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1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4 copy_dsdt }
5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14 are available
15
16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
17
18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
19 Format: <int>
20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21 1,0: use 1st APIC table
22 default: 0
23
24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
25 acpi_backlight=vendor
26 acpi_backlight=video
27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
31 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
37 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41 This option is useful for developers to identify the
42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
45 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
47 Format: <int>
48 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
55 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
56 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
57 debug layers and levels.
58
59 Enable processor driver info messages:
60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64 object while interpreting AML:
65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69 Some values produce so much output that the system is
70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71 if you need to capture more output.
72
73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
74 { strict | lax | no }
75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79 can interfere with legacy drivers.
80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87 no further checks are performed.
88
89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92 size limitation.
93
94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95 ACPI will balance active IRQs
96 default in APIC mode
97
98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100 default in PIC mode
101
102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106 use by PCI
107 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113 the GPE dispatcher.
114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115 GPE floodings.
116 Format: <int>
117 Support masking of GPEs numbered from 0x00 to 0x7f.
118
119 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
120 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
121 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
122 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
123 auto-serialization feature.
124 This feature is enabled by default.
125 This option allows to turn off the feature.
126
127 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
128 kernels.
129
130 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
131 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
132 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
133 installed automatically and they will appear under
134 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
135 This option turns off this feature.
136 Note that specifying this option does not affect
137 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
138 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
139
140 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
141 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
142 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
143 second kernel for kdump.
144
145 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
146 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
147
148 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
149 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
150 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
151 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
152 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
153
154 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
155 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
156 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
157 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
158 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
159 strings
160 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
161 strings
162 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
163
164 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
165 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
166 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
167 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
168 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
169 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
170 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
171 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
172 care about the state of the feature group strings which
173 should be controlled by the OSPM.
174 Examples:
175 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
176 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
177 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
178
179 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
180 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
181 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
182 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
183 multiple times through kernel command line is also
184 meaningless.
185 Examples:
186 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
187 FALSE.
188
189 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
190 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
191 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
192 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
193 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
194 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
195 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
196 there are quirks related to this string. This command
197 is useful when one want to control the state of the
198 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
199 the OSPM features.
200 Examples:
201 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
202 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
203 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
204 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
205 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
206 equivalent to
207 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
208 and
209 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
210 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
211
212 acpi_pm_good [X86]
213 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
214 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
215 and always returns good values.
216
217 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
218 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
219
220 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
221 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
222 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
223
224 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
225 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
226 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable }
227 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
228 s3_bios and s3_mode.
229 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
230 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
231 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
232 used during resume from hibernation.
233 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
234 control method, with respect to putting devices into
235 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
236 of _PTS is used by default).
237 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
238 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
239 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
240 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
241 but some broken systems don't work without it).
242
243 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
244 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
245 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
246
247 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
248 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
249
250 agp= [AGP]
251 { off | try_unsupported }
252 off: disable AGP support
253 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
254 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
255
256 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
257 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
258
259 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
260 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
261 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
262 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
263
264 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
265 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
266 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
267 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
268 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
269 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
270 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
271
272 32: only for 32-bit processes
273 64: only for 64-bit processes
274 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
275 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
276
277 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
278 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
279 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
280 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
281 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
282 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
283
284 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
285 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
286 Possible values are:
287 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
288 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
289 flushed before they will be reused, which
290 is a lot of faster
291 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
292 the system
293 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
294 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
295 allowed anymore to lift isolation
296 requirements as needed. This option
297 does not override iommu=pt
298
299 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
300 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
301 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
302 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
303 IOMMU initialization.
304
305 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
306 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
307 remapping modes:
308 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
309 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
310 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
311 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
312 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
313
314 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
315 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
316 Format: <a>,<b>
317 See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt
318
319 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
320 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
321 connected to one of 16 gameports
322 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
323
324 apc= [HW,SPARC]
325 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
326 Format: noidle
327 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
328 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
329 APC and your system crashes randomly.
330
331 apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
332 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
333 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
334 Change the amount of debugging information output
335 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
336
337 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
338 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
339 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
340 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
341 backup of CPU 0
342 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
343 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
344 shot down by NMI
345
346 autoconf= [IPV6]
347 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
348
349 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
350 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
351 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
352 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
353 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
354 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
355 apic=verbose is specified.
356 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
357
358 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
359 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
360
361 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
362 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
363
364 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
365
366 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
367
368 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
369 EzKey and similar keyboards
370
371 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
372
373 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
374 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
375
376 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
377 keyboards
378
379 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
380 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
381
382 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
383 Use software keyboard repeat
384
385 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
386 Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
387 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
388 until the next reboot
389 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
390 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
391 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
392 storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
393 RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
394 auditd.
395 Default: unset
396
397 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
398 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
399 Default: 64
400
401 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
402 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
403 Format: { "0" | "1" }
404 0 - Disable the BAU.
405 1 - Enable the BAU.
406 unset - Disable the BAU.
407
408 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
409 Format: <io>,<mode>
410
411 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
412 Format: <io>,<mode>
413 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
414
415 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
416 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
417 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
418 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
419
420 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
421 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
422 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
423 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
424
425 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
426 embedded devices based on command line input.
427 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
428
429 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
430 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
431 no delay (0).
432 Format: integer
433
434 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
435
436 bert_disable [ACPI]
437 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
438
439 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
440 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
441 kernel args too.
442 bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
443 bttv.tuner=
444
445 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
446 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
447 at a time.
448
449 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
450
451 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
452 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
453 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
454 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
455 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
456 This option provides an override for these situations.
457
458 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
459 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
460 trust validation.
461 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
462
463 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
464 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
465 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
466 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
467 others).
468
469 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
470 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
471
472 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
473 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
474 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
475 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
476 a single hierarchy
477 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
478 subsystem
479 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
480 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
481 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
482
483 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
484 Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
485 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
486 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
487
488 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
489 Format: <string>
490 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
491 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
492
493 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
494 Format: { "0" | "1" }
495 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
496 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
497 any implied execute protection).
498 1 -- check protection requested by application.
499 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
500 Value can be changed at runtime via
501 /selinux/checkreqprot.
502
503 cio_ignore= [S390]
504 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
505 clk_ignore_unused
506 [CLK]
507 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
508 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
509 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
510 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
511 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
512 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
513 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
514 platform with proper driver support. For more
515 information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
516
517 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
518 [Deprecated]
519 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
520 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
521 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
522 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
523
524 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
525 Format: <string>
526 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
527 with the name specified.
528 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
529 the platform:
530 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
531 [ACPI] acpi_pm
532 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
533 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
534 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
535 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
536 [MIPS] MIPS
537 [PARISC] cr16
538 [S390] tod
539 [SH] SuperH
540 [SPARC64] tick
541 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
542
543 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
544 [ARM,ARM64]
545 Format: <bool>
546 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
547 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
548 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
549 systems.
550
551 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
552 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
553 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
554 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
555 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
556 ones should be.
557 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
558 or using the feature without checking anything
559 will still see it. This just prevents it from
560 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
561 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
562 some critical bits.
563
564 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
565 [ARM,X86,KNL]
566 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
567 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
568 placement constraint by the physical address range of
569 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
570 altogether. For more information, see
571 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
572
573 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
574 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
575 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
576 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
577 a hypervisor.
578 Default: yes
579
580 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
581 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
582 allocations, by default set to 256K.
583
584 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
585 in an oops report.
586 Range: 0 - 8192
587 Default: 64
588
589 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
590 Format:
591 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
592
593 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
594 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
595
596 com90xx= [HW,NET]
597 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
598 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
599
600 condev= [HW,S390] console device
601 conmode=
602
603 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
604
605 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
606
607 ttyS<n>[,options]
608 ttyUSB0[,options]
609 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
610 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
611 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
612 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
613 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
614
615 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
616 information. See
617 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
618 alternative.
619
620 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
621 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
622 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
623 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
624 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
625 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
626 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
627 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
628 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
629 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
630 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
631 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
632 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
633 the h/w is not re-initialized.
634
635 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
636 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
637
638 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
639 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
640 console=brl,ttyS0
641 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
642
643 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
644 seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
645 disables the blank timer.
646
647 coredump_filter=
648 [KNL] Change the default value for
649 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
650 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
651
652 coresight_cpu_debug.enable
653 [ARM,ARM64]
654 Format: <bool>
655 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
656 0: default value, disable debugging
657 1: enable debugging at boot time
658
659 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
660 disable the cpuidle sub-system
661
662 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
663 disable the cpufreq sub-system
664
665 cpu_init_udelay=N
666 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
667 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
668 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
669 Default: 10000
670
671 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
672 Format:
673 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
674
675 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
676 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
677 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
678 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
679 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
680 is selected automatically. Check
681 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
682
683 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
684 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
685 in the running system. The syntax of range is
686 start-[end] where start and end are both
687 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
688 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
689
690 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
691 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
692 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
693 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
694 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
695 available.
696 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
697 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
698 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
699 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
700 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
701 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
702 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
703 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
704 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
705 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
706 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
707 for second kernel instead.
708 0: to disable low allocation.
709 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
710 or memory reserved is below 4G.
711
712 cryptomgr.notests
713 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
714
715 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
716 Format: <dma>
717
718 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
719 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
720
721 dasd= [HW,NET]
722 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
723
724 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
725 (one device per port)
726 Format: <port#>,<type>
727 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
728
729 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
730 time. See
731 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
732 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
733
734 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
735
736 debug_locks_verbose=
737 [KNL] verbose self-tests
738 Format=<0|1>
739 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
740 self-tests.
741 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
742 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
743 only useful to kernel developers.
744
745 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
746
747 no_debug_objects
748 [KNL] Disable object debugging
749
750 debug_guardpage_minorder=
751 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
752 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
753 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
754 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
755 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
756 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
757 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
758 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
759 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
760 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
761 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
762 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
763 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
764 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
765 bypassed) which are not detectable by
766 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
767 tracking down these problems.
768
769 debug_pagealloc=
770 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
771 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
772 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
773 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
774 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
775 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
776 on: enable the feature
777
778 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
779
780 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
781 Format: <area>[,<node>]
782 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
783
784 default_hugepagesz=
785 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
786 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
787 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
788 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
789 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
790 if not specified.
791
792 dhash_entries= [KNL]
793 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
794
795 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
796 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
797 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
798 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
799 miss to occur.
800
801 disable= [IPV6]
802 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
803
804 disable_radix [PPC]
805 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
806
807 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
808 Format: <int>
809 The number of initial APIC ID for the
810 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
811 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
812 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
813 causing system reset or hang due to sending
814 INIT from AP to BSP.
815
816 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
817 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
818 to workaround buggy firmware.
819
820 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
821 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
822
823 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
824 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
825 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
826 entry later. This parameter disables that.
827
828 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
829 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
830 memory out of your available memory pool based on
831 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
832 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
833
834 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
835 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
836 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
837
838 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
839
840 dm= [DM] Allows early creation of a device-mapper device.
841 See Documentation/device-mapper/boot.txt.
842
843 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
844 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
845
846 dma_debug_entries=<number>
847 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
848 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
849 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
850 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
851 architectural default is too low.
852
853 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
854 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
855 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
856 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
857 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
858 driver later using sysfs.
859
860 drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
861 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
862 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
863 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
864 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
865 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
866 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
867 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
868 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
869 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
870 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
871 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
872 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
873 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
874 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
875 data set with no connector name will be used for
876 any connectors not explicitly specified.
877
878 dscc4.setup= [NET]
879
880 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC]
881 Format: {"off" | "known"}
882 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
883 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
884 exists).
885 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
886 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
887 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
888
889 dump_apple_properties [X86]
890 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
891 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
892 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
893
894 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
895 module.dyndbg[="val"]
896 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
897 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
898 for details.
899
900 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
901 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
902 information about the feature.
903
904 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
905 in some Intel CPUs.
906
907 module.async_probe [KNL]
908 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
909
910 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
911 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
912 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
913 which are not unmapped.
914
915 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
916
917 When used with no options, the early console is
918 determined by the stdout-path property in device
919 tree's chosen node.
920
921 cdns,<addr>[,options]
922 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
923 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
924 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
925 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
926 configured.
927
928 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
929 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
930 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
931 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
932 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
933 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
934 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
935 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
936 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
937 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
938 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
939 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
940 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
941
942 pl011,<addr>
943 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
944 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
945 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
946 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
947 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
948 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
949 the device registers.
950
951 meson,<addr>
952 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
953 port at the specified address. The serial port must
954 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
955 supported.
956
957 msm_serial,<addr>
958 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
959 port at the specified address. The serial port
960 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
961 yet supported.
962
963 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
964 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
965 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
966 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
967 yet supported.
968
969 owl,<addr>
970 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
971 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
972 specified address. The serial port must already be
973 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
974
975 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
976
977 s3c2410,<addr>
978 s3c2412,<addr>
979 s3c2440,<addr>
980 s3c6400,<addr>
981 s5pv210,<addr>
982 exynos4210,<addr>
983 Use early console provided by serial driver available
984 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
985 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
986 serial port must already be setup and configured.
987 Options are not yet supported.
988
989 lantiq,<addr>
990 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
991 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
992 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
993 yet supported.
994
995 lpuart,<addr>
996 lpuart32,<addr>
997 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
998 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
999 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1000 port must already be setup and configured.
1001
1002 ar3700_uart,<addr>
1003 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1004 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1005 address. The serial port must already be setup
1006 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1007
1008 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k,S390]
1009 earlyprintk=vga
1010 earlyprintk=efi
1011 earlyprintk=sclp
1012 earlyprintk=xen
1013 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1014 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1015 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1016 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1017 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1018 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1019
1020 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1021 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1022 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1023
1024 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1025 takes over.
1026
1027 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1028 be used at a time.
1029
1030 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1031 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1032 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1033 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1034 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1035 You can find the port for a given device in
1036 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1037 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1038
1039 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1040 very good.
1041
1042 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1043 the real console.
1044
1045 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1046
1047 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1048
1049 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1050 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1051 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1052 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1053 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1054 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1055 default: on.
1056
1057 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1058 ekgdboc=kbd
1059
1060 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1061 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1062
1063 edd= [EDD]
1064 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1065
1066 efi= [EFI]
1067 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
1068 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1069 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1070 default.
1071 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1072 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1073 firmware implementations.
1074 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1075 debug: enable misc debug output
1076
1077 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1078 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1079 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1080 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1081 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1082
1083 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1084 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1085 updating original EFI memory map.
1086 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1087 from ss to ss+nn.
1088 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1089 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1090 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1091 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1092
1093 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1094 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1095 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1096 doesn't support it.
1097
1098 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1099 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1100 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1101 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1102 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1103
1104
1105 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1106 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1107
1108 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1109 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1110 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1111
1112 elevator= [IOSCHED]
1113 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
1114 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
1115 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1116
1117 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1118 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1119 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1120 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1121 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
1122
1123 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1124 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1125 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1126 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1127
1128 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1129 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1130 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1131 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1132 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1133
1134 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1135 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1136 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1137 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1138 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1139 Default value is 0.
1140 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1141
1142 erst_disable [ACPI]
1143 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1144 support.
1145
1146 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1147 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1148 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1149
1150 evm= [EVM]
1151 Format: { "fix" }
1152 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1153 current integrity status.
1154
1155 failslab=
1156 fail_page_alloc=
1157 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1158 General fault injection mechanism.
1159 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1160 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1161
1162 floppy= [HW]
1163 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1164
1165 force_pal_cache_flush
1166 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1167 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1168 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1169 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1170
1171 forcepae [X86-32]
1172 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1173 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1174 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1175 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1176 and may cause unknown problems.
1177
1178 ftrace=[tracer]
1179 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1180 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1181 boot debugging.
1182
1183 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1184 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1185 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1186 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1187 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1188 oops.
1189
1190 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1191 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1192 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1193 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1194 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1195 tracing directory.
1196
1197 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1198 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1199 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1200 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1201 tracing directory.
1202
1203 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1204 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1205 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1206 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1207 that can be changed at run time by the
1208 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1209
1210 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1211 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1212 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1213 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1214 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1215
1216 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1217 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1218 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1219 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1220 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1221
1222 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1223 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1224 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1225 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1226 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
1227
1228 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1229
1230 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1231 Format: off | on
1232 default: on
1233
1234 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1235 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1236 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1237 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1238 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1239
1240 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1241 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1242 android emulator
1243
1244 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1245 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1246 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1247 GPT to be used instead.
1248
1249 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1250 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1251 Format: 0 | 1
1252 Default: 0
1253 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1254 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1255 Format: 0 | 1
1256 Default: 0
1257 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1258 Format: 0 | 1
1259 Default: 0
1260 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1261 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1262 Default: 1024
1263 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1264 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1265 Default: 1024
1266
1267 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1268 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1269 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1270
1271 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1272 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1273 backtraces on all cpus.
1274 Format: <integer>
1275
1276 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1277 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
1278 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1279 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1280
1281 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1282
1283 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1284 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1285
1286 hest_disable [ACPI]
1287 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1288 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1289 logic will be disabled.
1290
1291 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1292 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1293 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1294 size on bigger boxes.
1295
1296 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1297 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1298 Default: "on"
1299
1300 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1301 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1302
1303 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1304
1305 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1306 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1307 verbose }
1308 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1309 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1310 VIA, nVidia)
1311 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1312
1313 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1314 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1315
1316 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1317 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
1318 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1319 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1320 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1321 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
1322 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
1323
1324 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1325 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1326 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1327 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1328 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1329
1330 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1331 hardware thread id mappings.
1332 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1333
1334 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1335 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1336 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1337 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1338 the real console.
1339
1340 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1341 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1342 registered from board initialization code.
1343 Format:
1344 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1345
1346 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1347 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1348 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1349 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1350 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1351 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1352 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1353 keyboard and cannot control its state
1354 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1355 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1356 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1357 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1358 for the AUX port
1359 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1360 controller
1361 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1362 controllers
1363 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1364 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1365 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1366 transitions, or never reset
1367 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1368 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1369 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1370 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1371 architectures force reset to be always executed
1372 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1373 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1374
1375 i810= [HW,DRM]
1376
1377 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1378 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1379 hardware.
1380 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1381 does not match list of supported models.
1382 i8k.power_status
1383 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1384 (disabled by default)
1385 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1386 capability is set.
1387
1388 i915.invert_brightness=
1389 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1390 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1391 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1392 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1393 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1394 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1395 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1396 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1397 value switches the backlight off.
1398 -1 -- never invert brightness
1399 0 -- machine default
1400 1 -- force brightness inversion
1401
1402 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1403 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1404
1405 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1406 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1407 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1408 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1409 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1410
1411 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1412 Format: <int>
1413 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1414 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1415 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1416 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1417 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1418 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1419 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1420 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1421 was 0x3.
1422
1423 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1424 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1425
1426 idle= [X86]
1427 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1428 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1429 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1430 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1431 Not recommended.
1432 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1433 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1434 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1435
1436 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1437 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1438 Default: strict
1439
1440 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1441 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1442 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1443 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1444 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1445 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1446 encoding mode.
1447
1448 Available settings are as follows:
1449 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1450 supported by the FPU
1451 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1452 by the FPU
1453 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1454 by the FPU
1455 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1456 supported by the FPU
1457
1458 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1459 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1460 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1461 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1462 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1463 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1464 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1465 MIPS64 CPUs.
1466
1467 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1468 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1469 except where unsupported by hardware.
1470
1471 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1472 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1473 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1474 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1475 could change it dynamically, usually by
1476 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1477
1478 ignore_rlimit_data
1479 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1480 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1481 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1482
1483 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1484 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1485
1486 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1487 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1488 default: "enforce"
1489
1490 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1491 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1492 owned by uid=0.
1493
1494 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1495 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1496 measurements, instead of host native format.
1497
1498 ima_hash= [IMA]
1499 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1500 | sha512 | ... }
1501 default: "sha1"
1502
1503 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1504 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1505
1506 ima_policy= [IMA]
1507 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1508 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot"
1509
1510 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1511 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1512 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1513 uid=0.
1514
1515 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1516 all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent
1517 of ima_appraise_tcb.)
1518
1519 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1520 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1521 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1522
1523 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
1524 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1525 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1526 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1527 opened for read by uid=0.
1528
1529 ima_template= [IMA]
1530 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1531 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1532 Default: "ima-ng"
1533
1534 ima_template_fmt=
1535 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1536 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1537
1538 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1539 Format: <min_file_size>
1540 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1541 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1542
1543 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1544 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1545 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1546
1547 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1548 Format: <bufsize>
1549 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1550
1551 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1552 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1553 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1554
1555 init= [KNL]
1556 Format: <full_path>
1557 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1558 process.
1559
1560 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1561 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1562 startup.
1563
1564 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1565 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1566 modules and initcalls.
1567
1568 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1569
1570 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1571 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1572 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1573 override in debugfs after boot.
1574
1575 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1576 Format: <irq>
1577
1578 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1579
1580 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1581 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1582 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1583 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1584
1585 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1586 on
1587 Enable intel iommu driver.
1588 off
1589 Disable intel iommu driver.
1590 igfx_off [Default Off]
1591 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1592 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1593 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1594 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1595 DMA.
1596 forcedac [x86_64]
1597 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1598 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1599 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1600 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1601 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1602 then look in the higher range.
1603 strict [Default Off]
1604 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1605 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1606 to batching them for performance.
1607 sp_off [Default Off]
1608 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1609 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1610 not be supported.
1611 ecs_off [Default Off]
1612 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1613 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1614 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1615 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1616 on hardware which claims to support them.
1617 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1618 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1619 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1620 could harm performance of some high-throughput
1621 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1622 mapping is enabled.
1623 Note that using this option lowers the security
1624 provided by tboot because it makes the system
1625 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
1626
1627 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1628 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1629 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
1630
1631 intel_pstate= [X86]
1632 disable
1633 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1634 scaling driver for the supported processors
1635 passive
1636 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1637 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1638 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1639 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1640 feature.
1641 force
1642 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1643 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1644 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1645 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1646 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1647 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1648 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1649 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1650 no_hwp
1651 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1652 if available.
1653 hwp_only
1654 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1655 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1656 support_acpi_ppc
1657 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1658 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1659 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1660 then this feature is turned on by default.
1661 per_cpu_perf_limits
1662 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1663 cpufreq sysfs interface
1664
1665 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1666 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1667 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1668 nosid disable Source ID checking
1669 no_x2apic_optout
1670 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1671 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
1672
1673 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1674 strict regions from userspace.
1675 relaxed
1676
1677 iommu= [x86]
1678 off
1679 force
1680 noforce
1681 biomerge
1682 panic
1683 nopanic
1684 merge
1685 nomerge
1686 forcesac
1687 soft
1688 pt [x86, IA-64]
1689 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1690 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
1691
1692 iommu.passthrough=
1693 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1694 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1695 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1696 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1697 unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1698
1699 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1700 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1701 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1702
1703 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
1704 0x80
1705 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1706 0xed
1707 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1708 udelay
1709 Simple two microseconds delay
1710 none
1711 No delay
1712
1713 ip= [IP_PNP]
1714 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1715
1716 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
1717 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
1718
1719 irqfixup [HW]
1720 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1721 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1722 firmware running.
1723
1724 irqpoll [HW]
1725 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1726 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1727 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1728 firmware running.
1729
1730 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
1731 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1732
1733 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
1734 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
1735
1736 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
1737 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1738 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
1739 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1740 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1741 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1742
1743 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
1744 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
1745 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
1746 suboptimal load balancer performance.
1747
1748 iucv= [HW,NET]
1749
1750 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1751 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1752 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1753 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1754 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1755 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1756
1757 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1758 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1759 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1760 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1761 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1762 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1763
1764 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1765 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1766 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1767 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1768 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1769 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1770
1771 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1772 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
1773
1774 nokaslr [KNL]
1775 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1776 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1777 Layout Randomization).
1778
1779 kasan_multi_shot
1780 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1781 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1782 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1783 invalid access.
1784
1785 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1786
1787 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1788 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1789 This parameter
1790 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1791 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1792 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1793 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1794 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1795 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1796 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
1797 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
1798 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1799 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1800 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1801 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1802 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1803 zone if it does not.
1804
1805 Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1806 you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1807 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1808 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1809 for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1810 so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1811 time.
1812
1813 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1814 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1815 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1816 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1817 optional and is the number seconds in between
1818 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1819 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1820 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1821 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1822 the kernel debugger.
1823
1824 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
1825 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1826 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
1827 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1828 keyboard only format: kbd
1829 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1830 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1831 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1832 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
1833
1834 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1835 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1836
1837 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1838 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1839 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1840
1841 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1842 Valid arguments: on, off
1843 Default: on
1844 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1845 the default is off.
1846
1847 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1848 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1849
1850 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1851 KVM MMU at runtime.
1852 Default is 0 (off)
1853
1854 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
1855 Default is 1 (enabled)
1856
1857 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1858 for all guests.
1859 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
1860
1861 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
1862 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
1863 system registers
1864
1865 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
1866 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
1867 system registers
1868
1869 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
1870 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
1871 system registers
1872
1873 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1874 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1875 Default is 1 (enabled)
1876
1877 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1878 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1879 Default is 0 (disabled)
1880
1881 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1882 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1883 Default is 1 (enabled)
1884
1885 kvm-intel.nested=
1886 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1887 Default is 0 (disabled)
1888
1889 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1890 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1891 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1892 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1893
1894 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1895 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1896 Default is 1 (enabled)
1897
1898 l2cr= [PPC]
1899
1900 l3cr= [PPC]
1901
1902 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
1903 disabled it.
1904
1905 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1906 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1907 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1908
1909 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
1910 in C2 power state.
1911
1912 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1913 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1914 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1915 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
1916 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
1917 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1918 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
1919
1920 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1921 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
1922 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
1923
1924 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1925 when set.
1926 Format: <int>
1927
1928 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
1929 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
1930 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
1931 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
1932 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
1933 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1934 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1935 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1936
1937 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1938 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
1939 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1940 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
1941 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1942 host link and device attached to it.
1943
1944 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
1945 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1946 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1947 The following configurations can be forced.
1948
1949 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1950 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1951
1952 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1953
1954 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1955 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
1956 allowed.
1957
1958 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
1959
1960 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
1961
1962 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
1963 and both resets.
1964
1965 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
1966 hot-unplug link recovery
1967
1968 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
1969
1970 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
1971
1972 * disable: Disable this device.
1973
1974 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
1975 the same attribute, the last one is used.
1976
1977 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
1978
1979 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
1980 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1981
1982 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
1983 Format: <integer>
1984
1985 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
1986 Format: <integer>
1987
1988 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
1989 Format: <integer>
1990
1991 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
1992 Format: <integer>
1993
1994 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
1995 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
1996 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
1997 number of online CPUs.
1998
1999 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2000 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2001
2002 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2003 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2004
2005 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2006 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2007 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2008
2009 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2010 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2011 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2012 mode during the locktorture test.
2013
2014 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2015 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2016 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2017
2018 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2019 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2020
2021 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2022 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2023 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2024 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2025 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2026 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2027
2028 locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
2029 Start locktorture running at boot time.
2030
2031 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2032 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2033
2034 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2035 Enable additional printk() statements.
2036
2037 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2038 Format: <irq>
2039
2040 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2041 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2042 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2043 loglevels are defined as follows:
2044
2045 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2046 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2047 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2048 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2049 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2050 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2051 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2052 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2053
2054 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2055 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2056 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2057 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2058 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2059 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2060 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2061
2062 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2063 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2064 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2065 kernel boot problems.
2066
2067 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2068 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2069 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2070 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2071 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2072 attached printers to be reset. Using
2073 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2074 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2075 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2076 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2077 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2078 port specification list means that device IDs
2079 from each port should be examined, to see if
2080 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2081 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2082 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2083
2084 lpj=n [KNL]
2085 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2086 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2087 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2088 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2089 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2090 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2091 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2092 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2093 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2094 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2095 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2096 hardware.
2097
2098 ltpc= [NET]
2099 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2100
2101 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2102 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2103 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
2104
2105 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2106 yeeloong laptop.
2107 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2108
2109 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2110 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2111
2112 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2113 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2114 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2115 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2116 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2117 only takes effect during system bootup.
2118 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2119 which also disables the IO APIC.
2120
2121 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2122 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2123 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2124 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2125 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2126 /dev/loop-control interface.
2127
2128 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2129
2130 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
2131
2132 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2133 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2134
2135 mdacon= [MDA]
2136 Format: <first>,<last>
2137 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2138
2139 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2140 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2141 to see the whole system memory or for test.
2142 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2143 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2144 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2145 belonging to unused RAM.
2146
2147 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2148 memory.
2149
2150 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2151 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2152 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2153
2154 memhp_default_state=online/offline
2155 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2156 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2157 set according to the
2158 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2159 option.
2160 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2161
2162 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2163 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2164 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2165 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2166 option description.
2167
2168 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2169 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2170 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2171 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2172 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2173 Multiple different regions can be specified,
2174 comma delimited.
2175 Example:
2176 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2177
2178 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2179 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2180 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2181
2182 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2183 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2184 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2185 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2186 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2187 or
2188 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2189 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2190 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2191 will be eaten.
2192
2193 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2194 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2195 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2196 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2197 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2198
2199 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2200 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2201 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2202 Setting this option will scan the memory
2203 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2204 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2205 from using the memory being corrupted.
2206 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2207 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2208 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2209 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2210
2211 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2212 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2213 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2214 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2215 corruption in more or less memory.
2216
2217 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2218 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2219 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2220 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2221
2222 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
2223 Format: <integer>
2224 default : 0 <disable>
2225 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2226 performed. Each pass selects another test
2227 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2228 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2229 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2230 regions that are detected.
2231
2232 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2233 Valid arguments: on, off
2234 Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2235 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2236 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2237 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
2238 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
2239
2240 Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
2241 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2242
2243 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2244 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2245 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2246 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2247 See Documentation/power/states.txt.
2248
2249 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2250 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
2251
2252 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2253 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2254 platforms.
2255
2256 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2257 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2258 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2259 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2260
2261 mga= [HW,DRM]
2262
2263 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2264 physical address is ignored.
2265
2266 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2267 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2268 Default: "0tb"
2269 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2270 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2271 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2272 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2273 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2274 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2275 unconfigured.
2276 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2277 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2278 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2279 VGA shield.
2280 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2281 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2282 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2283 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2284 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2285 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2286
2287 mminit_loglevel=
2288 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2289 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2290 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2291 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2292 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2293 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2294
2295 module.sig_enforce
2296 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2297 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2298 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
2299 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2300
2301 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2302 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2303
2304 mousedev.tap_time=
2305 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2306 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2307 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2308 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2309 Format: <msecs>
2310 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2311 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2312 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2313 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2314
2315 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
2316 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2317 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2318 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2319 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2320 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2321 is specified, the administrator must be careful
2322 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2323 is not too small.
2324
2325 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2326 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2327 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2328 allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2329 allocations. Use with caution!
2330
2331 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2332 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2333
2334 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2335 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
2336
2337 mtdparts= [MTD]
2338 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
2339
2340 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2341 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2342 at a time.
2343
2344 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2345
2346 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2347
2348 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2349 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2350 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2351 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2352 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2353
2354 mtdset= [ARM]
2355 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2356
2357 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2358
2359 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
2360 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2361 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
2362
2363 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2364 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
2365 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2366
2367 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2368 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2369 Default is 1.
2370 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2371 using up MTRRs.
2372
2373 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2374 Format: <integer>
2375 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2376 Default : 1
2377 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2378 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2379
2380 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2381
2382 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2383 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2384 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2385 something different and driver-specific.
2386 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2387 file if at all.
2388
2389 nf_conntrack.acct=
2390 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2391 0 to disable accounting
2392 1 to enable accounting
2393 Default value is 0.
2394
2395 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
2396 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2397
2398 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
2399 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2400
2401 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2402 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2403
2404 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2405 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2406 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2407 requests.
2408
2409 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2410 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2411 channel should listen.
2412
2413 nfs.cache_getent=
2414 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2415 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2416
2417 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2418 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2419 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2420
2421 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2422 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2423 entries.
2424
2425 nfs.enable_ino64=
2426 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2427 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2428 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2429 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2430 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2431
2432 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2433 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2434 slots the client will assign to the callback
2435 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2436 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2437 a particular server.
2438
2439 nfs.max_session_slots=
2440 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2441 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2442 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2443 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2444 Note that there is little point in setting this
2445 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2446
2447 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2448 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2449 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2450 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2451 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2452 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2453 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2454 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2455 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2456 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2457 back to using the idmapper.
2458 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
2459 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2460 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2461 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2462 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2463 UUID that is generated at system install time.
2464
2465 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2466 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2467 information in exchange_id requests.
2468 If zero, no implementation identification information
2469 will be sent.
2470 The default is to send the implementation identification
2471 information.
2472
2473 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2474 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2475 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2476 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2477 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2478 after the locks are lost.
2479 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2480 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2481 parameter to '1'.
2482 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2483 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
2484
2485 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2486 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2487 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2488
2489 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2490 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2491 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2492 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2493
2494 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2495 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2496 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2497 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2498 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2499 migration from NFSv2/v3.
2500
2501 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
2502 when a NMI is triggered.
2503 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2504
2505 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
2506 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
2507 Valid num: 0 or 1
2508 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2509 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
2510 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
2511 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
2512 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2513 please see 'nowatchdog'.
2514 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2515 need the box quickly up again.
2516
2517 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2518 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2519 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2520 waits 4 seconds.
2521
2522 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
2523 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2524 is present.
2525
2526 no_console_suspend
2527 [HW] Never suspend the console
2528 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2529 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2530 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2531 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2532 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2533 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2534 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
2535 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2536 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2537 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2538 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2539 turn on/off it dynamically.
2540
2541 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2542 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2543 but will impact performance.
2544
2545 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2546
2547 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2548 (CPU alternatives feature).
2549
2550 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2551 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2552
2553 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2554
2555 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2556 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2557
2558 nocache [ARM]
2559
2560 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2561
2562 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2563
2564 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2565
2566 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
2567
2568 noexec [IA-64]
2569
2570 noexec [X86]
2571 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
2572 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2573 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2574
2575 nosmap [X86]
2576 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2577 even if it is supported by processor.
2578
2579 nosmep [X86]
2580 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
2581 even if it is supported by processor.
2582
2583 noexec32 [X86-64]
2584 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2585 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2586 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2587 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2588 read implies executable mappings
2589
2590 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
2591
2592 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
2593 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2594 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
2595
2596 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2597
2598 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2599 Equivalent to smt=1.
2600
2601 nospectre_v2 [X86] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2
2602 (indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may
2603 allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent
2604 to spectre_v2=off.
2605
2606 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2607 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2608 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2609
2610 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2611 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2612 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2613 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2614 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2615 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2616
2617 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2618 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2619 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2620 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2621 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2622 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2623 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2624
2625 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2626 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2627 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
2628
2629 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2630 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2631 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2632
2633 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2634 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2635 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2636 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2637 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2638 real-time systems.
2639
2640 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2641
2642 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2643 Valid arguments: on, off
2644 Default: on
2645
2646 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT]
2647 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2648 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
2649 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
2650 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2651 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
2652 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
2653 just as if they had also been called out in the
2654 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
2655
2656 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2657
2658 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
2659 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2660
2661 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
2662 broken timer IRQ sources.
2663
2664 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2665
2666 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2667 initial RAM disk.
2668
2669 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2670 remapping.
2671 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
2672
2673 nointroute [IA-64]
2674
2675 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2676
2677 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
2678
2679 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2680
2681 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2682 fault handling.
2683
2684 no-vmw-sched-clock
2685 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2686 clock and use the default one.
2687
2688 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2689 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2690 behaviour
2691
2692 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
2693
2694 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
2695
2696 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
2697 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
2698
2699 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2700
2701 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
2702
2703 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2704 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2705
2706 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2707 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2708 irq.
2709
2710 nomodule Disable module load
2711
2712 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2713 pagetables) support.
2714
2715 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
2716
2717 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2718 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2719
2720 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
2721 with UP alternatives
2722
2723 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2724 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2725 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2726 available to user space applications.
2727
2728 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2729 space.
2730
2731 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2732 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2733 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2734
2735 nosbagart [IA-64]
2736
2737 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
2738
2739 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2740 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
2741
2742 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2743
2744 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2745
2746 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
2747
2748 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2749 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
2750
2751 nowb [ARM]
2752
2753 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2754
2755 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2756 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2757 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2758 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2759 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2760 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2761 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2762 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2763 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2764 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2765 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2766 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2767 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2768
2769 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
2770 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
2771 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
2772 without interruptions, before HW switches it.
2773 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
2774 parameter's value.
2775 Format: integer between 1 and 255
2776 Default: 255
2777
2778 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
2779 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2780 SAL PALO.
2781
2782 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2783 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
2784 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2785 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2786 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2787 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2788 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2789 hot plugging.
2790
2791 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2792
2793 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2794 Allowed values are enable and disable
2795
2796 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
2797 'node', 'default' can be specified
2798 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2799 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2800
2801 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2802 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2803 info.
2804
2805 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2806 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2807 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2808 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2809 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2810 interrupts *may* be lost!
2811
2812 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2813 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2814 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2815 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2816
2817 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2818 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2819
2820 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2821 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2822 userland or if you want common events.
2823 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2824 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
2825 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2826 CPU specific event set.
2827 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2828 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2829 for generic hr timer mode)
2830
2831 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2832 process, but there is a small probability of
2833 deadlocking the machine.
2834 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2835 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2836
2837 OSS [HW,OSS]
2838 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2839
2840 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2841 Storage of the information about who allocated
2842 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2843 we can turn it on.
2844 on: enable the feature
2845
2846 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2847 poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2848 off: turn off poisoning
2849 on: turn on poisoning
2850
2851 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
2852 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2853 timeout = 0: wait forever
2854 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
2855 Format: <timeout>
2856
2857 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
2858 on a WARN().
2859
2860 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2861 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2862 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2863 succeeds in any situation.
2864 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2865 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2866 kernel more unstable.
2867
2868 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2869 connected to, default is 0.
2870 Format: <parport#>
2871 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2872 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
2873 Format: <mode>
2874
2875 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2876 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2877 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2878 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2879 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2880 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2881 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2882 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2883 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2884 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2885 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2886 are specified on the command line, starting
2887 with parport0.
2888
2889 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2890 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2891 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2892 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2893 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2894 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
2895 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2896
2897 pause_on_oops=
2898 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2899 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
2900 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2901
2902 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
2903
2904 pcd. [PARIDE]
2905 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
2906 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
2907
2908 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
2909 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2910 changes anything
2911 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
2912 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
2913 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2914 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
2915 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
2916 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2917 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2918 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
2919 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2920 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
2921 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
2922 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2923 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
2924 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
2925 bus number. The config space is then accessed
2926 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
2927 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
2928 on the configuration access mechanisms.
2929 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2930 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2931 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
2932 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2933 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
2934 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
2935 Configuration
2936 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2937 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2938 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
2939 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
2940 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2941 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
2942 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
2943 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
2944 should never be necessary.
2945 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
2946 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
2947 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
2948 when the system masks IRQs.
2949 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
2950 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
2951 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
2952 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
2953 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
2954 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
2955 on several machines and they hang the machine
2956 when used, but on other computers it's the only
2957 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
2958 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
2959 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
2960 motherboard.
2961 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
2962 Use with caution as certain devices share
2963 address decoders between ROMs and other
2964 resources.
2965 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
2966 expansion ROMs that do not already have
2967 BIOS assigned address ranges.
2968 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
2969 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
2970 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
2971 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
2972 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
2973 this way.
2974 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
2975 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
2976 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
2977 F0000h-100000h range.
2978 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
2979 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
2980 secondary buses and you want to tell it
2981 explicitly which ones they are.
2982 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
2983 numbers ourselves, overriding
2984 whatever the firmware may have done.
2985 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
2986 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
2987 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
2988 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
2989 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
2990 IRQ routing is enabled.
2991 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
2992 or for PCI scanning.
2993 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
2994 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
2995 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
2996 please report a bug.
2997 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
2998 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
2999 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3000 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3001 so this option is a temporary workaround
3002 for broken drivers that don't call it.
3003 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3004 handle more pci cards
3005 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3006 This might help on some broken boards which
3007 machine check when some devices' config space
3008 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3009 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
3010 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3011 This sorting is done to get a device
3012 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3013 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3014 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3015 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3016 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3017 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3018 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3019 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3020 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3021 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3022 or bus can support) for best performance.
3023 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3024 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3025 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3026 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3027 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3028 that hot-added devices will work.
3029 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3030 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3031 The default value is 256 bytes.
3032 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3033 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3034 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3035 resource_alignment=
3036 Format:
3037 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
3038 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
3039 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
3040 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3041 aligned memory resources.
3042 If <order of align> is not specified,
3043 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3044 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3045 windows need to be expanded.
3046 To specify the alignment for several
3047 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3048 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3049 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
3050 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3051 end-to-end CRC checking).
3052 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3053 the default.
3054 off: Turn ECRC off
3055 on: Turn ECRC on.
3056 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3057 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3058 Default size is 256 bytes.
3059 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3060 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3061 Default size is 2 megabytes.
3062 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3063 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3064 Default is 1.
3065 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3066 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3067 accommodate resources required by all child
3068 devices.
3069 off: Turn realloc off
3070 on: Turn realloc on
3071 realloc same as realloc=on
3072 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
3073 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3074 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3075 port.
3076
3077 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3078 Management.
3079 off Disable ASPM.
3080 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3081 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3082
3083 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
3084 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
3085 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
3086
3087 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
3088 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
3089 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
3090 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
3091 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
3092 unconditionally.
3093 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
3094 ports driver.
3095
3096 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3097 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3098 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3099
3100 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
3101 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
3102 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
3103
3104 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3105
3106 pd_ignore_unused
3107 [PM]
3108 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3109 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3110 for debug and development, but should not be
3111 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3112
3113 pd. [PARIDE]
3114 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3115
3116 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3117 boot time.
3118 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3119 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3120
3121 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
3122 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3123 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3124 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3125 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3126 and performance comparison.
3127
3128 pf. [PARIDE]
3129 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3130
3131 pg. [PARIDE]
3132 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3133
3134 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
3135 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
3136
3137 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3138 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3139 See also Documentation/parport.txt.
3140
3141 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
3142 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3143 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3144
3145 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3146 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3147 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3148 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3149 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3150 possible settings and some assignment information.
3151
3152 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3153 { off }
3154
3155 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3156 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3157
3158 pnp_reserve_irq=
3159 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3160
3161 pnp_reserve_dma=
3162 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3163
3164 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
3165 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
3166
3167 pnp_reserve_mem=
3168 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3169 autoconfiguration.
3170 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3171
3172 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3173 Default is 21.
3174 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3175 may be specified.
3176 Format: <port>,<port>....
3177
3178 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3179 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3180 platform machine description specific power_save
3181 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3182 execution priority.
3183
3184 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3185 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3186 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3187 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3188 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3189
3190 print-fatal-signals=
3191 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
3192
3193 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3194 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3195 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3196 coredump - etc.
3197
3198 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3199 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3200
3201 default: off.
3202
3203 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3204 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3205 panics
3206 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3207 default: disabled
3208
3209 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3210 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3211 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3212 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3213 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3214 Default: ratelimit
3215
3216 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3217 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3218
3219 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3220 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3221 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3222
3223 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3224 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3225 instead using the legacy FADT method
3226
3227 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
3228 Format: [schedule,]<number>
3229 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3230 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3231 statistical time based profiling.
3232 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3233 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
3234 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
3235
3236 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3237 before loading.
3238 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3239
3240 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3241 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
3242 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3243 per second.
3244 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3245 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
3246 (0 = never).
3247 psmouse.resolution=
3248 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3249 psmouse.smartscroll=
3250 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
3251 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3252
3253 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3254
3255 pt. [PARIDE]
3256 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3257
3258 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3259 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
3260 removes hardening, but improves performance of
3261 system calls and interrupts.
3262
3263 on - unconditionally enable
3264 off - unconditionally disable
3265 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3266 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3267
3268 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3269
3270 nopti [X86_64]
3271 Equivalent to pti=off
3272
3273 pty.legacy_count=
3274 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3275 default number.
3276
3277 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
3278
3279 r128= [HW,DRM]
3280
3281 raid= [HW,RAID]
3282 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3283
3284 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
3285 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3286
3287 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
3288
3289 cec_disable [X86]
3290 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3291 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3292
3293 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
3294 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3295
3296 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3297 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3298 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
3299 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3300 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3301 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3302 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
3303 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3304 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3305 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3306
3307 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
3308 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3309 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3310 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3311 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3312 This improves the real-time response for the
3313 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3314 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3315 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3316 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3317
3318 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
3319 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3320 process in one batch.
3321
3322 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3323 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3324 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3325 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3326
3327 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3328 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3329 RCU grace-period cleanup.
3330
3331 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3332 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3333 RCU grace-period initialization.
3334
3335 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3336 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3337 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3338 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3339 the rcu_node combining tree.
3340
3341 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3342 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3343 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3344 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3345 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
3346
3347 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
3348 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3349 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3350 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3351 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3352 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3353 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
3354
3355 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3356 Set required age in jiffies for a
3357 given grace period before RCU starts
3358 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3359 rcu_note_context_switch().
3360
3361 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
3362 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3363 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3364 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3365 and maximum value is HZ.
3366
3367 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
3368 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3369 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3370 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3371
3372 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
3373 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3374 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3375 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3376 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3377 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3378 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3379 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3380 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3381 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
3382
3383 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3384 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3385 defaults to the square root of the number of
3386 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3387 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3388 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3389
3390 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
3391 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3392 batch limiting is disabled.
3393
3394 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
3395 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3396 batch limiting is re-enabled.
3397
3398 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
3399 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3400 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3401
3402 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
3403 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3404 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3405 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3406 prove do nothing more than free memory.
3407
3408 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3409 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3410 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3411 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3412 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3413 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3414
3415 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3416 Measure performance of asynchronous
3417 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3418
3419 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3420 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3421 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
3422 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3423 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3424 previously posted callbacks to drain.
3425
3426 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3427 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3428 grace-period primitives.
3429
3430 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3431 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3432 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3433 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3434 interference.
3435
3436 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3437 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3438 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3439 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3440 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3441 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3442 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3443 a single reader.
3444
3445 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3446 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3447 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3448 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3449
3450 rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT]
3451 Start rcuperf running at boot time.
3452
3453 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3454 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3455
3456 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3457 Shut the system down after performance tests
3458 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3459 testing.
3460
3461 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3462 Enable additional printk() statements.
3463
3464 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3465 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3466 in microseconds. The default of zero says
3467 no holdoff.
3468
3469 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3470 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3471 callback-flood tests.
3472
3473 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3474 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3475 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3476 test.
3477
3478 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3479 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3480 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3481 disable callback-flood testing.
3482
3483 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3484 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3485 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3486
3487 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
3488 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3489 in microseconds.
3490
3491 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
3492 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3493 in microseconds.
3494
3495 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
3496 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3497 in seconds.
3498
3499 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3500 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3501 primitives, if available.
3502
3503 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
3504 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
3505
3506 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
3507 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3508 update-side primitives, if available.
3509
3510 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3511 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3512 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3513 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3514 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3515 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3516 they are all non-zero.
3517
3518 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
3519 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3520
3521 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
3522 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3523 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3524 test, hence the "fake".
3525
3526 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3527 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3528 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3529 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3530 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3531 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3532
3533 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3534 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3535
3536 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
3537 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3538
3539 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
3540 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3541 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3542
3543 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
3544 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3545 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3546 during the rcutorture test.
3547
3548 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
3549 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3550 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3551
3552 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
3553 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3554 warnings, zero to disable.
3555
3556 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
3557 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3558
3559 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
3560 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3561
3562 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
3563 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3564 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3565 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3566 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3567
3568 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
3569 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3570 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3571 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3572
3573 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
3574 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3575
3576 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
3577 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3578
3579 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
3580 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3581 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3582
3583 rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
3584 Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3585
3586 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
3587 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3588
3589 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
3590 Enable additional printk() statements.
3591
3592 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3593 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3594
3595 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3596 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3597
3598 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3599 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3600 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3601 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3602 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3603 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
3604 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3605
3606 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3607 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3608 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3609 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
3610 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3611 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3612 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3613 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3614 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3615
3616 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3617 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3618 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
3619 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3620 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3621
3622 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3623 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3624 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3625 to zero.
3626
3627 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3628 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3629
3630 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3631 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3632
3633 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3634 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3635
3636 rdinit= [KNL]
3637 Format: <full_path>
3638 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3639 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3640
3641 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
3642 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
3643 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, mba.
3644 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
3645 rdt=cmt,!mba
3646
3647 reboot= [KNL]
3648 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3649 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3650 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3651 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3652 [[,]f[orce]
3653 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3654 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3655 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3656 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3657 to be used for rebooting.
3658
3659 relax_domain_level=
3660 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
3661 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
3662
3663 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3664
3665 reservetop= [X86-32]
3666 Format: nn[KMG]
3667 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3668 address space.
3669
3670 reservelow= [X86]
3671 Format: nn[K]
3672 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3673 the bottom of the address space.
3674
3675 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3676 during initialization.
3677
3678 resume= [SWSUSP]
3679 Specify the partition device for software suspend
3680 Format:
3681 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
3682
3683 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3684 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3685 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3686 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3687 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3688
3689 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3690 read the resume files
3691
3692 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3693 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3694 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3695
3696 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3697 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3698 present during boot.
3699 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
3700 no Disable hibernation and resume.
3701 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
3702 (that will set all pages holding image data
3703 during restoration read-only).
3704
3705 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3706
3707 rfkill.default_state=
3708 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3709 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3710 1 Unblocked.
3711
3712 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3713 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3714 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3715 blocked and the previous configuration.
3716 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3717 blocked and everything unblocked.
3718
3719 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3720 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3721
3722 ring3mwait=disable
3723 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
3724 CPUs.
3725
3726 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3727
3728 rodata= [KNL]
3729 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3730 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3731
3732 rockchip.usb_uart
3733 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3734 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3735 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3736 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3737
3738 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
3739 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
3740
3741 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3742 mount the root filesystem
3743
3744 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3745
3746 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3747
3748 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3749 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3750 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3751
3752 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3753 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3754 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3755 managed by CMA.
3756
3757 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3758
3759 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3760
3761 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3762 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3763 strict
3764 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3765 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3766 which is faster.
3767
3768 sa1100ir [NET]
3769 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3770
3771 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
3772
3773 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3774
3775 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3776 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3777 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3778 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
3779
3780 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3781 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3782 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3783 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3784 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3785 1 -- enable.
3786 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3787 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3788
3789 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3790 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3791 security module asking for security registration will be
3792 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3793 as if no module has been chosen.
3794
3795 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
3796 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3797 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3798 0 -- disable.
3799 1 -- enable.
3800 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3801 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3802 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3803
3804 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3805 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3806 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3807 0 -- disable.
3808 1 -- enable.
3809 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3810
3811 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
3812
3813 shapers= [NET]
3814 Maximal number of shapers.
3815
3816 simeth= [IA-64]
3817 simscsi=
3818
3819 slram= [HW,MTD]
3820
3821 slab_nomerge [MM]
3822 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3823 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
3824 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
3825 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
3826 layout control by attackers can usually be
3827 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
3828 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
3829 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
3830 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
3831 own.
3832 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3833
3834 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3835 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3836 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3837 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3838 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3839
3840 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3841 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3842 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3843 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3844 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3845 last alloc / free. For more information see
3846 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3847
3848 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
3849 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
3850 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
3851 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
3852 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
3853 directories and files being created under
3854 /sys/kernel/slub.
3855
3856 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
3857 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3858 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3859 fragmentation. For more information see
3860 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3861
3862 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
3863 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3864 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3865 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3866 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3867 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3868 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
3869 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3870
3871 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
3872 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
3873 lower than slub_max_order.
3874 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3875
3876 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
3877 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3878 See slab_nomerge for more information.
3879
3880 smart2= [HW]
3881 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3882
3883 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3884 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
3885 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
3886 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
3887 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
3888 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
3889 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3890 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3891 1: Fast pin select (default)
3892 2: ATC IRMode
3893
3894 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
3895 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
3896 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
3897 actual hardware limit.
3898 Format: <integer>
3899 Default: -1 (no limit)
3900
3901 softlockup_panic=
3902 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
3903 Format: <integer>
3904
3905 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3906 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3907 backtraces on all cpus.
3908 Format: <integer>
3909
3910 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
3911 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
3912
3913 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
3914 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
3915
3916 on - unconditionally enable
3917 off - unconditionally disable
3918 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3919 vulnerable
3920
3921 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
3922 mitigation method at run time according to the
3923 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
3924 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
3925 compiler with which the kernel was built.
3926
3927 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
3928
3929 retpoline - replace indirect branches
3930 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
3931 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk
3932
3933 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3934 spectre_v2=auto.
3935
3936 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
3937 spia_fio_base=
3938 spia_pedr=
3939 spia_peddr=
3940
3941 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
3942 Specifies how frequently to check for
3943 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
3944 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
3945 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
3946 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
3947 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
3948 are ignored.
3949
3950 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
3951 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
3952 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
3953 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
3954 grace period will be considered for automatic
3955 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
3956 expediting.
3957
3958 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
3959 override the default stack gap protection. The value
3960 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
3961 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
3962 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
3963 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
3964
3965 stacktrace [FTRACE]
3966 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
3967
3968 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
3969 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
3970 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
3971 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
3972 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
3973 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
3974 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
3975
3976 sti= [PARISC,HW]
3977 Format: <num>
3978 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
3979 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
3980 as the initial boot-console.
3981 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3982
3983 sti_font= [HW]
3984 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3985
3986 stifb= [HW]
3987 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
3988
3989 sunrpc.min_resvport=
3990 sunrpc.max_resvport=
3991 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3992 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
3993 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
3994 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
3995 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
3996 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
3997 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
3998 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
3999 maximum port values.
4000
4001 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4002 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4003 Limit the number of requests that the server will
4004 process in parallel from a single connection.
4005 The default value is 0 (no limit).
4006
4007 sunrpc.pool_mode=
4008 [NFS]
4009 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4010 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
4011 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4012 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4013 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4014 NFS server is running.
4015
4016 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
4017 automatically using heuristics
4018 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
4019 percpu one pool for each CPU
4020 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4021 to global on non-NUMA machines)
4022
4023 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4024 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4025 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4026 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4027 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4028 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4029 improve throughput, but will also increase the
4030 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4031
4032 suspend.pm_test_delay=
4033 [SUSPEND]
4034 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4035 mode before resuming the system (see
4036 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4037 is set. Default value is 5.
4038
4039 swapaccount=[0|1]
4040 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4041 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
4042 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
4043
4044 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
4045 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
4046 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4047 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4048 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
4049 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
4050
4051 switches= [HW,M68k]
4052
4053 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4054 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4055 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4056 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4057 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4058 in older udev will not work anymore.
4059 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4060 the kernel configuration.
4061
4062 sysrq_always_enabled
4063 [KNL]
4064 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4065 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4066 Useful for debugging.
4067
4068 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4069 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4070 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4071 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4072 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4073 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4074
4075 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
4076
4077 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
4078 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
4079 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4080 as the system sleep state during system startup with
4081 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4082 The system is woken from this state using a
4083 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
4084
4085 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4086 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4087
4088 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
4089 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4090 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4091
4092 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
4093 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
4094 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
4095
4096 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
4097 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4098 critical and hot trip points.
4099
4100 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
4101 1: disable ACPI thermal control
4102
4103 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
4104 -1: disable all passive trip points
4105 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4106 value
4107
4108 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
4109 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4110 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4111 0: no polling (default)
4112
4113 threadirqs [KNL]
4114 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
4115 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
4116
4117 tmem [KNL,XEN]
4118 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4119
4120 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4121 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4122 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4123
4124 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4125 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
4126 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4127 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
4128
4129 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4130 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4131 to the hypervisor.
4132
4133 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4134 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4135 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4136 kernel based on different criteria.
4137
4138 topology= [S390]
4139 Format: {off | on}
4140 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
4141 topology information if the hardware supports this.
4142 The scheduler will make use of this information and
4143 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
4144 Default is on.
4145
4146 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4147 Format: {off}
4148 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4149 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4150 LPAR.
4151
4152 tp720= [HW,PS2]
4153
4154 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4155 Format: integer pcr id
4156 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4157 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4158 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4159 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4160 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4161 are saved.
4162
4163 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
4164 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
4165
4166 trace_event=[event-list]
4167 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
4168 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4169 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4170 also Documentation/trace/events.txt
4171
4172 trace_options=[option-list]
4173 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4174 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4175 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4176 to echo the option name into
4177
4178 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4179
4180 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4181 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4182
4183 trace_options=stacktrace
4184
4185 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
4186 section.
4187
4188 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4189 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4190 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4191 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4192 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4193 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4194
4195 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4196 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4197 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4198 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4199
4200 ** CAUTION **
4201
4202 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4203 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4204 the system to live lock.
4205
4206 traceoff_on_warning
4207 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4208 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4209 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4210 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4211
4212 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4213 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4214 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4215
4216 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4217 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4218
4219 transparent_hugepage=
4220 [KNL]
4221 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4222 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4223 with respect to transparent hugepages.
4224 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
4225
4226 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
4227 Format: <string>
4228 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
4229 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4230 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4231 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4232 virtualized environment.
4233 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4234 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4235 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4236 can add overhead.
4237
4238 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4239 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4240 Format:
4241 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
4242 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
4243
4244 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
4245 happen after console_init() and before a proper
4246 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4247 help "seeing" what's going on.
4248
4249 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4250 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4251
4252 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4253 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4254 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4255 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4256 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4257 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4258 reported either.
4259
4260 unknown_nmi_panic
4261 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
4262
4263 usbcore.authorized_default=
4264 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4265 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4266 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4267
4268 usbcore.autosuspend=
4269 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4270 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4271 is the time required before an idle device will be
4272 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
4273 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
4274
4275 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4276 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4277
4278 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4279 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4280 (default = 65536).
4281
4282 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4283 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4284
4285 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4286 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
4287 scheme (default 0 = off).
4288
4289 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4290 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4291 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4292
4293 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4294 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4295 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4296
4297 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4298 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4299 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4300 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4301
4302 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4303
4304 usbhid.mousepoll=
4305 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
4306
4307 usbhid.jspoll=
4308 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4309
4310 usb-storage.delay_use=
4311 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
4312 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
4313
4314 usb-storage.quirks=
4315 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4316 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4317 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4318 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4319 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4320 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4321 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
4322 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4323 of sense data);
4324 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4325 bytes of sense data);
4326 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4327 device capacity by one sector);
4328 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4329 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4330 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4331 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
4332 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4333 command, uas only);
4334 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4335 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
4336 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4337 reported device capacity by one
4338 sector if the number is odd);
4339 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4340 device);
4341 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4342 command, uas only);
4343 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4344 unlock ejectable media);
4345 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4346 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
4347 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4348 initial READ(10) command);
4349 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4350 reported by the device);
4351 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4352 by default);
4353 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4354 bogus residue values);
4355 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4356 Logical Unit);
4357 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4358 commands, uas only);
4359 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
4360 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4361 medium is write-protected).
4362 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4363 even if the device claims no cache)
4364 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4365
4366 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4367 Format: <int>
4368 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4369 1 - undefined instruction events
4370 2 - system calls
4371 4 - invalid data aborts
4372 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4373 16 - SIGBUS faults
4374 Example: user_debug=31
4375
4376 userpte=
4377 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4378
4379 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4380 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4381 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4382
4383 vdso= [X86,SH]
4384 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4385
4386 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
4387 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4388
4389 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4390 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4391 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4392
4393 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4394 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4395 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4396
4397 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4398 alias for vdso32=0.
4399
4400 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4401 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
4402
4403 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4404 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4405
4406 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4407 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4408
4409 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4410 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4411 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4412 level and then send out the event to user space through
4413 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4414 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4415 brightness level.
4416 default: 1
4417
4418 virtio_mmio.device=
4419 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4420
4421 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4422 where:
4423 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4424 like K, M and G)
4425 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4426 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4427 request_irq())
4428 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4429 example:
4430 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4431
4432 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4433
4434 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
4435 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
4436 Documentation/svga.txt.
4437 Use vga=ask for menu.
4438 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4439 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4440
4441 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
4442 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4443 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4444 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4445 mapped kernel RAM.
4446
4447 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390]
4448 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
4449 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
4450
4451 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4452 Format: <command>
4453
4454 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4455 Format: <command>
4456
4457 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4458 Format: <command>
4459
4460 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4461 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4462 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4463 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4464 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4465 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4466 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4467
4468 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4469 emulated reasonably safely.
4470
4471 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
4472 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4473 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4474 better than they would in emulation mode.
4475 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4476
4477 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4478 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4479 might break your system.
4480
4481 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4482 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4483 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4484
4485 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4486 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4487 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4488 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4489
4490 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4491 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4492 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4493 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4494 ranging from 0-255.
4495
4496 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4497 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4498 Change the default green palette of the console.
4499 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4500 ranging from 0-255.
4501
4502 vt.default_red= [VT]
4503 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4504 Change the default red palette of the console.
4505 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4506 ranging from 0-255.
4507
4508 vt.default_utf8=
4509 [VT]
4510 Format=<0|1>
4511 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4512 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4513 newly opened terminals.
4514
4515 vt.global_cursor_default=
4516 [VT]
4517 Format=<-1|0|1>
4518 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4519 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4520 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4521 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4522 cursors, 1 will display them.
4523
4524 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4525 Default: 2 = green.
4526
4527 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4528 Default: 3 = cyan.
4529
4530 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4531 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4532 or other driver-specific files in the
4533 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
4534
4535 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4536 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4537 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4538 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4539 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4540 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4541 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4542 corresponding sysfs file.
4543
4544 workqueue.disable_numa
4545 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4546 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4547 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4548 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4549 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4550 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4551 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4552
4553 workqueue.power_efficient
4554 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4555 they show better performance thanks to cache
4556 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4557 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4558
4559 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4560 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4561 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4562 power usage at the cost of small performance
4563 overhead.
4564
4565 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4566 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4567
4568 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4569 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4570 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4571 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
4572 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4573 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
4574 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4575 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4576 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4577 impacted.
4578
4579 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4580 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4581 supporting x2apic.
4582
4583 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4584 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
4585 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4586 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
4587 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
4588
4589 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4590 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4591 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4592 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4593 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4594 domains.
4595
4596 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4597 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4598 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4599 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4600 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4601 nics -- unplug network devices
4602 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
4603 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4604 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4605 the unplug protocol
4606 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
4607
4608 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4609 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4610 optimizations.
4611
4612 xen_nopv [X86]
4613 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4614 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4615
4616 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
4617 Format:
4618 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]