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2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4 copy_dsdt }
5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14 are available
15
16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
17
18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
19 Format: <int>
20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21 1,0: use 1st APIC table
22 default: 0
23
24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
25 acpi_backlight=vendor
26 acpi_backlight=video
27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
31 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
37 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41 This option is useful for developers to identify the
42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
45 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
47 Format: <int>
48 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
55 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
56 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
57 debug layers and levels.
58
59 Enable processor driver info messages:
60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64 object while interpreting AML:
65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69 Some values produce so much output that the system is
70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71 if you need to capture more output.
72
73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
74 { strict | lax | no }
75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79 can interfere with legacy drivers.
80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87 no further checks are performed.
88
89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92 size limitation.
93
94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95 ACPI will balance active IRQs
96 default in APIC mode
97
98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100 default in PIC mode
101
102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106 use by PCI
107 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113 the GPE dispatcher.
114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115 GPE floodings.
116 Format: <int>
117
118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122 auto-serialization feature.
123 This feature is enabled by default.
124 This option allows to turn off the feature.
125
126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
127 kernels.
128
129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132 installed automatically and they will appear under
133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134 This option turns off this feature.
135 Note that specifying this option does not affect
136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
138
139 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
140 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
141 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
142 second kernel for kdump.
143
144 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
145 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
146
147 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
148 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
149 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
150 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
151 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
152
153 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
154 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
155 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
156 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
157 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
158 strings
159 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
160 strings
161 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
162
163 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
164 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
165 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
166 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
167 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
168 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
169 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
170 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
171 care about the state of the feature group strings which
172 should be controlled by the OSPM.
173 Examples:
174 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
175 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
176 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
177
178 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
179 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
180 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
181 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
182 multiple times through kernel command line is also
183 meaningless.
184 Examples:
185 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
186 FALSE.
187
188 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
189 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
190 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
191 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
192 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
193 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
194 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
195 there are quirks related to this string. This command
196 is useful when one want to control the state of the
197 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
198 the OSPM features.
199 Examples:
200 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
201 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
202 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
203 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
204 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
205 equivalent to
206 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
207 and
208 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
209 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
210
211 acpi_pm_good [X86]
212 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
213 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
214 and always returns good values.
215
216 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
217 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
218
219 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
220 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
221 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
222
223 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
224 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
225 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
226 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
227 s3_bios and s3_mode.
228 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
229 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
230 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
231 used during resume from hibernation.
232 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
233 control method, with respect to putting devices into
234 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
235 of _PTS is used by default).
236 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
237 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
238 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
239 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
240 but some broken systems don't work without it).
241 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
242 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
243 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
244
245 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
246 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
247 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
248
249 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
250 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
251
252 agp= [AGP]
253 { off | try_unsupported }
254 off: disable AGP support
255 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
256 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
257
258 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
259 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
260
261 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
262 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
263 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
264 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
265
266 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
267 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
268 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
269 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
270 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
271 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
272 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
273
274 32: only for 32-bit processes
275 64: only for 64-bit processes
276 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
277 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
278
279 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
280 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
281 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
282 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
283 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
284 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
285
286 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
287 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
288 Possible values are:
289 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
290 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
291 flushed before they will be reused, which
292 is a lot of faster
293 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
294 the system
295 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
296 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
297 allowed anymore to lift isolation
298 requirements as needed. This option
299 does not override iommu=pt
300
301 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
302 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
303 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
304 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
305 IOMMU initialization.
306
307 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
308 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
309 remapping modes:
310 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
311 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
312 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
313 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
314 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
315
316 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
317 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
318 Format: <a>,<b>
319 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
320
321 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
322 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
323 connected to one of 16 gameports
324 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
325
326 apc= [HW,SPARC]
327 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
328 Format: noidle
329 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
330 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
331 APC and your system crashes randomly.
332
333 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
334 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
335 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
336 Change the amount of debugging information output
337 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
338 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
339 driver name.
340 Format: apic=driver_name
341 Examples: apic=bigsmp
342
343 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
344 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
345 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
346 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
347 backup of CPU 0
348 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
349 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
350 shot down by NMI
351
352 autoconf= [IPV6]
353 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
354
355 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
356 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
357 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
358 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
359 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
360 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
361 apic=verbose is specified.
362 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
363
364 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
365 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
366
367 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
368 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
369
370 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
371
372 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
373
374 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
375 EzKey and similar keyboards
376
377 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
378
379 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
380 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
381
382 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
383 keyboards
384
385 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
386 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
387
388 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
389 Use software keyboard repeat
390
391 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
392 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
393 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
394 enabled until the next reboot
395 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
396 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
397 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
398 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
399 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
400 userspace auditd.
401 Default: unset
402
403 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
404 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
405 Default: 64
406
407 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
408 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
409 Format: { "0" | "1" }
410 0 - Disable the BAU.
411 1 - Enable the BAU.
412 unset - Disable the BAU.
413
414 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
415 Format: <io>,<mode>
416
417 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
418 Format: <io>,<mode>
419 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
420
421 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
422 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
423 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
424 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
425
426 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
427 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
428 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
429 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
430
431 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
432 embedded devices based on command line input.
433 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
434
435 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
436 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
437 no delay (0).
438 Format: integer
439
440 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
441
442 bert_disable [ACPI]
443 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
444
445 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
446 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
447 kernel args too.
448 bttv.pll= See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
449 bttv.tuner=
450
451 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
452 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
453 at a time.
454
455 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
456
457 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
458 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
459 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
460 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
461 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
462 This option provides an override for these situations.
463
464 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
465 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
466 trust validation.
467 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
468
469 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
470 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
471 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
472 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
473 others).
474
475 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
476 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
477
478 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
479 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
480 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
481 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
482 a single hierarchy
483 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
484 subsystem
485 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
486 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
487 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
488
489 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
490 Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
491 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
492 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
493
494 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
495 Format: <string>
496 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
497 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
498
499 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
500 Format: { "0" | "1" }
501 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
502 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
503 any implied execute protection).
504 1 -- check protection requested by application.
505 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
506 Value can be changed at runtime via
507 /selinux/checkreqprot.
508
509 cio_ignore= [S390]
510 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
511 clk_ignore_unused
512 [CLK]
513 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
514 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
515 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
516 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
517 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
518 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
519 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
520 platform with proper driver support. For more
521 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
522
523 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
524 [Deprecated]
525 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
526 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
527 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
528 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
529
530 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
531 Format: <string>
532 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
533 with the name specified.
534 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
535 the platform:
536 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
537 [ACPI] acpi_pm
538 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
539 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
540 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
541 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
542 [MIPS] MIPS
543 [PARISC] cr16
544 [S390] tod
545 [SH] SuperH
546 [SPARC64] tick
547 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
548
549 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
550 [ARM,ARM64]
551 Format: <bool>
552 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
553 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
554 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
555 systems.
556
557 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
558 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
559 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
560 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
561 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
562 ones should be.
563 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
564 or using the feature without checking anything
565 will still see it. This just prevents it from
566 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
567 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
568 some critical bits.
569
570 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
571 [ARM,X86,KNL]
572 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
573 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
574 placement constraint by the physical address range of
575 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
576 altogether. For more information, see
577 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
578
579 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
580 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
581 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
582 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
583 a hypervisor.
584 Default: yes
585
586 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
587 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
588 allocations, by default set to 256K.
589
590 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
591 Format:
592 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
593
594 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
595 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
596
597 com90xx= [HW,NET]
598 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
599 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
600
601 condev= [HW,S390] console device
602 conmode=
603
604 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
605
606 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
607
608 ttyS<n>[,options]
609 ttyUSB0[,options]
610 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
611 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
612 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
613 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
614 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
615
616 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
617 information. See
618 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
619 alternative.
620
621 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
622 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
623 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
624 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
625 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
626 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
627 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
628 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
629 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
630 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
631 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
632 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
633 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
634 the h/w is not re-initialized.
635
636 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
637 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
638
639 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
640 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
641 console=brl,ttyS0
642 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
643
644 console_msg_format=
645 [KNL] Change console messages format
646 default
647 By default we print messages on consoles in
648 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
649 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
650 `printk_time' param).
651 syslog
652 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
653 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
654 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
655 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
656 from /proc/kmsg.
657
658 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
659 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
660 Defaults to 0.
661
662 coredump_filter=
663 [KNL] Change the default value for
664 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
665 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
666
667 coresight_cpu_debug.enable
668 [ARM,ARM64]
669 Format: <bool>
670 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
671 0: default value, disable debugging
672 1: enable debugging at boot time
673
674 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
675 disable the cpuidle sub-system
676
677 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
678 disable the cpufreq sub-system
679
680 cpu_init_udelay=N
681 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
682 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
683 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
684 Default: 10000
685
686 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
687 Format:
688 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
689
690 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
691 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
692 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
693 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
694 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
695 is selected automatically. Check
696 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
697
698 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
699 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
700 in the running system. The syntax of range is
701 start-[end] where start and end are both
702 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
703 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
704
705 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
706 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
707 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
708 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
709 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
710 available.
711 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
712 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
713 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
714 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
715 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
716 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
717 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
718 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
719 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
720 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
721 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
722 for second kernel instead.
723 0: to disable low allocation.
724 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
725 or memory reserved is below 4G.
726
727 cryptomgr.notests
728 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
729
730 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
731 Format: <dma>
732
733 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
734 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
735
736 dasd= [HW,NET]
737 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
738
739 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
740 (one device per port)
741 Format: <port#>,<type>
742 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
743
744 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
745 time. See
746 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
747 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
748
749 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
750
751 debug_boot_weak_hash
752 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
753 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
754 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are
755 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
756 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
757 insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
758
759 debug_locks_verbose=
760 [KNL] verbose self-tests
761 Format=<0|1>
762 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
763 self-tests.
764 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
765 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
766 only useful to kernel developers.
767
768 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
769
770 no_debug_objects
771 [KNL] Disable object debugging
772
773 debug_guardpage_minorder=
774 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
775 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
776 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
777 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
778 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
779 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
780 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
781 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
782 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
783 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
784 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
785 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
786 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
787 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
788 bypassed) which are not detectable by
789 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
790 tracking down these problems.
791
792 debug_pagealloc=
793 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
794 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
795 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
796 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
797 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
798 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
799 on: enable the feature
800
801 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
802
803 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
804 Format: <area>[,<node>]
805 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
806
807 default_hugepagesz=
808 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
809 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
810 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
811 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
812 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
813 if not specified.
814
815 deferred_probe_timeout=
816 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
817 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
818 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
819 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
820 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
821 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
822 retrying.
823
824 dhash_entries= [KNL]
825 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
826
827 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
828 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
829 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
830 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
831 miss to occur.
832
833 disable= [IPV6]
834 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
835
836 hardened_usercopy=
837 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
838 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
839 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
840 from reading or writing beyond known memory
841 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
842 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
843 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
844 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
845 off Disable hardened usercopy checks.
846
847 disable_radix [PPC]
848 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
849
850 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
851 Format: <int>
852 The number of initial APIC ID for the
853 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
854 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
855 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
856 causing system reset or hang due to sending
857 INIT from AP to BSP.
858
859 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
860 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
861 to workaround buggy firmware.
862
863 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
864 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
865
866 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
867 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
868 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
869 entry later. This parameter disables that.
870
871 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
872 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
873 memory out of your available memory pool based on
874 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
875 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
876
877 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
878 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
879 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
880
881 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
882
883 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
884 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
885
886 dma_debug_entries=<number>
887 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
888 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
889 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
890 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
891 architectural default is too low.
892
893 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
894 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
895 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
896 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
897 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
898 driver later using sysfs.
899
900 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
901 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
902 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
903 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
904 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
905 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
906 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
907 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
908 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
909 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
910 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
911 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
912 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
913 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
914 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
915 data set with no connector name will be used for
916 any connectors not explicitly specified.
917
918 dscc4.setup= [NET]
919
920 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC]
921 Format: {"off" | "known"}
922 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
923 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
924 exists).
925 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
926 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
927 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
928
929 dump_apple_properties [X86]
930 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
931 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
932 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
933
934 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
935 module.dyndbg[="val"]
936 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
937 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
938 for details.
939
940 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
941 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
942 information about the feature.
943
944 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
945 in some Intel CPUs.
946
947 module.async_probe [KNL]
948 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
949
950 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
951 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
952 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
953 which are not unmapped.
954
955 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
956
957 [ARM64] The early console is determined by the
958 stdout-path property in device tree's chosen node,
959 or determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
960
961 [X86] When used with no options the early console is
962 determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
963
964 cdns,<addr>[,options]
965 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
966 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
967 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
968 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
969 configured.
970
971 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
972 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
973 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
974 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
975 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
976 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
977 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
978 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
979 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
980 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
981 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
982 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
983 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
984
985 pl011,<addr>
986 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
987 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
988 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
989 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
990 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
991 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
992 the device registers.
993
994 meson,<addr>
995 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
996 port at the specified address. The serial port must
997 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
998 supported.
999
1000 msm_serial,<addr>
1001 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1002 port at the specified address. The serial port
1003 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1004 yet supported.
1005
1006 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1007 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1008 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1009 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1010 yet supported.
1011
1012 owl,<addr>
1013 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1014 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1015 specified address. The serial port must already be
1016 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1017
1018 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1019
1020 s3c2410,<addr>
1021 s3c2412,<addr>
1022 s3c2440,<addr>
1023 s3c6400,<addr>
1024 s5pv210,<addr>
1025 exynos4210,<addr>
1026 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1027 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1028 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1029 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1030 Options are not yet supported.
1031
1032 lantiq,<addr>
1033 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1034 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1035 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1036 yet supported.
1037
1038 lpuart,<addr>
1039 lpuart32,<addr>
1040 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1041 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1042 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1043 port must already be setup and configured.
1044
1045 ar3700_uart,<addr>
1046 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1047 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1048 address. The serial port must already be setup
1049 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1050
1051 qcom_geni,<addr>
1052 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1053 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1054 specified address. The serial port must already be
1055 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1056
1057 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1058 earlyprintk=vga
1059 earlyprintk=efi
1060 earlyprintk=sclp
1061 earlyprintk=xen
1062 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1063 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1064 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1065 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1066 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1067 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1068
1069 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1070 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1071 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1072
1073 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1074 takes over.
1075
1076 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1077 be used at a time.
1078
1079 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1080 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1081 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1082 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1083 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1084 You can find the port for a given device in
1085 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1086 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1087
1088 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1089 very good.
1090
1091 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1092 the real console.
1093
1094 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1095
1096 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1097
1098 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1099 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1100 UART class.
1101
1102 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1103 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1104 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1105 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1106 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1107 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1108 default: on.
1109
1110 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1111 ekgdboc=kbd
1112
1113 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1114 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1115
1116 edd= [EDD]
1117 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1118
1119 efi= [EFI]
1120 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
1121 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1122 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1123 default.
1124 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1125 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1126 firmware implementations.
1127 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1128 debug: enable misc debug output
1129
1130 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1131 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1132 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1133 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1134 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1135
1136 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1137 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1138 updating original EFI memory map.
1139 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1140 from ss to ss+nn.
1141 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1142 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1143 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1144 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1145
1146 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1147 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1148 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1149 doesn't support it.
1150
1151 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1152 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1153 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1154 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1155 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1156
1157
1158 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1159 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1160
1161 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1162 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1163 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1164
1165 elevator= [IOSCHED]
1166 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
1167 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
1168 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1169
1170 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1171 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1172 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1173 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1174 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
1175
1176 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1177 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1178 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1179 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1180
1181 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1182 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1183 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1184 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1185 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1186
1187 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1188 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1189 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1190 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1191 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1192 Default value is 0.
1193 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1194
1195 erst_disable [ACPI]
1196 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1197 support.
1198
1199 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1200 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1201 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1202
1203 evm= [EVM]
1204 Format: { "fix" }
1205 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1206 current integrity status.
1207
1208 failslab=
1209 fail_page_alloc=
1210 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1211 General fault injection mechanism.
1212 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1213 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1214
1215 floppy= [HW]
1216 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1217
1218 force_pal_cache_flush
1219 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1220 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1221 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1222 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1223
1224 forcepae [X86-32]
1225 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1226 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1227 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1228 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1229 and may cause unknown problems.
1230
1231 ftrace=[tracer]
1232 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1233 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1234 boot debugging.
1235
1236 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1237 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1238 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1239 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1240 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1241 oops.
1242
1243 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1244 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1245 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1246 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1247 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1248 tracing directory.
1249
1250 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1251 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1252 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1253 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1254 tracing directory.
1255
1256 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1257 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1258 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1259 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1260 that can be changed at run time by the
1261 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1262
1263 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1264 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1265 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1266 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1267 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1268
1269 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1270 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1271 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1272 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1273 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1274
1275 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1276 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1277 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1278 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1279 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1280
1281 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1282
1283 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1284 Format: off | on
1285 default: on
1286
1287 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1288 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1289 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1290 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1291 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1292
1293 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1294 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1295 android emulator
1296
1297 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1298 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1299 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1300 GPT to be used instead.
1301
1302 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1303 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1304 Format: 0 | 1
1305 Default: 0
1306 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1307 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1308 Format: 0 | 1
1309 Default: 0
1310 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1311 Format: 0 | 1
1312 Default: 0
1313 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1314 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1315 Default: 1024
1316 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1317 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1318 Default: 1024
1319
1320 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1321 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1322 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1323
1324 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1325 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1326 backtraces on all cpus.
1327 Format: <integer>
1328
1329 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1330 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
1331 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1332 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1333
1334 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1335
1336 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1337 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1338
1339 hest_disable [ACPI]
1340 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1341 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1342 logic will be disabled.
1343
1344 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1345 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1346 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1347 size on bigger boxes.
1348
1349 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1350 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1351 Default: "on"
1352
1353 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1354 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1355
1356 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1357
1358 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1359 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1360 verbose }
1361 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1362 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1363 VIA, nVidia)
1364 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1365
1366 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1367 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1368
1369 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1370 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
1371 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1372 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1373 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1374 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
1375 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
1376
1377 hung_task_panic=
1378 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1379 Format: <integer>
1380
1381 A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a
1382 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1383 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1384 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1385 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1386
1387 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1388 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1389 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1390 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1391 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1392 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1393 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1394 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1395 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1396 the real console.
1397
1398 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1399 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1400 registered from board initialization code.
1401 Format:
1402 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1403
1404 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1405 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1406 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1407 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1408 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1409 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1410 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1411 keyboard and cannot control its state
1412 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1413 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1414 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1415 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1416 for the AUX port
1417 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1418 controller
1419 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1420 controllers
1421 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1422 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1423 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1424 transitions, or never reset
1425 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1426 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1427 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1428 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1429 architectures force reset to be always executed
1430 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1431 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1432
1433 i810= [HW,DRM]
1434
1435 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1436 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1437 hardware.
1438 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1439 does not match list of supported models.
1440 i8k.power_status
1441 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1442 (disabled by default)
1443 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1444 capability is set.
1445
1446 i915.invert_brightness=
1447 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1448 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1449 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1450 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1451 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1452 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1453 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1454 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1455 value switches the backlight off.
1456 -1 -- never invert brightness
1457 0 -- machine default
1458 1 -- force brightness inversion
1459
1460 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1461 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1462
1463 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1464 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1465 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1466 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1467 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1468
1469 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1470 Format: <int>
1471 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1472 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1473 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1474 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1475 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1476 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1477 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1478 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1479 was 0x3.
1480
1481 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1482 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1483
1484 idle= [X86]
1485 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1486 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1487 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1488 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1489 Not recommended.
1490 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1491 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1492 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1493
1494 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1495 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1496 Default: strict
1497
1498 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1499 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1500 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1501 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1502 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1503 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1504 encoding mode.
1505
1506 Available settings are as follows:
1507 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1508 supported by the FPU
1509 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1510 by the FPU
1511 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1512 by the FPU
1513 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1514 supported by the FPU
1515
1516 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1517 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1518 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1519 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1520 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1521 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1522 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1523 MIPS64 CPUs.
1524
1525 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1526 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1527 except where unsupported by hardware.
1528
1529 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1530 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1531 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1532 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1533 could change it dynamically, usually by
1534 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1535
1536 ignore_rlimit_data
1537 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1538 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1539 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1540
1541 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1542 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1543
1544 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1545 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1546 default: "enforce"
1547
1548 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1549 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1550 owned by uid=0.
1551
1552 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1553 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1554 measurements, instead of host native format.
1555
1556 ima_hash= [IMA]
1557 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1558 | sha512 | ... }
1559 default: "sha1"
1560
1561 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1562 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1563
1564 ima_policy= [IMA]
1565 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1566 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1567 fail_securely"
1568
1569 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1570 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1571 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1572 uid=0.
1573
1574 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1575 all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent
1576 of ima_appraise_tcb.)
1577
1578 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1579 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1580 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1581
1582 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1583 verification failure also on privileged mounted
1584 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1585 flag.
1586
1587 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
1588 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1589 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1590 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1591 opened for read by uid=0.
1592
1593 ima_template= [IMA]
1594 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1595 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1596 Default: "ima-ng"
1597
1598 ima_template_fmt=
1599 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1600 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1601
1602 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1603 Format: <min_file_size>
1604 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1605 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1606
1607 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1608 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1609 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1610
1611 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1612 Format: <bufsize>
1613 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1614
1615 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1616 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1617 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1618
1619 init= [KNL]
1620 Format: <full_path>
1621 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1622 process.
1623
1624 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1625 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1626 startup.
1627
1628 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1629 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1630 modules and initcalls.
1631
1632 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1633
1634 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1635 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1636 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1637 override in debugfs after boot.
1638
1639 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1640 Format: <irq>
1641
1642 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1643
1644 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1645 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1646 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1647 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1648
1649 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1650 on
1651 Enable intel iommu driver.
1652 off
1653 Disable intel iommu driver.
1654 igfx_off [Default Off]
1655 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1656 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1657 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1658 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1659 DMA.
1660 forcedac [x86_64]
1661 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1662 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1663 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1664 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1665 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1666 then look in the higher range.
1667 strict [Default Off]
1668 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1669 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1670 to batching them for performance.
1671 sp_off [Default Off]
1672 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1673 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1674 not be supported.
1675 ecs_off [Default Off]
1676 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1677 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1678 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1679 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1680 on hardware which claims to support them.
1681 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1682 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1683 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1684 could harm performance of some high-throughput
1685 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1686 mapping is enabled.
1687 Note that using this option lowers the security
1688 provided by tboot because it makes the system
1689 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
1690
1691 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1692 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1693 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
1694
1695 intel_pstate= [X86]
1696 disable
1697 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1698 scaling driver for the supported processors
1699 passive
1700 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1701 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1702 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1703 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1704 feature.
1705 force
1706 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1707 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1708 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1709 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1710 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1711 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1712 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1713 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1714 no_hwp
1715 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1716 if available.
1717 hwp_only
1718 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1719 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1720 support_acpi_ppc
1721 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1722 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1723 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1724 then this feature is turned on by default.
1725 per_cpu_perf_limits
1726 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1727 cpufreq sysfs interface
1728
1729 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1730 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1731 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1732 nosid disable Source ID checking
1733 no_x2apic_optout
1734 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1735 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
1736
1737 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1738 strict regions from userspace.
1739 relaxed
1740
1741 iommu= [x86]
1742 off
1743 force
1744 noforce
1745 biomerge
1746 panic
1747 nopanic
1748 merge
1749 nomerge
1750 soft
1751 pt [x86]
1752 nopt [x86]
1753 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1754 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
1755
1756 iommu.passthrough=
1757 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1758 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1759 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1760 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1761 unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1762
1763 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1764 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1765 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1766
1767 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
1768 0x80
1769 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1770 0xed
1771 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1772 udelay
1773 Simple two microseconds delay
1774 none
1775 No delay
1776
1777 ip= [IP_PNP]
1778 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1779
1780 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
1781 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
1782
1783 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1784 [ARM, ARM64]
1785 Format: <bool>
1786 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1787 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1788 exposed by the device tree is too small.
1789
1790 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
1791 [ARM, ARM64]
1792 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
1793 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
1794 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
1795 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
1796 LPIs.
1797
1798 irqfixup [HW]
1799 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1800 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1801 firmware running.
1802
1803 irqpoll [HW]
1804 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1805 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1806 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1807 firmware running.
1808
1809 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
1810 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1811
1812 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
1813 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1814 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
1815
1816 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1817 specified in the flag list (default: domain):
1818
1819 nohz
1820 Disable the tick when a single task runs.
1821
1822 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
1823 need to affine to housekeeping through the global
1824 workqueue's affinity configured via the
1825 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
1826 by using the 'domain' flag described below.
1827
1828 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
1829 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
1830 be configured manually after bootup.
1831
1832 domain
1833 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1834 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1835 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1836 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1837 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1838 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1839 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1840 move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1841
1842 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1843 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1844 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1845 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1846
1847 The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
1848
1849
1850
1851 iucv= [HW,NET]
1852
1853 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1854 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1855 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1856 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1857 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1858 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1859
1860 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1861 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1862 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1863 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1864 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1865 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1866
1867 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1868 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1869 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1870 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1871 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1872 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1873
1874 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1875 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
1876
1877 nokaslr [KNL]
1878 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1879 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1880 Layout Randomization).
1881
1882 kasan_multi_shot
1883 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1884 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1885 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1886 invalid access.
1887
1888 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1889
1890 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1891 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
1892 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
1893 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested
1894 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
1895 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for
1896 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the
1897 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
1898 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
1899 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
1900
1901 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
1902 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
1903 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
1904 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1905 zone if it does not.
1906
1907 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
1908 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
1909 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror"
1910 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1911 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1912 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
1913 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
1914
1915 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1916 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1917 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1918 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1919 optional and is the number seconds in between
1920 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1921 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1922 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1923 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1924 the kernel debugger.
1925
1926 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
1927 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1928 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
1929 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1930 keyboard only format: kbd
1931 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1932 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1933 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1934 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
1935
1936 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1937 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1938
1939 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1940 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1941 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1942
1943 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1944 Valid arguments: on, off
1945 Default: on
1946 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1947 the default is off.
1948
1949 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1950 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1951
1952 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
1953 Default is false (don't support).
1954
1955 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1956 KVM MMU at runtime.
1957 Default is 0 (off)
1958
1959 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
1960 Default is 1 (enabled)
1961
1962 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1963 for all guests.
1964 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
1965
1966 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
1967 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
1968 system registers
1969
1970 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
1971 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
1972 system registers
1973
1974 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
1975 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
1976 system registers
1977
1978 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
1979 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
1980 LPIs.
1981
1982 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1983 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1984 Default is 1 (enabled)
1985
1986 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1987 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1988 Default is 0 (disabled)
1989
1990 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1991 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1992 Default is 1 (enabled)
1993
1994 kvm-intel.nested=
1995 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1996 Default is 0 (disabled)
1997
1998 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1999 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2000 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2001 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2002
2003 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2004 CVE-2018-3620.
2005
2006 Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2007
2008 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2009 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2010 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2011 never: Disables the mitigation
2012
2013 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2014
2015 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2016 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2017 Default is 1 (enabled)
2018
2019 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2020 affected CPUs
2021
2022 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2023 enabled and cannot be disabled.
2024
2025 full
2026 Provides all available mitigations for the
2027 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2028 enables all mitigations in the
2029 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2030
2031 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2032 sysfs interface is still possible after
2033 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2034 when the first VM is started in a
2035 potentially insecure configuration,
2036 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2037
2038 full,force
2039 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2040 flush runtime control. Implies the
2041 'nosmt=force' command line option.
2042 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2043
2044 flush
2045 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2046 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2047 L1D flush.
2048
2049 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2050 sysfs interface is still possible after
2051 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2052 when the first VM is started in a
2053 potentially insecure configuration,
2054 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2055
2056 flush,nosmt
2057
2058 Disables SMT and enables the default
2059 hypervisor mitigation.
2060
2061 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2062 sysfs interface is still possible after
2063 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2064 when the first VM is started in a
2065 potentially insecure configuration,
2066 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2067
2068 flush,nowarn
2069 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2070 warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2071 insecure configuration.
2072
2073 off
2074 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2075 emit any warnings.
2076
2077 Default is 'flush'.
2078
2079 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/l1tf.rst
2080
2081 l2cr= [PPC]
2082
2083 l3cr= [PPC]
2084
2085 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2086 disabled it.
2087
2088 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
2089 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2090 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2091
2092 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2093 in C2 power state.
2094
2095 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
2096 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2097 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2098 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2099 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
2100 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2101 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2102
2103 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2104 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
2105 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
2106
2107 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2108 when set.
2109 Format: <int>
2110
2111 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
2112 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
2113 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
2114 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
2115 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
2116 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2117 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2118 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2119
2120 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2121 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
2122 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2123 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
2124 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2125 host link and device attached to it.
2126
2127 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
2128 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2129 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2130 The following configurations can be forced.
2131
2132 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2133 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2134
2135 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2136
2137 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2138 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2139 allowed.
2140
2141 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2142
2143 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2144
2145 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2146 and both resets.
2147
2148 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2149 hot-unplug link recovery
2150
2151 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2152
2153 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2154
2155 * disable: Disable this device.
2156
2157 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2158 the same attribute, the last one is used.
2159
2160 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2161
2162 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
2163 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
2164
2165 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2166 Format: <integer>
2167
2168 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2169 Format: <integer>
2170
2171 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2172 Format: <integer>
2173
2174 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2175 Format: <integer>
2176
2177 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2178 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2179 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2180 number of online CPUs.
2181
2182 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2183 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2184
2185 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2186 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2187
2188 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2189 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2190 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2191
2192 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2193 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2194 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2195 mode during the locktorture test.
2196
2197 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2198 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2199 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2200
2201 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2202 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2203
2204 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2205 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2206 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2207 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2208 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2209 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2210
2211 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2212 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2213
2214 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2215 Enable additional printk() statements.
2216
2217 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2218 Format: <irq>
2219
2220 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2221 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2222 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2223 loglevels are defined as follows:
2224
2225 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2226 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2227 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2228 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2229 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2230 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2231 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2232 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2233
2234 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2235 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2236 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2237 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2238 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2239 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2240 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2241
2242 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2243 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2244 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2245 kernel boot problems.
2246
2247 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2248 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2249 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2250 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2251 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2252 attached printers to be reset. Using
2253 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2254 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2255 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2256 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2257 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2258 port specification list means that device IDs
2259 from each port should be examined, to see if
2260 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2261 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2262 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2263
2264 lpj=n [KNL]
2265 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2266 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2267 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2268 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2269 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2270 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2271 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2272 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2273 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2274 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2275 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2276 hardware.
2277
2278 ltpc= [NET]
2279 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2280
2281 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2282 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2283 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
2284
2285 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2286 yeeloong laptop.
2287 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2288
2289 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2290 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2291
2292 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2293 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2294 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2295 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2296 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2297 only takes effect during system bootup.
2298 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2299 which also disables the IO APIC.
2300
2301 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2302 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2303 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2304 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2305 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2306 /dev/loop-control interface.
2307
2308 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2309
2310 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
2311
2312 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2313 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2314
2315 mdacon= [MDA]
2316 Format: <first>,<last>
2317 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2318
2319 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2320 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2321 to see the whole system memory or for test.
2322 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2323 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2324 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2325 belonging to unused RAM.
2326
2327 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2328 memory.
2329
2330 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2331 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2332 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2333
2334 memhp_default_state=online/offline
2335 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2336 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2337 set according to the
2338 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2339 option.
2340 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2341
2342 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2343 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2344 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2345 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2346 option description.
2347
2348 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2349 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2350 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2351 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2352 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2353 Multiple different regions can be specified,
2354 comma delimited.
2355 Example:
2356 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2357
2358 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2359 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2360 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2361
2362 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2363 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2364 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2365 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2366 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2367 or
2368 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2369 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2370 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2371 will be eaten.
2372
2373 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2374 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2375 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2376 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2377 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2378
2379 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2380 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2381 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2382 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2383 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2384 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2385 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2386 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2387
2388 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2389 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2390 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2391 Setting this option will scan the memory
2392 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2393 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2394 from using the memory being corrupted.
2395 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2396 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2397 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2398 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2399
2400 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2401 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2402 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2403 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2404 corruption in more or less memory.
2405
2406 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2407 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2408 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2409 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2410
2411 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
2412 Format: <integer>
2413 default : 0 <disable>
2414 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2415 performed. Each pass selects another test
2416 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2417 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2418 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2419 regions that are detected.
2420
2421 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2422 Valid arguments: on, off
2423 Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2424 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2425 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2426 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
2427 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
2428
2429 Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
2430 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2431
2432 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2433 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2434 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2435 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2436 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
2437
2438 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2439 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
2440
2441 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2442 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2443 platforms.
2444
2445 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2446 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2447 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2448 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2449
2450 mga= [HW,DRM]
2451
2452 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2453 physical address is ignored.
2454
2455 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2456 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2457 Default: "0tb"
2458 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2459 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2460 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2461 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2462 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2463 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2464 unconfigured.
2465 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2466 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2467 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2468 VGA shield.
2469 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2470 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2471 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2472 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2473 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2474 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2475
2476 mminit_loglevel=
2477 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2478 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2479 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2480 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2481 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2482 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2483
2484 module.sig_enforce
2485 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2486 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2487 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
2488 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2489
2490 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2491 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2492
2493 mousedev.tap_time=
2494 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2495 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2496 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2497 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2498 Format: <msecs>
2499 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2500 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2501 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2502 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2503
2504 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2505 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2506 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
2507 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
2508 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is
2509 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
2510 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its
2511 own is specified, the administrator must be careful
2512 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2513 is not too small.
2514
2515 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2516 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2517 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2518 allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2519 allocations. Use with caution!
2520
2521 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2522 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2523
2524 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2525 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
2526
2527 mtdparts= [MTD]
2528 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
2529
2530 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2531 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2532 at a time.
2533
2534 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2535
2536 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2537
2538 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2539 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2540 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2541 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2542 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2543
2544 mtdset= [ARM]
2545 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2546
2547 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2548
2549 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
2550 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2551 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
2552
2553 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2554 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
2555 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2556
2557 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2558 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2559 Default is 1.
2560 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2561 using up MTRRs.
2562
2563 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2564 Format: <integer>
2565 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2566 Default : 1
2567 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2568 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2569
2570 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2571
2572 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2573 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2574 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2575 something different and driver-specific.
2576 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2577 file if at all.
2578
2579 nf_conntrack.acct=
2580 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2581 0 to disable accounting
2582 1 to enable accounting
2583 Default value is 0.
2584
2585 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
2586 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2587
2588 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
2589 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2590
2591 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2592 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2593
2594 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2595 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2596 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2597 requests.
2598
2599 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2600 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2601 channel should listen.
2602
2603 nfs.cache_getent=
2604 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2605 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2606
2607 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2608 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2609 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2610
2611 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2612 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2613 entries.
2614
2615 nfs.enable_ino64=
2616 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2617 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2618 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2619 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2620 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2621
2622 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2623 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2624 slots the client will assign to the callback
2625 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2626 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2627 a particular server.
2628
2629 nfs.max_session_slots=
2630 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2631 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2632 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2633 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2634 Note that there is little point in setting this
2635 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2636
2637 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2638 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2639 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2640 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2641 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2642 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2643 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2644 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2645 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2646 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2647 back to using the idmapper.
2648 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
2649 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2650 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2651 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2652 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2653 UUID that is generated at system install time.
2654
2655 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2656 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2657 information in exchange_id requests.
2658 If zero, no implementation identification information
2659 will be sent.
2660 The default is to send the implementation identification
2661 information.
2662
2663 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2664 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2665 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2666 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2667 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2668 after the locks are lost.
2669 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2670 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2671 parameter to '1'.
2672 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2673 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
2674
2675 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2676 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2677 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2678
2679 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2680 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2681 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2682 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2683
2684 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2685 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2686 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2687 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2688 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2689 migration from NFSv2/v3.
2690
2691 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
2692 when a NMI is triggered.
2693 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2694
2695 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
2696 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
2697 Valid num: 0 or 1
2698 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2699 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
2700 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
2701 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
2702 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2703 please see 'nowatchdog'.
2704 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2705 need the box quickly up again.
2706
2707 These settings can be accessed at runtime via
2708 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
2709
2710 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2711 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2712 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2713 waits 4 seconds.
2714
2715 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
2716 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2717 is present.
2718
2719 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
2720 kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
2721
2722 no_console_suspend
2723 [HW] Never suspend the console
2724 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2725 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2726 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2727 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2728 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2729 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2730 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
2731 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2732 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2733 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2734 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2735 turn on/off it dynamically.
2736
2737 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2738 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2739 but will impact performance.
2740
2741 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2742
2743 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2744 (CPU alternatives feature).
2745
2746 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2747 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2748
2749 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2750
2751 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2752 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2753
2754 nocache [ARM]
2755
2756 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2757
2758 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2759
2760 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2761
2762 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
2763
2764 noexec [IA-64]
2765
2766 noexec [X86]
2767 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
2768 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2769 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2770
2771 nosmap [X86]
2772 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2773 even if it is supported by processor.
2774
2775 nosmep [X86]
2776 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
2777 even if it is supported by processor.
2778
2779 noexec32 [X86-64]
2780 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2781 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2782 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2783 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2784 read implies executable mappings
2785
2786 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
2787
2788 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
2789 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2790 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
2791
2792 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2793
2794 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2795 Equivalent to smt=1.
2796
2797 [KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2798 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
2799 via the sysfs control file.
2800
2801 nospectre_v1 [PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 (bounds
2802 check bypass). With this option data leaks are possible
2803 in the system.
2804
2805 nospectre_v2 [X86] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2
2806 (indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may
2807 allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent
2808 to spectre_v2=off.
2809
2810 nospec_store_bypass_disable
2811 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
2812
2813 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2814 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2815 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2816
2817 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2818 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2819 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2820 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2821 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2822 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2823
2824 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2825 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2826 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2827 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2828 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2829 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2830 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2831
2832 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2833 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2834 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
2835
2836 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2837 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2838 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2839
2840 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2841 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2842 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2843 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2844 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2845 real-time systems.
2846
2847 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2848
2849 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2850 Valid arguments: on, off
2851 Default: on
2852
2853 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
2854 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2855 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
2856 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
2857 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2858 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
2859 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
2860 just as if they had also been called out in the
2861 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
2862
2863 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2864
2865 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
2866 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2867
2868 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
2869 broken timer IRQ sources.
2870
2871 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2872
2873 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2874 initial RAM disk.
2875
2876 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2877 remapping.
2878 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
2879
2880 nointroute [IA-64]
2881
2882 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2883
2884 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
2885
2886 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2887
2888 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2889 fault handling.
2890
2891 no-vmw-sched-clock
2892 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2893 clock and use the default one.
2894
2895 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2896 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2897 behaviour
2898
2899 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
2900
2901 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
2902
2903 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
2904 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
2905
2906 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2907
2908 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
2909
2910 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2911 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2912
2913 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2914 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2915 irq.
2916
2917 nomodule Disable module load
2918
2919 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2920 pagetables) support.
2921
2922 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
2923
2924 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2925 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2926
2927 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
2928 with UP alternatives
2929
2930 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2931 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2932 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2933 available to user space applications.
2934
2935 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2936 space.
2937
2938 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2939 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2940 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2941
2942 nosbagart [IA-64]
2943
2944 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
2945
2946 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2947 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
2948
2949 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2950
2951 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2952
2953 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2954 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
2955
2956 nowb [ARM]
2957
2958 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2959
2960 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2961 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2962 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2963 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2964 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2965 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2966 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2967 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2968 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2969 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2970 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2971 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2972 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2973
2974 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
2975 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
2976 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
2977 without interruptions, before HW switches it.
2978 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
2979 parameter's value.
2980 Format: integer between 1 and 255
2981 Default: 255
2982
2983 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
2984 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2985 SAL PALO.
2986
2987 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2988 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
2989 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2990 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2991 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2992 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2993 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2994 hot plugging.
2995
2996 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2997
2998 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2999 Allowed values are enable and disable
3000
3001 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3002 'node', 'default' can be specified
3003 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3004 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
3005
3006 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3007 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
3008 info.
3009
3010 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3011 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3012 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3013 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
3014 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3015 interrupts *may* be lost!
3016
3017 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3018 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3019 For example, to override I2C bus2:
3020 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3021
3022 oprofile.timer= [HW]
3023 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
3024
3025 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
3026 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
3027 userland or if you want common events.
3028 Format: { arch_perfmon }
3029 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
3030 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
3031 CPU specific event set.
3032 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
3033 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
3034 for generic hr timer mode)
3035
3036 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3037 process, but there is a small probability of
3038 deadlocking the machine.
3039 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3040 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3041
3042 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3043 Storage of the information about who allocated
3044 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3045 we can turn it on.
3046 on: enable the feature
3047
3048 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3049 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3050 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3051 off: turn off poisoning (default)
3052 on: turn on poisoning
3053
3054 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3055 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3056 timeout = 0: wait forever
3057 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3058 Format: <timeout>
3059
3060 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
3061 on a WARN().
3062
3063 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3064 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3065 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3066 succeeds in any situation.
3067 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3068 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3069 kernel more unstable.
3070
3071 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3072 connected to, default is 0.
3073 Format: <parport#>
3074 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3075 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
3076 Format: <mode>
3077
3078 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3079 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3080 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3081 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3082 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3083 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3084 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3085 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3086 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3087 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3088 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3089 are specified on the command line, starting
3090 with parport0.
3091
3092 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
3093 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3094 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3095 computer where firmware has no options for setting
3096 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3097 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
3098 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3099
3100 pause_on_oops=
3101 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3102 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
3103 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3104
3105 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
3106
3107 pcd. [PARIDE]
3108 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
3109 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3110
3111 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3112
3113 Some options herein operate on a specific device
3114 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3115 specified in one of the following formats:
3116
3117 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
3118 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3119
3120 Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3121 bus/device/function address which may change
3122 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3123 firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3124 by other kernel parameters. If the
3125 domain is left unspecified, it is
3126 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3127 to a device through multiple device/function
3128 addresses can be specified after the base
3129 address (this is more robust against
3130 renumbering issues). The second format
3131 selects devices using IDs from the
3132 configuration space which may match multiple
3133 devices in the system.
3134
3135 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel
3136 changes anything
3137 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
3138 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
3139 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3140 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
3141 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
3142 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3143 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3144 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
3145 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3146 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3147 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3148 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3149 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3150 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3151 bus number. The config space is then accessed
3152 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3153 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3154 on the configuration access mechanisms.
3155 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3156 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3157 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
3158 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3159 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
3160 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
3161 Configuration
3162 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3163 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3164 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
3165 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3166 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3167 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
3168 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3169 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3170 should never be necessary.
3171 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3172 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3173 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3174 when the system masks IRQs.
3175 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3176 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3177 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3178 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
3179 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
3180 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3181 on several machines and they hang the machine
3182 when used, but on other computers it's the only
3183 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3184 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3185 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3186 motherboard.
3187 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
3188 Use with caution as certain devices share
3189 address decoders between ROMs and other
3190 resources.
3191 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
3192 expansion ROMs that do not already have
3193 BIOS assigned address ranges.
3194 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
3195 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
3196 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
3197 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3198 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3199 this way.
3200 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
3201 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3202 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3203 F0000h-100000h range.
3204 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
3205 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3206 secondary buses and you want to tell it
3207 explicitly which ones they are.
3208 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
3209 numbers ourselves, overriding
3210 whatever the firmware may have done.
3211 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
3212 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3213 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3214 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3215 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3216 IRQ routing is enabled.
3217 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
3218 or for PCI scanning.
3219 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3220 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3221 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
3222 please report a bug.
3223 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3224 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
3225 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3226 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3227 so this option is a temporary workaround
3228 for broken drivers that don't call it.
3229 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3230 handle more pci cards
3231 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3232 This might help on some broken boards which
3233 machine check when some devices' config space
3234 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3235 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
3236 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3237 This sorting is done to get a device
3238 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3239 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3240 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3241 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3242 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3243 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3244 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3245 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3246 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3247 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3248 or bus can support) for best performance.
3249 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3250 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3251 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3252 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3253 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3254 that hot-added devices will work.
3255 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3256 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3257 The default value is 256 bytes.
3258 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3259 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3260 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3261 resource_alignment=
3262 Format:
3263 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
3264 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3265 aligned memory resources. How to
3266 specify the device is described above.
3267 If <order of align> is not specified,
3268 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3269 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3270 windows need to be expanded.
3271 To specify the alignment for several
3272 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3273 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3274 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
3275 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3276 end-to-end CRC checking).
3277 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3278 the default.
3279 off: Turn ECRC off
3280 on: Turn ECRC on.
3281 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3282 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3283 Default size is 256 bytes.
3284 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3285 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3286 Default size is 2 megabytes.
3287 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3288 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3289 Default is 1.
3290 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3291 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3292 accommodate resources required by all child
3293 devices.
3294 off: Turn realloc off
3295 on: Turn realloc on
3296 realloc same as realloc=on
3297 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
3298 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3299 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
3300 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3301 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3302 port.
3303 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3304 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3305 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3306 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3307 conflict with unreported devices), so this
3308 taints the kernel.
3309 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
3310 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
3311 specified above) separated by semicolons.
3312 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
3313 redirect capabilities forced off which will
3314 allow P2P traffic between devices through
3315 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
3316 this removes isolation between devices and
3317 may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
3318
3319 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3320 Management.
3321 off Disable ASPM.
3322 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3323 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3324
3325 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3326 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3327 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3328 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform
3329 also tries to use these services.
3330 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3331 hotplug).
3332
3333 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3334 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3335 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3336
3337 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
3338 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
3339 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
3340
3341 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3342
3343 pd_ignore_unused
3344 [PM]
3345 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3346 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3347 for debug and development, but should not be
3348 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3349
3350 pd. [PARIDE]
3351 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3352
3353 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3354 boot time.
3355 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3356 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3357
3358 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
3359 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3360 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3361 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3362 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3363 and performance comparison.
3364
3365 pf. [PARIDE]
3366 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3367
3368 pg. [PARIDE]
3369 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3370
3371 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
3372 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
3373
3374 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3375 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3376 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
3377
3378 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
3379 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3380 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3381
3382 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3383 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3384 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3385 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3386 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3387 possible settings and some assignment information.
3388
3389 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3390 { off }
3391
3392 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3393 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3394
3395 pnp_reserve_irq=
3396 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3397
3398 pnp_reserve_dma=
3399 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3400
3401 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
3402 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
3403
3404 pnp_reserve_mem=
3405 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3406 autoconfiguration.
3407 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3408
3409 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3410 Default is 21.
3411 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3412 may be specified.
3413 Format: <port>,<port>....
3414
3415 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3416 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3417 platform machine description specific power_save
3418 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3419 execution priority.
3420
3421 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3422 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3423 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3424 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3425 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3426
3427 ppc_tm= [PPC]
3428 Format: {"off"}
3429 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3430
3431 print-fatal-signals=
3432 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
3433
3434 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3435 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3436 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3437 coredump - etc.
3438
3439 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3440 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3441
3442 default: off.
3443
3444 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3445 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3446 panics
3447 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3448 default: disabled
3449
3450 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3451 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3452 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3453 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3454 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3455 Default: ratelimit
3456
3457 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3458 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3459
3460 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3461 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3462 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3463
3464 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3465 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3466 instead using the legacy FADT method
3467
3468 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
3469 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3470 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3471 [defaults to kernel profiling]
3472 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3473 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3474 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
3475 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
3476 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3477 statistical time based profiling.
3478
3479 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3480 before loading.
3481 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3482
3483 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3484 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
3485 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3486 per second.
3487 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3488 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
3489 (0 = never).
3490 psmouse.resolution=
3491 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3492 psmouse.smartscroll=
3493 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
3494 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3495
3496 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3497
3498 pt. [PARIDE]
3499 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3500
3501 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3502 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
3503 removes hardening, but improves performance of
3504 system calls and interrupts.
3505
3506 on - unconditionally enable
3507 off - unconditionally disable
3508 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3509 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3510
3511 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3512
3513 nopti [X86_64]
3514 Equivalent to pti=off
3515
3516 pty.legacy_count=
3517 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3518 default number.
3519
3520 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
3521
3522 r128= [HW,DRM]
3523
3524 raid= [HW,RAID]
3525 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3526
3527 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
3528 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3529
3530 random.trust_cpu={on,off}
3531 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
3532 CPU's random number generator (if available) to
3533 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
3534 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
3535
3536 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
3537
3538 cec_disable [X86]
3539 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3540 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3541
3542 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
3543 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3544
3545 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3546 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3547 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
3548 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3549 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3550 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3551 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
3552 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3553 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3554 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3555
3556 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
3557 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3558 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3559 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3560 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3561 This improves the real-time response for the
3562 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3563 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3564 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3565 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3566
3567 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
3568 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3569 process in one batch.
3570
3571 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3572 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3573 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3574 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3575
3576 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3577 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3578 RCU grace-period cleanup.
3579
3580 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3581 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3582 RCU grace-period initialization.
3583
3584 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3585 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3586 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3587 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3588 the rcu_node combining tree.
3589
3590 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3591 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3592 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3593 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3594 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
3595
3596 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
3597 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3598 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3599 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3600 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3601 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3602 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
3603
3604 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3605 Set required age in jiffies for a
3606 given grace period before RCU starts
3607 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3608 rcu_note_context_switch().
3609
3610 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
3611 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3612 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3613 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3614 and maximum value is HZ.
3615
3616 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
3617 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3618 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3619 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3620
3621 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
3622 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3623 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3624 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3625 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3626 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3627 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3628 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3629 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3630 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
3631
3632 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3633 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3634 defaults to the square root of the number of
3635 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3636 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3637 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3638
3639 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
3640 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3641 batch limiting is disabled.
3642
3643 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
3644 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3645 batch limiting is re-enabled.
3646
3647 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
3648 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3649 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3650
3651 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
3652 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3653 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3654 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3655 prove do nothing more than free memory.
3656
3657 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3658 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3659 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3660 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3661 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3662 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3663
3664 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3665 Measure performance of asynchronous
3666 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3667
3668 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3669 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3670 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
3671 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3672 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3673 previously posted callbacks to drain.
3674
3675 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3676 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3677 grace-period primitives.
3678
3679 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3680 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3681 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3682 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3683 interference.
3684
3685 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3686 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3687 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3688 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3689 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3690 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3691 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3692 a single reader.
3693
3694 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3695 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3696 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3697 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3698
3699 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3700 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3701
3702 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3703 Shut the system down after performance tests
3704 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3705 testing.
3706
3707 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3708 Enable additional printk() statements.
3709
3710 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3711 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3712 in microseconds. The default of zero says
3713 no holdoff.
3714
3715 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3716 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3717 callback-flood tests.
3718
3719 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3720 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3721 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3722 test.
3723
3724 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3725 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3726 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3727 disable callback-flood testing.
3728
3729 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3730 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3731 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3732
3733 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
3734 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3735 in microseconds.
3736
3737 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
3738 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3739 in microseconds.
3740
3741 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
3742 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3743 in seconds.
3744
3745 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3746 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3747 primitives, if available.
3748
3749 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
3750 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
3751
3752 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
3753 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3754 update-side primitives, if available.
3755
3756 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3757 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3758 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3759 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3760 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3761 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3762 they are all non-zero.
3763
3764 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
3765 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3766
3767 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
3768 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3769 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3770 test, hence the "fake".
3771
3772 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3773 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3774 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3775 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3776 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3777 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3778
3779 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3780 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3781
3782 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
3783 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3784
3785 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
3786 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
3787 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3788
3789 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
3790 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3791 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3792 during the rcutorture test.
3793
3794 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
3795 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3796 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3797
3798 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
3799 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3800 warnings, zero to disable.
3801
3802 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
3803 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3804
3805 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
3806 Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
3807
3808 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
3809 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3810
3811 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
3812 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3813 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3814 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3815 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3816
3817 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
3818 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3819 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3820 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3821
3822 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
3823 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3824
3825 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
3826 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3827
3828 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
3829 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3830 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3831
3832 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
3833 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3834
3835 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
3836 Enable additional printk() statements.
3837
3838 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3839 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3840
3841 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3842 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3843
3844 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3845 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3846 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3847 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3848 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3849 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
3850 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3851
3852 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3853 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3854 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3855 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
3856 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3857 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3858 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3859 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3860 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3861
3862 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3863 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3864 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
3865 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3866 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3867
3868 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3869 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3870 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3871 to zero.
3872
3873 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3874 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3875
3876 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3877 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3878
3879 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3880 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3881
3882 rdinit= [KNL]
3883 Format: <full_path>
3884 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3885 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3886
3887 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
3888 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
3889 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
3890 mba.
3891 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
3892 rdt=cmt,!mba
3893
3894 reboot= [KNL]
3895 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3896 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3897 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3898 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3899 [[,]f[orce]
3900 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3901 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3902 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3903 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3904 to be used for rebooting.
3905
3906 relax_domain_level=
3907 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
3908 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
3909
3910 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
3911 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
3912 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
3913 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
3914 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
3915
3916 reservetop= [X86-32]
3917 Format: nn[KMG]
3918 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3919 address space.
3920
3921 reservelow= [X86]
3922 Format: nn[K]
3923 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3924 the bottom of the address space.
3925
3926 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3927 during initialization.
3928
3929 resume= [SWSUSP]
3930 Specify the partition device for software suspend
3931 Format:
3932 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
3933
3934 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3935 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3936 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3937 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3938 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3939
3940 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3941 read the resume files
3942
3943 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3944 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3945 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3946
3947 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3948 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3949 present during boot.
3950 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
3951 no Disable hibernation and resume.
3952 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
3953 (that will set all pages holding image data
3954 during restoration read-only).
3955
3956 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3957
3958 rfkill.default_state=
3959 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3960 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3961 1 Unblocked.
3962
3963 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3964 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3965 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3966 blocked and the previous configuration.
3967 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3968 blocked and everything unblocked.
3969
3970 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3971 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3972
3973 ring3mwait=disable
3974 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
3975 CPUs.
3976
3977 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3978
3979 rodata= [KNL]
3980 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3981 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3982
3983 rockchip.usb_uart
3984 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3985 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3986 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3987 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3988
3989 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
3990 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
3991
3992 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3993 mount the root filesystem
3994
3995 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3996
3997 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3998
3999 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
4000 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4001 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4002
4003 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
4004 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
4005 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
4006 managed by CMA.
4007
4008 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
4009
4010 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
4011
4012 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
4013 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
4014 strict
4015 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
4016 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
4017 which is faster.
4018
4019 sa1100ir [NET]
4020 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
4021
4022 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
4023
4024 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
4025
4026 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
4027 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
4028 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
4029 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
4030
4031 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
4032 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
4033 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
4034 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4035 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
4036 1 -- enable.
4037 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
4038 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
4039
4040 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
4041 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
4042 security module asking for security registration will be
4043 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
4044 as if no module has been chosen.
4045
4046 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
4047 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4048 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
4049 0 -- disable.
4050 1 -- enable.
4051 Default value is set via kernel config option.
4052 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
4053 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
4054
4055 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
4056 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4057 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
4058 0 -- disable.
4059 1 -- enable.
4060 Default value is set via kernel config option.
4061
4062 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
4063
4064 shapers= [NET]
4065 Maximal number of shapers.
4066
4067 simeth= [IA-64]
4068 simscsi=
4069
4070 slram= [HW,MTD]
4071
4072 slab_nomerge [MM]
4073 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
4074 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
4075 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
4076 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
4077 layout control by attackers can usually be
4078 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
4079 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
4080 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
4081 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
4082 own.
4083 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4084
4085 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
4086 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4087 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4088 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
4089 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
4090
4091 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
4092 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
4093 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
4094 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
4095 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
4096 last alloc / free. For more information see
4097 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4098
4099 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
4100 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
4101 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
4102 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
4103 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
4104 directories and files being created under
4105 /sys/kernel/slub.
4106
4107 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
4108 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4109 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4110 fragmentation. For more information see
4111 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4112
4113 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
4114 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
4115 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
4116 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
4117 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
4118 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
4119 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
4120 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4121
4122 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
4123 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
4124 lower than slub_max_order.
4125 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4126
4127 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
4128 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
4129 See slab_nomerge for more information.
4130
4131 smart2= [HW]
4132 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
4133
4134 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
4135 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
4136 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
4137 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
4138 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
4139 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
4140 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
4141 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
4142 1: Fast pin select (default)
4143 2: ATC IRMode
4144
4145 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4146 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4147 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4148 actual hardware limit.
4149 Format: <integer>
4150 Default: -1 (no limit)
4151
4152 softlockup_panic=
4153 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
4154 Format: <integer>
4155
4156 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
4157 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
4158 is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
4159 which is the respective build-time switch to that
4160 functionality.
4161
4162 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4163 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4164 backtraces on all cpus.
4165 Format: <integer>
4166
4167 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
4168 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
4169
4170 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4171 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
4172 The default operation protects the kernel from
4173 user space attacks.
4174
4175 on - unconditionally enable, implies
4176 spectre_v2_user=on
4177 off - unconditionally disable, implies
4178 spectre_v2_user=off
4179 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4180 vulnerable
4181
4182 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4183 mitigation method at run time according to the
4184 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4185 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4186 compiler with which the kernel was built.
4187
4188 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
4189 against user space to user space task attacks.
4190
4191 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
4192 the user space protections.
4193
4194 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4195
4196 retpoline - replace indirect branches
4197 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4198 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4199
4200 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4201 spectre_v2=auto.
4202
4203 spectre_v2_user=
4204 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4205 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
4206 user space tasks
4207
4208 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
4209 enforced by spectre_v2=on
4210
4211 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
4212 enforced by spectre_v2=off
4213
4214 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
4215 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
4216 per thread. The mitigation control state
4217 is inherited on fork.
4218
4219 prctl,ibpb
4220 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
4221 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4222 always when switching between different user
4223 space processes.
4224
4225 seccomp
4226 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
4227 threads will enable the mitigation unless
4228 they explicitly opt out.
4229
4230 seccomp,ibpb
4231 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
4232 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4233 always when switching between different
4234 user space processes.
4235
4236 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
4237 the available CPU features and vulnerability.
4238
4239 Default mitigation:
4240 If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4241
4242 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4243 spectre_v2_user=auto.
4244
4245 spec_store_bypass_disable=
4246 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
4247 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
4248
4249 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
4250 a common industry wide performance optimization known
4251 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
4252 to the same memory location may not be observed by
4253 later loads during speculative execution. The idea
4254 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
4255 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
4256 end of a particular speculation execution window.
4257
4258 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4259 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
4260 example to read memory to which the attacker does not
4261 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
4262
4263 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
4264 Bypass optimization is used.
4265
4266 On x86 the options are:
4267
4268 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
4269 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
4270 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
4271 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
4272 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
4273 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
4274 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
4275 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
4276 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
4277 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
4278 for a process by default. The state of the control
4279 is inherited on fork.
4280 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
4281 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
4282
4283 Default mitigations:
4284 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4285
4286 On powerpc the options are:
4287
4288 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
4289 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
4290 perform a software flush on kernel entry and
4291 exit.
4292 off - No action.
4293
4294 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4295 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
4296
4297 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
4298 spia_fio_base=
4299 spia_pedr=
4300 spia_peddr=
4301
4302 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4303 Specifies how frequently to check for
4304 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4305 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4306 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4307 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4308 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
4309 are ignored.
4310
4311 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4312 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4313 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4314 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4315 grace period will be considered for automatic
4316 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
4317 expediting.
4318
4319 ssbd= [ARM64,HW]
4320 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
4321
4322 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
4323 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
4324 firmware based mitigation, this parameter
4325 indicates how the mitigation should be used:
4326
4327 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for
4328 for both kernel and userspace
4329 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
4330 for both kernel and userspace
4331 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the
4332 kernel, and offer a prctl interface
4333 to allow userspace to register its
4334 interest in being mitigated too.
4335
4336 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
4337 override the default stack gap protection. The value
4338 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4339 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4340 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4341 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4342
4343 stacktrace [FTRACE]
4344 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4345
4346 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4347 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4348 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4349 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4350 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4351 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4352 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4353
4354 sti= [PARISC,HW]
4355 Format: <num>
4356 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4357 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4358 as the initial boot-console.
4359 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4360
4361 sti_font= [HW]
4362 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4363
4364 stifb= [HW]
4365 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4366
4367 sunrpc.min_resvport=
4368 sunrpc.max_resvport=
4369 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4370 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4371 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4372 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4373 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4374 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4375 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4376 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4377 maximum port values.
4378
4379 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4380 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4381 Limit the number of requests that the server will
4382 process in parallel from a single connection.
4383 The default value is 0 (no limit).
4384
4385 sunrpc.pool_mode=
4386 [NFS]
4387 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4388 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
4389 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4390 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4391 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4392 NFS server is running.
4393
4394 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
4395 automatically using heuristics
4396 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
4397 percpu one pool for each CPU
4398 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4399 to global on non-NUMA machines)
4400
4401 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4402 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4403 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4404 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4405 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4406 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4407 improve throughput, but will also increase the
4408 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4409
4410 suspend.pm_test_delay=
4411 [SUSPEND]
4412 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4413 mode before resuming the system (see
4414 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4415 is set. Default value is 5.
4416
4417 swapaccount=[0|1]
4418 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4419 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
4420 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
4421
4422 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
4423 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
4424 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4425 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4426 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
4427 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
4428
4429 switches= [HW,M68k]
4430
4431 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4432 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4433 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4434 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4435 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4436 in older udev will not work anymore.
4437 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4438 the kernel configuration.
4439
4440 sysrq_always_enabled
4441 [KNL]
4442 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4443 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4444 Useful for debugging.
4445
4446 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4447 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4448 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4449 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4450 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4451 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4452
4453 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
4454
4455 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
4456 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
4457 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4458 as the system sleep state during system startup with
4459 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4460 The system is woken from this state using a
4461 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
4462
4463 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4464 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4465
4466 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
4467 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4468 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4469
4470 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
4471 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
4472 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
4473
4474 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
4475 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4476 critical and hot trip points.
4477
4478 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
4479 1: disable ACPI thermal control
4480
4481 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
4482 -1: disable all passive trip points
4483 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4484 value
4485
4486 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
4487 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4488 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4489 0: no polling (default)
4490
4491 threadirqs [KNL]
4492 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
4493 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
4494
4495 tmem [KNL,XEN]
4496 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4497
4498 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4499 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4500 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4501
4502 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4503 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
4504 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4505 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
4506
4507 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4508 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4509 to the hypervisor.
4510
4511 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4512 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4513 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4514 kernel based on different criteria.
4515
4516 topology= [S390]
4517 Format: {off | on}
4518 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
4519 topology information if the hardware supports this.
4520 The scheduler will make use of this information and
4521 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
4522 Default is on.
4523
4524 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4525 Format: {off}
4526 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4527 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4528 LPAR.
4529
4530 tp720= [HW,PS2]
4531
4532 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4533 Format: integer pcr id
4534 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4535 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4536 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4537 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4538 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4539 are saved.
4540
4541 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
4542 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
4543
4544 trace_event=[event-list]
4545 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
4546 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4547 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4548 also Documentation/trace/events.rst
4549
4550 trace_options=[option-list]
4551 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4552 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4553 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4554 to echo the option name into
4555
4556 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4557
4558 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4559 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4560
4561 trace_options=stacktrace
4562
4563 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
4564 section.
4565
4566 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4567 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4568 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4569 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4570 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4571 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4572
4573 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4574 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4575 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4576 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4577
4578 ** CAUTION **
4579
4580 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4581 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4582 the system to live lock.
4583
4584 traceoff_on_warning
4585 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4586 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4587 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4588 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4589
4590 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4591 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4592 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4593
4594 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4595 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4596
4597 transparent_hugepage=
4598 [KNL]
4599 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4600 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4601 with respect to transparent hugepages.
4602 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
4603 for more details.
4604
4605 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
4606 Format: <string>
4607 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
4608 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4609 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4610 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4611 virtualized environment.
4612 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4613 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4614 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4615 can add overhead.
4616 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4617 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4618 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
4619
4620 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4621 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4622 Format:
4623 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
4624 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
4625
4626 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
4627 happen after console_init() and before a proper
4628 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4629 help "seeing" what's going on.
4630
4631 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4632 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4633
4634 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4635 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4636 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4637 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4638 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4639 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4640 reported either.
4641
4642 unknown_nmi_panic
4643 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
4644
4645 usbcore.authorized_default=
4646 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4647 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4648 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4649
4650 usbcore.autosuspend=
4651 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4652 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4653 is the time required before an idle device will be
4654 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
4655 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
4656
4657 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4658 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4659
4660 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4661 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4662 (default = 65536).
4663
4664 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4665 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4666
4667 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4668 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
4669 scheme (default 0 = off).
4670
4671 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4672 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4673 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4674
4675 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4676 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4677 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4678
4679 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4680 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4681 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4682 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4683
4684 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4685
4686 usbcore.quirks=
4687 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
4688 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
4689 commas. Each entry has the form
4690 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
4691 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
4692 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
4693 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
4694 the following meanings:
4695 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
4696 descriptors must not be fetched using
4697 a 255-byte read);
4698 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
4699 correctly so reset it instead);
4700 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
4701 Set-Interface requests);
4702 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
4703 handle its Configuration or Interface
4704 strings);
4705 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
4706 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
4707 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
4708 more interface descriptions than the
4709 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
4710 talking to these interfaces);
4711 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
4712 during initialization, after we read
4713 the device descriptor);
4714 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
4715 high speed and super speed interrupt
4716 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
4717 require the interval in microframes (1
4718 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
4719 calculated as interval = 2 ^
4720 (bInterval-1).
4721 Devices with this quirk report their
4722 bInterval as the result of this
4723 calculation instead of the exponent
4724 variable used in the calculation);
4725 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
4726 handle device_qualifier descriptor
4727 requests);
4728 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
4729 generates spurious wakeup, ignore
4730 remote wakeup capability);
4731 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
4732 Power Management);
4733 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
4734 (Device reports its bInterval as linear
4735 frames instead of the USB 2.0
4736 calculation);
4737 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
4738 to be disconnected before suspend to
4739 prevent spurious wakeup);
4740 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
4741 pause after every control message);
4742 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
4743 delay after resetting its port);
4744 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
4745
4746 usbhid.mousepoll=
4747 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
4748
4749 usbhid.jspoll=
4750 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4751
4752 usbhid.kbpoll=
4753 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
4754
4755 usb-storage.delay_use=
4756 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
4757 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
4758
4759 usb-storage.quirks=
4760 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4761 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4762 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4763 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4764 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4765 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4766 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
4767 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4768 of sense data);
4769 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4770 bytes of sense data);
4771 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4772 device capacity by one sector);
4773 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4774 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4775 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4776 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
4777 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4778 command, uas only);
4779 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4780 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
4781 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4782 reported device capacity by one
4783 sector if the number is odd);
4784 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4785 device);
4786 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4787 command, uas only);
4788 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4789 unlock ejectable media);
4790 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4791 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
4792 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4793 initial READ(10) command);
4794 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4795 reported by the device);
4796 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4797 by default);
4798 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4799 bogus residue values);
4800 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4801 Logical Unit);
4802 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4803 commands, uas only);
4804 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
4805 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4806 medium is write-protected).
4807 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4808 even if the device claims no cache)
4809 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4810
4811 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4812 Format: <int>
4813 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4814 1 - undefined instruction events
4815 2 - system calls
4816 4 - invalid data aborts
4817 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4818 16 - SIGBUS faults
4819 Example: user_debug=31
4820
4821 userpte=
4822 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4823
4824 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4825 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4826 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4827
4828 vdso= [X86,SH]
4829 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4830
4831 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
4832 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4833
4834 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4835 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4836 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4837
4838 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4839 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4840 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4841
4842 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4843 alias for vdso32=0.
4844
4845 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4846 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
4847
4848 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4849 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4850
4851 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4852 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4853
4854 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4855 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4856 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4857 level and then send out the event to user space through
4858 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4859 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4860 brightness level.
4861 default: 1
4862
4863 virtio_mmio.device=
4864 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4865
4866 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4867 where:
4868 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4869 like K, M and G)
4870 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4871 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4872 request_irq())
4873 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4874 example:
4875 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4876
4877 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4878
4879 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
4880 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
4881 Documentation/svga.txt.
4882 Use vga=ask for menu.
4883 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4884 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4885
4886 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
4887 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4888 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4889 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4890 mapped kernel RAM.
4891
4892 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390]
4893 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
4894 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
4895
4896 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4897 Format: <command>
4898
4899 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4900 Format: <command>
4901
4902 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4903 Format: <command>
4904
4905 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4906 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4907 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4908 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4909 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4910 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4911 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4912
4913 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4914 emulated reasonably safely.
4915
4916 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
4917 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4918 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4919 better than they would in emulation mode.
4920 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4921
4922 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4923 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4924 might break your system.
4925
4926 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4927 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4928 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4929
4930 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4931 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4932 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4933 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4934
4935 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4936 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4937 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4938 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4939 ranging from 0-255.
4940
4941 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4942 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4943 Change the default green palette of the console.
4944 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4945 ranging from 0-255.
4946
4947 vt.default_red= [VT]
4948 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4949 Change the default red palette of the console.
4950 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4951 ranging from 0-255.
4952
4953 vt.default_utf8=
4954 [VT]
4955 Format=<0|1>
4956 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4957 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4958 newly opened terminals.
4959
4960 vt.global_cursor_default=
4961 [VT]
4962 Format=<-1|0|1>
4963 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4964 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4965 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4966 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4967 cursors, 1 will display them.
4968
4969 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4970 Default: 2 = green.
4971
4972 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4973 Default: 3 = cyan.
4974
4975 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4976 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4977 or other driver-specific files in the
4978 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
4979
4980 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4981 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4982 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4983 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4984 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4985 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4986 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4987 corresponding sysfs file.
4988
4989 workqueue.disable_numa
4990 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4991 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4992 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4993 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4994 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4995 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4996 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4997
4998 workqueue.power_efficient
4999 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
5000 they show better performance thanks to cache
5001 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
5002 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
5003
5004 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
5005 were observed to contribute significantly to power
5006 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
5007 power usage at the cost of small performance
5008 overhead.
5009
5010 The default value of this parameter is determined by
5011 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
5012
5013 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
5014 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
5015 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
5016 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
5017 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
5018 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
5019 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
5020 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
5021 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
5022 impacted.
5023
5024 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
5025 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
5026 supporting x2apic.
5027
5028 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
5029 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
5030 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
5031 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
5032 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
5033
5034 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
5035 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
5036 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
5037 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
5038 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
5039 domains.
5040
5041 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
5042 Unplug Xen emulated devices
5043 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
5044 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
5045 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
5046 nics -- unplug network devices
5047 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
5048 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
5049 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
5050 the unplug protocol
5051 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
5052
5053 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
5054 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
5055 optimizations.
5056
5057 xen_nopv [X86]
5058 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
5059 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
5060
5061 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN]
5062 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
5063 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
5064 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
5065 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
5066
5067 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
5068 Format:
5069 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
5070
5071 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL]
5072 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
5073 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
5074 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.