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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 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2548 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2549
2550 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2551
2552 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2553 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2554
2555 nocache [ARM]
2556
2557 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2558
2559 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2560
2561 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2562
2563 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
2564
2565 noexec [IA-64]
2566
2567 noexec [X86]
2568 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
2569 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2570 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2571
2572 nosmap [X86]
2573 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2574 even if it is supported by processor.
2575
2576 nosmep [X86]
2577 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
2578 even if it is supported by processor.
2579
2580 noexec32 [X86-64]
2581 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2582 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2583 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2584 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2585 read implies executable mappings
2586
2587 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
2588
2589 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
2590 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2591 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
2592
2593 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2594
2595 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2596 Equivalent to smt=1.
2597
2598 nospectre_v2 [X86] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2
2599 (indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may
2600 allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent
2601 to spectre_v2=off.
2602
2603 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2604 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2605 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2606
2607 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2608 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2609 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2610 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2611 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2612 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2613
2614 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2615 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2616 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2617 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2618 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2619 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2620 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2621
2622 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2623 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2624 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
2625
2626 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2627 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2628 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2629
2630 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2631 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2632 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2633 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2634 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2635 real-time systems.
2636
2637 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2638
2639 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2640 Valid arguments: on, off
2641 Default: on
2642
2643 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT]
2644 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2645 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
2646 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
2647 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2648 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
2649 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
2650 just as if they had also been called out in the
2651 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
2652
2653 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2654
2655 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
2656 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2657
2658 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
2659 broken timer IRQ sources.
2660
2661 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2662
2663 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2664 initial RAM disk.
2665
2666 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2667 remapping.
2668 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
2669
2670 nointroute [IA-64]
2671
2672 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2673
2674 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
2675
2676 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2677
2678 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2679 fault handling.
2680
2681 no-vmw-sched-clock
2682 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2683 clock and use the default one.
2684
2685 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2686 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2687 behaviour
2688
2689 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
2690
2691 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
2692
2693 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
2694 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
2695
2696 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2697
2698 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
2699
2700 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2701 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2702
2703 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2704 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2705 irq.
2706
2707 nomodule Disable module load
2708
2709 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2710 pagetables) support.
2711
2712 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
2713
2714 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2715 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2716
2717 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
2718 with UP alternatives
2719
2720 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2721 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2722 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2723 available to user space applications.
2724
2725 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2726 space.
2727
2728 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2729 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2730 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2731
2732 nosbagart [IA-64]
2733
2734 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
2735
2736 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2737 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
2738
2739 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2740
2741 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2742
2743 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
2744
2745 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2746 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
2747
2748 nowb [ARM]
2749
2750 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2751
2752 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2753 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2754 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2755 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2756 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2757 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2758 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2759 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2760 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2761 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2762 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2763 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2764 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2765
2766 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
2767 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
2768 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
2769 without interruptions, before HW switches it.
2770 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
2771 parameter's value.
2772 Format: integer between 1 and 255
2773 Default: 255
2774
2775 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
2776 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2777 SAL PALO.
2778
2779 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2780 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
2781 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2782 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2783 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2784 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2785 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2786 hot plugging.
2787
2788 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2789
2790 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2791 Allowed values are enable and disable
2792
2793 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
2794 'node', 'default' can be specified
2795 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2796 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2797
2798 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2799 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2800 info.
2801
2802 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2803 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2804 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2805 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2806 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2807 interrupts *may* be lost!
2808
2809 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2810 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2811 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2812 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2813
2814 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2815 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2816
2817 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2818 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2819 userland or if you want common events.
2820 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2821 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
2822 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2823 CPU specific event set.
2824 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2825 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2826 for generic hr timer mode)
2827
2828 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2829 process, but there is a small probability of
2830 deadlocking the machine.
2831 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2832 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2833
2834 OSS [HW,OSS]
2835 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2836
2837 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2838 Storage of the information about who allocated
2839 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2840 we can turn it on.
2841 on: enable the feature
2842
2843 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2844 poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2845 off: turn off poisoning
2846 on: turn on poisoning
2847
2848 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
2849 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2850 timeout = 0: wait forever
2851 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
2852 Format: <timeout>
2853
2854 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
2855 on a WARN().
2856
2857 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2858 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2859 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2860 succeeds in any situation.
2861 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2862 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2863 kernel more unstable.
2864
2865 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2866 connected to, default is 0.
2867 Format: <parport#>
2868 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2869 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
2870 Format: <mode>
2871
2872 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2873 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2874 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2875 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2876 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2877 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2878 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2879 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2880 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2881 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2882 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2883 are specified on the command line, starting
2884 with parport0.
2885
2886 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2887 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2888 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2889 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2890 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2891 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
2892 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2893
2894 pause_on_oops=
2895 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2896 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
2897 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2898
2899 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
2900
2901 pcd. [PARIDE]
2902 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
2903 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
2904
2905 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
2906 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2907 changes anything
2908 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
2909 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
2910 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2911 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
2912 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
2913 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2914 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2915 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
2916 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2917 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
2918 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
2919 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2920 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
2921 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
2922 bus number. The config space is then accessed
2923 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
2924 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
2925 on the configuration access mechanisms.
2926 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2927 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2928 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
2929 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2930 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
2931 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
2932 Configuration
2933 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2934 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2935 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
2936 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
2937 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2938 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
2939 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
2940 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
2941 should never be necessary.
2942 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
2943 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
2944 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
2945 when the system masks IRQs.
2946 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
2947 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
2948 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
2949 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
2950 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
2951 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
2952 on several machines and they hang the machine
2953 when used, but on other computers it's the only
2954 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
2955 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
2956 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
2957 motherboard.
2958 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
2959 Use with caution as certain devices share
2960 address decoders between ROMs and other
2961 resources.
2962 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
2963 expansion ROMs that do not already have
2964 BIOS assigned address ranges.
2965 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
2966 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
2967 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
2968 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
2969 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
2970 this way.
2971 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
2972 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
2973 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
2974 F0000h-100000h range.
2975 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
2976 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
2977 secondary buses and you want to tell it
2978 explicitly which ones they are.
2979 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
2980 numbers ourselves, overriding
2981 whatever the firmware may have done.
2982 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
2983 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
2984 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
2985 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
2986 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
2987 IRQ routing is enabled.
2988 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
2989 or for PCI scanning.
2990 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
2991 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
2992 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
2993 please report a bug.
2994 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
2995 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
2996 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
2997 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
2998 so this option is a temporary workaround
2999 for broken drivers that don't call it.
3000 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3001 handle more pci cards
3002 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3003 This might help on some broken boards which
3004 machine check when some devices' config space
3005 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3006 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
3007 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3008 This sorting is done to get a device
3009 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3010 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3011 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3012 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3013 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3014 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3015 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3016 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3017 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3018 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3019 or bus can support) for best performance.
3020 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3021 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3022 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3023 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3024 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3025 that hot-added devices will work.
3026 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3027 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3028 The default value is 256 bytes.
3029 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3030 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3031 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3032 resource_alignment=
3033 Format:
3034 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
3035 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
3036 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
3037 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3038 aligned memory resources.
3039 If <order of align> is not specified,
3040 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3041 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3042 windows need to be expanded.
3043 To specify the alignment for several
3044 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3045 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3046 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
3047 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3048 end-to-end CRC checking).
3049 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3050 the default.
3051 off: Turn ECRC off
3052 on: Turn ECRC on.
3053 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3054 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3055 Default size is 256 bytes.
3056 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3057 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3058 Default size is 2 megabytes.
3059 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3060 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3061 Default is 1.
3062 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3063 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3064 accommodate resources required by all child
3065 devices.
3066 off: Turn realloc off
3067 on: Turn realloc on
3068 realloc same as realloc=on
3069 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
3070 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3071 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3072 port.
3073
3074 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3075 Management.
3076 off Disable ASPM.
3077 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3078 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3079
3080 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
3081 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
3082 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
3083
3084 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
3085 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
3086 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
3087 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
3088 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
3089 unconditionally.
3090 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
3091 ports driver.
3092
3093 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3094 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3095 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3096
3097 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
3098 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
3099 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
3100
3101 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3102
3103 pd_ignore_unused
3104 [PM]
3105 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3106 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3107 for debug and development, but should not be
3108 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3109
3110 pd. [PARIDE]
3111 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3112
3113 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3114 boot time.
3115 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3116 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3117
3118 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
3119 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3120 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3121 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3122 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3123 and performance comparison.
3124
3125 pf. [PARIDE]
3126 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3127
3128 pg. [PARIDE]
3129 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3130
3131 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
3132 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
3133
3134 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3135 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3136 See also Documentation/parport.txt.
3137
3138 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
3139 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3140 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3141
3142 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3143 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3144 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3145 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3146 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3147 possible settings and some assignment information.
3148
3149 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3150 { off }
3151
3152 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3153 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3154
3155 pnp_reserve_irq=
3156 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3157
3158 pnp_reserve_dma=
3159 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3160
3161 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
3162 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
3163
3164 pnp_reserve_mem=
3165 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3166 autoconfiguration.
3167 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3168
3169 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3170 Default is 21.
3171 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3172 may be specified.
3173 Format: <port>,<port>....
3174
3175 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3176 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3177 platform machine description specific power_save
3178 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3179 execution priority.
3180
3181 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3182 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3183 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3184 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3185 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3186
3187 print-fatal-signals=
3188 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
3189
3190 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3191 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3192 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3193 coredump - etc.
3194
3195 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3196 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3197
3198 default: off.
3199
3200 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3201 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3202 panics
3203 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3204 default: disabled
3205
3206 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3207 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3208 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3209 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3210 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3211 Default: ratelimit
3212
3213 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3214 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3215
3216 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3217 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3218 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3219
3220 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3221 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3222 instead using the legacy FADT method
3223
3224 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
3225 Format: [schedule,]<number>
3226 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3227 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3228 statistical time based profiling.
3229 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3230 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
3231 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
3232
3233 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3234 before loading.
3235 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3236
3237 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3238 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
3239 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3240 per second.
3241 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3242 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
3243 (0 = never).
3244 psmouse.resolution=
3245 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3246 psmouse.smartscroll=
3247 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
3248 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3249
3250 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3251
3252 pt. [PARIDE]
3253 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3254
3255 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3256 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
3257 removes hardening, but improves performance of
3258 system calls and interrupts.
3259
3260 on - unconditionally enable
3261 off - unconditionally disable
3262 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3263 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3264
3265 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3266
3267 nopti [X86_64]
3268 Equivalent to pti=off
3269
3270 pty.legacy_count=
3271 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3272 default number.
3273
3274 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
3275
3276 r128= [HW,DRM]
3277
3278 raid= [HW,RAID]
3279 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3280
3281 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
3282 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3283
3284 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
3285
3286 cec_disable [X86]
3287 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3288 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3289
3290 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
3291 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3292
3293 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3294 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3295 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
3296 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3297 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3298 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3299 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
3300 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3301 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3302 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3303
3304 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
3305 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3306 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3307 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3308 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3309 This improves the real-time response for the
3310 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3311 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3312 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3313 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3314
3315 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
3316 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3317 process in one batch.
3318
3319 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3320 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3321 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3322 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3323
3324 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3325 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3326 RCU grace-period cleanup.
3327
3328 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3329 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3330 RCU grace-period initialization.
3331
3332 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3333 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3334 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3335 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3336 the rcu_node combining tree.
3337
3338 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3339 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3340 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3341 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3342 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
3343
3344 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
3345 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3346 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3347 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3348 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3349 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3350 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
3351
3352 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3353 Set required age in jiffies for a
3354 given grace period before RCU starts
3355 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3356 rcu_note_context_switch().
3357
3358 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
3359 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3360 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3361 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3362 and maximum value is HZ.
3363
3364 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
3365 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3366 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3367 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3368
3369 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
3370 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3371 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3372 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3373 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3374 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3375 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3376 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3377 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3378 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
3379
3380 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3381 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3382 defaults to the square root of the number of
3383 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3384 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3385 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3386
3387 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
3388 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3389 batch limiting is disabled.
3390
3391 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
3392 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3393 batch limiting is re-enabled.
3394
3395 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
3396 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3397 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3398
3399 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
3400 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3401 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3402 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3403 prove do nothing more than free memory.
3404
3405 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3406 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3407 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3408 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3409 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3410 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3411
3412 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3413 Measure performance of asynchronous
3414 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3415
3416 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3417 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3418 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
3419 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3420 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3421 previously posted callbacks to drain.
3422
3423 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3424 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3425 grace-period primitives.
3426
3427 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3428 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3429 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3430 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3431 interference.
3432
3433 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3434 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3435 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3436 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3437 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3438 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3439 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3440 a single reader.
3441
3442 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3443 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3444 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3445 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3446
3447 rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT]
3448 Start rcuperf running at boot time.
3449
3450 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3451 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3452
3453 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3454 Shut the system down after performance tests
3455 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3456 testing.
3457
3458 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3459 Enable additional printk() statements.
3460
3461 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3462 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3463 in microseconds. The default of zero says
3464 no holdoff.
3465
3466 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3467 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3468 callback-flood tests.
3469
3470 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3471 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3472 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3473 test.
3474
3475 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3476 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3477 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3478 disable callback-flood testing.
3479
3480 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3481 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3482 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3483
3484 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
3485 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3486 in microseconds.
3487
3488 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
3489 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3490 in microseconds.
3491
3492 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
3493 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3494 in seconds.
3495
3496 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3497 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3498 primitives, if available.
3499
3500 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
3501 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
3502
3503 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
3504 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3505 update-side primitives, if available.
3506
3507 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3508 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3509 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3510 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3511 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3512 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3513 they are all non-zero.
3514
3515 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
3516 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3517
3518 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
3519 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3520 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3521 test, hence the "fake".
3522
3523 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3524 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3525 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3526 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3527 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3528 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3529
3530 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3531 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3532
3533 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
3534 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3535
3536 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
3537 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3538 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3539
3540 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
3541 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3542 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3543 during the rcutorture test.
3544
3545 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
3546 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3547 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3548
3549 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
3550 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3551 warnings, zero to disable.
3552
3553 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
3554 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3555
3556 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
3557 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3558
3559 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
3560 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3561 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3562 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3563 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3564
3565 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
3566 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3567 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3568 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3569
3570 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
3571 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3572
3573 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
3574 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3575
3576 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
3577 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3578 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3579
3580 rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
3581 Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3582
3583 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
3584 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3585
3586 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
3587 Enable additional printk() statements.
3588
3589 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3590 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3591
3592 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3593 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3594
3595 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3596 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3597 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3598 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3599 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3600 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
3601 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3602
3603 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3604 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3605 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3606 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
3607 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3608 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3609 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3610 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3611 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3612
3613 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3614 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3615 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
3616 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3617 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3618
3619 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3620 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3621 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3622 to zero.
3623
3624 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3625 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3626
3627 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3628 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3629
3630 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3631 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3632
3633 rdinit= [KNL]
3634 Format: <full_path>
3635 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3636 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3637
3638 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
3639 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
3640 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, mba.
3641 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
3642 rdt=cmt,!mba
3643
3644 reboot= [KNL]
3645 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3646 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3647 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3648 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3649 [[,]f[orce]
3650 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3651 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3652 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3653 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3654 to be used for rebooting.
3655
3656 relax_domain_level=
3657 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
3658 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
3659
3660 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3661
3662 reservetop= [X86-32]
3663 Format: nn[KMG]
3664 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3665 address space.
3666
3667 reservelow= [X86]
3668 Format: nn[K]
3669 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3670 the bottom of the address space.
3671
3672 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3673 during initialization.
3674
3675 resume= [SWSUSP]
3676 Specify the partition device for software suspend
3677 Format:
3678 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
3679
3680 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3681 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3682 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3683 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3684 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3685
3686 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3687 read the resume files
3688
3689 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3690 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3691 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3692
3693 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3694 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3695 present during boot.
3696 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
3697 no Disable hibernation and resume.
3698 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
3699 (that will set all pages holding image data
3700 during restoration read-only).
3701
3702 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3703
3704 rfkill.default_state=
3705 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3706 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3707 1 Unblocked.
3708
3709 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3710 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3711 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3712 blocked and the previous configuration.
3713 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3714 blocked and everything unblocked.
3715
3716 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3717 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3718
3719 ring3mwait=disable
3720 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
3721 CPUs.
3722
3723 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3724
3725 rodata= [KNL]
3726 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3727 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3728
3729 rockchip.usb_uart
3730 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3731 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3732 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3733 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3734
3735 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
3736 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
3737
3738 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3739 mount the root filesystem
3740
3741 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3742
3743 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3744
3745 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3746 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3747 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3748
3749 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3750 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3751 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3752 managed by CMA.
3753
3754 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3755
3756 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3757
3758 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3759 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3760 strict
3761 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3762 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3763 which is faster.
3764
3765 sa1100ir [NET]
3766 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3767
3768 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
3769
3770 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3771
3772 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3773 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3774 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3775 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
3776
3777 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3778 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3779 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3780 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3781 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3782 1 -- enable.
3783 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3784 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3785
3786 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3787 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3788 security module asking for security registration will be
3789 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3790 as if no module has been chosen.
3791
3792 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
3793 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3794 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3795 0 -- disable.
3796 1 -- enable.
3797 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3798 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3799 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3800
3801 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3802 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3803 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3804 0 -- disable.
3805 1 -- enable.
3806 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3807
3808 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
3809
3810 shapers= [NET]
3811 Maximal number of shapers.
3812
3813 simeth= [IA-64]
3814 simscsi=
3815
3816 slram= [HW,MTD]
3817
3818 slab_nomerge [MM]
3819 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3820 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
3821 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
3822 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
3823 layout control by attackers can usually be
3824 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
3825 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
3826 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
3827 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
3828 own.
3829 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3830
3831 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3832 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3833 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3834 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3835 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3836
3837 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3838 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3839 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3840 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3841 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3842 last alloc / free. For more information see
3843 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3844
3845 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
3846 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
3847 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
3848 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
3849 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
3850 directories and files being created under
3851 /sys/kernel/slub.
3852
3853 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
3854 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3855 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3856 fragmentation. For more information see
3857 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3858
3859 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
3860 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3861 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3862 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3863 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3864 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3865 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
3866 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3867
3868 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
3869 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
3870 lower than slub_max_order.
3871 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3872
3873 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
3874 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3875 See slab_nomerge for more information.
3876
3877 smart2= [HW]
3878 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3879
3880 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3881 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
3882 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
3883 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
3884 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
3885 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
3886 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3887 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3888 1: Fast pin select (default)
3889 2: ATC IRMode
3890
3891 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
3892 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
3893 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
3894 actual hardware limit.
3895 Format: <integer>
3896 Default: -1 (no limit)
3897
3898 softlockup_panic=
3899 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
3900 Format: <integer>
3901
3902 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3903 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3904 backtraces on all cpus.
3905 Format: <integer>
3906
3907 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
3908 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
3909
3910 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
3911 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
3912
3913 on - unconditionally enable
3914 off - unconditionally disable
3915 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3916 vulnerable
3917
3918 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
3919 mitigation method at run time according to the
3920 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
3921 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
3922 compiler with which the kernel was built.
3923
3924 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
3925
3926 retpoline - replace indirect branches
3927 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
3928 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk
3929
3930 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3931 spectre_v2=auto.
3932
3933 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
3934 spia_fio_base=
3935 spia_pedr=
3936 spia_peddr=
3937
3938 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
3939 Specifies how frequently to check for
3940 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
3941 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
3942 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
3943 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
3944 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
3945 are ignored.
3946
3947 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
3948 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
3949 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
3950 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
3951 grace period will be considered for automatic
3952 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
3953 expediting.
3954
3955 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
3956 override the default stack gap protection. The value
3957 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
3958 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
3959 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
3960 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
3961
3962 stacktrace [FTRACE]
3963 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
3964
3965 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
3966 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
3967 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
3968 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
3969 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
3970 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
3971 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
3972
3973 sti= [PARISC,HW]
3974 Format: <num>
3975 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
3976 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
3977 as the initial boot-console.
3978 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3979
3980 sti_font= [HW]
3981 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3982
3983 stifb= [HW]
3984 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
3985
3986 sunrpc.min_resvport=
3987 sunrpc.max_resvport=
3988 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3989 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
3990 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
3991 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
3992 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
3993 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
3994 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
3995 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
3996 maximum port values.
3997
3998 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
3999 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4000 Limit the number of requests that the server will
4001 process in parallel from a single connection.
4002 The default value is 0 (no limit).
4003
4004 sunrpc.pool_mode=
4005 [NFS]
4006 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4007 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
4008 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4009 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4010 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4011 NFS server is running.
4012
4013 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
4014 automatically using heuristics
4015 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
4016 percpu one pool for each CPU
4017 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4018 to global on non-NUMA machines)
4019
4020 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4021 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4022 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4023 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4024 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4025 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4026 improve throughput, but will also increase the
4027 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4028
4029 suspend.pm_test_delay=
4030 [SUSPEND]
4031 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4032 mode before resuming the system (see
4033 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4034 is set. Default value is 5.
4035
4036 swapaccount=[0|1]
4037 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4038 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
4039 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
4040
4041 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
4042 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
4043 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4044 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4045 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
4046 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
4047
4048 switches= [HW,M68k]
4049
4050 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4051 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4052 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4053 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4054 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4055 in older udev will not work anymore.
4056 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4057 the kernel configuration.
4058
4059 sysrq_always_enabled
4060 [KNL]
4061 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4062 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4063 Useful for debugging.
4064
4065 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4066 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4067 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4068 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4069 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4070 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4071
4072 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
4073
4074 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
4075 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
4076 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4077 as the system sleep state during system startup with
4078 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4079 The system is woken from this state using a
4080 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
4081
4082 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4083 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4084
4085 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
4086 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4087 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4088
4089 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
4090 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
4091 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
4092
4093 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
4094 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4095 critical and hot trip points.
4096
4097 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
4098 1: disable ACPI thermal control
4099
4100 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
4101 -1: disable all passive trip points
4102 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4103 value
4104
4105 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
4106 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4107 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4108 0: no polling (default)
4109
4110 threadirqs [KNL]
4111 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
4112 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
4113
4114 tmem [KNL,XEN]
4115 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4116
4117 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4118 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4119 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4120
4121 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4122 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
4123 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4124 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
4125
4126 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4127 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4128 to the hypervisor.
4129
4130 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4131 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4132 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4133 kernel based on different criteria.
4134
4135 topology= [S390]
4136 Format: {off | on}
4137 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
4138 topology information if the hardware supports this.
4139 The scheduler will make use of this information and
4140 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
4141 Default is on.
4142
4143 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4144 Format: {off}
4145 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4146 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4147 LPAR.
4148
4149 tp720= [HW,PS2]
4150
4151 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4152 Format: integer pcr id
4153 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4154 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4155 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4156 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4157 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4158 are saved.
4159
4160 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
4161 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
4162
4163 trace_event=[event-list]
4164 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
4165 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4166 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4167 also Documentation/trace/events.txt
4168
4169 trace_options=[option-list]
4170 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4171 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4172 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4173 to echo the option name into
4174
4175 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4176
4177 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4178 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4179
4180 trace_options=stacktrace
4181
4182 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
4183 section.
4184
4185 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4186 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4187 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4188 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4189 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4190 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4191
4192 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4193 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4194 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4195 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4196
4197 ** CAUTION **
4198
4199 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4200 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4201 the system to live lock.
4202
4203 traceoff_on_warning
4204 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4205 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4206 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4207 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4208
4209 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4210 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4211 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4212
4213 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4214 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4215
4216 transparent_hugepage=
4217 [KNL]
4218 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4219 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4220 with respect to transparent hugepages.
4221 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
4222
4223 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
4224 Format: <string>
4225 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
4226 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4227 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4228 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4229 virtualized environment.
4230 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4231 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4232 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4233 can add overhead.
4234
4235 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4236 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4237 Format:
4238 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
4239 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
4240
4241 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
4242 happen after console_init() and before a proper
4243 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4244 help "seeing" what's going on.
4245
4246 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4247 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4248
4249 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4250 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4251 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4252 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4253 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4254 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4255 reported either.
4256
4257 unknown_nmi_panic
4258 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
4259
4260 usbcore.authorized_default=
4261 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4262 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4263 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4264
4265 usbcore.autosuspend=
4266 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4267 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4268 is the time required before an idle device will be
4269 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
4270 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
4271
4272 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4273 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4274
4275 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4276 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4277 (default = 65536).
4278
4279 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4280 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4281
4282 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4283 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
4284 scheme (default 0 = off).
4285
4286 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4287 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4288 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4289
4290 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4291 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4292 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4293
4294 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4295 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4296 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4297 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4298
4299 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4300
4301 usbhid.mousepoll=
4302 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
4303
4304 usbhid.jspoll=
4305 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4306
4307 usb-storage.delay_use=
4308 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
4309 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
4310
4311 usb-storage.quirks=
4312 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4313 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4314 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4315 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4316 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4317 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4318 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
4319 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4320 of sense data);
4321 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4322 bytes of sense data);
4323 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4324 device capacity by one sector);
4325 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4326 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4327 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4328 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
4329 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4330 command, uas only);
4331 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4332 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
4333 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4334 reported device capacity by one
4335 sector if the number is odd);
4336 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4337 device);
4338 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4339 command, uas only);
4340 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4341 unlock ejectable media);
4342 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4343 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
4344 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4345 initial READ(10) command);
4346 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4347 reported by the device);
4348 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4349 by default);
4350 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4351 bogus residue values);
4352 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4353 Logical Unit);
4354 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4355 commands, uas only);
4356 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
4357 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4358 medium is write-protected).
4359 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4360 even if the device claims no cache)
4361 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4362
4363 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4364 Format: <int>
4365 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4366 1 - undefined instruction events
4367 2 - system calls
4368 4 - invalid data aborts
4369 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4370 16 - SIGBUS faults
4371 Example: user_debug=31
4372
4373 userpte=
4374 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4375
4376 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4377 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4378 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4379
4380 vdso= [X86,SH]
4381 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4382
4383 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
4384 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4385
4386 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4387 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4388 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4389
4390 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4391 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4392 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4393
4394 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4395 alias for vdso32=0.
4396
4397 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4398 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
4399
4400 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4401 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4402
4403 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4404 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4405
4406 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4407 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4408 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4409 level and then send out the event to user space through
4410 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4411 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4412 brightness level.
4413 default: 1
4414
4415 virtio_mmio.device=
4416 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4417
4418 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4419 where:
4420 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4421 like K, M and G)
4422 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4423 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4424 request_irq())
4425 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4426 example:
4427 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4428
4429 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4430
4431 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
4432 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
4433 Documentation/svga.txt.
4434 Use vga=ask for menu.
4435 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4436 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4437
4438 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
4439 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4440 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4441 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4442 mapped kernel RAM.
4443
4444 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390]
4445 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
4446 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
4447
4448 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4449 Format: <command>
4450
4451 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4452 Format: <command>
4453
4454 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4455 Format: <command>
4456
4457 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4458 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4459 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4460 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4461 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4462 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4463 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4464
4465 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4466 emulated reasonably safely.
4467
4468 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
4469 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4470 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4471 better than they would in emulation mode.
4472 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4473
4474 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4475 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4476 might break your system.
4477
4478 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4479 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4480 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4481
4482 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4483 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4484 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4485 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4486
4487 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4488 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4489 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4490 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4491 ranging from 0-255.
4492
4493 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4494 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4495 Change the default green palette of the console.
4496 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4497 ranging from 0-255.
4498
4499 vt.default_red= [VT]
4500 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4501 Change the default red palette of the console.
4502 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4503 ranging from 0-255.
4504
4505 vt.default_utf8=
4506 [VT]
4507 Format=<0|1>
4508 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4509 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4510 newly opened terminals.
4511
4512 vt.global_cursor_default=
4513 [VT]
4514 Format=<-1|0|1>
4515 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4516 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4517 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4518 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4519 cursors, 1 will display them.
4520
4521 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4522 Default: 2 = green.
4523
4524 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4525 Default: 3 = cyan.
4526
4527 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4528 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4529 or other driver-specific files in the
4530 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
4531
4532 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4533 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4534 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4535 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4536 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4537 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4538 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4539 corresponding sysfs file.
4540
4541 workqueue.disable_numa
4542 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4543 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4544 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4545 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4546 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4547 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4548 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4549
4550 workqueue.power_efficient
4551 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4552 they show better performance thanks to cache
4553 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4554 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4555
4556 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4557 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4558 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4559 power usage at the cost of small performance
4560 overhead.
4561
4562 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4563 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4564
4565 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4566 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4567 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4568 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
4569 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4570 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
4571 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4572 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4573 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4574 impacted.
4575
4576 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4577 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4578 supporting x2apic.
4579
4580 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4581 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
4582 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4583 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
4584 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
4585
4586 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4587 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4588 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4589 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4590 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4591 domains.
4592
4593 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4594 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4595 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4596 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4597 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4598 nics -- unplug network devices
4599 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
4600 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4601 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4602 the unplug protocol
4603 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
4604
4605 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4606 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4607 optimizations.
4608
4609 xen_nopv [X86]
4610 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4611 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4612
4613 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
4614 Format:
4615 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]