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b10d79f7 1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
03d926f8 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
6a1f5471 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
e58d154b 4 copy_dsdt }
1da177e4 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6a1f5471 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
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7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
1da177e4 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
237889bf 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
aa2110cb 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
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13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14 are available
1da177e4 15
395cf969 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
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18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
19 Format: <int>
20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21 1,0: use 1st APIC table
4e381a4f 22 default: 0
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24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
25 acpi_backlight=vendor
26 acpi_backlight=video
27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
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31 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
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37 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41 This option is useful for developers to identify the
42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
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45 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
1da177e4 47 Format: <int>
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48 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
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55 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
56 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
57 debug layers and levels.
a0d84a92 58
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59 Enable processor driver info messages:
60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
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63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64 object while interpreting AML:
65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
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66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69 Some values produce so much output that the system is
70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71 if you need to capture more output.
f989106c 72
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73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
74 { strict | lax | no }
75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79 can interfere with legacy drivers.
80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87 no further checks are performed.
88
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89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92 size limitation.
93
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94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95 ACPI will balance active IRQs
96 default in APIC mode
97
98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100 default in PIC mode
101
102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106 use by PCI
107 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
6dddd7a7 109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
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110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
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112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113 the GPE dispatcher.
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114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115 GPE floodings.
116 Format: <int>
9c4aa1ee 117
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118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
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120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122 auto-serialization feature.
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123 This feature is enabled by default.
124 This option allows to turn off the feature.
22b5afce 125
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126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
127 kernels.
128
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129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132 installed automatically and they will appear under
133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134 This option turns off this feature.
135 Note that specifying this option does not affect
136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
0cb55ad2 138
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139 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
140 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
141 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
142 second kernel for kdump.
4dde507f 143
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144 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
145 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
146
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147 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
148 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
149 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
150 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
151 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
152
0cb55ad2 153 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
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154 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
155 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
741d8128 156 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
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157 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
158 strings
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159 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
160 strings
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161 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
162
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163 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
164 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
165 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
166 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
167 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
168 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
169 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
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170 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
171 care about the state of the feature group strings which
172 should be controlled by the OSPM.
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173 Examples:
174 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
175 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
176 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
177
178 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
179 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
180 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
181 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
182 multiple times through kernel command line is also
183 meaningless.
184 Examples:
185 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
186 FALSE.
187
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188 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
189 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
190 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
191 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
192 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
193 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
194 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
195 there are quirks related to this string. This command
196 is useful when one want to control the state of the
197 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
198 the OSPM features.
199 Examples:
200 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
201 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
202 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
203 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
204 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
205 equivalent to
206 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
207 and
208 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
209 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
210
6cececfc 211 acpi_pm_good [X86]
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212 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
213 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
214 and always returns good values.
215
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216 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
217 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
218
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219 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
220 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
221 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
222
223 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
224 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
57044031 225 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
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226 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
227 s3_bios and s3_mode.
228 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
229 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
230 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
231 used during resume from hibernation.
232 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
233 control method, with respect to putting devices into
234 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
235 of _PTS is used by default).
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236 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
237 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
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238 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
239 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
240 but some broken systems don't work without it).
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241 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
242 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
243 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
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244
245 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
246 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
247 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
248
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249 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
250 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
251
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252 agp= [AGP]
253 { off | try_unsupported }
254 off: disable AGP support
255 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
256 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
257
bcfde334 258 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
1ca2c806 259 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
bcfde334 260
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261 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
262 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
263 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
264 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
265
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266 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
267 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
268 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
269 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
270 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
271 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
272 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
273
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274 32: only for 32-bit processes
275 64: only for 64-bit processes
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276 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
277 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
278
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279 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
280 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
281 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
282 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
283 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
284 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
285
89e0b9a3 286 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
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287 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
288 Possible values are:
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289 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
290 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
291 flushed before they will be reused, which
292 is a lot of faster
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293 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
294 the system
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295 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
296 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
297 allowed anymore to lift isolation
298 requirements as needed. This option
299 does not override iommu=pt
afa9fdc2 300
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301 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
302 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
303 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
304 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
305 IOMMU initialization.
306
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307 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
308 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
309 remapping modes:
310 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
311 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
312 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
313 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
314 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
315
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316 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
317 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
318 Format: <a>,<b>
1752118d 319 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
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320
321 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
322 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
323 connected to one of 16 gameports
324 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
325
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326 apc= [HW,SPARC]
327 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
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328 Format: noidle
329 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
330 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
331 APC and your system crashes randomly.
332
64e05d11 333 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
c8facbb6 334 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
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335 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
336 Change the amount of debugging information output
337 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
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338 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
339 driver name.
340 Format: apic=driver_name
341 Examples: apic=bigsmp
a9913044 342
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343 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
344 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
345 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
346 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
347 backup of CPU 0
348 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
349 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
350 shot down by NMI
351
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352 autoconf= [IPV6]
353 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
354
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355 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
356 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
357 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
358 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
359 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
360 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
361 apic=verbose is specified.
362 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
363
1da177e4 364 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
71f77055 365 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
1da177e4 366
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367 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
368 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
369
370 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
371
372 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
373
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374 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
375 EzKey and similar keyboards
376
377 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
378
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379 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
380 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
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381
382 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
383 keyboards
384
385 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
386 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
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387
388 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
389 Use software keyboard repeat
1da177e4 390
a106fb0c 391 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
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392 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
393 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
394 enabled until the next reboot
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395 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
396 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
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397 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
398 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
399 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
400 userspace auditd.
a106fb0c 401 Default: unset
f3411cb2 402
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403 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
404 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
405 Default: 64
406
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407 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
408 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
409 Format: { "0" | "1" }
410 0 - Disable the BAU.
411 1 - Enable the BAU.
412 unset - Disable the BAU.
413
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414 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
415 Format: <io>,<mode>
a9913044 416
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417 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
418 Format: <io>,<mode>
419 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
420
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421 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
422 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
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423 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
424 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
425
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426 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
427 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
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428 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
429 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
430
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431 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
432 embedded devices based on command line input.
433 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
434
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435 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
436 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
437 no delay (0).
438 Format: integer
439
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440 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
441
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442 bert_disable [ACPI]
443 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
444
1da177e4 445 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
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446 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
447 kernel args too.
a405ed85 448 bttv.pll= See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
395cf969 449 bttv.tuner=
1da177e4 450
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451 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
452 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
453 at a time.
454
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455 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
456
cd4f0ef7 457 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
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458 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
459 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
460 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
461 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
462 This option provides an override for these situations.
463
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464 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
465 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
466 trust validation.
32c4741c 467 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
ffb70f61 468
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469 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
470 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
471 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
472 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
473 others).
474
6dddd7a7 475 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
14ff56bb 476 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
1da177e4 477
6dddd7a7 478 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
8bab8dde 479 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
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480 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
481 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
482 a single hierarchy
483 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
484 subsystem
485 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
486 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
487 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
8bab8dde 488
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489 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
490 Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
491 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
492 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
493
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494 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
495 Format: <string>
496 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
04823c83 497 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
f7e1cb6e 498
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499 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
500 Format: { "0" | "1" }
501 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
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502 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
503 any implied execute protection).
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504 1 -- check protection requested by application.
505 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
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506 Value can be changed at runtime via
507 /selinux/checkreqprot.
508
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509 cio_ignore= [S390]
510 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
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511 clk_ignore_unused
512 [CLK]
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513 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
514 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
515 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
516 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
517 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
518 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
519 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
520 platform with proper driver support. For more
18bcaa4e 521 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
661ca0da 522
cd4f0ef7 523 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
734efb46 524 [Deprecated]
3f6dee9b 525 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
734efb46 526 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
3f6dee9b 527 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
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528 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
529
592913ec 530 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
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531 Format: <string>
532 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
533 with the name specified.
534 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
535 the platform:
536 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
537 [ACPI] acpi_pm
538 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
539 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
9863c90f 540 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
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541 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
542 [MIPS] MIPS
543 [PARISC] cr16
544 [S390] tod
545 [SH] SuperH
546 [SPARC64] tick
547 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
548
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549 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
550 [ARM,ARM64]
551 Format: <bool>
552 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
553 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
554 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
555 systems.
556
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557 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
558 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
cd4d09ec 559 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
07983f0e 560 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
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561 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
562 ones should be.
563 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
564 or using the feature without checking anything
565 will still see it. This just prevents it from
566 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
567 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
568 some critical bits.
569
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570 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
571 [ARM,X86,KNL]
572 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
573 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
574 placement constraint by the physical address range of
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575 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
576 altogether. For more information, see
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577 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
578
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579 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
580 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
581 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
582 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
583 a hypervisor.
584 Default: yes
585
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586 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
587 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
e9da6e99 588 allocations, by default set to 256K.
c7909509 589
1da177e4 590 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
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591 Format:
592 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
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593
594 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
595 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
596
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597 com90xx= [HW,NET]
598 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
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599 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
600
601 condev= [HW,S390] console device
602 conmode=
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604 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
605
606 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
607
608 ttyS<n>[,options]
f1a1c2dc 609 ttyUSB0[,options]
1da177e4 610 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
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611 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
612 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
613 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
614 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
615
e52347bd 616 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
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617 information. See
618 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
619 alternative.
1da177e4 620
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621 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
622 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
bd94c407 623 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
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624 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
625 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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626 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
627 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
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628 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
629 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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630 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
631 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
632 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
633 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
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634 the h/w is not re-initialized.
635
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636 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
637 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
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639 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
640 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
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641 console=brl,ttyS0
642 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
643
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644 console_msg_format=
645 [KNL] Change console messages format
646 default
647 By default we print messages on consoles in
648 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
649 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
650 `printk_time' param).
651 syslog
652 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
653 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
654 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
655 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
656 from /proc/kmsg.
657
f324edc8 658 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
ac0a314c 659 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
6dddd7a7 660 Defaults to 0.
f324edc8 661
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662 coredump_filter=
663 [KNL] Change the default value for
664 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
665 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
666
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667 coresight_cpu_debug.enable
668 [ARM,ARM64]
669 Format: <bool>
670 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
671 0: default value, disable debugging
672 1: enable debugging at boot time
673
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674 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
675 disable the cpuidle sub-system
676
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677 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
678 disable the cpufreq sub-system
679
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680 cpu_init_udelay=N
681 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
682 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
683 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
684 Default: 10000
685
1da177e4 686 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
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687 Format:
688 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
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690 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
691 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
692 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
693 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
694 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
695 is selected automatically. Check
696 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
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698 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
699 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
700 in the running system. The syntax of range is
701 start-[end] where start and end are both
702 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
6f21e646 703 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
fb391599 704
adbc742b 705 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
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706 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
707 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
708 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
709 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
710 available.
711 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
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712 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
713 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
714 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
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715 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
716 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
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717 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
718 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
719 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
720 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
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721 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
722 for second kernel instead.
723 0: to disable low allocation.
adbc742b 724 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
55a20ee7 725 or memory reserved is below 4G.
c729de8f 726
9e5c9fe4 727 cryptomgr.notests
6dddd7a7 728 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
9e5c9fe4 729
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730 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
731 Format: <dma>
732
733 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
734 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
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a9913044 736 dasd= [HW,NET]
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737 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
738
739 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
740 (one device per port)
741 Format: <port#>,<type>
1752118d 742 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4 743
6dddd7a7 744 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
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745 time. See
746 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
29e36c9f 747 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
a648ec05 748
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749 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
750
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751 debug_locks_verbose=
752 [KNL] verbose self-tests
753 Format=<0|1>
754 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
755 self-tests.
756 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
757 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
758 only useful to kernel developers.
759
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760 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
761
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762 no_debug_objects
763 [KNL] Disable object debugging
764
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765 debug_guardpage_minorder=
766 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
767 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
768 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
769 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
770 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
771 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
772 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
773 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
774 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
775 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
776 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
777 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
778 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
779 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
780 bypassed) which are not detectable by
781 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
782 tracking down these problems.
783
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784 debug_pagealloc=
785 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
786 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
787 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
788 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
789 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
790 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
791 on: enable the feature
792
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793 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
794
2d27a966 795 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
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796 Format: <area>[,<node>]
797 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
798
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800 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
801 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
802 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
803 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
804 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
805 if not specified.
55ff9780 806
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807 dhash_entries= [KNL]
808 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
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810 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
811 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
812 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
813 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
814 miss to occur.
815
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816 disable= [IPV6]
817 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
818
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819 disable_radix [PPC]
820 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
821
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822 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
823 Format: <int>
824 The number of initial APIC ID for the
825 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
826 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
827 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
828 causing system reset or hang due to sending
829 INIT from AP to BSP.
830
6dddd7a7 831 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
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832 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
833 to workaround buggy firmware.
834
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835 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
836 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
837
95ffa243 838 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
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839 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
840 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
0cb55ad2 841 entry later. This parameter disables that.
95ffa243 842
093af8d7 843 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
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844 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
845 memory out of your available memory pool based on
846 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
847 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
848
6cececfc 849 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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850 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
851 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
852
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853 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
854
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855 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
856 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
857
858 dma_debug_entries=<number>
859 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
860 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
861 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
862 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
863 architectural default is too low.
864
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865 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
866 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
867 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
868 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
869 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
870 driver later using sysfs.
871
53fd40a9 872 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
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873 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
874 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
875 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
876 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
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877 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
878 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
879 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
880 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
881 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
882 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
883 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
884 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
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885 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
886 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
887 data set with no connector name will be used for
888 any connectors not explicitly specified.
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890 dscc4.setup= [NET]
891
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892 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC]
893 Format: {"off" | "known"}
894 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
895 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
896 exists).
897 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
898 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
899 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
900
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901 dump_apple_properties [X86]
902 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
903 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
904 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
905
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906 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
907 module.dyndbg[="val"]
908 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
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909 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
910 for details.
29e36c9f 911
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912 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
913 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
914 information about the feature.
915
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916 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
917 in some Intel CPUs.
918
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919 module.async_probe [KNL]
920 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
921
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922 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
923 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
924 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
925 which are not unmapped.
926
0cb55ad2 927 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
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929 [ARM64] The early console is determined by the
930 stdout-path property in device tree's chosen node,
931 or determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
932
933 [X86] When used with no options the early console is
934 determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
5664f764 935
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936 cdns,<addr>[,options]
937 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
938 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
939 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
940 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
941 configured.
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943 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
944 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1917ac76 945 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
6e63be3f 946 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
ca782f16 947 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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948 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
949 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
16290246 950 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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951 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
952 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
953 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
954 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
ca782f16 955 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
0cb55ad2 956
0d3c673e 957 pl011,<addr>
3b78fae7 958 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
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959 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
960 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
961 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
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962 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
963 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
964 the device registers.
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966 meson,<addr>
967 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
968 port at the specified address. The serial port must
969 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
970 supported.
971
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972 msm_serial,<addr>
973 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
974 port at the specified address. The serial port
975 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
976 yet supported.
977
978 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
979 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
980 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
981 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
982 yet supported.
983
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984 owl,<addr>
985 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
986 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
987 specified address. The serial port must already be
988 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
989
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990 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
991
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992 s3c2410,<addr>
993 s3c2412,<addr>
994 s3c2440,<addr>
995 s3c6400,<addr>
996 s5pv210,<addr>
997 exynos4210,<addr>
998 Use early console provided by serial driver available
999 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1000 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1001 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1002 Options are not yet supported.
1003
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1004 lantiq,<addr>
1005 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1006 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1007 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1008 yet supported.
1009
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1010 lpuart,<addr>
1011 lpuart32,<addr>
1012 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1013 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1014 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1015 port must already be setup and configured.
1016
f7c864e7 1017 ar3700_uart,<addr>
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1018 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1019 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1020 address. The serial port must already be setup
1021 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1022
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1023 qcom_geni,<addr>
1024 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1025 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1026 specified address. The serial port must already be
1027 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1028
4ba66a97 1029 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1da177e4 1030 earlyprintk=vga
72548e83 1031 earlyprintk=efi
89175cf7 1032 earlyprintk=sclp
2482a92e 1033 earlyprintk=xen
1da177e4 1034 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
147ea091 1035 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
ea3acb19 1036 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
9780bc41 1037 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
c43088e3 1038 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1b5aeebf 1039 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
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1041 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1042 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1043 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1044
a9913044 1045 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
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1046 takes over.
1047
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1048 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1049 be used at a time.
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1051 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1052 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1053 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1054 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1055 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1056 You can find the port for a given device in
1057 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1058 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
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1059
1060 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1061 very good.
1062
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1063 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1064 the real console.
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1066 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1067
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1068 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1069
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1070 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1071 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1072 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1073 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1074 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1075 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1076 default: on.
1077
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1078 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1079 ekgdboc=kbd
1080
25985edc 1081 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
9731191f
JW
1082 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1083
1da177e4 1084 edd= [EDD]
8c4dd606 1085 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1da177e4 1086
d2f7cbe7 1087 efi= [EFI]
fed6cefe 1088 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
d2f7cbe7
BP
1089 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1090 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1091 default.
5a17dae4
MF
1092 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1093 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1094 firmware implementations.
5ae3683c 1095 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
fed6cefe 1096 debug: enable misc debug output
d2f7cbe7 1097
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RW
1098 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1099 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1100 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1101 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1102 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1103
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1104 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1105 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1106 updating original EFI memory map.
1107 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1108 from ss to ss+nn.
1109 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1110 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1111 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1112 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1113
1114 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1115 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1116 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1117 doesn't support it.
1118
475fb4e8
OP
1119 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1120 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1121 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1122 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1123 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1124
1125
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LT
1126 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1127 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1128
cd4f0ef7 1129 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1da177e4 1130 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
71f77055 1131 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1da177e4
LT
1132
1133 elevator= [IOSCHED]
17a9e7bb 1134 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
395cf969 1135 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
a9913044
RD
1136 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1137
d3bf3795 1138 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
a9913044 1139 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
d3bf3795
MH
1140 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1141 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
aac04b32 1142 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
1da177e4 1143
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RD
1144 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1145 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1146 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1147 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1148
ca1eda2d 1149 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
0cb55ad2
RD
1150 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1151 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1152 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1153 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1154
1da177e4
LT
1155 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1156 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1157 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1158 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1159 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1160 Default value is 0.
1161 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1162
a08f82d0
HY
1163 erst_disable [ACPI]
1164 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1165 support.
1166
1da177e4
LT
1167 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1168 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1169 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1170
7102ebcd
MZ
1171 evm= [EVM]
1172 Format: { "fix" }
1173 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1174 current integrity status.
1175
de1ba09b
AM
1176 failslab=
1177 fail_page_alloc=
1178 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1179 General fault injection mechanism.
1180 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
395cf969 1181 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
de1ba09b 1182
1da177e4 1183 floppy= [HW]
31c00fc1 1184 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1da177e4 1185
f13ae30e
AC
1186 force_pal_cache_flush
1187 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1188 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1189 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1190 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1191
6dddd7a7 1192 forcepae [X86-32]
69f2366c
CB
1193 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1194 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1195 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1196 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1197 and may cause unknown problems.
1198
d9e54076 1199 ftrace=[tracer]
2af15d6a 1200 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
d9e54076
PZ
1201 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1202 boot debugging.
1203
cecbca96 1204 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
2af15d6a 1205 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
cecbca96
FW
1206 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1207 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1208 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1209 oops.
2af15d6a
SR
1210
1211 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1212 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1213 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1214 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1215 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
16290246 1216 tracing directory.
2af15d6a
SR
1217
1218 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1219 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1220 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1221 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1222 tracing directory.
d9e54076 1223
369bc18f
SA
1224 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1225 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1226 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1227 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1228 that can be changed at run time by the
1229 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1230
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NK
1231 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1232 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1233 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1234 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1235 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1236
65a50c65
TB
1237 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1238 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1239 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1240 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1241 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1242
1da177e4
LT
1243 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1244 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1245 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1246 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1752118d 1247 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4
LT
1248
1249 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1250
6dddd7a7 1251 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
aaf23042
YL
1252 Format: off | on
1253 default: on
1254
2521f2c2
PO
1255 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1256 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1257 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1258 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1259 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1260
47512cfd
TG
1261 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1262 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1263 android emulator
1264
1da177e4 1265 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
6c5de79b
DB
1266 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1267 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1268 GPT to be used instead.
1da177e4 1269
6cec9b07
AL
1270 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1271 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1272 Format: 0 | 1
1273 Default: 0
1274 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1275 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1276 Format: 0 | 1
1277 Default: 0
1278 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1279 Format: 0 | 1
1280 Default: 0
1281 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1282 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1283 Default: 1024
1284 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1285 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1286 Default: 1024
1287
0f98dd1b
BJZ
1288 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1289 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1290 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1291
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JK
1292 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1293 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1294 backtraces on all cpus.
1295 Format: <integer>
1296
1da177e4
LT
1297 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1298 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
16290246 1299 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
a9913044 1300 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1da177e4
LT
1301
1302 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1303
1304 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1305 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1306
ea8c071c
HY
1307 hest_disable [ACPI]
1308 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1309 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1310 logic will be disabled.
1311
1da177e4
LT
1312 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1313 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1314 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1315 size on bigger boxes.
1316
54cdfdb4
TG
1317 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1318 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1319 Default: "on"
1320
1da177e4
LT
1321 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1322 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1323
0cb55ad2
RD
1324 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1325
1326 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1327 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1328 verbose }
1329 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1330 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1331 VIA, nVidia)
1332 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1333
3d035f58
PB
1334 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1335 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1336
b4718e62
AK
1337 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1338 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
0d9ea754
JT
1339 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1340 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1341 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1342 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
27ec26ec 1343 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
6902aa84 1344
a49d9c0a
OS
1345 hung_task_panic=
1346 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1347 Format: <integer>
cef7125d 1348
a49d9c0a
OS
1349 A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a
1350 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1351 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1352 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1353 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1354
6dddd7a7
TB
1355 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1356 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1357 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1358 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1359 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
7bf69395
FDN
1360 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1361 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1362 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1363 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1364 the real console.
1365
6dddd7a7
TB
1366 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1367 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1368 registered from board initialization code.
1369 Format:
1370 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
3a853fb9 1371
36d95739 1372 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
e1443d28
SCP
1373 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1374 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1375 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1376 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1da177e4 1377 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
84eb8d06
ML
1378 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1379 keyboard and cannot control its state
1da177e4
LT
1380 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1381 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
945ef0d4 1382 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
75d08c78
JK
1383 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1384 for the AUX port
1da177e4 1385 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
e55a3366 1386 controller
1da177e4
LT
1387 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1388 controllers
24775d65 1389 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
930e1924
MPS
1390 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1391 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1392 transitions, or never reset
1393 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1394 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1395 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1396 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1397 architectures force reset to be always executed
1da177e4 1398 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
6dddd7a7 1399 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1da177e4
LT
1400
1401 i810= [HW,DRM]
1402
e70c9d5e
DT
1403 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1404 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1405 hardware.
1da177e4
LT
1406 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1407 does not match list of supported models.
1408 i8k.power_status
1409 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1410 (disabled by default)
1411 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1412 capability is set.
1413
4dca20ef 1414 i915.invert_brightness=
7bd90909
CE
1415 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1416 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
4dca20ef
CE
1417 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1418 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1419 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1420 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1421 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1422 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1423 value switches the backlight off.
1424 -1 -- never invert brightness
1425 0 -- machine default
1426 1 -- force brightness inversion
7bd90909 1427
1da177e4
LT
1428 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1429 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1430
0af80c04
DF
1431 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1432 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
075affcb
BZ
1433 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1434 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1c10e938 1435 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1da177e4 1436
0f8b7f5d
MR
1437 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1438 Format: <int>
1439 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1440 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1441 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1442 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1443 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1444 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1445 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1446 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1447 was 0x3.
1448
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RD
1449 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1450 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1451
f039b754 1452 idle= [X86]
69fb3676 1453 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
ada9cfdd
RD
1454 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1455 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1456 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1457 Not recommended.
ada9cfdd 1458 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
c1e3b377 1459 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
ada9cfdd 1460 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
a9913044 1461
503943e0
MR
1462 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1463 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1464 Default: strict
1465
1466 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1467 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1468 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1469 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1470 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1471 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1472 encoding mode.
1473
1474 Available settings are as follows:
1475 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1476 supported by the FPU
1477 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1478 by the FPU
1479 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1480 by the FPU
1481 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1482 supported by the FPU
1483
1484 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1485 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1486 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1487 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1488 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1489 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1490 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1491 MIPS64 CPUs.
1492
1493 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1494 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1495 except where unsupported by hardware.
1496
79290822
IM
1497 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1498 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1499 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
0eca6b7c
YZ
1500 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1501 could change it dynamically, usually by
1502 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
79290822 1503
d977d56c
KK
1504 ignore_rlimit_data
1505 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1506 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1507 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1508
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LT
1509 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1510 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1511
2fe5d6de 1512 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2faa6ef3 1513 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
2fe5d6de
MZ
1514 default: "enforce"
1515
07f6a794
MZ
1516 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1517 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1518 owned by uid=0.
1519
d68a6fe9
MZ
1520 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1521 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1522 measurements, instead of host native format.
1523
3323eec9 1524 ima_hash= [IMA]
e7a2ad7e
MZ
1525 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1526 | sha512 | ... }
3323eec9
MZ
1527 default: "sha1"
1528
e7a2ad7e
MZ
1529 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1530 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1531
24fd03c8 1532 ima_policy= [IMA]
33ce9549 1533 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
9e67028e
MZ
1534 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1535 fail_securely"
33ce9549
MZ
1536
1537 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1538 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1539 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1540 uid=0.
1541
1542 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1543 all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent
1544 of ima_appraise_tcb.)
24fd03c8 1545
503ceaef
MZ
1546 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1547 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1548 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
24fd03c8 1549
9e67028e
MZ
1550 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1551 verification failure also on privileged mounted
1552 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1553 flag.
1554
24fd03c8 1555 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
5789ba3b
EP
1556 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1557 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1558 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1559 opened for read by uid=0.
1560
6dddd7a7 1561 ima_template= [IMA]
9b9d4ce5 1562 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
8265a2f8 1563 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
9b9d4ce5
RS
1564 Default: "ima-ng"
1565
c2426d2a 1566 ima_template_fmt=
6dddd7a7 1567 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
c2426d2a
RS
1568 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1569
3bcced39
DK
1570 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1571 Format: <min_file_size>
1572 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1573 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1574
1575 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1576 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1577 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1578
6edf7a89
DK
1579 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1580 Format: <bufsize>
1581 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1582
1583 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1584 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1585 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1586
1da177e4
LT
1587 init= [KNL]
1588 Format: <full_path>
1589 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1590 process.
1591
1592 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1593 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1594 startup.
1595
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1596 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1597 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1598 modules and initcalls.
1599
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1600 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1601
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1602 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1603 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1604 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1605 override in debugfs after boot.
1606
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1607 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1608 Format: <irq>
1609
6dddd7a7 1610 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
6bb2ff84 1611
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1612 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1613 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1614 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1615 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1616
ba395927 1617 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
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1618 on
1619 Enable intel iommu driver.
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1620 off
1621 Disable intel iommu driver.
1622 igfx_off [Default Off]
1623 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1624 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1625 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1626 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1627 DMA.
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1628 forcedac [x86_64]
1629 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
16290246 1630 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
7d3b03ce 1631 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
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1632 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1633 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
7d3b03ce 1634 then look in the higher range.
5e0d2a6f 1635 strict [Default Off]
1636 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1637 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1638 to batching them for performance.
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1639 sp_off [Default Off]
1640 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1641 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1642 not be supported.
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1643 ecs_off [Default Off]
1644 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1645 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1646 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1647 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1648 on hardware which claims to support them.
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1649 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1650 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1651 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1652 could harm performance of some high-throughput
1653 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1654 mapping is enabled.
1655 Note that using this option lowers the security
1656 provided by tboot because it makes the system
1657 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
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1658
1659 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1660 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
22c6bbe4 1661 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
2e92c7ad 1662
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1663 intel_pstate= [X86]
1664 disable
1665 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1666 scaling driver for the supported processors
1667 passive
1668 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1669 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1670 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1671 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1672 feature.
1673 force
1674 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1675 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1676 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1677 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1678 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1679 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1680 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1681 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1682 no_hwp
1683 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1684 if available.
1685 hwp_only
1686 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1687 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1688 support_acpi_ppc
1689 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1690 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1691 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1692 then this feature is turned on by default.
1693 per_cpu_perf_limits
1694 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1695 cpufreq sysfs interface
6be26498 1696
d1423d56 1697 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
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1698 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1699 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1700 nosid disable Source ID checking
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1701 no_x2apic_optout
1702 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
b7d20631 1703 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
d1423d56 1704
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1705 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1706 strict regions from userspace.
1707 relaxed
1708
1709 iommu= [x86]
1710 off
1711 force
1712 noforce
1713 biomerge
1714 panic
1715 nopanic
1716 merge
1717 nomerge
0cb55ad2 1718 soft
bcb71abe 1719 pt [x86, IA-64]
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1720 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1721 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
bcb71abe 1722
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1723 iommu.passthrough=
1724 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1725 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1726 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1727 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1728 unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
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1729
1730 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1731 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1732 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1733
6cececfc 1734 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
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1735 0x80
1736 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1737 0xed
1738 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
b02aae9c 1739 udelay
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1740 Simple two microseconds delay
1741 none
1742 No delay
b02aae9c 1743
1da177e4 1744 ip= [IP_PNP]
dc7a0816 1745 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 1746
fbf19803 1747 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2d13e6ca 1748 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
fbf19803 1749
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1750 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1751 [ARM, ARM64]
1752 Format: <bool>
1753 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1754 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1755 exposed by the device tree is too small.
1756
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1757 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
1758 [ARM, ARM64]
1759 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
1760 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
1761 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
1762 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
1763 LPIs.
1764
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1765 irqfixup [HW]
1766 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1767 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1768 firmware running.
1769
1770 irqpoll [HW]
1771 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1772 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1773 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1774 firmware running.
1775
1da177e4 1776 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
a9913044 1777 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1da177e4 1778
d94d1053 1779 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
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1780 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1781 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
1782
1783 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1784 specified in the flag list (default: domain):
1785
1786 nohz
1787 Disable the tick when a single task runs.
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1788
1789 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
1790 need to affine to housekeeping through the global
1791 workqueue's affinity configured via the
1792 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
1793 by using the 'domain' flag described below.
1794
1795 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
1796 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
1797 be configured manually after bootup.
1798
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1799 domain
1800 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1801 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1802 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1803 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1804 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1805 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1806 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1807 move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1808
1809 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1810 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1811 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1812 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1813
1814 The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
b225d44e 1815
1da177e4 1816
1da177e4 1817
a9913044 1818 iucv= [HW,NET]
1da177e4 1819
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1820 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1821 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1822 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1823 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1824 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1825 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1826
1827 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1828 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1829 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1830 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1831 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1832 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1833
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1834 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1835 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1836 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1837 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1838 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1839 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1840
1da177e4 1841 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1752118d 1842 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
1da177e4 1843
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1844 nokaslr [KNL]
1845 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1846 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1847 Layout Randomization).
24f2e027 1848
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1849 kasan_multi_shot
1850 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1851 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1852 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1853 invalid access.
1854
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1855 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1856
342332e6 1857 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
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1858 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
1859 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
1860 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested
1861 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
1862 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for
1863 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the
1864 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
1865 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
1866 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
1867
1868 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
1869 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
1870 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
1871 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
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1872 zone if it does not.
1873
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1874 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
1875 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
1876 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror"
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1877 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1878 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
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1879 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
1880 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
ed7ed365 1881
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1882 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1883 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1884 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1885 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1886 optional and is the number seconds in between
1887 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1888 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1889 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1890 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1891 the kernel debugger.
1892
84c08fd6 1893 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
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1894 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1895 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
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1896 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1897 keyboard only format: kbd
1898 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1899 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1900 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1901 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
6cdf6e06 1902
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1903 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1904 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1905
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1906 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1907 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1908 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1909
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1910 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1911 Valid arguments: on, off
1912 Default: on
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1913 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1914 the default is off.
04f70336 1915
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1916 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1917 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1918
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1919 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
1920 Default is false (don't support).
1921
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1922 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1923 KVM MMU at runtime.
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1924 Default is 0 (off)
1925
fef07aae 1926 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
8475f94a 1927 Default is 1 (enabled)
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1928
1929 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1930 for all guests.
16290246 1931 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
fef07aae 1932
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1933 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
1934 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
1935 system registers
1936
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1937 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
1938 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
1939 system registers
1940
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1941 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
1942 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
1943 system registers
1944
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1945 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
1946 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
1947 LPIs.
1948
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1949 kvm-intel.nosmt=[KVM,Intel] If the L1TF CPU bug is present (CVE-2018-3620)
1950 and the system has SMT (aka Hyper-Threading) enabled then
1951 don't allow guests to be created.
1952
1953 Default is 0 (allow guests to be created).
1954
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1955 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1956 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1957 Default is 1 (enabled)
1958
1959 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1960 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1961 Default is 0 (disabled)
1962
1963 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1964 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1965 Default is 1 (enabled)
1966
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1967 kvm-intel.nested=
1968 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1969 Default is 0 (disabled)
1970
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1971 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1972 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1973 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1974 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1975
1976 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1977 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1978 Default is 1 (enabled)
1979
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1980 l2cr= [PPC]
1981
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1982 l3cr= [PPC]
1983
cd4f0ef7 1984 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
a9913044 1985 disabled it.
1da177e4 1986
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1987 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1988 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1989 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1990
6cececfc 1991 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
ada9cfdd 1992 in C2 power state.
e585bef8 1993
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1994 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1995 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1996 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1997 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
16290246 1998 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
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1999 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2000 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
16290246 2001
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2002 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2003 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
2004 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
fcb71f6f 2005
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2006 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2007 when set.
2008 Format: <int>
2009
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2010 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
2011 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
4c44f309 2012 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
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2013 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
2014 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
2015 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2016 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2017 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2018
2019 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2020 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
2021 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2022 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
2023 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2024 host link and device attached to it.
2025
2026 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
2027 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2028 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2029 The following configurations can be forced.
2030
2031 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2032 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2033
2034 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2035
2036 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2037 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2038 allowed.
2039
2040 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2041
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2042 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2043
05944bdf 2044 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
6dddd7a7 2045 and both resets.
05944bdf 2046
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2047 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2048 hot-unplug link recovery
2049
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TH
2050 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2051
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2052 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2053
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2054 * disable: Disable this device.
2055
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2056 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2057 the same attribute, the last one is used.
2058
95f72d1e 2059 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
7c4be253 2060
1da177e4 2061 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
31c00fc1 2062 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 2063
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2064 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2065 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 2066
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2067 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2068 Format: <integer>
2069
2070 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2071 Format: <integer>
2072
2073 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2074 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 2075
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2076 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2077 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2078 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2079 number of online CPUs.
2080
2081 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2082 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2083
2084 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2085 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2086
2087 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2088 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2089 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2090
2091 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2092 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2093 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2094 mode during the locktorture test.
2095
2096 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2097 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2098 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2099
2100 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2101 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2102
2103 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2104 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2105 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2106 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2107 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2108 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2109
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2110 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2111 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2112
2113 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2114 Enable additional printk() statements.
2115
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2116 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2117 Format: <irq>
2118
2119 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2120 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2121 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2122 loglevels are defined as follows:
2123
2124 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2125 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2126 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2127 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2128 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2129 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2130 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2131 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2132
c756d08a 2133 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
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2134 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2135 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2136 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2137 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2138 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2139 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
1da177e4 2140
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2141 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2142 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2143 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2144 kernel boot problems.
2145
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LT
2146 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2147 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2148 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2149 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2150 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2151 attached printers to be reset. Using
2152 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2153 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2154 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2155 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2156 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2157 port specification list means that device IDs
2158 from each port should be examined, to see if
2159 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2160 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2161 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2162
2163 lpj=n [KNL]
2164 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2165 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2166 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2167 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2168 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2169 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2170 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2171 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2172 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2173 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2174 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2175 hardware.
2176
2177 ltpc= [NET]
2178 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2179
16290246 2180 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
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2181 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2182 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
1da177e4 2183
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WZ
2184 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2185 yeeloong laptop.
2186 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2187
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2188 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2189 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
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2190
2191 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
7c142bfe
BH
2192 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2193 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2194 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2195 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2196 only takes effect during system bootup.
2197 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2198 which also disables the IO APIC.
1da177e4 2199
d134b00b
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2200 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2201 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2202 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2203 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2204 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2205 /dev/loop-control interface.
2b2c3750 2206
cd4f0ef7 2207 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
1da177e4 2208
71cced6e 2209 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
909dd324 2210
1da177e4 2211 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
e52347bd 2212 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
a9913044 2213
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LT
2214 mdacon= [MDA]
2215 Format: <first>,<last>
2216 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
a9913044 2217
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LT
2218 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2219 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2220 to see the whole system memory or for test.
fbb97d87
WC
2221 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2222 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2223 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2224 belonging to unused RAM.
1da177e4 2225
cd4f0ef7 2226 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
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LT
2227 memory.
2228
6902aa84
PM
2229 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2230 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2231 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2232
6dddd7a7 2233 memhp_default_state=online/offline
86dd995d
VK
2234 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2235 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2236 set according to the
2237 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2238 option.
2239 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2240
6cececfc 2241 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
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LT
2242 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2243 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2244 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2245 option description.
2246
2247 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
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2248 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2249 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
8fcc9bc3
BH
2250 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2251 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2252 Multiple different regions can be specified,
2253 comma delimited.
2254 Example:
2255 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
1da177e4
LT
2256
2257 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2258 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
277cba1d 2259 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
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LT
2260
2261 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2262 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
277cba1d 2263 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
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PM
2264 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2265 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2266 or
2267 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
8fcc9bc3
BH
2268 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2269 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2270 will be eaten.
1da177e4 2271
ec776ef6
CH
2272 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2273 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2274 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2275 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2276 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2277
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JS
2278 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2279 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2280 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2281 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2282 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2283 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2284 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2285 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2286
9f077871
JF
2287 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2288 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2289 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2290 Setting this option will scan the memory
2291 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2292 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2293 from using the memory being corrupted.
2294 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2295 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2296 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2297 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2298
2299 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2300 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2301 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2302 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2303 corruption in more or less memory.
2304
2305 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2306 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2307 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2308 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2309
e4b0db72 2310 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
c64df707 2311 Format: <integer>
c64df707 2312 default : 0 <disable>
9e5f6cf5
AH
2313 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2314 performed. Each pass selects another test
2315 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2316 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2317 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2318 regions that are detected.
c64df707 2319
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TL
2320 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2321 Valid arguments: on, off
2322 Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2323 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2324 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2325 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
2326 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
2327
2328 Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
2329 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2330
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RW
2331 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2332 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2333 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2334 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
58e7cb9e 2335 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
406e7938 2336
1da177e4 2337 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
a405ed85 2338 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
1da177e4 2339
8f36881b
AS
2340 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2341 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2342 platforms.
2343
e6c4dc6c
WT
2344 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2345 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2346 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2347 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2348
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LT
2349 mga= [HW,DRM]
2350
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RD
2351 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2352 physical address is ignored.
2353
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MP
2354 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2355 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2356 Default: "0tb"
2357 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2358 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2359 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2360 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2361 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2362 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2363 unconfigured.
2364 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2365 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2366 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2367 VGA shield.
2368 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2369 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2370 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2371 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2372 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2373 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2374
6b74ab97
MG
2375 mminit_loglevel=
2376 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2377 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2378 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2379 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2380 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2381 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2382
106a4ee2
RR
2383 module.sig_enforce
2384 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2385 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2a039be7 2386 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
106a4ee2
RR
2387 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2388
be7de5f9
PB
2389 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2390 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2391
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LT
2392 mousedev.tap_time=
2393 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2394 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2395 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2396 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2397 Format: <msecs>
2398 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2399 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2400 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2401 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2402
a5c6d650
DR
2403 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2404 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2405 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
2406 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
2407 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is
2408 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
2409 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its
2410 own is specified, the administrator must be careful
0cb55ad2
RD
2411 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2412 is not too small.
2413
f70029bb
MH
2414 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2415 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2416 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2417 allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2418 allocations. Use with caution!
c5320926 2419
1da177e4
LT
2420 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2421 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2422
a9913044
RD
2423 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2424 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
1da177e4
LT
2425
2426 mtdparts= [MTD]
c8facbb6 2427 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
1da177e4 2428
4e89a2d8
WS
2429 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2430 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2431 at a time.
2432
5988af23
RH
2433 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2434
2435 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2436
2437 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2438 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2439 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2440 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2441 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2442
9db829f4
BD
2443 mtdset= [ARM]
2444 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2445
2446 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2447
1da177e4 2448 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
a9913044
RD
2449 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2450 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
1da177e4 2451
0cb55ad2 2452 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
19f59460 2453 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
0cb55ad2
RD
2454 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2455
2456 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2457 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2458 Default is 1.
2459 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2460 using up MTRRs.
2461
2462 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2463 Format: <integer>
2464 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2465 Default : 1
2466 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2467 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2468
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LT
2469 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2470
1da177e4
LT
2471 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2472 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2473 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2474 something different and driver-specific.
a9913044
RD
2475 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2476 file if at all.
2477
58401572
KPO
2478 nf_conntrack.acct=
2479 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2480 0 to disable accounting
2481 1 to enable accounting
d70a011d 2482 Default value is 0.
58401572 2483
306a0753 2484 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
dc7a0816 2485 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2486
2487 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
dc7a0816 2488 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 2489
306a0753
CL
2490 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2491 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2492
5405fc44
TM
2493 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2494 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2495 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2496 requests.
2497
a72b4422
TM
2498 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2499 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2500 channel should listen.
2501
e571cbf1
TM
2502 nfs.cache_getent=
2503 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2504 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2505
2506 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2507 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2508 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2509
58df095b
TM
2510 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2511 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2512 entries.
2513
f43bf0be
TM
2514 nfs.enable_ino64=
2515 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2516 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2517 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2518 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2519 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2520
5405fc44
TM
2521 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2522 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2523 slots the client will assign to the callback
2524 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2525 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2526 a particular server.
2527
ef159e91
TM
2528 nfs.max_session_slots=
2529 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2530 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2531 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2532 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2533 Note that there is little point in setting this
2534 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2535
b064eca2 2536 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
074b1d12
TM
2537 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2538 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2539 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2540 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2541 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2542 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2543 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2544 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2545 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2546 back to using the idmapper.
2547 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
6f2ea7f2
CL
2548 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2549 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2550 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2551 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2552 UUID that is generated at system install time.
b064eca2 2553
db8ac8ba
WAA
2554 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2555 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2556 information in exchange_id requests.
2557 If zero, no implementation identification information
2558 will be sent.
2559 The default is to send the implementation identification
2560 information.
e52347bd 2561
f6de7a39
TM
2562 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2563 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2564 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2565 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2566 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2567 after the locks are lost.
2568 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2569 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2570 parameter to '1'.
2571 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2572 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
db8ac8ba 2573
bbf58bf3
TM
2574 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2575 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2576 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2577
2578 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2579 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2580 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2581 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2582
e9541ce8
BF
2583 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2584 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2585 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2586 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2587 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2588 migration from NFSv2/v3.
db8ac8ba 2589
c0c74acb 2590 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
e7ba176b
HS
2591 when a NMI is triggered.
2592 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2593
6cececfc 2594 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
fef2c9bc 2595 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
195daf66 2596 Valid num: 0 or 1
334bb79c
PK
2597 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2598 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
0cb55ad2 2599 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
fef2c9bc 2600 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
334bb79c
PK
2601 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2602 please see 'nowatchdog'.
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RD
2603 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2604 need the box quickly up again.
1da177e4 2605
d22881dc
SW
2606 These settings can be accessed at runtime via
2607 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
2608
bff38771
AV
2609 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2610 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2611 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2612 waits 4 seconds.
2613
cd4f0ef7 2614 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
1da177e4
LT
2615 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2616 is present.
2617
372fddf7
KS
2618 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
2619 kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
2620
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RD
2621 no_console_suspend
2622 [HW] Never suspend the console
2623 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2624 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2625 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2626 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2627 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2628 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2629 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
134620f7
YZ
2630 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2631 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2632 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2633 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2634 turn on/off it dynamically.
0cb55ad2 2635
c1aee215
CL
2636 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2637 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2638 but will impact performance.
3395ee05 2639
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RD
2640 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2641
686140a1
VG
2642 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2643 (CPU alternatives feature).
2644
1da177e4
LT
2645 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2646 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2647
5091faa4
MG
2648 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2649
1da177e4
LT
2650 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2651 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2652
2653 nocache [ARM]
a9913044 2654
0cb55ad2
RD
2655 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2656
163ecdff
SN
2657 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2658
6902aa84
PM
2659 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2660
b2e0a54a 2661 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
8b2cb7a8 2662
1da177e4
LT
2663 noexec [IA-64]
2664
6cececfc 2665 noexec [X86]
f5a1b191 2666 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
1da177e4 2667 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
f5a1b191
JS
2668 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2669
52b6179a
PA
2670 nosmap [X86]
2671 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2672 even if it is supported by processor.
2673
de5397ad 2674 nosmep [X86]
52b6179a 2675 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
de5397ad
FY
2676 even if it is supported by processor.
2677
f5a1b191
JS
2678 noexec32 [X86-64]
2679 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2680 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2681 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2682 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2683 read implies executable mappings
1da177e4 2684
fab43ef4 2685 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
6902aa84 2686
cd4f0ef7 2687 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
4f886511
CE
2688 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2689 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
1da177e4 2690
0ddab1d2
TK
2691 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2692
52c48c51
SS
2693 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2694 Equivalent to smt=1.
2695
05736e4a 2696 [KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
506a66f3
TG
2697 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
2698 via the sysfs control file.
05736e4a 2699
da285121
DW
2700 nospectre_v2 [X86] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2
2701 (indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may
2702 allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent
2703 to spectre_v2=off.
2704
24f7fc83
KRW
2705 nospec_store_bypass_disable
2706 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
2707
0c752a93
SS
2708 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2709 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2710 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2711
b6f42a4a
FY
2712 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2713 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2714 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2715 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2716 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2717 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2718
2719 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2720 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2721 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2722 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2723 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2724 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2725 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2726
01a24d2b
PZ
2727 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2728 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2729 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
a9913044 2730
1f29fae2
SH
2731 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2732 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2733 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2734
1da177e4
LT
2735 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2736 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2737 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2738 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2739 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2740 real-time systems.
2741
a6e15a39
KC
2742 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2743
79bf2bb3
TG
2744 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2745 Valid arguments: on, off
2746 Default: on
2747
d94d1053 2748 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
2d13e6ca 2749 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
c5bfece2 2750 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
a831881b 2751 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
0453b435 2752 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
f99bcb2c
PM
2753 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
2754 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
2755 just as if they had also been called out in the
2756 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
a831881b 2757
eeee7853
PM
2758 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2759
cd4f0ef7 2760 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
1da177e4
LT
2761 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2762
6cececfc 2763 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
8542b200
ZA
2764 broken timer IRQ sources.
2765
1da177e4
LT
2766 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2767
2768 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2769 initial RAM disk.
2770
03ea8155
WH
2771 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2772 remapping.
d1423d56 2773 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
03ea8155 2774
1da177e4
LT
2775 nointroute [IA-64]
2776
d12a72b8
AL
2777 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2778
16290246 2779 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
0aa366f3 2780
9cf4c4fc
JK
2781 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2782
fd10cde9
GN
2783 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2784 fault handling.
2785
80e9a4f2
AM
2786 no-vmw-sched-clock
2787 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2788 clock and use the default one.
2789
6dddd7a7 2790 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
d910f5c1
GC
2791 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2792 behaviour
2793
cd4f0ef7 2794 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
1da177e4 2795
cd4f0ef7 2796 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
ad62ca2b 2797
1da177e4 2798 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
f15eea66 2799 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
1da177e4 2800
312f1f01
H
2801 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2802
13696e0a 2803 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
abe37e5a 2804
83d7384f
AS
2805 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2806 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2807
bda62633
DZ
2808 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2809 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2810 irq.
2811
02608bef
DY
2812 nomodule Disable module load
2813
016ddd9b
JK
2814 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2815 pagetables) support.
2816
0790c9aa
AL
2817 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
2818
0cb55ad2
RD
2819 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2820 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2821
cd4f0ef7 2822 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
b7fb4af0
JF
2823 with UP alternatives
2824
7a5091d5
PA
2825 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2826 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2827 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2828 available to user space applications.
49d859d7 2829
a9913044
RD
2830 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2831 space.
2832
1da177e4
LT
2833 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2834 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2835 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2836
2837 nosbagart [IA-64]
2838
cd4f0ef7 2839 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
4f886511 2840
61ec7567
LB
2841 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2842 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
1da177e4 2843
97842216
DJ
2844 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2845
1da177e4
LT
2846 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2847
cd4f0ef7 2848 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
1da177e4 2849
195daf66 2850 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
6dddd7a7 2851 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
58687acb 2852
1da177e4 2853 nowb [ARM]
a9913044 2854
2b2fd87a
WH
2855 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2856
f78cff48
FY
2857 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2858 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2859 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2860 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2861 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2862 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2863 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2864 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2865 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2866 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2867 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2868 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2869 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2870
6dddd7a7 2871 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
35b55ef2
NC
2872 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
2873 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
2874 without interruptions, before HW switches it.
2875 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
2876 parameter's value.
2877 Format: integer between 1 and 255
2878 Default: 255
2879
16290246 2880 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
a6c75b86
FY
2881 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2882 SAL PALO.
2883
2b633e3f
YL
2884 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2885 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
7c142bfe
BH
2886 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2887 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2888 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2889 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2890 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2891 hot plugging.
2b633e3f 2892
0cb55ad2
RD
2893 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2894
1a687c2e
MG
2895 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2896 Allowed values are enable and disable
2897
f0c0b2b8 2898 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
c9bff3ee 2899 'node', 'default' can be specified
f0c0b2b8
KH
2900 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2901 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2902
7c4be253
RD
2903 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2904 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2905 info.
2906
3ef0e1f8
AS
2907 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2908 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2909 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2910 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2911 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2912 interrupts *may* be lost!
2913
15ac7afe
TL
2914 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2915 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2916 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2917 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2918
1da177e4
LT
2919 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2920 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2921
7e4e0bd5
RR
2922 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2923 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2924 userland or if you want common events.
8d7ff4f2
RR
2925 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2926 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
7e4e0bd5
RR
2927 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2928 CPU specific event set.
159a80b2
RR
2929 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2930 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2931 for generic hr timer mode)
1dcdb5a9 2932
44a4dcf7
RD
2933 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2934 process, but there is a small probability of
2935 deadlocking the machine.
d404ab0a
OH
2936 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2937 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2938
48c96a36
JK
2939 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2940 Storage of the information about who allocated
2941 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2942 we can turn it on.
2943 on: enable the feature
2944
8823b1db
LA
2945 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2946 poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2947 off: turn off poisoning
2948 on: turn on poisoning
2949
44a4dcf7 2950 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4302fbc8
HD
2951 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2952 timeout = 0: wait forever
2953 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
1da177e4
LT
2954 Format: <timeout>
2955
9e3961a0
PB
2956 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
2957 on a WARN().
2958
f06e5153
MH
2959 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2960 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2961 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2962 succeeds in any situation.
2963 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2964 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2965 kernel more unstable.
2966
1da177e4
LT
2967 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2968 connected to, default is 0.
2969 Format: <parport#>
2970 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2971 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
a9913044
RD
2972 Format: <mode>
2973
2974 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2975 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2976 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2977 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2978 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2979 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2980 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2981 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2982 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2983 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2984 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2985 are specified on the command line, starting
2986 with parport0.
2987
2988 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2989 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2990 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2991 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2992 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2993 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
1da177e4
LT
2994 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2995
dd287796
AM
2996 pause_on_oops=
2997 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2998 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
2999 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3000
1da177e4
LT
3001 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
3002
3003 pcd. [PARIDE]
3004 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
31c00fc1 3005 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 3006
a9913044 3007 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
1cc0ca26 3008 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
6dddd7a7 3009 changes anything
c0115606 3010 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
cd4f0ef7 3011 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
a9913044
RD
3012 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3013 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
cd4f0ef7 3014 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
a9913044
RD
3015 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3016 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3017 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
afd8c084
BP
3018 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3019 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3020 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3021 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3022 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3023 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3024 bus number. The config space is then accessed
3025 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3026 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3027 on the configuration access mechanisms.
7f785763
RD
3028 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3029 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3030 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
32a2eea7
JG
3031 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3032 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
6cececfc 3033 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
61be6d66 3034 Configuration
12983077
AH
3035 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3036 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3037 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
309e57df
MW
3038 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3039 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3040 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
a9322f64
SA
3041 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3042 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3043 should never be necessary.
9197979b
SA
3044 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3045 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3046 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3047 when the system masks IRQs.
41b9eb26
SA
3048 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3049 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3050 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3051 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
cd4f0ef7 3052 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
a9913044
RD
3053 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3054 on several machines and they hang the machine
3055 when used, but on other computers it's the only
3056 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3057 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3058 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3059 motherboard.
c0115606 3060 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
a9913044
RD
3061 Use with caution as certain devices share
3062 address decoders between ROMs and other
3063 resources.
c0115606 3064 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
bb71ad88
GH
3065 expansion ROMs that do not already have
3066 BIOS assigned address ranges.
7bd1c365
MH
3067 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
3068 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
c0115606 3069 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
a9913044
RD
3070 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3071 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3072 this way.
c0115606 3073 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
a9913044
RD
3074 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3075 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3076 F0000h-100000h range.
c0115606 3077 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
a9913044
RD
3078 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3079 secondary buses and you want to tell it
3080 explicitly which ones they are.
c0115606 3081 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
a9913044
RD
3082 numbers ourselves, overriding
3083 whatever the firmware may have done.
c0115606 3084 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
a9913044
RD
3085 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3086 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3087 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3088 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3089 IRQ routing is enabled.
c0115606 3090 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 3091 or for PCI scanning.
7bc5e3f2
BH
3092 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3093 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3094 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
3095 please report a bug.
3096 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
6dddd7a7 3097 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
a9913044
RD
3098 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3099 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3100 so this option is a temporary workaround
3101 for broken drivers that don't call it.
13a6ddb0
YL
3102 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3103 handle more pci cards
0637a70a
AK
3104 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3105 This might help on some broken boards which
3106 machine check when some devices' config space
3107 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3108 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
6b4b78fe
MD
3109 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3110 This sorting is done to get a device
3111 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3112 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
fa238712
YW
3113 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3114 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3115 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3116 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3117 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3118 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3119 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3120 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3121 or bus can support) for best performance.
3122 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3123 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3124 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3125 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3126 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3127 that hot-added devices will work.
4516a618
AN
3128 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3129 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3130 The default value is 256 bytes.
3131 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3132 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3133 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
32a9a682
YS
3134 resource_alignment=
3135 Format:
3136 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
644a544f
KMEE
3137 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
3138 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
32a9a682
YS
3139 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3140 aligned memory resources.
3141 If <order of align> is not specified,
3142 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3143 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3144 windows need to be expanded.
8b078c60
MK
3145 To specify the alignment for several
3146 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3147 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3148 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
43c16408
AP
3149 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3150 end-to-end CRC checking).
3151 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3152 the default.
3153 off: Turn ECRC off
3154 on: Turn ECRC on.
8c8803c5
YW
3155 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3156 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3157 Default size is 256 bytes.
3158 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3159 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3160 Default size is 2 megabytes.
e16b4660
KB
3161 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3162 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3163 Default is 1.
b55438fd
YL
3164 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3165 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3166 accommodate resources required by all child
3167 devices.
3168 off: Turn realloc off
3169 on: Turn realloc on
3170 realloc same as realloc=on
6748dcc2 3171 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
cef74409
GK
3172 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3173 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
284f5f9d
BH
3174 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3175 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3176 port.
f32ab754
UCCB
3177 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3178 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3179 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3180 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3181 conflict with unreported devices), so this
3182 taints the kernel.
6b4b78fe 3183
e5665a45
CE
3184 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3185 Management.
3186 off Disable ASPM.
3187 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3188 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3189
4c0fd764
BH
3190 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3191 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3192 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3193 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform
3194 also tries to use these services.
3195 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3196 hotplug).
79dd9182 3197
9d26d3a8
MW
3198 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3199 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3200 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3201
c7f48656 3202 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
c39fae14 3203 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
28eb5f27 3204 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
c7f48656 3205
1da177e4
LT
3206 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3207
39ac5ba5
TB
3208 pd_ignore_unused
3209 [PM]
3210 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3211 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3212 for debug and development, but should not be
3213 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3214
1da177e4 3215 pd. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3216 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3217
3218 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3219 boot time.
3220 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3221 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3222
f58dc01b 3223 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
e933a73f
TH
3224 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3225 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3226 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3227 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3228 and performance comparison.
fa8a7094 3229
1da177e4 3230 pf. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3231 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3232
3233 pg. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3234 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3235
3236 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
71cced6e 3237 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3238
3239 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3240 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3ba9b1b8 3241 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
1da177e4 3242
16290246 3243 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
de32a243
TG
3244 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3245 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3246
96242116
BH
3247 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3248 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3249 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3250 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3251 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3252 possible settings and some assignment information.
97ef062b 3253
1da177e4
LT
3254 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3255 { off }
3256
3257 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3258 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3259
3260 pnp_reserve_irq=
3261 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3262
3263 pnp_reserve_dma=
3264 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3265
3266 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
a9913044 3267 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
1da177e4
LT
3268
3269 pnp_reserve_mem=
a9913044
RD
3270 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3271 autoconfiguration.
1da177e4
LT
3272 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3273
4af94f39
RD
3274 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3275 Default is 21.
3276 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3277 may be specified.
3278 Format: <port>,<port>....
3279
c3cbd075
BS
3280 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3281 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3282 platform machine description specific power_save
3283 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3284 execution priority.
3285
3eb5d588
AB
3286 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3287 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3288 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3289 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3290 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3291
07fd1761
CB
3292 ppc_tm= [PPC]
3293 Format: {"off"}
3294 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3295
45807a1d
IM
3296 print-fatal-signals=
3297 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
f84d49b2
NO
3298
3299 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3300 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3301 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3302 coredump - etc.
3303
3304 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3305 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3306
45807a1d
IM
3307 default: off.
3308
c22ab332
MG
3309 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3310 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3311 panics
3312 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3313 default: disabled
3314
750afe7b
BP
3315 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3316 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3317 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3318 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3319 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3320 Default: ratelimit
3321
e84845c4
RD
3322 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3323 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3324
0cb55ad2
RD
3325 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3326 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3327 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3328
3329 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3330 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3331 instead using the legacy FADT method
3332
1da177e4 3333 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
e7e61fc0
RD
3334 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3335 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3336 [defaults to kernel profiling]
a9913044 3337 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
b3da2a73
MG
3338 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3339 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
c0fe2e69 3340 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
e7e61fc0
RD
3341 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3342 statistical time based profiling.
1da177e4 3343
1da177e4
LT
3344 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3345 before loading.
31c00fc1 3346 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 3347
a9913044
RD
3348 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3349 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
1da177e4
LT
3350 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3351 per second.
a9913044
RD
3352 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3353 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
1da177e4
LT
3354 (0 = never).
3355 psmouse.resolution=
3356 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3357 psmouse.smartscroll=
a9913044 3358 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
1da177e4
LT
3359 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3360
dee28e72
MG
3361 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3362
1da177e4 3363 pt. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3364 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 3365
01c9b17b
DH
3366 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3367 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
3368 removes hardening, but improves performance of
3369 system calls and interrupts.
3370
3371 on - unconditionally enable
3372 off - unconditionally disable
3373 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3374 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3375
3376 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3377
3378 nopti [X86_64]
3379 Equivalent to pti=off
41f4c20b 3380
dc8c8587
KS
3381 pty.legacy_count=
3382 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3383 default number.
3384
7d2c502f 3385 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
a9913044 3386
1da177e4
LT
3387 r128= [HW,DRM]
3388
3389 raid= [HW,RAID]
e52347bd 3390 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
1da177e4 3391
1da177e4 3392 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
31c00fc1 3393 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 3394
011d8261
BP
3395 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
3396
3397 cec_disable [X86]
3398 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3399 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3400
4102adab 3401 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
2d13e6ca
NC
3402 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3403
3fbfbf7a
PM
3404 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3405 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3406 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
a4889858
PM
3407 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3408 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3409 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3410 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
3fbfbf7a
PM
3411 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3412 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3413 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3414
4102adab 3415 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
3fbfbf7a
PM
3416 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3417 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3418 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3419 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3420 This improves the real-time response for the
3421 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3422 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3423 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3424 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3425
4102adab 3426 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
3427 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3428 process in one batch.
21a1ea9e 3429
a3dc2948
PM
3430 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3431 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3432 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3433 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3434
0f41c0dd
PM
3435 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3436 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 3437 RCU grace-period cleanup.
0f41c0dd 3438
37745d28
PM
3439 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3440 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 3441 RCU grace-period initialization.
0f41c0dd
PM
3442
3443 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3444 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3445 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3446 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
90040c9e 3447 the rcu_node combining tree.
37745d28 3448
7fa27001
PM
3449 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3450 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3451 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3452 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3453 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
37745d28 3454
4102adab 3455 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
ee968ac6
PM
3456 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3457 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3458 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3459 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3460 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3461 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
f885b7f2 3462
4a81e832
PM
3463 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3464 Set required age in jiffies for a
3465 given grace period before RCU starts
3466 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3467 rcu_note_context_switch().
3468
4102adab 3469 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3470 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3471 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3472 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3473 and maximum value is HZ.
3474
4102adab 3475 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3476 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3477 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3478 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3479
21871d7e 3480 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
d2af1ad7
PM
3481 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3482 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3483 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3484 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3485 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3486 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3487 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3488 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3489 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
21871d7e 3490
fbce7497
PM
3491 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3492 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3493 defaults to the square root of the number of
3494 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3495 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3496 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3497
4102adab 3498 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
3499 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3500 batch limiting is disabled.
21a1ea9e 3501
4102adab 3502 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
24aaef8d
RD
3503 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3504 batch limiting is re-enabled.
21a1ea9e 3505
4102adab 3506 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3507 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3508 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
d40011f6 3509
4102adab 3510 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3511 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3512 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3513 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3514 prove do nothing more than free memory.
d40011f6 3515
e3c50dfb
PM
3516 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3517 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3518 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3519 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3520 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3521 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3522
881ed593
PM
3523 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3524 Measure performance of asynchronous
3525 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3526
3527 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3528 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3529 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
3530 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3531 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3532 previously posted callbacks to drain.
3533
bdea9e34
PM
3534 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3535 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3536 grace-period primitives.
3537
df37e66b
PM
3538 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3539 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3540 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3541 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3542 interference.
3543
bdea9e34
PM
3544 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3545 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3546 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3547 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3548 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3549 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3550 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3551 a single reader.
3552
3553 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3554 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3555 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3556 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3557
820687a7
PM
3558 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3559 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3560
bdea9e34
PM
3561 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3562 Shut the system down after performance tests
3563 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3564 testing.
3565
bdea9e34
PM
3566 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3567 Enable additional printk() statements.
3568
820687a7
PM
3569 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3570 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3571 in microseconds. The default of zero says
3572 no holdoff.
3573
38706bc5
PM
3574 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3575 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3576 callback-flood tests.
3577
3578 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3579 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3580 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3581 test.
3582
3583 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3584 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3585 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3586 disable callback-flood testing.
3587
3588 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3589 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3590 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3591
4102adab 3592 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3593 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3594 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3595
4102adab 3596 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3597 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3598 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3599
4102adab 3600 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3601 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3602 in seconds.
3603
3604 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3605 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3606 primitives, if available.
dabb8aa9 3607
4102adab 3608 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
21b05de4 3609 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4102adab
PM
3610
3611 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3612 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3613 update-side primitives, if available.
3614
3615 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3616 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3617 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3618 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3619 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3620 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3621 they are all non-zero.
dabb8aa9 3622
4102adab 3623 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3624 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3625
4102adab 3626 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3627 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3628 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3629 test, hence the "fake".
3630
4102adab 3631 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3838cc18
PM
3632 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3633 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3634 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3635 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3636 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
dabb8aa9 3637
4102adab
PM
3638 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3639 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3640
3641 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3642 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3643
4102adab 3644 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3645 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3646 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3647
4102adab 3648 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3649 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3650 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3651 during the rcutorture test.
3652
4102adab 3653 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3654 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3655 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3656
4102adab 3657 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3658 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3659 warnings, zero to disable.
3660
4102adab 3661 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3662 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3663
2b1516e5
PM
3664 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
3665 Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
3666
4102adab 3667 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3668 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3669
4102adab 3670 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3671 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3672 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3673 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3674 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3675
4102adab 3676 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3677 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3678 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3679 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3680
4102adab 3681 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3682 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3683
4102adab 3684 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3685 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3686
4102adab 3687 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3688 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3689 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3690
4102adab 3691 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3692 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3693
4102adab 3694 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3695 Enable additional printk() statements.
3696
5a9be7c6
PM
3697 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3698 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3699
3700 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3701 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3702
4102adab
PM
3703 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3704 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3705 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3706 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3707 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3708 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
79cfea02 3709 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 3710
5a9be7c6
PM
3711 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3712 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3713 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3714 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
79cfea02
PM
3715 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3716 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3717 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3718 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3719 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 3720
3e42ec1a
PM
3721 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3722 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3723 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
79cfea02
PM
3724 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3725 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3e42ec1a 3726
52db30ab
PM
3727 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3728 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3729 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3730 to zero.
3731
74860fee
PK
3732 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3733 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3734
3735 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3736 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3737
3738 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3739 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3740
ffdfc409
OJ
3741 rdinit= [KNL]
3742 Format: <full_path>
3743 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3744 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3745
1d9807fc
TL
3746 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
3747 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
31516de3
FY
3748 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
3749 mba.
1d9807fc
TL
3750 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
3751 rdt=cmt,!mba
3752
1b3a5d02
RH
3753 reboot= [KNL]
3754 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3755 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3756 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3757 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3758 [[,]f[orce]
3759 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3760 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3761 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3762 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3763 to be used for rebooting.
1da177e4 3764
46b6d94e
PJ
3765 relax_domain_level=
3766 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
09c3bcce 3767 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
46b6d94e 3768
ffd2e8df
BH
3769 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
3770 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
3771 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
3772 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
3773 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
1da177e4 3774
cd4f0ef7 3775 reservetop= [X86-32]
461a9aff
ZA
3776 Format: nn[KMG]
3777 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3778 address space.
3779
9ea77bdb
PA
3780 reservelow= [X86]
3781 Format: nn[K]
3782 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3783 the bottom of the address space.
3784
7e96287d
VG
3785 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3786 during initialization.
3787
a9913044
RD
3788 resume= [SWSUSP]
3789 Specify the partition device for software suspend
2df83fa4
MB
3790 Format:
3791 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
1da177e4 3792
ecbd0da1
RW
3793 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3794 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3795 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3796 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3797 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3798
f126f733
BS
3799 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3800 read the resume files
3801
6f8d7022
BS
3802 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3803 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3804 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3805
f996fc96
BS
3806 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3807 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3808 present during boot.
3809 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
a6e15a39 3810 no Disable hibernation and resume.
4c0b6c10
RW
3811 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
3812 (that will set all pages holding image data
3813 during restoration read-only).
f996fc96 3814
0a7b35cb
MN
3815 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3816
0efbb786
AC
3817 rfkill.default_state=
3818 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3819 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3820 1 Unblocked.
3821
3822 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3823 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3824 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3825 blocked and the previous configuration.
3826 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3827 blocked and everything unblocked.
3828
1da177e4
LT
3829 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3830 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3831
e16fd002
GA
3832 ring3mwait=disable
3833 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
3834 CPUs.
3835
1da177e4
LT
3836 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3837
d2aa1aca
KC
3838 rodata= [KNL]
3839 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3840 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3841
605df8af
HS
3842 rockchip.usb_uart
3843 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3844 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3845 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3846 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3847
1da177e4 3848 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
f2d34fd9 3849 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
1da177e4
LT
3850
3851 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3852 mount the root filesystem
3853
3854 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3855
3856 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3857
cc1ed754
PO
3858 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3859 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3860 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3861
5c71d618
RT
3862 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3863 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3864 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3865 managed by CMA.
3866
1da177e4
LT
3867 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3868
3869 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3870
c60d1ae4
GS
3871 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3872 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3873 strict
3874 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3875 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3876 which is faster.
3877
1da177e4
LT
3878 sa1100ir [NET]
3879 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3880
1da177e4 3881 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
a9913044 3882
f6630114
MT
3883 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3884
cb251765
MG
3885 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3886 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3887 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3888 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
f6630114 3889
5307c955
MG
3890 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3891 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3892 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3893 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3894 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3895 1 -- enable.
3896 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3897 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3898
0cb55ad2
RD
3899 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3900 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3901 security module asking for security registration will be
3902 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3903 as if no module has been chosen.
3904
3905 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
1da177e4
LT
3906 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3907 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3908 0 -- disable.
3909 1 -- enable.
3910 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3911 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3912 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3913
c1c124e9
JJ
3914 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3915 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3916 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3917 0 -- disable.
3918 1 -- enable.
3919 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3920
cd4f0ef7 3921 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
1da177e4 3922
1da177e4
LT
3923 shapers= [NET]
3924 Maximal number of shapers.
a9913044 3925
1da177e4
LT
3926 simeth= [IA-64]
3927 simscsi=
a9913044 3928
1da177e4
LT
3929 slram= [HW,MTD]
3930
423c929c
JK
3931 slab_nomerge [MM]
3932 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3933 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
7660a6fd
KC
3934 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
3935 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
3936 layout control by attackers can usually be
3937 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
3938 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
3939 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
3940 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
3941 own.
ad56b738 3942 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
423c929c 3943
3df1cccd
DR
3944 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3945 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3946 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3947 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3948 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3949
f0630fff
CL
3950 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3951 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3952 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3953 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3954 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3955 last alloc / free. For more information see
ad56b738 3956 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215 3957
1663f26d
TH
3958 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
3959 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
3960 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
3961 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
3962 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
3963 directories and files being created under
3964 /sys/kernel/slub.
3965
c1aee215 3966 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
3967 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3968 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3969 fragmentation. For more information see
ad56b738 3970 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
3971
3972 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
3973 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3974 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3975 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3976 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3977 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3978 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
ad56b738 3979 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
3980
3981 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
24775d65 3982 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
f0630fff 3983 lower than slub_max_order.
ad56b738 3984 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
3985
3986 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
423c929c
JK
3987 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3988 See slab_nomerge for more information.
c1aee215 3989
1da177e4
LT
3990 smart2= [HW]
3991 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3992
d0d4f69b
BH
3993 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3994 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
3995 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
3996 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
3997 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
3998 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
3999 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
4000 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
4001 1: Fast pin select (default)
4002 2: ATC IRMode
4003
52c48c51
SS
4004 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4005 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4006 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4007 actual hardware limit.
4008 Format: <integer>
4009 Default: -1 (no limit)
4010
9c44bc03
IM
4011 softlockup_panic=
4012 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
44a4dcf7 4013 Format: <integer>
9c44bc03 4014
3ce62385
BP
4015 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
4016 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
4017 is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
4018 which is the respective build-time switch to that
4019 functionality.
4020
ed235875
AT
4021 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4022 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4023 backtraces on all cpus.
4024 Format: <integer>
4025
1da177e4 4026 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
395cf969 4027 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
1da177e4 4028
da285121
DW
4029 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4030 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
4031
4032 on - unconditionally enable
4033 off - unconditionally disable
4034 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4035 vulnerable
4036
4037 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4038 mitigation method at run time according to the
4039 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4040 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4041 compiler with which the kernel was built.
4042
4043 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4044
4045 retpoline - replace indirect branches
4046 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4047 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4048
4049 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4050 spectre_v2=auto.
4051
24f7fc83
KRW
4052 spec_store_bypass_disable=
4053 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
4054 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
4055
4056 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
4057 a common industry wide performance optimization known
4058 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
4059 to the same memory location may not be observed by
4060 later loads during speculative execution. The idea
4061 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
4062 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
4063 end of a particular speculation execution window.
4064
4065 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4066 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
4067 example to read memory to which the attacker does not
4068 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
4069
4070 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
4071 Bypass optimization is used.
4072
f21b53b2
KC
4073 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
4074 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
4075 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
4076 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
4077 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
4078 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
4079 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
4080 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
4081 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
4082 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
4083 for a process by default. The state of the control
4084 is inherited on fork.
4085 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
4086 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
24f7fc83
KRW
4087
4088 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4089 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
4090
f21b53b2
KC
4091 Default mitigations:
4092 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4093
1da177e4
LT
4094 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
4095 spia_fio_base=
4096 spia_pedr=
4097 spia_peddr=
4098
c350c008
PM
4099 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4100 Specifies how frequently to check for
4101 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4102 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4103 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4104 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4105 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
4106 are ignored.
4107
22607d66
PM
4108 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4109 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4110 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4111 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4112 grace period will be considered for automatic
4113 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
4114 expediting.
4115
a43ae4df
MZ
4116 ssbd= [ARM64,HW]
4117 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
4118
4119 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
4120 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
4121 firmware based mitigation, this parameter
4122 indicates how the mitigation should be used:
4123
4124 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for
4125 for both kernel and userspace
4126 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
4127 for both kernel and userspace
4128 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the
4129 kernel, and offer a prctl interface
4130 to allow userspace to register its
4131 interest in being mitigated too.
4132
1be7107f
HD
4133 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
4134 override the default stack gap protection. The value
4135 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4136 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4137 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4138 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4139
f38f1d2a
SR
4140 stacktrace [FTRACE]
4141 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4142
762e1207
SR
4143 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4144 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4145 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4146 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4147 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4148 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4149 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4150
1da177e4
LT
4151 sti= [PARISC,HW]
4152 Format: <num>
4153 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4154 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4155 as the initial boot-console.
4156 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4157
4158 sti_font= [HW]
4159 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4160
4161 stifb= [HW]
4162 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4163
cbf11071
TM
4164 sunrpc.min_resvport=
4165 sunrpc.max_resvport=
4166 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4167 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4168 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4169 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4170 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4171 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4172 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4173 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4174 maximum port values.
4175
ff3ac5c3
TM
4176 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4177 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4178 Limit the number of requests that the server will
4179 process in parallel from a single connection.
4180 The default value is 0 (no limit).
4181
42a7fc4a
GB
4182 sunrpc.pool_mode=
4183 [NFS]
4184 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4185 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
4186 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4187 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4188 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4189 NFS server is running.
4190
4191 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
4192 automatically using heuristics
4193 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
4194 percpu one pool for each CPU
4195 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4196 to global on non-NUMA machines)
4197
cbf11071
TM
4198 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4199 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4200 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4201 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4202 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4203 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4204 improve throughput, but will also increase the
4205 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4206
1d4a9c17
BN
4207 suspend.pm_test_delay=
4208 [SUSPEND]
4209 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4210 mode before resuming the system (see
4211 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4212 is set. Default value is 5.
4213
07555ac1 4214 swapaccount=[0|1]
a42c390c
MH
4215 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4216 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
09c3bcce 4217 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
a42c390c 4218
91fec0f5 4219 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
fff5d992 4220 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
91fec0f5
JK
4221 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4222 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4223 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
fff5d992 4224 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
a9913044 4225
1da177e4
LT
4226 switches= [HW,M68k]
4227
e52eec13
AK
4228 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4229 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4230 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4231 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4232 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4233 in older udev will not work anymore.
4234 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4235 the kernel configuration.
4236
5d6f647f
IM
4237 sysrq_always_enabled
4238 [KNL]
4239 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4240 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4241 Useful for debugging.
4242
747029a5
FF
4243 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4244 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4245 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4246 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4247 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4248 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4249
1da177e4
LT
4250 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
4251
acc82342 4252 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
77437fd4 4253 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
acc82342
SP
4254 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4255 as the system sleep state during system startup with
4256 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4257 The system is woken from this state using a
4258 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
77437fd4 4259
1da177e4
LT
4260 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4261 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4262
f8707ec9
LB
4263 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
4264 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4265 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4266
c52a7419
LB
4267 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
4268 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
22a94d79 4269 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
c52a7419 4270
f5487145
LB
4271 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
4272 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4273 critical and hot trip points.
4274
72b33ef8
LB
4275 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
4276 1: disable ACPI thermal control
4277
a70cdc52
LB
4278 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
4279 -1: disable all passive trip points
ada9cfdd
RD
4280 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4281 value
a70cdc52 4282
730ff34d
LB
4283 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
4284 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4285 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4286 0: no polling (default)
4287
8d32a307
TG
4288 threadirqs [KNL]
4289 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
24775d65 4290 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
8d32a307 4291
2ca62b04
KRW
4292 tmem [KNL,XEN]
4293 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4294
4295 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4296 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4297 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4298
4299 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4300 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
37d46e15
KRW
4301 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4302 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
2ca62b04
KRW
4303
4304 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4305 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4306 to the hypervisor.
4307
4308 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4309 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4310 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4311 kernel based on different criteria.
4312
2b1a61f0
HC
4313 topology= [S390]
4314 Format: {off | on}
4315 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
f65e51d7
SL
4316 topology information if the hardware supports this.
4317 The scheduler will make use of this information and
2b1a61f0 4318 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
c9af3fa9 4319 Default is on.
2b1a61f0 4320
2d73bae1
NA
4321 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4322 Format: {off}
4323 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4324 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4325 LPAR.
4326
1da177e4
LT
4327 tp720= [HW,PS2]
4328
225a9be2
RA
4329 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4330 Format: integer pcr id
4331 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4332 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4333 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4334 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4335 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4336 are saved.
4337
9d612bef 4338 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
3e6fb8e9 4339 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
631595fb 4340
020e5f85
LZ
4341 trace_event=[event-list]
4342 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
d81749ea
BN
4343 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4344 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
5fb94e9c 4345 also Documentation/trace/events.rst
020e5f85 4346
7bcfaf54
SR
4347 trace_options=[option-list]
4348 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4349 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4350 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4351 to echo the option name into
4352
4353 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4354
4355 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4356 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4357
4358 trace_options=stacktrace
4359
5fb94e9c 4360 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
7bcfaf54
SR
4361 section.
4362
0daa2302
SRRH
4363 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4364 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4365 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4366 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4367 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4368 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4369
4370 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4371 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4372 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4373 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4374
4375 ** CAUTION **
4376
4377 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4378 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4379 the system to live lock.
4380
de7edd31
SRRH
4381 traceoff_on_warning
4382 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4383 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4384 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4385 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4386
4387 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4388 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4389 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4390
4391 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4392 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4393
fcf4d821
JK
4394 transparent_hugepage=
4395 [KNL]
4396 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4397 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4398 with respect to transparent hugepages.
45c9a74f
MR
4399 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
4400 for more details.
fcf4d821 4401
d3b8f889 4402 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
395628ef
AK
4403 Format: <string>
4404 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
d3b8f889
JS
4405 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4406 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4407 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4408 virtualized environment.
e82b8e4e
VP
4409 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4410 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4411 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4412 can add overhead.
6be53520
DL
4413 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4414 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4415 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
395628ef 4416
a9913044
RD
4417 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4418 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4419 Format:
4420 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
1752118d 4421 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4 4422
b6935f8c 4423 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
e52347bd 4424 happen after console_init() and before a proper
b6935f8c
CK
4425 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4426 help "seeing" what's going on.
4427
f86dcc5a
ED
4428 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4429 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4430
5f8364b7
AS
4431 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4432 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4433 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4434 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4435 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4436 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4437 reported either.
4438
e3a61b0a 4439 unknown_nmi_panic
44a4dcf7 4440 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
e3a61b0a 4441
c4fc2342
CDH
4442 usbcore.authorized_default=
4443 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4444 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4445 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4446
b5e795f8
AS
4447 usbcore.autosuspend=
4448 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4449 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4450 is the time required before an idle device will be
4451 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
eaafbc3a 4452 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
b5e795f8 4453
fd7c519d
JK
4454 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4455 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4456
0290cc9f
AS
4457 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4458 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4459 (default = 65536).
4460
fd7c519d
JK
4461 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4462 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4463
4464 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4465 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
4466 scheme (default 0 = off).
4467
3f5eb8d5
AS
4468 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4469 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4470 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4471
fd7c519d
JK
4472 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4473 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4474 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4475
4476 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4477 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
6dddd7a7 4478 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
fd7c519d
JK
4479 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4480
40d58148
ON
4481 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4482
027bd6ca
KHF
4483 usbcore.quirks=
4484 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
4485 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
4486 commas. Each entry has the form
4487 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
4488 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
4489 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
4490 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
4491 the following meanings:
4492 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
4493 descriptors must not be fetched using
4494 a 255-byte read);
4495 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
4496 correctly so reset it instead);
4497 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
4498 Set-Interface requests);
4499 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
4500 handle its Configuration or Interface
4501 strings);
4502 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
4503 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
4504 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
4505 more interface descriptions than the
4506 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
4507 talking to these interfaces);
4508 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
4509 during initialization, after we read
4510 the device descriptor);
4511 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
4512 high speed and super speed interrupt
4513 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
4514 require the interval in microframes (1
4515 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
4516 calculated as interval = 2 ^
4517 (bInterval-1).
4518 Devices with this quirk report their
4519 bInterval as the result of this
4520 calculation instead of the exponent
4521 variable used in the calculation);
4522 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
4523 handle device_qualifier descriptor
4524 requests);
4525 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
4526 generates spurious wakeup, ignore
4527 remote wakeup capability);
4528 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
4529 Power Management);
4530 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
4531 (Device reports its bInterval as linear
4532 frames instead of the USB 2.0
4533 calculation);
4534 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
4535 to be disconnected before suspend to
4d8d5a39
KHF
4536 prevent spurious wakeup);
4537 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
4538 pause after every control message);
027bd6ca
KHF
4539 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
4540
1da177e4
LT
4541 usbhid.mousepoll=
4542 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
a9913044 4543
933bfe4d
TJ
4544 usbhid.jspoll=
4545 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4546
2ddc8e2d
FA
4547 usbhid.kbpoll=
4548 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
4549
d4f373e5
AS
4550 usb-storage.delay_use=
4551 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
19101954 4552 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
d4f373e5
AS
4553
4554 usb-storage.quirks=
4555 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4556 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4557 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4558 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4559 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4560 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4561 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
c838ea46
AS
4562 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4563 of sense data);
a0bb1081
AS
4564 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4565 bytes of sense data);
d4f373e5
AS
4566 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4567 device capacity by one sector);
5116901d
KR
4568 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4569 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4570 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4571 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
734016b0
HG
4572 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4573 command, uas only);
ee136af4
HG
4574 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4575 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
c838ea46
AS
4576 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4577 reported device capacity by one
4578 sector if the number is odd);
d4f373e5
AS
4579 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4580 device);
13630746
HG
4581 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4582 command, uas only);
d4f373e5
AS
4583 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4584 unlock ejectable media);
4585 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4586 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
21c13a4f
AS
4587 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4588 initial READ(10) command);
c838ea46
AS
4589 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4590 reported by the device);
eaa05dfc
NJ
4591 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4592 by default);
d4f373e5
AS
4593 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4594 bogus residue values);
4595 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4596 Logical Unit);
59307852
HG
4597 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4598 commands, uas only);
b6089f19 4599 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
d4f373e5
AS
4600 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4601 medium is write-protected).
050bc4e8
ON
4602 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4603 even if the device claims no cache)
d4f373e5
AS
4604 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4605
ac1667db
SB
4606 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4607 Format: <int>
4608 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4609 1 - undefined instruction events
4610 2 - system calls
4611 4 - invalid data aborts
4612 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4613 16 - SIGBUS faults
4614 Example: user_debug=31
4615
14315592
IC
4616 userpte=
4617 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4618
4619 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4620 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4621 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4622
6cececfc 4623 vdso= [X86,SH]
b0b49f26
AL
4624 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4625
4626 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
e6e5494c
IM
4627 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4628
b0b49f26
AL
4629 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4630 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4631 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4632
4633 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4634 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4635 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4636
4637 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4638 alias for vdso32=0.
4639
4640 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4641 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
af65d648 4642
d080d397
YI
4643 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4644 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4645
1da177e4
LT
4646 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4647 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4648
3afe6dab
AL
4649 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4650 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4651 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4652 level and then send out the event to user space through
4653 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4654 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4655 brightness level.
2843768b 4656 default: 1
3afe6dab 4657
81a054ce
PM
4658 virtio_mmio.device=
4659 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4660
4661 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4662 where:
4663 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4664 like K, M and G)
4665 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4666 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4667 request_irq())
4668 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4669 example:
4670 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4671
4672 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4673
cd4f0ef7 4674 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
954a8b81 4675 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
a9913044 4676 Documentation/svga.txt.
1da177e4
LT
4677 Use vga=ask for menu.
4678 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4679 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4680
a9913044 4681 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
1da177e4
LT
4682 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4683 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4684 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4685 mapped kernel RAM.
4686
3f429842
HC
4687 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390]
4688 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
4689 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
4690
585c3047
PO
4691 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4692 Format: <command>
1da177e4 4693
585c3047
PO
4694 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4695 Format: <command>
4696
4697 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4698 Format: <command>
a9913044 4699
3ae36655
AL
4700 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4701 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4702 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4703 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4704 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4705 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4706 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4707
2e57ae05
AL
4708 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4709 emulated reasonably safely.
3ae36655 4710
2e57ae05 4711 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
3ae36655
AL
4712 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4713 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4714 better than they would in emulation mode.
4715 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4716
4717 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4718 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4719 might break your system.
4720
3855ae1c
CL
4721 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4722 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4723 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4724
9ea9a886
CL
4725 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4726 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4727 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4728 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4729
0cb55ad2
RD
4730 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4731 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4732 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4733 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4734 ranging from 0-255.
4735
4736 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4737 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4738 Change the default green palette of the console.
4739 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4740 ranging from 0-255.
4741
4742 vt.default_red= [VT]
4743 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4744 Change the default red palette of the console.
4745 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4746 ranging from 0-255.
4747
4748 vt.default_utf8=
4749 [VT]
4750 Format=<0|1>
4751 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4752 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4753 newly opened terminals.
4754
f6c06b68
MG
4755 vt.global_cursor_default=
4756 [VT]
4757 Format=<-1|0|1>
4758 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4759 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4760 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4761 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4762 cursors, 1 will display them.
4763
3855ae1c
CL
4764 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4765 Default: 2 = green.
4766
4767 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4768 Default: 3 = cyan.
4769
4724ba57
RD
4770 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4771 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4772 or other driver-specific files in the
4773 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
1da177e4 4774
82607adc
TH
4775 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4776 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4777 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4778 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4779 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4780 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4781 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4782 corresponding sysfs file.
4783
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4784 workqueue.disable_numa
4785 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4786 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4787 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4788 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4789 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4790 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4791 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4792
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4793 workqueue.power_efficient
4794 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4795 they show better performance thanks to cache
4796 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4797 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4798
4799 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4800 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4801 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4802 power usage at the cost of small performance
4803 overhead.
4804
4805 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4806 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4807
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4808 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4809 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4810 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4811 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
4812 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4813 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
4814 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4815 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4816 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4817 impacted.
4818
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4819 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4820 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4821 supporting x2apic.
4822
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4823 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4824 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
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4825 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4826 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
712b6aa8 4827 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
bb24c471 4828
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4829 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4830 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4831 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4832 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4833 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4834 domains.
4835
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4836 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4837 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4838 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4839 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4840 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4841 nics -- unplug network devices
4842 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
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4843 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4844 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4845 the unplug protocol
c93a4dfb 4846 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
c1c5413a 4847
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4848 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4849 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4850 optimizations.
4851
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4852 xen_nopv [X86]
4853 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4854 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4855
1da177e4 4856 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
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4857 Format:
4858 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]