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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
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109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113 the GPE dispatcher.
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
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258 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
259 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
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
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391 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
392 Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
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393 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
394 until the next reboot
395 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
396 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
397 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
398 storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
399 RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
400 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
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475 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
476 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
1da177e4 477
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478 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
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
521 information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
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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
6cececfc 590 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
a25bd949 591 in an oops report.
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593 Default: 64
594
1da177e4 595 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
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596 Format:
597 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
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598
599 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
600 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
601
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602 com90xx= [HW,NET]
603 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
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604 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
605
606 condev= [HW,S390] console device
607 conmode=
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609 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
610
611 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
612
613 ttyS<n>[,options]
f1a1c2dc 614 ttyUSB0[,options]
1da177e4 615 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
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616 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
617 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
618 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
619 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
620
e52347bd 621 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
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622 information. See
623 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
624 alternative.
1da177e4 625
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626 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
627 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
bd94c407 628 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
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629 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
630 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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631 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
632 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
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633 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
634 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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635 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
636 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
637 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
638 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
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639 the h/w is not re-initialized.
640
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642 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
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644 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
645 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
646 console=brl,ttyS0
647 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
648
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650 [KNL] Change console messages format
651 default
652 By default we print messages on consoles in
653 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
654 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
655 `printk_time' param).
656 syslog
657 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
658 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
659 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
660 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
661 from /proc/kmsg.
662
f324edc8 663 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
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664 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
665 Defaults to 0.
f324edc8 666
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667 coredump_filter=
668 [KNL] Change the default value for
669 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
670 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
671
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672 coresight_cpu_debug.enable
673 [ARM,ARM64]
674 Format: <bool>
675 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
676 0: default value, disable debugging
677 1: enable debugging at boot time
678
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679 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
680 disable the cpuidle sub-system
681
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682 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
683 disable the cpufreq sub-system
684
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685 cpu_init_udelay=N
686 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
687 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
688 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
689 Default: 10000
690
1da177e4 691 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
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693 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
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695 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
696 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
697 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
698 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
699 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
700 is selected automatically. Check
701 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
dc009d92 702
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703 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
704 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
705 in the running system. The syntax of range is
706 start-[end] where start and end are both
707 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
6f21e646 708 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
fb391599 709
adbc742b 710 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
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711 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
712 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
713 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
714 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
715 available.
716 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
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717 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
718 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
719 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
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720 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
721 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
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722 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
723 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
724 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
725 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
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726 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
727 for second kernel instead.
728 0: to disable low allocation.
adbc742b 729 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
55a20ee7 730 or memory reserved is below 4G.
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732 cryptomgr.notests
733 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
734
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735 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
736 Format: <dma>
737
738 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
739 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
a9913044 740
a9913044 741 dasd= [HW,NET]
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742 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
743
744 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
745 (one device per port)
746 Format: <port#>,<type>
1752118d 747 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4 748
a648ec05 749 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
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750 time. See
751 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
29e36c9f 752 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
a648ec05 753
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754 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
755
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756 debug_locks_verbose=
757 [KNL] verbose self-tests
758 Format=<0|1>
759 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
760 self-tests.
761 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
762 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
763 only useful to kernel developers.
764
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765 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
766
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767 no_debug_objects
768 [KNL] Disable object debugging
769
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770 debug_guardpage_minorder=
771 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
772 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
773 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
774 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
775 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
776 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
777 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
778 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
779 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
780 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
781 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
782 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
783 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
784 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
785 bypassed) which are not detectable by
786 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
787 tracking down these problems.
788
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789 debug_pagealloc=
790 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
791 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
792 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
793 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
794 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
795 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
796 on: enable the feature
797
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798 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
799
2d27a966 800 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
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801 Format: <area>[,<node>]
802 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
803
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805 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
806 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
807 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
808 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
809 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
810 if not specified.
55ff9780 811
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813 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
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816 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
817 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
818 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
819 miss to occur.
820
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821 disable= [IPV6]
822 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
823
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824 disable_radix [PPC]
825 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
826
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827 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
828 Format: <int>
829 The number of initial APIC ID for the
830 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
831 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
832 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
833 causing system reset or hang due to sending
834 INIT from AP to BSP.
835
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836 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
837 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
838 to workaround buggy firmware.
839
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840 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
841 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
842
95ffa243 843 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
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844 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
845 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
0cb55ad2 846 entry later. This parameter disables that.
95ffa243 847
093af8d7 848 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
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849 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
850 memory out of your available memory pool based on
851 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
852 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
853
6cececfc 854 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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855 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
856 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
857
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858 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
859
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860 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
861 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
862
863 dma_debug_entries=<number>
864 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
865 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
866 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
867 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
868 architectural default is too low.
869
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870 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
871 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
872 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
873 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
874 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
875 driver later using sysfs.
876
53fd40a9 877 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
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878 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
879 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
880 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
881 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
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882 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
883 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
884 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
885 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
886 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
887 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
888 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
889 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
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890 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
891 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
892 data set with no connector name will be used for
893 any connectors not explicitly specified.
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895 dscc4.setup= [NET]
896
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897 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC]
898 Format: {"off" | "known"}
899 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
900 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
901 exists).
902 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
903 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
904 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
905
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906 dump_apple_properties [X86]
907 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
908 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
909 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
910
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911 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
912 module.dyndbg[="val"]
913 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
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914 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
915 for details.
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917 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
918 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
919 information about the feature.
920
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921 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
922 in some Intel CPUs.
923
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924 module.async_probe [KNL]
925 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
926
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927 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
928 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
929 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
930 which are not unmapped.
931
0cb55ad2 932 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
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934 [ARM64] The early console is determined by the
935 stdout-path property in device tree's chosen node,
936 or determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
937
938 [X86] When used with no options the early console is
939 determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
5664f764 940
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941 cdns,<addr>[,options]
942 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
943 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
944 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
945 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
946 configured.
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948 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
949 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1917ac76 950 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
6e63be3f 951 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
ca782f16 952 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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953 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
954 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
16290246 955 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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957 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
958 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
959 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
ca782f16 960 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
0cb55ad2 961
0d3c673e 962 pl011,<addr>
3b78fae7 963 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
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964 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
965 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
966 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
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967 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
968 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
969 the device registers.
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971 meson,<addr>
972 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
973 port at the specified address. The serial port must
974 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
975 supported.
976
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977 msm_serial,<addr>
978 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
979 port at the specified address. The serial port
980 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
981 yet supported.
982
983 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
984 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
985 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
986 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
987 yet supported.
988
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989 owl,<addr>
990 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
991 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
992 specified address. The serial port must already be
993 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
994
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995 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
996
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997 s3c2410,<addr>
998 s3c2412,<addr>
999 s3c2440,<addr>
1000 s3c6400,<addr>
1001 s5pv210,<addr>
1002 exynos4210,<addr>
1003 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1004 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1005 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1006 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1007 Options are not yet supported.
1008
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1010 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1011 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1012 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1013 yet supported.
1014
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1015 lpuart,<addr>
1016 lpuart32,<addr>
1017 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1018 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1019 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1020 port must already be setup and configured.
1021
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1023 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1024 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1025 address. The serial port must already be setup
1026 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1027
4ba66a97 1028 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1da177e4 1029 earlyprintk=vga
72548e83 1030 earlyprintk=efi
89175cf7 1031 earlyprintk=sclp
2482a92e 1032 earlyprintk=xen
1da177e4 1033 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
147ea091 1034 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
ea3acb19 1035 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
9780bc41 1036 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
c43088e3 1037 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1b5aeebf 1038 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
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1040 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1041 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1042 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1043
a9913044 1044 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
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1046
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1047 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1048 be used at a time.
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1050 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1051 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1052 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1053 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1054 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1055 You can find the port for a given device in
1056 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1057 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
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1058
1059 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1060 very good.
1061
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1062 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1063 the real console.
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1065 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1066
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1067 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1068
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1069 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1070 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1071 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1072 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1073 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1074 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1075 default: on.
1076
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1077 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1078 ekgdboc=kbd
1079
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1081 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1082
1da177e4 1083 edd= [EDD]
8c4dd606 1084 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1da177e4 1085
d2f7cbe7 1086 efi= [EFI]
fed6cefe 1087 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
d2f7cbe7
BP
1088 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1089 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1090 default.
5a17dae4
MF
1091 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1092 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1093 firmware implementations.
5ae3683c 1094 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
fed6cefe 1095 debug: enable misc debug output
d2f7cbe7 1096
8c58bf3e
RW
1097 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1098 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1099 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1100 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1101 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1102
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TI
1103 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1104 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1105 updating original EFI memory map.
1106 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1107 from ss to ss+nn.
1108 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1109 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1110 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1111 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1112
1113 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1114 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1115 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1116 doesn't support it.
1117
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OP
1118 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1119 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1120 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1121 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1122 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1123
1124
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LT
1125 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1126 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1127
cd4f0ef7 1128 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1da177e4 1129 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
71f77055 1130 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1da177e4
LT
1131
1132 elevator= [IOSCHED]
17a9e7bb 1133 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
395cf969 1134 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
a9913044
RD
1135 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1136
d3bf3795 1137 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
a9913044 1138 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
d3bf3795
MH
1139 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1140 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
aac04b32 1141 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
1da177e4 1142
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RD
1143 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1144 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1145 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1146 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1147
ca1eda2d 1148 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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RD
1149 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1150 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1151 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1152 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1153
1da177e4
LT
1154 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1155 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1156 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1157 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1158 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1159 Default value is 0.
1160 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1161
a08f82d0
HY
1162 erst_disable [ACPI]
1163 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1164 support.
1165
1da177e4
LT
1166 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1167 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1168 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1169
7102ebcd
MZ
1170 evm= [EVM]
1171 Format: { "fix" }
1172 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1173 current integrity status.
1174
de1ba09b
AM
1175 failslab=
1176 fail_page_alloc=
1177 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1178 General fault injection mechanism.
1179 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
395cf969 1180 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
de1ba09b 1181
1da177e4 1182 floppy= [HW]
31c00fc1 1183 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1da177e4 1184
f13ae30e
AC
1185 force_pal_cache_flush
1186 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1187 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1188 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1189 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1190
69f2366c
CB
1191 forcepae [X86-32]
1192 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1193 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1194 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1195 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1196 and may cause unknown problems.
1197
d9e54076 1198 ftrace=[tracer]
2af15d6a 1199 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
d9e54076
PZ
1200 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1201 boot debugging.
1202
cecbca96 1203 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
2af15d6a 1204 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
cecbca96
FW
1205 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1206 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1207 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1208 oops.
2af15d6a
SR
1209
1210 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1211 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1212 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1213 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1214 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
16290246 1215 tracing directory.
2af15d6a
SR
1216
1217 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1218 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1219 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1220 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1221 tracing directory.
d9e54076 1222
369bc18f
SA
1223 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1224 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1225 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1226 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1227 that can be changed at run time by the
1228 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1229
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NK
1230 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1231 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1232 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1233 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1234 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1235
65a50c65
TB
1236 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1237 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1238 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1239 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1240 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1241
1da177e4
LT
1242 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1243 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1244 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1245 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1752118d 1246 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4
LT
1247
1248 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1249
aaf23042
YL
1250 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1251 Format: off | on
1252 default: on
1253
2521f2c2
PO
1254 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1255 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1256 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1257 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1258 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1259
47512cfd
TG
1260 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1261 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1262 android emulator
1263
1da177e4 1264 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
6c5de79b
DB
1265 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1266 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1267 GPT to be used instead.
1da177e4 1268
6cec9b07
AL
1269 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1270 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1271 Format: 0 | 1
1272 Default: 0
1273 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1274 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1275 Format: 0 | 1
1276 Default: 0
1277 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1278 Format: 0 | 1
1279 Default: 0
1280 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1281 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1282 Default: 1024
1283 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1284 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1285 Default: 1024
1286
0f98dd1b
BJZ
1287 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1288 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1289 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1290
55537871
JK
1291 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1292 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1293 backtraces on all cpus.
1294 Format: <integer>
1295
1da177e4
LT
1296 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1297 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
16290246 1298 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
a9913044 1299 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1da177e4
LT
1300
1301 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1302
1303 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1304 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1305
ea8c071c
HY
1306 hest_disable [ACPI]
1307 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1308 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1309 logic will be disabled.
1310
1da177e4
LT
1311 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1312 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1313 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1314 size on bigger boxes.
1315
54cdfdb4
TG
1316 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1317 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1318 Default: "on"
1319
1da177e4
LT
1320 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1321 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1322
0cb55ad2
RD
1323 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1324
1325 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1326 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1327 verbose }
1328 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1329 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1330 VIA, nVidia)
1331 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1332
3d035f58
PB
1333 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1334 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1335
b4718e62
AK
1336 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1337 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
0d9ea754
JT
1338 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1339 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1340 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1341 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
27ec26ec 1342 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
6902aa84 1343
555d61d6
HB
1344 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1345 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
431429ff
HB
1346 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1347 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1348 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
cef7125d 1349
7bf69395
FDN
1350 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1351 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1352 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1353 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1354 the real console.
1355
3a853fb9 1356 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
7954763b
JN
1357 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1358 registered from board initialization code.
3a853fb9
JN
1359 Format:
1360 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1361
36d95739 1362 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
e1443d28
SCP
1363 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1364 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1365 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1366 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1da177e4 1367 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
84eb8d06
ML
1368 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1369 keyboard and cannot control its state
1da177e4
LT
1370 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1371 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
945ef0d4 1372 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
75d08c78
JK
1373 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1374 for the AUX port
1da177e4 1375 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
e55a3366 1376 controller
1da177e4
LT
1377 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1378 controllers
24775d65 1379 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
930e1924
MPS
1380 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1381 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1382 transitions, or never reset
1383 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1384 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1385 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1386 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1387 architectures force reset to be always executed
1da177e4 1388 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
148e9a71 1389 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1da177e4
LT
1390
1391 i810= [HW,DRM]
1392
e70c9d5e
DT
1393 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1394 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1395 hardware.
1da177e4
LT
1396 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1397 does not match list of supported models.
1398 i8k.power_status
1399 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1400 (disabled by default)
1401 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1402 capability is set.
1403
4dca20ef 1404 i915.invert_brightness=
7bd90909
CE
1405 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1406 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
4dca20ef
CE
1407 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1408 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1409 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1410 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1411 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1412 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1413 value switches the backlight off.
1414 -1 -- never invert brightness
1415 0 -- machine default
1416 1 -- force brightness inversion
7bd90909 1417
1da177e4
LT
1418 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1419 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1420
0af80c04
DF
1421 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1422 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
075affcb
BZ
1423 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1424 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1c10e938 1425 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1da177e4 1426
0f8b7f5d
MR
1427 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1428 Format: <int>
1429 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1430 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1431 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1432 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1433 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1434 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1435 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1436 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1437 was 0x3.
1438
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RD
1439 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1440 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1441
f039b754 1442 idle= [X86]
69fb3676 1443 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
ada9cfdd
RD
1444 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1445 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1446 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1447 Not recommended.
ada9cfdd 1448 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
c1e3b377 1449 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
ada9cfdd 1450 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
a9913044 1451
503943e0
MR
1452 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1453 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1454 Default: strict
1455
1456 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1457 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1458 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1459 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1460 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1461 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1462 encoding mode.
1463
1464 Available settings are as follows:
1465 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1466 supported by the FPU
1467 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1468 by the FPU
1469 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1470 by the FPU
1471 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1472 supported by the FPU
1473
1474 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1475 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1476 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1477 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1478 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1479 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1480 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1481 MIPS64 CPUs.
1482
1483 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1484 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1485 except where unsupported by hardware.
1486
79290822
IM
1487 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1488 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1489 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
0eca6b7c
YZ
1490 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1491 could change it dynamically, usually by
1492 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
79290822 1493
d977d56c
KK
1494 ignore_rlimit_data
1495 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1496 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1497 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1498
1da177e4
LT
1499 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1500 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1501
2fe5d6de 1502 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2faa6ef3 1503 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
2fe5d6de
MZ
1504 default: "enforce"
1505
07f6a794
MZ
1506 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1507 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1508 owned by uid=0.
1509
d68a6fe9
MZ
1510 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1511 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1512 measurements, instead of host native format.
1513
3323eec9 1514 ima_hash= [IMA]
e7a2ad7e
MZ
1515 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1516 | sha512 | ... }
3323eec9
MZ
1517 default: "sha1"
1518
e7a2ad7e
MZ
1519 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1520 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1521
24fd03c8 1522 ima_policy= [IMA]
33ce9549 1523 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
503ceaef 1524 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot"
33ce9549
MZ
1525
1526 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1527 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1528 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1529 uid=0.
1530
1531 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1532 all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent
1533 of ima_appraise_tcb.)
24fd03c8 1534
503ceaef
MZ
1535 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1536 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1537 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
24fd03c8
MZ
1538
1539 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
5789ba3b
EP
1540 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1541 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1542 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1543 opened for read by uid=0.
1544
9b9d4ce5
RS
1545 ima_template= [IMA]
1546 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
8265a2f8 1547 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
9b9d4ce5
RS
1548 Default: "ima-ng"
1549
c2426d2a
RS
1550 ima_template_fmt=
1551 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1552 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1553
3bcced39
DK
1554 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1555 Format: <min_file_size>
1556 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1557 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1558
1559 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1560 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1561 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1562
6edf7a89
DK
1563 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1564 Format: <bufsize>
1565 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1566
1567 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1568 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1569 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1570
1da177e4
LT
1571 init= [KNL]
1572 Format: <full_path>
1573 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1574 process.
1575
1576 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1577 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1578 startup.
1579
7b0b73d7
PB
1580 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1581 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1582 modules and initcalls.
1583
1da177e4
LT
1584 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1585
acd547b2
DH
1586 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1587 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1588 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1589 override in debugfs after boot.
1590
1da177e4
LT
1591 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1592 Format: <irq>
1593
6bb2ff84
FY
1594 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1595
d726d8d7
MZ
1596 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1597 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1598 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1599 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1600
ba395927 1601 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
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1602 on
1603 Enable intel iommu driver.
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1604 off
1605 Disable intel iommu driver.
1606 igfx_off [Default Off]
1607 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1608 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1609 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1610 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1611 DMA.
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1612 forcedac [x86_64]
1613 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
16290246 1614 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
7d3b03ce 1615 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
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1616 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1617 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
7d3b03ce 1618 then look in the higher range.
5e0d2a6f 1619 strict [Default Off]
1620 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1621 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1622 to batching them for performance.
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1623 sp_off [Default Off]
1624 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1625 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1626 not be supported.
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1627 ecs_off [Default Off]
1628 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1629 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1630 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1631 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1632 on hardware which claims to support them.
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1633 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1634 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1635 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1636 could harm performance of some high-throughput
1637 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1638 mapping is enabled.
1639 Note that using this option lowers the security
1640 provided by tboot because it makes the system
1641 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
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1642
1643 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1644 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
22c6bbe4 1645 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
2e92c7ad 1646
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1647 intel_pstate= [X86]
1648 disable
1649 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1650 scaling driver for the supported processors
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1651 passive
1652 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1653 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1654 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1655 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1656 feature.
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1657 force
1658 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1659 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1660 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1661 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1662 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1663 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1664 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1665 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
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1666 no_hwp
1667 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1668 if available.
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1669 hwp_only
1670 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1671 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
9522a2ff 1672 support_acpi_ppc
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1673 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1674 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1675 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1676 then this feature is turned on by default.
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1677 per_cpu_perf_limits
1678 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1679 cpufreq sysfs interface
6be26498 1680
d1423d56 1681 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
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1682 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1683 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1684 nosid disable Source ID checking
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1685 no_x2apic_optout
1686 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
b7d20631 1687 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
d1423d56 1688
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1689 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1690 strict regions from userspace.
1691 relaxed
1692
1693 iommu= [x86]
1694 off
1695 force
1696 noforce
1697 biomerge
1698 panic
1699 nopanic
1700 merge
1701 nomerge
1702 forcesac
1703 soft
bcb71abe 1704 pt [x86, IA-64]
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1705 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1706 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
bcb71abe 1707
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1708 iommu.passthrough=
1709 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1710 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1711 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1712 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1713 unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
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1714
1715 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1716 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1717 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1718
6cececfc 1719 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
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1720 0x80
1721 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1722 0xed
1723 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
b02aae9c 1724 udelay
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1725 Simple two microseconds delay
1726 none
1727 No delay
b02aae9c 1728
1da177e4 1729 ip= [IP_PNP]
dc7a0816 1730 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 1731
fbf19803 1732 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2d13e6ca 1733 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
fbf19803 1734
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1735 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1736 [ARM, ARM64]
1737 Format: <bool>
1738 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1739 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1740 exposed by the device tree is too small.
1741
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1742 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
1743 [ARM, ARM64]
1744 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
1745 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
1746 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
1747 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
1748 LPIs.
1749
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1750 irqfixup [HW]
1751 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1752 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1753 firmware running.
1754
1755 irqpoll [HW]
1756 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1757 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1758 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1759 firmware running.
1760
1da177e4 1761 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
a9913044 1762 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1da177e4 1763
d94d1053 1764 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
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1765 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1766 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
1767
1768 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1769 specified in the flag list (default: domain):
1770
1771 nohz
1772 Disable the tick when a single task runs.
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1773
1774 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
1775 need to affine to housekeeping through the global
1776 workqueue's affinity configured via the
1777 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
1778 by using the 'domain' flag described below.
1779
1780 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
1781 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
1782 be configured manually after bootup.
1783
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1784 domain
1785 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1786 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1787 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1788 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1789 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1790 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1791 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1792 move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1793
1794 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1795 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1796 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1797 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1798
1799 The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
b225d44e 1800
1da177e4 1801
1da177e4 1802
a9913044 1803 iucv= [HW,NET]
1da177e4 1804
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1805 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1806 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1807 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1808 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1809 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1810 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1811
1812 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1813 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1814 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1815 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1816 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1817 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1818
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1819 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1820 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1821 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1822 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1823 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1824 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1825
1da177e4 1826 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1752118d 1827 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
1da177e4 1828
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1829 nokaslr [KNL]
1830 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1831 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1832 Layout Randomization).
24f2e027 1833
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1834 kasan_multi_shot
1835 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1836 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1837 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1838 invalid access.
1839
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1840 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1841
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1842 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1843 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1844 This parameter
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1845 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1846 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1847 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1848 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1849 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1850 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1851 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
675217fd 1852 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
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1853 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1854 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1855 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1856 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1857 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1858 zone if it does not.
1859
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1860 Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1861 you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1862 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1863 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1864 for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1865 so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1866 time.
ed7ed365 1867
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1868 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1869 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1870 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1871 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1872 optional and is the number seconds in between
1873 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1874 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1875 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1876 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1877 the kernel debugger.
1878
84c08fd6 1879 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
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1880 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1881 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
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1882 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1883 keyboard only format: kbd
1884 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1885 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1886 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1887 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
6cdf6e06 1888
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1889 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1890 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1891
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1892 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1893 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1894 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1895
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1896 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1897 Valid arguments: on, off
1898 Default: on
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1899 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1900 the default is off.
04f70336 1901
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1902 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1903 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1904
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1905 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1906 KVM MMU at runtime.
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1907 Default is 0 (off)
1908
fef07aae 1909 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
8475f94a 1910 Default is 1 (enabled)
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1911
1912 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1913 for all guests.
16290246 1914 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
fef07aae 1915
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1916 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
1917 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
1918 system registers
1919
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1920 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
1921 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
1922 system registers
1923
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1924 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
1925 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
1926 system registers
1927
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1928 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
1929 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
1930 LPIs.
1931
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1932 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1933 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1934 Default is 1 (enabled)
1935
1936 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1937 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1938 Default is 0 (disabled)
1939
1940 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1941 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1942 Default is 1 (enabled)
1943
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1944 kvm-intel.nested=
1945 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1946 Default is 0 (disabled)
1947
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1948 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1949 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1950 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1951 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1952
1953 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1954 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1955 Default is 1 (enabled)
1956
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1957 l2cr= [PPC]
1958
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1959 l3cr= [PPC]
1960
cd4f0ef7 1961 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
a9913044 1962 disabled it.
1da177e4 1963
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1964 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1965 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1966 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1967
6cececfc 1968 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
ada9cfdd 1969 in C2 power state.
e585bef8 1970
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1971 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1972 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1973 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1974 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
16290246 1975 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
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1976 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1977 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
16290246 1978
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1979 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1980 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
1981 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
fcb71f6f 1982
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1983 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1984 when set.
1985 Format: <int>
1986
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1987 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
1988 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
4c44f309 1989 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
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1990 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
1991 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
1992 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1993 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1994 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1995
1996 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1997 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
1998 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1999 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
2000 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2001 host link and device attached to it.
2002
2003 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
2004 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2005 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2006 The following configurations can be forced.
2007
2008 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2009 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2010
2011 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2012
2013 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2014 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2015 allowed.
2016
2017 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2018
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2019 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2020
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2021 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2022 and both resets.
2023
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2024 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2025 hot-unplug link recovery
2026
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2027 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2028
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2029 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2030
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2031 * disable: Disable this device.
2032
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2033 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2034 the same attribute, the last one is used.
2035
95f72d1e 2036 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
7c4be253 2037
1da177e4 2038 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
31c00fc1 2039 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 2040
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2041 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2042 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 2043
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2044 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2045 Format: <integer>
2046
2047 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2048 Format: <integer>
2049
2050 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2051 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 2052
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2053 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2054 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2055 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2056 number of online CPUs.
2057
2058 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2059 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2060
2061 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2062 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2063
2064 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2065 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2066 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2067
2068 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2069 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2070 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2071 mode during the locktorture test.
2072
2073 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2074 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2075 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2076
2077 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2078 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2079
2080 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2081 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2082 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2083 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2084 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2085 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2086
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2087 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2088 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2089
2090 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2091 Enable additional printk() statements.
2092
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2093 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2094 Format: <irq>
2095
2096 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2097 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2098 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2099 loglevels are defined as follows:
2100
2101 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2102 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2103 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2104 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2105 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2106 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2107 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2108 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2109
c756d08a 2110 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
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2111 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2112 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2113 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2114 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2115 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2116 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
1da177e4 2117
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2118 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2119 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2120 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2121 kernel boot problems.
2122
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2123 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2124 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2125 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2126 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2127 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2128 attached printers to be reset. Using
2129 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2130 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2131 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2132 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2133 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2134 port specification list means that device IDs
2135 from each port should be examined, to see if
2136 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2137 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2138 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2139
2140 lpj=n [KNL]
2141 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2142 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2143 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2144 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2145 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2146 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2147 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2148 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2149 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2150 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2151 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2152 hardware.
2153
2154 ltpc= [NET]
2155 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2156
16290246 2157 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
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2158 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2159 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
1da177e4 2160
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WZ
2161 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2162 yeeloong laptop.
2163 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2164
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2165 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2166 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
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2167
2168 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
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BH
2169 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2170 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2171 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2172 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2173 only takes effect during system bootup.
2174 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2175 which also disables the IO APIC.
1da177e4 2176
d134b00b
KS
2177 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2178 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2179 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2180 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2181 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2182 /dev/loop-control interface.
2b2c3750 2183
cd4f0ef7 2184 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
1da177e4 2185
71cced6e 2186 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
909dd324 2187
1da177e4 2188 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
e52347bd 2189 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
a9913044 2190
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LT
2191 mdacon= [MDA]
2192 Format: <first>,<last>
2193 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
a9913044 2194
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LT
2195 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2196 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2197 to see the whole system memory or for test.
fbb97d87
WC
2198 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2199 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2200 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2201 belonging to unused RAM.
1da177e4 2202
cd4f0ef7 2203 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
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LT
2204 memory.
2205
6902aa84
PM
2206 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2207 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2208 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2209
86dd995d
VK
2210 memhp_default_state=online/offline
2211 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2212 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2213 set according to the
2214 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2215 option.
2216 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2217
6cececfc 2218 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
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LT
2219 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2220 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2221 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2222 option description.
2223
2224 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
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RD
2225 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2226 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
8fcc9bc3
BH
2227 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2228 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2229 Multiple different regions can be specified,
2230 comma delimited.
2231 Example:
2232 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
1da177e4
LT
2233
2234 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2235 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
277cba1d 2236 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
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LT
2237
2238 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2239 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
277cba1d 2240 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
1312848e
PM
2241 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2242 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2243 or
2244 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
8fcc9bc3
BH
2245 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2246 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2247 will be eaten.
1da177e4 2248
ec776ef6
CH
2249 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2250 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2251 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2252 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2253 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2254
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JS
2255 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2256 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2257 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2258 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2259 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2260 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2261 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2262 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2263
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JF
2264 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2265 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2266 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2267 Setting this option will scan the memory
2268 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2269 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2270 from using the memory being corrupted.
2271 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2272 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2273 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2274 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2275
2276 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2277 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2278 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2279 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2280 corruption in more or less memory.
2281
2282 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2283 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2284 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2285 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2286
e4b0db72 2287 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
c64df707 2288 Format: <integer>
c64df707 2289 default : 0 <disable>
9e5f6cf5
AH
2290 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2291 performed. Each pass selects another test
2292 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2293 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2294 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2295 regions that are detected.
c64df707 2296
c262f3b9
TL
2297 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2298 Valid arguments: on, off
2299 Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2300 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2301 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2302 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
2303 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
2304
2305 Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
2306 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2307
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RW
2308 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2309 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2310 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2311 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
58e7cb9e 2312 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
406e7938 2313
1da177e4 2314 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
a405ed85 2315 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
1da177e4 2316
8f36881b
AS
2317 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2318 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2319 platforms.
2320
e6c4dc6c
WT
2321 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2322 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2323 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2324 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2325
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LT
2326 mga= [HW,DRM]
2327
1c207f95
RD
2328 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2329 physical address is ignored.
2330
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MP
2331 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2332 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2333 Default: "0tb"
2334 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2335 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2336 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2337 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2338 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2339 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2340 unconfigured.
2341 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2342 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2343 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2344 VGA shield.
2345 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2346 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2347 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2348 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2349 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2350 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2351
6b74ab97
MG
2352 mminit_loglevel=
2353 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2354 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2355 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2356 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2357 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2358 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2359
106a4ee2
RR
2360 module.sig_enforce
2361 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2362 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2a039be7 2363 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
106a4ee2
RR
2364 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2365
be7de5f9
PB
2366 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2367 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2368
1da177e4
LT
2369 mousedev.tap_time=
2370 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2371 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2372 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2373 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2374 Format: <msecs>
2375 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2376 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2377 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2378 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2379
6cececfc 2380 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
0cb55ad2
RD
2381 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2382 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2383 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2384 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2385 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2386 is specified, the administrator must be careful
2387 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2388 is not too small.
2389
f70029bb
MH
2390 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2391 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2392 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2393 allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2394 allocations. Use with caution!
c5320926 2395
1da177e4
LT
2396 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2397 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2398
a9913044
RD
2399 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2400 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
1da177e4
LT
2401
2402 mtdparts= [MTD]
c8facbb6 2403 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
1da177e4 2404
4e89a2d8
WS
2405 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2406 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2407 at a time.
2408
5988af23
RH
2409 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2410
2411 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2412
2413 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2414 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2415 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2416 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2417 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2418
9db829f4
BD
2419 mtdset= [ARM]
2420 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2421
2422 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2423
1da177e4 2424 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
a9913044
RD
2425 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2426 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
1da177e4 2427
0cb55ad2 2428 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
19f59460 2429 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
0cb55ad2
RD
2430 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2431
2432 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2433 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2434 Default is 1.
2435 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2436 using up MTRRs.
2437
2438 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2439 Format: <integer>
2440 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2441 Default : 1
2442 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2443 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2444
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LT
2445 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2446
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LT
2447 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2448 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2449 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2450 something different and driver-specific.
a9913044
RD
2451 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2452 file if at all.
2453
58401572
KPO
2454 nf_conntrack.acct=
2455 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2456 0 to disable accounting
2457 1 to enable accounting
d70a011d 2458 Default value is 0.
58401572 2459
306a0753 2460 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
dc7a0816 2461 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2462
2463 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
dc7a0816 2464 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 2465
306a0753
CL
2466 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2467 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2468
5405fc44
TM
2469 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2470 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2471 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2472 requests.
2473
a72b4422
TM
2474 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2475 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2476 channel should listen.
2477
e571cbf1
TM
2478 nfs.cache_getent=
2479 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2480 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2481
2482 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2483 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2484 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2485
58df095b
TM
2486 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2487 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2488 entries.
2489
f43bf0be
TM
2490 nfs.enable_ino64=
2491 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2492 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2493 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2494 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2495 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2496
5405fc44
TM
2497 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2498 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2499 slots the client will assign to the callback
2500 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2501 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2502 a particular server.
2503
ef159e91
TM
2504 nfs.max_session_slots=
2505 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2506 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2507 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2508 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2509 Note that there is little point in setting this
2510 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2511
b064eca2 2512 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
074b1d12
TM
2513 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2514 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2515 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2516 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2517 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2518 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2519 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2520 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2521 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2522 back to using the idmapper.
2523 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
6f2ea7f2
CL
2524 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2525 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2526 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2527 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2528 UUID that is generated at system install time.
b064eca2 2529
db8ac8ba
WAA
2530 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2531 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2532 information in exchange_id requests.
2533 If zero, no implementation identification information
2534 will be sent.
2535 The default is to send the implementation identification
2536 information.
e52347bd 2537
f6de7a39
TM
2538 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2539 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2540 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2541 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2542 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2543 after the locks are lost.
2544 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2545 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2546 parameter to '1'.
2547 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2548 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
db8ac8ba 2549
bbf58bf3
TM
2550 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2551 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2552 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2553
2554 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2555 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2556 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2557 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2558
e9541ce8
BF
2559 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2560 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2561 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2562 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2563 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2564 migration from NFSv2/v3.
db8ac8ba 2565
c0c74acb 2566 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
e7ba176b
HS
2567 when a NMI is triggered.
2568 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2569
6cececfc 2570 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
fef2c9bc 2571 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
195daf66 2572 Valid num: 0 or 1
334bb79c
PK
2573 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2574 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
0cb55ad2 2575 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
fef2c9bc 2576 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
334bb79c
PK
2577 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2578 please see 'nowatchdog'.
0cb55ad2
RD
2579 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2580 need the box quickly up again.
1da177e4 2581
d22881dc
SW
2582 These settings can be accessed at runtime via
2583 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
2584
bff38771
AV
2585 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2586 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2587 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2588 waits 4 seconds.
2589
cd4f0ef7 2590 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
1da177e4
LT
2591 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2592 is present.
2593
0cb55ad2
RD
2594 no_console_suspend
2595 [HW] Never suspend the console
2596 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2597 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2598 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2599 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2600 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2601 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2602 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
134620f7
YZ
2603 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2604 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2605 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2606 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2607 turn on/off it dynamically.
0cb55ad2 2608
c1aee215
CL
2609 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2610 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2611 but will impact performance.
3395ee05 2612
a9913044
RD
2613 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2614
686140a1
VG
2615 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2616 (CPU alternatives feature).
2617
1da177e4
LT
2618 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2619 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2620
5091faa4
MG
2621 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2622
1da177e4
LT
2623 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2624 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2625
2626 nocache [ARM]
a9913044 2627
0cb55ad2
RD
2628 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2629
163ecdff
SN
2630 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2631
6902aa84
PM
2632 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2633
b2e0a54a 2634 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
8b2cb7a8 2635
1da177e4
LT
2636 noexec [IA-64]
2637
6cececfc 2638 noexec [X86]
f5a1b191 2639 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
1da177e4 2640 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
f5a1b191
JS
2641 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2642
52b6179a
PA
2643 nosmap [X86]
2644 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2645 even if it is supported by processor.
2646
de5397ad 2647 nosmep [X86]
52b6179a 2648 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
de5397ad
FY
2649 even if it is supported by processor.
2650
f5a1b191
JS
2651 noexec32 [X86-64]
2652 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2653 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2654 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2655 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2656 read implies executable mappings
1da177e4 2657
fab43ef4 2658 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
6902aa84 2659
cd4f0ef7 2660 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
4f886511
CE
2661 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2662 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
1da177e4 2663
0ddab1d2
TK
2664 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2665
52c48c51
SS
2666 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2667 Equivalent to smt=1.
2668
da285121
DW
2669 nospectre_v2 [X86] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2
2670 (indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may
2671 allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent
2672 to spectre_v2=off.
2673
0c752a93
SS
2674 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2675 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2676 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2677
b6f42a4a
FY
2678 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2679 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2680 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2681 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2682 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2683 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2684
2685 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2686 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2687 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2688 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2689 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2690 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2691 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2692
01a24d2b
PZ
2693 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2694 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2695 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
a9913044 2696
1f29fae2
SH
2697 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2698 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2699 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2700
1da177e4
LT
2701 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2702 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2703 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2704 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2705 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2706 real-time systems.
2707
a6e15a39
KC
2708 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2709
79bf2bb3
TG
2710 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2711 Valid arguments: on, off
2712 Default: on
2713
d94d1053 2714 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
2d13e6ca 2715 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
c5bfece2 2716 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
a831881b 2717 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
0453b435 2718 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
f99bcb2c
PM
2719 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
2720 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
2721 just as if they had also been called out in the
2722 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
a831881b 2723
eeee7853
PM
2724 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2725
cd4f0ef7 2726 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
1da177e4
LT
2727 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2728
6cececfc 2729 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
8542b200
ZA
2730 broken timer IRQ sources.
2731
1da177e4
LT
2732 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2733
2734 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2735 initial RAM disk.
2736
03ea8155
WH
2737 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2738 remapping.
d1423d56 2739 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
03ea8155 2740
1da177e4
LT
2741 nointroute [IA-64]
2742
d12a72b8
AL
2743 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2744
16290246 2745 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
0aa366f3 2746
9cf4c4fc
JK
2747 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2748
fd10cde9
GN
2749 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2750 fault handling.
2751
80e9a4f2
AM
2752 no-vmw-sched-clock
2753 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2754 clock and use the default one.
2755
d910f5c1
GC
2756 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2757 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2758 behaviour
2759
cd4f0ef7 2760 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
1da177e4 2761
cd4f0ef7 2762 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
ad62ca2b 2763
1da177e4 2764 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
f15eea66 2765 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
1da177e4 2766
312f1f01
H
2767 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2768
13696e0a 2769 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
abe37e5a 2770
83d7384f
AS
2771 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2772 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2773
bda62633
DZ
2774 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2775 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2776 irq.
2777
02608bef
DY
2778 nomodule Disable module load
2779
016ddd9b
JK
2780 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2781 pagetables) support.
2782
0790c9aa
AL
2783 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
2784
0cb55ad2
RD
2785 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2786 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2787
cd4f0ef7 2788 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
b7fb4af0
JF
2789 with UP alternatives
2790
7a5091d5
PA
2791 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2792 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2793 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2794 available to user space applications.
49d859d7 2795
a9913044
RD
2796 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2797 space.
2798
1da177e4
LT
2799 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2800 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2801 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2802
2803 nosbagart [IA-64]
2804
cd4f0ef7 2805 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
4f886511 2806
61ec7567
LB
2807 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2808 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
1da177e4 2809
97842216
DJ
2810 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2811
1da177e4
LT
2812 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2813
cd4f0ef7 2814 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
1da177e4 2815
195daf66
UO
2816 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2817 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
58687acb 2818
1da177e4 2819 nowb [ARM]
a9913044 2820
2b2fd87a
WH
2821 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2822
f78cff48
FY
2823 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2824 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2825 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2826 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2827 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2828 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2829 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2830 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2831 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2832 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2833 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2834 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2835 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2836
35b55ef2
NC
2837 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
2838 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
2839 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
2840 without interruptions, before HW switches it.
2841 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
2842 parameter's value.
2843 Format: integer between 1 and 255
2844 Default: 255
2845
16290246 2846 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
a6c75b86
FY
2847 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2848 SAL PALO.
2849
2b633e3f
YL
2850 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2851 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
7c142bfe
BH
2852 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2853 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2854 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2855 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2856 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2857 hot plugging.
2b633e3f 2858
0cb55ad2
RD
2859 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2860
1a687c2e
MG
2861 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2862 Allowed values are enable and disable
2863
f0c0b2b8 2864 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
c9bff3ee 2865 'node', 'default' can be specified
f0c0b2b8
KH
2866 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2867 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2868
7c4be253
RD
2869 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2870 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2871 info.
2872
3ef0e1f8
AS
2873 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2874 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2875 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2876 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2877 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2878 interrupts *may* be lost!
2879
15ac7afe
TL
2880 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2881 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2882 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2883 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2884
1da177e4
LT
2885 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2886 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2887
7e4e0bd5
RR
2888 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2889 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2890 userland or if you want common events.
8d7ff4f2
RR
2891 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2892 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
7e4e0bd5
RR
2893 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2894 CPU specific event set.
159a80b2
RR
2895 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2896 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2897 for generic hr timer mode)
1dcdb5a9 2898
44a4dcf7
RD
2899 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2900 process, but there is a small probability of
2901 deadlocking the machine.
d404ab0a
OH
2902 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2903 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2904
bcfde334
RD
2905 OSS [HW,OSS]
2906 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2907
48c96a36
JK
2908 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2909 Storage of the information about who allocated
2910 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2911 we can turn it on.
2912 on: enable the feature
2913
8823b1db
LA
2914 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2915 poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2916 off: turn off poisoning
2917 on: turn on poisoning
2918
44a4dcf7 2919 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4302fbc8
HD
2920 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2921 timeout = 0: wait forever
2922 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
1da177e4
LT
2923 Format: <timeout>
2924
9e3961a0
PB
2925 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
2926 on a WARN().
2927
f06e5153
MH
2928 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2929 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2930 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2931 succeeds in any situation.
2932 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2933 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2934 kernel more unstable.
2935
1da177e4
LT
2936 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2937 connected to, default is 0.
2938 Format: <parport#>
2939 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2940 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
a9913044
RD
2941 Format: <mode>
2942
2943 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2944 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2945 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2946 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2947 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2948 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2949 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2950 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2951 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2952 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2953 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2954 are specified on the command line, starting
2955 with parport0.
2956
2957 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2958 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2959 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2960 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2961 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2962 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
1da177e4
LT
2963 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2964
dd287796
AM
2965 pause_on_oops=
2966 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2967 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
2968 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2969
1da177e4
LT
2970 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
2971
2972 pcd. [PARIDE]
2973 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
31c00fc1 2974 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 2975
a9913044 2976 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
1cc0ca26
BH
2977 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2978 changes anything
c0115606 2979 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
cd4f0ef7 2980 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
a9913044
RD
2981 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2982 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
cd4f0ef7 2983 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
a9913044
RD
2984 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2985 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2986 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
afd8c084
BP
2987 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2988 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
2989 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
2990 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2991 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
2992 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
2993 bus number. The config space is then accessed
2994 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
2995 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
2996 on the configuration access mechanisms.
7f785763
RD
2997 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2998 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2999 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
32a2eea7
JG
3000 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3001 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
6cececfc 3002 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
61be6d66 3003 Configuration
12983077
AH
3004 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3005 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3006 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
309e57df
MW
3007 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3008 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3009 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
a9322f64
SA
3010 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3011 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3012 should never be necessary.
9197979b
SA
3013 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3014 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3015 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3016 when the system masks IRQs.
41b9eb26
SA
3017 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3018 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3019 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3020 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
cd4f0ef7 3021 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
a9913044
RD
3022 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3023 on several machines and they hang the machine
3024 when used, but on other computers it's the only
3025 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3026 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3027 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3028 motherboard.
c0115606 3029 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
a9913044
RD
3030 Use with caution as certain devices share
3031 address decoders between ROMs and other
3032 resources.
c0115606 3033 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
bb71ad88
GH
3034 expansion ROMs that do not already have
3035 BIOS assigned address ranges.
7bd1c365
MH
3036 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
3037 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
c0115606 3038 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
a9913044
RD
3039 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3040 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3041 this way.
c0115606 3042 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
a9913044
RD
3043 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3044 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3045 F0000h-100000h range.
c0115606 3046 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
a9913044
RD
3047 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3048 secondary buses and you want to tell it
3049 explicitly which ones they are.
c0115606 3050 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
a9913044
RD
3051 numbers ourselves, overriding
3052 whatever the firmware may have done.
c0115606 3053 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
a9913044
RD
3054 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3055 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3056 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3057 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3058 IRQ routing is enabled.
c0115606 3059 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 3060 or for PCI scanning.
7bc5e3f2
BH
3061 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3062 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3063 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
3064 please report a bug.
3065 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3066 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
a9913044
RD
3067 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3068 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3069 so this option is a temporary workaround
3070 for broken drivers that don't call it.
13a6ddb0
YL
3071 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3072 handle more pci cards
0637a70a
AK
3073 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3074 This might help on some broken boards which
3075 machine check when some devices' config space
3076 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3077 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
6b4b78fe
MD
3078 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3079 This sorting is done to get a device
3080 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3081 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
fa238712
YW
3082 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3083 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3084 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3085 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3086 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3087 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3088 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3089 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3090 or bus can support) for best performance.
3091 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3092 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3093 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3094 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3095 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3096 that hot-added devices will work.
4516a618
AN
3097 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3098 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3099 The default value is 256 bytes.
3100 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3101 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3102 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
32a9a682
YS
3103 resource_alignment=
3104 Format:
3105 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
644a544f
KMEE
3106 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
3107 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
32a9a682
YS
3108 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3109 aligned memory resources.
3110 If <order of align> is not specified,
3111 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3112 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3113 windows need to be expanded.
8b078c60
MK
3114 To specify the alignment for several
3115 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3116 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3117 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
43c16408
AP
3118 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3119 end-to-end CRC checking).
3120 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3121 the default.
3122 off: Turn ECRC off
3123 on: Turn ECRC on.
8c8803c5
YW
3124 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3125 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3126 Default size is 256 bytes.
3127 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3128 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3129 Default size is 2 megabytes.
e16b4660
KB
3130 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3131 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3132 Default is 1.
b55438fd
YL
3133 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3134 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3135 accommodate resources required by all child
3136 devices.
3137 off: Turn realloc off
3138 on: Turn realloc on
3139 realloc same as realloc=on
6748dcc2 3140 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
284f5f9d
BH
3141 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3142 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3143 port.
f32ab754
UCCB
3144 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3145 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3146 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3147 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3148 conflict with unreported devices), so this
3149 taints the kernel.
6b4b78fe 3150
e5665a45
CE
3151 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3152 Management.
3153 off Disable ASPM.
3154 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3155 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3156
7570a333
MT
3157 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
3158 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
3159 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
3160
79dd9182 3161 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
28eb5f27
RW
3162 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
3163 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
3164 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
3165 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
3166 unconditionally.
79dd9182
RW
3167 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
3168 ports driver.
3169
9d26d3a8
MW
3170 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3171 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3172 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3173
c7f48656 3174 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
c39fae14 3175 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
28eb5f27 3176 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
c7f48656 3177
1da177e4
LT
3178 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3179
39ac5ba5
TB
3180 pd_ignore_unused
3181 [PM]
3182 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3183 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3184 for debug and development, but should not be
3185 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3186
1da177e4 3187 pd. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3188 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3189
3190 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3191 boot time.
3192 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3193 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3194
f58dc01b 3195 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
e933a73f
TH
3196 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3197 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3198 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3199 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3200 and performance comparison.
fa8a7094 3201
1da177e4 3202 pf. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3203 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3204
3205 pg. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3206 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3207
3208 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
71cced6e 3209 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3210
3211 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3212 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3ba9b1b8 3213 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
1da177e4 3214
16290246 3215 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
de32a243
TG
3216 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3217 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3218
96242116
BH
3219 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3220 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3221 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3222 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3223 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3224 possible settings and some assignment information.
97ef062b 3225
1da177e4
LT
3226 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3227 { off }
3228
3229 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3230 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3231
3232 pnp_reserve_irq=
3233 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3234
3235 pnp_reserve_dma=
3236 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3237
3238 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
a9913044 3239 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
1da177e4
LT
3240
3241 pnp_reserve_mem=
a9913044
RD
3242 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3243 autoconfiguration.
1da177e4
LT
3244 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3245
4af94f39
RD
3246 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3247 Default is 21.
3248 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3249 may be specified.
3250 Format: <port>,<port>....
3251
c3cbd075
BS
3252 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3253 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3254 platform machine description specific power_save
3255 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3256 execution priority.
3257
3eb5d588
AB
3258 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3259 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3260 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3261 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3262 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3263
07fd1761
CB
3264 ppc_tm= [PPC]
3265 Format: {"off"}
3266 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3267
45807a1d
IM
3268 print-fatal-signals=
3269 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
f84d49b2
NO
3270
3271 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3272 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3273 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3274 coredump - etc.
3275
3276 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3277 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3278
45807a1d
IM
3279 default: off.
3280
c22ab332
MG
3281 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3282 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3283 panics
3284 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3285 default: disabled
3286
750afe7b
BP
3287 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3288 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3289 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3290 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3291 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3292 Default: ratelimit
3293
e84845c4
RD
3294 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3295 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3296
0cb55ad2
RD
3297 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3298 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3299 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3300
3301 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3302 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3303 instead using the legacy FADT method
3304
1da177e4 3305 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
e7e61fc0
RD
3306 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3307 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3308 [defaults to kernel profiling]
a9913044 3309 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
b3da2a73
MG
3310 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3311 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
c0fe2e69 3312 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
e7e61fc0
RD
3313 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3314 statistical time based profiling.
1da177e4 3315
1da177e4
LT
3316 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3317 before loading.
31c00fc1 3318 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 3319
a9913044
RD
3320 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3321 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
1da177e4
LT
3322 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3323 per second.
a9913044
RD
3324 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3325 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
1da177e4
LT
3326 (0 = never).
3327 psmouse.resolution=
3328 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3329 psmouse.smartscroll=
a9913044 3330 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
1da177e4
LT
3331 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3332
dee28e72
MG
3333 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3334
1da177e4 3335 pt. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3336 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 3337
01c9b17b
DH
3338 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3339 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
3340 removes hardening, but improves performance of
3341 system calls and interrupts.
3342
3343 on - unconditionally enable
3344 off - unconditionally disable
3345 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3346 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3347
3348 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3349
3350 nopti [X86_64]
3351 Equivalent to pti=off
41f4c20b 3352
dc8c8587
KS
3353 pty.legacy_count=
3354 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3355 default number.
3356
7d2c502f 3357 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
a9913044 3358
1da177e4
LT
3359 r128= [HW,DRM]
3360
3361 raid= [HW,RAID]
e52347bd 3362 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
1da177e4 3363
1da177e4 3364 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
31c00fc1 3365 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 3366
011d8261
BP
3367 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
3368
3369 cec_disable [X86]
3370 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3371 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3372
4102adab 3373 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
2d13e6ca
NC
3374 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3375
3fbfbf7a
PM
3376 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3377 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3378 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
a4889858
PM
3379 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3380 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3381 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3382 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
3fbfbf7a
PM
3383 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3384 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3385 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3386
4102adab 3387 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
3fbfbf7a
PM
3388 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3389 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3390 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3391 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3392 This improves the real-time response for the
3393 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3394 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3395 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3396 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3397
4102adab 3398 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
3399 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3400 process in one batch.
21a1ea9e 3401
a3dc2948
PM
3402 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3403 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3404 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3405 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3406
0f41c0dd
PM
3407 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3408 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 3409 RCU grace-period cleanup.
0f41c0dd 3410
37745d28
PM
3411 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3412 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 3413 RCU grace-period initialization.
0f41c0dd
PM
3414
3415 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3416 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3417 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3418 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
90040c9e 3419 the rcu_node combining tree.
37745d28 3420
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PM
3421 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3422 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3423 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3424 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3425 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
37745d28 3426
4102adab 3427 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
ee968ac6
PM
3428 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3429 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3430 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3431 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3432 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3433 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
f885b7f2 3434
4a81e832
PM
3435 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3436 Set required age in jiffies for a
3437 given grace period before RCU starts
3438 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3439 rcu_note_context_switch().
3440
4102adab 3441 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3442 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3443 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3444 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3445 and maximum value is HZ.
3446
4102adab 3447 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3448 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3449 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3450 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3451
21871d7e 3452 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
d2af1ad7
PM
3453 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3454 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3455 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3456 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3457 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3458 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3459 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3460 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3461 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
21871d7e 3462
fbce7497
PM
3463 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3464 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3465 defaults to the square root of the number of
3466 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3467 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3468 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3469
4102adab 3470 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
3471 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3472 batch limiting is disabled.
21a1ea9e 3473
4102adab 3474 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
24aaef8d
RD
3475 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3476 batch limiting is re-enabled.
21a1ea9e 3477
4102adab 3478 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3479 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3480 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
d40011f6 3481
4102adab 3482 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3483 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3484 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3485 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3486 prove do nothing more than free memory.
d40011f6 3487
e3c50dfb
PM
3488 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3489 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3490 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3491 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3492 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3493 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3494
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PM
3495 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3496 Measure performance of asynchronous
3497 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3498
3499 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3500 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3501 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
3502 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3503 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3504 previously posted callbacks to drain.
3505
bdea9e34
PM
3506 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3507 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3508 grace-period primitives.
3509
df37e66b
PM
3510 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3511 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3512 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3513 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3514 interference.
3515
bdea9e34
PM
3516 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3517 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3518 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3519 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3520 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3521 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3522 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3523 a single reader.
3524
3525 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3526 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3527 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3528 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3529
820687a7
PM
3530 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3531 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3532
bdea9e34
PM
3533 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3534 Shut the system down after performance tests
3535 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3536 testing.
3537
bdea9e34
PM
3538 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3539 Enable additional printk() statements.
3540
820687a7
PM
3541 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3542 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3543 in microseconds. The default of zero says
3544 no holdoff.
3545
38706bc5
PM
3546 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3547 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3548 callback-flood tests.
3549
3550 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3551 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3552 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3553 test.
3554
3555 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3556 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3557 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3558 disable callback-flood testing.
3559
3560 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3561 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3562 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3563
4102adab 3564 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3565 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3566 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3567
4102adab 3568 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3569 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3570 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3571
4102adab 3572 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3573 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3574 in seconds.
3575
3576 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3577 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3578 primitives, if available.
dabb8aa9 3579
4102adab 3580 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
21b05de4 3581 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4102adab
PM
3582
3583 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3584 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3585 update-side primitives, if available.
3586
3587 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3588 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3589 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3590 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3591 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3592 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3593 they are all non-zero.
dabb8aa9 3594
4102adab 3595 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3596 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3597
4102adab 3598 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3599 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3600 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3601 test, hence the "fake".
3602
4102adab 3603 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
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PM
3604 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3605 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3606 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3607 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3608 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
dabb8aa9 3609
4102adab
PM
3610 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3611 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3612
3613 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3614 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3615
4102adab 3616 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3617 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3618 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3619
4102adab 3620 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3621 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3622 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3623 during the rcutorture test.
3624
4102adab 3625 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3626 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3627 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3628
4102adab 3629 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3630 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3631 warnings, zero to disable.
3632
4102adab 3633 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3634 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3635
2b1516e5
PM
3636 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
3637 Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
3638
4102adab 3639 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3640 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3641
4102adab 3642 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3643 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3644 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3645 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3646 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3647
4102adab 3648 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3649 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3650 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3651 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3652
4102adab 3653 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3654 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3655
4102adab 3656 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3657 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3658
4102adab 3659 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3660 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3661 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3662
4102adab 3663 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3664 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3665
4102adab 3666 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3667 Enable additional printk() statements.
3668
5a9be7c6
PM
3669 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3670 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3671
3672 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3673 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3674
4102adab
PM
3675 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3676 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3677 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3678 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3679 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3680 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
79cfea02 3681 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 3682
5a9be7c6
PM
3683 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3684 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3685 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3686 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
79cfea02
PM
3687 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3688 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3689 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3690 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3691 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 3692
3e42ec1a
PM
3693 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3694 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3695 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
79cfea02
PM
3696 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3697 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3e42ec1a 3698
52db30ab
PM
3699 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3700 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3701 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3702 to zero.
3703
74860fee
PK
3704 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3705 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3706
3707 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3708 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3709
3710 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3711 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3712
ffdfc409
OJ
3713 rdinit= [KNL]
3714 Format: <full_path>
3715 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3716 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3717
1d9807fc
TL
3718 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
3719 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
31516de3
FY
3720 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
3721 mba.
1d9807fc
TL
3722 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
3723 rdt=cmt,!mba
3724
1b3a5d02
RH
3725 reboot= [KNL]
3726 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3727 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3728 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3729 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3730 [[,]f[orce]
3731 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3732 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3733 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3734 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3735 to be used for rebooting.
1da177e4 3736
46b6d94e
PJ
3737 relax_domain_level=
3738 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
09c3bcce 3739 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
46b6d94e 3740
ffd2e8df
BH
3741 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
3742 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
3743 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
3744 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
3745 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
1da177e4 3746
cd4f0ef7 3747 reservetop= [X86-32]
461a9aff
ZA
3748 Format: nn[KMG]
3749 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3750 address space.
3751
9ea77bdb
PA
3752 reservelow= [X86]
3753 Format: nn[K]
3754 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3755 the bottom of the address space.
3756
7e96287d
VG
3757 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3758 during initialization.
3759
a9913044
RD
3760 resume= [SWSUSP]
3761 Specify the partition device for software suspend
2df83fa4
MB
3762 Format:
3763 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
1da177e4 3764
ecbd0da1
RW
3765 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3766 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3767 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3768 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3769 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3770
f126f733
BS
3771 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3772 read the resume files
3773
6f8d7022
BS
3774 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3775 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3776 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3777
f996fc96
BS
3778 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3779 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3780 present during boot.
3781 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
a6e15a39 3782 no Disable hibernation and resume.
4c0b6c10
RW
3783 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
3784 (that will set all pages holding image data
3785 during restoration read-only).
f996fc96 3786
0a7b35cb
MN
3787 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3788
0efbb786
AC
3789 rfkill.default_state=
3790 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3791 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3792 1 Unblocked.
3793
3794 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3795 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3796 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3797 blocked and the previous configuration.
3798 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3799 blocked and everything unblocked.
3800
1da177e4
LT
3801 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3802 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3803
e16fd002
GA
3804 ring3mwait=disable
3805 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
3806 CPUs.
3807
1da177e4
LT
3808 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3809
d2aa1aca
KC
3810 rodata= [KNL]
3811 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3812 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3813
605df8af
HS
3814 rockchip.usb_uart
3815 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3816 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3817 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3818 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3819
1da177e4 3820 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
f2d34fd9 3821 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
1da177e4
LT
3822
3823 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3824 mount the root filesystem
3825
3826 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3827
3828 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3829
cc1ed754
PO
3830 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3831 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3832 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3833
5c71d618
RT
3834 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3835 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3836 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3837 managed by CMA.
3838
1da177e4
LT
3839 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3840
3841 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3842
c60d1ae4
GS
3843 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3844 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3845 strict
3846 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3847 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3848 which is faster.
3849
1da177e4
LT
3850 sa1100ir [NET]
3851 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3852
1da177e4 3853 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
a9913044 3854
f6630114
MT
3855 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3856
cb251765
MG
3857 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3858 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3859 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3860 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
f6630114 3861
5307c955
MG
3862 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3863 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3864 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3865 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3866 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3867 1 -- enable.
3868 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3869 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3870
0cb55ad2
RD
3871 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3872 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3873 security module asking for security registration will be
3874 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3875 as if no module has been chosen.
3876
3877 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
1da177e4
LT
3878 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3879 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3880 0 -- disable.
3881 1 -- enable.
3882 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3883 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3884 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3885
c1c124e9
JJ
3886 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3887 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3888 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3889 0 -- disable.
3890 1 -- enable.
3891 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3892
cd4f0ef7 3893 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
1da177e4 3894
1da177e4
LT
3895 shapers= [NET]
3896 Maximal number of shapers.
a9913044 3897
1da177e4
LT
3898 simeth= [IA-64]
3899 simscsi=
a9913044 3900
1da177e4
LT
3901 slram= [HW,MTD]
3902
423c929c
JK
3903 slab_nomerge [MM]
3904 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3905 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
7660a6fd
KC
3906 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
3907 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
3908 layout control by attackers can usually be
3909 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
3910 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
3911 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
3912 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
3913 own.
423c929c
JK
3914 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3915
3df1cccd
DR
3916 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3917 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3918 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3919 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3920 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3921
f0630fff
CL
3922 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3923 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3924 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3925 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3926 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3927 last alloc / free. For more information see
3928 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
c1aee215 3929
1663f26d
TH
3930 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
3931 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
3932 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
3933 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
3934 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
3935 directories and files being created under
3936 /sys/kernel/slub.
3937
c1aee215 3938 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
3939 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3940 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3941 fragmentation. For more information see
3942 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
c1aee215
CL
3943
3944 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
3945 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3946 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3947 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3948 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3949 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3950 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
c1aee215
CL
3951 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3952
3953 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
24775d65 3954 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
f0630fff 3955 lower than slub_max_order.
c1aee215
CL
3956 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3957
3958 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
423c929c
JK
3959 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3960 See slab_nomerge for more information.
c1aee215 3961
1da177e4
LT
3962 smart2= [HW]
3963 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3964
d0d4f69b
BH
3965 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3966 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
3967 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
3968 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
3969 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
3970 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
3971 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3972 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3973 1: Fast pin select (default)
3974 2: ATC IRMode
3975
52c48c51
SS
3976 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
3977 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
3978 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
3979 actual hardware limit.
3980 Format: <integer>
3981 Default: -1 (no limit)
3982
9c44bc03
IM
3983 softlockup_panic=
3984 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
44a4dcf7 3985 Format: <integer>
9c44bc03 3986
3ce62385
BP
3987 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
3988 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
3989 is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
3990 which is the respective build-time switch to that
3991 functionality.
3992
ed235875
AT
3993 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3994 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3995 backtraces on all cpus.
3996 Format: <integer>
3997
1da177e4 3998 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
395cf969 3999 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
1da177e4 4000
da285121
DW
4001 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4002 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
4003
4004 on - unconditionally enable
4005 off - unconditionally disable
4006 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4007 vulnerable
4008
4009 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4010 mitigation method at run time according to the
4011 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4012 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4013 compiler with which the kernel was built.
4014
4015 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4016
4017 retpoline - replace indirect branches
4018 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4019 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4020
4021 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4022 spectre_v2=auto.
4023
1da177e4
LT
4024 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
4025 spia_fio_base=
4026 spia_pedr=
4027 spia_peddr=
4028
c350c008
PM
4029 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4030 Specifies how frequently to check for
4031 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4032 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4033 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4034 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4035 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
4036 are ignored.
4037
22607d66
PM
4038 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4039 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4040 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4041 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4042 grace period will be considered for automatic
4043 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
4044 expediting.
4045
1be7107f
HD
4046 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
4047 override the default stack gap protection. The value
4048 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4049 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4050 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4051 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4052
f38f1d2a
SR
4053 stacktrace [FTRACE]
4054 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4055
762e1207
SR
4056 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4057 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4058 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4059 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4060 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4061 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4062 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4063
1da177e4
LT
4064 sti= [PARISC,HW]
4065 Format: <num>
4066 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4067 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4068 as the initial boot-console.
4069 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4070
4071 sti_font= [HW]
4072 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4073
4074 stifb= [HW]
4075 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4076
cbf11071
TM
4077 sunrpc.min_resvport=
4078 sunrpc.max_resvport=
4079 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4080 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4081 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4082 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4083 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4084 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4085 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4086 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4087 maximum port values.
4088
ff3ac5c3
TM
4089 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4090 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4091 Limit the number of requests that the server will
4092 process in parallel from a single connection.
4093 The default value is 0 (no limit).
4094
42a7fc4a
GB
4095 sunrpc.pool_mode=
4096 [NFS]
4097 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4098 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
4099 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4100 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4101 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4102 NFS server is running.
4103
4104 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
4105 automatically using heuristics
4106 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
4107 percpu one pool for each CPU
4108 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4109 to global on non-NUMA machines)
4110
cbf11071
TM
4111 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4112 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4113 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4114 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4115 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4116 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4117 improve throughput, but will also increase the
4118 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4119
1d4a9c17
BN
4120 suspend.pm_test_delay=
4121 [SUSPEND]
4122 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4123 mode before resuming the system (see
4124 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4125 is set. Default value is 5.
4126
07555ac1 4127 swapaccount=[0|1]
a42c390c
MH
4128 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4129 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
09c3bcce 4130 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
a42c390c 4131
91fec0f5 4132 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
fff5d992 4133 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
91fec0f5
JK
4134 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4135 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4136 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
fff5d992 4137 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
a9913044 4138
1da177e4
LT
4139 switches= [HW,M68k]
4140
e52eec13
AK
4141 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4142 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4143 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4144 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4145 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4146 in older udev will not work anymore.
4147 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4148 the kernel configuration.
4149
5d6f647f
IM
4150 sysrq_always_enabled
4151 [KNL]
4152 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4153 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4154 Useful for debugging.
4155
747029a5
FF
4156 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4157 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4158 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4159 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4160 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4161 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4162
1da177e4
LT
4163 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
4164
acc82342 4165 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
77437fd4 4166 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
acc82342
SP
4167 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4168 as the system sleep state during system startup with
4169 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4170 The system is woken from this state using a
4171 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
77437fd4 4172
1da177e4
LT
4173 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4174 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4175
f8707ec9
LB
4176 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
4177 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4178 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4179
c52a7419
LB
4180 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
4181 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
22a94d79 4182 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
c52a7419 4183
f5487145
LB
4184 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
4185 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4186 critical and hot trip points.
4187
72b33ef8
LB
4188 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
4189 1: disable ACPI thermal control
4190
a70cdc52
LB
4191 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
4192 -1: disable all passive trip points
ada9cfdd
RD
4193 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4194 value
a70cdc52 4195
730ff34d
LB
4196 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
4197 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4198 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4199 0: no polling (default)
4200
8d32a307
TG
4201 threadirqs [KNL]
4202 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
24775d65 4203 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
8d32a307 4204
2ca62b04
KRW
4205 tmem [KNL,XEN]
4206 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4207
4208 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4209 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4210 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4211
4212 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4213 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
37d46e15
KRW
4214 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4215 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
2ca62b04
KRW
4216
4217 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4218 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4219 to the hypervisor.
4220
4221 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4222 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4223 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4224 kernel based on different criteria.
4225
2b1a61f0
HC
4226 topology= [S390]
4227 Format: {off | on}
4228 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
f65e51d7
SL
4229 topology information if the hardware supports this.
4230 The scheduler will make use of this information and
2b1a61f0 4231 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
c9af3fa9 4232 Default is on.
2b1a61f0 4233
2d73bae1
NA
4234 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4235 Format: {off}
4236 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4237 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4238 LPAR.
4239
1da177e4
LT
4240 tp720= [HW,PS2]
4241
225a9be2
RA
4242 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4243 Format: integer pcr id
4244 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4245 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4246 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4247 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4248 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4249 are saved.
4250
9d612bef 4251 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
3e6fb8e9 4252 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
631595fb 4253
020e5f85
LZ
4254 trace_event=[event-list]
4255 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
d81749ea
BN
4256 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4257 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4258 also Documentation/trace/events.txt
020e5f85 4259
7bcfaf54
SR
4260 trace_options=[option-list]
4261 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4262 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4263 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4264 to echo the option name into
4265
4266 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4267
4268 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4269 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4270
4271 trace_options=stacktrace
4272
4273 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
4274 section.
4275
0daa2302
SRRH
4276 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4277 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4278 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4279 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4280 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4281 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4282
4283 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4284 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4285 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4286 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4287
4288 ** CAUTION **
4289
4290 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4291 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4292 the system to live lock.
4293
de7edd31
SRRH
4294 traceoff_on_warning
4295 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4296 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4297 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4298 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4299
4300 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4301 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4302 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4303
4304 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4305 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4306
fcf4d821
JK
4307 transparent_hugepage=
4308 [KNL]
4309 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4310 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4311 with respect to transparent hugepages.
4312 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
4313
d3b8f889 4314 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
395628ef
AK
4315 Format: <string>
4316 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
d3b8f889
JS
4317 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4318 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4319 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4320 virtualized environment.
e82b8e4e
VP
4321 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4322 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4323 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4324 can add overhead.
6be53520
DL
4325 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4326 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4327 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
395628ef 4328
a9913044
RD
4329 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4330 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4331 Format:
4332 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
1752118d 4333 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4 4334
b6935f8c 4335 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
e52347bd 4336 happen after console_init() and before a proper
b6935f8c
CK
4337 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4338 help "seeing" what's going on.
4339
f86dcc5a
ED
4340 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4341 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4342
5f8364b7
AS
4343 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4344 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4345 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4346 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4347 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4348 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4349 reported either.
4350
e3a61b0a 4351 unknown_nmi_panic
44a4dcf7 4352 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
e3a61b0a 4353
c4fc2342
CDH
4354 usbcore.authorized_default=
4355 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4356 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4357 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4358
b5e795f8
AS
4359 usbcore.autosuspend=
4360 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4361 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4362 is the time required before an idle device will be
4363 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
eaafbc3a 4364 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
b5e795f8 4365
fd7c519d
JK
4366 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4367 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4368
0290cc9f
AS
4369 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4370 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4371 (default = 65536).
4372
fd7c519d
JK
4373 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4374 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4375
4376 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4377 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
4378 scheme (default 0 = off).
4379
3f5eb8d5
AS
4380 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4381 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4382 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4383
fd7c519d
JK
4384 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4385 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4386 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4387
4388 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4389 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4390 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4391 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4392
40d58148
ON
4393 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4394
027bd6ca
KHF
4395 usbcore.quirks=
4396 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
4397 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
4398 commas. Each entry has the form
4399 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
4400 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
4401 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
4402 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
4403 the following meanings:
4404 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
4405 descriptors must not be fetched using
4406 a 255-byte read);
4407 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
4408 correctly so reset it instead);
4409 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
4410 Set-Interface requests);
4411 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
4412 handle its Configuration or Interface
4413 strings);
4414 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
4415 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
4416 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
4417 more interface descriptions than the
4418 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
4419 talking to these interfaces);
4420 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
4421 during initialization, after we read
4422 the device descriptor);
4423 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
4424 high speed and super speed interrupt
4425 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
4426 require the interval in microframes (1
4427 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
4428 calculated as interval = 2 ^
4429 (bInterval-1).
4430 Devices with this quirk report their
4431 bInterval as the result of this
4432 calculation instead of the exponent
4433 variable used in the calculation);
4434 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
4435 handle device_qualifier descriptor
4436 requests);
4437 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
4438 generates spurious wakeup, ignore
4439 remote wakeup capability);
4440 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
4441 Power Management);
4442 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
4443 (Device reports its bInterval as linear
4444 frames instead of the USB 2.0
4445 calculation);
4446 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
4447 to be disconnected before suspend to
4d8d5a39
KHF
4448 prevent spurious wakeup);
4449 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
4450 pause after every control message);
027bd6ca
KHF
4451 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
4452
1da177e4
LT
4453 usbhid.mousepoll=
4454 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
a9913044 4455
933bfe4d
TJ
4456 usbhid.jspoll=
4457 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4458
d4f373e5
AS
4459 usb-storage.delay_use=
4460 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
19101954 4461 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
d4f373e5
AS
4462
4463 usb-storage.quirks=
4464 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4465 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4466 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4467 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4468 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4469 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4470 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
c838ea46
AS
4471 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4472 of sense data);
a0bb1081
AS
4473 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4474 bytes of sense data);
d4f373e5
AS
4475 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4476 device capacity by one sector);
5116901d
KR
4477 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4478 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4479 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4480 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
734016b0
HG
4481 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4482 command, uas only);
ee136af4
HG
4483 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4484 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
c838ea46
AS
4485 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4486 reported device capacity by one
4487 sector if the number is odd);
d4f373e5
AS
4488 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4489 device);
13630746
HG
4490 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4491 command, uas only);
d4f373e5
AS
4492 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4493 unlock ejectable media);
4494 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4495 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
21c13a4f
AS
4496 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4497 initial READ(10) command);
c838ea46
AS
4498 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4499 reported by the device);
eaa05dfc
NJ
4500 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4501 by default);
d4f373e5
AS
4502 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4503 bogus residue values);
4504 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4505 Logical Unit);
59307852
HG
4506 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4507 commands, uas only);
b6089f19 4508 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
d4f373e5
AS
4509 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4510 medium is write-protected).
050bc4e8
ON
4511 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4512 even if the device claims no cache)
d4f373e5
AS
4513 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4514
ac1667db
SB
4515 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4516 Format: <int>
4517 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4518 1 - undefined instruction events
4519 2 - system calls
4520 4 - invalid data aborts
4521 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4522 16 - SIGBUS faults
4523 Example: user_debug=31
4524
14315592
IC
4525 userpte=
4526 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4527
4528 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4529 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4530 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4531
6cececfc 4532 vdso= [X86,SH]
b0b49f26
AL
4533 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4534
4535 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
e6e5494c
IM
4536 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4537
b0b49f26
AL
4538 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4539 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4540 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4541
4542 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4543 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4544 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4545
4546 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4547 alias for vdso32=0.
4548
4549 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4550 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
af65d648 4551
d080d397
YI
4552 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4553 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4554
1da177e4
LT
4555 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4556 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4557
3afe6dab
AL
4558 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4559 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4560 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4561 level and then send out the event to user space through
4562 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4563 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4564 brightness level.
2843768b 4565 default: 1
3afe6dab 4566
81a054ce
PM
4567 virtio_mmio.device=
4568 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4569
4570 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4571 where:
4572 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4573 like K, M and G)
4574 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4575 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4576 request_irq())
4577 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4578 example:
4579 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4580
4581 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4582
cd4f0ef7 4583 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
954a8b81 4584 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
a9913044 4585 Documentation/svga.txt.
1da177e4
LT
4586 Use vga=ask for menu.
4587 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4588 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4589
a9913044 4590 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
1da177e4
LT
4591 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4592 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4593 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4594 mapped kernel RAM.
4595
3f429842
HC
4596 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390]
4597 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
4598 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
4599
585c3047
PO
4600 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4601 Format: <command>
1da177e4 4602
585c3047
PO
4603 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4604 Format: <command>
4605
4606 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4607 Format: <command>
a9913044 4608
3ae36655
AL
4609 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4610 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4611 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4612 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4613 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4614 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4615 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4616
2e57ae05
AL
4617 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4618 emulated reasonably safely.
3ae36655 4619
2e57ae05 4620 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
3ae36655
AL
4621 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4622 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4623 better than they would in emulation mode.
4624 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4625
4626 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4627 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4628 might break your system.
4629
3855ae1c
CL
4630 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4631 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4632 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4633
9ea9a886
CL
4634 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4635 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4636 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4637 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4638
0cb55ad2
RD
4639 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4640 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4641 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4642 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4643 ranging from 0-255.
4644
4645 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4646 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4647 Change the default green palette of the console.
4648 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4649 ranging from 0-255.
4650
4651 vt.default_red= [VT]
4652 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4653 Change the default red palette of the console.
4654 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4655 ranging from 0-255.
4656
4657 vt.default_utf8=
4658 [VT]
4659 Format=<0|1>
4660 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4661 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4662 newly opened terminals.
4663
f6c06b68
MG
4664 vt.global_cursor_default=
4665 [VT]
4666 Format=<-1|0|1>
4667 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4668 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4669 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4670 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4671 cursors, 1 will display them.
4672
3855ae1c
CL
4673 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4674 Default: 2 = green.
4675
4676 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4677 Default: 3 = cyan.
4678
4724ba57
RD
4679 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4680 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4681 or other driver-specific files in the
4682 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
1da177e4 4683
82607adc
TH
4684 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4685 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4686 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4687 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4688 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4689 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4690 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4691 corresponding sysfs file.
4692
d55262c4
TH
4693 workqueue.disable_numa
4694 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4695 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4696 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4697 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4698 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4699 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4700 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4701
cee22a15
VK
4702 workqueue.power_efficient
4703 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4704 they show better performance thanks to cache
4705 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4706 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4707
4708 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4709 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4710 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4711 power usage at the cost of small performance
4712 overhead.
4713
4714 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4715 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4716
f303fccb
TH
4717 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4718 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4719 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4720 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
4721 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4722 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
4723 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4724 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4725 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4726 impacted.
4727
0cb55ad2
RD
4728 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4729 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4730 supporting x2apic.
4731
712b6aa8
KS
4732 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4733 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
bb24c471
JP
4734 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4735 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
712b6aa8 4736 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
bb24c471 4737
c70727a5
JG
4738 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4739 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4740 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4741 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4742 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4743 domains.
4744
c1c5413a
SS
4745 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4746 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4747 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4748 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4749 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4750 nics -- unplug network devices
4751 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
1dc7ce99
IC
4752 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4753 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4754 the unplug protocol
c93a4dfb 4755 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
c1c5413a 4756
15a3eac0
KRW
4757 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4758 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4759 optimizations.
4760
8d693b91
KRW
4761 xen_nopv [X86]
4762 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4763 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4764
1da177e4 4765 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
a9913044
RD
4766 Format:
4767 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]