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b10d79f7 1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
03d926f8 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
6a1f5471 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
e58d154b 4 copy_dsdt }
1da177e4 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6a1f5471 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
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7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
1da177e4 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
237889bf 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
aa2110cb 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
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13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14 are available
1da177e4 15
395cf969 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
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18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
19 Format: <int>
20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21 1,0: use 1st APIC table
4e381a4f 22 default: 0
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24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
25 acpi_backlight=vendor
26 acpi_backlight=video
27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
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31 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
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37 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41 This option is useful for developers to identify the
42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
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45 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
1da177e4 47 Format: <int>
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48 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
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55 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
56 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
57 debug layers and levels.
a0d84a92 58
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59 Enable processor driver info messages:
60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
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63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64 object while interpreting AML:
65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
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66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69 Some values produce so much output that the system is
70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71 if you need to capture more output.
f989106c 72
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73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
74 { strict | lax | no }
75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79 can interfere with legacy drivers.
80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87 no further checks are performed.
88
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89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92 size limitation.
93
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94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95 ACPI will balance active IRQs
96 default in APIC mode
97
98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100 default in PIC mode
101
102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106 use by PCI
107 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
6dddd7a7 109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
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110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
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112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113 the GPE dispatcher.
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114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115 GPE floodings.
116 Format: <int>
9c4aa1ee 117
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118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
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120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122 auto-serialization feature.
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123 This feature is enabled by default.
124 This option allows to turn off the feature.
22b5afce 125
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126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
127 kernels.
128
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129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132 installed automatically and they will appear under
133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134 This option turns off this feature.
135 Note that specifying this option does not affect
136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
0cb55ad2 138
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139 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
140 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
141 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
142 second kernel for kdump.
4dde507f 143
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144 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
145 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
146
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147 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
148 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
149 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
150 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
151 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
152
0cb55ad2 153 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
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154 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
155 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
741d8128 156 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
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157 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
158 strings
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159 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
160 strings
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161 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
162
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163 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
164 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
165 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
166 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
167 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
168 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
169 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
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170 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
171 care about the state of the feature group strings which
172 should be controlled by the OSPM.
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173 Examples:
174 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
175 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
176 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
177
178 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
179 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
180 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
181 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
182 multiple times through kernel command line is also
183 meaningless.
184 Examples:
185 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
186 FALSE.
187
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188 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
189 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
190 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
191 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
192 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
193 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
194 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
195 there are quirks related to this string. This command
196 is useful when one want to control the state of the
197 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
198 the OSPM features.
199 Examples:
200 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
201 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
202 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
203 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
204 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
205 equivalent to
206 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
207 and
208 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
209 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
210
6cececfc 211 acpi_pm_good [X86]
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212 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
213 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
214 and always returns good values.
215
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216 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
217 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
218
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219 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
220 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
221 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
222
223 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
224 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
57044031 225 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
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226 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
227 s3_bios and s3_mode.
228 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
229 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
230 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
231 used during resume from hibernation.
232 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
233 control method, with respect to putting devices into
234 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
235 of _PTS is used by default).
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236 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
237 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
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238 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
239 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
240 but some broken systems don't work without it).
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241 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
242 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
243 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
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244
245 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
246 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
247 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
248
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249 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
250 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
251
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252 agp= [AGP]
253 { off | try_unsupported }
254 off: disable AGP support
255 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
256 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
257
bcfde334 258 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
1ca2c806 259 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
bcfde334 260
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261 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
262 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
263 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
264 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
265
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266 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
267 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
268 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
269 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
270 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
271 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
272 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
273
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274 32: only for 32-bit processes
275 64: only for 64-bit processes
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276 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
277 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
278
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279 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
280 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
281 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
282 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
283 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
284 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
285
89e0b9a3 286 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
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287 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
288 Possible values are:
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289 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
290 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
291 flushed before they will be reused, which
292 is a lot of faster
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293 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
294 the system
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295 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
296 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
297 allowed anymore to lift isolation
298 requirements as needed. This option
299 does not override iommu=pt
afa9fdc2 300
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301 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
302 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
303 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
304 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
305 IOMMU initialization.
306
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307 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
308 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
309 remapping modes:
310 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
311 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
312 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
313 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
314 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
315
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316 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
317 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
318 Format: <a>,<b>
1752118d 319 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
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320
321 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
322 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
323 connected to one of 16 gameports
324 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
325
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326 apc= [HW,SPARC]
327 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
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328 Format: noidle
329 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
330 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
331 APC and your system crashes randomly.
332
64e05d11 333 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
806654a9 334 Change the output verbosity while booting
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335 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
336 Change the amount of debugging information output
337 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
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338 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
339 driver name.
340 Format: apic=driver_name
341 Examples: apic=bigsmp
a9913044 342
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343 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
344 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
345 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
346 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
347 backup of CPU 0
348 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
349 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
350 shot down by NMI
351
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352 autoconf= [IPV6]
353 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
354
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355 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
356 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
357 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
358 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
359 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
360 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
361 apic=verbose is specified.
362 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
363
1da177e4 364 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
71f77055 365 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
1da177e4 366
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367 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
368 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
369
370 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
371
372 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
373
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374 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
375 EzKey and similar keyboards
376
377 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
378
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379 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
380 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
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381
382 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
383 keyboards
384
385 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
386 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
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387
388 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
389 Use software keyboard repeat
1da177e4 390
a106fb0c 391 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
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392 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
393 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
394 enabled until the next reboot
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395 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
396 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
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397 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
398 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
399 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
400 userspace auditd.
a106fb0c 401 Default: unset
f3411cb2 402
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403 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
404 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
405 Default: 64
406
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407 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
408 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
409 Format: { "0" | "1" }
410 0 - Disable the BAU.
411 1 - Enable the BAU.
412 unset - Disable the BAU.
413
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414 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
415 Format: <io>,<mode>
a9913044 416
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417 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
418 Format: <io>,<mode>
419 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
420
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421 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
422 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
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423 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
424 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
425
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426 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
427 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
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428 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
429 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
430
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431 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
432 embedded devices based on command line input.
433 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
434
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435 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
436 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
437 no delay (0).
438 Format: integer
439
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440 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
441
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442 bert_disable [ACPI]
443 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
444
1da177e4 445 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
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446 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
447 kernel args too.
a405ed85 448 bttv.pll= See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
395cf969 449 bttv.tuner=
1da177e4 450
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451 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
452 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
453 at a time.
454
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455 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
456
cd4f0ef7 457 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
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458 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
459 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
460 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
461 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
462 This option provides an override for these situations.
463
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464 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
465 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
466 trust validation.
32c4741c 467 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
ffb70f61 468
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469 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
470 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
471 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
472 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
473 others).
474
6dddd7a7 475 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
14ff56bb 476 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
1da177e4 477
6dddd7a7 478 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
8bab8dde 479 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
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480 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
481 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
482 a single hierarchy
483 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
484 subsystem
485 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
486 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
487 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
8bab8dde 488
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489 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
490 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
491 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
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492 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
493 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
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494 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
495 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
496 all v1 hierarchies.
1619b6d4 497
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498 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
499 Format: <string>
500 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
04823c83 501 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
f7e1cb6e 502
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503 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
504 Format: { "0" | "1" }
505 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
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506 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
507 any implied execute protection).
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508 1 -- check protection requested by application.
509 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
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510 Value can be changed at runtime via
511 /selinux/checkreqprot.
512
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513 cio_ignore= [S390]
514 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
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515 clk_ignore_unused
516 [CLK]
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517 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
518 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
519 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
520 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
521 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
522 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
523 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
524 platform with proper driver support. For more
18bcaa4e 525 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
661ca0da 526
cd4f0ef7 527 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
734efb46 528 [Deprecated]
3f6dee9b 529 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
734efb46 530 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
3f6dee9b 531 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
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532 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
533
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536 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
537 with the name specified.
538 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
539 the platform:
540 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
541 [ACPI] acpi_pm
542 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
543 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
9863c90f 544 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
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545 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
546 [MIPS] MIPS
547 [PARISC] cr16
548 [S390] tod
549 [SH] SuperH
550 [SPARC64] tick
551 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
552
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553 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
554 [ARM,ARM64]
555 Format: <bool>
556 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
557 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
558 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
559 systems.
560
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561 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
562 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
cd4d09ec 563 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
07983f0e 564 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
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565 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
566 ones should be.
567 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
568 or using the feature without checking anything
569 will still see it. This just prevents it from
570 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
571 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
572 some critical bits.
573
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574 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
575 [ARM,X86,KNL]
576 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
577 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
578 placement constraint by the physical address range of
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579 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
580 altogether. For more information, see
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581 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
582
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583 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
584 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
585 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
586 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
587 a hypervisor.
588 Default: yes
589
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590 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
591 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
e9da6e99 592 allocations, by default set to 256K.
c7909509 593
1da177e4 594 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
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595 Format:
596 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
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598 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
599 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
600
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601 com90xx= [HW,NET]
602 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
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603 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
604
605 condev= [HW,S390] console device
606 conmode=
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608 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
609
610 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
611
612 ttyS<n>[,options]
f1a1c2dc 613 ttyUSB0[,options]
1da177e4 614 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
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615 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
616 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
617 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
618 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
619
e52347bd 620 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
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621 information. See
622 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
623 alternative.
1da177e4 624
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625 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
626 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
bd94c407 627 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
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628 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
629 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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630 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
631 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
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632 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
633 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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634 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
635 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
636 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
637 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
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638 the h/w is not re-initialized.
639
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640 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
641 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
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643 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
644 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
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645 console=brl,ttyS0
646 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
647
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648 console_msg_format=
649 [KNL] Change console messages format
650 default
651 By default we print messages on consoles in
652 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
653 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
654 `printk_time' param).
655 syslog
656 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
657 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
658 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
659 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
660 from /proc/kmsg.
661
f324edc8 662 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
ac0a314c 663 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
6dddd7a7 664 Defaults to 0.
f324edc8 665
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666 coredump_filter=
667 [KNL] Change the default value for
668 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
669 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
670
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671 coresight_cpu_debug.enable
672 [ARM,ARM64]
673 Format: <bool>
674 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
675 0: default value, disable debugging
676 1: enable debugging at boot time
677
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678 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
679 disable the cpuidle sub-system
680
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681 cpuidle.governor=
682 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
683
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684 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
685 disable the cpufreq sub-system
686
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687 cpu_init_udelay=N
688 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
689 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
690 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
691 Default: 10000
692
1da177e4 693 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
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694 Format:
695 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
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697 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
698 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
699 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
700 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
701 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
702 is selected automatically. Check
703 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
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705 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
706 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
707 in the running system. The syntax of range is
708 start-[end] where start and end are both
709 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
6f21e646 710 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
fb391599 711
adbc742b 712 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
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713 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
714 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
715 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
716 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
717 available.
718 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
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719 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
720 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
721 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
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722 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
723 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
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724 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
725 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
726 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
727 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
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728 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
729 for second kernel instead.
730 0: to disable low allocation.
adbc742b 731 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
55a20ee7 732 or memory reserved is below 4G.
c729de8f 733
9e5c9fe4 734 cryptomgr.notests
6dddd7a7 735 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
9e5c9fe4 736
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737 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
738 Format: <dma>
739
740 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
741 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
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a9913044 743 dasd= [HW,NET]
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744 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
745
746 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
747 (one device per port)
748 Format: <port#>,<type>
1752118d 749 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4 750
6dddd7a7 751 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
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752 time. See
753 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
29e36c9f 754 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
a648ec05 755
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756 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
757
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758 debug_boot_weak_hash
759 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
760 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
761 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are
762 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
763 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
764 insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
765
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766 debug_locks_verbose=
767 [KNL] verbose self-tests
768 Format=<0|1>
769 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
770 self-tests.
771 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
772 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
773 only useful to kernel developers.
774
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775 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
776
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777 no_debug_objects
778 [KNL] Disable object debugging
779
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780 debug_guardpage_minorder=
781 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
782 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
783 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
784 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
785 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
786 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
787 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
788 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
789 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
790 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
791 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
792 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
793 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
794 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
795 bypassed) which are not detectable by
796 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
797 tracking down these problems.
798
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799 debug_pagealloc=
800 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
801 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
802 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
803 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
804 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
805 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
806 on: enable the feature
807
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808 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
809
2d27a966 810 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
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811 Format: <area>[,<node>]
812 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
813
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815 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
816 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
817 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
818 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
819 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
820 if not specified.
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822 deferred_probe_timeout=
823 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
824 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
825 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
826 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
827 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
828 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
829 retrying.
830
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831 dhash_entries= [KNL]
832 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
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834 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
835 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
836 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
837 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
838 miss to occur.
839
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840 disable= [IPV6]
841 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
842
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843 hardened_usercopy=
844 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
845 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
846 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
847 from reading or writing beyond known memory
848 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
849 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
850 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
851 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
852 off Disable hardened usercopy checks.
853
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854 disable_radix [PPC]
855 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
856
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857 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
858 Format: <int>
859 The number of initial APIC ID for the
860 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
861 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
862 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
863 causing system reset or hang due to sending
864 INIT from AP to BSP.
865
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866 perf_v4_pmi= [X86,INTEL]
867 Format: <bool>
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868 Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature.
869 The feature only exists starting from
870 Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer).
871
6dddd7a7 872 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
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873 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
874 to workaround buggy firmware.
875
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876 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
877 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
878
95ffa243 879 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
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880 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
881 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
0cb55ad2 882 entry later. This parameter disables that.
95ffa243 883
093af8d7 884 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
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885 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
886 memory out of your available memory pool based on
887 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
888 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
889
6cececfc 890 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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891 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
892 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
893
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894 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
895
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896 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
897 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
898
899 dma_debug_entries=<number>
900 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
901 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
902 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
903 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
904 architectural default is too low.
905
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906 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
907 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
908 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
909 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
910 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
911 driver later using sysfs.
912
53fd40a9 913 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
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914 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
915 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
916 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
917 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
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918 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
919 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
920 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
921 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
922 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
923 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
924 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
925 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
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926 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
927 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
928 data set with no connector name will be used for
929 any connectors not explicitly specified.
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931 dscc4.setup= [NET]
932
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933 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC]
934 Format: {"off" | "known"}
935 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
936 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
937 exists).
938 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
939 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
940 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
941
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942 dump_apple_properties [X86]
943 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
944 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
945 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
946
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947 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
948 module.dyndbg[="val"]
949 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
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951 for details.
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953 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
954 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
955 information about the feature.
956
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957 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
958 in some Intel CPUs.
959
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960 module.async_probe [KNL]
961 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
962
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963 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
964 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
965 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
966 which are not unmapped.
967
0cb55ad2 968 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
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970 [ARM64] The early console is determined by the
971 stdout-path property in device tree's chosen node,
972 or determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
973
974 [X86] When used with no options the early console is
975 determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
5664f764 976
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977 cdns,<addr>[,options]
978 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
979 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
980 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
981 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
982 configured.
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984 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
985 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1917ac76 986 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
6e63be3f 987 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
ca782f16 988 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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989 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
990 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
16290246 991 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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992 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
993 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
994 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
995 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
ca782f16 996 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
0cb55ad2 997
0d3c673e 998 pl011,<addr>
3b78fae7 999 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
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1000 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1001 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1002 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
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1003 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1004 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1005 the device registers.
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1007 meson,<addr>
1008 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1009 port at the specified address. The serial port must
1010 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1011 supported.
1012
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1013 msm_serial,<addr>
1014 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1015 port at the specified address. The serial port
1016 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1017 yet supported.
1018
1019 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1020 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1021 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1022 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1023 yet supported.
1024
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1025 owl,<addr>
1026 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1027 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1028 specified address. The serial port must already be
1029 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1030
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1031 rda,<addr>
1032 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1033 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1034 specified address. The serial port must already be
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1035 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1036
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1037 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1038
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1039 s3c2410,<addr>
1040 s3c2412,<addr>
1041 s3c2440,<addr>
1042 s3c6400,<addr>
1043 s5pv210,<addr>
1044 exynos4210,<addr>
1045 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1046 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1047 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1048 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1049 Options are not yet supported.
1050
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1051 lantiq,<addr>
1052 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1053 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1054 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1055 yet supported.
1056
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1057 lpuart,<addr>
1058 lpuart32,<addr>
1059 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1060 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1061 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1062 port must already be setup and configured.
1063
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1065 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1066 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1067 address. The serial port must already be setup
1068 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1069
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1070 qcom_geni,<addr>
1071 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1072 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1073 specified address. The serial port must already be
1074 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1075
4ba66a97 1076 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1da177e4 1077 earlyprintk=vga
72548e83 1078 earlyprintk=efi
89175cf7 1079 earlyprintk=sclp
2482a92e 1080 earlyprintk=xen
1da177e4 1081 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
147ea091 1082 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
ea3acb19 1083 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
9780bc41 1084 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
d2266bbf 1085 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1b5aeebf 1086 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1da177e4 1087
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DH
1088 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1089 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1090 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1091
a9913044 1092 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1da177e4
LT
1093 takes over.
1094
72548e83
MF
1095 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1096 be used at a time.
1da177e4 1097
147ea091
DH
1098 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1099 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1100 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1101 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1102 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1103 You can find the port for a given device in
1104 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1105 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1da177e4
LT
1106
1107 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1108 very good.
1109
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MF
1110 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1111 the real console.
1da177e4 1112
2482a92e
KRW
1113 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1114
89175cf7
HC
1115 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1116
d2266bbf
FT
1117 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1118 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1119 UART class.
1120
c700f013
CG
1121 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1122 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1123 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1124 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1125 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1126 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1127 default: on.
1128
9731191f
JW
1129 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1130 ekgdboc=kbd
1131
25985edc 1132 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
9731191f
JW
1133 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1134
1da177e4 1135 edd= [EDD]
8c4dd606 1136 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1da177e4 1137
d2f7cbe7 1138 efi= [EFI]
fed6cefe 1139 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
d2f7cbe7
BP
1140 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1141 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1142 default.
5a17dae4
MF
1143 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1144 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1145 firmware implementations.
5ae3683c 1146 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
fed6cefe 1147 debug: enable misc debug output
d2f7cbe7 1148
8c58bf3e
RW
1149 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1150 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1151 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1152 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1153 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1154
0f96a99d
TI
1155 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1156 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1157 updating original EFI memory map.
1158 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1159 from ss to ss+nn.
1160 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1161 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1162 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1163 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1164
1165 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1166 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1167 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1168 doesn't support it.
1169
475fb4e8
OP
1170 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1171 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1172 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1173 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1174 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1175
1176
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LT
1177 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1178 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1179
cd4f0ef7 1180 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1da177e4 1181 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
71f77055 1182 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1da177e4
LT
1183
1184 elevator= [IOSCHED]
17a9e7bb 1185 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
395cf969 1186 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
a9913044
RD
1187 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1188
d3bf3795 1189 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
a9913044 1190 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
d3bf3795
MH
1191 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1192 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
aac04b32 1193 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
1da177e4 1194
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RD
1195 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1196 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1197 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1198 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1199
ca1eda2d 1200 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
0cb55ad2
RD
1201 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1202 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1203 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1204 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1205
1da177e4
LT
1206 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1207 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1208 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1209 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1210 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1211 Default value is 0.
1212 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1213
a08f82d0
HY
1214 erst_disable [ACPI]
1215 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1216 support.
1217
1da177e4
LT
1218 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1219 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1220 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1221
7102ebcd
MZ
1222 evm= [EVM]
1223 Format: { "fix" }
1224 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1225 current integrity status.
1226
de1ba09b
AM
1227 failslab=
1228 fail_page_alloc=
1229 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1230 General fault injection mechanism.
1231 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
395cf969 1232 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
de1ba09b 1233
1da177e4 1234 floppy= [HW]
31c00fc1 1235 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1da177e4 1236
f13ae30e
AC
1237 force_pal_cache_flush
1238 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1239 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1240 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1241 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1242
6dddd7a7 1243 forcepae [X86-32]
69f2366c
CB
1244 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1245 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1246 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1247 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1248 and may cause unknown problems.
1249
d9e54076 1250 ftrace=[tracer]
2af15d6a 1251 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
d9e54076
PZ
1252 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1253 boot debugging.
1254
cecbca96 1255 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
2af15d6a 1256 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
cecbca96
FW
1257 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1258 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1259 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1260 oops.
2af15d6a
SR
1261
1262 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1263 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1264 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1265 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1266 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
16290246 1267 tracing directory.
2af15d6a
SR
1268
1269 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1270 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1271 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1272 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1273 tracing directory.
d9e54076 1274
369bc18f
SA
1275 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1276 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1277 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1278 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1279 that can be changed at run time by the
1280 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1281
0d7d9a16
NK
1282 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1283 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1284 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1285 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1286 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1287
65a50c65
TB
1288 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1289 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1290 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1291 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1292 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1293
1da177e4
LT
1294 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1295 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1296 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1297 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1752118d 1298 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4
LT
1299
1300 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1301
6dddd7a7 1302 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
aaf23042
YL
1303 Format: off | on
1304 default: on
1305
2521f2c2
PO
1306 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1307 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1308 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1309 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1310 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1311
47512cfd
TG
1312 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1313 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1314 android emulator
1315
1da177e4 1316 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
6c5de79b
DB
1317 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1318 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1319 GPT to be used instead.
1da177e4 1320
6cec9b07
AL
1321 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1322 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1323 Format: 0 | 1
1324 Default: 0
1325 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1326 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1327 Format: 0 | 1
1328 Default: 0
1329 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1330 Format: 0 | 1
1331 Default: 0
1332 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1333 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1334 Default: 1024
1335 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1336 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1337 Default: 1024
1338
0f98dd1b
BJZ
1339 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1340 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1341 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1342
55537871
JK
1343 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1344 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1345 backtraces on all cpus.
1346 Format: <integer>
1347
1da177e4
LT
1348 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1349 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
16290246 1350 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
a9913044 1351 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1da177e4
LT
1352
1353 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1354
1355 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1356 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1357
ea8c071c
HY
1358 hest_disable [ACPI]
1359 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1360 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1361 logic will be disabled.
1362
1da177e4
LT
1363 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1364 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1365 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1366 size on bigger boxes.
1367
54cdfdb4
TG
1368 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1369 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1370 Default: "on"
1371
1da177e4
LT
1372 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1373 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1374
0cb55ad2
RD
1375 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1376
1377 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1378 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1379 verbose }
1380 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1381 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1382 VIA, nVidia)
1383 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1384
3d035f58
PB
1385 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1386 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1387
b4718e62
AK
1388 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1389 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
0d9ea754
JT
1390 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1391 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1392 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1393 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
27ec26ec 1394 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
6902aa84 1395
a49d9c0a
OS
1396 hung_task_panic=
1397 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1398 Format: <integer>
cef7125d 1399
a49d9c0a
OS
1400 A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a
1401 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1402 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1403 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1404 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1405
6dddd7a7
TB
1406 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1407 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1408 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1409 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1410 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
3a025de6
YS
1411
1412 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1413 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1414 guest on lock contention.
1415
7bf69395
FDN
1416 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1417 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1418 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1419 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1420 the real console.
1421
6dddd7a7
TB
1422 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1423 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1424 registered from board initialization code.
1425 Format:
1426 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
3a853fb9 1427
36d95739 1428 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
e1443d28
SCP
1429 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1430 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1431 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1432 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1da177e4 1433 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
84eb8d06
ML
1434 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1435 keyboard and cannot control its state
1da177e4
LT
1436 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1437 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
945ef0d4 1438 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
75d08c78
JK
1439 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1440 for the AUX port
1da177e4 1441 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
e55a3366 1442 controller
1da177e4
LT
1443 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1444 controllers
24775d65 1445 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
930e1924
MPS
1446 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1447 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1448 transitions, or never reset
1449 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1450 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1451 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1452 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1453 architectures force reset to be always executed
1da177e4 1454 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
6dddd7a7 1455 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1da177e4
LT
1456
1457 i810= [HW,DRM]
1458
e70c9d5e
DT
1459 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1460 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1461 hardware.
1da177e4
LT
1462 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1463 does not match list of supported models.
1464 i8k.power_status
1465 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1466 (disabled by default)
1467 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1468 capability is set.
1469
4dca20ef 1470 i915.invert_brightness=
7bd90909
CE
1471 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1472 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
4dca20ef
CE
1473 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1474 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1475 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1476 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1477 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1478 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1479 value switches the backlight off.
1480 -1 -- never invert brightness
1481 0 -- machine default
1482 1 -- force brightness inversion
7bd90909 1483
1da177e4
LT
1484 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1485 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1486
0af80c04
DF
1487 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1488 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
075affcb
BZ
1489 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1490 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1c10e938 1491 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1da177e4 1492
0f8b7f5d
MR
1493 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1494 Format: <int>
1495 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1496 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1497 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1498 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1499 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1500 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1501 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1502 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1503 was 0x3.
1504
0cb55ad2
RD
1505 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1506 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1507
f039b754 1508 idle= [X86]
69fb3676 1509 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
ada9cfdd
RD
1510 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1511 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1512 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1513 Not recommended.
ada9cfdd 1514 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
c1e3b377 1515 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
ada9cfdd 1516 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
a9913044 1517
503943e0
MR
1518 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1519 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1520 Default: strict
1521
1522 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1523 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1524 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1525 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1526 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1527 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1528 encoding mode.
1529
1530 Available settings are as follows:
1531 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1532 supported by the FPU
1533 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1534 by the FPU
1535 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1536 by the FPU
1537 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1538 supported by the FPU
1539
1540 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1541 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1542 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1543 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1544 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1545 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1546 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1547 MIPS64 CPUs.
1548
1549 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1550 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1551 except where unsupported by hardware.
1552
79290822
IM
1553 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1554 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1555 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
0eca6b7c
YZ
1556 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1557 could change it dynamically, usually by
1558 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
79290822 1559
d977d56c
KK
1560 ignore_rlimit_data
1561 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1562 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1563 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1564
1da177e4
LT
1565 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1566 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1567
2fe5d6de 1568 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2faa6ef3 1569 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
2fe5d6de
MZ
1570 default: "enforce"
1571
07f6a794
MZ
1572 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1573 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1574 owned by uid=0.
1575
d68a6fe9
MZ
1576 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1577 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1578 measurements, instead of host native format.
1579
3323eec9 1580 ima_hash= [IMA]
e7a2ad7e
MZ
1581 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1582 | sha512 | ... }
3323eec9
MZ
1583 default: "sha1"
1584
e7a2ad7e
MZ
1585 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1586 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1587
24fd03c8 1588 ima_policy= [IMA]
33ce9549 1589 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
9e67028e
MZ
1590 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1591 fail_securely"
33ce9549
MZ
1592
1593 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1594 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1595 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1596 uid=0.
1597
1598 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1599 all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent
1600 of ima_appraise_tcb.)
24fd03c8 1601
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1602 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1603 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1604 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
24fd03c8 1605
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1606 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1607 verification failure also on privileged mounted
1608 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1609 flag.
1610
24fd03c8 1611 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
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1612 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1613 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1614 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1615 opened for read by uid=0.
1616
6dddd7a7 1617 ima_template= [IMA]
9b9d4ce5 1618 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
8265a2f8 1619 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
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1620 Default: "ima-ng"
1621
c2426d2a 1622 ima_template_fmt=
6dddd7a7 1623 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
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1624 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1625
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1626 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1627 Format: <min_file_size>
1628 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1629 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1630
1631 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1632 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1633 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1634
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1635 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1636 Format: <bufsize>
1637 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1638
1639 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1640 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1641 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1642
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1643 init= [KNL]
1644 Format: <full_path>
1645 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1646 process.
1647
1648 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1649 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1650 startup.
1651
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1652 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1653 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1654 modules and initcalls.
1655
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1656 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1657
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1658 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1659 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1660 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1661 override in debugfs after boot.
1662
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1663 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1664 Format: <irq>
1665
6dddd7a7 1666 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
6bb2ff84 1667
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1668 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1669 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1670 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1671 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1672
ba395927 1673 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
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1674 on
1675 Enable intel iommu driver.
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1676 off
1677 Disable intel iommu driver.
1678 igfx_off [Default Off]
1679 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1680 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1681 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1682 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1683 DMA.
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1684 forcedac [x86_64]
1685 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
16290246 1686 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
7d3b03ce 1687 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
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1688 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1689 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
7d3b03ce 1690 then look in the higher range.
5e0d2a6f 1691 strict [Default Off]
1692 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1693 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1694 to batching them for performance.
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1695 sp_off [Default Off]
1696 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1697 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1698 not be supported.
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1699 sm_on [Default Off]
1700 By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the
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1701 hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable
1702 mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode
8950dcd8 1703 will be used on hardware which claims to support it.
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1704 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1705 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1706 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1707 could harm performance of some high-throughput
1708 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1709 mapping is enabled.
1710 Note that using this option lowers the security
1711 provided by tboot because it makes the system
1712 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
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1713
1714 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1715 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
22c6bbe4 1716 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
2e92c7ad 1717
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1718 intel_pstate= [X86]
1719 disable
1720 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1721 scaling driver for the supported processors
1722 passive
1723 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1724 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1725 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1726 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1727 feature.
1728 force
1729 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1730 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1731 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1732 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1733 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1734 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1735 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1736 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1737 no_hwp
1738 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1739 if available.
1740 hwp_only
1741 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1742 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1743 support_acpi_ppc
1744 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1745 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1746 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1747 then this feature is turned on by default.
1748 per_cpu_perf_limits
1749 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1750 cpufreq sysfs interface
6be26498 1751
d1423d56 1752 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
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1753 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1754 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1755 nosid disable Source ID checking
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1756 no_x2apic_optout
1757 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
b7d20631 1758 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
d1423d56 1759
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1760 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1761 strict regions from userspace.
1762 relaxed
1763
1764 iommu= [x86]
1765 off
1766 force
1767 noforce
1768 biomerge
1769 panic
1770 nopanic
1771 merge
1772 nomerge
0cb55ad2 1773 soft
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1774 pt [x86]
1775 nopt [x86]
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1776 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1777 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
bcb71abe 1778
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1779 iommu.strict= [ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
1780 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1781 0 - Lazy mode.
1782 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
1783 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
1784 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
1785 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
1786 the relevant IOMMU driver.
1787 1 - Strict mode (default).
1788 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
1789 synchronously.
1790
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1791 iommu.passthrough=
1792 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1793 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1794 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1795 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
9d723b4c 1796 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
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1797
1798 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1799 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1800 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1801
6cececfc 1802 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
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1803 0x80
1804 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1805 0xed
1806 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
b02aae9c 1807 udelay
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1808 Simple two microseconds delay
1809 none
1810 No delay
b02aae9c 1811
1da177e4 1812 ip= [IP_PNP]
dc7a0816 1813 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 1814
fbf19803 1815 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2d13e6ca 1816 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
fbf19803 1817
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1818 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1819 [ARM, ARM64]
1820 Format: <bool>
1821 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1822 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1823 exposed by the device tree is too small.
1824
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1825 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
1826 [ARM, ARM64]
1827 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
1828 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
1829 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
1830 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
1831 LPIs.
1832
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1833 irqfixup [HW]
1834 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1835 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1836 firmware running.
1837
1838 irqpoll [HW]
1839 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1840 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1841 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1842 firmware running.
1843
1da177e4 1844 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
a9913044 1845 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1da177e4 1846
d94d1053 1847 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
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1848 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1849 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
1850
1851 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1852 specified in the flag list (default: domain):
1853
1854 nohz
1855 Disable the tick when a single task runs.
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1856
1857 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
1858 need to affine to housekeeping through the global
1859 workqueue's affinity configured via the
1860 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
1861 by using the 'domain' flag described below.
1862
1863 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
1864 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
1865 be configured manually after bootup.
1866
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1867 domain
1868 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1869 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1870 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1871 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1872 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1873 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1874 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1875 move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1876
1877 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1878 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1879 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1880 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1881
1882 The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
b225d44e 1883
1da177e4 1884
1da177e4 1885
a9913044 1886 iucv= [HW,NET]
1da177e4 1887
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1888 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1889 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1890 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1891 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1892 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1893 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1894
1895 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1896 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1897 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1898 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1899 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1900 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1901
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1902 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1903 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1904 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1905 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1906 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1907 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1908
1da177e4 1909 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1752118d 1910 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
1da177e4 1911
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1912 nokaslr [KNL]
1913 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1914 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1915 Layout Randomization).
24f2e027 1916
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1917 kasan_multi_shot
1918 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1919 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1920 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1921 invalid access.
1922
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1923 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1924
342332e6 1925 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
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1926 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
1927 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
1928 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested
1929 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
1930 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for
1931 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the
1932 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
1933 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
1934 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
1935
1936 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
1937 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
1938 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
1939 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
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1940 zone if it does not.
1941
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1942 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
1943 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
1944 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror"
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1945 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1946 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
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1947 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
1948 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
ed7ed365 1949
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1950 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1951 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1952 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1953 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1954 optional and is the number seconds in between
1955 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1956 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1957 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1958 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1959 the kernel debugger.
1960
84c08fd6 1961 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
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1962 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1963 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
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1964 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1965 keyboard only format: kbd
1966 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1967 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1968 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1969 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
6cdf6e06 1970
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1971 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1972 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1973
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1974 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1975 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1976 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1977
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1978 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1979 Valid arguments: on, off
1980 Default: on
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1981 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1982 the default is off.
04f70336 1983
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1984 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1985 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1986
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1987 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
1988 Default is false (don't support).
1989
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1990 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1991 KVM MMU at runtime.
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1992 Default is 0 (off)
1993
fef07aae 1994 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
8475f94a 1995 Default is 1 (enabled)
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1996
1997 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1998 for all guests.
16290246 1999 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
fef07aae 2000
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2001 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2002 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2003 system registers
2004
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2005 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2006 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2007 system registers
2008
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2009 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2010 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2011 system registers
2012
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2013 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2014 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2015 LPIs.
2016
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2017 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2018 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2019 Default is 1 (enabled)
2020
2021 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2022 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
2023 Default is 0 (disabled)
2024
2025 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2026 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2027 Default is 1 (enabled)
2028
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2029 kvm-intel.nested=
2030 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2031 Default is 0 (disabled)
2032
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2033 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2034 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2035 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2036 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2037
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2038 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2039 CVE-2018-3620.
2040
2041 Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2042
2043 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2044 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2045 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2046 never: Disables the mitigation
2047
2048 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2049
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2050 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2051 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2052 Default is 1 (enabled)
2053
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2054 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2055 affected CPUs
2056
2057 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2058 enabled and cannot be disabled.
2059
2060 full
2061 Provides all available mitigations for the
2062 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2063 enables all mitigations in the
2064 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2065
2066 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2067 sysfs interface is still possible after
2068 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2069 when the first VM is started in a
2070 potentially insecure configuration,
2071 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2072
2073 full,force
2074 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2075 flush runtime control. Implies the
2076 'nosmt=force' command line option.
2077 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2078
2079 flush
2080 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2081 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2082 L1D flush.
2083
2084 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2085 sysfs interface is still possible after
2086 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2087 when the first VM is started in a
2088 potentially insecure configuration,
2089 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2090
2091 flush,nosmt
2092
2093 Disables SMT and enables the default
2094 hypervisor mitigation.
2095
2096 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2097 sysfs interface is still possible after
2098 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2099 when the first VM is started in a
2100 potentially insecure configuration,
2101 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2102
2103 flush,nowarn
2104 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2105 warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2106 insecure configuration.
2107
2108 off
2109 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2110 emit any warnings.
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2111 It also drops the swap size and available
2112 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2113 bare metal.
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2114
2115 Default is 'flush'.
2116
65fd4cb6 2117 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
d90a7a0e 2118
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2119 l2cr= [PPC]
2120
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2121 l3cr= [PPC]
2122
cd4f0ef7 2123 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
a9913044 2124 disabled it.
1da177e4 2125
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2126 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
2127 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2128 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2129
6cececfc 2130 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
ada9cfdd 2131 in C2 power state.
e585bef8 2132
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2133 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
2134 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2135 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2136 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
16290246 2137 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
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2138 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2139 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
16290246 2140
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2141 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2142 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
2143 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
fcb71f6f 2144
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2145 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2146 when set.
2147 Format: <int>
2148
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2149 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
2150 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
4c44f309 2151 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
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2152 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
2153 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
2154 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2155 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2156 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2157
2158 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2159 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
2160 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2161 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
2162 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2163 host link and device attached to it.
2164
2165 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
2166 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2167 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2168 The following configurations can be forced.
2169
2170 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2171 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2172
2173 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2174
2175 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2176 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2177 allowed.
2178
2179 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2180
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2181 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2182
05944bdf 2183 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
6dddd7a7 2184 and both resets.
05944bdf 2185
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2186 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2187 hot-unplug link recovery
2188
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2189 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2190
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VP
2191 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2192
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RJ
2193 * disable: Disable this device.
2194
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TH
2195 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2196 the same attribute, the last one is used.
2197
95f72d1e 2198 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
7c4be253 2199
1da177e4 2200 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
31c00fc1 2201 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 2202
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2203 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2204 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 2205
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2206 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2207 Format: <integer>
2208
2209 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2210 Format: <integer>
2211
2212 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2213 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 2214
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2215 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2216 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2217 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2218 number of online CPUs.
2219
2220 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2221 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2222
2223 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2224 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2225
2226 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2227 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2228 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2229
2230 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2231 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2232 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2233 mode during the locktorture test.
2234
2235 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2236 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2237 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2238
2239 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2240 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2241
2242 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2243 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2244 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2245 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2246 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2247 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2248
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2249 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2250 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2251
2252 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2253 Enable additional printk() statements.
2254
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2255 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2256 Format: <irq>
2257
2258 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2259 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2260 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2261 loglevels are defined as follows:
2262
2263 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2264 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2265 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2266 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2267 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2268 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2269 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2270 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2271
c756d08a 2272 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
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LR
2273 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2274 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2275 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2276 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2277 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2278 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
1da177e4 2279
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2280 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2281 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2282 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2283 kernel boot problems.
2284
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2285 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2286 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2287 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2288 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2289 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2290 attached printers to be reset. Using
2291 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2292 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2293 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2294 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2295 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2296 port specification list means that device IDs
2297 from each port should be examined, to see if
2298 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2299 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2300 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2301
2302 lpj=n [KNL]
2303 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2304 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2305 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2306 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2307 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2308 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2309 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2310 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2311 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2312 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2313 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2314 hardware.
2315
2316 ltpc= [NET]
2317 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2318
9b8c7c14
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2319 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2320
16290246 2321 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
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2322 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2323 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
1da177e4 2324
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WZ
2325 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2326 yeeloong laptop.
2327 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2328
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2329 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2330 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
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2331
2332 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
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BH
2333 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2334 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2335 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2336 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2337 only takes effect during system bootup.
2338 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2339 which also disables the IO APIC.
1da177e4 2340
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2341 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2342 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2343 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2344 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2345 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2346 /dev/loop-control interface.
2b2c3750 2347
cd4f0ef7 2348 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
1da177e4 2349
71cced6e 2350 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
909dd324 2351
1da177e4 2352 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
e52347bd 2353 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
a9913044 2354
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2355 mdacon= [MDA]
2356 Format: <first>,<last>
2357 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
a9913044 2358
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2359 mds= [X86,INTEL]
2360 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2361 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2362
2363 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2364 internal buffers which can forward information to a
2365 disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2366
2367 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2368 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2369 attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2370 not have direct access.
2371
2372 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2373 options are:
2374
2375 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2376 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
2377
2378 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2379 mds=full.
2380
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TG
2381 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2382
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LT
2383 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2384 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2385 to see the whole system memory or for test.
fbb97d87
WC
2386 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2387 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2388 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2389 belonging to unused RAM.
1da177e4 2390
cd4f0ef7 2391 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
1da177e4
LT
2392 memory.
2393
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PM
2394 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2395 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2396 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2397
6dddd7a7 2398 memhp_default_state=online/offline
86dd995d
VK
2399 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2400 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2401 set according to the
2402 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2403 option.
2404 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2405
6cececfc 2406 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
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LT
2407 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2408 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2409 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2410 option description.
2411
2412 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
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2413 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2414 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
8fcc9bc3
BH
2415 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2416 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2417 Multiple different regions can be specified,
2418 comma delimited.
2419 Example:
2420 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
1da177e4
LT
2421
2422 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2423 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
277cba1d 2424 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
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LT
2425
2426 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2427 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
277cba1d 2428 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
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PM
2429 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2430 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2431 or
2432 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
8fcc9bc3
BH
2433 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2434 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2435 will be eaten.
1da177e4 2436
ec776ef6
CH
2437 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2438 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2439 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2440 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2441 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2442
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JS
2443 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2444 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2445 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2446 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2447 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2448 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2449 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2450 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2451
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JF
2452 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2453 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2454 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2455 Setting this option will scan the memory
2456 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2457 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2458 from using the memory being corrupted.
2459 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2460 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2461 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2462 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2463
2464 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2465 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2466 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2467 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2468 corruption in more or less memory.
2469
2470 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2471 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2472 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2473 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2474
d90fe2ac 2475 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest
c64df707 2476 Format: <integer>
c64df707 2477 default : 0 <disable>
9e5f6cf5
AH
2478 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2479 performed. Each pass selects another test
2480 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2481 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2482 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2483 regions that are detected.
c64df707 2484
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TL
2485 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2486 Valid arguments: on, off
2487 Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2488 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2489 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2490 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
2491 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
2492
2493 Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
2494 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2495
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RW
2496 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2497 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2498 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2499 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
58e7cb9e 2500 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
406e7938 2501
1da177e4 2502 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
a405ed85 2503 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
1da177e4 2504
8f36881b
AS
2505 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2506 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2507 platforms.
2508
e6c4dc6c
WT
2509 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2510 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2511 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2512 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2513
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LT
2514 mga= [HW,DRM]
2515
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RD
2516 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2517 physical address is ignored.
2518
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MP
2519 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2520 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2521 Default: "0tb"
2522 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2523 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2524 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2525 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2526 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2527 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2528 unconfigured.
2529 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2530 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2531 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2532 VGA shield.
2533 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2534 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2535 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2536 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2537 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2538 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2539
6b74ab97
MG
2540 mminit_loglevel=
2541 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2542 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2543 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2544 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2545 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2546 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2547
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RR
2548 module.sig_enforce
2549 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2550 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2a039be7 2551 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
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RR
2552 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2553
be7de5f9
PB
2554 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2555 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2556
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2557 mousedev.tap_time=
2558 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2559 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2560 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2561 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2562 Format: <msecs>
2563 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2564 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2565 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2566 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2567
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DR
2568 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2569 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2570 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
2571 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
2572 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is
2573 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
2574 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its
2575 own is specified, the administrator must be careful
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RD
2576 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2577 is not too small.
2578
f70029bb
MH
2579 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2580 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2581 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2582 allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2583 allocations. Use with caution!
c5320926 2584
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2585 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2586 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2587
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RD
2588 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2589 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
1da177e4
LT
2590
2591 mtdparts= [MTD]
c8facbb6 2592 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
1da177e4 2593
4e89a2d8
WS
2594 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2595 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2596 at a time.
2597
5988af23
RH
2598 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2599
2600 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2601
2602 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2603 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2604 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2605 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2606 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2607
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BD
2608 mtdset= [ARM]
2609 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2610
2611 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2612
1da177e4 2613 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
a9913044
RD
2614 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2615 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
1da177e4 2616
0cb55ad2 2617 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
19f59460 2618 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
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RD
2619 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2620
2621 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2622 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2623 Default is 1.
2624 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2625 using up MTRRs.
2626
2627 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2628 Format: <integer>
2629 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2630 Default : 1
2631 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2632 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2633
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LT
2634 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2635
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LT
2636 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2637 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2638 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2639 something different and driver-specific.
a9913044
RD
2640 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2641 file if at all.
2642
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KPO
2643 nf_conntrack.acct=
2644 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2645 0 to disable accounting
2646 1 to enable accounting
d70a011d 2647 Default value is 0.
58401572 2648
306a0753 2649 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
dc7a0816 2650 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
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LT
2651
2652 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
dc7a0816 2653 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 2654
306a0753
CL
2655 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2656 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2657
5405fc44
TM
2658 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2659 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2660 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2661 requests.
2662
a72b4422
TM
2663 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2664 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2665 channel should listen.
2666
e571cbf1
TM
2667 nfs.cache_getent=
2668 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2669 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2670
2671 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2672 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2673 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2674
58df095b
TM
2675 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2676 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2677 entries.
2678
f43bf0be
TM
2679 nfs.enable_ino64=
2680 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2681 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2682 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2683 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2684 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2685
5405fc44
TM
2686 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2687 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2688 slots the client will assign to the callback
2689 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2690 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2691 a particular server.
2692
ef159e91
TM
2693 nfs.max_session_slots=
2694 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2695 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2696 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2697 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2698 Note that there is little point in setting this
2699 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2700
b064eca2 2701 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
074b1d12
TM
2702 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2703 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2704 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2705 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2706 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2707 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2708 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2709 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2710 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2711 back to using the idmapper.
2712 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
6f2ea7f2
CL
2713 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2714 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2715 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2716 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2717 UUID that is generated at system install time.
b064eca2 2718
db8ac8ba
WAA
2719 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2720 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2721 information in exchange_id requests.
2722 If zero, no implementation identification information
2723 will be sent.
2724 The default is to send the implementation identification
2725 information.
e52347bd 2726
f6de7a39
TM
2727 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2728 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2729 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2730 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2731 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2732 after the locks are lost.
2733 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2734 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2735 parameter to '1'.
2736 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2737 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
db8ac8ba 2738
bbf58bf3
TM
2739 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2740 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2741 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2742
2743 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2744 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2745 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2746 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2747
e9541ce8
BF
2748 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2749 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2750 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2751 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2752 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2753 migration from NFSv2/v3.
db8ac8ba 2754
c0c74acb 2755 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
e7ba176b
HS
2756 when a NMI is triggered.
2757 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2758
6cececfc 2759 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
fef2c9bc 2760 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
195daf66 2761 Valid num: 0 or 1
334bb79c
PK
2762 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2763 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
0cb55ad2 2764 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
fef2c9bc 2765 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
334bb79c
PK
2766 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2767 please see 'nowatchdog'.
0cb55ad2
RD
2768 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2769 need the box quickly up again.
1da177e4 2770
d22881dc
SW
2771 These settings can be accessed at runtime via
2772 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
2773
bff38771
AV
2774 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2775 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2776 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2777 waits 4 seconds.
2778
cd4f0ef7 2779 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
1da177e4
LT
2780 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2781 is present.
2782
372fddf7
KS
2783 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
2784 kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
2785
0cb55ad2
RD
2786 no_console_suspend
2787 [HW] Never suspend the console
2788 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2789 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2790 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2791 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2792 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2793 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2794 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
134620f7
YZ
2795 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2796 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2797 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2798 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2799 turn on/off it dynamically.
0cb55ad2 2800
c1aee215
CL
2801 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2802 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2803 but will impact performance.
3395ee05 2804
a9913044
RD
2805 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2806
686140a1
VG
2807 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2808 (CPU alternatives feature).
2809
1da177e4
LT
2810 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2811 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2812
5091faa4
MG
2813 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2814
1da177e4
LT
2815 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2816 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2817
2818 nocache [ARM]
a9913044 2819
0cb55ad2
RD
2820 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2821
163ecdff
SN
2822 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2823
6902aa84
PM
2824 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2825
b2e0a54a 2826 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
8b2cb7a8 2827
1da177e4
LT
2828 noexec [IA-64]
2829
6cececfc 2830 noexec [X86]
f5a1b191 2831 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
1da177e4 2832 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
f5a1b191
JS
2833 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2834
52b6179a
PA
2835 nosmap [X86]
2836 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2837 even if it is supported by processor.
2838
de5397ad 2839 nosmep [X86]
52b6179a 2840 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
de5397ad
FY
2841 even if it is supported by processor.
2842
f5a1b191
JS
2843 noexec32 [X86-64]
2844 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2845 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2846 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2847 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2848 read implies executable mappings
1da177e4 2849
fab43ef4 2850 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
6902aa84 2851
cd4f0ef7 2852 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
4f886511
CE
2853 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2854 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
1da177e4 2855
0ddab1d2
TK
2856 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2857
52c48c51
SS
2858 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2859 Equivalent to smt=1.
2860
05736e4a 2861 [KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
506a66f3
TG
2862 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
2863 via the sysfs control file.
5e2d059b 2864
26cb1f36
DC
2865 nospectre_v1 [PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 (bounds
2866 check bypass). With this option data leaks are possible
2867 in the system.
05736e4a 2868
e59f5bd7 2869 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2
da285121
DW
2870 (indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may
2871 allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent
2872 to spectre_v2=off.
2873
24f7fc83
KRW
2874 nospec_store_bypass_disable
2875 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
2876
0c752a93
SS
2877 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2878 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2879 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2880
b6f42a4a
FY
2881 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2882 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2883 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2884 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2885 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2886 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2887
2888 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2889 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2890 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2891 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2892 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2893 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2894 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2895
01a24d2b
PZ
2896 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2897 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2898 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
a9913044 2899
1f29fae2
SH
2900 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2901 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2902 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2903
1da177e4
LT
2904 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2905 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2906 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2907 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2908 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2909 real-time systems.
2910
a6e15a39
KC
2911 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2912
79bf2bb3
TG
2913 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2914 Valid arguments: on, off
2915 Default: on
2916
d94d1053 2917 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
2d13e6ca 2918 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
c5bfece2 2919 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
a831881b 2920 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
0453b435 2921 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
f99bcb2c
PM
2922 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
2923 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
2924 just as if they had also been called out in the
2925 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
a831881b 2926
eeee7853
PM
2927 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2928
cd4f0ef7 2929 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
1da177e4
LT
2930 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2931
6cececfc 2932 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
8542b200
ZA
2933 broken timer IRQ sources.
2934
1da177e4
LT
2935 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2936
2937 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2938 initial RAM disk.
2939
03ea8155
WH
2940 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2941 remapping.
d1423d56 2942 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
03ea8155 2943
1da177e4
LT
2944 nointroute [IA-64]
2945
d12a72b8
AL
2946 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2947
16290246 2948 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
0aa366f3 2949
9cf4c4fc
JK
2950 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2951
fd10cde9
GN
2952 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2953 fault handling.
2954
80e9a4f2
AM
2955 no-vmw-sched-clock
2956 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2957 clock and use the default one.
2958
6dddd7a7 2959 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
d910f5c1
GC
2960 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2961 behaviour
2962
cd4f0ef7 2963 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
1da177e4 2964
cd4f0ef7 2965 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
ad62ca2b 2966
1da177e4 2967 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
f15eea66 2968 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
1da177e4 2969
312f1f01
H
2970 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2971
13696e0a 2972 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
abe37e5a 2973
83d7384f
AS
2974 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2975 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2976
bda62633
DZ
2977 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2978 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2979 irq.
2980
02608bef
DY
2981 nomodule Disable module load
2982
016ddd9b
JK
2983 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2984 pagetables) support.
2985
0790c9aa
AL
2986 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
2987
0cb55ad2
RD
2988 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2989 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2990
cd4f0ef7 2991 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
b7fb4af0
JF
2992 with UP alternatives
2993
7a5091d5
PA
2994 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2995 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2996 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2997 available to user space applications.
49d859d7 2998
a9913044
RD
2999 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3000 space.
3001
1da177e4
LT
3002 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
3003 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3004 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3005
3006 nosbagart [IA-64]
3007
cd4f0ef7 3008 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
4f886511 3009
61ec7567
LB
3010 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3011 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
1da177e4 3012
97842216
DJ
3013 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3014
1da177e4
LT
3015 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3016
195daf66 3017 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
6dddd7a7 3018 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
58687acb 3019
1da177e4 3020 nowb [ARM]
a9913044 3021
2b2fd87a
WH
3022 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3023
f78cff48
FY
3024 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3025 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3026 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3027 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3028 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3029 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3030 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3031 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3032 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3033 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3034 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3035 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3036 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3037
6dddd7a7 3038 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
35b55ef2
NC
3039 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3040 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3041 without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3042 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3043 parameter's value.
3044 Format: integer between 1 and 255
3045 Default: 255
3046
16290246 3047 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
a6c75b86
FY
3048 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3049 SAL PALO.
3050
2b633e3f
YL
3051 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
3052 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
7c142bfe
BH
3053 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3054 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3055 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3056 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3057 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3058 hot plugging.
2b633e3f 3059
0cb55ad2
RD
3060 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3061
1a687c2e
MG
3062 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
3063 Allowed values are enable and disable
3064
f0c0b2b8 3065 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
c9bff3ee 3066 'node', 'default' can be specified
f0c0b2b8
KH
3067 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3068 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
3069
7c4be253
RD
3070 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3071 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
3072 info.
3073
3ef0e1f8
AS
3074 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3075 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3076 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3077 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
3078 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3079 interrupts *may* be lost!
3080
15ac7afe
TL
3081 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3082 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3083 For example, to override I2C bus2:
3084 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3085
1da177e4
LT
3086 oprofile.timer= [HW]
3087 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
3088
7e4e0bd5
RR
3089 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
3090 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
3091 userland or if you want common events.
8d7ff4f2
RR
3092 Format: { arch_perfmon }
3093 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
7e4e0bd5
RR
3094 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
3095 CPU specific event set.
159a80b2
RR
3096 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
3097 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
3098 for generic hr timer mode)
1dcdb5a9 3099
44a4dcf7
RD
3100 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3101 process, but there is a small probability of
3102 deadlocking the machine.
d404ab0a
OH
3103 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3104 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3105
48c96a36
JK
3106 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3107 Storage of the information about who allocated
3108 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3109 we can turn it on.
3110 on: enable the feature
3111
8823b1db 3112 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
8c9a134c
KC
3113 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3114 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3115 off: turn off poisoning (default)
8823b1db
LA
3116 on: turn on poisoning
3117
44a4dcf7 3118 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4302fbc8
HD
3119 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3120 timeout = 0: wait forever
3121 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
1da177e4
LT
3122 Format: <timeout>
3123
d999bd93
FT
3124 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3125 User can chose combination of the following bits:
3126 bit 0: print all tasks info
3127 bit 1: print system memory info
3128 bit 2: print timer info
3129 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3130 bit 4: print ftrace buffer
3131
9e3961a0
PB
3132 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
3133 on a WARN().
3134
f06e5153
MH
3135 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3136 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3137 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3138 succeeds in any situation.
3139 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3140 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3141 kernel more unstable.
3142
1da177e4
LT
3143 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3144 connected to, default is 0.
3145 Format: <parport#>
3146 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3147 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
a9913044
RD
3148 Format: <mode>
3149
3150 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3151 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3152 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3153 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3154 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3155 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3156 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3157 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3158 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3159 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3160 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3161 are specified on the command line, starting
3162 with parport0.
3163
3164 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
3165 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3166 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3167 computer where firmware has no options for setting
3168 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3169 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
1da177e4
LT
3170 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3171
dd287796
AM
3172 pause_on_oops=
3173 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3174 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
3175 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3176
1da177e4
LT
3177 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
3178
3179 pcd. [PARIDE]
3180 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
31c00fc1 3181 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 3182
07d8d7e5
LG
3183 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3184
3185 Some options herein operate on a specific device
3186 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3187 specified in one of the following formats:
3188
45db3370 3189 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
07d8d7e5
LG
3190 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3191
3192 Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3193 bus/device/function address which may change
3194 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3195 firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3196 by other kernel parameters. If the
3197 domain is left unspecified, it is
45db3370
LG
3198 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3199 to a device through multiple device/function
3200 addresses can be specified after the base
3201 address (this is more robust against
3202 renumbering issues). The second format
07d8d7e5
LG
3203 selects devices using IDs from the
3204 configuration space which may match multiple
3205 devices in the system.
3206
11eb0e0e 3207 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel
6dddd7a7 3208 changes anything
c0115606 3209 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
cd4f0ef7 3210 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
a9913044
RD
3211 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3212 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
cd4f0ef7 3213 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
a9913044
RD
3214 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3215 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3216 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
afd8c084
BP
3217 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3218 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3219 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3220 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3221 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3222 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3223 bus number. The config space is then accessed
3224 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3225 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3226 on the configuration access mechanisms.
7f785763
RD
3227 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3228 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3229 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
32a2eea7
JG
3230 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3231 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
6cececfc 3232 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
61be6d66 3233 Configuration
12983077
AH
3234 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3235 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3236 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
309e57df
MW
3237 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3238 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3239 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
a9322f64
SA
3240 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3241 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3242 should never be necessary.
9197979b
SA
3243 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3244 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3245 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3246 when the system masks IRQs.
41b9eb26
SA
3247 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3248 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3249 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3250 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
cd4f0ef7 3251 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
a9913044
RD
3252 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3253 on several machines and they hang the machine
3254 when used, but on other computers it's the only
3255 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3256 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3257 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3258 motherboard.
c0115606 3259 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
a9913044
RD
3260 Use with caution as certain devices share
3261 address decoders between ROMs and other
3262 resources.
c0115606 3263 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
bb71ad88
GH
3264 expansion ROMs that do not already have
3265 BIOS assigned address ranges.
7bd1c365
MH
3266 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
3267 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
c0115606 3268 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
a9913044
RD
3269 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3270 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3271 this way.
c0115606 3272 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
a9913044
RD
3273 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3274 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3275 F0000h-100000h range.
c0115606 3276 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
a9913044
RD
3277 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3278 secondary buses and you want to tell it
3279 explicitly which ones they are.
c0115606 3280 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
a9913044
RD
3281 numbers ourselves, overriding
3282 whatever the firmware may have done.
c0115606 3283 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
a9913044
RD
3284 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3285 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3286 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3287 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3288 IRQ routing is enabled.
c0115606 3289 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 3290 or for PCI scanning.
7bc5e3f2
BH
3291 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3292 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3293 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
3294 please report a bug.
3295 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
6dddd7a7 3296 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
a9913044
RD
3297 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3298 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3299 so this option is a temporary workaround
3300 for broken drivers that don't call it.
13a6ddb0
YL
3301 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3302 handle more pci cards
0637a70a
AK
3303 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3304 This might help on some broken boards which
3305 machine check when some devices' config space
3306 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3307 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
6b4b78fe
MD
3308 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3309 This sorting is done to get a device
3310 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3311 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
fa238712
YW
3312 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3313 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3314 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3315 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3316 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3317 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3318 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3319 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3320 or bus can support) for best performance.
3321 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3322 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3323 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3324 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3325 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3326 that hot-added devices will work.
4516a618
AN
3327 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3328 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3329 The default value is 256 bytes.
3330 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3331 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3332 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
32a9a682
YS
3333 resource_alignment=
3334 Format:
07d8d7e5 3335 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
32a9a682 3336 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
07d8d7e5
LG
3337 aligned memory resources. How to
3338 specify the device is described above.
32a9a682
YS
3339 If <order of align> is not specified,
3340 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3341 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3342 windows need to be expanded.
8b078c60
MK
3343 To specify the alignment for several
3344 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3345 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3346 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
43c16408
AP
3347 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3348 end-to-end CRC checking).
3349 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3350 the default.
3351 off: Turn ECRC off
3352 on: Turn ECRC on.
8c8803c5
YW
3353 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3354 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3355 Default size is 256 bytes.
3356 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3357 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3358 Default size is 2 megabytes.
e16b4660
KB
3359 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3360 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3361 Default is 1.
b55438fd
YL
3362 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3363 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3364 accommodate resources required by all child
3365 devices.
3366 off: Turn realloc off
3367 on: Turn realloc on
3368 realloc same as realloc=on
6748dcc2 3369 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
cef74409
GK
3370 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3371 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
284f5f9d
BH
3372 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3373 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3374 port.
f32ab754
UCCB
3375 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3376 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3377 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3378 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3379 conflict with unreported devices), so this
3380 taints the kernel.
aaca43fd
LG
3381 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
3382 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
3383 specified above) separated by semicolons.
3384 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
3385 redirect capabilities forced off which will
3386 allow P2P traffic between devices through
3387 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
3388 this removes isolation between devices and
3389 may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
6b4b78fe 3390
e5665a45
CE
3391 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3392 Management.
3393 off Disable ASPM.
3394 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3395 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3396
4c0fd764
BH
3397 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3398 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3399 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3400 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform
3401 also tries to use these services.
3402 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3403 hotplug).
79dd9182 3404
9d26d3a8
MW
3405 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3406 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3407 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3408
c7f48656 3409 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
c39fae14 3410 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
28eb5f27 3411 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
c7f48656 3412
1da177e4
LT
3413 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3414
39ac5ba5
TB
3415 pd_ignore_unused
3416 [PM]
3417 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3418 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3419 for debug and development, but should not be
3420 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3421
1da177e4 3422 pd. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3423 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3424
3425 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3426 boot time.
3427 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3428 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3429
f58dc01b 3430 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
e933a73f
TH
3431 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3432 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3433 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3434 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3435 and performance comparison.
fa8a7094 3436
1da177e4 3437 pf. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3438 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3439
3440 pg. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3441 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3442
3443 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
71cced6e 3444 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3445
3446 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3447 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3ba9b1b8 3448 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
1da177e4 3449
16290246 3450 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
de32a243
TG
3451 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3452 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3453
96242116
BH
3454 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3455 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3456 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3457 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3458 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3459 possible settings and some assignment information.
97ef062b 3460
1da177e4
LT
3461 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3462 { off }
3463
3464 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3465 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3466
3467 pnp_reserve_irq=
3468 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3469
3470 pnp_reserve_dma=
3471 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3472
3473 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
a9913044 3474 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
1da177e4
LT
3475
3476 pnp_reserve_mem=
a9913044
RD
3477 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3478 autoconfiguration.
1da177e4
LT
3479 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3480
4af94f39
RD
3481 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3482 Default is 21.
3483 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3484 may be specified.
3485 Format: <port>,<port>....
3486
c3cbd075
BS
3487 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3488 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3489 platform machine description specific power_save
3490 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3491 execution priority.
3492
3eb5d588
AB
3493 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3494 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3495 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3496 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3497 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3498
07fd1761
CB
3499 ppc_tm= [PPC]
3500 Format: {"off"}
3501 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3502
45807a1d
IM
3503 print-fatal-signals=
3504 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
f84d49b2
NO
3505
3506 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3507 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3508 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3509 coredump - etc.
3510
3511 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3512 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3513
45807a1d
IM
3514 default: off.
3515
c22ab332
MG
3516 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3517 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3518 panics
3519 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3520 default: disabled
3521
750afe7b
BP
3522 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3523 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3524 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3525 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3526 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3527 Default: ratelimit
3528
e84845c4
RD
3529 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3530 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3531
0cb55ad2
RD
3532 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3533 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3534 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3535
3536 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3537 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3538 instead using the legacy FADT method
3539
1da177e4 3540 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
e7e61fc0
RD
3541 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3542 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3543 [defaults to kernel profiling]
a9913044 3544 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
b3da2a73
MG
3545 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3546 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
c0fe2e69 3547 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
e7e61fc0
RD
3548 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3549 statistical time based profiling.
1da177e4 3550
1da177e4
LT
3551 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3552 before loading.
31c00fc1 3553 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 3554
e0c27447
JW
3555 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
3556 tracking.
3557 Format: <bool>
3558
a9913044
RD
3559 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3560 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
1da177e4
LT
3561 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3562 per second.
a9913044
RD
3563 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3564 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
1da177e4
LT
3565 (0 = never).
3566 psmouse.resolution=
3567 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3568 psmouse.smartscroll=
a9913044 3569 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
1da177e4
LT
3570 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3571
dee28e72
MG
3572 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3573
1da177e4 3574 pt. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3575 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 3576
01c9b17b
DH
3577 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3578 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
3579 removes hardening, but improves performance of
3580 system calls and interrupts.
3581
3582 on - unconditionally enable
3583 off - unconditionally disable
3584 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3585 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3586
3587 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3588
3589 nopti [X86_64]
3590 Equivalent to pti=off
41f4c20b 3591
dc8c8587
KS
3592 pty.legacy_count=
3593 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3594 default number.
3595
7d2c502f 3596 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
a9913044 3597
1da177e4
LT
3598 r128= [HW,DRM]
3599
3600 raid= [HW,RAID]
e52347bd 3601 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
1da177e4 3602
1da177e4 3603 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
31c00fc1 3604 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 3605
9b254366
KC
3606 random.trust_cpu={on,off}
3607 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
3608 CPU's random number generator (if available) to
3609 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
3610 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
3611
011d8261
BP
3612 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
3613
3614 cec_disable [X86]
3615 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3616 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3617
4102adab 3618 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
2d13e6ca
NC
3619 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3620
3fbfbf7a
PM
3621 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3622 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
77095901
PM
3623 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be
3624 offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that
3625 purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and
3626 "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number.
3627 This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs,
3628 which can be useful for HPC and real-time
3629 workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency
3630 for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3fbfbf7a 3631
4102adab 3632 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
3fbfbf7a
PM
3633 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3634 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3635 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3636 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3637 This improves the real-time response for the
3638 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3639 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3640 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3641 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3642
4102adab 3643 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
3644 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3645 process in one batch.
21a1ea9e 3646
a3dc2948
PM
3647 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3648 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3649 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3650 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3651
0f41c0dd
PM
3652 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3653 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 3654 RCU grace-period cleanup.
0f41c0dd 3655
37745d28
PM
3656 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3657 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 3658 RCU grace-period initialization.
0f41c0dd
PM
3659
3660 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3661 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3662 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3663 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
90040c9e 3664 the rcu_node combining tree.
37745d28 3665
7fa27001
PM
3666 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3667 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3668 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3669 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3670 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
37745d28 3671
4102adab 3672 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
ee968ac6
PM
3673 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3674 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3675 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3676 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3677 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3678 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
f885b7f2 3679
4a81e832
PM
3680 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3681 Set required age in jiffies for a
3682 given grace period before RCU starts
3683 soliciting quiescent-state help from
c06aed0e
PM
3684 rcu_note_context_switch(). If not specified, the
3685 kernel will calculate a value based on the most
3686 recent settings of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
3687 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
3688 This calculated value may be viewed in
3689 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to
3690 set rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be
3691 cheerfully overwritten.
4a81e832 3692
4102adab 3693 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3694 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3695 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3696 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3697 and maximum value is HZ.
3698
4102adab 3699 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3700 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3701 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3702 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3703
21871d7e 3704 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
d2af1ad7
PM
3705 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3706 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3707 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3708 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3709 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3710 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3711 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3712 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3713 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
21871d7e 3714
fbce7497
PM
3715 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3716 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3717 defaults to the square root of the number of
3718 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3719 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3720 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3721
4102adab 3722 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
3723 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3724 batch limiting is disabled.
21a1ea9e 3725
4102adab 3726 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
24aaef8d
RD
3727 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3728 batch limiting is re-enabled.
21a1ea9e 3729
4102adab 3730 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3731 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3732 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
d40011f6 3733
4102adab 3734 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3735 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3736 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3737 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3738 prove do nothing more than free memory.
d40011f6 3739
e3c50dfb
PM
3740 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3741 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3742 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3743 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3744 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3745 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3746
881ed593
PM
3747 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3748 Measure performance of asynchronous
3749 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3750
3751 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3752 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3753 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
3754 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3755 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3756 previously posted callbacks to drain.
3757
bdea9e34
PM
3758 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3759 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3760 grace-period primitives.
3761
df37e66b
PM
3762 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3763 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3764 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3765 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3766 interference.
3767
bdea9e34
PM
3768 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3769 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3770 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3771 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3772 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3773 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3774 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3775 a single reader.
3776
3777 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3778 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3779 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3780 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3781
820687a7
PM
3782 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3783 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3784
bdea9e34
PM
3785 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3786 Shut the system down after performance tests
3787 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3788 testing.
3789
bdea9e34
PM
3790 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3791 Enable additional printk() statements.
3792
820687a7
PM
3793 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3794 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3795 in microseconds. The default of zero says
3796 no holdoff.
3797
4102adab 3798 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3799 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3800 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3801
4102adab 3802 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3803 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3804 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3805
4102adab 3806 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3807 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3808 in seconds.
3809
ed8f6fb2
PM
3810 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
3811 Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
3812 for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
3813
3814 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
3815 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
3816 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
3817
3818 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
3819 Number of seconds to wait between successive
3820 forward-progress tests.
3821
3822 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
3823 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
3824 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
3825 testing.
3826
21b05de4
PM
3827 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3828 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3829 primitives, if available.
dabb8aa9 3830
4102adab 3831 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
21b05de4 3832 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4102adab
PM
3833
3834 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3835 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3836 update-side primitives, if available.
3837
3838 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3839 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3840 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3841 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3842 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3843 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3844 they are all non-zero.
dabb8aa9 3845
4102adab 3846 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3847 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3848
4102adab 3849 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3850 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3851 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3852 test, hence the "fake".
3853
4102adab 3854 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3838cc18
PM
3855 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3856 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3857 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3858 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3859 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
dabb8aa9 3860
4102adab
PM
3861 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3862 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3863
3864 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3865 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3866
4102adab 3867 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
028be12b
PM
3868 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
3869 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
dabb8aa9 3870
4102adab 3871 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3872 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3873 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3874 during the rcutorture test.
3875
4102adab 3876 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3877 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3878 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3879
4102adab 3880 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3881 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3882 warnings, zero to disable.
3883
4102adab 3884 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3885 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3886
2b1516e5
PM
3887 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
3888 Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
3889
4102adab 3890 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3891 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3892
4102adab 3893 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3894 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3895 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3896 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3897 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3898
4102adab 3899 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3900 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3901 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3902 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3903
4102adab 3904 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3905 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3906
4102adab 3907 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3908 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3909
4102adab 3910 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3911 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3912 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3913
4102adab 3914 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3915 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3916
4102adab 3917 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3918 Enable additional printk() statements.
3919
5a9be7c6
PM
3920 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3921 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3922
3923 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3924 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3925
4102adab
PM
3926 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3927 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3928 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3929 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3930 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3931 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
79cfea02 3932 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 3933
5a9be7c6
PM
3934 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3935 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3936 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3937 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
79cfea02
PM
3938 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3939 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3940 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3941 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3942 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 3943
3e42ec1a
PM
3944 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3945 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3946 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
79cfea02
PM
3947 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3948 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3e42ec1a 3949
52db30ab
PM
3950 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3951 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3952 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3953 to zero.
3954
74860fee
PK
3955 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3956 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3957
ffdfc409
OJ
3958 rdinit= [KNL]
3959 Format: <full_path>
3960 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3961 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3962
1d9807fc
TL
3963 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
3964 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
31516de3
FY
3965 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
3966 mba.
1d9807fc
TL
3967 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
3968 rdt=cmt,!mba
3969
1b3a5d02
RH
3970 reboot= [KNL]
3971 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3972 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3973 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3974 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3975 [[,]f[orce]
3976 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3977 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3978 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3979 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3980 to be used for rebooting.
1da177e4 3981
46b6d94e
PJ
3982 relax_domain_level=
3983 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
09c3bcce 3984 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
46b6d94e 3985
ffd2e8df
BH
3986 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
3987 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
3988 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
3989 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
3990 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
1da177e4 3991
cd4f0ef7 3992 reservetop= [X86-32]
461a9aff
ZA
3993 Format: nn[KMG]
3994 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3995 address space.
3996
9ea77bdb
PA
3997 reservelow= [X86]
3998 Format: nn[K]
3999 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
4000 the bottom of the address space.
4001
7e96287d
VG
4002 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
4003 during initialization.
4004
a9913044
RD
4005 resume= [SWSUSP]
4006 Specify the partition device for software suspend
2df83fa4
MB
4007 Format:
4008 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
1da177e4 4009
ecbd0da1
RW
4010 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
4011 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
4012 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
4013 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
4014 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
4015
f126f733
BS
4016 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4017 read the resume files
4018
6f8d7022
BS
4019 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
4020 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4021 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4022
f996fc96
BS
4023 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
4024 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
4025 present during boot.
4026 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
a6e15a39 4027 no Disable hibernation and resume.
4c0b6c10
RW
4028 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
4029 (that will set all pages holding image data
4030 during restoration read-only).
f996fc96 4031
0a7b35cb
MN
4032 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
4033
0efbb786
AC
4034 rfkill.default_state=
4035 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
4036 etc. communication is blocked by default.
4037 1 Unblocked.
4038
4039 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
4040 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
4041 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4042 blocked and the previous configuration.
4043 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4044 blocked and everything unblocked.
4045
1da177e4
LT
4046 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4047 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
4048
e16fd002
GA
4049 ring3mwait=disable
4050 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
4051 CPUs.
4052
1da177e4
LT
4053 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
4054
d2aa1aca
KC
4055 rodata= [KNL]
4056 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
4057 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
4058
605df8af
HS
4059 rockchip.usb_uart
4060 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
4061 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
4062 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
4063 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
4064
1da177e4 4065 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
f2d34fd9 4066 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
1da177e4
LT
4067
4068 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4069 mount the root filesystem
4070
4071 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
4072
4073 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
4074
cc1ed754
PO
4075 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
4076 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4077 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4078
5c71d618
RT
4079 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
4080 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
4081 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
4082 managed by CMA.
4083
1da177e4
LT
4084 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
4085
4086 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
4087
c60d1ae4
GS
4088 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
4089 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
4090 strict
4091 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
4092 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
4093 which is faster.
4094
1da177e4
LT
4095 sa1100ir [NET]
4096 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
4097
1da177e4 4098 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
a9913044 4099
f6630114
MT
4100 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
4101
cb251765
MG
4102 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
4103 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
4104 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
4105 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
f6630114 4106
5307c955
MG
4107 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
4108 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
4109 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
4110 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4111 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
4112 1 -- enable.
4113 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
4114 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
4115
0cb55ad2
RD
4116 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
4117 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
4118 security module asking for security registration will be
4119 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
4120 as if no module has been chosen.
4121
4122 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
1da177e4
LT
4123 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4124 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
4125 0 -- disable.
4126 1 -- enable.
4127 Default value is set via kernel config option.
4128 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
4129 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
4130
c1c124e9
JJ
4131 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
4132 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4133 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
4134 0 -- disable.
4135 1 -- enable.
4136 Default value is set via kernel config option.
4137
cd4f0ef7 4138 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
1da177e4 4139
1da177e4
LT
4140 shapers= [NET]
4141 Maximal number of shapers.
a9913044 4142
1da177e4
LT
4143 simeth= [IA-64]
4144 simscsi=
a9913044 4145
1da177e4
LT
4146 slram= [HW,MTD]
4147
423c929c
JK
4148 slab_nomerge [MM]
4149 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
4150 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
7660a6fd
KC
4151 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
4152 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
4153 layout control by attackers can usually be
4154 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
4155 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
4156 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
4157 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
4158 own.
ad56b738 4159 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
423c929c 4160
3df1cccd
DR
4161 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
4162 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4163 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4164 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
4165 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
4166
f0630fff
CL
4167 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
4168 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
4169 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
4170 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
4171 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
4172 last alloc / free. For more information see
ad56b738 4173 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215 4174
1663f26d
TH
4175 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
4176 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
4177 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
4178 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
4179 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
4180 directories and files being created under
4181 /sys/kernel/slub.
4182
c1aee215 4183 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
4184 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4185 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4186 fragmentation. For more information see
ad56b738 4187 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
4188
4189 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
4190 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
4191 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
4192 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
4193 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
4194 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
4195 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
ad56b738 4196 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
4197
4198 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
24775d65 4199 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
f0630fff 4200 lower than slub_max_order.
ad56b738 4201 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
4202
4203 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
423c929c
JK
4204 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
4205 See slab_nomerge for more information.
c1aee215 4206
1da177e4
LT
4207 smart2= [HW]
4208 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
4209
d0d4f69b
BH
4210 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
4211 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
4212 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
4213 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
4214 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
4215 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
4216 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
4217 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
4218 1: Fast pin select (default)
4219 2: ATC IRMode
4220
52c48c51
SS
4221 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4222 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4223 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4224 actual hardware limit.
4225 Format: <integer>
4226 Default: -1 (no limit)
4227
9c44bc03
IM
4228 softlockup_panic=
4229 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
44a4dcf7 4230 Format: <integer>
9c44bc03 4231
3ce62385
BP
4232 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
4233 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
4234 is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
4235 which is the respective build-time switch to that
4236 functionality.
4237
ed235875
AT
4238 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4239 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4240 backtraces on all cpus.
4241 Format: <integer>
4242
1da177e4 4243 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
395cf969 4244 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
1da177e4 4245
da285121
DW
4246 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4247 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
fa1202ef
TG
4248 The default operation protects the kernel from
4249 user space attacks.
da285121 4250
fa1202ef
TG
4251 on - unconditionally enable, implies
4252 spectre_v2_user=on
4253 off - unconditionally disable, implies
4254 spectre_v2_user=off
da285121
DW
4255 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4256 vulnerable
4257
4258 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4259 mitigation method at run time according to the
4260 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4261 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4262 compiler with which the kernel was built.
4263
fa1202ef
TG
4264 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
4265 against user space to user space task attacks.
4266
4267 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
4268 the user space protections.
4269
da285121
DW
4270 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4271
4272 retpoline - replace indirect branches
4273 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4274 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4275
4276 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4277 spectre_v2=auto.
4278
fa1202ef
TG
4279 spectre_v2_user=
4280 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4281 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
4282 user space tasks
4283
4284 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
4285 enforced by spectre_v2=on
4286
4287 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
4288 enforced by spectre_v2=off
4289
7cc765a6
TG
4290 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
4291 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
4292 per thread. The mitigation control state
4293 is inherited on fork.
4294
55a97402
TG
4295 prctl,ibpb
4296 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
4297 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4298 always when switching between different user
4299 space processes.
4300
6b3e64c2
TG
4301 seccomp
4302 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
4303 threads will enable the mitigation unless
4304 they explicitly opt out.
4305
55a97402
TG
4306 seccomp,ibpb
4307 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
4308 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4309 always when switching between different
4310 user space processes.
4311
fa1202ef
TG
4312 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
4313 the available CPU features and vulnerability.
6b3e64c2
TG
4314
4315 Default mitigation:
4316 If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
fa1202ef
TG
4317
4318 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4319 spectre_v2_user=auto.
4320
24f7fc83
KRW
4321 spec_store_bypass_disable=
4322 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
4323 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
4324
4325 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
4326 a common industry wide performance optimization known
4327 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
4328 to the same memory location may not be observed by
4329 later loads during speculative execution. The idea
4330 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
4331 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
4332 end of a particular speculation execution window.
4333
4334 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4335 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
4336 example to read memory to which the attacker does not
4337 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
4338
4339 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
4340 Bypass optimization is used.
4341
6b4c1360
ME
4342 On x86 the options are:
4343
f21b53b2
KC
4344 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
4345 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
4346 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
4347 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
4348 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
4349 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
4350 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
4351 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
4352 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
4353 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
4354 for a process by default. The state of the control
4355 is inherited on fork.
4356 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
4357 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
24f7fc83 4358
f21b53b2
KC
4359 Default mitigations:
4360 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4361
6b4c1360
ME
4362 On powerpc the options are:
4363
4364 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
4365 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
4366 perform a software flush on kernel entry and
4367 exit.
4368 off - No action.
4369
4370 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4371 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
4372
1da177e4
LT
4373 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
4374 spia_fio_base=
4375 spia_pedr=
4376 spia_peddr=
4377
c350c008
PM
4378 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4379 Specifies how frequently to check for
4380 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4381 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4382 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4383 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4384 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
4385 are ignored.
4386
22607d66
PM
4387 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4388 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4389 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4390 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4391 grace period will be considered for automatic
4392 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
4393 expediting.
4394
a43ae4df
MZ
4395 ssbd= [ARM64,HW]
4396 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
4397
4398 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
4399 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
4400 firmware based mitigation, this parameter
4401 indicates how the mitigation should be used:
4402
4403 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for
4404 for both kernel and userspace
4405 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
4406 for both kernel and userspace
4407 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the
4408 kernel, and offer a prctl interface
4409 to allow userspace to register its
4410 interest in being mitigated too.
4411
1be7107f
HD
4412 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
4413 override the default stack gap protection. The value
4414 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4415 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4416 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4417 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4418
f38f1d2a
SR
4419 stacktrace [FTRACE]
4420 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4421
762e1207
SR
4422 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4423 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4424 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4425 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4426 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4427 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4428 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4429
1da177e4
LT
4430 sti= [PARISC,HW]
4431 Format: <num>
4432 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4433 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4434 as the initial boot-console.
4435 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4436
4437 sti_font= [HW]
4438 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4439
4440 stifb= [HW]
4441 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4442
cbf11071
TM
4443 sunrpc.min_resvport=
4444 sunrpc.max_resvport=
4445 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4446 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4447 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4448 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4449 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4450 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4451 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4452 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4453 maximum port values.
4454
ff3ac5c3
TM
4455 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4456 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4457 Limit the number of requests that the server will
4458 process in parallel from a single connection.
4459 The default value is 0 (no limit).
4460
42a7fc4a
GB
4461 sunrpc.pool_mode=
4462 [NFS]
4463 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4464 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
4465 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4466 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4467 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4468 NFS server is running.
4469
4470 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
4471 automatically using heuristics
4472 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
4473 percpu one pool for each CPU
4474 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4475 to global on non-NUMA machines)
4476
cbf11071
TM
4477 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4478 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4479 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4480 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4481 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4482 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4483 improve throughput, but will also increase the
4484 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4485
1d4a9c17
BN
4486 suspend.pm_test_delay=
4487 [SUSPEND]
4488 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4489 mode before resuming the system (see
4490 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4491 is set. Default value is 5.
4492
07555ac1 4493 swapaccount=[0|1]
a42c390c
MH
4494 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4495 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
09c3bcce 4496 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
a42c390c 4497
91fec0f5 4498 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
fff5d992 4499 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
91fec0f5
JK
4500 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4501 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4502 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
fff5d992 4503 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
a9913044 4504
1da177e4
LT
4505 switches= [HW,M68k]
4506
e52eec13
AK
4507 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4508 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4509 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4510 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4511 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4512 in older udev will not work anymore.
4513 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4514 the kernel configuration.
4515
5d6f647f
IM
4516 sysrq_always_enabled
4517 [KNL]
4518 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4519 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4520 Useful for debugging.
4521
747029a5
FF
4522 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4523 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4524 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4525 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4526 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4527 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4528
1da177e4
LT
4529 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
4530
acc82342 4531 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
77437fd4 4532 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
acc82342
SP
4533 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4534 as the system sleep state during system startup with
4535 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4536 The system is woken from this state using a
4537 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
77437fd4 4538
1da177e4
LT
4539 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4540 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4541
f8707ec9
LB
4542 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
4543 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4544 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4545
c52a7419
LB
4546 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
4547 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
22a94d79 4548 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
c52a7419 4549
f5487145
LB
4550 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
4551 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4552 critical and hot trip points.
4553
72b33ef8
LB
4554 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
4555 1: disable ACPI thermal control
4556
a70cdc52
LB
4557 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
4558 -1: disable all passive trip points
ada9cfdd
RD
4559 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4560 value
a70cdc52 4561
730ff34d
LB
4562 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
4563 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4564 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4565 0: no polling (default)
4566
8d32a307
TG
4567 threadirqs [KNL]
4568 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
24775d65 4569 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
8d32a307 4570
2ca62b04
KRW
4571 tmem [KNL,XEN]
4572 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4573
4574 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4575 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4576 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4577
4578 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4579 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
37d46e15
KRW
4580 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4581 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
2ca62b04
KRW
4582
4583 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4584 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4585 to the hypervisor.
4586
4587 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4588 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4589 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4590 kernel based on different criteria.
4591
2b1a61f0
HC
4592 topology= [S390]
4593 Format: {off | on}
4594 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
f65e51d7
SL
4595 topology information if the hardware supports this.
4596 The scheduler will make use of this information and
2b1a61f0 4597 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
c9af3fa9 4598 Default is on.
2b1a61f0 4599
2d73bae1
NA
4600 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4601 Format: {off}
4602 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4603 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4604 LPAR.
4605
1da177e4
LT
4606 tp720= [HW,PS2]
4607
225a9be2
RA
4608 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4609 Format: integer pcr id
4610 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4611 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4612 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4613 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4614 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4615 are saved.
4616
9d612bef 4617 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
3e6fb8e9 4618 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
631595fb 4619
020e5f85
LZ
4620 trace_event=[event-list]
4621 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
d81749ea
BN
4622 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4623 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
5fb94e9c 4624 also Documentation/trace/events.rst
020e5f85 4625
7bcfaf54
SR
4626 trace_options=[option-list]
4627 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4628 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4629 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4630 to echo the option name into
4631
4632 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4633
4634 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4635 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4636
4637 trace_options=stacktrace
4638
5fb94e9c 4639 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
7bcfaf54
SR
4640 section.
4641
0daa2302
SRRH
4642 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4643 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4644 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4645 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4646 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4647 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4648
4649 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4650 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4651 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4652 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4653
4654 ** CAUTION **
4655
4656 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4657 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4658 the system to live lock.
4659
de7edd31
SRRH
4660 traceoff_on_warning
4661 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4662 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4663 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4664 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4665
4666 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4667 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4668 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4669
4670 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4671 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4672
fcf4d821
JK
4673 transparent_hugepage=
4674 [KNL]
4675 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4676 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4677 with respect to transparent hugepages.
45c9a74f
MR
4678 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
4679 for more details.
fcf4d821 4680
d3b8f889 4681 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
395628ef
AK
4682 Format: <string>
4683 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
d3b8f889
JS
4684 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4685 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4686 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4687 virtualized environment.
e82b8e4e
VP
4688 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4689 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4690 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4691 can add overhead.
6be53520
DL
4692 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4693 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4694 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
395628ef 4695
a9913044
RD
4696 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4697 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4698 Format:
4699 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
1752118d 4700 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4 4701
b6935f8c 4702 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
e52347bd 4703 happen after console_init() and before a proper
b6935f8c
CK
4704 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4705 help "seeing" what's going on.
4706
f86dcc5a
ED
4707 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4708 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4709
5f8364b7
AS
4710 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4711 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4712 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4713 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4714 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4715 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4716 reported either.
4717
e3a61b0a 4718 unknown_nmi_panic
44a4dcf7 4719 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
e3a61b0a 4720
c4fc2342
CDH
4721 usbcore.authorized_default=
4722 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4723 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4724 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4725
b5e795f8
AS
4726 usbcore.autosuspend=
4727 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4728 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4729 is the time required before an idle device will be
4730 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
eaafbc3a 4731 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
b5e795f8 4732
fd7c519d
JK
4733 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4734 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4735
0290cc9f
AS
4736 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4737 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4738 (default = 65536).
4739
fd7c519d
JK
4740 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4741 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4742
4743 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4744 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
bd0e6c96
ZT
4745 scheme, applies only to low and full-speed devices
4746 (default 0 = off).
fd7c519d 4747
3f5eb8d5
AS
4748 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4749 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4750 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4751
fd7c519d
JK
4752 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4753 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4754 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4755
4756 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4757 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
6dddd7a7 4758 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
fd7c519d
JK
4759 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4760
40d58148
ON
4761 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4762
027bd6ca
KHF
4763 usbcore.quirks=
4764 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
4765 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
4766 commas. Each entry has the form
4767 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
4768 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
4769 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
4770 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
4771 the following meanings:
4772 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
4773 descriptors must not be fetched using
4774 a 255-byte read);
4775 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
4776 correctly so reset it instead);
4777 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
4778 Set-Interface requests);
4779 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
4780 handle its Configuration or Interface
4781 strings);
4782 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
4783 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
4784 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
4785 more interface descriptions than the
4786 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
4787 talking to these interfaces);
4788 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
4789 during initialization, after we read
4790 the device descriptor);
4791 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
4792 high speed and super speed interrupt
4793 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
4794 require the interval in microframes (1
4795 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
4796 calculated as interval = 2 ^
4797 (bInterval-1).
4798 Devices with this quirk report their
4799 bInterval as the result of this
4800 calculation instead of the exponent
4801 variable used in the calculation);
4802 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
4803 handle device_qualifier descriptor
4804 requests);
4805 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
4806 generates spurious wakeup, ignore
4807 remote wakeup capability);
4808 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
4809 Power Management);
4810 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
4811 (Device reports its bInterval as linear
4812 frames instead of the USB 2.0
4813 calculation);
4814 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
4815 to be disconnected before suspend to
4d8d5a39
KHF
4816 prevent spurious wakeup);
4817 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
4818 pause after every control message);
781f0766
KHF
4819 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
4820 delay after resetting its port);
027bd6ca
KHF
4821 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
4822
1da177e4
LT
4823 usbhid.mousepoll=
4824 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
a9913044 4825
933bfe4d
TJ
4826 usbhid.jspoll=
4827 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4828
2ddc8e2d
FA
4829 usbhid.kbpoll=
4830 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
4831
d4f373e5
AS
4832 usb-storage.delay_use=
4833 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
19101954 4834 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
d4f373e5
AS
4835
4836 usb-storage.quirks=
4837 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4838 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4839 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4840 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4841 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4842 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4843 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
c838ea46
AS
4844 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4845 of sense data);
a0bb1081
AS
4846 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4847 bytes of sense data);
d4f373e5
AS
4848 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4849 device capacity by one sector);
5116901d
KR
4850 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4851 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4852 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4853 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
734016b0
HG
4854 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4855 command, uas only);
ee136af4
HG
4856 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4857 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
c838ea46
AS
4858 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4859 reported device capacity by one
4860 sector if the number is odd);
d4f373e5
AS
4861 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4862 device);
13630746
HG
4863 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4864 command, uas only);
d4f373e5
AS
4865 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4866 unlock ejectable media);
4867 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4868 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
21c13a4f
AS
4869 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4870 initial READ(10) command);
c838ea46
AS
4871 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4872 reported by the device);
eaa05dfc
NJ
4873 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4874 by default);
d4f373e5
AS
4875 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4876 bogus residue values);
4877 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4878 Logical Unit);
59307852
HG
4879 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4880 commands, uas only);
b6089f19 4881 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
d4f373e5
AS
4882 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4883 medium is write-protected).
050bc4e8
ON
4884 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4885 even if the device claims no cache)
d4f373e5
AS
4886 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4887
ac1667db
SB
4888 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4889 Format: <int>
4890 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4891 1 - undefined instruction events
4892 2 - system calls
4893 4 - invalid data aborts
4894 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4895 16 - SIGBUS faults
4896 Example: user_debug=31
4897
14315592
IC
4898 userpte=
4899 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4900
4901 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4902 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4903 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4904
6cececfc 4905 vdso= [X86,SH]
b0b49f26
AL
4906 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4907
4908 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
e6e5494c
IM
4909 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4910
b0b49f26
AL
4911 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4912 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4913 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4914
4915 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4916 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4917 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4918
4919 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4920 alias for vdso32=0.
4921
4922 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4923 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
af65d648 4924
d080d397
YI
4925 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4926 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4927
1da177e4
LT
4928 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4929 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4930
3afe6dab
AL
4931 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4932 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4933 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4934 level and then send out the event to user space through
4935 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4936 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4937 brightness level.
2843768b 4938 default: 1
3afe6dab 4939
81a054ce
PM
4940 virtio_mmio.device=
4941 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4942
4943 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4944 where:
4945 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4946 like K, M and G)
4947 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4948 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4949 request_irq())
4950 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4951 example:
4952 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4953
4954 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4955
cd4f0ef7 4956 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
954a8b81 4957 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
a9913044 4958 Documentation/svga.txt.
1da177e4
LT
4959 Use vga=ask for menu.
4960 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4961 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4962
f682a97a
AD
4963 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
4964 May slow down system boot speed, especially when
4965 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
4966 All options are enabled by default, and this
4967 interface is meant to allow for selectively
4968 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
4969 debugging features.
4970
4971 Available options are:
4972 P Enable page structure init time poisoning
4973 - Disable all of the above options
4974
a9913044 4975 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
1da177e4
LT
4976 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4977 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4978 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4979 mapped kernel RAM.
4980
3f429842
HC
4981 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390]
4982 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
4983 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
4984
585c3047
PO
4985 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4986 Format: <command>
1da177e4 4987
585c3047
PO
4988 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4989 Format: <command>
4990
4991 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4992 Format: <command>
a9913044 4993
3ae36655
AL
4994 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4995 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4996 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4997 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4998 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4999 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
5000 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
5001
2e57ae05
AL
5002 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5003 emulated reasonably safely.
3ae36655 5004
2e57ae05 5005 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
3ae36655
AL
5006 This is a little bit faster than trapping
5007 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
5008 better than they would in emulation mode.
5009 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
5010
5011 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
5012 them quite hard to use for exploits but
5013 might break your system.
5014
3855ae1c
CL
5015 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
5016 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
5017 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
5018
9ea9a886
CL
5019 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
5020 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
5021 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
5022 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
5023
0cb55ad2
RD
5024 vt.default_blu= [VT]
5025 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
5026 Change the default blue palette of the console.
5027 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5028 ranging from 0-255.
5029
5030 vt.default_grn= [VT]
5031 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
5032 Change the default green palette of the console.
5033 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5034 ranging from 0-255.
5035
5036 vt.default_red= [VT]
5037 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
5038 Change the default red palette of the console.
5039 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5040 ranging from 0-255.
5041
5042 vt.default_utf8=
5043 [VT]
5044 Format=<0|1>
5045 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
5046 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
5047 newly opened terminals.
5048
f6c06b68
MG
5049 vt.global_cursor_default=
5050 [VT]
5051 Format=<-1|0|1>
5052 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
5053 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
5054 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
5055 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
5056 cursors, 1 will display them.
5057
3855ae1c
CL
5058 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
5059 Default: 2 = green.
5060
5061 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
5062 Default: 3 = cyan.
5063
4724ba57
RD
5064 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
5065 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
5066 or other driver-specific files in the
5067 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
1da177e4 5068
82607adc
TH
5069 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
5070 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
5071 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
5072 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
5073 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
5074 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
5075 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
5076 corresponding sysfs file.
5077
d55262c4
TH
5078 workqueue.disable_numa
5079 By default, all work items queued to unbound
5080 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
5081 issued on, which results in better behavior in
5082 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
5083 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
5084 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
5085 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
5086
cee22a15
VK
5087 workqueue.power_efficient
5088 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
5089 they show better performance thanks to cache
5090 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
5091 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
5092
5093 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
5094 were observed to contribute significantly to power
5095 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
5096 power usage at the cost of small performance
5097 overhead.
5098
5099 The default value of this parameter is determined by
5100 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
5101
f303fccb
TH
5102 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
5103 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
5104 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
5105 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
5106 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
5107 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
5108 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
5109 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
5110 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
5111 impacted.
5112
0cb55ad2
RD
5113 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
5114 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
5115 supporting x2apic.
5116
712b6aa8
KS
5117 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
5118 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
bb24c471
JP
5119 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
5120 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
712b6aa8 5121 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
bb24c471 5122
c70727a5
JG
5123 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
5124 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
5125 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
5126 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
5127 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
5128 domains.
5129
c1c5413a
SS
5130 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
5131 Unplug Xen emulated devices
5132 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
5133 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
5134 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
5135 nics -- unplug network devices
5136 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
1dc7ce99
IC
5137 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
5138 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
5139 the unplug protocol
c93a4dfb 5140 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
c1c5413a 5141
15a3eac0
KRW
5142 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
5143 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
5144 optimizations.
5145
8d693b91
KRW
5146 xen_nopv [X86]
5147 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
5148 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
5149
197ecb38
MMG
5150 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN]
5151 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
5152 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
5153 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
5154 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
5155
1da177e4 5156 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
a9913044
RD
5157 Format:
5158 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
c0addc9a
LT
5159
5160 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL]
5161 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
5162 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
5163 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.