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  1. acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
  2. Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
  3. Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
  4. copy_dsdt }
  5. force -- enable ACPI if default was off
  6. on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
  7. off -- disable ACPI if default was on
  8. noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
  9. strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
  10. strictly ACPI specification compliant.
  11. rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
  12. copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
  13. For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
  14. are available
  15. See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
  16. acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
  17. Format: <int>
  18. 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
  19. 1,0: use 1st APIC table
  20. default: 0
  21. acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
  22. acpi_backlight=vendor
  23. acpi_backlight=video
  24. If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
  25. (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
  26. of the ACPI video.ko driver.
  27. acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
  28. force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
  29. 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
  30. bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
  31. the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
  32. acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
  33. Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
  34. This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
  35. the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
  36. This option is useful for developers to identify the
  37. root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
  38. has something to do with the repair mechanism.
  39. acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
  40. acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
  41. Format: <int>
  42. CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
  43. debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
  44. _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
  45. #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
  46. Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
  47. ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
  48. ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
  49. The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
  50. Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
  51. debug layers and levels.
  52. Enable processor driver info messages:
  53. acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
  54. Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
  55. acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
  56. Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
  57. object while interpreting AML:
  58. acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
  59. Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
  60. acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
  61. Some values produce so much output that the system is
  62. unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
  63. if you need to capture more output.
  64. acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
  65. { strict | lax | no }
  66. Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
  67. and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
  68. only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
  69. used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
  70. can interfere with legacy drivers.
  71. strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
  72. is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
  73. resources will fail to bind to device using them.
  74. lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
  75. legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
  76. will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
  77. no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
  78. no further checks are performed.
  79. acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
  80. Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
  81. By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
  82. size limitation.
  83. acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
  84. ACPI will balance active IRQs
  85. default in APIC mode
  86. acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
  87. ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
  88. default in PIC mode
  89. acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
  90. Format: <irq>,<irq>...
  91. acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
  92. use by PCI
  93. Format: <irq>,<irq>...
  94. acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
  95. Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
  96. by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
  97. GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
  98. the GPE dispatcher.
  99. This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
  100. GPE floodings.
  101. Format: <int>
  102. Support masking of GPEs numbered from 0x00 to 0x7f.
  103. acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
  104. Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
  105. AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
  106. named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
  107. auto-serialization feature.
  108. This feature is enabled by default.
  109. This option allows to turn off the feature.
  110. acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
  111. kernels.
  112. acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
  113. Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
  114. By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
  115. installed automatically and they will appear under
  116. /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
  117. This option turns off this feature.
  118. Note that specifying this option does not affect
  119. dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
  120. tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
  121. acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
  122. Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
  123. on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
  124. second kernel for kdump.
  125. acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
  126. Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
  127. acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
  128. of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
  129. specification revision (when using this switch, it may
  130. be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
  131. row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
  132. acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
  133. acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
  134. acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
  135. acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
  136. acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
  137. strings
  138. acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
  139. strings
  140. acpi_osi= # disable all strings
  141. 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
  142. multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
  143. vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
  144. affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
  145. it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
  146. strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
  147. specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
  148. is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
  149. care about the state of the feature group strings which
  150. should be controlled by the OSPM.
  151. Examples:
  152. 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
  153. to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
  154. can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
  155. 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
  156. 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
  157. exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
  158. only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
  159. multiple times through kernel command line is also
  160. meaningless.
  161. Examples:
  162. 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
  163. FALSE.
  164. 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
  165. multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
  166. string(s). Note that such command can affect the
  167. current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
  168. feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
  169. through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
  170. still not able to affect the final state of a string if
  171. there are quirks related to this string. This command
  172. is useful when one want to control the state of the
  173. feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
  174. the OSPM features.
  175. Examples:
  176. 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
  177. '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
  178. 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
  179. '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
  180. 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
  181. equivalent to
  182. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
  183. and
  184. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
  185. they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
  186. acpi_pm_good [X86]
  187. Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
  188. to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
  189. and always returns good values.
  190. acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
  191. Format: { level | edge | high | low }
  192. acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
  193. Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
  194. For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
  195. acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
  196. Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
  197. old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable }
  198. See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
  199. s3_bios and s3_mode.
  200. s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
  201. as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
  202. s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
  203. used during resume from hibernation.
  204. old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
  205. control method, with respect to putting devices into
  206. low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
  207. of _PTS is used by default).
  208. nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
  209. ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
  210. sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
  211. on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
  212. but some broken systems don't work without it).
  213. acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
  214. Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
  215. that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
  216. add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
  217. kernel's map of available physical RAM.
  218. agp= [AGP]
  219. { off | try_unsupported }
  220. off: disable AGP support
  221. try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
  222. (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
  223. ALSA [HW,ALSA]
  224. See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
  225. alignment= [KNL,ARM]
  226. Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
  227. behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
  228. bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
  229. align_va_addr= [X86-64]
  230. Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
  231. allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
  232. gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
  233. machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
  234. CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
  235. a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
  236. 32: only for 32-bit processes
  237. 64: only for 64-bit processes
  238. on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
  239. off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
  240. alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
  241. Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
  242. main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
  243. and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
  244. do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
  245. to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
  246. amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
  247. Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
  248. Possible values are:
  249. fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
  250. they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
  251. flushed before they will be reused, which
  252. is a lot of faster
  253. off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
  254. the system
  255. force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
  256. devices. The IOMMU driver is not
  257. allowed anymore to lift isolation
  258. requirements as needed. This option
  259. does not override iommu=pt
  260. amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
  261. Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
  262. for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
  263. driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
  264. IOMMU initialization.
  265. amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
  266. Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
  267. remapping modes:
  268. legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
  269. vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
  270. to inject interrupts directly into guest.
  271. This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
  272. (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
  273. amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
  274. Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
  275. Format: <a>,<b>
  276. See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
  277. analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
  278. Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
  279. connected to one of 16 gameports
  280. Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
  281. apc= [HW,SPARC]
  282. Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
  283. Format: noidle
  284. Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
  285. not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
  286. APC and your system crashes randomly.
  287. apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
  288. Change the output verbosity whilst booting
  289. Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
  290. Change the amount of debugging information output
  291. when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
  292. apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
  293. Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
  294. bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
  295. all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
  296. backup of CPU 0
  297. none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
  298. useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
  299. shot down by NMI
  300. autoconf= [IPV6]
  301. See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
  302. show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
  303. Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
  304. number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
  305. to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
  306. Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
  307. The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
  308. apic=verbose is specified.
  309. Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
  310. apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
  311. See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
  312. arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
  313. Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
  314. ataflop= [HW,M68k]
  315. atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
  316. atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
  317. EzKey and similar keyboards
  318. atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
  319. atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
  320. Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
  321. atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
  322. keyboards
  323. atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
  324. Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
  325. atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
  326. Use software keyboard repeat
  327. audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
  328. Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
  329. 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
  330. until the next reboot
  331. unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
  332. will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
  333. 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
  334. storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
  335. RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
  336. auditd.
  337. Default: unset
  338. audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
  339. Format: <int> (must be >=0)
  340. Default: 64
  341. bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
  342. behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
  343. Format: { "0" | "1" }
  344. 0 - Disable the BAU.
  345. 1 - Enable the BAU.
  346. unset - Disable the BAU.
  347. baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
  348. Format: <io>,<mode>
  349. baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
  350. Format: <io>,<mode>
  351. See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
  352. baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
  353. BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
  354. Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
  355. See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
  356. baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
  357. BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
  358. Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
  359. See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
  360. blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
  361. embedded devices based on command line input.
  362. See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
  363. boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
  364. Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
  365. no delay (0).
  366. Format: integer
  367. bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
  368. bert_disable [ACPI]
  369. Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
  370. bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
  371. bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
  372. kernel args too.
  373. bttv.pll= See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
  374. bttv.tuner=
  375. bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
  376. firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
  377. at a time.
  378. c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
  379. cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
  380. Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
  381. size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
  382. to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
  383. possible to determine what the correct size should be.
  384. This option provides an override for these situations.
  385. ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
  386. the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
  387. trust validation.
  388. format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
  389. cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
  390. algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
  391. inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
  392. for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
  393. others).
  394. ccw_timeout_log [S390]
  395. See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
  396. cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
  397. Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
  398. The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
  399. - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
  400. a single hierarchy
  401. - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
  402. subsystem
  403. {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
  404. cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
  405. only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
  406. cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
  407. Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
  408. Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
  409. the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
  410. cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
  411. Format: <string>
  412. nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
  413. nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
  414. checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
  415. Format: { "0" | "1" }
  416. See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
  417. 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
  418. any implied execute protection).
  419. 1 -- check protection requested by application.
  420. Default value is set via a kernel config option.
  421. Value can be changed at runtime via
  422. /selinux/checkreqprot.
  423. cio_ignore= [S390]
  424. See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
  425. clk_ignore_unused
  426. [CLK]
  427. Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
  428. clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
  429. device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
  430. by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
  431. force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
  432. those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
  433. debug and development, but should not be needed on a
  434. platform with proper driver support. For more
  435. information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
  436. clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
  437. [Deprecated]
  438. Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
  439. when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
  440. clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
  441. Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
  442. clocksource= Override the default clocksource
  443. Format: <string>
  444. Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
  445. with the name specified.
  446. Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
  447. the platform:
  448. [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
  449. [ACPI] acpi_pm
  450. [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
  451. pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
  452. [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
  453. scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
  454. [MIPS] MIPS
  455. [PARISC] cr16
  456. [S390] tod
  457. [SH] SuperH
  458. [SPARC64] tick
  459. [X86-64] hpet,tsc
  460. clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
  461. [ARM,ARM64]
  462. Format: <bool>
  463. Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
  464. architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
  465. loops can be debugged more effectively on production
  466. systems.
  467. clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
  468. Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
  469. arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
  470. numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
  471. stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
  472. ones should be.
  473. Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
  474. or using the feature without checking anything
  475. will still see it. This just prevents it from
  476. being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
  477. Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
  478. some critical bits.
  479. cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
  480. [ARM,X86,KNL]
  481. Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
  482. contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
  483. placement constraint by the physical address range of
  484. memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
  485. altogether. For more information, see
  486. include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
  487. cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
  488. Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
  489. when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
  490. to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
  491. a hypervisor.
  492. Default: yes
  493. coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
  494. Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
  495. allocations, by default set to 256K.
  496. code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
  497. in an oops report.
  498. Range: 0 - 8192
  499. Default: 64
  500. com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
  501. Format:
  502. <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
  503. com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
  504. Format: <io>[,<irq>]
  505. com90xx= [HW,NET]
  506. ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
  507. Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
  508. condev= [HW,S390] console device
  509. conmode=
  510. console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
  511. tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
  512. ttyS<n>[,options]
  513. ttyUSB0[,options]
  514. Use the specified serial port. The options are of
  515. the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
  516. "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
  517. bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
  518. omit it). Default is "9600n8".
  519. See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
  520. information. See
  521. Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
  522. alternative.
  523. uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
  524. uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
  525. uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
  526. uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
  527. uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
  528. Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
  529. UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
  530. switching to the matching ttyS device later.
  531. MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
  532. (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
  533. If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
  534. to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
  535. the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
  536. the h/w is not re-initialized.
  537. hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
  538. both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
  539. If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
  540. device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
  541. console=brl,ttyS0
  542. For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
  543. consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
  544. seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
  545. Defaults to 0.
  546. coredump_filter=
  547. [KNL] Change the default value for
  548. /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
  549. See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
  550. coresight_cpu_debug.enable
  551. [ARM,ARM64]
  552. Format: <bool>
  553. Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
  554. 0: default value, disable debugging
  555. 1: enable debugging at boot time
  556. cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
  557. disable the cpuidle sub-system
  558. cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
  559. disable the cpufreq sub-system
  560. cpu_init_udelay=N
  561. [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
  562. of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
  563. on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
  564. Default: 10000
  565. cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
  566. Format:
  567. <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
  568. crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
  569. [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
  570. upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
  571. memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
  572. image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
  573. is selected automatically. Check
  574. Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
  575. crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
  576. [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
  577. in the running system. The syntax of range is
  578. start-[end] where start and end are both
  579. a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
  580. Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
  581. crashkernel=size[KMG],high
  582. [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
  583. to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
  584. be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
  585. Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
  586. available.
  587. It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
  588. crashkernel=size[KMG],low
  589. [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
  590. is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
  591. above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
  592. that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
  593. requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
  594. low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
  595. devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
  596. at least 256M below 4G automatically.
  597. This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
  598. for second kernel instead.
  599. 0: to disable low allocation.
  600. It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
  601. or memory reserved is below 4G.
  602. crossrelease_fullstack
  603. [KNL] Allow to record full stack trace in cross-release
  604. cryptomgr.notests
  605. [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
  606. cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
  607. Format: <dma>
  608. cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
  609. Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
  610. dasd= [HW,NET]
  611. See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
  612. db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
  613. (one device per port)
  614. Format: <port#>,<type>
  615. See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
  616. ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
  617. time. See
  618. Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
  619. details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
  620. debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
  621. debug_locks_verbose=
  622. [KNL] verbose self-tests
  623. Format=<0|1>
  624. Print debugging info while doing the locking API
  625. self-tests.
  626. We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
  627. 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
  628. only useful to kernel developers.
  629. debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
  630. no_debug_objects
  631. [KNL] Disable object debugging
  632. debug_guardpage_minorder=
  633. [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
  634. parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
  635. be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
  636. buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
  637. of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
  638. amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
  639. possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
  640. to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
  641. memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
  642. driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
  643. random memory location. Note that there exists a class
  644. of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
  645. F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
  646. memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
  647. bypassed) which are not detectable by
  648. CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
  649. tracking down these problems.
  650. debug_pagealloc=
  651. [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
  652. parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
  653. default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
  654. chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
  655. it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
  656. with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
  657. on: enable the feature
  658. debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
  659. decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
  660. Format: <area>[,<node>]
  661. See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
  662. default_hugepagesz=
  663. [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
  664. HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
  665. the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
  666. default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
  667. Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
  668. if not specified.
  669. dhash_entries= [KNL]
  670. Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
  671. disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
  672. Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
  673. causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
  674. can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
  675. miss to occur.
  676. disable= [IPV6]
  677. See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
  678. disable_radix [PPC]
  679. Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
  680. disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
  681. Format: <int>
  682. The number of initial APIC ID for the
  683. corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
  684. mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
  685. disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
  686. causing system reset or hang due to sending
  687. INIT from AP to BSP.
  688. disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
  689. Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
  690. to workaround buggy firmware.
  691. disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
  692. See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
  693. disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
  694. The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
  695. to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
  696. entry later. This parameter disables that.
  697. disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
  698. By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
  699. memory out of your available memory pool based on
  700. MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
  701. possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
  702. disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
  703. Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
  704. Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
  705. dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
  706. dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
  707. this option disables the debugging code at boot.
  708. dma_debug_entries=<number>
  709. This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
  710. entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
  711. required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
  712. DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
  713. architectural default is too low.
  714. dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
  715. With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
  716. filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
  717. pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
  718. The filter can be disabled or changed to another
  719. driver later using sysfs.
  720. drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
  721. Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
  722. panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
  723. This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
  724. in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
  725. Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
  726. edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
  727. edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
  728. and no file with the same name exists. Details and
  729. instructions how to build your own EDID data are
  730. available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
  731. data set will only be used for a particular connector,
  732. if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
  733. name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
  734. set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
  735. data set with no connector name will be used for
  736. any connectors not explicitly specified.
  737. dscc4.setup= [NET]
  738. dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC]
  739. Format: {"off" | "known"}
  740. Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
  741. used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
  742. exists).
  743. off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
  744. known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
  745. or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
  746. dump_apple_properties [X86]
  747. Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
  748. x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
  749. what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
  750. dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
  751. module.dyndbg[="val"]
  752. Enable debug messages at boot time. See
  753. Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
  754. for details.
  755. nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
  756. See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
  757. information about the feature.
  758. nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
  759. in some Intel CPUs.
  760. module.async_probe [KNL]
  761. Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
  762. early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
  763. Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
  764. is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
  765. which are not unmapped.
  766. earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
  767. When used with no options, the early console is
  768. determined by the stdout-path property in device
  769. tree's chosen node.
  770. cdns,<addr>[,options]
  771. Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
  772. (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
  773. supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
  774. specified, the serial port must already be setup and
  775. configured.
  776. uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
  777. uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
  778. uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
  779. uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
  780. uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
  781. Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
  782. UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
  783. MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
  784. (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
  785. If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
  786. to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
  787. in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
  788. unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
  789. pl011,<addr>
  790. pl011,mmio32,<addr>
  791. Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
  792. port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
  793. must already be setup and configured. Options are not
  794. yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
  795. the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
  796. the device registers.
  797. meson,<addr>
  798. Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
  799. port at the specified address. The serial port must
  800. already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
  801. supported.
  802. msm_serial,<addr>
  803. Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
  804. port at the specified address. The serial port
  805. must already be setup and configured. Options are not
  806. yet supported.
  807. msm_serial_dm,<addr>
  808. Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
  809. dm port at the specified address. The serial port
  810. must already be setup and configured. Options are not
  811. yet supported.
  812. owl,<addr>
  813. Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
  814. of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
  815. specified address. The serial port must already be
  816. setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
  817. smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
  818. s3c2410,<addr>
  819. s3c2412,<addr>
  820. s3c2440,<addr>
  821. s3c6400,<addr>
  822. s5pv210,<addr>
  823. exynos4210,<addr>
  824. Use early console provided by serial driver available
  825. on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
  826. a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
  827. serial port must already be setup and configured.
  828. Options are not yet supported.
  829. lantiq,<addr>
  830. Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
  831. (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
  832. must already be setup and configured. Options are not
  833. yet supported.
  834. lpuart,<addr>
  835. lpuart32,<addr>
  836. Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
  837. found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
  838. A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
  839. port must already be setup and configured.
  840. ar3700_uart,<addr>
  841. Start an early, polled-mode console on the
  842. Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
  843. address. The serial port must already be setup
  844. and configured. Options are not yet supported.
  845. earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k,S390]
  846. earlyprintk=vga
  847. earlyprintk=efi
  848. earlyprintk=sclp
  849. earlyprintk=xen
  850. earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
  851. earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
  852. earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
  853. earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
  854. earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
  855. earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
  856. earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
  857. the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
  858. default because it has some cosmetic problems.
  859. Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
  860. takes over.
  861. Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
  862. be used at a time.
  863. Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
  864. name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
  865. on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
  866. replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
  867. earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
  868. You can find the port for a given device in
  869. /proc/tty/driver/serial:
  870. 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
  871. Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
  872. very good.
  873. The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
  874. the real console.
  875. The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
  876. The sclp output can only be used on s390.
  877. edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
  878. Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
  879. on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
  880. by other higher priority error reporting module.
  881. off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
  882. force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
  883. default: on.
  884. ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
  885. ekgdboc=kbd
  886. This is designed to be used in conjunction with
  887. the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
  888. edd= [EDD]
  889. Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
  890. efi= [EFI]
  891. Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
  892. old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
  893. runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
  894. default.
  895. nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
  896. boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
  897. firmware implementations.
  898. noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
  899. debug: enable misc debug output
  900. efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
  901. Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
  902. your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
  903. you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
  904. fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
  905. efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
  906. Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
  907. updating original EFI memory map.
  908. Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
  909. from ss to ss+nn.
  910. If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
  911. is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
  912. attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
  913. 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
  914. Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
  915. related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
  916. Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
  917. doesn't support it.
  918. efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
  919. that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
  920. multiple variables with the same name but with different
  921. vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
  922. Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
  923. eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
  924. See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
  925. elanfreq= [X86-32]
  926. See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
  927. arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
  928. elevator= [IOSCHED]
  929. Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
  930. See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
  931. Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
  932. elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
  933. Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
  934. image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
  935. kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
  936. See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
  937. enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
  938. The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
  939. to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
  940. entry later. This parameter enables that.
  941. enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
  942. Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
  943. Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
  944. (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
  945. The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
  946. enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
  947. Format: {"0" | "1"}
  948. See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
  949. 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
  950. 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
  951. Default value is 0.
  952. Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
  953. erst_disable [ACPI]
  954. Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
  955. support.
  956. ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
  957. This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
  958. has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
  959. evm= [EVM]
  960. Format: { "fix" }
  961. Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
  962. current integrity status.
  963. failslab=
  964. fail_page_alloc=
  965. fail_make_request=[KNL]
  966. General fault injection mechanism.
  967. Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
  968. See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
  969. floppy= [HW]
  970. See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
  971. force_pal_cache_flush
  972. [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
  973. buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
  974. parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
  975. ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
  976. forcepae [X86-32]
  977. Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
  978. Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
  979. functionally usable PAE implementation.
  980. Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
  981. and may cause unknown problems.
  982. ftrace=[tracer]
  983. [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
  984. as early as possible in order to facilitate early
  985. boot debugging.
  986. ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
  987. [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
  988. If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
  989. buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
  990. dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
  991. oops.
  992. ftrace_filter=[function-list]
  993. [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
  994. tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
  995. list of functions. This list can be changed at run
  996. time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
  997. tracing directory.
  998. ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
  999. [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
  1000. function-list. This list can be changed at run time
  1001. by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
  1002. tracing directory.
  1003. ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
  1004. [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
  1005. by the function graph tracer at boot up.
  1006. function-list is a comma separated list of functions
  1007. that can be changed at run time by the
  1008. set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
  1009. ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
  1010. [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
  1011. function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
  1012. functions that can be changed at run time by the
  1013. set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
  1014. ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
  1015. [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
  1016. the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
  1017. can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
  1018. in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
  1019. gamecon.map[2|3]=
  1020. [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
  1021. support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
  1022. Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
  1023. See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
  1024. gamma= [HW,DRM]
  1025. gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
  1026. Format: off | on
  1027. default: on
  1028. gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
  1029. kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
  1030. debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
  1031. When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
  1032. debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
  1033. goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
  1034. Don't use this when you are not running on the
  1035. android emulator
  1036. gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
  1037. invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
  1038. primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
  1039. GPT to be used instead.
  1040. grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
  1041. the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
  1042. Format: 0 | 1
  1043. Default: 0
  1044. grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
  1045. the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
  1046. Format: 0 | 1
  1047. Default: 0
  1048. grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
  1049. Format: 0 | 1
  1050. Default: 0
  1051. grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
  1052. Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
  1053. Default: 1024
  1054. grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
  1055. Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
  1056. Default: 1024
  1057. gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
  1058. [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
  1059. Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
  1060. hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
  1061. [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
  1062. backtraces on all cpus.
  1063. Format: <integer>
  1064. hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
  1065. are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
  1066. for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
  1067. Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
  1068. hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
  1069. hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
  1070. Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
  1071. hest_disable [ACPI]
  1072. Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
  1073. corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
  1074. logic will be disabled.
  1075. highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
  1076. size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
  1077. highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
  1078. size on bigger boxes.
  1079. highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
  1080. Valid parameters: "on", "off"
  1081. Default: "on"
  1082. hisax= [HW,ISDN]
  1083. See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
  1084. hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
  1085. hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
  1086. Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
  1087. verbose }
  1088. disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
  1089. force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
  1090. VIA, nVidia)
  1091. verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
  1092. hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
  1093. registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
  1094. hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
  1095. hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
  1096. On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
  1097. multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
  1098. huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
  1099. x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
  1100. (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
  1101. hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
  1102. terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
  1103. hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
  1104. If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
  1105. from listed z/VM user IDs only.
  1106. hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
  1107. hardware thread id mappings.
  1108. Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
  1109. keep_bootcon [KNL]
  1110. Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
  1111. useful for debugging when something happens in the window
  1112. between unregistering the boot console and initializing
  1113. the real console.
  1114. i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
  1115. or register an additional I2C bus that is not
  1116. registered from board initialization code.
  1117. Format:
  1118. <bus_id>,<clkrate>
  1119. i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
  1120. i8042.unmask_kbd_data
  1121. [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
  1122. (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
  1123. requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
  1124. i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
  1125. i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
  1126. keyboard and cannot control its state
  1127. (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
  1128. i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
  1129. i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
  1130. i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
  1131. for the AUX port
  1132. i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
  1133. controller
  1134. i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
  1135. controllers
  1136. i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
  1137. i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
  1138. suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
  1139. transitions, or never reset
  1140. Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
  1141. 1, Y, y: always reset controller
  1142. 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
  1143. Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
  1144. architectures force reset to be always executed
  1145. i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
  1146. i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
  1147. i810= [HW,DRM]
  1148. i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
  1149. indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
  1150. hardware.
  1151. i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
  1152. does not match list of supported models.
  1153. i8k.power_status
  1154. [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
  1155. (disabled by default)
  1156. i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
  1157. capability is set.
  1158. i915.invert_brightness=
  1159. [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
  1160. set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
  1161. brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
  1162. and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
  1163. to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
  1164. (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
  1165. is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
  1166. to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
  1167. value switches the backlight off.
  1168. -1 -- never invert brightness
  1169. 0 -- machine default
  1170. 1 -- force brightness inversion
  1171. icn= [HW,ISDN]
  1172. Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
  1173. ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
  1174. Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
  1175. .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
  1176. .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
  1177. See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
  1178. ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
  1179. Format: <int>
  1180. Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
  1181. platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
  1182. setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
  1183. default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
  1184. On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
  1185. PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
  1186. are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
  1187. of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
  1188. was 0x3.
  1189. ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
  1190. Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
  1191. idle= [X86]
  1192. Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
  1193. Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
  1194. improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
  1195. will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
  1196. Not recommended.
  1197. idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
  1198. In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
  1199. idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
  1200. ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
  1201. Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
  1202. Default: strict
  1203. Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
  1204. based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
  1205. the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
  1206. of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
  1207. binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
  1208. support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
  1209. encoding mode.
  1210. Available settings are as follows:
  1211. strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
  1212. supported by the FPU
  1213. legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
  1214. by the FPU
  1215. 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
  1216. by the FPU
  1217. relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
  1218. supported by the FPU
  1219. The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
  1220. encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
  1221. been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
  1222. 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
  1223. 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
  1224. 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
  1225. legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
  1226. MIPS64 CPUs.
  1227. The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
  1228. mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
  1229. except where unsupported by hardware.
  1230. ignore_loglevel [KNL]
  1231. Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
  1232. kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
  1233. We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
  1234. could change it dynamically, usually by
  1235. /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
  1236. ignore_rlimit_data
  1237. Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
  1238. print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
  1239. /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
  1240. ihash_entries= [KNL]
  1241. Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
  1242. ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
  1243. Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
  1244. default: "enforce"
  1245. ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
  1246. The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
  1247. owned by uid=0.
  1248. ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
  1249. Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
  1250. measurements, instead of host native format.
  1251. ima_hash= [IMA]
  1252. Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
  1253. | sha512 | ... }
  1254. default: "sha1"
  1255. The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
  1256. in crypto/hash_info.h.
  1257. ima_policy= [IMA]
  1258. The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
  1259. Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot"
  1260. The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
  1261. mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
  1262. mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
  1263. uid=0.
  1264. The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
  1265. all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent
  1266. of ima_appraise_tcb.)
  1267. The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
  1268. of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
  1269. firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
  1270. ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
  1271. Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
  1272. Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
  1273. programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
  1274. opened for read by uid=0.
  1275. ima_template= [IMA]
  1276. Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
  1277. Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
  1278. Default: "ima-ng"
  1279. ima_template_fmt=
  1280. [IMA] Define a custom template format.
  1281. Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
  1282. ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
  1283. Format: <min_file_size>
  1284. Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
  1285. If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
  1286. ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
  1287. different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
  1288. to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
  1289. ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
  1290. Format: <bufsize>
  1291. Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
  1292. ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
  1293. different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
  1294. to achieve best performance for particular HW.
  1295. init= [KNL]
  1296. Format: <full_path>
  1297. Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
  1298. process.
  1299. initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
  1300. for working out where the kernel is dying during
  1301. startup.
  1302. initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
  1303. initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
  1304. modules and initcalls.
  1305. initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
  1306. init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
  1307. register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
  1308. default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
  1309. override in debugfs after boot.
  1310. inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
  1311. Format: <irq>
  1312. int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
  1313. integrity_audit=[IMA]
  1314. Format: { "0" | "1" }
  1315. 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
  1316. 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
  1317. intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
  1318. on
  1319. Enable intel iommu driver.
  1320. off
  1321. Disable intel iommu driver.
  1322. igfx_off [Default Off]
  1323. By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
  1324. device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
  1325. bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
  1326. this case, gfx device will use physical address for
  1327. DMA.
  1328. forcedac [x86_64]
  1329. With this option iommu will not optimize to look
  1330. for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
  1331. address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
  1332. than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
  1333. for translation below 32-bit and if not available
  1334. then look in the higher range.
  1335. strict [Default Off]
  1336. With this option on every unmap_single operation will
  1337. result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
  1338. to batching them for performance.
  1339. sp_off [Default Off]
  1340. By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
  1341. has the capability. With this option, super page will
  1342. not be supported.
  1343. ecs_off [Default Off]
  1344. By default, extended context tables will be supported if
  1345. the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
  1346. extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
  1347. this option set, extended tables will not be used even
  1348. on hardware which claims to support them.
  1349. tboot_noforce [Default Off]
  1350. Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
  1351. By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
  1352. could harm performance of some high-throughput
  1353. devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
  1354. mapping is enabled.
  1355. Note that using this option lowers the security
  1356. provided by tboot because it makes the system
  1357. vulnerable to DMA attacks.
  1358. intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
  1359. 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
  1360. 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
  1361. intel_pstate= [X86]
  1362. disable
  1363. Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
  1364. scaling driver for the supported processors
  1365. passive
  1366. Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
  1367. to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
  1368. enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
  1369. used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
  1370. feature.
  1371. force
  1372. Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
  1373. in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
  1374. instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
  1375. as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
  1376. P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
  1377. should be used with caution. This option does not work with
  1378. processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
  1379. or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
  1380. no_hwp
  1381. Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
  1382. if available.
  1383. hwp_only
  1384. Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
  1385. hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
  1386. support_acpi_ppc
  1387. Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
  1388. Description Table, specifies preferred power management
  1389. profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
  1390. then this feature is turned on by default.
  1391. per_cpu_perf_limits
  1392. Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
  1393. cpufreq sysfs interface
  1394. intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
  1395. on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
  1396. off disable Interrupt Remapping
  1397. nosid disable Source ID checking
  1398. no_x2apic_optout
  1399. BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
  1400. nopost disable Interrupt Posting
  1401. iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
  1402. strict regions from userspace.
  1403. relaxed
  1404. iommu= [x86]
  1405. off
  1406. force
  1407. noforce
  1408. biomerge
  1409. panic
  1410. nopanic
  1411. merge
  1412. nomerge
  1413. forcesac
  1414. soft
  1415. pt [x86, IA-64]
  1416. nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
  1417. Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
  1418. iommu.passthrough=
  1419. [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
  1420. Format: { "0" | "1" }
  1421. 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
  1422. 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
  1423. unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
  1424. io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
  1425. See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
  1426. arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
  1427. io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
  1428. 0x80
  1429. Standard port 0x80 based delay
  1430. 0xed
  1431. Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
  1432. udelay
  1433. Simple two microseconds delay
  1434. none
  1435. No delay
  1436. ip= [IP_PNP]
  1437. See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
  1438. irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
  1439. The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
  1440. irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
  1441. [ARM, ARM64]
  1442. Format: <bool>
  1443. Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
  1444. of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
  1445. exposed by the device tree is too small.
  1446. irqfixup [HW]
  1447. When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
  1448. for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
  1449. firmware running.
  1450. irqpoll [HW]
  1451. When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
  1452. for it. Also check all handlers each timer
  1453. interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
  1454. firmware running.
  1455. isapnp= [ISAPNP]
  1456. Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
  1457. isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
  1458. [Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
  1459. Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
  1460. Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
  1461. specified in the flag list (default: domain):
  1462. nohz
  1463. Disable the tick when a single task runs.
  1464. domain
  1465. Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
  1466. algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
  1467. is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
  1468. the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
  1469. advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
  1470. balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
  1471. It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
  1472. move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
  1473. You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
  1474. the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
  1475. <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
  1476. "number of CPUs in system - 1".
  1477. The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
  1478. iucv= [HW,NET]
  1479. ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
  1480. Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
  1481. mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
  1482. example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
  1483. PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
  1484. ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
  1485. ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
  1486. Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
  1487. mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
  1488. example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
  1489. PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
  1490. ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
  1491. ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
  1492. Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
  1493. mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
  1494. example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
  1495. PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
  1496. ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
  1497. js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
  1498. See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
  1499. nokaslr [KNL]
  1500. When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
  1501. kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
  1502. Layout Randomization).
  1503. kasan_multi_shot
  1504. [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
  1505. report on every invalid memory access. Without this
  1506. parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
  1507. invalid access.
  1508. keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
  1509. kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
  1510. Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
  1511. This parameter
  1512. specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
  1513. for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
  1514. spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
  1515. remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
  1516. pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
  1517. kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
  1518. take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
  1519. of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
  1520. allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
  1521. by the page migration subsystem. This means that
  1522. HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
  1523. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
  1524. use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
  1525. zone if it does not.
  1526. Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
  1527. you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
  1528. option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
  1529. for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
  1530. for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
  1531. so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
  1532. time.
  1533. kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
  1534. Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
  1535. The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
  1536. port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
  1537. optional and is the number seconds in between
  1538. each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
  1539. the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
  1540. gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
  1541. not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
  1542. the kernel debugger.
  1543. kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
  1544. Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
  1545. or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
  1546. Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
  1547. keyboard only format: kbd
  1548. keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
  1549. Optional Kernel mode setting:
  1550. kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
  1551. kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
  1552. kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
  1553. kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
  1554. kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
  1555. Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
  1556. Ethernet adapter MAC address.
  1557. kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
  1558. Valid arguments: on, off
  1559. Default: on
  1560. Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
  1561. the default is off.
  1562. kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
  1563. Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
  1564. kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
  1565. KVM MMU at runtime.
  1566. Default is 0 (off)
  1567. kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
  1568. Default is 1 (enabled)
  1569. kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
  1570. for all guests.
  1571. Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
  1572. kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
  1573. [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
  1574. system registers
  1575. kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
  1576. [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
  1577. system registers
  1578. kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
  1579. [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
  1580. system registers
  1581. kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
  1582. (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
  1583. Default is 1 (enabled)
  1584. kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
  1585. [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
  1586. Default is 0 (disabled)
  1587. kvm-intel.flexpriority=
  1588. [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
  1589. Default is 1 (enabled)
  1590. kvm-intel.nested=
  1591. [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
  1592. Default is 0 (disabled)
  1593. kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
  1594. [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
  1595. (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
  1596. Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
  1597. kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
  1598. feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
  1599. Default is 1 (enabled)
  1600. l2cr= [PPC]
  1601. l3cr= [PPC]
  1602. lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
  1603. disabled it.
  1604. lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
  1605. value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
  1606. back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
  1607. lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
  1608. in C2 power state.
  1609. libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
  1610. libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
  1611. libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
  1612. libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
  1613. libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
  1614. Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
  1615. for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
  1616. libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
  1617. libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
  1618. libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
  1619. libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
  1620. when set.
  1621. Format: <int>
  1622. libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
  1623. separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
  1624. PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
  1625. matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
  1626. the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
  1627. the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
  1628. values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
  1629. configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
  1630. If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
  1631. the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
  1632. number of 0 either selects the first device or the
  1633. first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
  1634. select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
  1635. host link and device attached to it.
  1636. The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
  1637. as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
  1638. For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
  1639. The following configurations can be forced.
  1640. * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
  1641. Any ID with matching PORT is used.
  1642. * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
  1643. * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
  1644. udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
  1645. allowed.
  1646. * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
  1647. * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
  1648. * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
  1649. and both resets.
  1650. * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
  1651. hot-unplug link recovery
  1652. * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
  1653. * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
  1654. * disable: Disable this device.
  1655. If there are multiple matching configurations changing
  1656. the same attribute, the last one is used.
  1657. memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
  1658. load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
  1659. See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
  1660. lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
  1661. Format: <integer>
  1662. lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
  1663. Format: <integer>
  1664. lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
  1665. Format: <integer>
  1666. lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
  1667. Format: <integer>
  1668. locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
  1669. Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
  1670. Defaults to being automatically set based on the
  1671. number of online CPUs.
  1672. locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
  1673. Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
  1674. locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
  1675. Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
  1676. locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
  1677. Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
  1678. zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
  1679. locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
  1680. Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
  1681. tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
  1682. mode during the locktorture test.
  1683. locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
  1684. Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
  1685. is useful for hands-off automated testing.
  1686. locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
  1687. Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
  1688. locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
  1689. Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
  1690. specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
  1691. five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
  1692. This tests the locking primitive's ability to
  1693. transition abruptly to and from idle.
  1694. locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
  1695. Start locktorture running at boot time.
  1696. locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
  1697. Specify the locking implementation to test.
  1698. locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
  1699. Enable additional printk() statements.
  1700. logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
  1701. Format: <irq>
  1702. loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
  1703. console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
  1704. also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
  1705. loglevels are defined as follows:
  1706. 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
  1707. 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
  1708. 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
  1709. 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
  1710. 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
  1711. 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
  1712. 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
  1713. 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
  1714. log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
  1715. in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
  1716. than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
  1717. by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
  1718. also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
  1719. that allows to increase the default size depending on
  1720. the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
  1721. logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
  1722. This may be used to provide more screen space for
  1723. kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
  1724. kernel boot problems.
  1725. lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
  1726. lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
  1727. lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
  1728. lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
  1729. specified in addition to the ports) causes
  1730. attached printers to be reset. Using
  1731. lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
  1732. to associate lp devices with, starting with
  1733. lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
  1734. that lp device, or a parport name such as
  1735. 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
  1736. port specification list means that device IDs
  1737. from each port should be examined, to see if
  1738. an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
  1739. so, the driver will manage that printer.
  1740. See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
  1741. lpj=n [KNL]
  1742. Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
  1743. time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
  1744. CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
  1745. the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
  1746. autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
  1747. on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
  1748. which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
  1749. significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
  1750. will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
  1751. unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
  1752. unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
  1753. hardware.
  1754. ltpc= [NET]
  1755. Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
  1756. machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
  1757. (machvec) in a generic kernel.
  1758. Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
  1759. machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
  1760. yeeloong laptop.
  1761. Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
  1762. max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
  1763. than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
  1764. maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
  1765. will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
  1766. the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
  1767. bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
  1768. "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
  1769. only takes effect during system bootup.
  1770. While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
  1771. which also disables the IO APIC.
  1772. max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
  1773. (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
  1774. number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
  1775. of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
  1776. devices can be requested on-demand with the
  1777. /dev/loop-control interface.
  1778. mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
  1779. mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
  1780. md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
  1781. See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
  1782. mdacon= [MDA]
  1783. Format: <first>,<last>
  1784. Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
  1785. mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
  1786. Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
  1787. to see the whole system memory or for test.
  1788. [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
  1789. with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
  1790. Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
  1791. belonging to unused RAM.
  1792. mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
  1793. memory.
  1794. memchunk=nn[KMG]
  1795. [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
  1796. per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
  1797. memhp_default_state=online/offline
  1798. [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
  1799. onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
  1800. set according to the
  1801. CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
  1802. option.
  1803. See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
  1804. memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
  1805. E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
  1806. Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
  1807. BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
  1808. option description.
  1809. memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
  1810. [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
  1811. Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
  1812. If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
  1813. which limits max address to nn[KMG].
  1814. Multiple different regions can be specified,
  1815. comma delimited.
  1816. Example:
  1817. memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
  1818. memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
  1819. [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
  1820. Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
  1821. memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
  1822. [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
  1823. Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
  1824. Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
  1825. memmap=64K$0x18690000
  1826. or
  1827. memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
  1828. Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
  1829. like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
  1830. will be eaten.
  1831. memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
  1832. [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
  1833. Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
  1834. The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
  1835. and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
  1836. memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
  1837. Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
  1838. memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
  1839. Setting this option will scan the memory
  1840. looking for corruption. Enabling this will
  1841. both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
  1842. from using the memory being corrupted.
  1843. However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
  1844. repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
  1845. affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
  1846. to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
  1847. memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
  1848. By default it checks for corruption in the low
  1849. 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
  1850. use. Use this parameter to scan for
  1851. corruption in more or less memory.
  1852. memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
  1853. By default it checks for corruption every 60
  1854. seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
  1855. other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
  1856. memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
  1857. Format: <integer>
  1858. default : 0 <disable>
  1859. Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
  1860. performed. Each pass selects another test
  1861. pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
  1862. fills the memory with this pattern, validates
  1863. memory contents and reserves bad memory
  1864. regions that are detected.
  1865. mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
  1866. Valid arguments: on, off
  1867. Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
  1868. on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
  1869. off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
  1870. mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
  1871. mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
  1872. Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
  1873. for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
  1874. mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
  1875. s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
  1876. shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
  1877. deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
  1878. See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
  1879. meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
  1880. See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
  1881. mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
  1882. Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
  1883. platforms.
  1884. mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
  1885. the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
  1886. version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
  1887. problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
  1888. mga= [HW,DRM]
  1889. min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
  1890. physical address is ignored.
  1891. mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
  1892. Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
  1893. Default: "0tb"
  1894. MINI2440 configuration specification:
  1895. 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
  1896. 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
  1897. 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
  1898. Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
  1899. the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
  1900. unconfigured.
  1901. b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
  1902. linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
  1903. LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
  1904. VGA shield.
  1905. c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
  1906. t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
  1907. touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
  1908. kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
  1909. in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
  1910. http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
  1911. mminit_loglevel=
  1912. [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
  1913. parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
  1914. the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
  1915. of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
  1916. log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
  1917. so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
  1918. module.sig_enforce
  1919. [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
  1920. modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
  1921. Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
  1922. is always true, so this option does nothing.
  1923. module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
  1924. modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
  1925. mousedev.tap_time=
  1926. [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
  1927. leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
  1928. a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
  1929. touchpads working in absolute mode only).
  1930. Format: <msecs>
  1931. mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
  1932. reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
  1933. mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
  1934. reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
  1935. movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
  1936. is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
  1937. amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
  1938. If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
  1939. then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
  1940. value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
  1941. is specified, the administrator must be careful
  1942. that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
  1943. is not too small.
  1944. movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
  1945. NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
  1946. of such nodes will be usable only for movable
  1947. allocations which rules out almost all kernel
  1948. allocations. Use with caution!
  1949. MTD_Partition= [MTD]
  1950. Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
  1951. MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
  1952. <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
  1953. mtdparts= [MTD]
  1954. See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
  1955. multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
  1956. firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
  1957. at a time.
  1958. onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
  1959. Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
  1960. boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
  1961. The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
  1962. lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
  1963. Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
  1964. 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
  1965. mtdset= [ARM]
  1966. ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
  1967. See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
  1968. mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
  1969. [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
  1970. ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
  1971. mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
  1972. used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
  1973. that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
  1974. mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
  1975. Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
  1976. Default is 1.
  1977. Large value could prevent small alignment from
  1978. using up MTRRs.
  1979. mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
  1980. Format: <integer>
  1981. Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
  1982. Default : 1
  1983. Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
  1984. Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
  1985. n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
  1986. netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
  1987. Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
  1988. Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
  1989. something different and driver-specific.
  1990. This usage is only documented in each driver source
  1991. file if at all.
  1992. nf_conntrack.acct=
  1993. [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
  1994. 0 to disable accounting
  1995. 1 to enable accounting
  1996. Default value is 0.
  1997. nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
  1998. See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
  1999. nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
  2000. See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
  2001. nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
  2002. See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
  2003. nfs.callback_nr_threads=
  2004. [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
  2005. NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
  2006. requests.
  2007. nfs.callback_tcpport=
  2008. [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
  2009. channel should listen.
  2010. nfs.cache_getent=
  2011. [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
  2012. to update the NFS client cache entries.
  2013. nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
  2014. [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
  2015. update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
  2016. nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
  2017. [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
  2018. entries.
  2019. nfs.enable_ino64=
  2020. [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
  2021. If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
  2022. number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
  2023. of returning the full 64-bit number.
  2024. The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
  2025. nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
  2026. [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
  2027. slots the client will assign to the callback
  2028. channel. This determines the maximum number of
  2029. callbacks the client will process in parallel for
  2030. a particular server.
  2031. nfs.max_session_slots=
  2032. [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
  2033. the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
  2034. This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
  2035. that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
  2036. Note that there is little point in setting this
  2037. value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
  2038. nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
  2039. [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
  2040. ensures that both the RPC level authentication
  2041. scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
  2042. numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
  2043. 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
  2044. disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
  2045. legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
  2046. Servers that do not support this mode of operation
  2047. will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
  2048. back to using the idmapper.
  2049. To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
  2050. nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
  2051. [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
  2052. ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
  2053. their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
  2054. UUID that is generated at system install time.
  2055. nfs.send_implementation_id =
  2056. [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
  2057. information in exchange_id requests.
  2058. If zero, no implementation identification information
  2059. will be sent.
  2060. The default is to send the implementation identification
  2061. information.
  2062. nfs.recover_lost_locks =
  2063. [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
  2064. to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
  2065. doing this risks data corruption, since there are
  2066. no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
  2067. after the locks are lost.
  2068. If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
  2069. attempting to recover these locks, then set this
  2070. parameter to '1'.
  2071. The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
  2072. not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
  2073. nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
  2074. [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
  2075. layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
  2076. Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
  2077. whatever value is the default set by the layout
  2078. driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
  2079. in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
  2080. nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
  2081. [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
  2082. server will return only numeric uids and gids to
  2083. clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
  2084. and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
  2085. migration from NFSv2/v3.
  2086. nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
  2087. when a NMI is triggered.
  2088. Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
  2089. nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
  2090. Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
  2091. Valid num: 0 or 1
  2092. 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
  2093. 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
  2094. When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
  2095. timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
  2096. default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
  2097. please see 'nowatchdog'.
  2098. This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
  2099. need the box quickly up again.
  2100. netpoll.carrier_timeout=
  2101. [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
  2102. netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
  2103. waits 4 seconds.
  2104. no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
  2105. emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
  2106. is present.
  2107. no_console_suspend
  2108. [HW] Never suspend the console
  2109. Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
  2110. hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
  2111. messages can reach various consoles while the rest
  2112. of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
  2113. debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
  2114. not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
  2115. to work with serial and VGA consoles.
  2116. To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
  2117. console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
  2118. it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
  2119. /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
  2120. turn on/off it dynamically.
  2121. noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
  2122. caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
  2123. but will impact performance.
  2124. noalign [KNL,ARM]
  2125. noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
  2126. (CPU alternatives feature).
  2127. noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
  2128. IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
  2129. noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
  2130. nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
  2131. on "Classic" PPC cores.
  2132. nocache [ARM]
  2133. noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
  2134. nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
  2135. nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
  2136. noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
  2137. noexec [IA-64]
  2138. noexec [X86]
  2139. On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
  2140. noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
  2141. noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
  2142. nosmap [X86]
  2143. Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
  2144. even if it is supported by processor.
  2145. nosmep [X86]
  2146. Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
  2147. even if it is supported by processor.
  2148. noexec32 [X86-64]
  2149. This affects only 32-bit executables.
  2150. noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
  2151. read doesn't imply executable mappings
  2152. noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
  2153. read implies executable mappings
  2154. nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
  2155. nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
  2156. register save and restore. The kernel will only save
  2157. legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
  2158. nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
  2159. nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
  2160. Equivalent to smt=1.
  2161. noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
  2162. and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
  2163. enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
  2164. noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
  2165. register states. The kernel will fall back to use
  2166. xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
  2167. performance of saving the states is degraded because
  2168. xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
  2169. xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
  2170. noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
  2171. restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
  2172. form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
  2173. xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
  2174. in standard form of xsave area. By using this
  2175. parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
  2176. memory on xsaves enabled systems.
  2177. nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
  2178. wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
  2179. use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
  2180. no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
  2181. only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
  2182. is to be setuid root or executed by root.
  2183. nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
  2184. function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
  2185. power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
  2186. interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
  2187. in certain environments such as networked servers or
  2188. real-time systems.
  2189. nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
  2190. nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
  2191. Valid arguments: on, off
  2192. Default: on
  2193. nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT]
  2194. The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
  2195. In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
  2196. the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
  2197. whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
  2198. the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
  2199. in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
  2200. just as if they had also been called out in the
  2201. rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
  2202. noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
  2203. noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
  2204. disable unhandled interrupt sources.
  2205. no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
  2206. broken timer IRQ sources.
  2207. noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
  2208. noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
  2209. initial RAM disk.
  2210. nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
  2211. remapping.
  2212. [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
  2213. nointroute [IA-64]
  2214. noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
  2215. nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
  2216. no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
  2217. no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
  2218. fault handling.
  2219. no-vmw-sched-clock
  2220. [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
  2221. clock and use the default one.
  2222. no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
  2223. steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
  2224. behaviour
  2225. nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
  2226. nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
  2227. noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
  2228. lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
  2229. nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
  2230. nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
  2231. nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
  2232. Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
  2233. nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
  2234. shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
  2235. irq.
  2236. nomodule Disable module load
  2237. nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
  2238. pagetables) support.
  2239. nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
  2240. norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
  2241. echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
  2242. noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
  2243. noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
  2244. with UP alternatives
  2245. nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
  2246. RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
  2247. by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
  2248. available to user space applications.
  2249. noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
  2250. space.
  2251. no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
  2252. This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
  2253. reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
  2254. nosbagart [IA-64]
  2255. nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
  2256. nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
  2257. and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
  2258. nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
  2259. nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
  2260. notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
  2261. nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
  2262. soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
  2263. nowb [ARM]
  2264. nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
  2265. cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
  2266. CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
  2267. Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
  2268. 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
  2269. Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
  2270. need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
  2271. 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
  2272. removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
  2273. It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
  2274. machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
  2275. after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
  2276. If the dependencies are under your control, you can
  2277. turn on cpu0_hotplug.
  2278. nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
  2279. This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
  2280. cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
  2281. without interruptions, before HW switches it.
  2282. The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
  2283. parameter's value.
  2284. Format: integer between 1 and 255
  2285. Default: 255
  2286. nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
  2287. purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
  2288. SAL PALO.
  2289. nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
  2290. could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
  2291. support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
  2292. number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
  2293. runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
  2294. n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
  2295. variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
  2296. hot plugging.
  2297. nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
  2298. numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
  2299. Allowed values are enable and disable
  2300. numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
  2301. 'node', 'default' can be specified
  2302. This can be set from sysctl after boot.
  2303. See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
  2304. ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
  2305. See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
  2306. info.
  2307. olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
  2308. Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
  2309. command is not properly ACKed, override the length
  2310. of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
  2311. waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
  2312. interrupts *may* be lost!
  2313. omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
  2314. Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
  2315. For example, to override I2C bus2:
  2316. omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
  2317. oprofile.timer= [HW]
  2318. Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
  2319. oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
  2320. This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
  2321. userland or if you want common events.
  2322. Format: { arch_perfmon }
  2323. arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
  2324. perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
  2325. CPU specific event set.
  2326. timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
  2327. timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
  2328. for generic hr timer mode)
  2329. oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
  2330. process, but there is a small probability of
  2331. deadlocking the machine.
  2332. This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
  2333. Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
  2334. OSS [HW,OSS]
  2335. See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
  2336. page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
  2337. Storage of the information about who allocated
  2338. each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
  2339. we can turn it on.
  2340. on: enable the feature
  2341. page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
  2342. poisoning on the buddy allocator.
  2343. off: turn off poisoning
  2344. on: turn on poisoning
  2345. panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
  2346. timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
  2347. timeout = 0: wait forever
  2348. timeout < 0: reboot immediately
  2349. Format: <timeout>
  2350. panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
  2351. on a WARN().
  2352. crash_kexec_post_notifiers
  2353. Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
  2354. kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
  2355. succeeds in any situation.
  2356. Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
  2357. because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
  2358. kernel more unstable.
  2359. parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
  2360. connected to, default is 0.
  2361. Format: <parport#>
  2362. parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
  2363. 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
  2364. Format: <mode>
  2365. parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
  2366. Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
  2367. Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
  2368. IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
  2369. ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
  2370. possible conflicts). You can specify the base
  2371. address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
  2372. should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
  2373. settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
  2374. (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
  2375. Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
  2376. are specified on the command line, starting
  2377. with parport0.
  2378. parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
  2379. Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
  2380. a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
  2381. computer where firmware has no options for setting
  2382. up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
  2383. Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
  2384. Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
  2385. pause_on_oops=
  2386. Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
  2387. the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
  2388. your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
  2389. pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
  2390. pcd. [PARIDE]
  2391. See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
  2392. See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
  2393. pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
  2394. earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
  2395. changes anything
  2396. off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
  2397. bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
  2398. the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
  2399. has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
  2400. nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
  2401. hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
  2402. if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
  2403. suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
  2404. conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
  2405. Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
  2406. data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
  2407. conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
  2408. Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
  2409. the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
  2410. bus number. The config space is then accessed
  2411. through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
  2412. See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
  2413. on the configuration access mechanisms.
  2414. noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
  2415. enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
  2416. disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
  2417. nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
  2418. root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
  2419. nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
  2420. Configuration
  2421. check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
  2422. properly configured MMIO access to PCI
  2423. config space on AMD family 10h CPU
  2424. nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
  2425. enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
  2426. disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
  2427. noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
  2428. Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
  2429. should never be necessary.
  2430. ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
  2431. primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
  2432. boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
  2433. when the system masks IRQs.
  2434. noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
  2435. boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
  2436. a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
  2437. The opposite of ioapicreroute.
  2438. biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
  2439. routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
  2440. on several machines and they hang the machine
  2441. when used, but on other computers it's the only
  2442. way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
  2443. this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
  2444. IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
  2445. motherboard.
  2446. rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
  2447. Use with caution as certain devices share
  2448. address decoders between ROMs and other
  2449. resources.
  2450. norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
  2451. expansion ROMs that do not already have
  2452. BIOS assigned address ranges.
  2453. nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
  2454. BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
  2455. irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
  2456. assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
  2457. make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
  2458. this way.
  2459. pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
  2460. of the PIRQ table (normally generated
  2461. by the BIOS) if it is outside the
  2462. F0000h-100000h range.
  2463. lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
  2464. useful if the kernel is unable to find your
  2465. secondary buses and you want to tell it
  2466. explicitly which ones they are.
  2467. assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
  2468. numbers ourselves, overriding
  2469. whatever the firmware may have done.
  2470. usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
  2471. in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
  2472. some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
  2473. some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
  2474. notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
  2475. IRQ routing is enabled.
  2476. noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
  2477. or for PCI scanning.
  2478. use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
  2479. from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
  2480. is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
  2481. please report a bug.
  2482. nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
  2483. If you need to use this, please report a bug.
  2484. routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
  2485. This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
  2486. so this option is a temporary workaround
  2487. for broken drivers that don't call it.
  2488. skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
  2489. handle more pci cards
  2490. noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
  2491. This might help on some broken boards which
  2492. machine check when some devices' config space
  2493. is read. But various workarounds are disabled
  2494. and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
  2495. bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
  2496. This sorting is done to get a device
  2497. order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
  2498. nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
  2499. pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
  2500. tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
  2501. pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
  2502. supported by all devices below the root complex.
  2503. pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
  2504. based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
  2505. Read Request Size) to the largest supported
  2506. value (no larger than the MPS that the device
  2507. or bus can support) for best performance.
  2508. pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
  2509. every device is guaranteed to support. This
  2510. configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
  2511. any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
  2512. reduced performance. This also guarantees
  2513. that hot-added devices will work.
  2514. cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
  2515. reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
  2516. The default value is 256 bytes.
  2517. cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
  2518. reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
  2519. window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
  2520. resource_alignment=
  2521. Format:
  2522. [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
  2523. [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
  2524. [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
  2525. Specifies alignment and device to reassign
  2526. aligned memory resources.
  2527. If <order of align> is not specified,
  2528. PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
  2529. PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
  2530. windows need to be expanded.
  2531. To specify the alignment for several
  2532. instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
  2533. device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
  2534. specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
  2535. ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
  2536. end-to-end CRC checking).
  2537. bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
  2538. the default.
  2539. off: Turn ECRC off
  2540. on: Turn ECRC on.
  2541. hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
  2542. reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
  2543. Default size is 256 bytes.
  2544. hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
  2545. reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
  2546. Default size is 2 megabytes.
  2547. hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
  2548. reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
  2549. Default is 1.
  2550. realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
  2551. if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
  2552. accommodate resources required by all child
  2553. devices.
  2554. off: Turn realloc off
  2555. on: Turn realloc on
  2556. realloc same as realloc=on
  2557. noari do not use PCIe ARI.
  2558. pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
  2559. only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
  2560. port.
  2561. pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
  2562. Management.
  2563. off Disable ASPM.
  2564. force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
  2565. WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
  2566. pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
  2567. nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
  2568. makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
  2569. pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
  2570. auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
  2571. associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
  2572. them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
  2573. native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
  2574. unconditionally.
  2575. compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
  2576. ports driver.
  2577. pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
  2578. off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
  2579. force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
  2580. pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
  2581. nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
  2582. all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
  2583. pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
  2584. pd_ignore_unused
  2585. [PM]
  2586. Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
  2587. even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
  2588. for debug and development, but should not be
  2589. needed on a platform with proper driver support.
  2590. pd. [PARIDE]
  2591. See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
  2592. pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
  2593. boot time.
  2594. Format: { 0 | 1 }
  2595. See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
  2596. percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
  2597. Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
  2598. Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
  2599. See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
  2600. allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
  2601. and performance comparison.
  2602. pf. [PARIDE]
  2603. See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
  2604. pg. [PARIDE]
  2605. See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
  2606. pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
  2607. See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
  2608. plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
  2609. Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
  2610. See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
  2611. pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
  2612. Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
  2613. e.g. pmtmr=0x508
  2614. pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
  2615. Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
  2616. CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
  2617. via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
  2618. current resource usage; turning this on also shows
  2619. possible settings and some assignment information.
  2620. pnpacpi= [ACPI]
  2621. { off }
  2622. pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
  2623. { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
  2624. pnp_reserve_irq=
  2625. [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
  2626. pnp_reserve_dma=
  2627. [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
  2628. pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
  2629. Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
  2630. pnp_reserve_mem=
  2631. [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
  2632. autoconfiguration.
  2633. Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
  2634. ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
  2635. Default is 21.
  2636. Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
  2637. may be specified.
  2638. Format: <port>,<port>....
  2639. powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
  2640. It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
  2641. platform machine description specific power_save
  2642. function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
  2643. execution priority.
  2644. ppc_strict_facility_enable
  2645. [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
  2646. Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
  2647. allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
  2648. There is some performance impact when enabling this.
  2649. print-fatal-signals=
  2650. [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
  2651. If enabled, warn about various signal handling
  2652. related application anomalies: too many signals,
  2653. too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
  2654. coredump - etc.
  2655. If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
  2656. you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
  2657. default: off.
  2658. printk.always_kmsg_dump=
  2659. Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
  2660. panics
  2661. Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
  2662. default: disabled
  2663. printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
  2664. Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
  2665. on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
  2666. off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
  2667. ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
  2668. Default: ratelimit
  2669. printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
  2670. Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
  2671. processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
  2672. Limit processor to maximum C-state
  2673. max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
  2674. processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
  2675. Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
  2676. instead using the legacy FADT method
  2677. profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
  2678. Format: [schedule,]<number>
  2679. Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
  2680. Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
  2681. statistical time based profiling.
  2682. Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
  2683. Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
  2684. Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
  2685. prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
  2686. before loading.
  2687. See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
  2688. psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
  2689. probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
  2690. psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
  2691. per second.
  2692. psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
  2693. Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
  2694. (0 = never).
  2695. psmouse.resolution=
  2696. [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
  2697. psmouse.smartscroll=
  2698. [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
  2699. 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
  2700. pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
  2701. pt. [PARIDE]
  2702. See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
  2703. pty.legacy_count=
  2704. [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
  2705. default number.
  2706. quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
  2707. r128= [HW,DRM]
  2708. raid= [HW,RAID]
  2709. See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
  2710. ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
  2711. See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
  2712. ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
  2713. cec_disable [X86]
  2714. Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
  2715. see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
  2716. rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
  2717. The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
  2718. In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
  2719. the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
  2720. Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
  2721. be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
  2722. that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
  2723. for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
  2724. is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
  2725. offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
  2726. real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
  2727. efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
  2728. rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
  2729. Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
  2730. (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
  2731. awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
  2732. make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
  2733. This improves the real-time response for the
  2734. offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
  2735. wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
  2736. energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
  2737. periodically wake up to do the polling.
  2738. rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
  2739. Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
  2740. process in one batch.
  2741. rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
  2742. Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
  2743. out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
  2744. purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
  2745. rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
  2746. Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
  2747. RCU grace-period cleanup.
  2748. rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
  2749. Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
  2750. RCU grace-period initialization.
  2751. rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
  2752. Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
  2753. RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
  2754. the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
  2755. the rcu_node combining tree.
  2756. rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
  2757. Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
  2758. tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
  2759. possibly be useful for architectures having high
  2760. cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
  2761. rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
  2762. Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
  2763. leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
  2764. large systems, which will choose the value 64,
  2765. and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
  2766. latencies, which will choose a value aligned
  2767. with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
  2768. rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
  2769. Set required age in jiffies for a
  2770. given grace period before RCU starts
  2771. soliciting quiescent-state help from
  2772. rcu_note_context_switch().
  2773. rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
  2774. Set delay from grace-period initialization to
  2775. first attempt to force quiescent states.
  2776. Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
  2777. and maximum value is HZ.
  2778. rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
  2779. Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
  2780. quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
  2781. value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
  2782. rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
  2783. Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
  2784. kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
  2785. the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
  2786. and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
  2787. rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
  2788. set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
  2789. (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
  2790. RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
  2791. the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
  2792. rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
  2793. Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
  2794. defaults to the square root of the number of
  2795. CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
  2796. on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
  2797. that same overhead on each group's leader.
  2798. rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
  2799. Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
  2800. batch limiting is disabled.
  2801. rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
  2802. Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
  2803. batch limiting is re-enabled.
  2804. rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
  2805. Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
  2806. RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
  2807. rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
  2808. Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
  2809. only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
  2810. Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
  2811. prove do nothing more than free memory.
  2812. rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
  2813. Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
  2814. wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
  2815. it should at force-quiescent-state time.
  2816. This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
  2817. WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
  2818. rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
  2819. Measure performance of asynchronous
  2820. grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
  2821. rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
  2822. Specify the maximum number of outstanding
  2823. callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
  2824. thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
  2825. corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
  2826. previously posted callbacks to drain.
  2827. rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
  2828. Measure performance of expedited synchronous
  2829. grace-period primitives.
  2830. rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
  2831. Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
  2832. this parameter is to delay the start of the
  2833. test until boot completes in order to avoid
  2834. interference.
  2835. rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
  2836. Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
  2837. N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
  2838. "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
  2839. the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
  2840. (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
  2841. A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
  2842. a single reader.
  2843. rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
  2844. Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
  2845. the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
  2846. N, where N is the number of CPUs
  2847. rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT]
  2848. Start rcuperf running at boot time.
  2849. rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
  2850. Specify the RCU implementation to test.
  2851. rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
  2852. Shut the system down after performance tests
  2853. complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
  2854. testing.
  2855. rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
  2856. Enable additional printk() statements.
  2857. rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
  2858. Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
  2859. in microseconds. The default of zero says
  2860. no holdoff.
  2861. rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
  2862. Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
  2863. callback-flood tests.
  2864. rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
  2865. Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
  2866. bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
  2867. test.
  2868. rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
  2869. Set the number of bursts making up a given
  2870. callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
  2871. disable callback-flood testing.
  2872. rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
  2873. Set the number of callbacks to be registered
  2874. in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
  2875. rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
  2876. Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
  2877. in microseconds.
  2878. rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
  2879. Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
  2880. in microseconds.
  2881. rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
  2882. Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
  2883. in seconds.
  2884. rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
  2885. Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
  2886. primitives, if available.
  2887. rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
  2888. Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
  2889. rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
  2890. Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
  2891. update-side primitives, if available.
  2892. rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
  2893. Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
  2894. update-side primitives, if available. If all
  2895. of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
  2896. rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
  2897. are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
  2898. they are all non-zero.
  2899. rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
  2900. Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
  2901. rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
  2902. Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
  2903. stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
  2904. test, hence the "fake".
  2905. rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
  2906. Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
  2907. N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
  2908. "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
  2909. the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
  2910. (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
  2911. rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
  2912. Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
  2913. rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
  2914. Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
  2915. rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
  2916. Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
  2917. zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
  2918. rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
  2919. Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
  2920. allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
  2921. during the rcutorture test.
  2922. rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
  2923. Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
  2924. is useful for hands-off automated testing.
  2925. rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
  2926. Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
  2927. warnings, zero to disable.
  2928. rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
  2929. Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
  2930. rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
  2931. Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
  2932. rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
  2933. Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
  2934. rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
  2935. Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
  2936. five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
  2937. wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
  2938. ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
  2939. rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
  2940. Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
  2941. "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
  2942. under test support RCU priority boosting.
  2943. rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
  2944. Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
  2945. rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
  2946. Interval (s) between each boost test.
  2947. rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
  2948. Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
  2949. rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
  2950. rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
  2951. Start rcutorture running at boot time.
  2952. rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
  2953. Specify the RCU implementation to test.
  2954. rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
  2955. Enable additional printk() statements.
  2956. rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
  2957. Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
  2958. rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
  2959. Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
  2960. rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
  2961. Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
  2962. example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
  2963. of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
  2964. but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
  2965. real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
  2966. No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
  2967. rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
  2968. Use only normal grace-period primitives,
  2969. for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
  2970. synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
  2971. real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
  2972. energy efficiency, but can expose users to
  2973. increased grace-period latency. This parameter
  2974. overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
  2975. CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
  2976. rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
  2977. Once boot has completed (that is, after
  2978. rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
  2979. only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
  2980. on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
  2981. rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
  2982. Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
  2983. messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
  2984. to zero.
  2985. rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
  2986. Run the RCU early boot self tests
  2987. rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
  2988. Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
  2989. rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
  2990. Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
  2991. rdinit= [KNL]
  2992. Format: <full_path>
  2993. Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
  2994. used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
  2995. rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
  2996. Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
  2997. cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, mba.
  2998. E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
  2999. rdt=cmt,!mba
  3000. reboot= [KNL]
  3001. Format (x86 or x86_64):
  3002. [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
  3003. [[,]s[mp]#### \
  3004. [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
  3005. [[,]f[orce]
  3006. Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
  3007. reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
  3008. reboot_force is either force or not specified,
  3009. reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
  3010. to be used for rebooting.
  3011. relax_domain_level=
  3012. [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
  3013. See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
  3014. reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
  3015. reservetop= [X86-32]
  3016. Format: nn[KMG]
  3017. Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
  3018. address space.
  3019. reservelow= [X86]
  3020. Format: nn[K]
  3021. Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
  3022. the bottom of the address space.
  3023. reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
  3024. during initialization.
  3025. resume= [SWSUSP]
  3026. Specify the partition device for software suspend
  3027. Format:
  3028. {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
  3029. resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
  3030. Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
  3031. given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
  3032. in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
  3033. See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
  3034. resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
  3035. read the resume files
  3036. resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
  3037. Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
  3038. (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
  3039. hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
  3040. noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
  3041. present during boot.
  3042. nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
  3043. no Disable hibernation and resume.
  3044. protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
  3045. (that will set all pages holding image data
  3046. during restoration read-only).
  3047. retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
  3048. rfkill.default_state=
  3049. 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
  3050. etc. communication is blocked by default.
  3051. 1 Unblocked.
  3052. rfkill.master_switch_mode=
  3053. 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
  3054. 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
  3055. blocked and the previous configuration.
  3056. 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
  3057. blocked and everything unblocked.
  3058. rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
  3059. Set number of hash buckets for route cache
  3060. ring3mwait=disable
  3061. [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
  3062. CPUs.
  3063. ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
  3064. rodata= [KNL]
  3065. on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
  3066. off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
  3067. rockchip.usb_uart
  3068. Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
  3069. on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
  3070. debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
  3071. port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
  3072. root= [KNL] Root filesystem
  3073. See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
  3074. rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
  3075. mount the root filesystem
  3076. rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
  3077. rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
  3078. rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
  3079. Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
  3080. (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
  3081. rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
  3082. [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
  3083. Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
  3084. managed by CMA.
  3085. rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
  3086. S [KNL] Run init in single mode
  3087. s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
  3088. Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
  3089. strict
  3090. With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
  3091. an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
  3092. which is faster.
  3093. sa1100ir [NET]
  3094. See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
  3095. sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
  3096. sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
  3097. schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
  3098. Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
  3099. incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
  3100. but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
  3101. skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
  3102. xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
  3103. contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
  3104. Format: { "0" | "1" }
  3105. 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
  3106. 1 -- enable.
  3107. Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
  3108. enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
  3109. security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
  3110. If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
  3111. security module asking for security registration will be
  3112. loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
  3113. as if no module has been chosen.
  3114. selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
  3115. Format: { "0" | "1" }
  3116. See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
  3117. 0 -- disable.
  3118. 1 -- enable.
  3119. Default value is set via kernel config option.
  3120. If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
  3121. later to disable prior to initial policy load.
  3122. apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
  3123. Format: { "0" | "1" }
  3124. See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
  3125. 0 -- disable.
  3126. 1 -- enable.
  3127. Default value is set via kernel config option.
  3128. serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
  3129. shapers= [NET]
  3130. Maximal number of shapers.
  3131. simeth= [IA-64]
  3132. simscsi=
  3133. slram= [HW,MTD]
  3134. slab_nomerge [MM]
  3135. Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
  3136. necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
  3137. allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
  3138. environments where the risk of heap overflows and
  3139. layout control by attackers can usually be
  3140. frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
  3141. most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
  3142. cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
  3143. unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
  3144. own.
  3145. For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
  3146. slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
  3147. Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
  3148. A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
  3149. fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
  3150. more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
  3151. slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
  3152. Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
  3153. culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
  3154. slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
  3155. may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
  3156. last alloc / free. For more information see
  3157. Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
  3158. slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
  3159. Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
  3160. memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
  3161. The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
  3162. Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
  3163. directories and files being created under
  3164. /sys/kernel/slub.
  3165. slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
  3166. Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
  3167. A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
  3168. fragmentation. For more information see
  3169. Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
  3170. slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
  3171. The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
  3172. increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
  3173. generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
  3174. the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
  3175. of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
  3176. and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
  3177. For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
  3178. slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
  3179. Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
  3180. lower than slub_max_order.
  3181. For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
  3182. slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
  3183. Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
  3184. See slab_nomerge for more information.
  3185. smart2= [HW]
  3186. Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
  3187. smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
  3188. smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
  3189. smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
  3190. smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
  3191. smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
  3192. smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
  3193. smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
  3194. 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
  3195. 1: Fast pin select (default)
  3196. 2: ATC IRMode
  3197. smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
  3198. CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
  3199. symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
  3200. actual hardware limit.
  3201. Format: <integer>
  3202. Default: -1 (no limit)
  3203. softlockup_panic=
  3204. [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
  3205. Format: <integer>
  3206. A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
  3207. to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
  3208. is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
  3209. which is the respective build-time switch to that
  3210. functionality.
  3211. softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
  3212. [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
  3213. backtraces on all cpus.
  3214. Format: <integer>
  3215. sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
  3216. See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
  3217. spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
  3218. spia_fio_base=
  3219. spia_pedr=
  3220. spia_peddr=
  3221. srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
  3222. Specifies how frequently to check for
  3223. grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
  3224. srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
  3225. The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
  3226. parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
  3227. be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
  3228. are ignored.
  3229. srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
  3230. Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
  3231. since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
  3232. a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
  3233. grace period will be considered for automatic
  3234. expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
  3235. expediting.
  3236. stack_guard_gap= [MM]
  3237. override the default stack gap protection. The value
  3238. is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
  3239. to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
  3240. growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
  3241. mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
  3242. stacktrace [FTRACE]
  3243. Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
  3244. stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
  3245. [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
  3246. will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
  3247. list of functions. This list can be changed at run
  3248. time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
  3249. tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
  3250. and the stacktrace above is not needed.
  3251. sti= [PARISC,HW]
  3252. Format: <num>
  3253. Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
  3254. machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
  3255. as the initial boot-console.
  3256. See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
  3257. sti_font= [HW]
  3258. See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
  3259. stifb= [HW]
  3260. Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
  3261. sunrpc.min_resvport=
  3262. sunrpc.max_resvport=
  3263. [NFS,SUNRPC]
  3264. SunRPC servers often require that client requests
  3265. originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
  3266. range 0 < portnr < 1024).
  3267. An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
  3268. ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
  3269. kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
  3270. using these two parameters to set the minimum and
  3271. maximum port values.
  3272. sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
  3273. [NFS,SUNRPC]
  3274. Limit the number of requests that the server will
  3275. process in parallel from a single connection.
  3276. The default value is 0 (no limit).
  3277. sunrpc.pool_mode=
  3278. [NFS]
  3279. Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
  3280. service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
  3281. you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
  3282. option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
  3283. Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
  3284. NFS server is running.
  3285. auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
  3286. automatically using heuristics
  3287. global a single global pool contains all CPUs
  3288. percpu one pool for each CPU
  3289. pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
  3290. to global on non-NUMA machines)
  3291. sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
  3292. sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
  3293. [NFS,SUNRPC]
  3294. Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
  3295. RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
  3296. server. Increasing these values may allow you to
  3297. improve throughput, but will also increase the
  3298. amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
  3299. suspend.pm_test_delay=
  3300. [SUSPEND]
  3301. Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
  3302. mode before resuming the system (see
  3303. /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
  3304. is set. Default value is 5.
  3305. swapaccount=[0|1]
  3306. [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
  3307. controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
  3308. it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
  3309. swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
  3310. Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
  3311. <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
  3312. force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
  3313. wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
  3314. noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
  3315. switches= [HW,M68k]
  3316. sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
  3317. Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
  3318. on older distributions. When this option is enabled
  3319. very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
  3320. is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
  3321. in older udev will not work anymore.
  3322. Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
  3323. the kernel configuration.
  3324. sysrq_always_enabled
  3325. [KNL]
  3326. Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
  3327. neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
  3328. Useful for debugging.
  3329. tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
  3330. Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
  3331. Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
  3332. ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
  3333. cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
  3334. "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
  3335. tdfx= [HW,DRM]
  3336. test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
  3337. Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
  3338. standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
  3339. as the system sleep state during system startup with
  3340. the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
  3341. The system is woken from this state using a
  3342. wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
  3343. thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
  3344. Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
  3345. thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
  3346. -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
  3347. <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
  3348. thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
  3349. -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
  3350. <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
  3351. thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
  3352. Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
  3353. critical and hot trip points.
  3354. thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
  3355. 1: disable ACPI thermal control
  3356. thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
  3357. -1: disable all passive trip points
  3358. <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
  3359. value
  3360. thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
  3361. Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
  3362. <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
  3363. 0: no polling (default)
  3364. threadirqs [KNL]
  3365. Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
  3366. marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
  3367. tmem [KNL,XEN]
  3368. Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
  3369. tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
  3370. Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
  3371. API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
  3372. tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
  3373. Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
  3374. API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
  3375. the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
  3376. tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
  3377. Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
  3378. to the hypervisor.
  3379. tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
  3380. Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
  3381. transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
  3382. kernel based on different criteria.
  3383. topology= [S390]
  3384. Format: {off | on}
  3385. Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
  3386. topology information if the hardware supports this.
  3387. The scheduler will make use of this information and
  3388. e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
  3389. Default is on.
  3390. topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
  3391. Format: {off}
  3392. Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
  3393. topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
  3394. LPAR.
  3395. tp720= [HW,PS2]
  3396. tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
  3397. Format: integer pcr id
  3398. Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
  3399. should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
  3400. as a workaround for some chips which fail to
  3401. flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
  3402. This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
  3403. are saved.
  3404. trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
  3405. [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
  3406. trace_event=[event-list]
  3407. [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
  3408. to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
  3409. comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
  3410. also Documentation/trace/events.txt
  3411. trace_options=[option-list]
  3412. [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
  3413. The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
  3414. that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
  3415. to echo the option name into
  3416. /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
  3417. For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
  3418. stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
  3419. trace_options=stacktrace
  3420. See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
  3421. section.
  3422. tp_printk[FTRACE]
  3423. Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
  3424. tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
  3425. where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
  3426. option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
  3427. ftrace_dump_on_oops.
  3428. To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
  3429. echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
  3430. Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
  3431. tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
  3432. ** CAUTION **
  3433. Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
  3434. frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
  3435. the system to live lock.
  3436. traceoff_on_warning
  3437. [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
  3438. warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
  3439. be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
  3440. file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
  3441. This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
  3442. the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
  3443. be filled with content caused by the warning output.
  3444. This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
  3445. option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
  3446. transparent_hugepage=
  3447. [KNL]
  3448. Format: [always|madvise|never]
  3449. Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
  3450. with respect to transparent hugepages.
  3451. See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
  3452. tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
  3453. Format: <string>
  3454. [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
  3455. disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
  3456. as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
  3457. high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
  3458. virtualized environment.
  3459. [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
  3460. Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
  3461. platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
  3462. can add overhead.
  3463. [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
  3464. marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
  3465. avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
  3466. turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
  3467. TurboGraFX parallel port interface
  3468. Format:
  3469. <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
  3470. See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
  3471. udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
  3472. happen after console_init() and before a proper
  3473. console driver takes over, this boot options might
  3474. help "seeing" what's going on.
  3475. uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
  3476. Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
  3477. uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
  3478. [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
  3479. Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
  3480. bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
  3481. anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
  3482. Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
  3483. reported either.
  3484. unknown_nmi_panic
  3485. [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
  3486. usbcore.authorized_default=
  3487. [USB] Default USB device authorization:
  3488. (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
  3489. 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
  3490. usbcore.autosuspend=
  3491. [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
  3492. for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
  3493. is the time required before an idle device will be
  3494. autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
  3495. to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
  3496. usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
  3497. [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
  3498. usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
  3499. [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
  3500. (default = 65536).
  3501. usbcore.blinkenlights=
  3502. [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
  3503. usbcore.old_scheme_first=
  3504. [USB] Start with the old device initialization
  3505. scheme (default 0 = off).
  3506. usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
  3507. [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
  3508. usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
  3509. usbcore.use_both_schemes=
  3510. [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
  3511. if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
  3512. usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
  3513. [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
  3514. USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
  3515. (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
  3516. usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
  3517. usbhid.mousepoll=
  3518. [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
  3519. usbhid.jspoll=
  3520. [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
  3521. usb-storage.delay_use=
  3522. [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
  3523. scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
  3524. usb-storage.quirks=
  3525. [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
  3526. override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
  3527. entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
  3528. the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
  3529. and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
  3530. Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
  3531. to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
  3532. a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
  3533. of sense data);
  3534. b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
  3535. bytes of sense data);
  3536. c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
  3537. device capacity by one sector);
  3538. d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
  3539. READ_DISC_INFO command);
  3540. e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
  3541. READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
  3542. f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
  3543. command, uas only);
  3544. g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
  3545. 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
  3546. h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
  3547. reported device capacity by one
  3548. sector if the number is odd);
  3549. i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
  3550. device);
  3551. j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
  3552. command, uas only);
  3553. l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
  3554. unlock ejectable media);
  3555. m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
  3556. than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
  3557. n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
  3558. initial READ(10) command);
  3559. o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
  3560. reported by the device);
  3561. p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
  3562. by default);
  3563. r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
  3564. bogus residue values);
  3565. s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
  3566. Logical Unit);
  3567. t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
  3568. commands, uas only);
  3569. u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
  3570. w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
  3571. medium is write-protected).
  3572. y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
  3573. even if the device claims no cache)
  3574. Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
  3575. user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
  3576. Format: <int>
  3577. See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
  3578. 1 - undefined instruction events
  3579. 2 - system calls
  3580. 4 - invalid data aborts
  3581. 8 - SIGSEGV faults
  3582. 16 - SIGBUS faults
  3583. Example: user_debug=31
  3584. userpte=
  3585. [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
  3586. nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
  3587. HIGHMEM regardless of setting
  3588. of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
  3589. vdso= [X86,SH]
  3590. On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
  3591. vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
  3592. vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
  3593. vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
  3594. vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
  3595. vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
  3596. See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
  3597. details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
  3598. vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
  3599. For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
  3600. alias for vdso32=0.
  3601. Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
  3602. dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
  3603. vector= [IA-64,SMP]
  3604. vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
  3605. video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
  3606. See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
  3607. video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
  3608. If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
  3609. generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
  3610. level and then send out the event to user space through
  3611. the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
  3612. will only send out the event without touching backlight
  3613. brightness level.
  3614. default: 1
  3615. virtio_mmio.device=
  3616. [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
  3617. <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
  3618. where:
  3619. <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
  3620. like K, M and G)
  3621. <baseaddr> := physical base address
  3622. <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
  3623. request_irq())
  3624. <id> := (optional) platform device id
  3625. example:
  3626. virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
  3627. Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
  3628. vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
  3629. See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
  3630. Documentation/svga.txt.
  3631. Use vga=ask for menu.
  3632. This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
  3633. passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
  3634. vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
  3635. size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
  3636. minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
  3637. decrease the size and leave more room for directly
  3638. mapped kernel RAM.
  3639. vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390]
  3640. Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
  3641. allocations for the vmcp device driver.
  3642. vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
  3643. Format: <command>
  3644. vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
  3645. Format: <command>
  3646. vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
  3647. Format: <command>
  3648. vsyscall= [X86-64]
  3649. Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
  3650. fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
  3651. code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
  3652. versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
  3653. functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
  3654. targets for exploits that can control RIP.
  3655. emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
  3656. emulated reasonably safely.
  3657. native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
  3658. This is a little bit faster than trapping
  3659. and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
  3660. better than they would in emulation mode.
  3661. It also makes exploits much easier to write.
  3662. none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
  3663. them quite hard to use for exploits but
  3664. might break your system.
  3665. vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
  3666. Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
  3667. Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
  3668. vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
  3669. Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
  3670. the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
  3671. see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
  3672. vt.default_blu= [VT]
  3673. Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
  3674. Change the default blue palette of the console.
  3675. This is a 16-member array composed of values
  3676. ranging from 0-255.
  3677. vt.default_grn= [VT]
  3678. Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
  3679. Change the default green palette of the console.
  3680. This is a 16-member array composed of values
  3681. ranging from 0-255.
  3682. vt.default_red= [VT]
  3683. Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
  3684. Change the default red palette of the console.
  3685. This is a 16-member array composed of values
  3686. ranging from 0-255.
  3687. vt.default_utf8=
  3688. [VT]
  3689. Format=<0|1>
  3690. Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
  3691. Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
  3692. newly opened terminals.
  3693. vt.global_cursor_default=
  3694. [VT]
  3695. Format=<-1|0|1>
  3696. Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
  3697. is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
  3698. i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
  3699. overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
  3700. cursors, 1 will display them.
  3701. vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
  3702. Default: 2 = green.
  3703. vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
  3704. Default: 3 = cyan.
  3705. watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
  3706. see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
  3707. or other driver-specific files in the
  3708. Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
  3709. workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
  3710. If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
  3711. warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
  3712. help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
  3713. detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
  3714. duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
  3715. it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
  3716. corresponding sysfs file.
  3717. workqueue.disable_numa
  3718. By default, all work items queued to unbound
  3719. workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
  3720. issued on, which results in better behavior in
  3721. general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
  3722. whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
  3723. that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
  3724. workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
  3725. workqueue.power_efficient
  3726. Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
  3727. they show better performance thanks to cache
  3728. locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
  3729. be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
  3730. Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
  3731. were observed to contribute significantly to power
  3732. consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
  3733. power usage at the cost of small performance
  3734. overhead.
  3735. The default value of this parameter is determined by
  3736. the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
  3737. workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
  3738. Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
  3739. items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
  3740. on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
  3741. and while local CPU is still preferred work items
  3742. may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
  3743. forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
  3744. usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
  3745. When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
  3746. impacted.
  3747. x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
  3748. default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
  3749. supporting x2apic.
  3750. x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
  3751. Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
  3752. Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
  3753. plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
  3754. x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
  3755. xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
  3756. Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
  3757. to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
  3758. crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
  3759. save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
  3760. domains.
  3761. xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
  3762. Unplug Xen emulated devices
  3763. Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
  3764. ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
  3765. aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
  3766. nics -- unplug network devices
  3767. all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
  3768. unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
  3769. unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
  3770. the unplug protocol
  3771. never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
  3772. xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
  3773. Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
  3774. optimizations.
  3775. xen_nopv [X86]
  3776. Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
  3777. run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
  3778. xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
  3779. Format:
  3780. <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]