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