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  1. Kernel Parameters
  2. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  3. The following is a consolidated list of the kernel parameters as
  4. implemented by the __setup(), core_param() and module_param() macros
  5. and sorted into English Dictionary order (defined as ignoring all
  6. punctuation and sorting digits before letters in a case insensitive
  7. manner), and with descriptions where known.
  8. The kernel parses parameters from the kernel command line up to "--";
  9. if it doesn't recognize a parameter and it doesn't contain a '.', the
  10. parameter gets passed to init: parameters with '=' go into init's
  11. environment, others are passed as command line arguments to init.
  12. Everything after "--" is passed as an argument to init.
  13. Module parameters can be specified in two ways: via the kernel command
  14. line with a module name prefix, or via modprobe, e.g.:
  15. (kernel command line) usbcore.blinkenlights=1
  16. (modprobe command line) modprobe usbcore blinkenlights=1
  17. Parameters for modules which are built into the kernel need to be
  18. specified on the kernel command line. modprobe looks through the
  19. kernel command line (/proc/cmdline) and collects module parameters
  20. when it loads a module, so the kernel command line can be used for
  21. loadable modules too.
  22. Hyphens (dashes) and underscores are equivalent in parameter names, so
  23. log_buf_len=1M print-fatal-signals=1
  24. can also be entered as
  25. log-buf-len=1M print_fatal_signals=1
  26. Double-quotes can be used to protect spaces in values, e.g.:
  27. param="spaces in here"
  28. cpu lists:
  29. ----------
  30. Some kernel parameters take a list of CPUs as a value, e.g. isolcpus,
  31. nohz_full, irqaffinity, rcu_nocbs. The format of this list is:
  32. <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
  33. or
  34. <cpu number>-<cpu number>
  35. (must be a positive range in ascending order)
  36. or a mixture
  37. <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number>
  38. Note that for the special case of a range one can split the range into equal
  39. sized groups and for each group use some amount from the beginning of that
  40. group:
  41. <cpu number>-cpu number>:<used size>/<group size>
  42. For example one can add to the command line following parameter:
  43. isolcpus=1,2,10-20,100-2000:2/25
  44. where the final item represents CPUs 100,101,125,126,150,151,...
  45. This document may not be entirely up to date and comprehensive. The command
  46. "modinfo -p ${modulename}" shows a current list of all parameters of a loadable
  47. module. Loadable modules, after being loaded into the running kernel, also
  48. reveal their parameters in /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/. Some of these
  49. parameters may be changed at runtime by the command
  50. "echo -n ${value} > /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/${parm}".
  51. The parameters listed below are only valid if certain kernel build options were
  52. enabled and if respective hardware is present. The text in square brackets at
  53. the beginning of each description states the restrictions within which a
  54. parameter is applicable:
  55. ACPI ACPI support is enabled.
  56. AGP AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) is enabled.
  57. ALSA ALSA sound support is enabled.
  58. APIC APIC support is enabled.
  59. APM Advanced Power Management support is enabled.
  60. ARM ARM architecture is enabled.
  61. AVR32 AVR32 architecture is enabled.
  62. AX25 Appropriate AX.25 support is enabled.
  63. BLACKFIN Blackfin architecture is enabled.
  64. CLK Common clock infrastructure is enabled.
  65. CMA Contiguous Memory Area support is enabled.
  66. DM Device mapper support is enabled.
  67. DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled.
  68. DYNAMIC_DEBUG Build in debug messages and enable them at runtime
  69. EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled
  70. EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled
  71. EIDE EIDE/ATAPI support is enabled.
  72. EVM Extended Verification Module
  73. FB The frame buffer device is enabled.
  74. FTRACE Function tracing enabled.
  75. GCOV GCOV profiling is enabled.
  76. HW Appropriate hardware is enabled.
  77. IA-64 IA-64 architecture is enabled.
  78. IMA Integrity measurement architecture is enabled.
  79. IOSCHED More than one I/O scheduler is enabled.
  80. IP_PNP IP DHCP, BOOTP, or RARP is enabled.
  81. IPV6 IPv6 support is enabled.
  82. ISAPNP ISA PnP code is enabled.
  83. ISDN Appropriate ISDN support is enabled.
  84. JOY Appropriate joystick support is enabled.
  85. KGDB Kernel debugger support is enabled.
  86. KVM Kernel Virtual Machine support is enabled.
  87. LIBATA Libata driver is enabled
  88. LP Printer support is enabled.
  89. LOOP Loopback device support is enabled.
  90. M68k M68k architecture is enabled.
  91. These options have more detailed description inside of
  92. Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt.
  93. MDA MDA console support is enabled.
  94. MIPS MIPS architecture is enabled.
  95. MOUSE Appropriate mouse support is enabled.
  96. MSI Message Signaled Interrupts (PCI).
  97. MTD MTD (Memory Technology Device) support is enabled.
  98. NET Appropriate network support is enabled.
  99. NUMA NUMA support is enabled.
  100. NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled.
  101. OSS OSS sound support is enabled.
  102. PV_OPS A paravirtualized kernel is enabled.
  103. PARIDE The ParIDE (parallel port IDE) subsystem is enabled.
  104. PARISC The PA-RISC architecture is enabled.
  105. PCI PCI bus support is enabled.
  106. PCIE PCI Express support is enabled.
  107. PCMCIA The PCMCIA subsystem is enabled.
  108. PNP Plug & Play support is enabled.
  109. PPC PowerPC architecture is enabled.
  110. PPT Parallel port support is enabled.
  111. PS2 Appropriate PS/2 support is enabled.
  112. RAM RAM disk support is enabled.
  113. S390 S390 architecture is enabled.
  114. SCSI Appropriate SCSI support is enabled.
  115. A lot of drivers have their options described inside
  116. the Documentation/scsi/ sub-directory.
  117. SECURITY Different security models are enabled.
  118. SELINUX SELinux support is enabled.
  119. APPARMOR AppArmor support is enabled.
  120. SERIAL Serial support is enabled.
  121. SH SuperH architecture is enabled.
  122. SMP The kernel is an SMP kernel.
  123. SPARC Sparc architecture is enabled.
  124. SWSUSP Software suspend (hibernation) is enabled.
  125. SUSPEND System suspend states are enabled.
  126. TPM TPM drivers are enabled.
  127. TS Appropriate touchscreen support is enabled.
  128. UMS USB Mass Storage support is enabled.
  129. USB USB support is enabled.
  130. USBHID USB Human Interface Device support is enabled.
  131. V4L Video For Linux support is enabled.
  132. VMMIO Driver for memory mapped virtio devices is enabled.
  133. VGA The VGA console has been enabled.
  134. VT Virtual terminal support is enabled.
  135. WDT Watchdog support is enabled.
  136. XT IBM PC/XT MFM hard disk support is enabled.
  137. X86-32 X86-32, aka i386 architecture is enabled.
  138. X86-64 X86-64 architecture is enabled.
  139. More X86-64 boot options can be found in
  140. Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt .
  141. X86 Either 32-bit or 64-bit x86 (same as X86-32+X86-64)
  142. X86_UV SGI UV support is enabled.
  143. XEN Xen support is enabled
  144. In addition, the following text indicates that the option:
  145. BUGS= Relates to possible processor bugs on the said processor.
  146. KNL Is a kernel start-up parameter.
  147. BOOT Is a boot loader parameter.
  148. Parameters denoted with BOOT are actually interpreted by the boot
  149. loader, and have no meaning to the kernel directly.
  150. Do not modify the syntax of boot loader parameters without extreme
  151. need or coordination with <Documentation/x86/boot.txt>.
  152. There are also arch-specific kernel-parameters not documented here.
  153. See for example <Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt>.
  154. Note that ALL kernel parameters listed below are CASE SENSITIVE, and that
  155. a trailing = on the name of any parameter states that that parameter will
  156. be entered as an environment variable, whereas its absence indicates that
  157. it will appear as a kernel argument readable via /proc/cmdline by programs
  158. running once the system is up.
  159. The number of kernel parameters is not limited, but the length of the
  160. complete command line (parameters including spaces etc.) is limited to
  161. a fixed number of characters. This limit depends on the architecture
  162. and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
  163. ./include/asm/setup.h as COMMAND_LINE_SIZE.
  164. Finally, the [KMG] suffix is commonly described after a number of kernel
  165. parameter values. These 'K', 'M', and 'G' letters represent the _binary_
  166. multipliers 'Kilo', 'Mega', and 'Giga', equalling 2^10, 2^20, and 2^30
  167. bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
  168. acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
  169. Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
  170. Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
  171. copy_dsdt }
  172. force -- enable ACPI if default was off
  173. on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
  174. off -- disable ACPI if default was on
  175. noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
  176. strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
  177. strictly ACPI specification compliant.
  178. rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
  179. copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
  180. For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
  181. are available
  182. See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
  183. acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
  184. Format: <int>
  185. 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
  186. 1,0: use 1st APIC table
  187. default: 0
  188. acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
  189. acpi_backlight=vendor
  190. acpi_backlight=video
  191. If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
  192. (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
  193. of the ACPI video.ko driver.
  194. acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
  195. force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
  196. 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
  197. bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
  198. the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
  199. acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
  200. Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
  201. This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
  202. the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
  203. This option is useful for developers to identify the
  204. root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
  205. has something to do with the repair mechanism.
  206. acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
  207. acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
  208. Format: <int>
  209. CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
  210. debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
  211. _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
  212. #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
  213. Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
  214. ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
  215. ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
  216. The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
  217. Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
  218. debug layers and levels.
  219. Enable processor driver info messages:
  220. acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
  221. Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
  222. acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
  223. Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
  224. object while interpreting AML:
  225. acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
  226. Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
  227. acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
  228. Some values produce so much output that the system is
  229. unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
  230. if you need to capture more output.
  231. acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
  232. { strict | lax | no }
  233. Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
  234. and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
  235. only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
  236. used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
  237. can interfere with legacy drivers.
  238. strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
  239. is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
  240. resources will fail to bind to device using them.
  241. lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
  242. legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
  243. will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
  244. no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
  245. no further checks are performed.
  246. acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
  247. Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
  248. By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
  249. size limitation.
  250. acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
  251. ACPI will balance active IRQs
  252. default in APIC mode
  253. acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
  254. ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
  255. default in PIC mode
  256. acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
  257. Format: <irq>,<irq>...
  258. acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
  259. use by PCI
  260. Format: <irq>,<irq>...
  261. acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
  262. Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
  263. by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
  264. GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
  265. the GPE dispatcher.
  266. This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
  267. GPE floodings.
  268. Format: <int>
  269. acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
  270. Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
  271. AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
  272. named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
  273. auto-serialization feature.
  274. This feature is enabled by default.
  275. This option allows to turn off the feature.
  276. acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
  277. kernels.
  278. acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
  279. Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
  280. By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
  281. installed automatically and they will appear under
  282. /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
  283. This option turns off this feature.
  284. Note that specifying this option does not affect
  285. dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
  286. tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
  287. acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
  288. Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
  289. on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
  290. second kernel for kdump.
  291. acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
  292. Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
  293. acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
  294. of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
  295. specification revision (when using this switch, it may
  296. be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
  297. row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
  298. acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
  299. acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
  300. acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
  301. acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
  302. acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
  303. strings
  304. acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
  305. strings
  306. acpi_osi= # disable all strings
  307. 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
  308. multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
  309. vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
  310. affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
  311. it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
  312. strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
  313. specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
  314. is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
  315. care about the state of the feature group strings which
  316. should be controlled by the OSPM.
  317. Examples:
  318. 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
  319. to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
  320. can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
  321. 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
  322. 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
  323. exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
  324. only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
  325. multiple times through kernel command line is also
  326. meaningless.
  327. Examples:
  328. 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
  329. FALSE.
  330. 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
  331. multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
  332. string(s). Note that such command can affect the
  333. current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
  334. feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
  335. through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
  336. still not able to affect the final state of a string if
  337. there are quirks related to this string. This command
  338. is useful when one want to control the state of the
  339. feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
  340. the OSPM features.
  341. Examples:
  342. 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
  343. '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
  344. 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
  345. '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
  346. 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
  347. equivalent to
  348. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
  349. and
  350. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
  351. they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
  352. acpi_pm_good [X86]
  353. Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
  354. to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
  355. and always returns good values.
  356. acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
  357. Format: { level | edge | high | low }
  358. acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
  359. Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
  360. For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
  361. acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
  362. Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
  363. old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable }
  364. See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
  365. s3_bios and s3_mode.
  366. s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
  367. as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
  368. s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
  369. used during resume from hibernation.
  370. old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
  371. control method, with respect to putting devices into
  372. low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
  373. of _PTS is used by default).
  374. nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
  375. ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
  376. sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
  377. on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
  378. but some broken systems don't work without it).
  379. acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
  380. Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
  381. that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
  382. add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
  383. kernel's map of available physical RAM.
  384. agp= [AGP]
  385. { off | try_unsupported }
  386. off: disable AGP support
  387. try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
  388. (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
  389. ALSA [HW,ALSA]
  390. See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
  391. alignment= [KNL,ARM]
  392. Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
  393. behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
  394. bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
  395. align_va_addr= [X86-64]
  396. Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
  397. allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
  398. gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
  399. machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
  400. CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
  401. a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
  402. 32: only for 32-bit processes
  403. 64: only for 64-bit processes
  404. on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
  405. off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
  406. alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
  407. Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
  408. main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
  409. and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
  410. do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
  411. to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
  412. amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
  413. Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
  414. Possible values are:
  415. fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
  416. they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
  417. flushed before they will be reused, which
  418. is a lot of faster
  419. off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
  420. the system
  421. force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
  422. devices. The IOMMU driver is not
  423. allowed anymore to lift isolation
  424. requirements as needed. This option
  425. does not override iommu=pt
  426. amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
  427. Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
  428. for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
  429. driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
  430. IOMMU initialization.
  431. amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
  432. Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
  433. remapping modes:
  434. legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
  435. vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
  436. to inject interrupts directly into guest.
  437. This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
  438. (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
  439. amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
  440. Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
  441. Format: <a>,<b>
  442. See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt
  443. analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
  444. Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
  445. connected to one of 16 gameports
  446. Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
  447. apc= [HW,SPARC]
  448. Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
  449. Format: noidle
  450. Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
  451. not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
  452. APC and your system crashes randomly.
  453. apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
  454. Change the output verbosity whilst booting
  455. Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
  456. Change the amount of debugging information output
  457. when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
  458. apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
  459. Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
  460. bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
  461. all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
  462. backup of CPU 0
  463. none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
  464. useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
  465. shot down by NMI
  466. autoconf= [IPV6]
  467. See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
  468. show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
  469. Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
  470. number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
  471. to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
  472. Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
  473. The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
  474. apic=verbose is specified.
  475. Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
  476. apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
  477. See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
  478. arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
  479. Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
  480. ataflop= [HW,M68k]
  481. atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
  482. atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
  483. EzKey and similar keyboards
  484. atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
  485. atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
  486. Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
  487. atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
  488. keyboards
  489. atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
  490. Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
  491. atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
  492. Use software keyboard repeat
  493. audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
  494. Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
  495. 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
  496. until the next reboot
  497. unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
  498. will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
  499. 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
  500. storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
  501. RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
  502. auditd.
  503. Default: unset
  504. audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
  505. Format: <int> (must be >=0)
  506. Default: 64
  507. bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
  508. behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
  509. Format: { "0" | "1" }
  510. 0 - Disable the BAU.
  511. 1 - Enable the BAU.
  512. unset - Disable the BAU.
  513. baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
  514. Format: <io>,<mode>
  515. baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
  516. Format: <io>,<mode>
  517. See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
  518. baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
  519. BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
  520. Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
  521. See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
  522. baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
  523. BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
  524. Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
  525. See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
  526. blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
  527. embedded devices based on command line input.
  528. See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
  529. boot_cpus= [SMP]
  530. Rather than attempting to online all possible CPUs at
  531. boot time, only online the specified set of CPUs.
  532. boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
  533. Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
  534. no delay (0).
  535. Format: integer
  536. bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
  537. bert_disable [ACPI]
  538. Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
  539. bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
  540. bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
  541. kernel args too.
  542. bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
  543. bttv.tuner=
  544. bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
  545. firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
  546. at a time.
  547. c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
  548. cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
  549. Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
  550. size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
  551. to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
  552. possible to determine what the correct size should be.
  553. This option provides an override for these situations.
  554. ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
  555. the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
  556. trust validation.
  557. format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
  558. cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
  559. algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
  560. inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
  561. for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
  562. others).
  563. ccw_timeout_log [S390]
  564. See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
  565. cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
  566. Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
  567. The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
  568. - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
  569. a single hierarchy
  570. - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
  571. subsystem
  572. {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
  573. cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
  574. only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
  575. cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
  576. Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
  577. Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
  578. the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
  579. cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
  580. Format: <string>
  581. nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
  582. nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
  583. checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
  584. Format: { "0" | "1" }
  585. See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
  586. 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
  587. any implied execute protection).
  588. 1 -- check protection requested by application.
  589. Default value is set via a kernel config option.
  590. Value can be changed at runtime via
  591. /selinux/checkreqprot.
  592. cio_ignore= [S390]
  593. See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
  594. clk_ignore_unused
  595. [CLK]
  596. Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
  597. clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
  598. device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
  599. by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
  600. force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
  601. those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
  602. debug and development, but should not be needed on a
  603. platform with proper driver support. For more
  604. information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
  605. clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
  606. [Deprecated]
  607. Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
  608. when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
  609. clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
  610. Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
  611. clocksource= Override the default clocksource
  612. Format: <string>
  613. Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
  614. with the name specified.
  615. Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
  616. the platform:
  617. [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
  618. [ACPI] acpi_pm
  619. [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
  620. pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
  621. [AVR32] avr32
  622. [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
  623. scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
  624. [MIPS] MIPS
  625. [PARISC] cr16
  626. [S390] tod
  627. [SH] SuperH
  628. [SPARC64] tick
  629. [X86-64] hpet,tsc
  630. clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
  631. [ARM,ARM64]
  632. Format: <bool>
  633. Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
  634. architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
  635. loops can be debugged more effectively on production
  636. systems.
  637. clocksource.arm_arch_timer.fsl-a008585=
  638. [ARM64]
  639. Format: <bool>
  640. Enable/disable the workaround of Freescale/NXP
  641. erratum A-008585. This can be useful for KVM
  642. guests, if the guest device tree doesn't show the
  643. erratum. If unspecified, the workaround is
  644. enabled based on the device tree.
  645. clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
  646. Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
  647. arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
  648. numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
  649. stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
  650. ones should be.
  651. Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
  652. or using the feature without checking anything
  653. will still see it. This just prevents it from
  654. being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
  655. Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
  656. some critical bits.
  657. cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
  658. [ARM,X86,KNL]
  659. Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
  660. contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
  661. placement constraint by the physical address range of
  662. memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
  663. altogether. For more information, see
  664. include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
  665. cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
  666. Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
  667. when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
  668. to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
  669. a hypervisor.
  670. Default: yes
  671. coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
  672. Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
  673. allocations, by default set to 256K.
  674. code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
  675. in an oops report.
  676. Range: 0 - 8192
  677. Default: 64
  678. com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
  679. Format:
  680. <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
  681. com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
  682. Format: <io>[,<irq>]
  683. com90xx= [HW,NET]
  684. ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
  685. Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
  686. condev= [HW,S390] console device
  687. conmode=
  688. console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
  689. tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
  690. ttyS<n>[,options]
  691. ttyUSB0[,options]
  692. Use the specified serial port. The options are of
  693. the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
  694. "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
  695. bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
  696. omit it). Default is "9600n8".
  697. See Documentation/serial-console.txt for more
  698. information. See
  699. Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
  700. alternative.
  701. uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
  702. uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
  703. uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
  704. uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
  705. uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
  706. Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
  707. UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
  708. switching to the matching ttyS device later.
  709. MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
  710. (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
  711. If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
  712. to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
  713. the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
  714. the h/w is not re-initialized.
  715. hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
  716. both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
  717. If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
  718. device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
  719. console=brl,ttyS0
  720. For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
  721. consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
  722. seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
  723. disables the blank timer.
  724. core_ctl_disable_cpumask= [SMP]
  725. Exempt the CPUs from being managed by core_ctl.
  726. core_ctl operates on a cluster basis. So all the
  727. CPUs in a given cluster must be specified to disable
  728. core_ctl for that cluster.
  729. coredump_filter=
  730. [KNL] Change the default value for
  731. /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
  732. See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
  733. cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
  734. disable the cpuidle sub-system
  735. cpu_init_udelay=N
  736. [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
  737. of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
  738. on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
  739. Default: 10000
  740. cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
  741. Format:
  742. <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
  743. crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
  744. [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
  745. upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
  746. memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
  747. image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
  748. is selected automatically. Check
  749. Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
  750. crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
  751. [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
  752. in the running system. The syntax of range is
  753. start-[end] where start and end are both
  754. a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
  755. Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
  756. crashkernel=size[KMG],high
  757. [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
  758. to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
  759. be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
  760. Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
  761. available.
  762. It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
  763. crashkernel=size[KMG],low
  764. [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
  765. is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
  766. above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
  767. that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
  768. requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
  769. low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
  770. devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
  771. at least 256M below 4G automatically.
  772. This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
  773. for second kernel instead.
  774. 0: to disable low allocation.
  775. It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
  776. or memory reserved is below 4G.
  777. cryptomgr.notests
  778. [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
  779. cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
  780. Format: <dma>
  781. cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
  782. Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
  783. dasd= [HW,NET]
  784. See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
  785. db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
  786. (one device per port)
  787. Format: <port#>,<type>
  788. See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
  789. ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
  790. time. See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for
  791. details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
  792. debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
  793. debug_locks_verbose=
  794. [KNL] verbose self-tests
  795. Format=<0|1>
  796. Print debugging info while doing the locking API
  797. self-tests.
  798. We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
  799. 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
  800. only useful to kernel developers.
  801. debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
  802. no_debug_objects
  803. [KNL] Disable object debugging
  804. debug_guardpage_minorder=
  805. [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
  806. parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
  807. be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
  808. buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
  809. of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
  810. amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
  811. possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
  812. to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
  813. memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
  814. driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
  815. random memory location. Note that there exists a class
  816. of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
  817. F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
  818. memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
  819. bypassed) which are not detectable by
  820. CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
  821. tracking down these problems.
  822. debug_pagealloc=
  823. [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
  824. parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
  825. default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
  826. chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
  827. it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
  828. with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
  829. on: enable the feature
  830. debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
  831. decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
  832. Format: <area>[,<node>]
  833. See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
  834. default_hugepagesz=
  835. [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
  836. HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
  837. the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
  838. default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
  839. Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
  840. if not specified.
  841. dhash_entries= [KNL]
  842. Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
  843. disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
  844. Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
  845. causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
  846. can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
  847. miss to occur.
  848. disable= [IPV6]
  849. See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
  850. disable_radix [PPC]
  851. Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
  852. disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
  853. Format: <int>
  854. The number of initial APIC ID for the
  855. corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
  856. mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
  857. disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
  858. causing system reset or hang due to sending
  859. INIT from AP to BSP.
  860. disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
  861. Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
  862. to workaround buggy firmware.
  863. disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
  864. See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
  865. disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
  866. The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
  867. to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
  868. entry later. This parameter disables that.
  869. disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
  870. By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
  871. memory out of your available memory pool based on
  872. MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
  873. possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
  874. disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
  875. Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
  876. Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
  877. dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
  878. dm= [DM] Allows early creation of a device-mapper device.
  879. See Documentation/device-mapper/boot.txt.
  880. dmasound= [HW,OSS] Sound subsystem buff
  881. dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
  882. this option disables the debugging code at boot.
  883. dma_debug_entries=<number>
  884. This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
  885. entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
  886. required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
  887. DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
  888. architectural default is too low.
  889. dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
  890. With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
  891. filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
  892. pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
  893. The filter can be disabled or changed to another
  894. driver later using sysfs.
  895. drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
  896. Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
  897. panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
  898. This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
  899. in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
  900. Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
  901. edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
  902. edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
  903. and no file with the same name exists. Details and
  904. instructions how to build your own EDID data are
  905. available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
  906. data set will only be used for a particular connector,
  907. if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
  908. name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
  909. set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
  910. data set with no connector name will be used for
  911. any connectors not explicitly specified.
  912. dscc4.setup= [NET]
  913. dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
  914. module.dyndbg[="val"]
  915. Enable debug messages at boot time. See
  916. Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for details.
  917. nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
  918. See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
  919. information about the feature.
  920. nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
  921. in some Intel CPUs.
  922. module.async_probe [KNL]
  923. Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
  924. early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
  925. Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
  926. is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
  927. which are not unmapped.
  928. earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
  929. When used with no options, the early console is
  930. determined by the stdout-path property in device
  931. tree's chosen node.
  932. cdns,<addr>[,options]
  933. Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
  934. (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
  935. supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
  936. specified, the serial port must already be setup and
  937. configured.
  938. uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
  939. uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
  940. uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
  941. uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
  942. uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
  943. Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
  944. UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
  945. MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
  946. (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
  947. If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
  948. to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
  949. in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
  950. unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
  951. pl011,<addr>
  952. pl011,mmio32,<addr>
  953. Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
  954. port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
  955. must already be setup and configured. Options are not
  956. yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
  957. the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
  958. the device registers.
  959. meson,<addr>
  960. Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
  961. port at the specified address. The serial port must
  962. already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
  963. supported.
  964. msm_serial,<addr>
  965. Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
  966. port at the specified address. The serial port
  967. must already be setup and configured. Options are not
  968. yet supported.
  969. msm_serial_dm,<addr>
  970. Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
  971. dm port at the specified address. The serial port
  972. must already be setup and configured. Options are not
  973. yet supported.
  974. smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
  975. s3c2410,<addr>
  976. s3c2412,<addr>
  977. s3c2440,<addr>
  978. s3c6400,<addr>
  979. s5pv210,<addr>
  980. exynos4210,<addr>
  981. Use early console provided by serial driver available
  982. on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
  983. a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
  984. serial port must already be setup and configured.
  985. Options are not yet supported.
  986. lpuart,<addr>
  987. lpuart32,<addr>
  988. Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
  989. found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
  990. A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
  991. port must already be setup and configured.
  992. armada3700_uart,<addr>
  993. Start an early, polled-mode console on the
  994. Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
  995. address. The serial port must already be setup
  996. and configured. Options are not yet supported.
  997. earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k]
  998. earlyprintk=vga
  999. earlyprintk=efi
  1000. earlyprintk=xen
  1001. earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
  1002. earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
  1003. earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
  1004. earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
  1005. earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
  1006. earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
  1007. the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
  1008. default because it has some cosmetic problems.
  1009. Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
  1010. takes over.
  1011. Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
  1012. be used at a time.
  1013. Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
  1014. name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
  1015. on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
  1016. replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
  1017. earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
  1018. You can find the port for a given device in
  1019. /proc/tty/driver/serial:
  1020. 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
  1021. Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
  1022. very good.
  1023. The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
  1024. the real console.
  1025. The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
  1026. edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
  1027. Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
  1028. on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
  1029. by other higher priority error reporting module.
  1030. off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
  1031. force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
  1032. default: on.
  1033. ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
  1034. ekgdboc=kbd
  1035. This is designed to be used in conjunction with
  1036. the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
  1037. edd= [EDD]
  1038. Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
  1039. efi= [EFI]
  1040. Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
  1041. old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
  1042. runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
  1043. default.
  1044. nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
  1045. boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
  1046. firmware implementations.
  1047. noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
  1048. debug: enable misc debug output
  1049. efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
  1050. Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
  1051. your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
  1052. you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
  1053. fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
  1054. efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
  1055. Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
  1056. updating original EFI memory map.
  1057. Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
  1058. from ss to ss+nn.
  1059. If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
  1060. is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
  1061. attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
  1062. 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
  1063. Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
  1064. related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
  1065. Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
  1066. doesn't support it.
  1067. efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
  1068. that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
  1069. multiple variables with the same name but with different
  1070. vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
  1071. Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
  1072. eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
  1073. See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
  1074. elanfreq= [X86-32]
  1075. See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
  1076. arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
  1077. elevator= [IOSCHED]
  1078. Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
  1079. See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
  1080. Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
  1081. elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
  1082. Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
  1083. image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
  1084. kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
  1085. See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
  1086. enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
  1087. The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
  1088. to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
  1089. entry later. This parameter enables that.
  1090. enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
  1091. Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
  1092. Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
  1093. (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
  1094. The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
  1095. enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
  1096. Format: {"0" | "1"}
  1097. See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
  1098. 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
  1099. 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
  1100. Default value is 0.
  1101. Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
  1102. erst_disable [ACPI]
  1103. Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
  1104. support.
  1105. ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
  1106. This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
  1107. has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
  1108. evm= [EVM]
  1109. Format: { "fix" }
  1110. Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
  1111. current integrity status.
  1112. failslab=
  1113. fail_page_alloc=
  1114. fail_make_request=[KNL]
  1115. General fault injection mechanism.
  1116. Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
  1117. See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
  1118. floppy= [HW]
  1119. See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
  1120. force_pal_cache_flush
  1121. [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
  1122. buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
  1123. parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
  1124. ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
  1125. forcepae [X86-32]
  1126. Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
  1127. Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
  1128. functionally usable PAE implementation.
  1129. Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
  1130. and may cause unknown problems.
  1131. ftrace=[tracer]
  1132. [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
  1133. as early as possible in order to facilitate early
  1134. boot debugging.
  1135. ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
  1136. [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
  1137. If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
  1138. buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
  1139. dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
  1140. oops.
  1141. ftrace_filter=[function-list]
  1142. [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
  1143. tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
  1144. list of functions. This list can be changed at run
  1145. time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
  1146. tracing directory.
  1147. ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
  1148. [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
  1149. function-list. This list can be changed at run time
  1150. by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
  1151. tracing directory.
  1152. ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
  1153. [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
  1154. by the function graph tracer at boot up.
  1155. function-list is a comma separated list of functions
  1156. that can be changed at run time by the
  1157. set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
  1158. ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
  1159. [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
  1160. function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
  1161. functions that can be changed at run time by the
  1162. set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
  1163. gamecon.map[2|3]=
  1164. [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
  1165. support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
  1166. Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
  1167. See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
  1168. gamma= [HW,DRM]
  1169. gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
  1170. Format: off | on
  1171. default: on
  1172. gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
  1173. kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
  1174. debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
  1175. When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
  1176. debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
  1177. goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
  1178. Don't use this when you are not running on the
  1179. android emulator
  1180. gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
  1181. invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
  1182. primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
  1183. GPT to be used instead.
  1184. grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
  1185. the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
  1186. Format: 0 | 1
  1187. Default: 0
  1188. grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
  1189. the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
  1190. Format: 0 | 1
  1191. Default: 0
  1192. grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
  1193. Format: 0 | 1
  1194. Default: 0
  1195. grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
  1196. Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
  1197. Default: 1024
  1198. grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
  1199. Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
  1200. Default: 1024
  1201. gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
  1202. [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
  1203. Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
  1204. hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
  1205. [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
  1206. backtraces on all cpus.
  1207. Format: <integer>
  1208. hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
  1209. are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
  1210. for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
  1211. Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
  1212. hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
  1213. hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
  1214. Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
  1215. hest_disable [ACPI]
  1216. Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
  1217. corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
  1218. logic will be disabled.
  1219. highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
  1220. size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
  1221. highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
  1222. size on bigger boxes.
  1223. highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
  1224. Valid parameters: "on", "off"
  1225. Default: "on"
  1226. hisax= [HW,ISDN]
  1227. See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
  1228. hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
  1229. hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
  1230. Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
  1231. verbose }
  1232. disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
  1233. force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
  1234. VIA, nVidia)
  1235. verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
  1236. hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
  1237. registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
  1238. hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
  1239. hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
  1240. On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
  1241. multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
  1242. huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
  1243. x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
  1244. (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
  1245. hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
  1246. terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
  1247. hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
  1248. If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
  1249. from listed z/VM user IDs only.
  1250. hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
  1251. hardware thread id mappings.
  1252. Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
  1253. keep_bootcon [KNL]
  1254. Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
  1255. useful for debugging when something happens in the window
  1256. between unregistering the boot console and initializing
  1257. the real console.
  1258. i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
  1259. or register an additional I2C bus that is not
  1260. registered from board initialization code.
  1261. Format:
  1262. <bus_id>,<clkrate>
  1263. i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
  1264. i8042.unmask_kbd_data
  1265. [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
  1266. (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
  1267. requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
  1268. i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
  1269. i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
  1270. keyboard and cannot control its state
  1271. (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
  1272. i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
  1273. i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
  1274. i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
  1275. for the AUX port
  1276. i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
  1277. controller
  1278. i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
  1279. controllers
  1280. i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
  1281. i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
  1282. suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
  1283. transitions, or never reset
  1284. Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
  1285. 1, Y, y: always reset controller
  1286. 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
  1287. Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
  1288. architectures force reset to be always executed
  1289. i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
  1290. i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
  1291. i810= [HW,DRM]
  1292. i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
  1293. indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
  1294. hardware.
  1295. i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
  1296. does not match list of supported models.
  1297. i8k.power_status
  1298. [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
  1299. (disabled by default)
  1300. i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
  1301. capability is set.
  1302. i915.invert_brightness=
  1303. [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
  1304. set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
  1305. brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
  1306. and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
  1307. to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
  1308. (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
  1309. is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
  1310. to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
  1311. value switches the backlight off.
  1312. -1 -- never invert brightness
  1313. 0 -- machine default
  1314. 1 -- force brightness inversion
  1315. icn= [HW,ISDN]
  1316. Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
  1317. ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
  1318. Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
  1319. .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
  1320. .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
  1321. See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
  1322. ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
  1323. Format: <int>
  1324. Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
  1325. platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
  1326. setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
  1327. default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
  1328. On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
  1329. PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
  1330. are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
  1331. of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
  1332. was 0x3.
  1333. ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
  1334. Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
  1335. idle= [X86]
  1336. Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
  1337. Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
  1338. improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
  1339. will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
  1340. Not recommended.
  1341. idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
  1342. In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
  1343. idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
  1344. ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
  1345. Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
  1346. Default: strict
  1347. Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
  1348. based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
  1349. the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
  1350. of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
  1351. binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
  1352. support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
  1353. encoding mode.
  1354. Available settings are as follows:
  1355. strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
  1356. supported by the FPU
  1357. legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
  1358. by the FPU
  1359. 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
  1360. by the FPU
  1361. relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
  1362. supported by the FPU
  1363. The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
  1364. encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
  1365. been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
  1366. 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
  1367. 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
  1368. 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
  1369. legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
  1370. MIPS64 CPUs.
  1371. The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
  1372. mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
  1373. except where unsupported by hardware.
  1374. ignore_loglevel [KNL]
  1375. Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
  1376. kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
  1377. We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
  1378. could change it dynamically, usually by
  1379. /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
  1380. ignore_rlimit_data
  1381. Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
  1382. print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
  1383. /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
  1384. ihash_entries= [KNL]
  1385. Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
  1386. ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
  1387. Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
  1388. default: "enforce"
  1389. ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
  1390. The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
  1391. owned by uid=0.
  1392. ima_hash= [IMA]
  1393. Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
  1394. | sha512 | ... }
  1395. default: "sha1"
  1396. The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
  1397. in crypto/hash_info.h.
  1398. ima_policy= [IMA]
  1399. The builtin measurement policy to load during IMA
  1400. setup. Specyfing "tcb" as the value, measures all
  1401. programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
  1402. opened with the read mode bit set by either the
  1403. effective uid (euid=0) or uid=0.
  1404. Format: "tcb"
  1405. ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
  1406. Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
  1407. Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
  1408. programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
  1409. opened for read by uid=0.
  1410. ima_template= [IMA]
  1411. Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
  1412. Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
  1413. Default: "ima-ng"
  1414. ima_template_fmt=
  1415. [IMA] Define a custom template format.
  1416. Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
  1417. ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
  1418. Format: <min_file_size>
  1419. Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
  1420. If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
  1421. ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
  1422. different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
  1423. to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
  1424. ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
  1425. Format: <bufsize>
  1426. Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
  1427. ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
  1428. different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
  1429. to achieve best performance for particular HW.
  1430. init= [KNL]
  1431. Format: <full_path>
  1432. Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
  1433. process.
  1434. initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
  1435. for working out where the kernel is dying during
  1436. startup.
  1437. initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
  1438. initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
  1439. modules and initcalls.
  1440. initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
  1441. init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
  1442. register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
  1443. default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
  1444. override in debugfs after boot.
  1445. inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
  1446. Format: <irq>
  1447. int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
  1448. integrity_audit=[IMA]
  1449. Format: { "0" | "1" }
  1450. 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
  1451. 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
  1452. intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
  1453. on
  1454. Enable intel iommu driver.
  1455. off
  1456. Disable intel iommu driver.
  1457. igfx_off [Default Off]
  1458. By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
  1459. device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
  1460. bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
  1461. this case, gfx device will use physical address for
  1462. DMA.
  1463. forcedac [x86_64]
  1464. With this option iommu will not optimize to look
  1465. for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
  1466. address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
  1467. than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
  1468. for translation below 32-bit and if not available
  1469. then look in the higher range.
  1470. strict [Default Off]
  1471. With this option on every unmap_single operation will
  1472. result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
  1473. to batching them for performance.
  1474. sp_off [Default Off]
  1475. By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
  1476. has the capability. With this option, super page will
  1477. not be supported.
  1478. ecs_off [Default Off]
  1479. By default, extended context tables will be supported if
  1480. the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
  1481. extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
  1482. this option set, extended tables will not be used even
  1483. on hardware which claims to support them.
  1484. intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
  1485. 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
  1486. 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
  1487. intel_pstate= [X86]
  1488. disable
  1489. Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
  1490. scaling driver for the supported processors
  1491. force
  1492. Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
  1493. in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
  1494. instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
  1495. as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
  1496. P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
  1497. should be used with caution. This option does not work with
  1498. processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
  1499. or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
  1500. no_hwp
  1501. Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
  1502. if available.
  1503. hwp_only
  1504. Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
  1505. hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
  1506. support_acpi_ppc
  1507. Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
  1508. Description Table, specifies preferred power management
  1509. profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
  1510. then this feature is turned on by default.
  1511. intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
  1512. on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
  1513. off disable Interrupt Remapping
  1514. nosid disable Source ID checking
  1515. no_x2apic_optout
  1516. BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
  1517. nopost disable Interrupt Posting
  1518. iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
  1519. strict regions from userspace.
  1520. relaxed
  1521. iommu= [x86]
  1522. off
  1523. force
  1524. noforce
  1525. biomerge
  1526. panic
  1527. nopanic
  1528. merge
  1529. nomerge
  1530. forcesac
  1531. soft
  1532. pt [x86, IA-64]
  1533. nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
  1534. Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
  1535. io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
  1536. See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
  1537. arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
  1538. io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
  1539. 0x80
  1540. Standard port 0x80 based delay
  1541. 0xed
  1542. Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
  1543. udelay
  1544. Simple two microseconds delay
  1545. none
  1546. No delay
  1547. ip= [IP_PNP]
  1548. See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
  1549. irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
  1550. The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
  1551. irqfixup [HW]
  1552. When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
  1553. for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
  1554. firmware running.
  1555. irqpoll [HW]
  1556. When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
  1557. for it. Also check all handlers each timer
  1558. interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
  1559. firmware running.
  1560. isapnp= [ISAPNP]
  1561. Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
  1562. isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
  1563. The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
  1564. This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
  1565. to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
  1566. algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
  1567. "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
  1568. <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
  1569. "number of CPUs in system - 1".
  1570. This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
  1571. alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
  1572. tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
  1573. suboptimal load balancer performance.
  1574. iucv= [HW,NET]
  1575. ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
  1576. Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
  1577. mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
  1578. example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
  1579. PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
  1580. ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
  1581. ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
  1582. Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
  1583. mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
  1584. example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
  1585. PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
  1586. ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
  1587. ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
  1588. Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
  1589. mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
  1590. example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
  1591. PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
  1592. ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
  1593. js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
  1594. See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
  1595. nokaslr [KNL]
  1596. When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
  1597. kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
  1598. Layout Randomization).
  1599. kasan_multi_shot
  1600. [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
  1601. report on every invalid memory access. Without this
  1602. parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
  1603. invalid access.
  1604. keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
  1605. kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
  1606. Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
  1607. This parameter
  1608. specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
  1609. for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
  1610. spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
  1611. remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
  1612. pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
  1613. kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
  1614. take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
  1615. of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
  1616. allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
  1617. by the page migration subsystem. This means that
  1618. HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
  1619. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
  1620. use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
  1621. zone if it does not.
  1622. Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
  1623. you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
  1624. option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
  1625. for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
  1626. for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
  1627. so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
  1628. time.
  1629. kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
  1630. Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
  1631. The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
  1632. port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
  1633. optional and is the number seconds in between
  1634. each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
  1635. the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
  1636. gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
  1637. not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
  1638. the kernel debugger.
  1639. kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
  1640. Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
  1641. or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
  1642. Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
  1643. keyboard only format: kbd
  1644. keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
  1645. Optional Kernel mode setting:
  1646. kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
  1647. kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
  1648. kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
  1649. kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
  1650. kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
  1651. Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
  1652. Ethernet adapter MAC address.
  1653. kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
  1654. Valid arguments: on, off
  1655. Default: on
  1656. Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
  1657. the default is off.
  1658. kmemcheck= [X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode
  1659. Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2
  1660. kmemcheck=0 (disabled)
  1661. kmemcheck=1 (enabled)
  1662. kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode)
  1663. Default: 2 (one-shot mode)
  1664. kstack=N [X86] Print N words from the kernel stack
  1665. in oops dumps.
  1666. kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
  1667. Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
  1668. kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
  1669. KVM MMU at runtime.
  1670. Default is 0 (off)
  1671. kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
  1672. Default is 1 (enabled)
  1673. kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
  1674. for all guests.
  1675. Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
  1676. kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
  1677. (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
  1678. Default is 1 (enabled)
  1679. kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
  1680. [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
  1681. Default is 0 (disabled)
  1682. kvm-intel.flexpriority=
  1683. [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
  1684. Default is 1 (enabled)
  1685. kvm-intel.nested=
  1686. [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
  1687. Default is 0 (disabled)
  1688. kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
  1689. [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
  1690. (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
  1691. Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
  1692. kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
  1693. CVE-2018-3620.
  1694. Valid arguments: never, cond, always
  1695. always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
  1696. cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
  1697. VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
  1698. never: Disables the mitigation
  1699. Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
  1700. kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
  1701. feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
  1702. Default is 1 (enabled)
  1703. l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
  1704. affected CPUs
  1705. The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
  1706. enabled and cannot be disabled.
  1707. full
  1708. Provides all available mitigations for the
  1709. L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
  1710. enables all mitigations in the
  1711. hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
  1712. SMT control and L1D flush control via the
  1713. sysfs interface is still possible after
  1714. boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
  1715. when the first VM is started in a
  1716. potentially insecure configuration,
  1717. i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
  1718. full,force
  1719. Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
  1720. flush runtime control. Implies the
  1721. 'nosmt=force' command line option.
  1722. (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
  1723. flush
  1724. Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
  1725. hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
  1726. L1D flush.
  1727. SMT control and L1D flush control via the
  1728. sysfs interface is still possible after
  1729. boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
  1730. when the first VM is started in a
  1731. potentially insecure configuration,
  1732. i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
  1733. flush,nosmt
  1734. Disables SMT and enables the default
  1735. hypervisor mitigation.
  1736. SMT control and L1D flush control via the
  1737. sysfs interface is still possible after
  1738. boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
  1739. when the first VM is started in a
  1740. potentially insecure configuration,
  1741. i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
  1742. flush,nowarn
  1743. Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
  1744. warn when a VM is started in a potentially
  1745. insecure configuration.
  1746. off
  1747. Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
  1748. emit any warnings.
  1749. It also drops the swap size and available
  1750. RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
  1751. bare metal.
  1752. Default is 'flush'.
  1753. For details see: Documentation/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
  1754. l2cr= [PPC]
  1755. l3cr= [PPC]
  1756. lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
  1757. disabled it.
  1758. lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
  1759. value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
  1760. back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
  1761. lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
  1762. in C2 power state.
  1763. libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
  1764. libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
  1765. libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
  1766. libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
  1767. libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
  1768. Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
  1769. for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
  1770. libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
  1771. libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
  1772. libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
  1773. libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
  1774. when set.
  1775. Format: <int>
  1776. libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
  1777. separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
  1778. PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
  1779. matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
  1780. the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
  1781. the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
  1782. values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
  1783. configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
  1784. If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
  1785. the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
  1786. number of 0 either selects the first device or the
  1787. first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
  1788. select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
  1789. host link and device attached to it.
  1790. The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
  1791. as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
  1792. For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
  1793. The following configurations can be forced.
  1794. * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
  1795. Any ID with matching PORT is used.
  1796. * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
  1797. * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
  1798. udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
  1799. allowed.
  1800. * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
  1801. * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
  1802. * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
  1803. and both resets.
  1804. * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
  1805. hot-unplug link recovery
  1806. * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
  1807. * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
  1808. * disable: Disable this device.
  1809. If there are multiple matching configurations changing
  1810. the same attribute, the last one is used.
  1811. memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
  1812. load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
  1813. See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
  1814. lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
  1815. Format: <integer>
  1816. lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
  1817. Format: <integer>
  1818. lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
  1819. Format: <integer>
  1820. lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
  1821. Format: <integer>
  1822. locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
  1823. Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
  1824. Defaults to being automatically set based on the
  1825. number of online CPUs.
  1826. locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
  1827. Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
  1828. locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
  1829. Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
  1830. locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
  1831. Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
  1832. zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
  1833. locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
  1834. Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
  1835. tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
  1836. mode during the locktorture test.
  1837. locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
  1838. Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
  1839. is useful for hands-off automated testing.
  1840. locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
  1841. Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
  1842. locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
  1843. Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
  1844. specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
  1845. five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
  1846. This tests the locking primitive's ability to
  1847. transition abruptly to and from idle.
  1848. locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
  1849. Start locktorture running at boot time.
  1850. locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
  1851. Specify the locking implementation to test.
  1852. locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
  1853. Enable additional printk() statements.
  1854. logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
  1855. Format: <irq>
  1856. loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
  1857. console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
  1858. also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
  1859. loglevels are defined as follows:
  1860. 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
  1861. 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
  1862. 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
  1863. 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
  1864. 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
  1865. 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
  1866. 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
  1867. 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
  1868. log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
  1869. in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
  1870. than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
  1871. by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
  1872. also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
  1873. that allows to increase the default size depending on
  1874. the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
  1875. logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
  1876. This may be used to provide more screen space for
  1877. kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
  1878. kernel boot problems.
  1879. lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
  1880. lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
  1881. lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
  1882. lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
  1883. specified in addition to the ports) causes
  1884. attached printers to be reset. Using
  1885. lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
  1886. to associate lp devices with, starting with
  1887. lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
  1888. that lp device, or a parport name such as
  1889. 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
  1890. port specification list means that device IDs
  1891. from each port should be examined, to see if
  1892. an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
  1893. so, the driver will manage that printer.
  1894. See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
  1895. lpj=n [KNL]
  1896. Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
  1897. time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
  1898. CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
  1899. the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
  1900. autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
  1901. on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
  1902. which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
  1903. significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
  1904. will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
  1905. unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
  1906. unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
  1907. hardware.
  1908. ltpc= [NET]
  1909. Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
  1910. machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
  1911. (machvec) in a generic kernel.
  1912. Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
  1913. machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
  1914. yeeloong laptop.
  1915. Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
  1916. max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
  1917. than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
  1918. maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
  1919. will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
  1920. the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
  1921. bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
  1922. "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
  1923. only takes effect during system bootup.
  1924. While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
  1925. which also disables the IO APIC.
  1926. max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
  1927. (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
  1928. number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
  1929. of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
  1930. devices can be requested on-demand with the
  1931. /dev/loop-control interface.
  1932. mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
  1933. mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
  1934. md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
  1935. See Documentation/md.txt.
  1936. mdacon= [MDA]
  1937. Format: <first>,<last>
  1938. Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
  1939. mds= [X86,INTEL]
  1940. Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
  1941. Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
  1942. Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
  1943. internal buffers which can forward information to a
  1944. disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
  1945. In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
  1946. forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
  1947. attack, to access data to which the attacker does
  1948. not have direct access.
  1949. This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
  1950. options are:
  1951. full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
  1952. full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
  1953. SMT on vulnerable CPUs
  1954. off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
  1955. Not specifying this option is equivalent to
  1956. mds=full.
  1957. For details see: Documentation/hw-vuln/mds.rst
  1958. mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
  1959. Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
  1960. to see the whole system memory or for test.
  1961. [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
  1962. with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
  1963. Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
  1964. belonging to unused RAM.
  1965. mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
  1966. memory.
  1967. memchunk=nn[KMG]
  1968. [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
  1969. per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
  1970. memhp_default_state=online/offline
  1971. [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
  1972. onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
  1973. set according to the
  1974. CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
  1975. option.
  1976. See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
  1977. memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
  1978. E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
  1979. Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
  1980. BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
  1981. option description.
  1982. memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
  1983. [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
  1984. Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
  1985. memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
  1986. [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
  1987. Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
  1988. memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
  1989. [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
  1990. Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
  1991. Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
  1992. memmap=64K$0x18690000
  1993. or
  1994. memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
  1995. memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
  1996. [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
  1997. Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
  1998. The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
  1999. and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
  2000. memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
  2001. Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
  2002. memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
  2003. Setting this option will scan the memory
  2004. looking for corruption. Enabling this will
  2005. both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
  2006. from using the memory being corrupted.
  2007. However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
  2008. repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
  2009. affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
  2010. to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
  2011. memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
  2012. By default it checks for corruption in the low
  2013. 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
  2014. use. Use this parameter to scan for
  2015. corruption in more or less memory.
  2016. memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
  2017. By default it checks for corruption every 60
  2018. seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
  2019. other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
  2020. memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
  2021. Format: <integer>
  2022. default : 0 <disable>
  2023. Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
  2024. performed. Each pass selects another test
  2025. pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
  2026. fills the memory with this pattern, validates
  2027. memory contents and reserves bad memory
  2028. regions that are detected.
  2029. mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
  2030. s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
  2031. shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
  2032. deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
  2033. See Documentation/power/states.txt.
  2034. meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
  2035. See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
  2036. mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
  2037. Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
  2038. platforms.
  2039. mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
  2040. the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
  2041. version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
  2042. problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
  2043. mga= [HW,DRM]
  2044. min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
  2045. physical address is ignored.
  2046. mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
  2047. Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
  2048. Default: "0tb"
  2049. MINI2440 configuration specification:
  2050. 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
  2051. 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
  2052. 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
  2053. Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
  2054. the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
  2055. unconfigured.
  2056. b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
  2057. linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
  2058. LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
  2059. VGA shield.
  2060. c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
  2061. t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
  2062. touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
  2063. kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
  2064. in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
  2065. http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
  2066. mitigations=
  2067. [X86] Control optional mitigations for CPU
  2068. vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated,
  2069. arch-independent options, each of which is an
  2070. aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
  2071. off
  2072. Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This
  2073. improves system performance, but it may also
  2074. expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
  2075. Equivalent to: nopti [X86]
  2076. nospectre_v1 [X86]
  2077. nospectre_v2 [X86]
  2078. spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
  2079. spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86]
  2080. l1tf=off [X86]
  2081. mds=off [X86]
  2082. auto (default)
  2083. Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
  2084. enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for
  2085. users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
  2086. getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
  2087. have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
  2088. Equivalent to: (default behavior)
  2089. auto,nosmt
  2090. Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
  2091. if needed. This is for users who always want to
  2092. be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
  2093. Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
  2094. mds=full,nosmt [X86]
  2095. mminit_loglevel=
  2096. [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
  2097. parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
  2098. the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
  2099. of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
  2100. log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
  2101. so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
  2102. module.sig_enforce
  2103. [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
  2104. modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
  2105. Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
  2106. is always true, so this option does nothing.
  2107. module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
  2108. modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
  2109. mousedev.tap_time=
  2110. [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
  2111. leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
  2112. a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
  2113. touchpads working in absolute mode only).
  2114. Format: <msecs>
  2115. mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
  2116. reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
  2117. mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
  2118. reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
  2119. movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
  2120. is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
  2121. amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
  2122. If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
  2123. then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
  2124. value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
  2125. is specified, the administrator must be careful
  2126. that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
  2127. is not too small.
  2128. movable_node [KNL,X86] Boot-time switch to enable the effects
  2129. of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details.
  2130. MTD_Partition= [MTD]
  2131. Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
  2132. MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
  2133. <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
  2134. mtdparts= [MTD]
  2135. See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
  2136. multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
  2137. firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
  2138. at a time.
  2139. onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
  2140. Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
  2141. boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
  2142. The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
  2143. lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
  2144. Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
  2145. 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
  2146. mtdset= [ARM]
  2147. ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
  2148. See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
  2149. mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
  2150. [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
  2151. ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
  2152. mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
  2153. used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
  2154. that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
  2155. mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
  2156. Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
  2157. Default is 1.
  2158. Large value could prevent small alignment from
  2159. using up MTRRs.
  2160. mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
  2161. Format: <integer>
  2162. Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
  2163. Default : 1
  2164. Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
  2165. Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
  2166. n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
  2167. netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
  2168. Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
  2169. Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
  2170. something different and driver-specific.
  2171. This usage is only documented in each driver source
  2172. file if at all.
  2173. nf_conntrack.acct=
  2174. [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
  2175. 0 to disable accounting
  2176. 1 to enable accounting
  2177. Default value is 0.
  2178. nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
  2179. See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
  2180. nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
  2181. See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
  2182. nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
  2183. See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
  2184. nfs.callback_nr_threads=
  2185. [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
  2186. NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
  2187. requests.
  2188. nfs.callback_tcpport=
  2189. [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
  2190. channel should listen.
  2191. nfs.cache_getent=
  2192. [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
  2193. to update the NFS client cache entries.
  2194. nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
  2195. [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
  2196. update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
  2197. nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
  2198. [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
  2199. entries.
  2200. nfs.enable_ino64=
  2201. [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
  2202. If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
  2203. number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
  2204. of returning the full 64-bit number.
  2205. The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
  2206. nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
  2207. [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
  2208. slots the client will assign to the callback
  2209. channel. This determines the maximum number of
  2210. callbacks the client will process in parallel for
  2211. a particular server.
  2212. nfs.max_session_slots=
  2213. [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
  2214. the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
  2215. This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
  2216. that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
  2217. Note that there is little point in setting this
  2218. value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
  2219. nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
  2220. [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
  2221. ensures that both the RPC level authentication
  2222. scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
  2223. numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
  2224. 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
  2225. disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
  2226. legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
  2227. Servers that do not support this mode of operation
  2228. will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
  2229. back to using the idmapper.
  2230. To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
  2231. nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
  2232. [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
  2233. ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
  2234. their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
  2235. UUID that is generated at system install time.
  2236. nfs.send_implementation_id =
  2237. [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
  2238. information in exchange_id requests.
  2239. If zero, no implementation identification information
  2240. will be sent.
  2241. The default is to send the implementation identification
  2242. information.
  2243. nfs.recover_lost_locks =
  2244. [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
  2245. to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
  2246. doing this risks data corruption, since there are
  2247. no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
  2248. after the locks are lost.
  2249. If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
  2250. attempting to recover these locks, then set this
  2251. parameter to '1'.
  2252. The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
  2253. not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
  2254. nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
  2255. [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
  2256. layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
  2257. Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
  2258. whatever value is the default set by the layout
  2259. driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
  2260. in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
  2261. nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
  2262. [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
  2263. server will return only numeric uids and gids to
  2264. clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
  2265. and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
  2266. migration from NFSv2/v3.
  2267. objlayoutdriver.osd_login_prog=
  2268. [NFS] [OBJLAYOUT] sets the pathname to the program which
  2269. is used to automatically discover and login into new
  2270. osd-targets. Please see:
  2271. Documentation/filesystems/pnfs.txt for more explanations
  2272. nmi_debug= [KNL,AVR32,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
  2273. when a NMI is triggered.
  2274. Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
  2275. nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
  2276. Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
  2277. Valid num: 0 or 1
  2278. 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
  2279. 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
  2280. When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
  2281. timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
  2282. default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
  2283. please see 'nowatchdog'.
  2284. This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
  2285. need the box quickly up again.
  2286. netpoll.carrier_timeout=
  2287. [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
  2288. netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
  2289. waits 4 seconds.
  2290. no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
  2291. emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
  2292. is present.
  2293. no_console_suspend
  2294. [HW] Never suspend the console
  2295. Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
  2296. hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
  2297. messages can reach various consoles while the rest
  2298. of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
  2299. debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
  2300. not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
  2301. to work with serial and VGA consoles.
  2302. To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
  2303. console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
  2304. it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
  2305. /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
  2306. turn on/off it dynamically.
  2307. noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
  2308. caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
  2309. but will impact performance.
  2310. noalign [KNL,ARM]
  2311. noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
  2312. (CPU alternatives feature).
  2313. noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
  2314. IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
  2315. noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
  2316. nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
  2317. on "Classic" PPC cores.
  2318. nocache [ARM]
  2319. noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
  2320. nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
  2321. nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
  2322. noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
  2323. noexec [IA-64]
  2324. noexec [X86]
  2325. On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
  2326. noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
  2327. noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
  2328. nosmap [X86]
  2329. Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
  2330. even if it is supported by processor.
  2331. nosmep [X86]
  2332. Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
  2333. even if it is supported by processor.
  2334. noexec32 [X86-64]
  2335. This affects only 32-bit executables.
  2336. noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
  2337. read doesn't imply executable mappings
  2338. noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
  2339. read implies executable mappings
  2340. nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
  2341. nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
  2342. register save and restore. The kernel will only save
  2343. legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
  2344. nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
  2345. nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
  2346. Equivalent to smt=1.
  2347. [KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
  2348. nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
  2349. via the sysfs control file.
  2350. nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
  2351. (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
  2352. possible in the system.
  2353. nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2
  2354. (indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may
  2355. allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent
  2356. to spectre_v2=off.
  2357. nospec_store_bypass_disable
  2358. [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
  2359. noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
  2360. and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
  2361. enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
  2362. noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
  2363. register states. The kernel will fall back to use
  2364. xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
  2365. performance of saving the states is degraded because
  2366. xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
  2367. xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
  2368. noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
  2369. restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
  2370. form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
  2371. xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
  2372. in standard form of xsave area. By using this
  2373. parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
  2374. memory on xsaves enabled systems.
  2375. nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
  2376. wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
  2377. use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
  2378. no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
  2379. only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
  2380. is to be setuid root or executed by root.
  2381. nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
  2382. function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
  2383. power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
  2384. interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
  2385. in certain environments such as networked servers or
  2386. real-time systems.
  2387. nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
  2388. nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
  2389. Valid arguments: on, off
  2390. Default: on
  2391. nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT]
  2392. The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
  2393. In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
  2394. the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
  2395. whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
  2396. the range to maintain the timekeeping.
  2397. The CPUs in this range must also be included in the
  2398. rcu_nocbs= set.
  2399. noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
  2400. noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
  2401. disable unhandled interrupt sources.
  2402. no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
  2403. broken timer IRQ sources.
  2404. noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
  2405. noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
  2406. initial RAM disk.
  2407. nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
  2408. remapping.
  2409. [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
  2410. nointroute [IA-64]
  2411. noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
  2412. nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
  2413. no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
  2414. no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
  2415. fault handling.
  2416. no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
  2417. steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
  2418. behaviour
  2419. nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
  2420. nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
  2421. noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
  2422. lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
  2423. nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
  2424. nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
  2425. nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
  2426. Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
  2427. nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
  2428. shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
  2429. irq.
  2430. nomodule Disable module load
  2431. nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
  2432. pagetables) support.
  2433. nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
  2434. norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
  2435. echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
  2436. noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
  2437. with UP alternatives
  2438. nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
  2439. RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
  2440. by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
  2441. available to user space applications.
  2442. noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
  2443. space.
  2444. no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
  2445. This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
  2446. reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
  2447. nosbagart [IA-64]
  2448. nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
  2449. nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
  2450. and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
  2451. nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
  2452. nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
  2453. notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
  2454. nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
  2455. soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
  2456. nowb [ARM]
  2457. nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
  2458. cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
  2459. CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
  2460. Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
  2461. 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
  2462. Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
  2463. need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
  2464. 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
  2465. removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
  2466. It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
  2467. machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
  2468. after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
  2469. If the dependencies are under your control, you can
  2470. turn on cpu0_hotplug.
  2471. nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
  2472. purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
  2473. SAL PALO.
  2474. nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
  2475. could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
  2476. support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
  2477. number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
  2478. runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
  2479. n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
  2480. variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
  2481. hot plugging.
  2482. nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
  2483. numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
  2484. Allowed values are enable and disable
  2485. numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
  2486. one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
  2487. This can be set from sysctl after boot.
  2488. See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
  2489. ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
  2490. See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
  2491. info.
  2492. olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
  2493. Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
  2494. command is not properly ACKed, override the length
  2495. of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
  2496. waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
  2497. interrupts *may* be lost!
  2498. omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
  2499. Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
  2500. For example, to override I2C bus2:
  2501. omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
  2502. oprofile.timer= [HW]
  2503. Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
  2504. oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
  2505. This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
  2506. userland or if you want common events.
  2507. Format: { arch_perfmon }
  2508. arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
  2509. perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
  2510. CPU specific event set.
  2511. timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
  2512. timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
  2513. for generic hr timer mode)
  2514. oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
  2515. process, but there is a small probability of
  2516. deadlocking the machine.
  2517. This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
  2518. Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
  2519. OSS [HW,OSS]
  2520. See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
  2521. page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
  2522. Storage of the information about who allocated
  2523. each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
  2524. we can turn it on.
  2525. on: enable the feature
  2526. page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
  2527. poisoning on the buddy allocator.
  2528. off: turn off poisoning
  2529. on: turn on poisoning
  2530. panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
  2531. timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
  2532. timeout = 0: wait forever
  2533. timeout < 0: reboot immediately
  2534. Format: <timeout>
  2535. panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
  2536. on a WARN().
  2537. crash_kexec_post_notifiers
  2538. Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
  2539. kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
  2540. succeeds in any situation.
  2541. Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
  2542. because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
  2543. kernel more unstable.
  2544. parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
  2545. connected to, default is 0.
  2546. Format: <parport#>
  2547. parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
  2548. 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
  2549. Format: <mode>
  2550. parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
  2551. Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
  2552. Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
  2553. IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
  2554. ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
  2555. possible conflicts). You can specify the base
  2556. address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
  2557. should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
  2558. settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
  2559. (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
  2560. Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
  2561. are specified on the command line, starting
  2562. with parport0.
  2563. parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
  2564. Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
  2565. a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
  2566. computer where firmware has no options for setting
  2567. up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
  2568. Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
  2569. Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
  2570. pause_on_oops=
  2571. Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
  2572. the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
  2573. your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
  2574. pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
  2575. pcd. [PARIDE]
  2576. See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
  2577. See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
  2578. pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
  2579. earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
  2580. changes anything
  2581. off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
  2582. bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
  2583. the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
  2584. has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
  2585. nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
  2586. hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
  2587. if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
  2588. suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
  2589. conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
  2590. Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
  2591. data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
  2592. conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
  2593. Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
  2594. the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
  2595. bus number. The config space is then accessed
  2596. through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
  2597. See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
  2598. on the configuration access mechanisms.
  2599. noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
  2600. enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
  2601. disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
  2602. nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
  2603. root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
  2604. nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
  2605. Configuration
  2606. check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
  2607. properly configured MMIO access to PCI
  2608. config space on AMD family 10h CPU
  2609. nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
  2610. enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
  2611. disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
  2612. noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
  2613. Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
  2614. should never be necessary.
  2615. ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
  2616. primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
  2617. boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
  2618. when the system masks IRQs.
  2619. noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
  2620. boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
  2621. a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
  2622. The opposite of ioapicreroute.
  2623. biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
  2624. routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
  2625. on several machines and they hang the machine
  2626. when used, but on other computers it's the only
  2627. way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
  2628. this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
  2629. IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
  2630. motherboard.
  2631. rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
  2632. Use with caution as certain devices share
  2633. address decoders between ROMs and other
  2634. resources.
  2635. norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
  2636. expansion ROMs that do not already have
  2637. BIOS assigned address ranges.
  2638. nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
  2639. BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
  2640. irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
  2641. assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
  2642. make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
  2643. this way.
  2644. pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
  2645. of the PIRQ table (normally generated
  2646. by the BIOS) if it is outside the
  2647. F0000h-100000h range.
  2648. lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
  2649. useful if the kernel is unable to find your
  2650. secondary buses and you want to tell it
  2651. explicitly which ones they are.
  2652. assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
  2653. numbers ourselves, overriding
  2654. whatever the firmware may have done.
  2655. usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
  2656. in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
  2657. some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
  2658. some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
  2659. notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
  2660. IRQ routing is enabled.
  2661. noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
  2662. or for PCI scanning.
  2663. use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
  2664. from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
  2665. is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
  2666. please report a bug.
  2667. nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
  2668. If you need to use this, please report a bug.
  2669. routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
  2670. This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
  2671. so this option is a temporary workaround
  2672. for broken drivers that don't call it.
  2673. skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
  2674. handle more pci cards
  2675. noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
  2676. This might help on some broken boards which
  2677. machine check when some devices' config space
  2678. is read. But various workarounds are disabled
  2679. and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
  2680. bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
  2681. This sorting is done to get a device
  2682. order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
  2683. nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
  2684. pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
  2685. tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
  2686. pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
  2687. supported by all devices below the root complex.
  2688. pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
  2689. based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
  2690. Read Request Size) to the largest supported
  2691. value (no larger than the MPS that the device
  2692. or bus can support) for best performance.
  2693. pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
  2694. every device is guaranteed to support. This
  2695. configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
  2696. any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
  2697. reduced performance. This also guarantees
  2698. that hot-added devices will work.
  2699. cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
  2700. reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
  2701. The default value is 256 bytes.
  2702. cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
  2703. reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
  2704. window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
  2705. resource_alignment=
  2706. Format:
  2707. [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
  2708. [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
  2709. [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
  2710. Specifies alignment and device to reassign
  2711. aligned memory resources.
  2712. If <order of align> is not specified,
  2713. PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
  2714. PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
  2715. windows need to be expanded.
  2716. To specify the alignment for several
  2717. instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
  2718. device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
  2719. specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
  2720. ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
  2721. end-to-end CRC checking).
  2722. bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
  2723. the default.
  2724. off: Turn ECRC off
  2725. on: Turn ECRC on.
  2726. hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
  2727. reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
  2728. Default size is 256 bytes.
  2729. hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
  2730. reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
  2731. Default size is 2 megabytes.
  2732. hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
  2733. reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
  2734. Default is 1.
  2735. realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
  2736. if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
  2737. accommodate resources required by all child
  2738. devices.
  2739. off: Turn realloc off
  2740. on: Turn realloc on
  2741. realloc same as realloc=on
  2742. noari do not use PCIe ARI.
  2743. pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
  2744. only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
  2745. port.
  2746. pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
  2747. Management.
  2748. off Disable ASPM.
  2749. force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
  2750. WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
  2751. pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
  2752. nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
  2753. makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
  2754. pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
  2755. auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
  2756. associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
  2757. them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
  2758. native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
  2759. unconditionally.
  2760. compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
  2761. ports driver.
  2762. pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
  2763. off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
  2764. force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
  2765. pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
  2766. nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
  2767. all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
  2768. pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
  2769. pd_ignore_unused
  2770. [PM]
  2771. Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
  2772. even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
  2773. for debug and development, but should not be
  2774. needed on a platform with proper driver support.
  2775. pd. [PARIDE]
  2776. See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
  2777. pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
  2778. boot time.
  2779. Format: { 0 | 1 }
  2780. See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
  2781. percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
  2782. Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
  2783. Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
  2784. See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
  2785. allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
  2786. and performance comparison.
  2787. pf. [PARIDE]
  2788. See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
  2789. pg. [PARIDE]
  2790. See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
  2791. pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
  2792. See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
  2793. plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
  2794. Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
  2795. See also Documentation/parport.txt.
  2796. pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
  2797. Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
  2798. e.g. pmtmr=0x508
  2799. pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
  2800. Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
  2801. CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
  2802. via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
  2803. current resource usage; turning this on also shows
  2804. possible settings and some assignment information.
  2805. pnpacpi= [ACPI]
  2806. { off }
  2807. pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
  2808. { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
  2809. pnp_reserve_irq=
  2810. [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
  2811. pnp_reserve_dma=
  2812. [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
  2813. pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
  2814. Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
  2815. pnp_reserve_mem=
  2816. [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
  2817. autoconfiguration.
  2818. Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
  2819. ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
  2820. Default is 21.
  2821. Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
  2822. may be specified.
  2823. Format: <port>,<port>....
  2824. ppc_strict_facility_enable
  2825. [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
  2826. Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
  2827. allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
  2828. There is some performance impact when enabling this.
  2829. print-fatal-signals=
  2830. [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
  2831. If enabled, warn about various signal handling
  2832. related application anomalies: too many signals,
  2833. too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
  2834. coredump - etc.
  2835. If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
  2836. you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
  2837. default: off.
  2838. printk.always_kmsg_dump=
  2839. Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
  2840. panics
  2841. Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
  2842. default: disabled
  2843. printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
  2844. Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
  2845. on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
  2846. off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
  2847. ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
  2848. Default: ratelimit
  2849. printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
  2850. Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
  2851. processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
  2852. Limit processor to maximum C-state
  2853. max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
  2854. processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
  2855. Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
  2856. instead using the legacy FADT method
  2857. profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
  2858. Format: [schedule,]<number>
  2859. Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
  2860. Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
  2861. statistical time based profiling.
  2862. Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
  2863. Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
  2864. Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
  2865. prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
  2866. before loading.
  2867. See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
  2868. psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
  2869. tracking.
  2870. Format: <bool>
  2871. psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
  2872. probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
  2873. psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
  2874. per second.
  2875. psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
  2876. Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
  2877. (0 = never).
  2878. psmouse.resolution=
  2879. [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
  2880. psmouse.smartscroll=
  2881. [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
  2882. 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
  2883. pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
  2884. pt. [PARIDE]
  2885. See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
  2886. pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
  2887. kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
  2888. removes hardening, but improves performance of
  2889. system calls and interrupts.
  2890. on - unconditionally enable
  2891. off - unconditionally disable
  2892. auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
  2893. vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
  2894. Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
  2895. nopti [X86_64]
  2896. Equivalent to pti=off
  2897. pty.legacy_count=
  2898. [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
  2899. default number.
  2900. quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
  2901. r128= [HW,DRM]
  2902. raid= [HW,RAID]
  2903. See Documentation/md.txt.
  2904. ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
  2905. See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
  2906. rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
  2907. The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
  2908. In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
  2909. the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
  2910. Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
  2911. be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
  2912. that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
  2913. for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
  2914. is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
  2915. offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
  2916. real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
  2917. efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
  2918. rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
  2919. Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
  2920. (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
  2921. awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
  2922. make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
  2923. This improves the real-time response for the
  2924. offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
  2925. wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
  2926. energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
  2927. periodically wake up to do the polling.
  2928. rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
  2929. Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
  2930. process in one batch.
  2931. rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
  2932. Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
  2933. out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
  2934. purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
  2935. rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
  2936. Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
  2937. RCU grace-period cleanup. This only has effect
  2938. when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP is set.
  2939. rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
  2940. Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
  2941. RCU grace-period initialization. This only has
  2942. effect when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
  2943. is set.
  2944. rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
  2945. Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
  2946. RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
  2947. the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
  2948. the rcu_node combining tree. This only has effect
  2949. when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT is set.
  2950. rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
  2951. Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
  2952. tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
  2953. possibly be useful for architectures having high
  2954. cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
  2955. rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
  2956. Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
  2957. leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
  2958. large systems, which will choose the value 64,
  2959. and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
  2960. latencies, which will choose a value aligned
  2961. with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
  2962. rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
  2963. Set required age in jiffies for a
  2964. given grace period before RCU starts
  2965. soliciting quiescent-state help from
  2966. rcu_note_context_switch().
  2967. rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
  2968. Set delay from grace-period initialization to
  2969. first attempt to force quiescent states.
  2970. Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
  2971. and maximum value is HZ.
  2972. rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
  2973. Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
  2974. quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
  2975. value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
  2976. rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
  2977. Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
  2978. kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
  2979. the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
  2980. and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
  2981. rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
  2982. set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
  2983. (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
  2984. RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
  2985. the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
  2986. rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
  2987. Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
  2988. defaults to the square root of the number of
  2989. CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
  2990. on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
  2991. that same overhead on each group's leader.
  2992. rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
  2993. Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
  2994. batch limiting is disabled.
  2995. rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
  2996. Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
  2997. batch limiting is re-enabled.
  2998. rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
  2999. Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
  3000. RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
  3001. rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
  3002. Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
  3003. only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
  3004. Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
  3005. prove do nothing more than free memory.
  3006. rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
  3007. Measure performance of expedited synchronous
  3008. grace-period primitives.
  3009. rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
  3010. Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
  3011. this parameter is to delay the start of the
  3012. test until boot completes in order to avoid
  3013. interference.
  3014. rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
  3015. Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
  3016. N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
  3017. "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
  3018. the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
  3019. (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
  3020. A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
  3021. a single reader.
  3022. rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
  3023. Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
  3024. the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
  3025. N, where N is the number of CPUs
  3026. rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT]
  3027. Start rcuperf running at boot time.
  3028. rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
  3029. Shut the system down after performance tests
  3030. complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
  3031. testing.
  3032. rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
  3033. Specify the RCU implementation to test.
  3034. rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
  3035. Enable additional printk() statements.
  3036. rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
  3037. Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
  3038. callback-flood tests.
  3039. rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
  3040. Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
  3041. bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
  3042. test.
  3043. rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
  3044. Set the number of bursts making up a given
  3045. callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
  3046. disable callback-flood testing.
  3047. rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
  3048. Set the number of callbacks to be registered
  3049. in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
  3050. rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
  3051. Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
  3052. in microseconds.
  3053. rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
  3054. Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
  3055. in microseconds.
  3056. rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
  3057. Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
  3058. in seconds.
  3059. rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
  3060. Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
  3061. primitives, if available.
  3062. rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
  3063. Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
  3064. rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
  3065. Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
  3066. update-side primitives, if available.
  3067. rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
  3068. Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
  3069. update-side primitives, if available. If all
  3070. of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
  3071. rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
  3072. are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
  3073. they are all non-zero.
  3074. rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
  3075. Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
  3076. rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
  3077. Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
  3078. stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
  3079. test, hence the "fake".
  3080. rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
  3081. Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
  3082. N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
  3083. "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
  3084. the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
  3085. (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
  3086. rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
  3087. Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
  3088. rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
  3089. Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
  3090. rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
  3091. Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
  3092. zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
  3093. rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
  3094. Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
  3095. allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
  3096. during the rcutorture test.
  3097. rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
  3098. Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
  3099. is useful for hands-off automated testing.
  3100. rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
  3101. Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
  3102. warnings, zero to disable.
  3103. rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
  3104. Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
  3105. rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
  3106. Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
  3107. rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
  3108. Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
  3109. five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
  3110. wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
  3111. ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
  3112. rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
  3113. Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
  3114. "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
  3115. under test support RCU priority boosting.
  3116. rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
  3117. Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
  3118. rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
  3119. Interval (s) between each boost test.
  3120. rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
  3121. Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
  3122. rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
  3123. rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
  3124. Start rcutorture running at boot time.
  3125. rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
  3126. Specify the RCU implementation to test.
  3127. rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
  3128. Enable additional printk() statements.
  3129. rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
  3130. Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
  3131. rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
  3132. Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
  3133. rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
  3134. Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
  3135. example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
  3136. of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
  3137. but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
  3138. real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
  3139. No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
  3140. rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
  3141. Use only normal grace-period primitives,
  3142. for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
  3143. synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
  3144. real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
  3145. energy efficiency, but can expose users to
  3146. increased grace-period latency. This parameter
  3147. overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
  3148. CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
  3149. rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
  3150. Once boot has completed (that is, after
  3151. rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
  3152. only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
  3153. on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
  3154. rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
  3155. Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
  3156. messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
  3157. to zero.
  3158. rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
  3159. Run the RCU early boot self tests
  3160. rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
  3161. Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
  3162. rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
  3163. Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
  3164. rdinit= [KNL]
  3165. Format: <full_path>
  3166. Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
  3167. used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
  3168. rdrand= [X86]
  3169. force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
  3170. advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
  3171. certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
  3172. support, specifically around the suspend/resume
  3173. path).
  3174. reboot= [KNL]
  3175. Format (x86 or x86_64):
  3176. [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
  3177. [[,]s[mp]#### \
  3178. [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
  3179. [[,]f[orce]
  3180. Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
  3181. reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
  3182. reboot_force is either force or not specified,
  3183. reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
  3184. to be used for rebooting.
  3185. relax_domain_level=
  3186. [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
  3187. See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
  3188. reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
  3189. reservetop= [X86-32]
  3190. Format: nn[KMG]
  3191. Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
  3192. address space.
  3193. reservelow= [X86]
  3194. Format: nn[K]
  3195. Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
  3196. the bottom of the address space.
  3197. reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
  3198. during initialization.
  3199. resume= [SWSUSP]
  3200. Specify the partition device for software suspend
  3201. Format:
  3202. {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
  3203. resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
  3204. Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
  3205. given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
  3206. in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
  3207. See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
  3208. resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
  3209. read the resume files
  3210. resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
  3211. Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
  3212. (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
  3213. hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
  3214. noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
  3215. present during boot.
  3216. nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
  3217. no Disable hibernation and resume.
  3218. protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
  3219. (that will set all pages holding image data
  3220. during restoration read-only).
  3221. retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
  3222. rfkill.default_state=
  3223. 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
  3224. etc. communication is blocked by default.
  3225. 1 Unblocked.
  3226. rfkill.master_switch_mode=
  3227. 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
  3228. 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
  3229. blocked and the previous configuration.
  3230. 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
  3231. blocked and everything unblocked.
  3232. rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
  3233. Set number of hash buckets for route cache
  3234. ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
  3235. rodata= [KNL]
  3236. on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
  3237. off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
  3238. rockchip.usb_uart
  3239. Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
  3240. on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
  3241. debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
  3242. port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
  3243. root= [KNL] Root filesystem
  3244. See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
  3245. rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
  3246. mount the root filesystem
  3247. rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
  3248. rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
  3249. rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
  3250. Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
  3251. (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
  3252. rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
  3253. [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
  3254. Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
  3255. managed by CMA.
  3256. rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
  3257. S [KNL] Run init in single mode
  3258. s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
  3259. Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
  3260. strict
  3261. With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
  3262. an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
  3263. which is faster.
  3264. sa1100ir [NET]
  3265. See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
  3266. sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
  3267. sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
  3268. schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
  3269. Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
  3270. incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
  3271. but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
  3272. skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
  3273. xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
  3274. contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
  3275. Format: { "0" | "1" }
  3276. 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
  3277. 1 -- enable.
  3278. Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
  3279. enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
  3280. security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
  3281. If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
  3282. security module asking for security registration will be
  3283. loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
  3284. as if no module has been chosen.
  3285. selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
  3286. Format: { "0" | "1" }
  3287. See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
  3288. 0 -- disable.
  3289. 1 -- enable.
  3290. Default value is set via kernel config option.
  3291. If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
  3292. later to disable prior to initial policy load.
  3293. apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
  3294. Format: { "0" | "1" }
  3295. See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
  3296. 0 -- disable.
  3297. 1 -- enable.
  3298. Default value is set via kernel config option.
  3299. serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
  3300. shapers= [NET]
  3301. Maximal number of shapers.
  3302. show_msr= [x86] show boot-time MSR settings
  3303. Format: { <integer> }
  3304. Show boot-time (BIOS-initialized) MSR settings.
  3305. The parameter means the number of CPUs to show,
  3306. for example 1 means boot CPU only.
  3307. simeth= [IA-64]
  3308. simscsi=
  3309. slram= [HW,MTD]
  3310. slab_nomerge [MM]
  3311. Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
  3312. necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
  3313. allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable
  3314. merging on their own.
  3315. For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
  3316. slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
  3317. Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
  3318. A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
  3319. fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
  3320. more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
  3321. slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
  3322. Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
  3323. culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
  3324. slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
  3325. may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
  3326. last alloc / free. For more information see
  3327. Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
  3328. slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
  3329. Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
  3330. memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
  3331. The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
  3332. Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
  3333. directories and files being created under
  3334. /sys/kernel/slub.
  3335. slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
  3336. Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
  3337. A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
  3338. fragmentation. For more information see
  3339. Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
  3340. slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
  3341. The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
  3342. increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
  3343. generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
  3344. the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
  3345. of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
  3346. and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
  3347. For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
  3348. slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
  3349. Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
  3350. lower than slub_max_order.
  3351. For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
  3352. slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
  3353. Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
  3354. See slab_nomerge for more information.
  3355. smart2= [HW]
  3356. Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
  3357. smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
  3358. smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
  3359. smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
  3360. smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
  3361. smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
  3362. smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
  3363. smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
  3364. 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
  3365. 1: Fast pin select (default)
  3366. 2: ATC IRMode
  3367. smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
  3368. CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
  3369. symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
  3370. actual hardware limit.
  3371. Format: <integer>
  3372. Default: -1 (no limit)
  3373. softlockup_panic=
  3374. [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
  3375. Format: <integer>
  3376. softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
  3377. [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
  3378. backtraces on all cpus.
  3379. Format: <integer>
  3380. sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
  3381. See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
  3382. spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
  3383. (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
  3384. The default operation protects the kernel from
  3385. user space attacks.
  3386. on - unconditionally enable, implies
  3387. spectre_v2_user=on
  3388. off - unconditionally disable, implies
  3389. spectre_v2_user=off
  3390. auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
  3391. vulnerable
  3392. Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
  3393. mitigation method at run time according to the
  3394. CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
  3395. CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
  3396. compiler with which the kernel was built.
  3397. Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
  3398. against user space to user space task attacks.
  3399. Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
  3400. the user space protections.
  3401. Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
  3402. retpoline - replace indirect branches
  3403. retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
  3404. retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk
  3405. Not specifying this option is equivalent to
  3406. spectre_v2=auto.
  3407. spectre_v2_user=
  3408. [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
  3409. (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
  3410. user space tasks
  3411. on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
  3412. enforced by spectre_v2=on
  3413. off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
  3414. enforced by spectre_v2=off
  3415. prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
  3416. but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
  3417. per thread. The mitigation control state
  3418. is inherited on fork.
  3419. prctl,ibpb
  3420. - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
  3421. controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
  3422. always when switching between different user
  3423. space processes.
  3424. seccomp
  3425. - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
  3426. threads will enable the mitigation unless
  3427. they explicitly opt out.
  3428. seccomp,ibpb
  3429. - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
  3430. controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
  3431. always when switching between different
  3432. user space processes.
  3433. auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
  3434. the available CPU features and vulnerability.
  3435. Default mitigation:
  3436. If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
  3437. Not specifying this option is equivalent to
  3438. spectre_v2_user=auto.
  3439. spec_store_bypass_disable=
  3440. [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
  3441. (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
  3442. Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
  3443. a common industry wide performance optimization known
  3444. as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
  3445. to the same memory location may not be observed by
  3446. later loads during speculative execution. The idea
  3447. is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
  3448. be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
  3449. end of a particular speculation execution window.
  3450. In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
  3451. store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
  3452. example to read memory to which the attacker does not
  3453. directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
  3454. This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
  3455. Bypass optimization is used.
  3456. on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
  3457. off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
  3458. auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
  3459. implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
  3460. picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
  3461. CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
  3462. CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
  3463. architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
  3464. prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
  3465. via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
  3466. for a process by default. The state of the control
  3467. is inherited on fork.
  3468. seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
  3469. will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
  3470. Not specifying this option is equivalent to
  3471. spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
  3472. Default mitigations:
  3473. X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
  3474. spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
  3475. spia_fio_base=
  3476. spia_pedr=
  3477. spia_peddr=
  3478. ssbd= [ARM64,HW]
  3479. Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
  3480. On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
  3481. Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
  3482. firmware based mitigation, this parameter
  3483. indicates how the mitigation should be used:
  3484. force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for
  3485. for both kernel and userspace
  3486. force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
  3487. for both kernel and userspace
  3488. kernel: Always enable mitigation in the
  3489. kernel, and offer a prctl interface
  3490. to allow userspace to register its
  3491. interest in being mitigated too.
  3492. stack_guard_gap= [MM]
  3493. override the default stack gap protection. The value
  3494. is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
  3495. to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
  3496. growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
  3497. mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
  3498. stacktrace [FTRACE]
  3499. Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
  3500. stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
  3501. [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
  3502. will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
  3503. list of functions. This list can be changed at run
  3504. time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
  3505. tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
  3506. and the stacktrace above is not needed.
  3507. sti= [PARISC,HW]
  3508. Format: <num>
  3509. Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
  3510. machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
  3511. as the initial boot-console.
  3512. See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
  3513. sti_font= [HW]
  3514. See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
  3515. stifb= [HW]
  3516. Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
  3517. sunrpc.min_resvport=
  3518. sunrpc.max_resvport=
  3519. [NFS,SUNRPC]
  3520. SunRPC servers often require that client requests
  3521. originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
  3522. range 0 < portnr < 1024).
  3523. An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
  3524. ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
  3525. kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
  3526. using these two parameters to set the minimum and
  3527. maximum port values.
  3528. sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
  3529. [NFS,SUNRPC]
  3530. Limit the number of requests that the server will
  3531. process in parallel from a single connection.
  3532. The default value is 0 (no limit).
  3533. sunrpc.pool_mode=
  3534. [NFS]
  3535. Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
  3536. service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
  3537. you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
  3538. option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
  3539. Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
  3540. NFS server is running.
  3541. auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
  3542. automatically using heuristics
  3543. global a single global pool contains all CPUs
  3544. percpu one pool for each CPU
  3545. pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
  3546. to global on non-NUMA machines)
  3547. sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
  3548. sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
  3549. [NFS,SUNRPC]
  3550. Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
  3551. RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
  3552. server. Increasing these values may allow you to
  3553. improve throughput, but will also increase the
  3554. amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
  3555. suspend.pm_test_delay=
  3556. [SUSPEND]
  3557. Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
  3558. mode before resuming the system (see
  3559. /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
  3560. is set. Default value is 5.
  3561. swapaccount=[0|1]
  3562. [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
  3563. controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
  3564. it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
  3565. swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
  3566. Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
  3567. <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
  3568. force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
  3569. wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
  3570. noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
  3571. switches= [HW,M68k]
  3572. sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
  3573. Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
  3574. on older distributions. When this option is enabled
  3575. very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
  3576. is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
  3577. in older udev will not work anymore.
  3578. Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
  3579. the kernel configuration.
  3580. sysrq_always_enabled
  3581. [KNL]
  3582. Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
  3583. neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
  3584. Useful for debugging.
  3585. tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
  3586. Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
  3587. Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
  3588. ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
  3589. cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
  3590. "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
  3591. tdfx= [HW,DRM]
  3592. test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
  3593. Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
  3594. standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
  3595. as the system sleep state during system startup with
  3596. the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
  3597. The system is woken from this state using a
  3598. wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
  3599. thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
  3600. Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
  3601. thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
  3602. -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
  3603. <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
  3604. thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
  3605. -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
  3606. <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
  3607. thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
  3608. Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
  3609. critical and hot trip points.
  3610. thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
  3611. 1: disable ACPI thermal control
  3612. thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
  3613. -1: disable all passive trip points
  3614. <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
  3615. value
  3616. thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
  3617. Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
  3618. <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
  3619. 0: no polling (default)
  3620. threadirqs [KNL]
  3621. Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
  3622. marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
  3623. tmem [KNL,XEN]
  3624. Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
  3625. tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
  3626. Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
  3627. API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
  3628. tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
  3629. Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
  3630. API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
  3631. the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
  3632. tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
  3633. Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
  3634. to the hypervisor.
  3635. tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
  3636. Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
  3637. transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
  3638. kernel based on different criteria.
  3639. topology= [S390]
  3640. Format: {off | on}
  3641. Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
  3642. topology information if the hardware supports this.
  3643. The scheduler will make use of this information and
  3644. e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
  3645. Default is on.
  3646. topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
  3647. Format: {off}
  3648. Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
  3649. topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
  3650. LPAR.
  3651. tp720= [HW,PS2]
  3652. tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
  3653. Format: integer pcr id
  3654. Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
  3655. should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
  3656. as a workaround for some chips which fail to
  3657. flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
  3658. This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
  3659. are saved.
  3660. trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
  3661. [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
  3662. trace_event=[event-list]
  3663. [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
  3664. to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
  3665. comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
  3666. also Documentation/trace/events.txt
  3667. trace_options=[option-list]
  3668. [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
  3669. The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
  3670. that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
  3671. to echo the option name into
  3672. /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
  3673. For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
  3674. stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
  3675. trace_options=stacktrace
  3676. See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
  3677. section.
  3678. tp_printk[FTRACE]
  3679. Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
  3680. tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
  3681. where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
  3682. option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
  3683. ftrace_dump_on_oops.
  3684. To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
  3685. echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
  3686. Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
  3687. tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
  3688. ** CAUTION **
  3689. Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
  3690. frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
  3691. the system to live lock.
  3692. traceoff_on_warning
  3693. [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
  3694. warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
  3695. be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
  3696. file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
  3697. This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
  3698. the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
  3699. be filled with content caused by the warning output.
  3700. This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
  3701. option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
  3702. transparent_hugepage=
  3703. [KNL]
  3704. Format: [always|madvise|never]
  3705. Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
  3706. with respect to transparent hugepages.
  3707. See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
  3708. tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
  3709. Format: <string>
  3710. [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
  3711. disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
  3712. as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
  3713. high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
  3714. virtualized environment.
  3715. [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
  3716. Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
  3717. platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
  3718. can add overhead.
  3719. turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
  3720. TurboGraFX parallel port interface
  3721. Format:
  3722. <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
  3723. See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
  3724. udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
  3725. happen after console_init() and before a proper
  3726. console driver takes over, this boot options might
  3727. help "seeing" what's going on.
  3728. uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
  3729. Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
  3730. uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
  3731. [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
  3732. Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
  3733. bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
  3734. anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
  3735. Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
  3736. reported either.
  3737. unknown_nmi_panic
  3738. [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
  3739. usbcore.authorized_default=
  3740. [USB] Default USB device authorization:
  3741. (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
  3742. 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
  3743. usbcore.autosuspend=
  3744. [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
  3745. for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
  3746. is the time required before an idle device will be
  3747. autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
  3748. to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
  3749. usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
  3750. [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
  3751. usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
  3752. [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
  3753. (default = 65536).
  3754. usbcore.blinkenlights=
  3755. [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
  3756. usbcore.old_scheme_first=
  3757. [USB] Start with the old device initialization
  3758. scheme (default 0 = off).
  3759. usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
  3760. [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
  3761. usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
  3762. usbcore.use_both_schemes=
  3763. [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
  3764. if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
  3765. usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
  3766. [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
  3767. USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
  3768. (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
  3769. usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
  3770. usbhid.mousepoll=
  3771. [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
  3772. usb-storage.delay_use=
  3773. [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
  3774. scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
  3775. usb-storage.quirks=
  3776. [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
  3777. override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
  3778. entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
  3779. the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
  3780. and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
  3781. Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
  3782. to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
  3783. a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
  3784. of sense data);
  3785. b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
  3786. bytes of sense data);
  3787. c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
  3788. device capacity by one sector);
  3789. d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
  3790. READ_DISC_INFO command);
  3791. e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
  3792. READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
  3793. f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
  3794. command, uas only);
  3795. g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
  3796. 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
  3797. h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
  3798. reported device capacity by one
  3799. sector if the number is odd);
  3800. i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
  3801. device);
  3802. j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
  3803. command, uas only);
  3804. l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
  3805. unlock ejectable media);
  3806. m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
  3807. than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
  3808. n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
  3809. initial READ(10) command);
  3810. o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
  3811. reported by the device);
  3812. p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
  3813. by default);
  3814. r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
  3815. bogus residue values);
  3816. s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
  3817. Logical Unit);
  3818. t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
  3819. commands, uas only);
  3820. u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
  3821. w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
  3822. medium is write-protected).
  3823. y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
  3824. even if the device claims no cache)
  3825. Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
  3826. user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
  3827. Format: <int>
  3828. See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
  3829. 1 - undefined instruction events
  3830. 2 - system calls
  3831. 4 - invalid data aborts
  3832. 8 - SIGSEGV faults
  3833. 16 - SIGBUS faults
  3834. Example: user_debug=31
  3835. userpte=
  3836. [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
  3837. nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
  3838. HIGHMEM regardless of setting
  3839. of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
  3840. vdso= [X86,SH]
  3841. On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
  3842. vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
  3843. vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
  3844. vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
  3845. vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
  3846. vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
  3847. See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
  3848. details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
  3849. vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
  3850. For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
  3851. alias for vdso32=0.
  3852. Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
  3853. dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
  3854. vector= [IA-64,SMP]
  3855. vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
  3856. video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
  3857. See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
  3858. video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
  3859. If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
  3860. generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
  3861. level and then send out the event to user space through
  3862. the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
  3863. will only send out the event without touching backlight
  3864. brightness level.
  3865. default: 1
  3866. virtio_mmio.device=
  3867. [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
  3868. <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
  3869. where:
  3870. <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
  3871. like K, M and G)
  3872. <baseaddr> := physical base address
  3873. <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
  3874. request_irq())
  3875. <id> := (optional) platform device id
  3876. example:
  3877. virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
  3878. Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
  3879. vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
  3880. See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
  3881. Documentation/svga.txt.
  3882. Use vga=ask for menu.
  3883. This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
  3884. passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
  3885. vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
  3886. size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
  3887. minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
  3888. decrease the size and leave more room for directly
  3889. mapped kernel RAM.
  3890. vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
  3891. Format: <command>
  3892. vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
  3893. Format: <command>
  3894. vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
  3895. Format: <command>
  3896. vsyscall= [X86-64]
  3897. Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
  3898. fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
  3899. code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
  3900. versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
  3901. functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
  3902. targets for exploits that can control RIP.
  3903. emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
  3904. emulated reasonably safely.
  3905. native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
  3906. This is a little bit faster than trapping
  3907. and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
  3908. better than they would in emulation mode.
  3909. It also makes exploits much easier to write.
  3910. none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
  3911. them quite hard to use for exploits but
  3912. might break your system.
  3913. vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
  3914. Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
  3915. Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
  3916. vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
  3917. Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
  3918. the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
  3919. see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
  3920. vt.default_blu= [VT]
  3921. Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
  3922. Change the default blue palette of the console.
  3923. This is a 16-member array composed of values
  3924. ranging from 0-255.
  3925. vt.default_grn= [VT]
  3926. Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
  3927. Change the default green palette of the console.
  3928. This is a 16-member array composed of values
  3929. ranging from 0-255.
  3930. vt.default_red= [VT]
  3931. Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
  3932. Change the default red palette of the console.
  3933. This is a 16-member array composed of values
  3934. ranging from 0-255.
  3935. vt.default_utf8=
  3936. [VT]
  3937. Format=<0|1>
  3938. Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
  3939. Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
  3940. newly opened terminals.
  3941. vt.global_cursor_default=
  3942. [VT]
  3943. Format=<-1|0|1>
  3944. Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
  3945. is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
  3946. i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
  3947. overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
  3948. cursors, 1 will display them.
  3949. vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
  3950. Default: 2 = green.
  3951. vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
  3952. Default: 3 = cyan.
  3953. watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
  3954. see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
  3955. or other driver-specific files in the
  3956. Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
  3957. workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
  3958. If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
  3959. warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
  3960. help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
  3961. detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
  3962. duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
  3963. it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
  3964. corresponding sysfs file.
  3965. workqueue.disable_numa
  3966. By default, all work items queued to unbound
  3967. workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
  3968. issued on, which results in better behavior in
  3969. general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
  3970. whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
  3971. that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
  3972. workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
  3973. workqueue.power_efficient
  3974. Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
  3975. they show better performance thanks to cache
  3976. locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
  3977. be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
  3978. Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
  3979. were observed to contribute significantly to power
  3980. consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
  3981. power usage at the cost of small performance
  3982. overhead.
  3983. The default value of this parameter is determined by
  3984. the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
  3985. workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
  3986. Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
  3987. items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
  3988. on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
  3989. and while local CPU is still preferred work items
  3990. may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
  3991. forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
  3992. usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
  3993. When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
  3994. impacted.
  3995. x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
  3996. default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
  3997. supporting x2apic.
  3998. x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
  3999. Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
  4000. Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
  4001. plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
  4002. x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
  4003. xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
  4004. Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
  4005. to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
  4006. crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
  4007. save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
  4008. domains.
  4009. xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
  4010. Unplug Xen emulated devices
  4011. Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
  4012. ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
  4013. aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
  4014. nics -- unplug network devices
  4015. all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
  4016. unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
  4017. unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
  4018. the unplug protocol
  4019. never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
  4020. xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
  4021. Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
  4022. optimizations.
  4023. xen_nopv [X86]
  4024. Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
  4025. run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
  4026. xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
  4027. Format:
  4028. <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
  4029. ______________________________________________________________________
  4030. TODO:
  4031. Add more DRM drivers.