default: 0
acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
- acpi_backlight=vendor
- acpi_backlight=video
- If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
+ { vendor | video | native | none }
+ If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
of the ACPI video.ko driver.
+ If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
+ If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
+ If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
+ acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT]
+ Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
+ a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
+
acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
bert_disable [ACPI]
Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
+ bgrt_disable [ACPI][X86]
+ Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
+
bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
kernel args too.
Default value is set via a kernel config option.
Value can be changed at runtime via
/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
+ Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
cio_ignore= [S390]
See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
+ fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier
+ devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
+ consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
+ especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
+ it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
+ (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
+ clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
+ suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
+ suppliers).
+ Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
+ off -- Don't create device links from firmware info.
+ permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
+ but use it only for ordering boot state clean
+ up (sync_state() calls).
+ on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it
+ to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
+ rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
+
gamecon.map[2|3]=
[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
- Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
- to see the whole system memory or for test.
+ Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows:
+
+ 1 for test;
+ 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
+ 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
+ the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
+
[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
belonging to unused RAM.
+ Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
+ in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
+ if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
+
mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
memory.
[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
clock and use the default one.
- no-steal-acc [X86,KVM,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time
+ no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time
accounting. steal time is computed, but won't
influence scheduler behaviour
This can be set from sysctl after boot.
See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
- of_devlink [OF, KNL] Create device links between consumer and
- supplier devices by scanning the devictree to infer the
- consumer/supplier relationships. A consumer device
- will not be probed until all the supplier devices have
- probed successfully.
-
ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
info.
Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
e.g. pmtmr=0x508
+ pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL]
+ Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
+
pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
before loading.
See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
+ prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
+ isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
+ that).
+ Format: <bool>
+
psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
tracking.
Format: <bool>
Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
batch limiting is re-enabled.
+ rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
+ Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
+ RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
+ enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
+ help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
+ Set to less than zero to make this be set based
+ on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
+ disable more aggressive help enlistment.
+
rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
+ rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
+ Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
+ rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
+ during early boot, that is, during the time
+ before the init task is spawned.
+
rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
+ sched_thermal_decay_shift=
+ [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
+ pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
+ default decay period of other scheduler pelt
+ signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
+ sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
+ period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
+ value.
+ i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
+ sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr
+ 1 64 ms
+ 2 128 ms
+ and so on.
+ Format: integer between 0 and 10
+ Default is 0.
+
skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
spia_pedr=
spia_peddr=
+ split_lock_detect=
+ [X86] Enable split lock detection
+
+ When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
+ instructions that access data across cache line
+ boundaries will result in an alignment check exception.
+
+ off - not enabled
+
+ warn - the kernel will emit rate limited warnings
+ about applications triggering the #AC
+ exception. This mode is the default on CPUs
+ that supports split lock detection.
+
+ fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
+ that trigger the #AC exception.
+
+ If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
+ firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
+ the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
+ mode.
+
srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
Specifies how frequently to check for
grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
LPAR.
+ torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
+ Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
+ until after init has spawned.
+
tp720= [HW,PS2]
tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]