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Finally, the [KMG] suffix is commonly described after a number of kernel
parameter values. These 'K', 'M', and 'G' letters represent the _binary_
multipliers 'Kilo', 'Mega', and 'Giga', equalling 2^10, 2^20, and 2^30
-bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted::
+bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted:
-
- acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
- Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
- Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
- copy_dsdt }
- force -- enable ACPI if default was off
- on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
- off -- disable ACPI if default was on
- noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
- strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
- strictly ACPI specification compliant.
- rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
- copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
- For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
- are available
-
- See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
-
- acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
- Format: <int>
- 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
- 1,0: use 1st APIC table
- default: 0
-
- acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
- acpi_backlight=vendor
- acpi_backlight=video
- If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
- (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
- of the ACPI video.ko driver.
-
- acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
- force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
- 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
- bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
- the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
-
- acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
- Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
- This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
- the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
- This option is useful for developers to identify the
- root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
- has something to do with the repair mechanism.
-
- acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
- acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
- Format: <int>
- CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
- debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
- _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
- #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
- Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
- ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
- ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
- The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
- Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
- debug layers and levels.
-
- Enable processor driver info messages:
- acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
- Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
- acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
- Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
- object while interpreting AML:
- acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
- Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
- acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
-
- Some values produce so much output that the system is
- unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
- if you need to capture more output.
-
- acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
- { strict | lax | no }
- Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
- and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
- only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
- used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
- can interfere with legacy drivers.
- strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
- is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
- resources will fail to bind to device using them.
- lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
- legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
- will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
- no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
- no further checks are performed.
-
- acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
- Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
- By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
- size limitation.
-
- acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
- ACPI will balance active IRQs
- default in APIC mode
-
- acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
- ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
- default in PIC mode
-
- acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
- Format: <irq>,<irq>...
-
- acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
- use by PCI
- Format: <irq>,<irq>...
-
- acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
- Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
- AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
- named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
- auto-serialization feature.
- This feature is enabled by default.
- This option allows to turn off the feature.
-
- acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
- kernels.
-
- acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
- Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
- By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
- installed automatically and they will appear under
- /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
- This option turns off this feature.
- Note that specifying this option does not affect
- dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
- tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
-
- acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
- Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
- on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
- second kernel for kdump.
-
- acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
- Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
-
- acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
- of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
- specification revision (when using this switch, it may
- be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
- row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
-
- acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
- acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
- acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
- acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
- acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
- strings
- acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
- strings
- acpi_osi= # disable all strings
-
- 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
- multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
- vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
- affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
- it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
- strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
- specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
- is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
- care about the state of the feature group strings which
- should be controlled by the OSPM.
- Examples:
- 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
- to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
- can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
-
- 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
- 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
- exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
- only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
- multiple times through kernel command line is also
- meaningless.
- Examples:
- 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
- FALSE.
-
- 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
- multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
- string(s). Note that such command can affect the
- current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
- feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
- through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
- still not able to affect the final state of a string if
- there are quirks related to this string. This command
- is useful when one want to control the state of the
- feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
- the OSPM features.
- Examples:
- 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
- '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
- 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
- '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
- 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
- equivalent to
- 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
- and
- 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
- they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
-
- acpi_pm_good [X86]
- Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
- to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
- and always returns good values.
-
- acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
- Format: { level | edge | high | low }
-
- acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
- Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
- For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
-
- acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
- Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
- old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable }
- See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
- s3_bios and s3_mode.
- s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
- as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
- s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
- used during resume from hibernation.
- old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
- control method, with respect to putting devices into
- low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
- of _PTS is used by default).
- nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
- ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
- sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
- on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
- but some broken systems don't work without it).
-
- acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
- Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
- that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
-
- add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
- kernel's map of available physical RAM.
-
- agp= [AGP]
- { off | try_unsupported }
- off: disable AGP support
- try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
- (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
-
- ALSA [HW,ALSA]
- See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
-
- alignment= [KNL,ARM]
- Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
- behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
- bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
-
- align_va_addr= [X86-64]
- Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
- allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
- gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
- machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
- CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
- a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
-
- 32: only for 32-bit processes
- 64: only for 64-bit processes
- on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
- off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
-
- alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
- Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
- main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
- and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
- do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
- to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
-
- amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
- Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
- Possible values are:
- fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
- they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
- flushed before they will be reused, which
- is a lot of faster
- off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
- the system
- force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
- devices. The IOMMU driver is not
- allowed anymore to lift isolation
- requirements as needed. This option
- does not override iommu=pt
-
- amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
- Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
- for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
- driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
- IOMMU initialization.
-
- amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
- Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
- remapping modes:
- legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
- vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
- to inject interrupts directly into guest.
- This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
- (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
-
- amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
- Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
- Format: <a>,<b>
- See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt
-
- analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
- Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
- connected to one of 16 gameports
- Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
-
- apc= [HW,SPARC]
- Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
- Format: noidle
- Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
- not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
- APC and your system crashes randomly.
-
- apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
- Change the output verbosity whilst booting
- Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
- Change the amount of debugging information output
- when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
-
- apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
- Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
- bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
- all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
- backup of CPU 0
- none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
- useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
- shot down by NMI
-
- autoconf= [IPV6]
- See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
-
- show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
- Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
- number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
- to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
- Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
- The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
- apic=verbose is specified.
- Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
-
- apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
- See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
-
- arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
- Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
-
- ataflop= [HW,M68k]
-
- atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
-
- atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
- EzKey and similar keyboards
-
- atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
-
- atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
- Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
-
- atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
- keyboards
-
- atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
- Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
-
- atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
- Use software keyboard repeat
-
- audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
- Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
- 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
- until the next reboot
- unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
- will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
- 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
- storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
- RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
- auditd.
- Default: unset
-
- audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
- Format: <int> (must be >=0)
- Default: 64
-
- bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
- behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
- Format: { "0" | "1" }
- 0 - Disable the BAU.
- 1 - Enable the BAU.
- unset - Disable the BAU.
-
- baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
- Format: <io>,<mode>
-
- baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
- Format: <io>,<mode>
- See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
-
- baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
- BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
- Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
- See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
-
- baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
- BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
- Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
- See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
-
- blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
- embedded devices based on command line input.
- See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
-
- boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
- Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
- no delay (0).
- Format: integer
-
- bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
-
- bert_disable [ACPI]
- Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
-
- bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
- bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
- kernel args too.
- bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
- bttv.tuner=
-
- bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
- firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
- at a time.
-
- c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
-
- cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
- Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
- size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
- to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
- possible to determine what the correct size should be.
- This option provides an override for these situations.
-
- ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
- the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
- trust validation.
- format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
-
- cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
- algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
- inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
- for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
- others).
-
- ccw_timeout_log [S390]
- See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
-
- cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
- Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
- The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
- - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
- a single hierarchy
- - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
- subsystem
- {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
- cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
- only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
-
- cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
- Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
- Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
- the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
-
- cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
- Format: <string>
- nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
- nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
-
- checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
- Format: { "0" | "1" }
- See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
- 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
- any implied execute protection).
- 1 -- check protection requested by application.
- Default value is set via a kernel config option.
- Value can be changed at runtime via
- /selinux/checkreqprot.
-
- cio_ignore= [S390]
- See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
- clk_ignore_unused
- [CLK]
- Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
- clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
- device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
- by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
- force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
- those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
- debug and development, but should not be needed on a
- platform with proper driver support. For more
- information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
-
- clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
- [Deprecated]
- Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
- when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
- clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
- Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
-
- clocksource= Override the default clocksource
- Format: <string>
- Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
- with the name specified.
- Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
- the platform:
- [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
- [ACPI] acpi_pm
- [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
- pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
- [AVR32] avr32
- [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
- scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
- [MIPS] MIPS
- [PARISC] cr16
- [S390] tod
- [SH] SuperH
- [SPARC64] tick
- [X86-64] hpet,tsc
-
- clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
- [ARM,ARM64]
- Format: <bool>
- Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
- architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
- loops can be debugged more effectively on production
- systems.
-
- clocksource.arm_arch_timer.fsl-a008585=
- [ARM64]
- Format: <bool>
- Enable/disable the workaround of Freescale/NXP
- erratum A-008585. This can be useful for KVM
- guests, if the guest device tree doesn't show the
- erratum. If unspecified, the workaround is
- enabled based on the device tree.
-
- clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
- Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
- arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
- numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
- stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
- ones should be.
- Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
- or using the feature without checking anything
- will still see it. This just prevents it from
- being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
- Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
- some critical bits.
-
- cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
- [ARM,X86,KNL]
- Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
- contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
- placement constraint by the physical address range of
- memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
- altogether. For more information, see
- include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
-
- cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
- Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
- when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
- to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
- a hypervisor.
- Default: yes
-
- coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
- Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
- allocations, by default set to 256K.
-
- code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
- in an oops report.
- Range: 0 - 8192
- Default: 64
-
- com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
- Format:
- <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
-
- com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
- Format: <io>[,<irq>]
-
- com90xx= [HW,NET]
- ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
- Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
-
- condev= [HW,S390] console device
- conmode=
-
- console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
-
- tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
-
- ttyS<n>[,options]
- ttyUSB0[,options]
- Use the specified serial port. The options are of
- the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
- "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
- bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
- omit it). Default is "9600n8".
-
- See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
- information. See
- Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
- alternative.
-
- uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
- uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
- uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
- uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
- uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
- Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
- UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
- switching to the matching ttyS device later.
- MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
- (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
- If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
- to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
- the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
- the h/w is not re-initialized.
-
- hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
- both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
-
- If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
- device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
- console=brl,ttyS0
- For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
-
- consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
- seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
- disables the blank timer.
-
- coredump_filter=
- [KNL] Change the default value for
- /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
- See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
-
- cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
- disable the cpuidle sub-system
-
- cpu_init_udelay=N
- [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
- of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
- on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
- Default: 10000
-
- cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
- Format:
- <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
-
- crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
- [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
- upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
- memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
- image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
- is selected automatically. Check
- Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
-
- crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
- [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
- in the running system. The syntax of range is
- start-[end] where start and end are both
- a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
- Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
-
- crashkernel=size[KMG],high
- [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
- to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
- be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
- Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
- available.
- It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
- crashkernel=size[KMG],low
- [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
- is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
- above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
- that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
- requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
- low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
- devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
- at least 256M below 4G automatically.
- This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
- for second kernel instead.
- 0: to disable low allocation.
- It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
- or memory reserved is below 4G.
-
- cryptomgr.notests
- [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
-
- cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
- Format: <dma>
-
- cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
- Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
-
- dasd= [HW,NET]
- See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
-
- db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
- (one device per port)
- Format: <port#>,<type>
- See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
-
- ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
- time. See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for
- details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
-
- debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
-
- debug_locks_verbose=
- [KNL] verbose self-tests
- Format=<0|1>
- Print debugging info while doing the locking API
- self-tests.
- We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
- 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
- only useful to kernel developers.
-
- debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
-
- no_debug_objects
- [KNL] Disable object debugging
-
- debug_guardpage_minorder=
- [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
- parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
- be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
- buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
- of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
- amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
- possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
- to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
- memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
- driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
- random memory location. Note that there exists a class
- of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
- F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
- memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
- bypassed) which are not detectable by
- CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
- tracking down these problems.
-
- debug_pagealloc=
- [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
- parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
- default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
- chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
- it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
- with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
- on: enable the feature
-
- debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
-
- decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
- Format: <area>[,<node>]
- See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
-
- default_hugepagesz=
- [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
- HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
- the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
- default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
- Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
- if not specified.
-
- dhash_entries= [KNL]
- Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
-
- disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
- Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
- causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
- can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
- miss to occur.
-
- disable= [IPV6]
- See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
-
- disable_radix [PPC]
- Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
-
- disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
- Format: <int>
- The number of initial APIC ID for the
- corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
- mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
- disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
- causing system reset or hang due to sending
- INIT from AP to BSP.
-
- disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
- Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
- to workaround buggy firmware.
-
- disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
- See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
-
- disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
- The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
- to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
- entry later. This parameter disables that.
-
- disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
- By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
- memory out of your available memory pool based on
- MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
- possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
-
- disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
- Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
- Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
-
- dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
-
- dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
- this option disables the debugging code at boot.
-
- dma_debug_entries=<number>
- This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
- entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
- required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
- DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
- architectural default is too low.
-
- dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
- With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
- filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
- pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
- The filter can be disabled or changed to another
- driver later using sysfs.
-
- drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
- Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
- panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
- This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
- in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
- Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
- edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
- edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
- and no file with the same name exists. Details and
- instructions how to build your own EDID data are
- available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
- data set will only be used for a particular connector,
- if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
- name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
- set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
- data set with no connector name will be used for
- any connectors not explicitly specified.
-
- dscc4.setup= [NET]
-
- dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
- module.dyndbg[="val"]
- Enable debug messages at boot time. See
- Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for details.
-
- nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
- See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
- information about the feature.
-
- nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
- in some Intel CPUs.
-
- eagerfpu= [X86]
- on enable eager fpu restore
- off disable eager fpu restore
- auto selects the default scheme, which automatically
- enables eagerfpu restore for xsaveopt.
-
- module.async_probe [KNL]
- Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
-
- early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
- Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
- is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
- which are not unmapped.
-
- earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
-
- When used with no options, the early console is
- determined by the stdout-path property in device
- tree's chosen node.
-
- cdns,<addr>[,options]
- Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
- (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
- supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
- specified, the serial port must already be setup and
- configured.
-
- uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
- uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
- uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
- uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
- uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
- Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
- UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
- MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
- (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
- If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
- to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
- in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
- unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
-
- pl011,<addr>
- pl011,mmio32,<addr>
- Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
- port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
- must already be setup and configured. Options are not
- yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
- the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
- the device registers.
-
- meson,<addr>
- Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
- port at the specified address. The serial port must
- already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
- supported.
-
- msm_serial,<addr>
- Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
- port at the specified address. The serial port
- must already be setup and configured. Options are not
- yet supported.
-
- msm_serial_dm,<addr>
- Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
- dm port at the specified address. The serial port
- must already be setup and configured. Options are not
- yet supported.
-
- smh Use ARM semi