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