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b10d79f7 1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
03d926f8 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
6a1f5471 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
e58d154b 4 copy_dsdt }
1da177e4 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6a1f5471 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
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7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
1da177e4 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
237889bf 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
aa2110cb 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
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13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14 are available
1da177e4 15
395cf969 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
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18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
19 Format: <int>
20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21 1,0: use 1st APIC table
4e381a4f 22 default: 0
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24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
25 acpi_backlight=vendor
26 acpi_backlight=video
27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
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31 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
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37 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41 This option is useful for developers to identify the
42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
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45 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
1da177e4 47 Format: <int>
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48 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
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55 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
56 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
57 debug layers and levels.
a0d84a92 58
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59 Enable processor driver info messages:
60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
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63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64 object while interpreting AML:
65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
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66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69 Some values produce so much output that the system is
70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71 if you need to capture more output.
f989106c 72
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73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
74 { strict | lax | no }
75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79 can interfere with legacy drivers.
80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87 no further checks are performed.
88
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89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92 size limitation.
93
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94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95 ACPI will balance active IRQs
96 default in APIC mode
97
98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100 default in PIC mode
101
102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106 use by PCI
107 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
6dddd7a7 109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
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110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
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112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113 the GPE dispatcher.
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114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115 GPE floodings.
116 Format: <int>
9c4aa1ee 117
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118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
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120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122 auto-serialization feature.
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123 This feature is enabled by default.
124 This option allows to turn off the feature.
22b5afce 125
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126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
127 kernels.
128
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129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132 installed automatically and they will appear under
133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134 This option turns off this feature.
135 Note that specifying this option does not affect
136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
0cb55ad2 138
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139 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
140 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
141 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
142 second kernel for kdump.
4dde507f 143
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144 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
145 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
146
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147 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
148 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
149 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
150 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
151 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
152
0cb55ad2 153 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
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154 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
155 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
741d8128 156 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
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157 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
158 strings
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159 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
160 strings
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161 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
162
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163 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
164 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
165 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
166 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
167 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
168 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
169 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
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170 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
171 care about the state of the feature group strings which
172 should be controlled by the OSPM.
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173 Examples:
174 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
175 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
176 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
177
178 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
179 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
180 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
181 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
182 multiple times through kernel command line is also
183 meaningless.
184 Examples:
185 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
186 FALSE.
187
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188 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
189 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
190 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
191 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
192 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
193 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
194 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
195 there are quirks related to this string. This command
196 is useful when one want to control the state of the
197 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
198 the OSPM features.
199 Examples:
200 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
201 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
202 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
203 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
204 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
205 equivalent to
206 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
207 and
208 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
209 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
210
6cececfc 211 acpi_pm_good [X86]
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212 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
213 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
214 and always returns good values.
215
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216 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
217 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
218
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219 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
220 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
221 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
222
223 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
224 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
57044031 225 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
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226 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
227 s3_bios and s3_mode.
228 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
229 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
230 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
231 used during resume from hibernation.
232 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
233 control method, with respect to putting devices into
234 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
235 of _PTS is used by default).
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236 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
237 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
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238 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
239 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
240 but some broken systems don't work without it).
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241 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
242 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
243 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
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244
245 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
246 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
247 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
248
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249 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
250 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
251
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252 agp= [AGP]
253 { off | try_unsupported }
254 off: disable AGP support
255 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
256 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
257
bcfde334 258 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
1ca2c806 259 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
bcfde334 260
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261 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
262 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
263 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
264 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
265
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266 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
267 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
268 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
269 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
270 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
271 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
272 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
273
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274 32: only for 32-bit processes
275 64: only for 64-bit processes
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276 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
277 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
278
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279 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
280 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
281 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
282 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
283 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
284 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
285
89e0b9a3 286 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
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287 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
288 Possible values are:
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289 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
290 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
291 flushed before they will be reused, which
292 is a lot of faster
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293 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
294 the system
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295 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
296 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
297 allowed anymore to lift isolation
298 requirements as needed. This option
299 does not override iommu=pt
afa9fdc2 300
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301 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
302 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
303 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
304 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
305 IOMMU initialization.
306
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307 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
308 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
309 remapping modes:
310 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
311 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
312 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
313 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
314 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
315
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316 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
317 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
318 Format: <a>,<b>
1752118d 319 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
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320
321 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
322 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
323 connected to one of 16 gameports
324 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
325
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326 apc= [HW,SPARC]
327 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
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328 Format: noidle
329 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
330 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
331 APC and your system crashes randomly.
332
64e05d11 333 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
c8facbb6 334 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
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335 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
336 Change the amount of debugging information output
337 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
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338 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
339 driver name.
340 Format: apic=driver_name
341 Examples: apic=bigsmp
a9913044 342
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343 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
344 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
345 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
346 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
347 backup of CPU 0
348 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
349 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
350 shot down by NMI
351
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352 autoconf= [IPV6]
353 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
354
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355 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
356 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
357 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
358 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
359 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
360 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
361 apic=verbose is specified.
362 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
363
1da177e4 364 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
71f77055 365 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
1da177e4 366
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367 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
368 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
369
370 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
371
372 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
373
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374 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
375 EzKey and similar keyboards
376
377 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
378
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379 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
380 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
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381
382 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
383 keyboards
384
385 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
386 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
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387
388 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
389 Use software keyboard repeat
1da177e4 390
a106fb0c 391 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
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392 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
393 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
394 enabled until the next reboot
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395 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
396 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
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397 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
398 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
399 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
400 userspace auditd.
a106fb0c 401 Default: unset
f3411cb2 402
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403 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
404 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
405 Default: 64
406
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407 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
408 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
409 Format: { "0" | "1" }
410 0 - Disable the BAU.
411 1 - Enable the BAU.
412 unset - Disable the BAU.
413
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414 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
415 Format: <io>,<mode>
a9913044 416
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417 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
418 Format: <io>,<mode>
419 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
420
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421 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
422 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
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423 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
424 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
425
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426 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
427 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
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428 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
429 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
430
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431 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
432 embedded devices based on command line input.
433 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
434
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435 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
436 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
437 no delay (0).
438 Format: integer
439
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440 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
441
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442 bert_disable [ACPI]
443 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
444
1da177e4 445 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
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446 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
447 kernel args too.
a405ed85 448 bttv.pll= See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
395cf969 449 bttv.tuner=
1da177e4 450
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451 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
452 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
453 at a time.
454
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455 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
456
cd4f0ef7 457 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
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458 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
459 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
460 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
461 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
462 This option provides an override for these situations.
463
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464 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
465 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
466 trust validation.
32c4741c 467 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
ffb70f61 468
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469 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
470 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
471 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
472 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
473 others).
474
6dddd7a7 475 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
14ff56bb 476 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
1da177e4 477
6dddd7a7 478 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
8bab8dde 479 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
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480 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
481 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
482 a single hierarchy
483 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
484 subsystem
485 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
486 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
487 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
8bab8dde 488
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489 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
490 Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
491 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
492 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
493
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494 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
495 Format: <string>
496 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
04823c83 497 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
f7e1cb6e 498
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499 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
500 Format: { "0" | "1" }
501 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
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502 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
503 any implied execute protection).
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504 1 -- check protection requested by application.
505 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
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506 Value can be changed at runtime via
507 /selinux/checkreqprot.
508
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509 cio_ignore= [S390]
510 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
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511 clk_ignore_unused
512 [CLK]
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513 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
514 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
515 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
516 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
517 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
518 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
519 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
520 platform with proper driver support. For more
18bcaa4e 521 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
661ca0da 522
cd4f0ef7 523 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
734efb46 524 [Deprecated]
3f6dee9b 525 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
734efb46 526 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
3f6dee9b 527 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
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528 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
529
592913ec 530 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
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531 Format: <string>
532 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
533 with the name specified.
534 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
535 the platform:
536 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
537 [ACPI] acpi_pm
538 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
539 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
9863c90f 540 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
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541 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
542 [MIPS] MIPS
543 [PARISC] cr16
544 [S390] tod
545 [SH] SuperH
546 [SPARC64] tick
547 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
548
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549 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
550 [ARM,ARM64]
551 Format: <bool>
552 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
553 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
554 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
555 systems.
556
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557 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
558 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
cd4d09ec 559 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
07983f0e 560 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
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561 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
562 ones should be.
563 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
564 or using the feature without checking anything
565 will still see it. This just prevents it from
566 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
567 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
568 some critical bits.
569
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570 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
571 [ARM,X86,KNL]
572 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
573 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
574 placement constraint by the physical address range of
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575 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
576 altogether. For more information, see
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577 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
578
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579 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
580 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
581 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
582 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
583 a hypervisor.
584 Default: yes
585
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586 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
587 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
e9da6e99 588 allocations, by default set to 256K.
c7909509 589
1da177e4 590 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
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591 Format:
592 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
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593
594 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
595 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
596
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597 com90xx= [HW,NET]
598 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
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599 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
600
601 condev= [HW,S390] console device
602 conmode=
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604 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
605
606 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
607
608 ttyS<n>[,options]
f1a1c2dc 609 ttyUSB0[,options]
1da177e4 610 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
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611 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
612 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
613 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
614 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
615
e52347bd 616 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
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617 information. See
618 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
619 alternative.
1da177e4 620
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621 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
622 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
bd94c407 623 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
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624 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
625 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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626 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
627 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
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628 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
629 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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630 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
631 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
632 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
633 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
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634 the h/w is not re-initialized.
635
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636 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
637 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
1da177e4 638
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639 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
640 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
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641 console=brl,ttyS0
642 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
643
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644 console_msg_format=
645 [KNL] Change console messages format
646 default
647 By default we print messages on consoles in
648 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
649 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
650 `printk_time' param).
651 syslog
652 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
653 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
654 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
655 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
656 from /proc/kmsg.
657
f324edc8 658 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
ac0a314c 659 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
6dddd7a7 660 Defaults to 0.
f324edc8 661
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662 coredump_filter=
663 [KNL] Change the default value for
664 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
665 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
666
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667 coresight_cpu_debug.enable
668 [ARM,ARM64]
669 Format: <bool>
670 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
671 0: default value, disable debugging
672 1: enable debugging at boot time
673
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674 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
675 disable the cpuidle sub-system
676
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677 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
678 disable the cpufreq sub-system
679
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680 cpu_init_udelay=N
681 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
682 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
683 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
684 Default: 10000
685
1da177e4 686 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
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687 Format:
688 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
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690 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
691 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
692 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
693 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
694 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
695 is selected automatically. Check
696 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
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698 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
699 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
700 in the running system. The syntax of range is
701 start-[end] where start and end are both
702 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
6f21e646 703 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
fb391599 704
adbc742b 705 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
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706 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
707 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
708 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
709 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
710 available.
711 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
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712 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
713 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
714 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
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715 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
716 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
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717 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
718 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
719 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
720 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
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721 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
722 for second kernel instead.
723 0: to disable low allocation.
adbc742b 724 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
55a20ee7 725 or memory reserved is below 4G.
c729de8f 726
9e5c9fe4 727 cryptomgr.notests
6dddd7a7 728 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
9e5c9fe4 729
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730 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
731 Format: <dma>
732
733 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
734 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
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a9913044 736 dasd= [HW,NET]
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737 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
738
739 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
740 (one device per port)
741 Format: <port#>,<type>
1752118d 742 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4 743
6dddd7a7 744 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
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745 time. See
746 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
29e36c9f 747 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
a648ec05 748
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749 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
750
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751 debug_boot_weak_hash
752 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
753 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
754 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are
755 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
756 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
757 insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
758
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759 debug_locks_verbose=
760 [KNL] verbose self-tests
761 Format=<0|1>
762 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
763 self-tests.
764 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
765 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
766 only useful to kernel developers.
767
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768 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
769
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770 no_debug_objects
771 [KNL] Disable object debugging
772
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773 debug_guardpage_minorder=
774 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
775 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
776 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
777 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
778 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
779 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
780 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
781 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
782 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
783 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
784 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
785 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
786 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
787 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
788 bypassed) which are not detectable by
789 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
790 tracking down these problems.
791
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792 debug_pagealloc=
793 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
794 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
795 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
796 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
797 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
798 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
799 on: enable the feature
800
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801 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
802
2d27a966 803 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
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804 Format: <area>[,<node>]
805 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
806
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807 default_hugepagesz=
808 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
809 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
810 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
811 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
812 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
813 if not specified.
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816 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
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818 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
819 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
820 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
821 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
822 miss to occur.
823
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824 disable= [IPV6]
825 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
826
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827 disable_radix [PPC]
828 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
829
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830 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
831 Format: <int>
832 The number of initial APIC ID for the
833 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
834 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
835 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
836 causing system reset or hang due to sending
837 INIT from AP to BSP.
838
6dddd7a7 839 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
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840 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
841 to workaround buggy firmware.
842
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843 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
844 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
845
95ffa243 846 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
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847 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
848 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
0cb55ad2 849 entry later. This parameter disables that.
95ffa243 850
093af8d7 851 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
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852 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
853 memory out of your available memory pool based on
854 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
855 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
856
6cececfc 857 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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858 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
859 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
860
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861 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
862
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863 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
864 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
865
866 dma_debug_entries=<number>
867 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
868 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
869 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
870 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
871 architectural default is too low.
872
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873 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
874 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
875 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
876 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
877 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
878 driver later using sysfs.
879
53fd40a9 880 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
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881 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
882 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
883 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
884 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
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885 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
886 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
887 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
888 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
889 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
890 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
891 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
892 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
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893 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
894 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
895 data set with no connector name will be used for
896 any connectors not explicitly specified.
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898 dscc4.setup= [NET]
899
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900 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC]
901 Format: {"off" | "known"}
902 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
903 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
904 exists).
905 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
906 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
907 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
908
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909 dump_apple_properties [X86]
910 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
911 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
912 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
913
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914 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
915 module.dyndbg[="val"]
916 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
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917 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
918 for details.
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920 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
921 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
922 information about the feature.
923
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924 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
925 in some Intel CPUs.
926
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927 module.async_probe [KNL]
928 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
929
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930 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
931 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
932 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
933 which are not unmapped.
934
0cb55ad2 935 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
0d3c673e 936
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937 [ARM64] The early console is determined by the
938 stdout-path property in device tree's chosen node,
939 or determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
940
941 [X86] When used with no options the early console is
942 determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
5664f764 943
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944 cdns,<addr>[,options]
945 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
946 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
947 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
948 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
949 configured.
6fa62fc4 950
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951 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
952 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1917ac76 953 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
6e63be3f 954 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
ca782f16 955 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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956 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
957 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
16290246 958 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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959 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
960 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
961 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
962 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
ca782f16 963 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
0cb55ad2 964
0d3c673e 965 pl011,<addr>
3b78fae7 966 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
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967 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
968 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
969 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
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970 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
971 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
972 the device registers.
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974 meson,<addr>
975 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
976 port at the specified address. The serial port must
977 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
978 supported.
979
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980 msm_serial,<addr>
981 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
982 port at the specified address. The serial port
983 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
984 yet supported.
985
986 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
987 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
988 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
989 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
990 yet supported.
991
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992 owl,<addr>
993 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
994 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
995 specified address. The serial port must already be
996 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
997
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998 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
999
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1000 s3c2410,<addr>
1001 s3c2412,<addr>
1002 s3c2440,<addr>
1003 s3c6400,<addr>
1004 s5pv210,<addr>
1005 exynos4210,<addr>
1006 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1007 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1008 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1009 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1010 Options are not yet supported.
1011
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1012 lantiq,<addr>
1013 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1014 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1015 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1016 yet supported.
1017
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1018 lpuart,<addr>
1019 lpuart32,<addr>
1020 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1021 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1022 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1023 port must already be setup and configured.
1024
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1026 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1027 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1028 address. The serial port must already be setup
1029 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1030
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1031 qcom_geni,<addr>
1032 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1033 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1034 specified address. The serial port must already be
1035 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1036
4ba66a97 1037 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1da177e4 1038 earlyprintk=vga
72548e83 1039 earlyprintk=efi
89175cf7 1040 earlyprintk=sclp
2482a92e 1041 earlyprintk=xen
1da177e4 1042 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
147ea091 1043 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
ea3acb19 1044 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
9780bc41 1045 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
c43088e3 1046 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1b5aeebf 1047 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
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1049 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1050 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1051 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1052
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1054 takes over.
1055
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1056 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1057 be used at a time.
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1059 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1060 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1061 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1062 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1063 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1064 You can find the port for a given device in
1065 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1066 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
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1067
1068 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1069 very good.
1070
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1071 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1072 the real console.
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1074 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1075
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1076 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1077
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1078 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1079 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1080 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1081 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1082 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1083 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1084 default: on.
1085
9731191f
JW
1086 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1087 ekgdboc=kbd
1088
25985edc 1089 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
9731191f
JW
1090 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1091
1da177e4 1092 edd= [EDD]
8c4dd606 1093 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1da177e4 1094
d2f7cbe7 1095 efi= [EFI]
fed6cefe 1096 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
d2f7cbe7
BP
1097 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1098 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1099 default.
5a17dae4
MF
1100 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1101 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1102 firmware implementations.
5ae3683c 1103 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
fed6cefe 1104 debug: enable misc debug output
d2f7cbe7 1105
8c58bf3e
RW
1106 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1107 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1108 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1109 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1110 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1111
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1112 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1113 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1114 updating original EFI memory map.
1115 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1116 from ss to ss+nn.
1117 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1118 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1119 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1120 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1121
1122 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1123 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1124 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1125 doesn't support it.
1126
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OP
1127 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1128 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1129 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1130 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1131 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1132
1133
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LT
1134 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1135 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1136
cd4f0ef7 1137 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1da177e4 1138 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
71f77055 1139 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1da177e4
LT
1140
1141 elevator= [IOSCHED]
17a9e7bb 1142 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
395cf969 1143 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
a9913044
RD
1144 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1145
d3bf3795 1146 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
a9913044 1147 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
d3bf3795
MH
1148 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1149 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
aac04b32 1150 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
1da177e4 1151
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RD
1152 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1153 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1154 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1155 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1156
ca1eda2d 1157 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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RD
1158 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1159 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1160 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1161 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1162
1da177e4
LT
1163 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1164 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1165 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1166 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1167 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1168 Default value is 0.
1169 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1170
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HY
1171 erst_disable [ACPI]
1172 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1173 support.
1174
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LT
1175 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1176 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1177 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1178
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MZ
1179 evm= [EVM]
1180 Format: { "fix" }
1181 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1182 current integrity status.
1183
de1ba09b
AM
1184 failslab=
1185 fail_page_alloc=
1186 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1187 General fault injection mechanism.
1188 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
395cf969 1189 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
de1ba09b 1190
1da177e4 1191 floppy= [HW]
31c00fc1 1192 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1da177e4 1193
f13ae30e
AC
1194 force_pal_cache_flush
1195 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1196 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1197 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1198 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1199
6dddd7a7 1200 forcepae [X86-32]
69f2366c
CB
1201 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1202 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1203 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1204 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1205 and may cause unknown problems.
1206
d9e54076 1207 ftrace=[tracer]
2af15d6a 1208 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
d9e54076
PZ
1209 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1210 boot debugging.
1211
cecbca96 1212 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
2af15d6a 1213 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
cecbca96
FW
1214 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1215 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1216 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1217 oops.
2af15d6a
SR
1218
1219 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1220 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1221 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1222 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1223 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
16290246 1224 tracing directory.
2af15d6a
SR
1225
1226 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1227 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1228 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1229 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1230 tracing directory.
d9e54076 1231
369bc18f
SA
1232 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1233 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1234 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1235 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1236 that can be changed at run time by the
1237 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1238
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NK
1239 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1240 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1241 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1242 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1243 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1244
65a50c65
TB
1245 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1246 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1247 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1248 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1249 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1250
1da177e4
LT
1251 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1252 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1253 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1254 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1752118d 1255 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4
LT
1256
1257 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1258
6dddd7a7 1259 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
aaf23042
YL
1260 Format: off | on
1261 default: on
1262
2521f2c2
PO
1263 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1264 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1265 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1266 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1267 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1268
47512cfd
TG
1269 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1270 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1271 android emulator
1272
1da177e4 1273 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
6c5de79b
DB
1274 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1275 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1276 GPT to be used instead.
1da177e4 1277
6cec9b07
AL
1278 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1279 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1280 Format: 0 | 1
1281 Default: 0
1282 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1283 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1284 Format: 0 | 1
1285 Default: 0
1286 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1287 Format: 0 | 1
1288 Default: 0
1289 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1290 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1291 Default: 1024
1292 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1293 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1294 Default: 1024
1295
0f98dd1b
BJZ
1296 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1297 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1298 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1299
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JK
1300 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1301 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1302 backtraces on all cpus.
1303 Format: <integer>
1304
1da177e4
LT
1305 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1306 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
16290246 1307 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
a9913044 1308 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1da177e4
LT
1309
1310 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1311
1312 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1313 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1314
ea8c071c
HY
1315 hest_disable [ACPI]
1316 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1317 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1318 logic will be disabled.
1319
1da177e4
LT
1320 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1321 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1322 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1323 size on bigger boxes.
1324
54cdfdb4
TG
1325 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1326 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1327 Default: "on"
1328
1da177e4
LT
1329 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1330 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1331
0cb55ad2
RD
1332 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1333
1334 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1335 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1336 verbose }
1337 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1338 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1339 VIA, nVidia)
1340 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1341
3d035f58
PB
1342 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1343 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1344
b4718e62
AK
1345 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1346 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
0d9ea754
JT
1347 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1348 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1349 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1350 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
27ec26ec 1351 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
6902aa84 1352
a49d9c0a
OS
1353 hung_task_panic=
1354 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1355 Format: <integer>
cef7125d 1356
a49d9c0a
OS
1357 A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a
1358 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1359 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1360 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1361 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1362
6dddd7a7
TB
1363 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1364 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1365 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1366 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1367 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
7bf69395
FDN
1368 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1369 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1370 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1371 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1372 the real console.
1373
6dddd7a7
TB
1374 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1375 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1376 registered from board initialization code.
1377 Format:
1378 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
3a853fb9 1379
36d95739 1380 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
e1443d28
SCP
1381 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1382 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1383 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1384 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1da177e4 1385 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
84eb8d06
ML
1386 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1387 keyboard and cannot control its state
1da177e4
LT
1388 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1389 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
945ef0d4 1390 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
75d08c78
JK
1391 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1392 for the AUX port
1da177e4 1393 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
e55a3366 1394 controller
1da177e4
LT
1395 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1396 controllers
24775d65 1397 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
930e1924
MPS
1398 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1399 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1400 transitions, or never reset
1401 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1402 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1403 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1404 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1405 architectures force reset to be always executed
1da177e4 1406 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
6dddd7a7 1407 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1da177e4
LT
1408
1409 i810= [HW,DRM]
1410
e70c9d5e
DT
1411 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1412 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1413 hardware.
1da177e4
LT
1414 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1415 does not match list of supported models.
1416 i8k.power_status
1417 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1418 (disabled by default)
1419 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1420 capability is set.
1421
4dca20ef 1422 i915.invert_brightness=
7bd90909
CE
1423 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1424 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
4dca20ef
CE
1425 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1426 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1427 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1428 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1429 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1430 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1431 value switches the backlight off.
1432 -1 -- never invert brightness
1433 0 -- machine default
1434 1 -- force brightness inversion
7bd90909 1435
1da177e4
LT
1436 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1437 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1438
0af80c04
DF
1439 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1440 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
075affcb
BZ
1441 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1442 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1c10e938 1443 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1da177e4 1444
0f8b7f5d
MR
1445 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1446 Format: <int>
1447 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1448 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1449 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1450 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1451 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1452 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1453 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1454 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1455 was 0x3.
1456
0cb55ad2
RD
1457 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1458 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1459
f039b754 1460 idle= [X86]
69fb3676 1461 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
ada9cfdd
RD
1462 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1463 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1464 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1465 Not recommended.
ada9cfdd 1466 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
c1e3b377 1467 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
ada9cfdd 1468 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
a9913044 1469
503943e0
MR
1470 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1471 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1472 Default: strict
1473
1474 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1475 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1476 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1477 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1478 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1479 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1480 encoding mode.
1481
1482 Available settings are as follows:
1483 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1484 supported by the FPU
1485 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1486 by the FPU
1487 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1488 by the FPU
1489 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1490 supported by the FPU
1491
1492 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1493 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1494 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1495 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1496 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1497 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1498 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1499 MIPS64 CPUs.
1500
1501 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1502 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1503 except where unsupported by hardware.
1504
79290822
IM
1505 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1506 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1507 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
0eca6b7c
YZ
1508 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1509 could change it dynamically, usually by
1510 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
79290822 1511
d977d56c
KK
1512 ignore_rlimit_data
1513 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1514 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1515 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1516
1da177e4
LT
1517 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1518 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1519
2fe5d6de 1520 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2faa6ef3 1521 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
2fe5d6de
MZ
1522 default: "enforce"
1523
07f6a794
MZ
1524 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1525 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1526 owned by uid=0.
1527
d68a6fe9
MZ
1528 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1529 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1530 measurements, instead of host native format.
1531
3323eec9 1532 ima_hash= [IMA]
e7a2ad7e
MZ
1533 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1534 | sha512 | ... }
3323eec9
MZ
1535 default: "sha1"
1536
e7a2ad7e
MZ
1537 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1538 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1539
24fd03c8 1540 ima_policy= [IMA]
33ce9549 1541 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
9e67028e
MZ
1542 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1543 fail_securely"
33ce9549
MZ
1544
1545 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1546 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1547 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1548 uid=0.
1549
1550 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1551 all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent
1552 of ima_appraise_tcb.)
24fd03c8 1553
503ceaef
MZ
1554 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1555 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1556 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
24fd03c8 1557
9e67028e
MZ
1558 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1559 verification failure also on privileged mounted
1560 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1561 flag.
1562
24fd03c8 1563 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
5789ba3b
EP
1564 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1565 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1566 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1567 opened for read by uid=0.
1568
6dddd7a7 1569 ima_template= [IMA]
9b9d4ce5 1570 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
8265a2f8 1571 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
9b9d4ce5
RS
1572 Default: "ima-ng"
1573
c2426d2a 1574 ima_template_fmt=
6dddd7a7 1575 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
c2426d2a
RS
1576 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1577
3bcced39
DK
1578 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1579 Format: <min_file_size>
1580 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1581 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1582
1583 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1584 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1585 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1586
6edf7a89
DK
1587 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1588 Format: <bufsize>
1589 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1590
1591 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1592 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1593 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1594
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1595 init= [KNL]
1596 Format: <full_path>
1597 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1598 process.
1599
1600 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1601 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1602 startup.
1603
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1604 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1605 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1606 modules and initcalls.
1607
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1608 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1609
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1610 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1611 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1612 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1613 override in debugfs after boot.
1614
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1615 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1616 Format: <irq>
1617
6dddd7a7 1618 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
6bb2ff84 1619
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1620 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1621 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1622 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1623 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1624
ba395927 1625 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
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1626 on
1627 Enable intel iommu driver.
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1628 off
1629 Disable intel iommu driver.
1630 igfx_off [Default Off]
1631 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1632 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1633 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1634 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1635 DMA.
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1636 forcedac [x86_64]
1637 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
16290246 1638 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
7d3b03ce 1639 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
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1640 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1641 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
7d3b03ce 1642 then look in the higher range.
5e0d2a6f 1643 strict [Default Off]
1644 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1645 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1646 to batching them for performance.
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1647 sp_off [Default Off]
1648 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1649 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1650 not be supported.
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1651 ecs_off [Default Off]
1652 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1653 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1654 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1655 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1656 on hardware which claims to support them.
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1657 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1658 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1659 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1660 could harm performance of some high-throughput
1661 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1662 mapping is enabled.
1663 Note that using this option lowers the security
1664 provided by tboot because it makes the system
1665 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
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1666
1667 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1668 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
22c6bbe4 1669 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
2e92c7ad 1670
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1671 intel_pstate= [X86]
1672 disable
1673 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1674 scaling driver for the supported processors
1675 passive
1676 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1677 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1678 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1679 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1680 feature.
1681 force
1682 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1683 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1684 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1685 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1686 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1687 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1688 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1689 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1690 no_hwp
1691 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1692 if available.
1693 hwp_only
1694 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1695 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1696 support_acpi_ppc
1697 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1698 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1699 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1700 then this feature is turned on by default.
1701 per_cpu_perf_limits
1702 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1703 cpufreq sysfs interface
6be26498 1704
d1423d56 1705 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
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1706 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1707 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1708 nosid disable Source ID checking
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1709 no_x2apic_optout
1710 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
b7d20631 1711 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
d1423d56 1712
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1713 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1714 strict regions from userspace.
1715 relaxed
1716
1717 iommu= [x86]
1718 off
1719 force
1720 noforce
1721 biomerge
1722 panic
1723 nopanic
1724 merge
1725 nomerge
0cb55ad2 1726 soft
bcb71abe 1727 pt [x86, IA-64]
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1728 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1729 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
bcb71abe 1730
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1731 iommu.passthrough=
1732 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1733 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1734 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1735 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1736 unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
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1737
1738 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1739 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1740 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1741
6cececfc 1742 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
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1743 0x80
1744 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1745 0xed
1746 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
b02aae9c 1747 udelay
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1748 Simple two microseconds delay
1749 none
1750 No delay
b02aae9c 1751
1da177e4 1752 ip= [IP_PNP]
dc7a0816 1753 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 1754
fbf19803 1755 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2d13e6ca 1756 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
fbf19803 1757
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1758 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1759 [ARM, ARM64]
1760 Format: <bool>
1761 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1762 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1763 exposed by the device tree is too small.
1764
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1765 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
1766 [ARM, ARM64]
1767 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
1768 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
1769 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
1770 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
1771 LPIs.
1772
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1773 irqfixup [HW]
1774 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1775 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1776 firmware running.
1777
1778 irqpoll [HW]
1779 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1780 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1781 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1782 firmware running.
1783
1da177e4 1784 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
a9913044 1785 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1da177e4 1786
d94d1053 1787 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
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1788 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1789 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
1790
1791 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1792 specified in the flag list (default: domain):
1793
1794 nohz
1795 Disable the tick when a single task runs.
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1796
1797 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
1798 need to affine to housekeeping through the global
1799 workqueue's affinity configured via the
1800 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
1801 by using the 'domain' flag described below.
1802
1803 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
1804 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
1805 be configured manually after bootup.
1806
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1807 domain
1808 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1809 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1810 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1811 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1812 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1813 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1814 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1815 move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1816
1817 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1818 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1819 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1820 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1821
1822 The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
b225d44e 1823
1da177e4 1824
1da177e4 1825
a9913044 1826 iucv= [HW,NET]
1da177e4 1827
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1828 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1829 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1830 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1831 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1832 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1833 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1834
1835 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1836 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1837 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1838 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1839 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1840 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1841
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1842 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1843 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1844 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1845 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1846 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1847 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1848
1da177e4 1849 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1752118d 1850 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
1da177e4 1851
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1852 nokaslr [KNL]
1853 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1854 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1855 Layout Randomization).
24f2e027 1856
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1857 kasan_multi_shot
1858 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1859 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1860 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1861 invalid access.
1862
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1863 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1864
342332e6 1865 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
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1866 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
1867 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
1868 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested
1869 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
1870 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for
1871 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the
1872 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
1873 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
1874 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
1875
1876 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
1877 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
1878 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
1879 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
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1880 zone if it does not.
1881
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1882 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
1883 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
1884 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror"
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1885 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1886 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
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1887 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
1888 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
ed7ed365 1889
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1890 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1891 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1892 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1893 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1894 optional and is the number seconds in between
1895 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1896 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1897 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1898 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1899 the kernel debugger.
1900
84c08fd6 1901 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
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1902 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1903 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
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1904 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1905 keyboard only format: kbd
1906 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1907 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1908 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1909 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
6cdf6e06 1910
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1911 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1912 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1913
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1914 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1915 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1916 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1917
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1918 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1919 Valid arguments: on, off
1920 Default: on
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1921 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1922 the default is off.
04f70336 1923
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1924 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1925 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1926
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1927 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
1928 Default is false (don't support).
1929
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1930 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1931 KVM MMU at runtime.
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1932 Default is 0 (off)
1933
fef07aae 1934 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
8475f94a 1935 Default is 1 (enabled)
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1936
1937 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1938 for all guests.
16290246 1939 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
fef07aae 1940
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1941 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
1942 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
1943 system registers
1944
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1945 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
1946 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
1947 system registers
1948
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1949 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
1950 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
1951 system registers
1952
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1953 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
1954 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
1955 LPIs.
1956
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1957 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1958 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1959 Default is 1 (enabled)
1960
1961 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1962 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1963 Default is 0 (disabled)
1964
1965 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1966 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1967 Default is 1 (enabled)
1968
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1969 kvm-intel.nested=
1970 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1971 Default is 0 (disabled)
1972
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1973 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1974 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1975 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1976 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1977
1978 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1979 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1980 Default is 1 (enabled)
1981
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1982 l2cr= [PPC]
1983
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1984 l3cr= [PPC]
1985
cd4f0ef7 1986 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
a9913044 1987 disabled it.
1da177e4 1988
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1989 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1990 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1991 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1992
6cececfc 1993 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
ada9cfdd 1994 in C2 power state.
e585bef8 1995
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1996 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1997 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1998 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1999 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
16290246 2000 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
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2001 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2002 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
16290246 2003
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2004 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2005 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
2006 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
fcb71f6f 2007
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2008 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2009 when set.
2010 Format: <int>
2011
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2012 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
2013 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
4c44f309 2014 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
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2015 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
2016 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
2017 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2018 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2019 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2020
2021 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2022 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
2023 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2024 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
2025 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2026 host link and device attached to it.
2027
2028 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
2029 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2030 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2031 The following configurations can be forced.
2032
2033 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2034 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2035
2036 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2037
2038 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2039 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2040 allowed.
2041
2042 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2043
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2044 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2045
05944bdf 2046 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
6dddd7a7 2047 and both resets.
05944bdf 2048
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2049 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2050 hot-unplug link recovery
2051
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2052 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2053
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2054 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2055
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2056 * disable: Disable this device.
2057
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2058 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2059 the same attribute, the last one is used.
2060
95f72d1e 2061 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
7c4be253 2062
1da177e4 2063 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
31c00fc1 2064 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 2065
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2066 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2067 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 2068
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2069 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2070 Format: <integer>
2071
2072 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2073 Format: <integer>
2074
2075 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2076 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 2077
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2078 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2079 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2080 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2081 number of online CPUs.
2082
2083 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2084 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2085
2086 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2087 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2088
2089 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2090 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2091 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2092
2093 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2094 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2095 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2096 mode during the locktorture test.
2097
2098 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2099 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2100 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2101
2102 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2103 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2104
2105 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2106 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2107 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2108 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2109 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2110 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2111
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2112 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2113 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2114
2115 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2116 Enable additional printk() statements.
2117
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2118 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2119 Format: <irq>
2120
2121 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2122 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2123 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2124 loglevels are defined as follows:
2125
2126 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2127 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2128 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2129 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2130 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2131 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2132 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2133 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2134
c756d08a 2135 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
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2136 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2137 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2138 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2139 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2140 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2141 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
1da177e4 2142
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2143 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2144 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2145 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2146 kernel boot problems.
2147
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2148 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2149 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2150 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2151 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2152 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2153 attached printers to be reset. Using
2154 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2155 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2156 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2157 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2158 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2159 port specification list means that device IDs
2160 from each port should be examined, to see if
2161 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2162 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2163 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2164
2165 lpj=n [KNL]
2166 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2167 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2168 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2169 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2170 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2171 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2172 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2173 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2174 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2175 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2176 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2177 hardware.
2178
2179 ltpc= [NET]
2180 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2181
16290246 2182 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
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2183 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2184 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
1da177e4 2185
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2186 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2187 yeeloong laptop.
2188 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2189
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2190 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2191 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
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2192
2193 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
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BH
2194 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2195 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2196 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2197 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2198 only takes effect during system bootup.
2199 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2200 which also disables the IO APIC.
1da177e4 2201
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2202 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2203 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2204 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2205 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2206 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2207 /dev/loop-control interface.
2b2c3750 2208
cd4f0ef7 2209 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
1da177e4 2210
71cced6e 2211 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
909dd324 2212
1da177e4 2213 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
e52347bd 2214 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
a9913044 2215
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LT
2216 mdacon= [MDA]
2217 Format: <first>,<last>
2218 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
a9913044 2219
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2220 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2221 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2222 to see the whole system memory or for test.
fbb97d87
WC
2223 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2224 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2225 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2226 belonging to unused RAM.
1da177e4 2227
cd4f0ef7 2228 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
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2229 memory.
2230
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2231 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2232 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2233 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2234
6dddd7a7 2235 memhp_default_state=online/offline
86dd995d
VK
2236 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2237 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2238 set according to the
2239 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2240 option.
2241 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2242
6cececfc 2243 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
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2244 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2245 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2246 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2247 option description.
2248
2249 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
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2250 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2251 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
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BH
2252 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2253 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2254 Multiple different regions can be specified,
2255 comma delimited.
2256 Example:
2257 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
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2258
2259 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2260 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
277cba1d 2261 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
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2262
2263 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2264 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
277cba1d 2265 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
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2266 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2267 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2268 or
2269 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
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BH
2270 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2271 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2272 will be eaten.
1da177e4 2273
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CH
2274 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2275 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2276 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2277 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2278 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2279
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2280 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2281 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2282 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2283 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2284 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2285 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2286 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2287 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2288
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JF
2289 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2290 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2291 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2292 Setting this option will scan the memory
2293 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2294 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2295 from using the memory being corrupted.
2296 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2297 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2298 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2299 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2300
2301 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2302 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2303 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2304 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2305 corruption in more or less memory.
2306
2307 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2308 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2309 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2310 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2311
e4b0db72 2312 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
c64df707 2313 Format: <integer>
c64df707 2314 default : 0 <disable>
9e5f6cf5
AH
2315 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2316 performed. Each pass selects another test
2317 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2318 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2319 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2320 regions that are detected.
c64df707 2321
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2322 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2323 Valid arguments: on, off
2324 Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2325 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2326 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2327 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
2328 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
2329
2330 Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
2331 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2332
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2333 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2334 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2335 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2336 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
58e7cb9e 2337 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
406e7938 2338
1da177e4 2339 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
a405ed85 2340 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
1da177e4 2341
8f36881b
AS
2342 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2343 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2344 platforms.
2345
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WT
2346 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2347 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2348 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2349 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2350
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LT
2351 mga= [HW,DRM]
2352
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RD
2353 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2354 physical address is ignored.
2355
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MP
2356 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2357 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2358 Default: "0tb"
2359 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2360 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2361 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2362 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2363 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2364 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2365 unconfigured.
2366 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2367 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2368 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2369 VGA shield.
2370 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2371 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2372 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2373 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2374 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2375 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2376
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MG
2377 mminit_loglevel=
2378 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2379 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2380 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2381 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2382 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2383 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2384
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RR
2385 module.sig_enforce
2386 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2387 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2a039be7 2388 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
106a4ee2
RR
2389 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2390
be7de5f9
PB
2391 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2392 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2393
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LT
2394 mousedev.tap_time=
2395 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2396 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2397 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2398 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2399 Format: <msecs>
2400 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2401 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2402 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2403 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2404
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DR
2405 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2406 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2407 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
2408 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
2409 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is
2410 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
2411 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its
2412 own is specified, the administrator must be careful
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RD
2413 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2414 is not too small.
2415
f70029bb
MH
2416 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2417 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2418 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2419 allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2420 allocations. Use with caution!
c5320926 2421
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LT
2422 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2423 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2424
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RD
2425 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2426 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
1da177e4
LT
2427
2428 mtdparts= [MTD]
c8facbb6 2429 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
1da177e4 2430
4e89a2d8
WS
2431 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2432 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2433 at a time.
2434
5988af23
RH
2435 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2436
2437 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2438
2439 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2440 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2441 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2442 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2443 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2444
9db829f4
BD
2445 mtdset= [ARM]
2446 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2447
2448 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2449
1da177e4 2450 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
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RD
2451 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2452 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
1da177e4 2453
0cb55ad2 2454 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
19f59460 2455 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
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RD
2456 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2457
2458 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2459 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2460 Default is 1.
2461 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2462 using up MTRRs.
2463
2464 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2465 Format: <integer>
2466 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2467 Default : 1
2468 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2469 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2470
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LT
2471 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2472
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LT
2473 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2474 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2475 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2476 something different and driver-specific.
a9913044
RD
2477 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2478 file if at all.
2479
58401572
KPO
2480 nf_conntrack.acct=
2481 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2482 0 to disable accounting
2483 1 to enable accounting
d70a011d 2484 Default value is 0.
58401572 2485
306a0753 2486 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
dc7a0816 2487 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
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LT
2488
2489 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
dc7a0816 2490 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 2491
306a0753
CL
2492 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2493 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2494
5405fc44
TM
2495 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2496 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2497 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2498 requests.
2499
a72b4422
TM
2500 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2501 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2502 channel should listen.
2503
e571cbf1
TM
2504 nfs.cache_getent=
2505 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2506 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2507
2508 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2509 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2510 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2511
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TM
2512 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2513 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2514 entries.
2515
f43bf0be
TM
2516 nfs.enable_ino64=
2517 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2518 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2519 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2520 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2521 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2522
5405fc44
TM
2523 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2524 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2525 slots the client will assign to the callback
2526 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2527 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2528 a particular server.
2529
ef159e91
TM
2530 nfs.max_session_slots=
2531 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2532 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2533 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2534 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2535 Note that there is little point in setting this
2536 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2537
b064eca2 2538 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
074b1d12
TM
2539 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2540 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2541 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2542 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2543 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2544 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2545 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2546 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2547 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2548 back to using the idmapper.
2549 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
6f2ea7f2
CL
2550 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2551 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2552 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2553 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2554 UUID that is generated at system install time.
b064eca2 2555
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WAA
2556 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2557 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2558 information in exchange_id requests.
2559 If zero, no implementation identification information
2560 will be sent.
2561 The default is to send the implementation identification
2562 information.
e52347bd 2563
f6de7a39
TM
2564 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2565 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2566 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2567 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2568 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2569 after the locks are lost.
2570 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2571 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2572 parameter to '1'.
2573 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2574 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
db8ac8ba 2575
bbf58bf3
TM
2576 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2577 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2578 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2579
2580 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2581 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2582 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2583 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2584
e9541ce8
BF
2585 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2586 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2587 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2588 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2589 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2590 migration from NFSv2/v3.
db8ac8ba 2591
c0c74acb 2592 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
e7ba176b
HS
2593 when a NMI is triggered.
2594 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2595
6cececfc 2596 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
fef2c9bc 2597 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
195daf66 2598 Valid num: 0 or 1
334bb79c
PK
2599 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2600 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
0cb55ad2 2601 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
fef2c9bc 2602 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
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PK
2603 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2604 please see 'nowatchdog'.
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RD
2605 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2606 need the box quickly up again.
1da177e4 2607
d22881dc
SW
2608 These settings can be accessed at runtime via
2609 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
2610
bff38771
AV
2611 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2612 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2613 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2614 waits 4 seconds.
2615
cd4f0ef7 2616 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
1da177e4
LT
2617 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2618 is present.
2619
372fddf7
KS
2620 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
2621 kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
2622
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RD
2623 no_console_suspend
2624 [HW] Never suspend the console
2625 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2626 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2627 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2628 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2629 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2630 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2631 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
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YZ
2632 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2633 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2634 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2635 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2636 turn on/off it dynamically.
0cb55ad2 2637
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CL
2638 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2639 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2640 but will impact performance.
3395ee05 2641
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RD
2642 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2643
686140a1
VG
2644 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2645 (CPU alternatives feature).
2646
1da177e4
LT
2647 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2648 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2649
5091faa4
MG
2650 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2651
1da177e4
LT
2652 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2653 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2654
2655 nocache [ARM]
a9913044 2656
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RD
2657 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2658
163ecdff
SN
2659 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2660
6902aa84
PM
2661 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2662
b2e0a54a 2663 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
8b2cb7a8 2664
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LT
2665 noexec [IA-64]
2666
6cececfc 2667 noexec [X86]
f5a1b191 2668 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
1da177e4 2669 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
f5a1b191
JS
2670 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2671
52b6179a
PA
2672 nosmap [X86]
2673 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2674 even if it is supported by processor.
2675
de5397ad 2676 nosmep [X86]
52b6179a 2677 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
de5397ad
FY
2678 even if it is supported by processor.
2679
f5a1b191
JS
2680 noexec32 [X86-64]
2681 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2682 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2683 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2684 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2685 read implies executable mappings
1da177e4 2686
fab43ef4 2687 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
6902aa84 2688
cd4f0ef7 2689 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
4f886511
CE
2690 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2691 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
1da177e4 2692
0ddab1d2
TK
2693 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2694
52c48c51
SS
2695 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2696 Equivalent to smt=1.
2697
da285121
DW
2698 nospectre_v2 [X86] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2
2699 (indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may
2700 allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent
2701 to spectre_v2=off.
2702
24f7fc83
KRW
2703 nospec_store_bypass_disable
2704 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
2705
0c752a93
SS
2706 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2707 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2708 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2709
b6f42a4a
FY
2710 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2711 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2712 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2713 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2714 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2715 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2716
2717 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2718 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2719 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2720 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2721 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2722 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2723 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2724
01a24d2b
PZ
2725 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2726 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2727 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
a9913044 2728
1f29fae2
SH
2729 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2730 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2731 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2732
1da177e4
LT
2733 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2734 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2735 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2736 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2737 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2738 real-time systems.
2739
a6e15a39
KC
2740 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2741
79bf2bb3
TG
2742 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2743 Valid arguments: on, off
2744 Default: on
2745
d94d1053 2746 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
2d13e6ca 2747 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
c5bfece2 2748 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
a831881b 2749 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
0453b435 2750 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
f99bcb2c
PM
2751 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
2752 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
2753 just as if they had also been called out in the
2754 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
a831881b 2755
eeee7853
PM
2756 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2757
cd4f0ef7 2758 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
1da177e4
LT
2759 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2760
6cececfc 2761 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
8542b200
ZA
2762 broken timer IRQ sources.
2763
1da177e4
LT
2764 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2765
2766 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2767 initial RAM disk.
2768
03ea8155
WH
2769 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2770 remapping.
d1423d56 2771 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
03ea8155 2772
1da177e4
LT
2773 nointroute [IA-64]
2774
d12a72b8
AL
2775 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2776
16290246 2777 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
0aa366f3 2778
9cf4c4fc
JK
2779 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2780
fd10cde9
GN
2781 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2782 fault handling.
2783
80e9a4f2
AM
2784 no-vmw-sched-clock
2785 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2786 clock and use the default one.
2787
6dddd7a7 2788 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
d910f5c1
GC
2789 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2790 behaviour
2791
cd4f0ef7 2792 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
1da177e4 2793
cd4f0ef7 2794 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
ad62ca2b 2795
1da177e4 2796 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
f15eea66 2797 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
1da177e4 2798
312f1f01
H
2799 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2800
13696e0a 2801 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
abe37e5a 2802
83d7384f
AS
2803 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2804 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2805
bda62633
DZ
2806 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2807 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2808 irq.
2809
02608bef
DY
2810 nomodule Disable module load
2811
016ddd9b
JK
2812 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2813 pagetables) support.
2814
0790c9aa
AL
2815 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
2816
0cb55ad2
RD
2817 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2818 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2819
cd4f0ef7 2820 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
b7fb4af0
JF
2821 with UP alternatives
2822
7a5091d5
PA
2823 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2824 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2825 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2826 available to user space applications.
49d859d7 2827
a9913044
RD
2828 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2829 space.
2830
1da177e4
LT
2831 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2832 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2833 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2834
2835 nosbagart [IA-64]
2836
cd4f0ef7 2837 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
4f886511 2838
61ec7567
LB
2839 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2840 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
1da177e4 2841
97842216
DJ
2842 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2843
1da177e4
LT
2844 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2845
cd4f0ef7 2846 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
1da177e4 2847
195daf66 2848 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
6dddd7a7 2849 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
58687acb 2850
1da177e4 2851 nowb [ARM]
a9913044 2852
2b2fd87a
WH
2853 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2854
f78cff48
FY
2855 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2856 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2857 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2858 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2859 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2860 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2861 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2862 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2863 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2864 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2865 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2866 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2867 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2868
6dddd7a7 2869 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
35b55ef2
NC
2870 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
2871 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
2872 without interruptions, before HW switches it.
2873 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
2874 parameter's value.
2875 Format: integer between 1 and 255
2876 Default: 255
2877
16290246 2878 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
a6c75b86
FY
2879 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2880 SAL PALO.
2881
2b633e3f
YL
2882 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2883 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
7c142bfe
BH
2884 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2885 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2886 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2887 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2888 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2889 hot plugging.
2b633e3f 2890
0cb55ad2
RD
2891 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2892
1a687c2e
MG
2893 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2894 Allowed values are enable and disable
2895
f0c0b2b8 2896 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
c9bff3ee 2897 'node', 'default' can be specified
f0c0b2b8
KH
2898 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2899 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2900
7c4be253
RD
2901 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2902 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2903 info.
2904
3ef0e1f8
AS
2905 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2906 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2907 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2908 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2909 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2910 interrupts *may* be lost!
2911
15ac7afe
TL
2912 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2913 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2914 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2915 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2916
1da177e4
LT
2917 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2918 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2919
7e4e0bd5
RR
2920 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2921 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2922 userland or if you want common events.
8d7ff4f2
RR
2923 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2924 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
7e4e0bd5
RR
2925 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2926 CPU specific event set.
159a80b2
RR
2927 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2928 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2929 for generic hr timer mode)
1dcdb5a9 2930
44a4dcf7
RD
2931 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2932 process, but there is a small probability of
2933 deadlocking the machine.
d404ab0a
OH
2934 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2935 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2936
48c96a36
JK
2937 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2938 Storage of the information about who allocated
2939 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2940 we can turn it on.
2941 on: enable the feature
2942
8823b1db
LA
2943 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2944 poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2945 off: turn off poisoning
2946 on: turn on poisoning
2947
44a4dcf7 2948 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4302fbc8
HD
2949 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2950 timeout = 0: wait forever
2951 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
1da177e4
LT
2952 Format: <timeout>
2953
9e3961a0
PB
2954 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
2955 on a WARN().
2956
f06e5153
MH
2957 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2958 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2959 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2960 succeeds in any situation.
2961 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2962 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2963 kernel more unstable.
2964
1da177e4
LT
2965 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2966 connected to, default is 0.
2967 Format: <parport#>
2968 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2969 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
a9913044
RD
2970 Format: <mode>
2971
2972 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2973 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2974 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2975 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2976 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2977 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2978 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2979 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2980 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2981 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2982 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2983 are specified on the command line, starting
2984 with parport0.
2985
2986 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2987 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2988 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2989 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2990 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2991 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
1da177e4
LT
2992 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2993
dd287796
AM
2994 pause_on_oops=
2995 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2996 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
2997 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2998
1da177e4
LT
2999 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
3000
3001 pcd. [PARIDE]
3002 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
31c00fc1 3003 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 3004
a9913044 3005 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
1cc0ca26 3006 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
6dddd7a7 3007 changes anything
c0115606 3008 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
cd4f0ef7 3009 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
a9913044
RD
3010 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3011 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
cd4f0ef7 3012 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
a9913044
RD
3013 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3014 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3015 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
afd8c084
BP
3016 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3017 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3018 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3019 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3020 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3021 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3022 bus number. The config space is then accessed
3023 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3024 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3025 on the configuration access mechanisms.
7f785763
RD
3026 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3027 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3028 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
32a2eea7
JG
3029 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3030 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
6cececfc 3031 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
61be6d66 3032 Configuration
12983077
AH
3033 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3034 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3035 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
309e57df
MW
3036 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3037 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3038 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
a9322f64
SA
3039 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3040 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3041 should never be necessary.
9197979b
SA
3042 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3043 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3044 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3045 when the system masks IRQs.
41b9eb26
SA
3046 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3047 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3048 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3049 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
cd4f0ef7 3050 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
a9913044
RD
3051 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3052 on several machines and they hang the machine
3053 when used, but on other computers it's the only
3054 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3055 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3056 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3057 motherboard.
c0115606 3058 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
a9913044
RD
3059 Use with caution as certain devices share
3060 address decoders between ROMs and other
3061 resources.
c0115606 3062 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
bb71ad88
GH
3063 expansion ROMs that do not already have
3064 BIOS assigned address ranges.
7bd1c365
MH
3065 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
3066 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
c0115606 3067 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
a9913044
RD
3068 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3069 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3070 this way.
c0115606 3071 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
a9913044
RD
3072 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3073 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3074 F0000h-100000h range.
c0115606 3075 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
a9913044
RD
3076 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3077 secondary buses and you want to tell it
3078 explicitly which ones they are.
c0115606 3079 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
a9913044
RD
3080 numbers ourselves, overriding
3081 whatever the firmware may have done.
c0115606 3082 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
a9913044
RD
3083 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3084 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3085 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3086 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3087 IRQ routing is enabled.
c0115606 3088 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 3089 or for PCI scanning.
7bc5e3f2
BH
3090 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3091 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3092 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
3093 please report a bug.
3094 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
6dddd7a7 3095 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
a9913044
RD
3096 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3097 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3098 so this option is a temporary workaround
3099 for broken drivers that don't call it.
13a6ddb0
YL
3100 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3101 handle more pci cards
0637a70a
AK
3102 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3103 This might help on some broken boards which
3104 machine check when some devices' config space
3105 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3106 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
6b4b78fe
MD
3107 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3108 This sorting is done to get a device
3109 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3110 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
fa238712
YW
3111 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3112 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3113 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3114 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3115 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3116 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3117 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3118 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3119 or bus can support) for best performance.
3120 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3121 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3122 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3123 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3124 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3125 that hot-added devices will work.
4516a618
AN
3126 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3127 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3128 The default value is 256 bytes.
3129 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3130 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3131 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
32a9a682
YS
3132 resource_alignment=
3133 Format:
3134 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
644a544f
KMEE
3135 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
3136 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
32a9a682
YS
3137 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3138 aligned memory resources.
3139 If <order of align> is not specified,
3140 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3141 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3142 windows need to be expanded.
8b078c60
MK
3143 To specify the alignment for several
3144 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3145 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3146 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
43c16408
AP
3147 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3148 end-to-end CRC checking).
3149 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3150 the default.
3151 off: Turn ECRC off
3152 on: Turn ECRC on.
8c8803c5
YW
3153 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3154 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3155 Default size is 256 bytes.
3156 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3157 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3158 Default size is 2 megabytes.
e16b4660
KB
3159 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3160 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3161 Default is 1.
b55438fd
YL
3162 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3163 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3164 accommodate resources required by all child
3165 devices.
3166 off: Turn realloc off
3167 on: Turn realloc on
3168 realloc same as realloc=on
6748dcc2 3169 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
cef74409
GK
3170 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3171 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
284f5f9d
BH
3172 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3173 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3174 port.
f32ab754
UCCB
3175 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3176 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3177 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3178 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3179 conflict with unreported devices), so this
3180 taints the kernel.
6b4b78fe 3181
e5665a45
CE
3182 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3183 Management.
3184 off Disable ASPM.
3185 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3186 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3187
4c0fd764
BH
3188 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3189 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3190 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3191 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform
3192 also tries to use these services.
3193 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3194 hotplug).
79dd9182 3195
9d26d3a8
MW
3196 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3197 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3198 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3199
c7f48656 3200 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
c39fae14 3201 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
28eb5f27 3202 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
c7f48656 3203
1da177e4
LT
3204 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3205
39ac5ba5
TB
3206 pd_ignore_unused
3207 [PM]
3208 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3209 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3210 for debug and development, but should not be
3211 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3212
1da177e4 3213 pd. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3214 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3215
3216 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3217 boot time.
3218 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3219 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3220
f58dc01b 3221 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
e933a73f
TH
3222 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3223 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3224 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3225 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3226 and performance comparison.
fa8a7094 3227
1da177e4 3228 pf. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3229 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3230
3231 pg. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3232 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3233
3234 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
71cced6e 3235 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3236
3237 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3238 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3ba9b1b8 3239 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
1da177e4 3240
16290246 3241 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
de32a243
TG
3242 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3243 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3244
96242116
BH
3245 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3246 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3247 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3248 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3249 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3250 possible settings and some assignment information.
97ef062b 3251
1da177e4
LT
3252 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3253 { off }
3254
3255 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3256 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3257
3258 pnp_reserve_irq=
3259 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3260
3261 pnp_reserve_dma=
3262 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3263
3264 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
a9913044 3265 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
1da177e4
LT
3266
3267 pnp_reserve_mem=
a9913044
RD
3268 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3269 autoconfiguration.
1da177e4
LT
3270 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3271
4af94f39
RD
3272 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3273 Default is 21.
3274 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3275 may be specified.
3276 Format: <port>,<port>....
3277
c3cbd075
BS
3278 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3279 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3280 platform machine description specific power_save
3281 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3282 execution priority.
3283
3eb5d588
AB
3284 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3285 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3286 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3287 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3288 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3289
07fd1761
CB
3290 ppc_tm= [PPC]
3291 Format: {"off"}
3292 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3293
45807a1d
IM
3294 print-fatal-signals=
3295 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
f84d49b2
NO
3296
3297 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3298 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3299 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3300 coredump - etc.
3301
3302 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3303 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3304
45807a1d
IM
3305 default: off.
3306
c22ab332
MG
3307 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3308 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3309 panics
3310 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3311 default: disabled
3312
750afe7b
BP
3313 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3314 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3315 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3316 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3317 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3318 Default: ratelimit
3319
e84845c4
RD
3320 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3321 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3322
0cb55ad2
RD
3323 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3324 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3325 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3326
3327 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3328 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3329 instead using the legacy FADT method
3330
1da177e4 3331 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
e7e61fc0
RD
3332 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3333 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3334 [defaults to kernel profiling]
a9913044 3335 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
b3da2a73
MG
3336 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3337 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
c0fe2e69 3338 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
e7e61fc0
RD
3339 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3340 statistical time based profiling.
1da177e4 3341
1da177e4
LT
3342 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3343 before loading.
31c00fc1 3344 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 3345
a9913044
RD
3346 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3347 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
1da177e4
LT
3348 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3349 per second.
a9913044
RD
3350 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3351 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
1da177e4
LT
3352 (0 = never).
3353 psmouse.resolution=
3354 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3355 psmouse.smartscroll=
a9913044 3356 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
1da177e4
LT
3357 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3358
dee28e72
MG
3359 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3360
1da177e4 3361 pt. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3362 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 3363
01c9b17b
DH
3364 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3365 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
3366 removes hardening, but improves performance of
3367 system calls and interrupts.
3368
3369 on - unconditionally enable
3370 off - unconditionally disable
3371 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3372 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3373
3374 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3375
3376 nopti [X86_64]
3377 Equivalent to pti=off
41f4c20b 3378
dc8c8587
KS
3379 pty.legacy_count=
3380 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3381 default number.
3382
7d2c502f 3383 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
a9913044 3384
1da177e4
LT
3385 r128= [HW,DRM]
3386
3387 raid= [HW,RAID]
e52347bd 3388 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
1da177e4 3389
1da177e4 3390 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
31c00fc1 3391 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 3392
011d8261
BP
3393 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
3394
3395 cec_disable [X86]
3396 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3397 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3398
4102adab 3399 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
2d13e6ca
NC
3400 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3401
3fbfbf7a
PM
3402 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3403 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3404 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
a4889858
PM
3405 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3406 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3407 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3408 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
3fbfbf7a
PM
3409 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3410 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3411 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3412
4102adab 3413 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
3fbfbf7a
PM
3414 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3415 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3416 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3417 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3418 This improves the real-time response for the
3419 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3420 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3421 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3422 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3423
4102adab 3424 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
3425 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3426 process in one batch.
21a1ea9e 3427
a3dc2948
PM
3428 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3429 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3430 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3431 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3432
0f41c0dd
PM
3433 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3434 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 3435 RCU grace-period cleanup.
0f41c0dd 3436
37745d28
PM
3437 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3438 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 3439 RCU grace-period initialization.
0f41c0dd
PM
3440
3441 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3442 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3443 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3444 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
90040c9e 3445 the rcu_node combining tree.
37745d28 3446
7fa27001
PM
3447 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3448 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3449 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3450 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3451 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
37745d28 3452
4102adab 3453 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
ee968ac6
PM
3454 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3455 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3456 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3457 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3458 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3459 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
f885b7f2 3460
4a81e832
PM
3461 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3462 Set required age in jiffies for a
3463 given grace period before RCU starts
3464 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3465 rcu_note_context_switch().
3466
4102adab 3467 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3468 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3469 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3470 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3471 and maximum value is HZ.
3472
4102adab 3473 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3474 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3475 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3476 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3477
21871d7e 3478 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
d2af1ad7
PM
3479 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3480 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3481 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3482 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3483 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3484 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3485 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3486 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3487 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
21871d7e 3488
fbce7497
PM
3489 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3490 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3491 defaults to the square root of the number of
3492 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3493 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3494 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3495
4102adab 3496 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
3497 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3498 batch limiting is disabled.
21a1ea9e 3499
4102adab 3500 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
24aaef8d
RD
3501 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3502 batch limiting is re-enabled.
21a1ea9e 3503
4102adab 3504 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3505 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3506 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
d40011f6 3507
4102adab 3508 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3509 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3510 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3511 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3512 prove do nothing more than free memory.
d40011f6 3513
e3c50dfb
PM
3514 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3515 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3516 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3517 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3518 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3519 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3520
881ed593
PM
3521 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3522 Measure performance of asynchronous
3523 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3524
3525 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3526 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3527 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
3528 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3529 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3530 previously posted callbacks to drain.
3531
bdea9e34
PM
3532 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3533 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3534 grace-period primitives.
3535
df37e66b
PM
3536 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3537 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3538 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3539 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3540 interference.
3541
bdea9e34
PM
3542 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3543 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3544 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3545 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3546 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3547 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3548 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3549 a single reader.
3550
3551 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3552 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3553 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3554 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3555
820687a7
PM
3556 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3557 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3558
bdea9e34
PM
3559 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3560 Shut the system down after performance tests
3561 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3562 testing.
3563
bdea9e34
PM
3564 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3565 Enable additional printk() statements.
3566
820687a7
PM
3567 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3568 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3569 in microseconds. The default of zero says
3570 no holdoff.
3571
38706bc5
PM
3572 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3573 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3574 callback-flood tests.
3575
3576 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3577 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3578 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3579 test.
3580
3581 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3582 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3583 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3584 disable callback-flood testing.
3585
3586 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3587 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3588 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3589
4102adab 3590 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3591 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3592 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3593
4102adab 3594 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3595 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3596 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3597
4102adab 3598 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3599 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3600 in seconds.
3601
3602 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3603 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3604 primitives, if available.
dabb8aa9 3605
4102adab 3606 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
21b05de4 3607 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4102adab
PM
3608
3609 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3610 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3611 update-side primitives, if available.
3612
3613 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3614 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3615 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3616 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3617 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3618 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3619 they are all non-zero.
dabb8aa9 3620
4102adab 3621 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3622 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3623
4102adab 3624 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3625 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3626 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3627 test, hence the "fake".
3628
4102adab 3629 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3838cc18
PM
3630 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3631 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3632 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3633 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3634 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
dabb8aa9 3635
4102adab
PM
3636 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3637 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3638
3639 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3640 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3641
4102adab 3642 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3643 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3644 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3645
4102adab 3646 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3647 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3648 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3649 during the rcutorture test.
3650
4102adab 3651 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3652 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3653 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3654
4102adab 3655 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3656 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3657 warnings, zero to disable.
3658
4102adab 3659 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3660 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3661
2b1516e5
PM
3662 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
3663 Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
3664
4102adab 3665 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3666 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3667
4102adab 3668 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3669 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3670 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3671 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3672 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3673
4102adab 3674 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3675 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3676 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3677 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3678
4102adab 3679 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3680 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3681
4102adab 3682 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3683 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3684
4102adab 3685 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3686 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3687 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3688
4102adab 3689 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3690 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3691
4102adab 3692 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3693 Enable additional printk() statements.
3694
5a9be7c6
PM
3695 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3696 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3697
3698 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3699 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3700
4102adab
PM
3701 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3702 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3703 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3704 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3705 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3706 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
79cfea02 3707 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 3708
5a9be7c6
PM
3709 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3710 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3711 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3712 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
79cfea02
PM
3713 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3714 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3715 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3716 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3717 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 3718
3e42ec1a
PM
3719 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3720 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3721 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
79cfea02
PM
3722 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3723 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3e42ec1a 3724
52db30ab
PM
3725 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3726 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3727 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3728 to zero.
3729
74860fee
PK
3730 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3731 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3732
3733 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3734 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3735
3736 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3737 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3738
ffdfc409
OJ
3739 rdinit= [KNL]
3740 Format: <full_path>
3741 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3742 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3743
1d9807fc
TL
3744 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
3745 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
31516de3
FY
3746 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
3747 mba.
1d9807fc
TL
3748 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
3749 rdt=cmt,!mba
3750
1b3a5d02
RH
3751 reboot= [KNL]
3752 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3753 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3754 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3755 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3756 [[,]f[orce]
3757 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3758 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3759 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3760 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3761 to be used for rebooting.
1da177e4 3762
46b6d94e
PJ
3763 relax_domain_level=
3764 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
09c3bcce 3765 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
46b6d94e 3766
ffd2e8df
BH
3767 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
3768 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
3769 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
3770 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
3771 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
1da177e4 3772
cd4f0ef7 3773 reservetop= [X86-32]
461a9aff
ZA
3774 Format: nn[KMG]
3775 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3776 address space.
3777
9ea77bdb
PA
3778 reservelow= [X86]
3779 Format: nn[K]
3780 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3781 the bottom of the address space.
3782
7e96287d
VG
3783 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3784 during initialization.
3785
a9913044
RD
3786 resume= [SWSUSP]
3787 Specify the partition device for software suspend
2df83fa4
MB
3788 Format:
3789 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
1da177e4 3790
ecbd0da1
RW
3791 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3792 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3793 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3794 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3795 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3796
f126f733
BS
3797 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3798 read the resume files
3799
6f8d7022
BS
3800 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3801 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3802 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3803
f996fc96
BS
3804 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3805 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3806 present during boot.
3807 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
a6e15a39 3808 no Disable hibernation and resume.
4c0b6c10
RW
3809 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
3810 (that will set all pages holding image data
3811 during restoration read-only).
f996fc96 3812
0a7b35cb
MN
3813 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3814
0efbb786
AC
3815 rfkill.default_state=
3816 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3817 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3818 1 Unblocked.
3819
3820 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3821 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3822 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3823 blocked and the previous configuration.
3824 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3825 blocked and everything unblocked.
3826
1da177e4
LT
3827 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3828 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3829
e16fd002
GA
3830 ring3mwait=disable
3831 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
3832 CPUs.
3833
1da177e4
LT
3834 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3835
d2aa1aca
KC
3836 rodata= [KNL]
3837 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3838 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3839
605df8af
HS
3840 rockchip.usb_uart
3841 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3842 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3843 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3844 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3845
1da177e4 3846 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
f2d34fd9 3847 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
1da177e4
LT
3848
3849 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3850 mount the root filesystem
3851
3852 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3853
3854 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3855
cc1ed754
PO
3856 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3857 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3858 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3859
5c71d618
RT
3860 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3861 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3862 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3863 managed by CMA.
3864
1da177e4
LT
3865 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3866
3867 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3868
c60d1ae4
GS
3869 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3870 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3871 strict
3872 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3873 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3874 which is faster.
3875
1da177e4
LT
3876 sa1100ir [NET]
3877 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3878
1da177e4 3879 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
a9913044 3880
f6630114
MT
3881 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3882
cb251765
MG
3883 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3884 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3885 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3886 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
f6630114 3887
5307c955
MG
3888 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3889 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3890 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3891 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3892 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3893 1 -- enable.
3894 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3895 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3896
0cb55ad2
RD
3897 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3898 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3899 security module asking for security registration will be
3900 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3901 as if no module has been chosen.
3902
3903 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
1da177e4
LT
3904 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3905 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3906 0 -- disable.
3907 1 -- enable.
3908 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3909 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3910 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3911
c1c124e9
JJ
3912 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3913 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3914 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3915 0 -- disable.
3916 1 -- enable.
3917 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3918
cd4f0ef7 3919 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
1da177e4 3920
1da177e4
LT
3921 shapers= [NET]
3922 Maximal number of shapers.
a9913044 3923
1da177e4
LT
3924 simeth= [IA-64]
3925 simscsi=
a9913044 3926
1da177e4
LT
3927 slram= [HW,MTD]
3928
423c929c
JK
3929 slab_nomerge [MM]
3930 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3931 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
7660a6fd
KC
3932 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
3933 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
3934 layout control by attackers can usually be
3935 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
3936 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
3937 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
3938 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
3939 own.
ad56b738 3940 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
423c929c 3941
3df1cccd
DR
3942 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3943 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3944 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3945 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3946 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3947
f0630fff
CL
3948 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3949 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3950 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3951 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3952 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3953 last alloc / free. For more information see
ad56b738 3954 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215 3955
1663f26d
TH
3956 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
3957 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
3958 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
3959 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
3960 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
3961 directories and files being created under
3962 /sys/kernel/slub.
3963
c1aee215 3964 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
3965 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3966 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3967 fragmentation. For more information see
ad56b738 3968 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
3969
3970 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
3971 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3972 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3973 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3974 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3975 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3976 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
ad56b738 3977 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
3978
3979 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
24775d65 3980 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
f0630fff 3981 lower than slub_max_order.
ad56b738 3982 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
3983
3984 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
423c929c
JK
3985 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3986 See slab_nomerge for more information.
c1aee215 3987
1da177e4
LT
3988 smart2= [HW]
3989 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3990
d0d4f69b
BH
3991 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3992 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
3993 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
3994 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
3995 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
3996 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
3997 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3998 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3999 1: Fast pin select (default)
4000 2: ATC IRMode
4001
52c48c51
SS
4002 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4003 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4004 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4005 actual hardware limit.
4006 Format: <integer>
4007 Default: -1 (no limit)
4008
9c44bc03
IM
4009 softlockup_panic=
4010 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
44a4dcf7 4011 Format: <integer>
9c44bc03 4012
3ce62385
BP
4013 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
4014 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
4015 is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
4016 which is the respective build-time switch to that
4017 functionality.
4018
ed235875
AT
4019 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4020 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4021 backtraces on all cpus.
4022 Format: <integer>
4023
1da177e4 4024 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
395cf969 4025 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
1da177e4 4026
da285121
DW
4027 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4028 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
4029
4030 on - unconditionally enable
4031 off - unconditionally disable
4032 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4033 vulnerable
4034
4035 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4036 mitigation method at run time according to the
4037 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4038 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4039 compiler with which the kernel was built.
4040
4041 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4042
4043 retpoline - replace indirect branches
4044 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4045 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4046
4047 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4048 spectre_v2=auto.
4049
24f7fc83
KRW
4050 spec_store_bypass_disable=
4051 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
4052 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
4053
4054 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
4055 a common industry wide performance optimization known
4056 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
4057 to the same memory location may not be observed by
4058 later loads during speculative execution. The idea
4059 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
4060 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
4061 end of a particular speculation execution window.
4062
4063 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4064 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
4065 example to read memory to which the attacker does not
4066 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
4067
4068 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
4069 Bypass optimization is used.
4070
f21b53b2
KC
4071 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
4072 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
4073 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
4074 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
4075 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
4076 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
4077 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
4078 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
4079 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
4080 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
4081 for a process by default. The state of the control
4082 is inherited on fork.
4083 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
4084 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
24f7fc83
KRW
4085
4086 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4087 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
4088
f21b53b2
KC
4089 Default mitigations:
4090 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4091
1da177e4
LT
4092 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
4093 spia_fio_base=
4094 spia_pedr=
4095 spia_peddr=
4096
c350c008
PM
4097 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4098 Specifies how frequently to check for
4099 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4100 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4101 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4102 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4103 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
4104 are ignored.
4105
22607d66
PM
4106 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4107 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4108 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4109 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4110 grace period will be considered for automatic
4111 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
4112 expediting.
4113
a43ae4df
MZ
4114 ssbd= [ARM64,HW]
4115 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
4116
4117 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
4118 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
4119 firmware based mitigation, this parameter
4120 indicates how the mitigation should be used:
4121
4122 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for
4123 for both kernel and userspace
4124 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
4125 for both kernel and userspace
4126 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the
4127 kernel, and offer a prctl interface
4128 to allow userspace to register its
4129 interest in being mitigated too.
4130
1be7107f
HD
4131 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
4132 override the default stack gap protection. The value
4133 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4134 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4135 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4136 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4137
f38f1d2a
SR
4138 stacktrace [FTRACE]
4139 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4140
762e1207
SR
4141 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4142 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4143 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4144 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4145 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4146 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4147 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4148
1da177e4
LT
4149 sti= [PARISC,HW]
4150 Format: <num>
4151 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4152 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4153 as the initial boot-console.
4154 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4155
4156 sti_font= [HW]
4157 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4158
4159 stifb= [HW]
4160 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4161
cbf11071
TM
4162 sunrpc.min_resvport=
4163 sunrpc.max_resvport=
4164 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4165 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4166 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4167 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4168 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4169 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4170 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4171 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4172 maximum port values.
4173
ff3ac5c3
TM
4174 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4175 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4176 Limit the number of requests that the server will
4177 process in parallel from a single connection.
4178 The default value is 0 (no limit).
4179
42a7fc4a
GB
4180 sunrpc.pool_mode=
4181 [NFS]
4182 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4183 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
4184 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4185 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4186 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4187 NFS server is running.
4188
4189 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
4190 automatically using heuristics
4191 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
4192 percpu one pool for each CPU
4193 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4194 to global on non-NUMA machines)
4195
cbf11071
TM
4196 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4197 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4198 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4199 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4200 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4201 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4202 improve throughput, but will also increase the
4203 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4204
1d4a9c17
BN
4205 suspend.pm_test_delay=
4206 [SUSPEND]
4207 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4208 mode before resuming the system (see
4209 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4210 is set. Default value is 5.
4211
07555ac1 4212 swapaccount=[0|1]
a42c390c
MH
4213 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4214 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
09c3bcce 4215 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
a42c390c 4216
91fec0f5 4217 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
fff5d992 4218 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
91fec0f5
JK
4219 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4220 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4221 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
fff5d992 4222 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
a9913044 4223
1da177e4
LT
4224 switches= [HW,M68k]
4225
e52eec13
AK
4226 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4227 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4228 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4229 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4230 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4231 in older udev will not work anymore.
4232 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4233 the kernel configuration.
4234
5d6f647f
IM
4235 sysrq_always_enabled
4236 [KNL]
4237 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4238 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4239 Useful for debugging.
4240
747029a5
FF
4241 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4242 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4243 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4244 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4245 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4246 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4247
1da177e4
LT
4248 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
4249
acc82342 4250 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
77437fd4 4251 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
acc82342
SP
4252 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4253 as the system sleep state during system startup with
4254 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4255 The system is woken from this state using a
4256 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
77437fd4 4257
1da177e4
LT
4258 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4259 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4260
f8707ec9
LB
4261 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
4262 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4263 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4264
c52a7419
LB
4265 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
4266 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
22a94d79 4267 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
c52a7419 4268
f5487145
LB
4269 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
4270 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4271 critical and hot trip points.
4272
72b33ef8
LB
4273 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
4274 1: disable ACPI thermal control
4275
a70cdc52
LB
4276 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
4277 -1: disable all passive trip points
ada9cfdd
RD
4278 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4279 value
a70cdc52 4280
730ff34d
LB
4281 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
4282 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4283 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4284 0: no polling (default)
4285
8d32a307
TG
4286 threadirqs [KNL]
4287 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
24775d65 4288 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
8d32a307 4289
2ca62b04
KRW
4290 tmem [KNL,XEN]
4291 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4292
4293 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4294 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4295 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4296
4297 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4298 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
37d46e15
KRW
4299 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4300 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
2ca62b04
KRW
4301
4302 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4303 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4304 to the hypervisor.
4305
4306 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4307 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4308 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4309 kernel based on different criteria.
4310
2b1a61f0
HC
4311 topology= [S390]
4312 Format: {off | on}
4313 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
f65e51d7
SL
4314 topology information if the hardware supports this.
4315 The scheduler will make use of this information and
2b1a61f0 4316 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
c9af3fa9 4317 Default is on.
2b1a61f0 4318
2d73bae1
NA
4319 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4320 Format: {off}
4321 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4322 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4323 LPAR.
4324
1da177e4
LT
4325 tp720= [HW,PS2]
4326
225a9be2
RA
4327 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4328 Format: integer pcr id
4329 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4330 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4331 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4332 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4333 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4334 are saved.
4335
9d612bef 4336 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
3e6fb8e9 4337 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
631595fb 4338
020e5f85
LZ
4339 trace_event=[event-list]
4340 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
d81749ea
BN
4341 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4342 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
5fb94e9c 4343 also Documentation/trace/events.rst
020e5f85 4344
7bcfaf54
SR
4345 trace_options=[option-list]
4346 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4347 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4348 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4349 to echo the option name into
4350
4351 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4352
4353 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4354 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4355
4356 trace_options=stacktrace
4357
5fb94e9c 4358 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
7bcfaf54
SR
4359 section.
4360
0daa2302
SRRH
4361 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4362 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4363 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4364 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4365 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4366 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4367
4368 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4369 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4370 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4371 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4372
4373 ** CAUTION **
4374
4375 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4376 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4377 the system to live lock.
4378
de7edd31
SRRH
4379 traceoff_on_warning
4380 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4381 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4382 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4383 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4384
4385 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4386 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4387 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4388
4389 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4390 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4391
fcf4d821
JK
4392 transparent_hugepage=
4393 [KNL]
4394 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4395 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4396 with respect to transparent hugepages.
45c9a74f
MR
4397 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
4398 for more details.
fcf4d821 4399
d3b8f889 4400 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
395628ef
AK
4401 Format: <string>
4402 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
d3b8f889
JS
4403 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4404 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4405 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4406 virtualized environment.
e82b8e4e
VP
4407 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4408 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4409 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4410 can add overhead.
6be53520
DL
4411 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4412 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4413 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
395628ef 4414
a9913044
RD
4415 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4416 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4417 Format:
4418 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
1752118d 4419 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4 4420
b6935f8c 4421 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
e52347bd 4422 happen after console_init() and before a proper
b6935f8c
CK
4423 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4424 help "seeing" what's going on.
4425
f86dcc5a
ED
4426 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4427 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4428
5f8364b7
AS
4429 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4430 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4431 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4432 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4433 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4434 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4435 reported either.
4436
e3a61b0a 4437 unknown_nmi_panic
44a4dcf7 4438 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
e3a61b0a 4439
c4fc2342
CDH
4440 usbcore.authorized_default=
4441 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4442 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4443 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4444
b5e795f8
AS
4445 usbcore.autosuspend=
4446 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4447 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4448 is the time required before an idle device will be
4449 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
eaafbc3a 4450 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
b5e795f8 4451
fd7c519d
JK
4452 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4453 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4454
0290cc9f
AS
4455 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4456 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4457 (default = 65536).
4458
fd7c519d
JK
4459 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4460 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4461
4462 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4463 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
4464 scheme (default 0 = off).
4465
3f5eb8d5
AS
4466 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4467 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4468 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4469
fd7c519d
JK
4470 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4471 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4472 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4473
4474 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4475 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
6dddd7a7 4476 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
fd7c519d
JK
4477 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4478
40d58148
ON
4479 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4480
027bd6ca
KHF
4481 usbcore.quirks=
4482 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
4483 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
4484 commas. Each entry has the form
4485 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
4486 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
4487 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
4488 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
4489 the following meanings:
4490 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
4491 descriptors must not be fetched using
4492 a 255-byte read);
4493 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
4494 correctly so reset it instead);
4495 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
4496 Set-Interface requests);
4497 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
4498 handle its Configuration or Interface
4499 strings);
4500 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
4501 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
4502 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
4503 more interface descriptions than the
4504 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
4505 talking to these interfaces);
4506 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
4507 during initialization, after we read
4508 the device descriptor);
4509 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
4510 high speed and super speed interrupt
4511 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
4512 require the interval in microframes (1
4513 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
4514 calculated as interval = 2 ^
4515 (bInterval-1).
4516 Devices with this quirk report their
4517 bInterval as the result of this
4518 calculation instead of the exponent
4519 variable used in the calculation);
4520 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
4521 handle device_qualifier descriptor
4522 requests);
4523 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
4524 generates spurious wakeup, ignore
4525 remote wakeup capability);
4526 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
4527 Power Management);
4528 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
4529 (Device reports its bInterval as linear
4530 frames instead of the USB 2.0
4531 calculation);
4532 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
4533 to be disconnected before suspend to
4d8d5a39
KHF
4534 prevent spurious wakeup);
4535 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
4536 pause after every control message);
027bd6ca
KHF
4537 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
4538
1da177e4
LT
4539 usbhid.mousepoll=
4540 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
a9913044 4541
933bfe4d
TJ
4542 usbhid.jspoll=
4543 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4544
2ddc8e2d
FA
4545 usbhid.kbpoll=
4546 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
4547
d4f373e5
AS
4548 usb-storage.delay_use=
4549 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
19101954 4550 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
d4f373e5
AS
4551
4552 usb-storage.quirks=
4553 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4554 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4555 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4556 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4557 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4558 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4559 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
c838ea46
AS
4560 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4561 of sense data);
a0bb1081
AS
4562 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4563 bytes of sense data);
d4f373e5
AS
4564 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4565 device capacity by one sector);
5116901d
KR
4566 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4567 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4568 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4569 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
734016b0
HG
4570 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4571 command, uas only);
ee136af4
HG
4572 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4573 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
c838ea46
AS
4574 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4575 reported device capacity by one
4576 sector if the number is odd);
d4f373e5
AS
4577 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4578 device);
13630746
HG
4579 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4580 command, uas only);
d4f373e5
AS
4581 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4582 unlock ejectable media);
4583 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4584 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
21c13a4f
AS
4585 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4586 initial READ(10) command);
c838ea46
AS
4587 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4588 reported by the device);
eaa05dfc
NJ
4589 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4590 by default);
d4f373e5
AS
4591 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4592 bogus residue values);
4593 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4594 Logical Unit);
59307852
HG
4595 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4596 commands, uas only);
b6089f19 4597 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
d4f373e5
AS
4598 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4599 medium is write-protected).
050bc4e8
ON
4600 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4601 even if the device claims no cache)
d4f373e5
AS
4602 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4603
ac1667db
SB
4604 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4605 Format: <int>
4606 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4607 1 - undefined instruction events
4608 2 - system calls
4609 4 - invalid data aborts
4610 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4611 16 - SIGBUS faults
4612 Example: user_debug=31
4613
14315592
IC
4614 userpte=
4615 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4616
4617 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4618 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4619 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4620
6cececfc 4621 vdso= [X86,SH]
b0b49f26
AL
4622 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4623
4624 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
e6e5494c
IM
4625 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4626
b0b49f26
AL
4627 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4628 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4629 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4630
4631 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4632 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4633 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4634
4635 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4636 alias for vdso32=0.
4637
4638 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4639 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
af65d648 4640
d080d397
YI
4641 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4642 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4643
1da177e4
LT
4644 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4645 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4646
3afe6dab
AL
4647 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4648 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4649 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4650 level and then send out the event to user space through
4651 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4652 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4653 brightness level.
2843768b 4654 default: 1
3afe6dab 4655
81a054ce
PM
4656 virtio_mmio.device=
4657 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4658
4659 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4660 where:
4661 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4662 like K, M and G)
4663 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4664 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4665 request_irq())
4666 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4667 example:
4668 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4669
4670 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4671
cd4f0ef7 4672 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
954a8b81 4673 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
a9913044 4674 Documentation/svga.txt.
1da177e4
LT
4675 Use vga=ask for menu.
4676 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4677 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4678
a9913044 4679 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
1da177e4
LT
4680 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4681 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4682 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4683 mapped kernel RAM.
4684
3f429842
HC
4685 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390]
4686 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
4687 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
4688
585c3047
PO
4689 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4690 Format: <command>
1da177e4 4691
585c3047
PO
4692 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4693 Format: <command>
4694
4695 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4696 Format: <command>
a9913044 4697
3ae36655
AL
4698 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4699 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4700 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4701 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4702 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4703 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4704 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4705
2e57ae05
AL
4706 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4707 emulated reasonably safely.
3ae36655 4708
2e57ae05 4709 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
3ae36655
AL
4710 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4711 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4712 better than they would in emulation mode.
4713 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4714
4715 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4716 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4717 might break your system.
4718
3855ae1c
CL
4719 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4720 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4721 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4722
9ea9a886
CL
4723 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4724 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4725 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4726 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4727
0cb55ad2
RD
4728 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4729 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4730 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4731 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4732 ranging from 0-255.
4733
4734 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4735 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4736 Change the default green palette of the console.
4737 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4738 ranging from 0-255.
4739
4740 vt.default_red= [VT]
4741 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4742 Change the default red palette of the console.
4743 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4744 ranging from 0-255.
4745
4746 vt.default_utf8=
4747 [VT]
4748 Format=<0|1>
4749 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4750 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4751 newly opened terminals.
4752
f6c06b68
MG
4753 vt.global_cursor_default=
4754 [VT]
4755 Format=<-1|0|1>
4756 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4757 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4758 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4759 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4760 cursors, 1 will display them.
4761
3855ae1c
CL
4762 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4763 Default: 2 = green.
4764
4765 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4766 Default: 3 = cyan.
4767
4724ba57
RD
4768 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4769 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4770 or other driver-specific files in the
4771 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
1da177e4 4772
82607adc
TH
4773 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4774 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4775 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4776 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4777 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4778 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4779 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4780 corresponding sysfs file.
4781
d55262c4
TH
4782 workqueue.disable_numa
4783 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4784 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4785 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4786 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4787 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4788 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4789 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4790
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4791 workqueue.power_efficient
4792 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4793 they show better performance thanks to cache
4794 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4795 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4796
4797 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4798 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4799 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4800 power usage at the cost of small performance
4801 overhead.
4802
4803 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4804 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4805
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4806 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4807 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4808 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4809 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
4810 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4811 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
4812 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4813 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4814 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4815 impacted.
4816
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4817 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4818 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4819 supporting x2apic.
4820
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4821 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4822 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
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4823 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4824 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
712b6aa8 4825 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
bb24c471 4826
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4827 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4828 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4829 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4830 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4831 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4832 domains.
4833
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4834 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4835 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4836 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4837 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4838 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4839 nics -- unplug network devices
4840 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
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4841 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4842 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4843 the unplug protocol
c93a4dfb 4844 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
c1c5413a 4845
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4846 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4847 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4848 optimizations.
4849
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4850 xen_nopv [X86]
4851 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4852 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4853
1da177e4 4854 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
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4855 Format:
4856 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]