100000h range. 2976 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 2977 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 2978 secondary buses and you want to tell it 2979 explicitly which ones they are. 2980 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 2981 numbers ourselves, overriding 2982 whatever the firmware may have done. 2983 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 2984 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 2985 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 2986 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 2987 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 2988 IRQ routing is enabled. 2989 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 2990 or for PCI scanning. 2991 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 2992 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 2993 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 2994 please report a bug. 2995 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 2996 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 2997 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 2998 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 2999 so this option is a temporary workaround 3000 for broken drivers that don't call it. 3001 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 3002 handle more pci cards 3003 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 3004 This might help on some broken boards which 3005 machine check when some devices' config space 3006 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 3007 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 3008 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3009 This sorting is done to get a device 3010 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 3011 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3012 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 3013 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 3014 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 3015 supported by all devices below the root complex. 3016 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 3017 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 3018 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 3019 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 3020 or bus can support) for best performance. 3021 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 3022 every device is guaranteed to support. This 3023 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 3024 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 3025 reduced performance. This also guarantees 3026 that hot-added devices will work. 3027 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3028 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 3029 The default value is 256 bytes. 3030 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3031 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 3032 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 3033 resource_alignment= 3034 Format: 3035 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...] 3036 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\ 3037 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...] 3038 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 3039 aligned memory resources. 3040 If <order of align> is not specified, 3041 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 3042 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource 3043 windows need to be expanded. 3044 To specify the alignment for several 3045 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 3046 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 3047 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 3048 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 3049 end-to-end CRC checking). 3050 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 3051 the default. 3052 off: Turn ECRC off 3053 on: Turn ECRC on. 3054 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3055 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 3056 Default size is 256 bytes. 3057 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3058 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window. 3059 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3060 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 3061 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 3062 Default is 1. 3063 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 3064 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 3065 accommodate resources required by all child 3066 devices. 3067 off: Turn realloc off 3068 on: Turn realloc on 3069 realloc same as realloc=on 3070 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 3071 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 3072 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 3073 port. 3074 3075 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 3076 Management. 3077 off Disable ASPM. 3078 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 3079 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 3080 3081 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options: 3082 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this 3083 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services). 3084 3085 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling: 3086 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services 3087 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use 3088 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS. 3089 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports 3090 unconditionally. 3091 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe 3092 ports driver. 3093 3094 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 3095 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 3096 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 3097 3098 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 3099 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 3100 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 3101 3102 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 3103 3104 pd_ignore_unused 3105 [PM] 3106 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 3107 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 3108 for debug and development, but should not be 3109 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 3110 3111 pd. [PARIDE] 3112 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3113 3114 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 3115 boot time. 3116 Format: { 0 | 1 } 3117 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 3118 3119 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 3120 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 3121 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 3122 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 3123 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 3124 and performance comparison. 3125 3126 pf. [PARIDE] 3127 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3128 3129 pg. [PARIDE] 3130 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3131 3132 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 3133 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt. 3134 3135 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 3136 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 3137 See also Documentation/parport.txt. 3138 3139 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 3140 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 3141 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 3142 3143 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 3144 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 3145 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 3146 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 3147 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 3148 possible settings and some assignment information. 3149 3150 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 3151 { off } 3152 3153 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 3154 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 3155 3156 pnp_reserve_irq= 3157 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 3158 3159 pnp_reserve_dma= 3160 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 3161 3162 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 3163 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 3164 3165 pnp_reserve_mem= 3166 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 3167 autoconfiguration. 3168 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 3169 3170 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 3171 Default is 21. 3172 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 3173 may be specified. 3174 Format: <port>,<port>.... 3175 3176 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 3177 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 3178 platform machine description specific power_save 3179 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 3180 execution priority. 3181 3182 ppc_strict_facility_enable 3183 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 3184 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 3185 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 3186 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 3187 3188 print-fatal-signals= 3189 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 3190 3191 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 3192 related application anomalies: too many signals, 3193 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 3194 coredump - etc. 3195 3196 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 3197 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 3198 3199 default: off. 3200 3201 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 3202 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 3203 panics 3204 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3205 default: disabled 3206 3207 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 3208 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 3209 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 3210 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 3211 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 3212 Default: ratelimit 3213 3214 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 3215 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3216 3217 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 3218 Limit processor to maximum C-state 3219 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 3220 3221 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 3222 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 3223 instead using the legacy FADT method 3224 3225 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 3226 Format: [schedule,]<number> 3227 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 3228 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 3229 statistical time based profiling. 3230 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 3231 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 3232 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 3233 3234 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk 3235 before loading. 3236 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 3237 3238 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 3239 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 3240 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 3241 per second. 3242 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 3243 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 3244 (0 = never). 3245 psmouse.resolution= 3246 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 3247 psmouse.smartscroll= 3248 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 3249 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 3250 3251 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 3252 3253 pt. [PARIDE] 3254 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3255 3256 pty.legacy_count= 3257 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 3258 default number. 3259 3260 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 3261 3262 r128= [HW,DRM] 3263 3264 raid= [HW,RAID] 3265 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 3266 3267 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 3268 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 3269 3270 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 3271 3272 cec_disable [X86] 3273 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 3274 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 3275 3276 rcu_nocbs= [KNL] 3277 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3278 3279 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set 3280 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs. 3281 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will 3282 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for 3283 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" 3284 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" 3285 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the 3286 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and 3287 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy 3288 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 3289 3290 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 3291 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 3292 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 3293 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 3294 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 3295 This improves the real-time response for the 3296 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 3297 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 3298 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 3299 periodically wake up to do the polling. 3300 3301 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 3302 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 3303 process in one batch. 3304 3305 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 3306 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 3307 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 3308 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 3309 3310 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 3311 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3312 RCU grace-period cleanup. 3313 3314 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 3315 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3316 RCU grace-period initialization. 3317 3318 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 3319 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3320 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 3321 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 3322 the rcu_node combining tree. 3323 3324 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 3325 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 3326 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 3327 possibly be useful for architectures having high 3328 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 3329 3330 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 3331 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 3332 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 3333 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 3334 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 3335 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 3336 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 3337 3338 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 3339 Set required age in jiffies for a 3340 given grace period before RCU starts 3341 soliciting quiescent-state help from 3342 rcu_note_context_switch(). 3343 3344 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 3345 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 3346 first attempt to force quiescent states. 3347 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 3348 and maximum value is HZ. 3349 3350 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 3351 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 3352 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 3353 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 3354 3355 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 3356 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 3357 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 3358 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 3359 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 3360 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 3361 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 3362 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 3363 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 3364 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 3365 3366 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL] 3367 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which 3368 defaults to the square root of the number of 3369 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead 3370 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases 3371 that same overhead on each group's leader. 3372 3373 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 3374 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 3375 batch limiting is disabled. 3376 3377 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 3378 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 3379 batch limiting is re-enabled. 3380 3381 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL] 3382 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 3383 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 3384 3385 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL] 3386 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 3387 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 3388 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can 3389 prove do nothing more than free memory. 3390 3391 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 3392 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 3393 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 3394 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 3395 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 3396 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 3397 3398 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL] 3399 Measure performance of asynchronous 3400 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 3401 3402 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL] 3403 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 3404 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 3405 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 3406 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 3407 previously posted callbacks to drain. 3408 3409 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL] 3410 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 3411 grace-period primitives. 3412 3413 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL] 3414 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 3415 this parameter is to delay the start of the 3416 test until boot completes in order to avoid 3417 interference. 3418 3419 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL] 3420 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 3421 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 3422 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 3423 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 3424 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 3425 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 3426 a single reader. 3427 3428 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL] 3429 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 3430 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders. 3431 N, where N is the number of CPUs 3432 3433 rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT] 3434 Start rcuperf running at boot time. 3435 3436 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL] 3437 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 3438 3439 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL] 3440 Shut the system down after performance tests 3441 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 3442 testing. 3443 3444 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL] 3445 Enable additional printk() statements. 3446 3447 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 3448 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 3449 in microseconds. The default of zero says 3450 no holdoff. 3451 3452 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL] 3453 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive 3454 callback-flood tests. 3455 3456 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL] 3457 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive 3458 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood 3459 test. 3460 3461 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL] 3462 Set the number of bursts making up a given 3463 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to 3464 disable callback-flood testing. 3465 3466 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL] 3467 Set the number of callbacks to be registered 3468 in a given burst of a callback-flood test. 3469 3470 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 3471 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 3472 in microseconds. 3473 3474 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 3475 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 3476 in microseconds. 3477 3478 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 3479 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 3480 in seconds. 3481 3482 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 3483 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 3484 primitives, if available. 3485 3486 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 3487 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 3488 3489 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 3490 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 3491 update-side primitives, if available. 3492 3493 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 3494 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 3495 update-side primitives, if available. If all 3496 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 3497 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 3498 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 3499 they are all non-zero. 3500 3501 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 3502 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 3503 3504 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 3505 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 3506 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 3507 test, hence the "fake". 3508 3509 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 3510 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 3511 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 3512 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 3513 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 3514 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 3515 3516 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 3517 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 3518 3519 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 3520 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 3521 3522 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 3523 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 3524 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 3525 3526 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 3527 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 3528 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 3529 during the rcutorture test. 3530 3531 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 3532 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 3533 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 3534 3535 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 3536 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 3537 warnings, zero to disable. 3538 3539 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 3540 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 3541 3542 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 3543 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 3544 3545 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 3546 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 3547 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 3548 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 3549 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 3550 3551 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 3552 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 3553 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 3554 under test support RCU priority boosting. 3555 3556 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 3557 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 3558 3559 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 3560 Interval (s) between each boost test. 3561 3562 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 3563 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 3564 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 3565 3566 rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT] 3567 Start rcutorture running at boot time. 3568 3569 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 3570 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 3571 3572 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 3573 Enable additional printk() statements. 3574 3575 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 3576 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 3577 3578 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 3579 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 3580 3581 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 3582 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 3583 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 3584 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 3585 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 3586 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 3587 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 3588 3589 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 3590 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 3591 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 3592 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 3593 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 3594 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 3595 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 3596 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 3597 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 3598 3599 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 3600 Once boot has completed (that is, after 3601 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 3602 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 3603 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 3604 3605 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 3606 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning 3607 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal 3608 to zero. 3609 3610 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 3611 Run the RCU early boot self tests 3612 3613 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL] 3614 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests 3615 3616 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL] 3617 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests 3618 3619 rdinit= [KNL] 3620 Format: <full_path> 3621 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 3622 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 3623 3624 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 3625 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 3626 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, mba. 3627 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 3628 rdt=cmt,!mba 3629 3630 reboot= [KNL] 3631 Format (x86 or x86_64): 3632 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \ 3633 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 3634 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 3635 [[,]f[orce] 3636 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio, 3637 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 3638 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 3639 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 3640 to be used for rebooting. 3641 3642 relax_domain_level= 3643 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 3644 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt. 3645 3646 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area 3647 3648 reservetop= [X86-32] 3649 Format: nn[KMG] 3650 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 3651 address space. 3652 3653 reservelow= [X86] 3654 Format: nn[K] 3655 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at 3656 the bottom of the address space. 3657 3658 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 3659 during initialization. 3660 3661 resume= [SWSUSP] 3662 Specify the partition device for software suspend 3663 Format: 3664 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 3665 3666 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 3667 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 3668 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 3669 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 3670 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt 3671 3672 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 3673 read the resume files 3674 3675 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 3676 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 3677 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 3678 3679 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 3680 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 3681 present during boot. 3682 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 3683 no Disable hibernation and resume. 3684 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 3685 (that will set all pages holding image data 3686 during restoration read-only). 3687 3688 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 3689 3690 rfkill.default_state= 3691 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 3692 etc. communication is blocked by default. 3693 1 Unblocked. 3694 3695 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 3696 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 3697 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 3698 blocked and the previous configuration. 3699 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 3700 blocked and everything unblocked. 3701 3702 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 3703 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 3704 3705 ring3mwait=disable 3706 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 3707 CPUs. 3708 3709 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 3710 3711 rodata= [KNL] 3712 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 3713 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 3714 3715 rockchip.usb_uart 3716 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 3717 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 3718 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 3719 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 3720 3721 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 3722 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 3723 3724 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 3725 mount the root filesystem 3726 3727 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 3728 3729 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 3730 3731 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 3732 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 3733 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 3734 3735 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 3736 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 3737 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 3738 managed by CMA. 3739 3740 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 3741 3742 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 3743 3744 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 3745 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 3746 strict 3747 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 3748 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 3749 which is faster. 3750 3751 sa1100ir [NET] 3752 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 3753 3754 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter 3755 3756 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 3757 3758 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 3759 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 3760 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 3761 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 3762 3763 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 3764 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 3765 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 3766 Format: { "0" | "1" } 3767 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 3768 1 -- enable. 3769 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 3770 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 3771 3772 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot. 3773 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first 3774 security module asking for security registration will be 3775 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated 3776 as if no module has been chosen. 3777 3778 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 3779 Format: { "0" | "1" } 3780 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 3781 0 -- disable. 3782 1 -- enable. 3783 Default value is set via kernel config option. 3784 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used 3785 later to disable prior to initial policy load. 3786 3787 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 3788 Format: { "0" | "1" } 3789 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 3790 0 -- disable. 3791 1 -- enable. 3792 Default value is set via kernel config option. 3793 3794 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 3795 3796 shapers= [NET] 3797 Maximal number of shapers. 3798 3799 simeth= [IA-64] 3800 simscsi= 3801 3802 slram= [HW,MTD] 3803 3804 slab_nomerge [MM] 3805 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 3806 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 3807 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 3808 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 3809 layout control by attackers can usually be 3810 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 3811 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 3812 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 3813 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 3814 own. 3815 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 3816 3817 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 3818 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 3819 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 3820 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 3821 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 3822 3823 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB] 3824 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 3825 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 3826 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 3827 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 3828 last alloc / free. For more information see 3829 Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 3830 3831 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB] 3832 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for 3833 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable. 3834 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON. 3835 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug 3836 directories and files being created under 3837 /sys/kernel/slub. 3838 3839 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 3840 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 3841 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 3842 fragmentation. For more information see 3843 Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 3844 3845 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 3846 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 3847 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 3848 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 3849 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 3850 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 3851 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 3852 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 3853 3854 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 3855 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 3856 lower than slub_max_order. 3857 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 3858 3859 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 3860 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 3861 See slab_nomerge for more information. 3862 3863 smart2= [HW] 3864 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 3865 3866 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 3867 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 3868 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 3869 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 3870 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 3871 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 3872 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 3873 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 3874 1: Fast pin select (default) 3875 2: ATC IRMode 3876 3877 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 3878 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 3879 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 3880 actual hardware limit. 3881 Format: <integer> 3882 Default: -1 (no limit) 3883 3884 softlockup_panic= 3885 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 3886 Format: <integer> 3887 3888 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 3889 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 3890 backtraces on all cpus. 3891 Format: <integer> 3892 3893 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 3894 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt 3895 3896 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 3897 spia_fio_base= 3898 spia_pedr= 3899 spia_peddr= 3900 3901 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 3902 Specifies how frequently to check for 3903 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 3904 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 3905 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 3906 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 3907 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 3908 are ignored. 3909 3910 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 3911 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 3912 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 3913 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 3914 grace period will be considered for automatic 3915 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 3916 expediting. 3917 3918 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 3919 override the default stack gap protection. The value 3920 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 3921 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 3922 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 3923 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 3924 3925 stacktrace [FTRACE] 3926 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 3927 3928 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 3929 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 3930 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 3931 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 3932 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 3933 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 3934 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 3935 3936 sti= [PARISC,HW] 3937 Format: <num> 3938 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 3939 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 3940 as the initial boot-console. 3941 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 3942 3943 sti_font= [HW] 3944 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 3945 3946 stifb= [HW] 3947 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 3948 3949 sunrpc.min_resvport= 3950 sunrpc.max_resvport= 3951 [NFS,SUNRPC] 3952 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 3953 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 3954 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 3955 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 3956 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 3957 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 3958 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 3959 maximum port values. 3960 3961 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 3962 [NFS,SUNRPC] 3963 Limit the number of requests that the server will 3964 process in parallel from a single connection. 3965 The default value is 0 (no limit). 3966 3967 sunrpc.pool_mode= 3968 [NFS] 3969 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 3970 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 3971 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 3972 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 3973 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 3974 NFS server is running. 3975 3976 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 3977 automatically using heuristics 3978 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 3979 percpu one pool for each CPU 3980 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 3981 to global on non-NUMA machines) 3982 3983 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 3984 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 3985 [NFS,SUNRPC] 3986 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 3987 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 3988 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 3989 improve throughput, but will also increase the 3990 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 3991 3992 suspend.pm_test_delay= 3993 [SUSPEND] 3994 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 3995 mode before resuming the system (see 3996 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 3997 is set. Default value is 5. 3998 3999 swapaccount=[0|1] 4000 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 4001 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 4002 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt) 4003 4004 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 4005 Format: { <int> | force | noforce } 4006 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 4007 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 4008 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 4009 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 4010 4011 switches= [HW,M68k] 4012 4013 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 4014 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 4015 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 4016 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 4017 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 4018 in older udev will not work anymore. 4019 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 4020 the kernel configuration. 4021 4022 sysrq_always_enabled 4023 [KNL] 4024 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 4025 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 4026 Useful for debugging. 4027 4028 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4029 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 4030 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 4031 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 4032 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt 4033 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 4034 4035 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 4036 4037 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N] 4038 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 4039 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 4040 as the system sleep state during system startup with 4041 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 4042 The system is woken from this state using a 4043 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 4044 4045 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4046 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 4047 4048 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 4049 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 4050 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 4051 4052 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 4053 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 4054 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 4055 4056 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 4057 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 4058 critical and hot trip points. 4059 4060 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 4061 1: disable ACPI thermal control 4062 4063 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 4064 -1: disable all passive trip points 4065 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 4066 value 4067 4068 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 4069 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 4070 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 4071 0: no polling (default) 4072 4073 threadirqs [KNL] 4074 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 4075 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 4076 4077 tmem [KNL,XEN] 4078 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in. 4079 4080 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4081 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache 4082 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor. 4083 4084 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4085 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap 4086 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled 4087 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled. 4088 4089 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4090 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages 4091 to the hypervisor. 4092 4093 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4094 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately 4095 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the 4096 kernel based on different criteria. 4097 4098 topology= [S390] 4099 Format: {off | on} 4100 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 4101 topology information if the hardware supports this. 4102 The scheduler will make use of this information and 4103 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 4104 Default is on. 4105 4106 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 4107 Format: {off} 4108 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 4109 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 4110 LPAR. 4111 4112 tp720= [HW,PS2] 4113 4114 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 4115 Format: integer pcr id 4116 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 4117 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 4118 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 4119 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 4120 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 4121 are saved. 4122 4123 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 4124 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 4125 4126 trace_event=[event-list] 4127 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 4128 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 4129 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See 4130 also Documentation/trace/events.txt 4131 4132 trace_options=[option-list] 4133 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 4134 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 4135 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 4136 to echo the option name into 4137 4138 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 4139 4140 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 4141 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 4142 4143 trace_options=stacktrace 4144 4145 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options" 4146 section. 4147 4148 tp_printk[FTRACE] 4149 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 4150 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 4151 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 4152 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 4153 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 4154 4155 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 4156 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 4157 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 4158 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 4159 4160 ** CAUTION ** 4161 4162 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 4163 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 4164 the system to live lock. 4165 4166 traceoff_on_warning 4167 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 4168 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 4169 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 4170 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 4171 4172 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 4173 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 4174 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 4175 4176 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 4177 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 4178 4179 transparent_hugepage= 4180 [KNL] 4181 Format: [always|madvise|never] 4182 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 4183 with respect to transparent hugepages. 4184 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details. 4185 4186 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 4187 Format: <string> 4188 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 4189 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 4190 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 4191 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 4192 virtualized environment. 4193 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 4194 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 4195 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 4196 can add overhead. 4197 4198 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 4199 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 4200 Format: 4201 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 4202 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt 4203 4204 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 4205 happen after console_init() and before a proper 4206 console driver takes over, this boot options might 4207 help "seeing" what's going on. 4208 4209 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4210 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 4211 4212 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 4213 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 4214 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 4215 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 4216 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 4217 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 4218 reported either. 4219 4220 unknown_nmi_panic 4221 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 4222 4223 usbcore.authorized_default= 4224 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 4225 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 4226 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized) 4227 4228 usbcore.autosuspend= 4229 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 4230 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 4231 is the time required before an idle device will be 4232 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 4233 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 4234 4235 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 4236 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 4237 4238 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 4239 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 4240 (default = 65536). 4241 4242 usbcore.blinkenlights= 4243 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 4244 4245 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 4246 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 4247 scheme (default 0 = off). 4248 4249 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 4250 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 4251 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 4252 4253 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 4254 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 4255 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 4256 4257 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 4258 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 4259 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 4260 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 4261 4262 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 4263 4264 usbhid.mousepoll= 4265 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 4266 4267 usbhid.jspoll= 4268 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 4269 4270 usb-storage.delay_use= 4271 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 4272 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 4273 4274 usb-storage.quirks= 4275 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 4276 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 4277 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 4278 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 4279 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 4280 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 4281 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 4282 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 4283 of sense data); 4284 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 4285 bytes of sense data); 4286 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 4287 device capacity by one sector); 4288 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 4289 READ_DISC_INFO command); 4290 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 4291 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 4292 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 4293 command, uas only); 4294 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 4295 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 4296 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 4297 reported device capacity by one 4298 sector if the number is odd); 4299 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 4300 device); 4301 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 4302 command, uas only); 4303 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 4304 unlock ejectable media); 4305 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 4306 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time); 4307 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 4308 initial READ(10) command); 4309 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 4310 reported by the device); 4311 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 4312 by default); 4313 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 4314 bogus residue values); 4315 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 4316 Logical Unit); 4317 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 4318 commands, uas only); 4319 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 4320 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 4321 medium is write-protected). 4322 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 4323 even if the device claims no cache) 4324 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 4325 4326 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 4327 Format: <int> 4328 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 4329 1 - undefined instruction events 4330 2 - system calls 4331 4 - invalid data aborts 4332 8 - SIGSEGV faults 4333 16 - SIGBUS faults 4334 Example: user_debug=31 4335 4336 userpte= 4337 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 4338 4339 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 4340 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 4341 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 4342 4343 vdso= [X86,SH] 4344 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 4345 4346 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 4347 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 4348 4349 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 4350 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 4351 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 4352 4353 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 4354 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 4355 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 4356 4357 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 4358 alias for vdso32=0. 4359 4360 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 4361 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 4362 4363 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 4364 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 4365 4366 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 4367 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt. 4368 4369 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1] 4370 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 4371 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 4372 level and then send out the event to user space through 4373 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver 4374 will only send out the event without touching backlight 4375 brightness level. 4376 default: 1 4377 4378 virtio_mmio.device= 4379 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 4380 4381 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 4382 where: 4383 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 4384 like K, M and G) 4385 <baseaddr> := physical base address 4386 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 4387 request_irq()) 4388 <id> := (optional) platform device id 4389 example: 4390 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 4391 4392 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 4393 4394 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 4395 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and 4396 Documentation/svga.txt. 4397 Use vga=ask for menu. 4398 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 4399 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 4400 4401 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 4402 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 4403 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 4404 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 4405 mapped kernel RAM. 4406 4407 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 4408 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 4409 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 4410 4411 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 4412 Format: <command> 4413 4414 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 4415 Format: <command> 4416 4417 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 4418 Format: <command> 4419 4420 vsyscall= [X86-64] 4421 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 4422 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 4423 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 4424 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 4425 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 4426 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 4427 4428 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 4429 emulated reasonably safely. 4430 4431 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions. 4432 This is a little bit faster than trapping 4433 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work 4434 better than they would in emulation mode. 4435 It also makes exploits much easier to write. 4436 4437 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 4438 them quite hard to use for exploits but 4439 might break your system. 4440 4441 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 4442 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 4443 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 4444 4445 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 4446 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 4447 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 4448 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 4449 4450 vt.default_blu= [VT] 4451 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 4452 Change the default blue palette of the console. 4453 This is a 16-member array composed of values 4454 ranging from 0-255. 4455 4456 vt.default_grn= [VT] 4457 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 4458 Change the default green palette of the console. 4459 This is a 16-member array composed of values 4460 ranging from 0-255. 4461 4462 vt.default_red= [VT] 4463 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 4464 Change the default red palette of the console. 4465 This is a 16-member array composed of values 4466 ranging from 0-255. 4467 4468 vt.default_utf8= 4469 [VT] 4470 Format=<0|1> 4471 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 4472 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 4473 newly opened terminals. 4474 4475 vt.global_cursor_default= 4476 [VT] 4477 Format=<-1|0|1> 4478 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 4479 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 4480 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 4481 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 4482 cursors, 1 will display them. 4483 4484 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 4485 Default: 2 = green. 4486 4487 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 4488 Default: 3 = cyan. 4489 4490 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 4491 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt 4492 or other driver-specific files in the 4493 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 4494 4495 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 4496 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 4497 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 4498 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 4499 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 4500 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 4501 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 4502 corresponding sysfs file. 4503 4504 workqueue.disable_numa 4505 By default, all work items queued to unbound 4506 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 4507 issued on, which results in better behavior in 4508 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 4509 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 4510 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 4511 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 4512 4513 workqueue.power_efficient 4514 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 4515 they show better performance thanks to cache 4516 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 4517 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 4518 4519 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 4520 were observed to contribute significantly to power 4521 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 4522 power usage at the cost of small performance 4523 overhead. 4524 4525 The default value of this parameter is determined by 4526 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 4527 4528 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 4529 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 4530 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 4531 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 4532 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 4533 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 4534 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 4535 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 4536 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 4537 impacted. 4538 4539 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 4540 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 4541 supporting x2apic. 4542 4543 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT] 4544 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform. 4545 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer 4546 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer. 4547 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt 4548 4549 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 4550 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 4551 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 4552 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 4553 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 4554 domains. 4555 4556 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 4557 Unplug Xen emulated devices 4558 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 4559 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 4560 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 4561 nics -- unplug network devices 4562 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 4563 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 4564 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 4565 the unplug protocol 4566 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 4567 4568 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 4569 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV 4570 optimizations. 4571 4572 xen_nopv [X86] 4573 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 4574 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 4575 4576 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 4577 Format: 4578 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 4579