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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, ...
e76f4276 55 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
cb1aaebe 56 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
e76f4276 57 debug layers and levels.
a0d84a92 58
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59 Enable processor driver info messages:
60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
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63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64 object while interpreting AML:
65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
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66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69 Some values produce so much output that the system is
70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71 if you need to capture more output.
f989106c 72
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73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
74 { strict | lax | no }
75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79 can interfere with legacy drivers.
80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87 no further checks are performed.
88
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89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92 size limitation.
93
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94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95 ACPI will balance active IRQs
96 default in APIC mode
97
98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100 default in PIC mode
101
102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106 use by PCI
107 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
6dddd7a7 109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
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110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
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112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113 the GPE dispatcher.
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114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115 GPE floodings.
116 Format: <int>
9c4aa1ee 117
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118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
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120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122 auto-serialization feature.
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123 This feature is enabled by default.
124 This option allows to turn off the feature.
22b5afce 125
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126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
127 kernels.
128
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129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132 installed automatically and they will appear under
133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134 This option turns off this feature.
135 Note that specifying this option does not affect
136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
0cb55ad2 138
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139 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
140 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
141 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
142 second kernel for kdump.
4dde507f 143
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144 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
145 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
146
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147 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
148 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
149 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
150 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
151 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
152
0cb55ad2 153 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
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154 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
155 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
741d8128 156 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
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157 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
158 strings
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159 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
160 strings
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161 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
162
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163 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
164 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
165 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
166 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
167 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
168 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
169 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
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170 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
171 care about the state of the feature group strings which
172 should be controlled by the OSPM.
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173 Examples:
174 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
175 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
176 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
177
178 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
179 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
180 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
181 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
182 multiple times through kernel command line is also
183 meaningless.
184 Examples:
185 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
186 FALSE.
187
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188 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
189 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
190 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
191 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
192 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
193 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
194 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
195 there are quirks related to this string. This command
196 is useful when one want to control the state of the
197 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
198 the OSPM features.
199 Examples:
200 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
201 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
202 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
203 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
204 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
205 equivalent to
206 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
207 and
208 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
209 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
210
6cececfc 211 acpi_pm_good [X86]
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212 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
213 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
214 and always returns good values.
215
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216 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
217 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
218
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219 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
220 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
221 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
222
223 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
224 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
57044031 225 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
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226 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
227 s3_bios and s3_mode.
228 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
229 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
230 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
231 used during resume from hibernation.
232 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
233 control method, with respect to putting devices into
234 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
235 of _PTS is used by default).
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236 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
237 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
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238 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
239 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
240 but some broken systems don't work without it).
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241 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
242 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
243 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
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244
245 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
246 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
247 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
248
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249 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
250 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
251
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252 agp= [AGP]
253 { off | try_unsupported }
254 off: disable AGP support
255 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
256 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
257
bcfde334 258 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
1ca2c806 259 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
bcfde334 260
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261 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
262 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
263 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
264 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
265
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266 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
267 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
268 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
269 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
270 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
271 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
272 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
273
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274 32: only for 32-bit processes
275 64: only for 64-bit processes
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276 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
277 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
278
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279 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
280 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
281 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
282 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
283 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
284 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
285
89e0b9a3 286 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
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287 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
288 Possible values are:
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289 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
290 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
291 flushed before they will be reused, which
292 is a lot of faster
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293 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
294 the system
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295 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
296 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
297 allowed anymore to lift isolation
298 requirements as needed. This option
299 does not override iommu=pt
afa9fdc2 300
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301 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
302 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
303 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
304 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
305 IOMMU initialization.
306
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307 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
308 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
309 remapping modes:
310 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
311 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
312 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
313 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
314 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
315
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316 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
317 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
318 Format: <a>,<b>
1752118d 319 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
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320
321 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
322 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
323 connected to one of 16 gameports
324 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
325
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326 apc= [HW,SPARC]
327 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
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328 Format: noidle
329 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
330 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
331 APC and your system crashes randomly.
332
64e05d11 333 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
806654a9 334 Change the output verbosity while booting
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335 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
336 Change the amount of debugging information output
337 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
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338 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
339 driver name.
340 Format: apic=driver_name
341 Examples: apic=bigsmp
a9913044 342
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343 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
344 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
345 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
346 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
347 backup of CPU 0
348 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
349 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
350 shot down by NMI
351
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352 autoconf= [IPV6]
353 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
354
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355 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
356 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
357 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
358 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
359 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
360 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
361 apic=verbose is specified.
362 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
363
1da177e4 364 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
71f77055 365 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
1da177e4 366
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367 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
368 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
369
370 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
371
372 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
373
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374 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
375 EzKey and similar keyboards
376
377 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
378
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379 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
380 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
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381
382 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
383 keyboards
384
385 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
386 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
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387
388 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
389 Use software keyboard repeat
1da177e4 390
a106fb0c 391 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
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392 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
393 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
394 enabled until the next reboot
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395 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
396 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
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397 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
398 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
399 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
400 userspace auditd.
a106fb0c 401 Default: unset
f3411cb2 402
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403 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
404 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
405 Default: 64
406
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407 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
408 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
409 Format: { "0" | "1" }
410 0 - Disable the BAU.
411 1 - Enable the BAU.
412 unset - Disable the BAU.
413
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414 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
415 Format: <io>,<mode>
a9913044 416
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417 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
418 Format: <io>,<mode>
419 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
420
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421 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
422 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
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423 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
424 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
425
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426 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
427 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
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428 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
429 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
430
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431 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
432 embedded devices based on command line input.
898bd37a 433 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
080506ad 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 carrier_timeout=
465 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
466 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
467 it waits 120 seconds.
468
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469 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
470 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
471 trust validation.
32c4741c 472 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
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474 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
475 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
476 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
477 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
478 others).
479
6dddd7a7 480 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
8b4a503d 481 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
1da177e4 482
6dddd7a7 483 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
8bab8dde 484 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
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485 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
486 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
487 a single hierarchy
488 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
489 subsystem
490 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
491 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
492 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
8bab8dde 493
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494 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
495 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
496 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
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497 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
498 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
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499 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
500 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
501 all v1 hierarchies.
1619b6d4 502
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503 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
504 Format: <string>
505 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
04823c83 506 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
f7e1cb6e 507
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508 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
509 Format: { "0" | "1" }
510 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
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511 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
512 any implied execute protection).
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513 1 -- check protection requested by application.
514 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
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515 Value can be changed at runtime via
516 /selinux/checkreqprot.
517
661ca0da 518 cio_ignore= [S390]
8b4a503d 519 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
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520 clk_ignore_unused
521 [CLK]
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522 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
523 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
524 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
525 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
526 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
527 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
528 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
529 platform with proper driver support. For more
18bcaa4e 530 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
661ca0da 531
cd4f0ef7 532 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
734efb46 533 [Deprecated]
3f6dee9b 534 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
734efb46 535 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
3f6dee9b 536 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
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537 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
538
592913ec 539 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
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540 Format: <string>
541 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
542 with the name specified.
543 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
544 the platform:
545 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
546 [ACPI] acpi_pm
547 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
548 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
9863c90f 549 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
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550 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
551 [MIPS] MIPS
552 [PARISC] cr16
553 [S390] tod
554 [SH] SuperH
555 [SPARC64] tick
556 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
557
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558 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
559 [ARM,ARM64]
560 Format: <bool>
561 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
562 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
563 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
564 systems.
565
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566 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
567 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
cd4d09ec 568 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
07983f0e 569 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
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570 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
571 ones should be.
572 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
573 or using the feature without checking anything
574 will still see it. This just prevents it from
575 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
576 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
577 some critical bits.
578
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579 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
580 [ARM,X86,KNL]
581 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
582 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
583 placement constraint by the physical address range of
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584 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
585 altogether. For more information, see
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586 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
587
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588 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
589 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
590 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
591 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
592 a hypervisor.
593 Default: yes
594
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595 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
596 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
e9da6e99 597 allocations, by default set to 256K.
c7909509 598
1da177e4 599 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
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600 Format:
601 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
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603 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
604 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
605
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606 com90xx= [HW,NET]
607 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
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608 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
609
610 condev= [HW,S390] console device
611 conmode=
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613 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
614
615 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
616
617 ttyS<n>[,options]
f1a1c2dc 618 ttyUSB0[,options]
1da177e4 619 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
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620 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
621 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
622 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
623 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
624
e52347bd 625 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
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626 information. See
627 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
628 alternative.
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630 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
631 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
bd94c407 632 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
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633 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
634 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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635 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
636 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
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637 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
638 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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639 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
640 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
641 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
642 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
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643 the h/w is not re-initialized.
644
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645 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
646 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
1da177e4 647
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648 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
649 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
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650 console=brl,ttyS0
651 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
652
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653 console_msg_format=
654 [KNL] Change console messages format
655 default
656 By default we print messages on consoles in
657 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
658 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
659 `printk_time' param).
660 syslog
661 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
662 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
663 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
664 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
665 from /proc/kmsg.
666
f324edc8 667 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
ac0a314c 668 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
6dddd7a7 669 Defaults to 0.
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671 coredump_filter=
672 [KNL] Change the default value for
673 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
674 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
675
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676 coresight_cpu_debug.enable
677 [ARM,ARM64]
678 Format: <bool>
679 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
680 0: default value, disable debugging
681 1: enable debugging at boot time
682
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683 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
684 disable the cpuidle sub-system
685
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686 cpuidle.governor=
687 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
688
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689 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
690 disable the cpufreq sub-system
691
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692 cpu_init_udelay=N
693 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
694 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
695 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
696 Default: 10000
697
1da177e4 698 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
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699 Format:
700 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
1da177e4 701
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702 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
703 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
704 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
705 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
706 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
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707 is selected automatically.
708 [KNL, x86_64] select a region under 4G first, and
709 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
710 hasn't been specified.
d67297ad 711 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
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713 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
714 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
715 in the running system. The syntax of range is
716 start-[end] where start and end are both
717 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
d67297ad 718 Documentation/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
fb391599 719
adbc742b 720 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
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721 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
722 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
723 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
724 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
725 available.
726 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
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727 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
728 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
729 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
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730 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
731 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
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732 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
733 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
734 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
735 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
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736 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
737 for second kernel instead.
738 0: to disable low allocation.
adbc742b 739 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
55a20ee7 740 or memory reserved is below 4G.
c729de8f 741
9e5c9fe4 742 cryptomgr.notests
6dddd7a7 743 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
9e5c9fe4 744
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745 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
746 Format: <dma>
747
748 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
749 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
a9913044 750
a9913044 751 dasd= [HW,NET]
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752 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
753
754 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
755 (one device per port)
756 Format: <port#>,<type>
1752118d 757 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4 758
6dddd7a7 759 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
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760 time. See
761 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
29e36c9f 762 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
a648ec05 763
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764 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
765
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766 debug_boot_weak_hash
767 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
768 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
769 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are
770 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
771 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
772 insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
773
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774 debug_locks_verbose=
775 [KNL] verbose self-tests
776 Format=<0|1>
777 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
778 self-tests.
779 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
780 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
781 only useful to kernel developers.
782
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783 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
784
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785 no_debug_objects
786 [KNL] Disable object debugging
787
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788 debug_guardpage_minorder=
789 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
790 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
791 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
792 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
793 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
794 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
795 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
796 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
797 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
798 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
799 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
800 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
801 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
802 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
803 bypassed) which are not detectable by
804 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
805 tracking down these problems.
806
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808 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
809 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
810 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
811 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
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812 on: enable the feature
813
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814 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
815
2d27a966 816 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
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817 Format: <area>[,<node>]
818 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
819
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821 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
822 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
823 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
824 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
825 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
826 if not specified.
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828 deferred_probe_timeout=
829 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
830 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
831 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
832 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
833 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
834 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
835 retrying.
836
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837 dhash_entries= [KNL]
838 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
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840 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
841 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
842 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
843 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
844 miss to occur.
845
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846 disable= [IPV6]
847 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
848
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849 hardened_usercopy=
850 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
851 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
852 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
853 from reading or writing beyond known memory
854 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
855 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
856 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
857 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
858 off Disable hardened usercopy checks.
859
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860 disable_radix [PPC]
861 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
862
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863 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
864 Format: <int>
865 The number of initial APIC ID for the
866 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
867 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
868 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
869 causing system reset or hang due to sending
870 INIT from AP to BSP.
871
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872 perf_v4_pmi= [X86,INTEL]
873 Format: <bool>
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874 Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature.
875 The feature only exists starting from
876 Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer).
877
6dddd7a7 878 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
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879 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
880 to workaround buggy firmware.
881
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882 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
883 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
884
95ffa243 885 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
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886 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
887 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
0cb55ad2 888 entry later. This parameter disables that.
95ffa243 889
093af8d7 890 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
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891 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
892 memory out of your available memory pool based on
893 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
894 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
895
6cececfc 896 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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897 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
898 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
899
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900 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
901
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902 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
903 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
904
905 dma_debug_entries=<number>
906 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
907 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
908 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
909 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
910 architectural default is too low.
911
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912 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
913 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
914 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
915 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
916 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
917 driver later using sysfs.
918
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919 driver_async_probe= [KNL]
920 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
921 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
922
53fd40a9 923 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
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924 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
925 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
926 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
927 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
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928 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
929 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
930 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
931 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
932 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
a2f405a5 933 available in Documentation/EDID/howto.rst. An EDID
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934 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
935 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
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936 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
937 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
938 data set with no connector name will be used for
939 any connectors not explicitly specified.
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941 dscc4.setup= [NET]
942
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943 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC]
944 Format: {"off" | "known"}
945 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
946 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
947 exists).
948 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
949 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
950 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
951
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952 dump_apple_properties [X86]
953 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
954 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
955 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
956
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957 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
958 module.dyndbg[="val"]
959 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
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961 for details.
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8c3641e9 963 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
cb1aaebe 964 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.rst for more
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965 information about the feature.
966
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967 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
968 in some Intel CPUs.
969
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970 module.async_probe [KNL]
971 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
972
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973 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
974 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
975 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
976 which are not unmapped.
977
0cb55ad2 978 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
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980 [ARM64] The early console is determined by the
981 stdout-path property in device tree's chosen node,
982 or determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
983
984 [X86] When used with no options the early console is
985 determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
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987 cdns,<addr>[,options]
988 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
989 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
990 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
991 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
992 configured.
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994 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
995 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1917ac76 996 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
6e63be3f 997 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
ca782f16 998 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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999 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1000 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
16290246 1001 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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1003 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1004 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1005 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
ca782f16 1006 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
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0d3c673e 1008 pl011,<addr>
3b78fae7 1009 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
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1010 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1011 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1012 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
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1013 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1014 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1015 the device registers.
0d3c673e 1016
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1017 meson,<addr>
1018 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1019 port at the specified address. The serial port must
1020 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1021 supported.
1022
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1023 msm_serial,<addr>
1024 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1025 port at the specified address. The serial port
1026 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1027 yet supported.
1028
1029 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1030 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1031 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1032 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1033 yet supported.
1034
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1035 owl,<addr>
1036 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1037 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1038 specified address. The serial port must already be
1039 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1040
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1041 rda,<addr>
1042 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1043 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1044 specified address. The serial port must already be
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1045 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1046
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1047 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1048
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1049 s3c2410,<addr>
1050 s3c2412,<addr>
1051 s3c2440,<addr>
1052 s3c6400,<addr>
1053 s5pv210,<addr>
1054 exynos4210,<addr>
1055 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1056 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1057 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1058 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1059 Options are not yet supported.
1060
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1061 lantiq,<addr>
1062 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1063 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1064 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1065 yet supported.
1066
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1067 lpuart,<addr>
1068 lpuart32,<addr>
1069 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1070 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1071 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1072 port must already be setup and configured.
1073
f7c864e7 1074 ar3700_uart,<addr>
30530791
WD
1075 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1076 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1077 address. The serial port must already be setup
1078 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1079
43f1831b
KR
1080 qcom_geni,<addr>
1081 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1082 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1083 specified address. The serial port must already be
1084 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1085
69c1f396
AB
1086 efifb,[options]
1087 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1088 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1089 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1090 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1091 mapped with the correct attributes.
1092
4ba66a97 1093 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1da177e4 1094 earlyprintk=vga
89175cf7 1095 earlyprintk=sclp
2482a92e 1096 earlyprintk=xen
1da177e4 1097 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
147ea091 1098 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
ea3acb19 1099 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
9780bc41 1100 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
d2266bbf 1101 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1b5aeebf 1102 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1da177e4 1103
147ea091
DH
1104 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1105 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1106 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1107
a9913044 1108 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1da177e4
LT
1109 takes over.
1110
72548e83
MF
1111 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1112 be used at a time.
1da177e4 1113
147ea091
DH
1114 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1115 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1116 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1117 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1118 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1119 You can find the port for a given device in
1120 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1121 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1da177e4
LT
1122
1123 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1124 very good.
1125
72548e83
MF
1126 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1127 the real console.
1da177e4 1128
2482a92e
KRW
1129 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1130
89175cf7
HC
1131 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1132
d2266bbf
FT
1133 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1134 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1135 UART class.
1136
c700f013
CG
1137 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1138 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1139 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1140 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1141 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1142 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1143 default: on.
1144
9731191f
JW
1145 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1146 ekgdboc=kbd
1147
25985edc 1148 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
9731191f
JW
1149 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1150
1da177e4 1151 edd= [EDD]
8c4dd606 1152 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1da177e4 1153
d2f7cbe7 1154 efi= [EFI]
fed6cefe 1155 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
d2f7cbe7
BP
1156 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1157 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1158 default.
5a17dae4
MF
1159 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1160 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1161 firmware implementations.
5ae3683c 1162 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
fed6cefe 1163 debug: enable misc debug output
d2f7cbe7 1164
8c58bf3e
RW
1165 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1166 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1167 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1168 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1169 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1170
0f96a99d
TI
1171 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1172 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1173 updating original EFI memory map.
1174 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1175 from ss to ss+nn.
1176 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1177 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1178 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1179 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1180
1181 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1182 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1183 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1184 doesn't support it.
1185
475fb4e8
OP
1186 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1187 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1188 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1189 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
cb1aaebe 1190 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
475fb4e8
OP
1191
1192
1da177e4
LT
1193 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1194 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1195
cd4f0ef7 1196 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1da177e4 1197 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
71f77055 1198 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1da177e4
LT
1199
1200 elevator= [IOSCHED]
31dcbbef 1201 Format: { "mq-deadline" | "kyber" | "bfq" }
898bd37a
MCC
1202 See Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.rst,
1203 Documentation/block/kyber-iosched.rst and
1204 Documentation/block/bfq-iosched.rst for details.
a9913044 1205
d3bf3795 1206 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
a9913044 1207 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
d3bf3795
MH
1208 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1209 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
d67297ad 1210 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1da177e4 1211
0cb55ad2
RD
1212 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1213 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1214 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1215 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1216
ca1eda2d 1217 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
0cb55ad2
RD
1218 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1219 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1220 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1221 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1222
1da177e4
LT
1223 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1224 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1225 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1226 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1227 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1228 Default value is 0.
1229 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1230
a08f82d0
HY
1231 erst_disable [ACPI]
1232 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1233 support.
1234
1da177e4
LT
1235 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1236 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1237 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1238
7102ebcd
MZ
1239 evm= [EVM]
1240 Format: { "fix" }
1241 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1242 current integrity status.
1243
de1ba09b
AM
1244 failslab=
1245 fail_page_alloc=
1246 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1247 General fault injection mechanism.
1248 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
395cf969 1249 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
de1ba09b 1250
1da177e4 1251 floppy= [HW]
39443104 1252 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1da177e4 1253
f13ae30e
AC
1254 force_pal_cache_flush
1255 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1256 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1257 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1258 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1259
6dddd7a7 1260 forcepae [X86-32]
69f2366c
CB
1261 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1262 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1263 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1264 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1265 and may cause unknown problems.
1266
d9e54076 1267 ftrace=[tracer]
2af15d6a 1268 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
d9e54076
PZ
1269 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1270 boot debugging.
1271
cecbca96 1272 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
2af15d6a 1273 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
cecbca96
FW
1274 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1275 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1276 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1277 oops.
2af15d6a
SR
1278
1279 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1280 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1281 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1282 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1283 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
16290246 1284 tracing directory.
2af15d6a
SR
1285
1286 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1287 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1288 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1289 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1290 tracing directory.
d9e54076 1291
369bc18f
SA
1292 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1293 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1294 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1295 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1296 that can be changed at run time by the
1297 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1298
0d7d9a16
NK
1299 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1300 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1301 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1302 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1303 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1304
65a50c65
TB
1305 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1306 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1307 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1308 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1309 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1310
1da177e4
LT
1311 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1312 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1313 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1314 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1752118d 1315 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4
LT
1316
1317 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1318
6dddd7a7 1319 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
aaf23042
YL
1320 Format: off | on
1321 default: on
1322
2521f2c2
PO
1323 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1324 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1325 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1326 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1327 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1328
47512cfd
TG
1329 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1330 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1331 android emulator
1332
1da177e4 1333 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
6c5de79b
DB
1334 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1335 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1336 GPT to be used instead.
1da177e4 1337
6cec9b07
AL
1338 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1339 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1340 Format: 0 | 1
1341 Default: 0
1342 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1343 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1344 Format: 0 | 1
1345 Default: 0
1346 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1347 Format: 0 | 1
1348 Default: 0
1349 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1350 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1351 Default: 1024
1352 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1353 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1354 Default: 1024
1355
0f98dd1b
BJZ
1356 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1357 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1358 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1359
55537871
JK
1360 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1361 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1362 backtraces on all cpus.
1363 Format: <integer>
1364
1da177e4
LT
1365 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1366 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
16290246 1367 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
a9913044 1368 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1da177e4
LT
1369
1370 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1371
1372 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1373 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1374
ea8c071c
HY
1375 hest_disable [ACPI]
1376 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1377 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1378 logic will be disabled.
1379
1da177e4
LT
1380 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1381 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1382 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1383 size on bigger boxes.
1384
54cdfdb4
TG
1385 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1386 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1387 Default: "on"
1388
0cb55ad2
RD
1389 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1390
1391 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1392 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1393 verbose }
1394 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1395 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1396 VIA, nVidia)
1397 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1398
3d035f58
PB
1399 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1400 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1401
b4718e62
AK
1402 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1403 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
0d9ea754
JT
1404 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1405 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1406 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1407 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
27ec26ec 1408 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
6902aa84 1409
a49d9c0a
OS
1410 hung_task_panic=
1411 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1412 Format: <integer>
cef7125d 1413
a49d9c0a
OS
1414 A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a
1415 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1416 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1417 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1418 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1419
6dddd7a7
TB
1420 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1421 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1422 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1423 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1424 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
3a025de6
YS
1425
1426 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1427 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1428 guest on lock contention.
1429
7bf69395
FDN
1430 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1431 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1432 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1433 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1434 the real console.
1435
6dddd7a7
TB
1436 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1437 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1438 registered from board initialization code.
1439 Format:
1440 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
3a853fb9 1441
36d95739 1442 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
e1443d28
SCP
1443 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1444 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1445 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1446 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1da177e4 1447 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
84eb8d06
ML
1448 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1449 keyboard and cannot control its state
1da177e4
LT
1450 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1451 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
945ef0d4 1452 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
75d08c78
JK
1453 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1454 for the AUX port
1da177e4 1455 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
e55a3366 1456 controller
1da177e4
LT
1457 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1458 controllers
24775d65 1459 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
930e1924
MPS
1460 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1461 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1462 transitions, or never reset
1463 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1464 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1465 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1466 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1467 architectures force reset to be always executed
1da177e4 1468 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
6dddd7a7 1469 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1da177e4
LT
1470
1471 i810= [HW,DRM]
1472
e70c9d5e
DT
1473 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1474 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1475 hardware.
1da177e4
LT
1476 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1477 does not match list of supported models.
1478 i8k.power_status
1479 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1480 (disabled by default)
1481 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1482 capability is set.
1483
4dca20ef 1484 i915.invert_brightness=
7bd90909
CE
1485 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1486 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
4dca20ef
CE
1487 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1488 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1489 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1490 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1491 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1492 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1493 value switches the backlight off.
1494 -1 -- never invert brightness
1495 0 -- machine default
1496 1 -- force brightness inversion
7bd90909 1497
1da177e4
LT
1498 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1499 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1500
0af80c04
DF
1501 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1502 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
075affcb
BZ
1503 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1504 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
d7b461c5 1505 See Documentation/ide/ide.rst.
1da177e4 1506
0f8b7f5d
MR
1507 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1508 Format: <int>
1509 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1510 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1511 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1512 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1513 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1514 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1515 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1516 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1517 was 0x3.
1518
0cb55ad2
RD
1519 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1520 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1521
f039b754 1522 idle= [X86]
69fb3676 1523 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
ada9cfdd
RD
1524 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1525 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1526 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1527 Not recommended.
ada9cfdd 1528 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
c1e3b377 1529 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
ada9cfdd 1530 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
a9913044 1531
503943e0
MR
1532 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1533 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1534 Default: strict
1535
1536 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1537 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1538 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1539 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1540 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1541 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1542 encoding mode.
1543
1544 Available settings are as follows:
1545 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1546 supported by the FPU
1547 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1548 by the FPU
1549 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1550 by the FPU
1551 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1552 supported by the FPU
1553
1554 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1555 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1556 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1557 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1558 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1559 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1560 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1561 MIPS64 CPUs.
1562
1563 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1564 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1565 except where unsupported by hardware.
1566
79290822
IM
1567 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1568 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1569 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
0eca6b7c
YZ
1570 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1571 could change it dynamically, usually by
1572 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
79290822 1573
d977d56c
KK
1574 ignore_rlimit_data
1575 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1576 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1577 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1578
1da177e4
LT
1579 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1580 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1581
2fe5d6de 1582 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2faa6ef3 1583 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
2fe5d6de
MZ
1584 default: "enforce"
1585
41475a3e 1586 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
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1587 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1588 owned by uid=0.
1589
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1590 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1591 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1592 measurements, instead of host native format.
1593
3323eec9 1594 ima_hash= [IMA]
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1595 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1596 | sha512 | ... }
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1597 default: "sha1"
1598
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1599 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1600 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1601
24fd03c8 1602 ima_policy= [IMA]
33ce9549 1603 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
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1604 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1605 fail_securely"
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1606
1607 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1608 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1609 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1610 uid=0.
1611
1612 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
41475a3e 1613 all files owned by root.
24fd03c8 1614
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1615 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1616 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1617 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
24fd03c8 1618
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1619 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1620 verification failure also on privileged mounted
1621 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1622 flag.
1623
24fd03c8 1624 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
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1625 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1626 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1627 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1628 opened for read by uid=0.
1629
6dddd7a7 1630 ima_template= [IMA]
9b9d4ce5 1631 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
8265a2f8 1632 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
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1633 Default: "ima-ng"
1634
c2426d2a 1635 ima_template_fmt=
6dddd7a7 1636 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
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1637 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1638
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1639 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1640 Format: <min_file_size>
1641 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1642 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1643
1644 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1645 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1646 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1647
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1648 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1649 Format: <bufsize>
1650 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1651
1652 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1653 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1654 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1655
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1656 init= [KNL]
1657 Format: <full_path>
1658 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1659 process.
1660
1661 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1662 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1663 startup.
1664
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1665 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1666 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1667 modules and initcalls.
1668
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1669 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1670
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1671 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
1672 zeroes.
1673 Format: 0 | 1
1674 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
1675
1676 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
1677 Format: 0 | 1
1678 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
1679
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1680 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1681 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1682 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1683 override in debugfs after boot.
1684
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1685 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1686 Format: <irq>
1687
6dddd7a7 1688 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
6bb2ff84 1689
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1690 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1691 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1692 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1693 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1694
ba395927 1695 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
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1696 on
1697 Enable intel iommu driver.
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1698 off
1699 Disable intel iommu driver.
1700 igfx_off [Default Off]
1701 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1702 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1703 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1704 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1705 DMA.
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1706 forcedac [x86_64]
1707 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
16290246 1708 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
7d3b03ce 1709 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
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1710 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1711 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
7d3b03ce 1712 then look in the higher range.
5e0d2a6f 1713 strict [Default Off]
1714 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1715 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1716 to batching them for performance.
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1717 sp_off [Default Off]
1718 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1719 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1720 not be supported.
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1721 sm_on [Default Off]
1722 By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the
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1723 hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable
1724 mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode
8950dcd8 1725 will be used on hardware which claims to support it.
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1726 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1727 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1728 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1729 could harm performance of some high-throughput
1730 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1731 mapping is enabled.
1732 Note that using this option lowers the security
1733 provided by tboot because it makes the system
1734 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
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1735
1736 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1737 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
22c6bbe4 1738 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
2e92c7ad 1739
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1740 intel_pstate= [X86]
1741 disable
1742 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1743 scaling driver for the supported processors
1744 passive
1745 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1746 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1747 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1748 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1749 feature.
1750 force
1751 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1752 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1753 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1754 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1755 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1756 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1757 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1758 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1759 no_hwp
1760 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1761 if available.
1762 hwp_only
1763 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1764 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1765 support_acpi_ppc
1766 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1767 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1768 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1769 then this feature is turned on by default.
1770 per_cpu_perf_limits
1771 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1772 cpufreq sysfs interface
6be26498 1773
d1423d56 1774 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
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1775 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1776 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1777 nosid disable Source ID checking
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1778 no_x2apic_optout
1779 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
b7d20631 1780 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
d1423d56 1781
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1782 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1783 strict regions from userspace.
1784 relaxed
1785
1786 iommu= [x86]
1787 off
1788 force
1789 noforce
1790 biomerge
1791 panic
1792 nopanic
1793 merge
1794 nomerge
0cb55ad2 1795 soft
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1796 pt [x86]
1797 nopt [x86]
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1798 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1799 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
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1801 iommu.strict= [ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
1802 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1803 0 - Lazy mode.
1804 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
1805 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
1806 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
1807 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
1808 the relevant IOMMU driver.
1809 1 - Strict mode (default).
1810 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
1811 synchronously.
1812
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1813 iommu.passthrough=
1814 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1815 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1816 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1817 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
9d723b4c 1818 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
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1819
1820 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1821 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1822 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1823
6cececfc 1824 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
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1825 0x80
1826 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1827 0xed
1828 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
b02aae9c 1829 udelay
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1830 Simple two microseconds delay
1831 none
1832 No delay
b02aae9c 1833
1da177e4 1834 ip= [IP_PNP]
dc7a0816 1835 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 1836
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1837 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
1838 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
1839
fbf19803 1840 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2d13e6ca 1841 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
fbf19803 1842
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1843 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1844 [ARM, ARM64]
1845 Format: <bool>
1846 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1847 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1848 exposed by the device tree is too small.
1849
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1850 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
1851 [ARM, ARM64]
1852 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
1853 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
1854 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
1855 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
1856 LPIs.
1857
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1858 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
1859 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
1860 requires the kernel to be built with
1861 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
1862
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1863 irqfixup [HW]
1864 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1865 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1866 firmware running.
1867
1868 irqpoll [HW]
1869 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1870 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1871 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1872 firmware running.
1873
1da177e4 1874 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
a9913044 1875 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1da177e4 1876
d94d1053 1877 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
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1878 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1879 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
1880
1881 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1882 specified in the flag list (default: domain):
1883
1884 nohz
1885 Disable the tick when a single task runs.
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1886
1887 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
1888 need to affine to housekeeping through the global
1889 workqueue's affinity configured via the
1890 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
1891 by using the 'domain' flag described below.
1892
1893 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
1894 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
1895 be configured manually after bootup.
1896
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1897 domain
1898 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1899 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1900 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1901 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1902 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1903 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1904 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1905 move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1906
1907 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1908 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1909 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1910 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1911
1912 The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
b225d44e 1913
1da177e4 1914
1da177e4 1915
a9913044 1916 iucv= [HW,NET]
1da177e4 1917
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1918 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1919 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1920 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1921 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1922 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1923 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1924
1925 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1926 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1927 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1928 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1929 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1930 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1931
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1932 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1933 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1934 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1935 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1936 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1937 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1938
1da177e4 1939 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1752118d 1940 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
1da177e4 1941
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1942 nokaslr [KNL]
1943 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1944 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1945 Layout Randomization).
24f2e027 1946
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1947 kasan_multi_shot
1948 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1949 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1950 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1951 invalid access.
1952
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1953 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1954
342332e6 1955 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
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1956 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
1957 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
1958 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested
1959 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
1960 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for
1961 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the
1962 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
1963 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
1964 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
1965
1966 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
1967 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
1968 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
1969 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
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1970 zone if it does not.
1971
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1972 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
1973 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
1974 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror"
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1975 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1976 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
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1977 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
1978 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
ed7ed365 1979
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1980 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1981 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1982 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1983 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1984 optional and is the number seconds in between
1985 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1986 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1987 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1988 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1989 the kernel debugger.
1990
84c08fd6 1991 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
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1992 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1993 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
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1994 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1995 keyboard only format: kbd
1996 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1997 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1998 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1999 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
6cdf6e06 2000
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2001 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2002 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2003
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2004 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
2005 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2006 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2007
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2008 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2009 Valid arguments: on, off
2010 Default: on
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2011 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2012 the default is off.
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2014 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2015 and kernel address spaces.
2016 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2017 0: force disabled
2018 1: force enabled
2019
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2020 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2021 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2022
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2023 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2024 Default is false (don't support).
2025
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2026 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
2027 KVM MMU at runtime.
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2028 Default is 0 (off)
2029
fef07aae 2030 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
8475f94a 2031 Default is 1 (enabled)
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2032
2033 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2034 for all guests.
16290246 2035 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
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2037 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2038 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2039 system registers
2040
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2041 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2042 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2043 system registers
2044
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2045 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2046 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2047 system registers
2048
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2049 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2050 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2051 LPIs.
2052
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2053 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2054 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2055 Default is 1 (enabled)
2056
2057 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2058 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
2059 Default is 0 (disabled)
2060
2061 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2062 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2063 Default is 1 (enabled)
2064
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2065 kvm-intel.nested=
2066 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2067 Default is 0 (disabled)
2068
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2069 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2070 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2071 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2072 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2073
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2074 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2075 CVE-2018-3620.
2076
2077 Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2078
2079 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2080 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2081 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2082 never: Disables the mitigation
2083
2084 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2085
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2086 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2087 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2088 Default is 1 (enabled)
2089
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2090 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2091 affected CPUs
2092
2093 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2094 enabled and cannot be disabled.
2095
2096 full
2097 Provides all available mitigations for the
2098 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2099 enables all mitigations in the
2100 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2101
2102 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2103 sysfs interface is still possible after
2104 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2105 when the first VM is started in a
2106 potentially insecure configuration,
2107 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2108
2109 full,force
2110 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2111 flush runtime control. Implies the
2112 'nosmt=force' command line option.
2113 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2114
2115 flush
2116 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2117 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2118 L1D flush.
2119
2120 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2121 sysfs interface is still possible after
2122 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2123 when the first VM is started in a
2124 potentially insecure configuration,
2125 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2126
2127 flush,nosmt
2128
2129 Disables SMT and enables the default
2130 hypervisor mitigation.
2131
2132 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2133 sysfs interface is still possible after
2134 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2135 when the first VM is started in a
2136 potentially insecure configuration,
2137 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2138
2139 flush,nowarn
2140 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2141 warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2142 insecure configuration.
2143
2144 off
2145 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2146 emit any warnings.
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2147 It also drops the swap size and available
2148 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2149 bare metal.
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2150
2151 Default is 'flush'.
2152
65fd4cb6 2153 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
d90a7a0e 2154
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2155 l2cr= [PPC]
2156
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RB
2157 l3cr= [PPC]
2158
cd4f0ef7 2159 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
a9913044 2160 disabled it.
1da177e4 2161
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2162 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
2163 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2164 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2165
6cececfc 2166 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
ada9cfdd 2167 in C2 power state.
e585bef8 2168
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FC
2169 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
2170 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2171 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2172 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
16290246 2173 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
fcb71f6f
FC
2174 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2175 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
16290246 2176
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2177 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2178 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
2179 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
fcb71f6f 2180
78e70c23
DJ
2181 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2182 when set.
2183 Format: <int>
2184
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TH
2185 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
2186 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
4c44f309 2187 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
33267325
TH
2188 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
2189 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
2190 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2191 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2192 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2193
2194 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2195 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
2196 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2197 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
2198 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2199 host link and device attached to it.
2200
2201 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
2202 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2203 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2204 The following configurations can be forced.
2205
2206 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2207 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2208
2209 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2210
2211 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2212 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2213 allowed.
2214
2215 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2216
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MP
2217 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2218
05944bdf 2219 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
6dddd7a7 2220 and both resets.
05944bdf 2221
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DW
2222 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2223 hot-unplug link recovery
2224
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TH
2225 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2226
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VP
2227 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2228
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RJ
2229 * disable: Disable this device.
2230
33267325
TH
2231 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2232 the same attribute, the last one is used.
2233
95f72d1e 2234 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
7c4be253 2235
1da177e4 2236 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
39443104 2237 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
1da177e4 2238
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RD
2239 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2240 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 2241
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RD
2242 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2243 Format: <integer>
2244
2245 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2246 Format: <integer>
2247
2248 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2249 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 2250
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PM
2251 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2252 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2253 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2254 number of online CPUs.
2255
2256 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2257 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2258
2259 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2260 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2261
2262 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2263 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2264 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2265
2266 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2267 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2268 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2269 mode during the locktorture test.
2270
2271 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2272 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2273 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2274
2275 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2276 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2277
2278 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2279 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2280 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2281 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2282 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2283 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2284
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2285 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2286 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2287
2288 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2289 Enable additional printk() statements.
2290
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LT
2291 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2292 Format: <irq>
2293
2294 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2295 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2296 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2297 loglevels are defined as follows:
2298
2299 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2300 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2301 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2302 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2303 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2304 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2305 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2306 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2307
c756d08a 2308 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
23b2899f
LR
2309 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2310 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2311 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2312 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2313 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2314 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
1da177e4 2315
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RD
2316 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2317 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2318 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2319 kernel boot problems.
2320
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LT
2321 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2322 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2323 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2324 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2325 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2326 attached printers to be reset. Using
2327 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2328 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2329 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2330 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2331 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2332 port specification list means that device IDs
2333 from each port should be examined, to see if
2334 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2335 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2336 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2337
2338 lpj=n [KNL]
2339 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2340 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2341 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2342 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2343 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2344 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2345 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2346 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2347 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2348 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2349 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2350 hardware.
2351
2352 ltpc= [NET]
2353 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2354
9b8c7c14
KC
2355 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2356
79f7865d
KC
2357 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2358 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
89a9684e 2359 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
79f7865d 2360
16290246 2361 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
a9913044
RD
2362 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2363 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
1da177e4 2364
3209e70e
WZ
2365 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2366 yeeloong laptop.
2367 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2368
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RD
2369 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2370 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
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LT
2371
2372 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
7c142bfe
BH
2373 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2374 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2375 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2376 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2377 only takes effect during system bootup.
2378 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2379 which also disables the IO APIC.
1da177e4 2380
d134b00b
KS
2381 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2382 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2383 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2384 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2385 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2386 /dev/loop-control interface.
2b2c3750 2387
cd4f0ef7 2388 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
1da177e4 2389
cb1aaebe 2390 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
909dd324 2391
1da177e4 2392 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
e52347bd 2393 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
a9913044 2394
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LT
2395 mdacon= [MDA]
2396 Format: <first>,<last>
2397 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
a9913044 2398
bc124170
TG
2399 mds= [X86,INTEL]
2400 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2401 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2402
2403 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2404 internal buffers which can forward information to a
2405 disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2406
2407 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2408 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2409 attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2410 not have direct access.
2411
2412 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2413 options are:
2414
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JP
2415 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2416 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2417 SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2418 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
bc124170
TG
2419
2420 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2421 mds=full.
2422
5999bbe7
TG
2423 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2424
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LT
2425 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2426 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2427 to see the whole system memory or for test.
fbb97d87
WC
2428 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2429 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2430 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2431 belonging to unused RAM.
1da177e4 2432
cd4f0ef7 2433 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
1da177e4
LT
2434 memory.
2435
6902aa84
PM
2436 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2437 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2438 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2439
6dddd7a7 2440 memhp_default_state=online/offline
86dd995d
VK
2441 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2442 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2443 set according to the
2444 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2445 option.
cb1aaebe 2446 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
86dd995d 2447
6cececfc 2448 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
1da177e4
LT
2449 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2450 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2451 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2452 option description.
2453
2454 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
277cba1d
RD
2455 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2456 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
8fcc9bc3
BH
2457 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2458 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2459 Multiple different regions can be specified,
2460 comma delimited.
2461 Example:
2462 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
1da177e4
LT
2463
2464 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2465 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
277cba1d 2466 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
1da177e4
LT
2467
2468 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2469 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
277cba1d 2470 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
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PM
2471 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2472 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2473 or
2474 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
8fcc9bc3
BH
2475 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2476 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2477 will be eaten.
1da177e4 2478
ec776ef6
CH
2479 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2480 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2481 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2482 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2483 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2484
ef61f8a3
JS
2485 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2486 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2487 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2488 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2489 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2490 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2491 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2492 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2493
9f077871
JF
2494 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2495 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2496 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2497 Setting this option will scan the memory
2498 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2499 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2500 from using the memory being corrupted.
2501 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2502 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2503 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2504 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2505
2506 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2507 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2508 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2509 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2510 corruption in more or less memory.
2511
2512 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2513 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2514 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2515 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2516
d90fe2ac 2517 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest
c64df707 2518 Format: <integer>
c64df707 2519 default : 0 <disable>
9e5f6cf5
AH
2520 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2521 performed. Each pass selects another test
2522 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2523 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2524 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2525 regions that are detected.
c64df707 2526
c262f3b9
TL
2527 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2528 Valid arguments: on, off
2529 Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2530 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2531 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2532 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
2533 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
2534
cb1aaebe 2535 Refer to Documentation/virtual/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
c262f3b9
TL
2536 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2537
406e7938
RW
2538 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2539 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2540 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2541 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
58e7cb9e 2542 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
406e7938 2543
1da177e4 2544 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
a405ed85 2545 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
1da177e4 2546
8f36881b
AS
2547 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2548 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2549 platforms.
2550
e6c4dc6c
WT
2551 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2552 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2553 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2554 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2555
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LT
2556 mga= [HW,DRM]
2557
1c207f95
RD
2558 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2559 physical address is ignored.
2560
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MP
2561 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2562 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2563 Default: "0tb"
2564 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2565 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2566 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2567 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2568 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2569 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2570 unconfigured.
2571 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2572 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2573 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2574 VGA shield.
2575 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2576 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2577 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2578 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2579 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2580 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2581
98af8452 2582 mitigations=
a111b7c0
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2583 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
2584 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated,
d68be4c4
JP
2585 arch-independent options, each of which is an
2586 aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
98af8452
JP
2587
2588 off
2589 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This
2590 improves system performance, but it may also
2591 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
782e69ef 2592 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
a111b7c0 2593 kpti=0 [ARM64]
782e69ef 2594 nospectre_v1 [PPC]
0336e04a 2595 nobp=0 [S390]
a111b7c0 2596 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
d68be4c4 2597 spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
782e69ef 2598 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
a111b7c0 2599 ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
d68be4c4 2600 l1tf=off [X86]
5c14068f 2601 mds=off [X86]
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JP
2602
2603 auto (default)
2604 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
2605 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for
2606 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
2607 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
2608 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
d68be4c4 2609 Equivalent to: (default behavior)
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JP
2610
2611 auto,nosmt
2612 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
2613 if needed. This is for users who always want to
2614 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
d68be4c4 2615 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
5c14068f 2616 mds=full,nosmt [X86]
98af8452 2617
6b74ab97
MG
2618 mminit_loglevel=
2619 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2620 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2621 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2622 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2623 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2624 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2625
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RR
2626 module.sig_enforce
2627 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2628 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2a039be7 2629 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
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RR
2630 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2631
be7de5f9
PB
2632 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2633 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2634
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LT
2635 mousedev.tap_time=
2636 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2637 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2638 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2639 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2640 Format: <msecs>
2641 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2642 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2643 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2644 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2645
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DR
2646 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2647 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2648 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
2649 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
2650 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is
2651 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
2652 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its
2653 own is specified, the administrator must be careful
0cb55ad2
RD
2654 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2655 is not too small.
2656
f70029bb
MH
2657 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2658 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2659 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2660 allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2661 allocations. Use with caution!
c5320926 2662
1da177e4
LT
2663 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2664 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2665
a9913044
RD
2666 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2667 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
1da177e4
LT
2668
2669 mtdparts= [MTD]
c8facbb6 2670 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
1da177e4 2671
4e89a2d8
WS
2672 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2673 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2674 at a time.
2675
5988af23
RH
2676 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2677
2678 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2679
2680 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2681 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2682 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2683 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2684 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2685
9db829f4
BD
2686 mtdset= [ARM]
2687 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2688
2689 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2690
1da177e4 2691 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
a9913044
RD
2692 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2693 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
1da177e4 2694
0cb55ad2 2695 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
19f59460 2696 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
0cb55ad2
RD
2697 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2698
2699 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2700 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2701 Default is 1.
2702 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2703 using up MTRRs.
2704
2705 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2706 Format: <integer>
2707 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2708 Default : 1
2709 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2710 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2711
1da177e4
LT
2712 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2713
1da177e4
LT
2714 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2715 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2716 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2717 something different and driver-specific.
a9913044
RD
2718 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2719 file if at all.
2720
58401572
KPO
2721 nf_conntrack.acct=
2722 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2723 0 to disable accounting
2724 1 to enable accounting
d70a011d 2725 Default value is 0.
58401572 2726
306a0753 2727 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
dc7a0816 2728 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2729
2730 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
dc7a0816 2731 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 2732
306a0753
CL
2733 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2734 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2735
5405fc44
TM
2736 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2737 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2738 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2739 requests.
2740
a72b4422
TM
2741 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2742 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2743 channel should listen.
2744
e571cbf1
TM
2745 nfs.cache_getent=
2746 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2747 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2748
2749 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2750 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2751 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2752
58df095b
TM
2753 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2754 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2755 entries.
2756
f43bf0be
TM
2757 nfs.enable_ino64=
2758 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2759 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2760 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2761 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2762 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2763
5405fc44
TM
2764 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2765 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2766 slots the client will assign to the callback
2767 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2768 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2769 a particular server.
2770
ef159e91
TM
2771 nfs.max_session_slots=
2772 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2773 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2774 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2775 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2776 Note that there is little point in setting this
2777 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2778
b064eca2 2779 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
074b1d12
TM
2780 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2781 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2782 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2783 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2784 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2785 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2786 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2787 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2788 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2789 back to using the idmapper.
2790 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
6f2ea7f2
CL
2791 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2792 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2793 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2794 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2795 UUID that is generated at system install time.
b064eca2 2796
db8ac8ba
WAA
2797 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2798 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2799 information in exchange_id requests.
2800 If zero, no implementation identification information
2801 will be sent.
2802 The default is to send the implementation identification
2803 information.
e52347bd 2804
f6de7a39
TM
2805 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2806 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2807 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2808 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2809 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2810 after the locks are lost.
2811 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2812 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2813 parameter to '1'.
2814 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2815 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
db8ac8ba 2816
bbf58bf3
TM
2817 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2818 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2819 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2820
2821 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2822 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2823 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2824 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2825
e9541ce8
BF
2826 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2827 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2828 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2829 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2830 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2831 migration from NFSv2/v3.
db8ac8ba 2832
c0c74acb 2833 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
e7ba176b
HS
2834 when a NMI is triggered.
2835 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2836
6cececfc 2837 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
fef2c9bc 2838 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
195daf66 2839 Valid num: 0 or 1
334bb79c
PK
2840 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2841 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
0cb55ad2 2842 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
93285c01
ZD
2843 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
2844 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
2845 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
334bb79c 2846 please see 'nowatchdog'.
0cb55ad2
RD
2847 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2848 need the box quickly up again.
1da177e4 2849
d22881dc
SW
2850 These settings can be accessed at runtime via
2851 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
2852
bff38771
AV
2853 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2854 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2855 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2856 waits 4 seconds.
2857
cd4f0ef7 2858 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
1da177e4
LT
2859 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2860 is present.
2861
372fddf7
KS
2862 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
2863 kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
2864
0cb55ad2
RD
2865 no_console_suspend
2866 [HW] Never suspend the console
2867 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2868 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2869 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2870 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2871 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2872 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2873 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
134620f7
YZ
2874 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2875 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2876 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2877 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2878 turn on/off it dynamically.
0cb55ad2 2879
c1aee215
CL
2880 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2881 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2882 but will impact performance.
3395ee05 2883
a9913044
RD
2884 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2885
686140a1
VG
2886 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2887 (CPU alternatives feature).
2888
1da177e4
LT
2889 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2890 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2891
5091faa4
MG
2892 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2893
1da177e4
LT
2894 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2895 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2896
2897 nocache [ARM]
a9913044 2898
0cb55ad2
RD
2899 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2900
163ecdff
SN
2901 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2902
6902aa84
PM
2903 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2904
b2e0a54a 2905 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
8b2cb7a8 2906
1da177e4
LT
2907 noexec [IA-64]
2908
6cececfc 2909 noexec [X86]
f5a1b191 2910 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
1da177e4 2911 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
f5a1b191
JS
2912 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2913
de78a9c4 2914 nosmap [X86,PPC]
52b6179a
PA
2915 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2916 even if it is supported by processor.
2917
0fb1c25a 2918 nosmep [X86,PPC]
52b6179a 2919 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
de5397ad
FY
2920 even if it is supported by processor.
2921
f5a1b191
JS
2922 noexec32 [X86-64]
2923 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2924 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2925 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2926 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2927 read implies executable mappings
1da177e4 2928
fab43ef4 2929 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
6902aa84 2930
cd4f0ef7 2931 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
4f886511
CE
2932 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2933 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
1da177e4 2934
d909f910 2935 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86,PPC] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
0ddab1d2 2936
52c48c51
SS
2937 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2938 Equivalent to smt=1.
2939
05736e4a 2940 [KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
506a66f3
TG
2941 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
2942 via the sysfs control file.
5e2d059b 2943
26cb1f36
DC
2944 nospectre_v1 [PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 (bounds
2945 check bypass). With this option data leaks are possible
2946 in the system.
05736e4a 2947
e5ce5e72
JL
2948 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
2949 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
2950 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
2951 option.
da285121 2952
24f7fc83
KRW
2953 nospec_store_bypass_disable
2954 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
2955
0c752a93
SS
2956 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2957 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2958 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2959
b6f42a4a
FY
2960 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2961 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2962 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2963 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2964 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2965 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2966
2967 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2968 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2969 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2970 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2971 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2972 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2973 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2974
01a24d2b
PZ
2975 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2976 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2977 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
a9913044 2978
1f29fae2
SH
2979 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2980 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2981 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2982
1da177e4
LT
2983 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2984 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2985 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2986 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2987 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2988 real-time systems.
2989
a6e15a39
KC
2990 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2991
79bf2bb3
TG
2992 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2993 Valid arguments: on, off
2994 Default: on
2995
d94d1053 2996 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
2d13e6ca 2997 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
c5bfece2 2998 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
a831881b 2999 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
0453b435 3000 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
f99bcb2c
PM
3001 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
3002 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3003 just as if they had also been called out in the
3004 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
a831881b 3005
eeee7853
PM
3006 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3007
cd4f0ef7 3008 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
1da177e4
LT
3009 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3010
6cececfc 3011 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
8542b200
ZA
3012 broken timer IRQ sources.
3013
1da177e4
LT
3014 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3015
3016 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3017 initial RAM disk.
3018
03ea8155
WH
3019 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3020 remapping.
d1423d56 3021 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
03ea8155 3022
1da177e4
LT
3023 nointroute [IA-64]
3024
d12a72b8
AL
3025 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3026
16290246 3027 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
0aa366f3 3028
9cf4c4fc
JK
3029 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3030
fd10cde9
GN
3031 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3032 fault handling.
3033
80e9a4f2
AM
3034 no-vmw-sched-clock
3035 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3036 clock and use the default one.
3037
6dddd7a7 3038 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
d910f5c1
GC
3039 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
3040 behaviour
3041
cd4f0ef7 3042 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
1da177e4 3043
cd4f0ef7 3044 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
ad62ca2b 3045
1da177e4 3046 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
f15eea66 3047 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
1da177e4 3048
312f1f01
H
3049 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3050
13696e0a 3051 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
abe37e5a 3052
83d7384f
AS
3053 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3054 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3055
bda62633
DZ
3056 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3057 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3058 irq.
3059
02608bef
DY
3060 nomodule Disable module load
3061
016ddd9b
JK
3062 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3063 pagetables) support.
3064
0790c9aa
AL
3065 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3066
0cb55ad2
RD
3067 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
3068 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3069
cd4f0ef7 3070 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
b7fb4af0
JF
3071 with UP alternatives
3072
7a5091d5
PA
3073 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3074 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3075 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3076 available to user space applications.
49d859d7 3077
a9913044
RD
3078 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3079 space.
3080
1da177e4
LT
3081 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
3082 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3083 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3084
3085 nosbagart [IA-64]
3086
cd4f0ef7 3087 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
4f886511 3088
61ec7567
LB
3089 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3090 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
1da177e4 3091
97842216
DJ
3092 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3093
1da177e4
LT
3094 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3095
195daf66 3096 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
6dddd7a7 3097 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
58687acb 3098
1da177e4 3099 nowb [ARM]
a9913044 3100
2b2fd87a
WH
3101 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3102
f78cff48
FY
3103 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3104 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3105 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3106 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3107 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3108 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3109 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3110 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3111 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3112 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3113 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3114 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3115 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3116
6dddd7a7 3117 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
35b55ef2
NC
3118 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3119 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3120 without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3121 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3122 parameter's value.
3123 Format: integer between 1 and 255
3124 Default: 255
3125
16290246 3126 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
a6c75b86
FY
3127 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3128 SAL PALO.
3129
2b633e3f
YL
3130 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
3131 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
7c142bfe
BH
3132 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3133 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3134 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3135 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3136 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3137 hot plugging.
2b633e3f 3138
0cb55ad2
RD
3139 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3140
1a687c2e
MG
3141 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
3142 Allowed values are enable and disable
3143
f0c0b2b8 3144 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
c9bff3ee 3145 'node', 'default' can be specified
f0c0b2b8 3146 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
57043247 3147 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
f0c0b2b8 3148
7c4be253
RD
3149 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3150 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
3151 info.
3152
3ef0e1f8
AS
3153 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3154 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3155 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3156 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
3157 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3158 interrupts *may* be lost!
3159
15ac7afe
TL
3160 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3161 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3162 For example, to override I2C bus2:
3163 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3164
1da177e4
LT
3165 oprofile.timer= [HW]
3166 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
3167
7e4e0bd5
RR
3168 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
3169 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
3170 userland or if you want common events.
8d7ff4f2
RR
3171 Format: { arch_perfmon }
3172 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
7e4e0bd5
RR
3173 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
3174 CPU specific event set.
159a80b2
RR
3175 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
3176 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
3177 for generic hr timer mode)
1dcdb5a9 3178
44a4dcf7
RD
3179 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3180 process, but there is a small probability of
3181 deadlocking the machine.
d404ab0a
OH
3182 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3183 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3184
e900a918
DW
3185 page_alloc.shuffle=
3186 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3187 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3188 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3189 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3190 cache, and this parameter can be used to
3191 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3192 can be read from sysfs at:
3193 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3194
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JK
3195 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3196 Storage of the information about who allocated
3197 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3198 we can turn it on.
3199 on: enable the feature
3200
8823b1db 3201 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
8c9a134c
KC
3202 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3203 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3204 off: turn off poisoning (default)
8823b1db
LA
3205 on: turn on poisoning
3206
44a4dcf7 3207 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4302fbc8
HD
3208 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3209 timeout = 0: wait forever
3210 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
1da177e4
LT
3211 Format: <timeout>
3212
d999bd93
FT
3213 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3214 User can chose combination of the following bits:
3215 bit 0: print all tasks info
3216 bit 1: print system memory info
3217 bit 2: print timer info
3218 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3219 bit 4: print ftrace buffer
de6da1e8 3220 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
d999bd93 3221
9e3961a0
PB
3222 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
3223 on a WARN().
3224
f06e5153
MH
3225 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3226 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3227 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3228 succeeds in any situation.
3229 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3230 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3231 kernel more unstable.
3232
1da177e4
LT
3233 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3234 connected to, default is 0.
3235 Format: <parport#>
3236 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3237 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
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RD
3238 Format: <mode>
3239
3240 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3241 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3242 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3243 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3244 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3245 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3246 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3247 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3248 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3249 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3250 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3251 are specified on the command line, starting
3252 with parport0.
3253
3254 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
3255 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3256 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3257 computer where firmware has no options for setting
3258 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3259 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
1da177e4
LT
3260 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3261
dd287796
AM
3262 pause_on_oops=
3263 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3264 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
3265 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3266
1da177e4
LT
3267 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
3268
3269 pcd. [PARIDE]
3270 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
39443104 3271 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.rst.
1da177e4 3272
07d8d7e5
LG
3273 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3274
3275 Some options herein operate on a specific device
3276 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3277 specified in one of the following formats:
3278
45db3370 3279 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
07d8d7e5
LG
3280 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3281
3282 Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3283 bus/device/function address which may change
3284 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3285 firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3286 by other kernel parameters. If the
3287 domain is left unspecified, it is
45db3370
LG
3288 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3289 to a device through multiple device/function
3290 addresses can be specified after the base
3291 address (this is more robust against
3292 renumbering issues). The second format
07d8d7e5
LG
3293 selects devices using IDs from the
3294 configuration space which may match multiple
3295 devices in the system.
3296
11eb0e0e 3297 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel
6dddd7a7 3298 changes anything
c0115606 3299 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
cd4f0ef7 3300 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
a9913044
RD
3301 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3302 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
cd4f0ef7 3303 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
a9913044
RD
3304 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3305 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3306 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
afd8c084
BP
3307 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3308 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3309 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3310 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3311 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3312 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3313 bus number. The config space is then accessed
3314 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3315 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3316 on the configuration access mechanisms.
7f785763
RD
3317 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3318 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3319 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
32a2eea7
JG
3320 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3321 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
6cececfc 3322 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
61be6d66 3323 Configuration
12983077
AH
3324 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3325 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3326 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
309e57df
MW
3327 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3328 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3329 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
a9322f64
SA
3330 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3331 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3332 should never be necessary.
9197979b
SA
3333 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3334 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3335 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3336 when the system masks IRQs.
41b9eb26
SA
3337 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3338 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3339 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3340 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
cd4f0ef7 3341 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
a9913044
RD
3342 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3343 on several machines and they hang the machine
3344 when used, but on other computers it's the only
3345 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3346 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3347 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3348 motherboard.
c0115606 3349 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
a9913044
RD
3350 Use with caution as certain devices share
3351 address decoders between ROMs and other
3352 resources.
c0115606 3353 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
bb71ad88
GH
3354 expansion ROMs that do not already have
3355 BIOS assigned address ranges.
7bd1c365
MH
3356 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
3357 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
c0115606 3358 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
a9913044
RD
3359 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3360 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3361 this way.
c0115606 3362 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
a9913044
RD
3363 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3364 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3365 F0000h-100000h range.
c0115606 3366 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
a9913044
RD
3367 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3368 secondary buses and you want to tell it
3369 explicitly which ones they are.
c0115606 3370 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
a9913044
RD
3371 numbers ourselves, overriding
3372 whatever the firmware may have done.
c0115606 3373 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
a9913044
RD
3374 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3375 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3376 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3377 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3378 IRQ routing is enabled.
c0115606 3379 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 3380 or for PCI scanning.
7bc5e3f2
BH
3381 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3382 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3383 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
3384 please report a bug.
3385 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
6dddd7a7 3386 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
a9913044
RD
3387 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3388 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3389 so this option is a temporary workaround
3390 for broken drivers that don't call it.
13a6ddb0
YL
3391 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3392 handle more pci cards
0637a70a
AK
3393 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3394 This might help on some broken boards which
3395 machine check when some devices' config space
3396 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3397 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
6b4b78fe
MD
3398 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3399 This sorting is done to get a device
3400 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3401 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
fa238712
YW
3402 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3403 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3404 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3405 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3406 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3407 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3408 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3409 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3410 or bus can support) for best performance.
3411 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3412 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3413 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3414 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3415 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3416 that hot-added devices will work.
4516a618
AN
3417 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3418 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3419 The default value is 256 bytes.
3420 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3421 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3422 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
32a9a682
YS
3423 resource_alignment=
3424 Format:
07d8d7e5 3425 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
32a9a682 3426 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
07d8d7e5
LG
3427 aligned memory resources. How to
3428 specify the device is described above.
32a9a682
YS
3429 If <order of align> is not specified,
3430 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3431 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3432 windows need to be expanded.
8b078c60
MK
3433 To specify the alignment for several
3434 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3435 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3436 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
43c16408
AP
3437 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3438 end-to-end CRC checking).
3439 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3440 the default.
3441 off: Turn ECRC off
3442 on: Turn ECRC on.
8c8803c5
YW
3443 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3444 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3445 Default size is 256 bytes.
3446 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3447 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3448 Default size is 2 megabytes.
e16b4660
KB
3449 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3450 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3451 Default is 1.
b55438fd
YL
3452 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3453 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3454 accommodate resources required by all child
3455 devices.
3456 off: Turn realloc off
3457 on: Turn realloc on
3458 realloc same as realloc=on
6748dcc2 3459 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
cef74409
GK
3460 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3461 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
284f5f9d
BH
3462 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3463 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3464 port.
f32ab754
UCCB
3465 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3466 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3467 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3468 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3469 conflict with unreported devices), so this
3470 taints the kernel.
aaca43fd
LG
3471 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
3472 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
3473 specified above) separated by semicolons.
3474 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
3475 redirect capabilities forced off which will
3476 allow P2P traffic between devices through
3477 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
3478 this removes isolation between devices and
3479 may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
fbfe07d4 3480 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
56271303 3481 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
6b4b78fe 3482
e5665a45
CE
3483 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3484 Management.
3485 off Disable ASPM.
3486 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3487 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3488
4c0fd764
BH
3489 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3490 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3491 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3492 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform
3493 also tries to use these services.
3494 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3495 hotplug).
79dd9182 3496
9d26d3a8
MW
3497 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3498 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3499 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3500
c7f48656 3501 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
c39fae14 3502 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
28eb5f27 3503 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
c7f48656 3504
1da177e4
LT
3505 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3506
39ac5ba5
TB
3507 pd_ignore_unused
3508 [PM]
3509 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3510 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3511 for debug and development, but should not be
3512 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3513
1da177e4 3514 pd. [PARIDE]
39443104 3515 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.rst.
1da177e4
LT
3516
3517 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3518 boot time.
3519 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3520 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3521
f58dc01b 3522 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
e933a73f
TH
3523 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3524 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3525 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3526 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3527 and performance comparison.
fa8a7094 3528
1da177e4 3529 pf. [PARIDE]
39443104 3530 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.rst.
1da177e4
LT
3531
3532 pg. [PARIDE]
39443104 3533 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.rst.
1da177e4
LT
3534
3535 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
cb1aaebe 3536 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
1da177e4
LT
3537
3538 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3539 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3ba9b1b8 3540 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
1da177e4 3541
16290246 3542 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
de32a243
TG
3543 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3544 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3545
96242116
BH
3546 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3547 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3548 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3549 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3550 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3551 possible settings and some assignment information.
97ef062b 3552
1da177e4
LT
3553 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3554 { off }
3555
3556 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3557 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3558
3559 pnp_reserve_irq=
3560 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3561
3562 pnp_reserve_dma=
3563 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3564
3565 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
a9913044 3566 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
1da177e4
LT
3567
3568 pnp_reserve_mem=
a9913044
RD
3569 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3570 autoconfiguration.
1da177e4
LT
3571 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3572
4af94f39
RD
3573 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3574 Default is 21.
3575 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3576 may be specified.
3577 Format: <port>,<port>....
3578
c3cbd075
BS
3579 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3580 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3581 platform machine description specific power_save
3582 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3583 execution priority.
3584
3eb5d588
AB
3585 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3586 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3587 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3588 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3589 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3590
07fd1761
CB
3591 ppc_tm= [PPC]
3592 Format: {"off"}
3593 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3594
45807a1d
IM
3595 print-fatal-signals=
3596 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
f84d49b2
NO
3597
3598 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3599 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3600 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3601 coredump - etc.
3602
3603 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3604 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3605
45807a1d
IM
3606 default: off.
3607
c22ab332
MG
3608 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3609 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3610 panics
3611 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3612 default: disabled
3613
750afe7b
BP
3614 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3615 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3616 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3617 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3618 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3619 Default: ratelimit
3620
e84845c4
RD
3621 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3622 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3623
0cb55ad2
RD
3624 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3625 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3626 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3627
3628 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3629 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3630 instead using the legacy FADT method
3631
1da177e4 3632 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
e7e61fc0
RD
3633 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3634 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3635 [defaults to kernel profiling]
a9913044 3636 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
b3da2a73
MG
3637 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3638 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
c0fe2e69 3639 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
e7e61fc0
RD
3640 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3641 statistical time based profiling.
1da177e4 3642
1da177e4
LT
3643 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3644 before loading.
39443104 3645 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
1da177e4 3646
e0c27447
JW
3647 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
3648 tracking.
3649 Format: <bool>
3650
a9913044
RD
3651 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3652 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
1da177e4
LT
3653 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3654 per second.
a9913044
RD
3655 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3656 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
1da177e4
LT
3657 (0 = never).
3658 psmouse.resolution=
3659 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3660 psmouse.smartscroll=
a9913044 3661 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
1da177e4
LT
3662 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3663
dee28e72
MG
3664 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3665
1da177e4 3666 pt. [PARIDE]
39443104 3667 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.rst.
1da177e4 3668
01c9b17b
DH
3669 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3670 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
3671 removes hardening, but improves performance of
3672 system calls and interrupts.
3673
3674 on - unconditionally enable
3675 off - unconditionally disable
3676 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3677 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3678
3679 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3680
3681 nopti [X86_64]
3682 Equivalent to pti=off
41f4c20b 3683
dc8c8587
KS
3684 pty.legacy_count=
3685 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3686 default number.
3687
7d2c502f 3688 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
a9913044 3689
1da177e4
LT
3690 r128= [HW,DRM]
3691
3692 raid= [HW,RAID]
e52347bd 3693 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
1da177e4 3694
1da177e4 3695 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
39443104 3696 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
1da177e4 3697
9b254366
KC
3698 random.trust_cpu={on,off}
3699 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
3700 CPU's random number generator (if available) to
3701 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
3702 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
3703
011d8261
BP
3704 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
3705
3706 cec_disable [X86]
3707 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3708 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3709
4102adab 3710 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
da8739f2
PM
3711 The argument is a cpu list, as described above,
3712 except that the string "all" can be used to
3713 specify every CPU on the system.
2d13e6ca 3714
3fbfbf7a
PM
3715 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3716 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
77095901
PM
3717 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be
3718 offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that
3719 purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and
3720 "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number.
3721 This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs,
3722 which can be useful for HPC and real-time
3723 workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency
3724 for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3fbfbf7a 3725
4102adab 3726 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
3fbfbf7a
PM
3727 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3728 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3729 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3730 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3731 This improves the real-time response for the
3732 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3733 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3734 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3735 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3736
4102adab 3737 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
3738 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3739 process in one batch.
21a1ea9e 3740
a3dc2948
PM
3741 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3742 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3743 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3744 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3745
0f41c0dd
PM
3746 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3747 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 3748 RCU grace-period cleanup.
0f41c0dd 3749
37745d28
PM
3750 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3751 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 3752 RCU grace-period initialization.
0f41c0dd
PM
3753
3754 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3755 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3756 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3757 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
90040c9e 3758 the rcu_node combining tree.
37745d28 3759
48d07c04
SAS
3760 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL]
3761 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
3762 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero
3763 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
3764 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
3765
7fa27001
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3766 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3767 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3768 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3769 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3770 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
37745d28 3771
4102adab 3772 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
ee968ac6
PM
3773 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3774 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3775 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3776 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3777 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3778 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
f885b7f2 3779
4102adab 3780 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3781 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3782 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3783 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3784 and maximum value is HZ.
3785
4102adab 3786 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3787 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3788 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3789 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3790
1a4762b9
PM
3791 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3792 Set required age in jiffies for a
3793 given grace period before RCU starts
3794 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3795 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
3796 If not specified, the kernel will calculate
3797 a value based on the most recent settings
3798 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
3799 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
3800 This calculated value may be viewed in
3801 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set
3802 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
3803 overwritten.
3804
21871d7e 3805 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
d2af1ad7
PM
3806 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3807 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3808 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3809 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3810 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3811 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3812 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3813 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3814 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
21871d7e 3815
fbce7497
PM
3816 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3817 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3818 defaults to the square root of the number of
3819 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3820 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3821 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3822
4102adab 3823 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
3824 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3825 batch limiting is disabled.
21a1ea9e 3826
4102adab 3827 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
24aaef8d
RD
3828 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3829 batch limiting is re-enabled.
21a1ea9e 3830
4102adab 3831 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3832 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3833 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
d40011f6 3834
4102adab 3835 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3836 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3837 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3838 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3839 prove do nothing more than free memory.
d40011f6 3840
e3c50dfb
PM
3841 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3842 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3843 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3844 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3845 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3846 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3847
2ccaff10
PM
3848 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
3849 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
3850 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
3851 why a new grace period has not yet started.
3852
881ed593
PM
3853 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3854 Measure performance of asynchronous
3855 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3856
3857 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3858 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3859 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
3860 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3861 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3862 previously posted callbacks to drain.
3863
bdea9e34
PM
3864 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3865 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3866 grace-period primitives.
3867
df37e66b
PM
3868 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3869 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3870 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3871 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3872 interference.
3873
bdea9e34
PM
3874 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3875 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3876 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3877 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3878 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3879 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3880 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3881 a single reader.
3882
3883 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3884 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3885 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3886 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3887
820687a7
PM
3888 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3889 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3890
bdea9e34
PM
3891 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3892 Shut the system down after performance tests
3893 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3894 testing.
3895
bdea9e34
PM
3896 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3897 Enable additional printk() statements.
3898
820687a7
PM
3899 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3900 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3901 in microseconds. The default of zero says
3902 no holdoff.
3903
4102adab 3904 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3905 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3906 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3907
4102adab 3908 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3909 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3910 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3911
4102adab 3912 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3913 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3914 in seconds.
3915
ed8f6fb2
PM
3916 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
3917 Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
3918 for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
3919
3920 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
3921 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
3922 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
3923
3924 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
3925 Number of seconds to wait between successive
3926 forward-progress tests.
3927
3928 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
3929 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
3930 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
3931 testing.
3932
21b05de4
PM
3933 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3934 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3935 primitives, if available.
dabb8aa9 3936
4102adab 3937 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
21b05de4 3938 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4102adab
PM
3939
3940 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3941 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3942 update-side primitives, if available.
3943
3944 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3945 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3946 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3947 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3948 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3949 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3950 they are all non-zero.
dabb8aa9 3951
4102adab 3952 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3953 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3954
4102adab 3955 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3956 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3957 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3958 test, hence the "fake".
3959
4102adab 3960 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3838cc18
PM
3961 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3962 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3963 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3964 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3965 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
dabb8aa9 3966
4102adab
PM
3967 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3968 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3969
3970 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3971 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3972
4102adab 3973 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
028be12b
PM
3974 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
3975 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
dabb8aa9 3976
4102adab 3977 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3978 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3979 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3980 during the rcutorture test.
3981
4102adab 3982 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3983 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3984 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3985
4102adab 3986 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3987 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3988 warnings, zero to disable.
3989
4102adab 3990 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3991 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3992
2b1516e5
PM
3993 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
3994 Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
3995
4102adab 3996 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3997 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3998
4102adab 3999 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4000 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
4001 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
4002 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
4003 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
4004
4102adab 4005 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4006 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
4007 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
4008 under test support RCU priority boosting.
4009
4102adab 4010 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4011 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
4012
4102adab 4013 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4014 Interval (s) between each boost test.
4015
4102adab 4016 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4017 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
4018 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
4019
4102adab 4020 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4021 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4022
4102adab 4023 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4024 Enable additional printk() statements.
4025
5a9be7c6
PM
4026 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
4027 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4028
4029 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4030 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4031
4102adab
PM
4032 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
4033 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
4034 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
4035 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
4036 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
4037 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
79cfea02 4038 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 4039
5a9be7c6
PM
4040 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
4041 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
4042 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
4043 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
79cfea02
PM
4044 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
4045 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
4046 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
4047 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
4048 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 4049
3e42ec1a
PM
4050 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
4051 Once boot has completed (that is, after
4052 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
79cfea02
PM
4053 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
4054 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3e42ec1a 4055
52db30ab
PM
4056 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4057 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
4058 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
4059 to zero.
4060
74860fee
PK
4061 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
4062 Run the RCU early boot self tests
4063
ffdfc409
OJ
4064 rdinit= [KNL]
4065 Format: <full_path>
4066 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
4067 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
4068
1d9807fc
TL
4069 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
4070 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
31516de3
FY
4071 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
4072 mba.
1d9807fc
TL
4073 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
4074 rdt=cmt,!mba
4075
1b3a5d02
RH
4076 reboot= [KNL]
4077 Format (x86 or x86_64):
4078 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
4079 [[,]s[mp]#### \
4080 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
4081 [[,]f[orce]
b287a25a
AK
4082 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
4083 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
4084 reboot only),
1b3a5d02
RH
4085 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
4086 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
4087 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
4088 to be used for rebooting.
1da177e4 4089
46b6d94e
PJ
4090 relax_domain_level=
4091 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
99c8b231 4092 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
46b6d94e 4093
ffd2e8df
BH
4094 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
4095 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
4096 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
4097 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
4098 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
1da177e4 4099
cd4f0ef7 4100 reservetop= [X86-32]
461a9aff
ZA
4101 Format: nn[KMG]
4102 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
4103 address space.
4104
9ea77bdb
PA
4105 reservelow= [X86]
4106 Format: nn[K]
4107 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
4108 the bottom of the address space.
4109
7e96287d
VG
4110 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
4111 during initialization.
4112
a9913044
RD
4113 resume= [SWSUSP]
4114 Specify the partition device for software suspend
2df83fa4
MB
4115 Format:
4116 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
1da177e4 4117
ecbd0da1
RW
4118 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
4119 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
4120 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
4121 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
4122 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
4123
f126f733
BS
4124 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4125 read the resume files
4126
6f8d7022
BS
4127 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
4128 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4129 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4130
f996fc96
BS
4131 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
4132 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
4133 present during boot.
4134 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
a6e15a39 4135 no Disable hibernation and resume.
4c0b6c10
RW
4136 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
4137 (that will set all pages holding image data
4138 during restoration read-only).
f996fc96 4139
0a7b35cb
MN
4140 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
4141
0efbb786
AC
4142 rfkill.default_state=
4143 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
4144 etc. communication is blocked by default.
4145 1 Unblocked.
4146
4147 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
4148 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
4149 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4150 blocked and the previous configuration.
4151 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4152 blocked and everything unblocked.
4153
1da177e4
LT
4154 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4155 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
4156
e16fd002
GA
4157 ring3mwait=disable
4158 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
4159 CPUs.
4160
1da177e4
LT
4161 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
4162
d2aa1aca
KC
4163 rodata= [KNL]
4164 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
4165 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
4166
605df8af
HS
4167 rockchip.usb_uart
4168 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
4169 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
4170 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
4171 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
4172
1da177e4 4173 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
f2d34fd9 4174 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
1da177e4
LT
4175
4176 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4177 mount the root filesystem
4178
4179 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
4180
4181 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
4182
cc1ed754
PO
4183 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
4184 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4185 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4186
5c71d618
RT
4187 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
4188 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
4189 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
4190 managed by CMA.
4191
1da177e4
LT
4192 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
4193
4194 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
4195
c60d1ae4
GS
4196 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
4197 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
4198 strict
4199 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
4200 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
4201 which is faster.
4202
1da177e4
LT
4203 sa1100ir [NET]
4204 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
4205
1da177e4 4206 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
a9913044 4207
f6630114
MT
4208 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
4209
cb251765
MG
4210 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
4211 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
4212 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
4213 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
f6630114 4214
5307c955
MG
4215 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
4216 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
4217 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
4218 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4219 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
4220 1 -- enable.
4221 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
4222 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
4223
89a9684e
KC
4224 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
4225 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
4226 "lsm=" parameter.
0cb55ad2
RD
4227
4228 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
1da177e4
LT
4229 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4230 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
4231 0 -- disable.
4232 1 -- enable.
4233 Default value is set via kernel config option.
4234 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
4235 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
4236
c1c124e9
JJ
4237 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
4238 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4239 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
4240 0 -- disable.
4241 1 -- enable.
4242 Default value is set via kernel config option.
4243
cd4f0ef7 4244 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
1da177e4 4245
1da177e4
LT
4246 shapers= [NET]
4247 Maximal number of shapers.
a9913044 4248
1da177e4
LT
4249 simeth= [IA-64]
4250 simscsi=
a9913044 4251
1da177e4
LT
4252 slram= [HW,MTD]
4253
423c929c
JK
4254 slab_nomerge [MM]
4255 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
4256 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
7660a6fd
KC
4257 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
4258 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
4259 layout control by attackers can usually be
4260 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
4261 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
4262 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
4263 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
4264 own.
ad56b738 4265 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
423c929c 4266
3df1cccd
DR
4267 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
4268 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4269 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4270 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
4271 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
4272
f0630fff
CL
4273 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
4274 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
4275 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
4276 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
4277 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
4278 last alloc / free. For more information see
ad56b738 4279 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215 4280
1663f26d
TH
4281 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
4282 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
4283 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
4284 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
4285 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
4286 directories and files being created under
4287 /sys/kernel/slub.
4288
c1aee215 4289 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
4290 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4291 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4292 fragmentation. For more information see
ad56b738 4293 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
4294
4295 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
4296 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
4297 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
4298 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
4299 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
4300 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
4301 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
ad56b738 4302 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
4303
4304 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
24775d65 4305 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
f0630fff 4306 lower than slub_max_order.
ad56b738 4307 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
4308
4309 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
423c929c
JK
4310 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
4311 See slab_nomerge for more information.
c1aee215 4312
1da177e4
LT
4313 smart2= [HW]
4314 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
4315
d0d4f69b
BH
4316 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
4317 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
4318 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
4319 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
4320 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
4321 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
4322 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
4323 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
4324 1: Fast pin select (default)
4325 2: ATC IRMode
4326
52c48c51
SS
4327 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4328 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4329 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4330 actual hardware limit.
4331 Format: <integer>
4332 Default: -1 (no limit)
4333
9c44bc03
IM
4334 softlockup_panic=
4335 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
44a4dcf7 4336 Format: <integer>
9c44bc03 4337
3ce62385
BP
4338 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
4339 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
4340 is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
4341 which is the respective build-time switch to that
4342 functionality.
4343
ed235875
AT
4344 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4345 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4346 backtraces on all cpus.
4347 Format: <integer>
4348
1da177e4 4349 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
9e1cbede 4350 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
1da177e4 4351
da285121
DW
4352 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4353 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
fa1202ef
TG
4354 The default operation protects the kernel from
4355 user space attacks.
da285121 4356
fa1202ef
TG
4357 on - unconditionally enable, implies
4358 spectre_v2_user=on
4359 off - unconditionally disable, implies
4360 spectre_v2_user=off
da285121
DW
4361 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4362 vulnerable
4363
4364 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4365 mitigation method at run time according to the
4366 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4367 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4368 compiler with which the kernel was built.
4369
fa1202ef
TG
4370 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
4371 against user space to user space task attacks.
4372
4373 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
4374 the user space protections.
4375
da285121
DW
4376 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4377
4378 retpoline - replace indirect branches
4379 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4380 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4381
4382 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4383 spectre_v2=auto.
4384
fa1202ef
TG
4385 spectre_v2_user=
4386 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4387 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
4388 user space tasks
4389
4390 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
4391 enforced by spectre_v2=on
4392
4393 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
4394 enforced by spectre_v2=off
4395
7cc765a6
TG
4396 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
4397 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
4398 per thread. The mitigation control state
4399 is inherited on fork.
4400
55a97402
TG
4401 prctl,ibpb
4402 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
4403 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4404 always when switching between different user
4405 space processes.
4406
6b3e64c2
TG
4407 seccomp
4408 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
4409 threads will enable the mitigation unless
4410 they explicitly opt out.
4411
55a97402
TG
4412 seccomp,ibpb
4413 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
4414 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4415 always when switching between different
4416 user space processes.
4417
fa1202ef
TG
4418 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
4419 the available CPU features and vulnerability.
6b3e64c2
TG
4420
4421 Default mitigation:
4422 If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
fa1202ef
TG
4423
4424 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4425 spectre_v2_user=auto.
4426
24f7fc83
KRW
4427 spec_store_bypass_disable=
4428 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
4429 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
4430
4431 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
4432 a common industry wide performance optimization known
4433 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
4434 to the same memory location may not be observed by
4435 later loads during speculative execution. The idea
4436 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
4437 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
4438 end of a particular speculation execution window.
4439
4440 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4441 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
4442 example to read memory to which the attacker does not
4443 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
4444
4445 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
4446 Bypass optimization is used.
4447
6b4c1360
ME
4448 On x86 the options are:
4449
f21b53b2
KC
4450 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
4451 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
4452 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
4453 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
4454 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
4455 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
4456 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
4457 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
4458 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
4459 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
4460 for a process by default. The state of the control
4461 is inherited on fork.
4462 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
4463 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
24f7fc83 4464
f21b53b2
KC
4465 Default mitigations:
4466 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4467
6b4c1360
ME
4468 On powerpc the options are:
4469
4470 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
4471 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
4472 perform a software flush on kernel entry and
4473 exit.
4474 off - No action.
4475
4476 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4477 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
4478
1da177e4
LT
4479 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
4480 spia_fio_base=
4481 spia_pedr=
4482 spia_peddr=
4483
c350c008
PM
4484 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4485 Specifies how frequently to check for
4486 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4487 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4488 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4489 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4490 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
4491 are ignored.
4492
22607d66
PM
4493 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4494 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4495 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4496 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4497 grace period will be considered for automatic
4498 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
4499 expediting.
4500
a43ae4df
MZ
4501 ssbd= [ARM64,HW]
4502 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
4503
4504 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
4505 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
4506 firmware based mitigation, this parameter
4507 indicates how the mitigation should be used:
4508
4509 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for
4510 for both kernel and userspace
4511 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
4512 for both kernel and userspace
4513 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the
4514 kernel, and offer a prctl interface
4515 to allow userspace to register its
4516 interest in being mitigated too.
4517
1be7107f
HD
4518 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
4519 override the default stack gap protection. The value
4520 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4521 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4522 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4523 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4524
f38f1d2a
SR
4525 stacktrace [FTRACE]
4526 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4527
762e1207
SR
4528 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4529 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4530 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4531 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4532 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4533 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4534 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4535
1da177e4
LT
4536 sti= [PARISC,HW]
4537 Format: <num>
4538 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4539 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4540 as the initial boot-console.
4541 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4542
4543 sti_font= [HW]
4544 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4545
4546 stifb= [HW]
4547 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4548
cbf11071
TM
4549 sunrpc.min_resvport=
4550 sunrpc.max_resvport=
4551 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4552 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4553 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4554 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4555 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4556 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4557 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4558 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4559 maximum port values.
4560
ff3ac5c3
TM
4561 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4562 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4563 Limit the number of requests that the server will
4564 process in parallel from a single connection.
4565 The default value is 0 (no limit).
4566
42a7fc4a
GB
4567 sunrpc.pool_mode=
4568 [NFS]
4569 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4570 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
4571 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4572 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4573 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4574 NFS server is running.
4575
4576 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
4577 automatically using heuristics
4578 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
4579 percpu one pool for each CPU
4580 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4581 to global on non-NUMA machines)
4582
cbf11071
TM
4583 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4584 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4585 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4586 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4587 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4588 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4589 improve throughput, but will also increase the
4590 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4591
1d4a9c17
BN
4592 suspend.pm_test_delay=
4593 [SUSPEND]
4594 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4595 mode before resuming the system (see
4596 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4597 is set. Default value is 5.
4598
07555ac1 4599 swapaccount=[0|1]
a42c390c
MH
4600 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4601 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
99c8b231 4602 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
a42c390c 4603
91fec0f5 4604 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
fff5d992 4605 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
91fec0f5
JK
4606 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4607 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4608 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
fff5d992 4609 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
a9913044 4610
1da177e4
LT
4611 switches= [HW,M68k]
4612
e52eec13
AK
4613 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4614 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4615 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4616 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4617 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4618 in older udev will not work anymore.
4619 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4620 the kernel configuration.
4621
5d6f647f
IM
4622 sysrq_always_enabled
4623 [KNL]
4624 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4625 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4626 Useful for debugging.
4627
747029a5
FF
4628 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4629 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4630 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4631 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4632 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4633 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4634
1da177e4
LT
4635 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
4636
acc82342 4637 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
77437fd4 4638 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
acc82342
SP
4639 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4640 as the system sleep state during system startup with
4641 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4642 The system is woken from this state using a
4643 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
77437fd4 4644
1da177e4
LT
4645 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4646 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4647
f8707ec9
LB
4648 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
4649 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4650 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4651
c52a7419
LB
4652 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
4653 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
22a94d79 4654 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
c52a7419 4655
f5487145
LB
4656 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
4657 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4658 critical and hot trip points.
4659
72b33ef8
LB
4660 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
4661 1: disable ACPI thermal control
4662
a70cdc52
LB
4663 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
4664 -1: disable all passive trip points
ada9cfdd
RD
4665 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4666 value
a70cdc52 4667
730ff34d
LB
4668 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
4669 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4670 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4671 0: no polling (default)
4672
8d32a307
TG
4673 threadirqs [KNL]
4674 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
24775d65 4675 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
8d32a307 4676
2ca62b04
KRW
4677 tmem [KNL,XEN]
4678 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4679
4680 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4681 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4682 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4683
4684 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4685 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
37d46e15
KRW
4686 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4687 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
2ca62b04
KRW
4688
4689 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4690 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4691 to the hypervisor.
4692
4693 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4694 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4695 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4696 kernel based on different criteria.
4697
2b1a61f0
HC
4698 topology= [S390]
4699 Format: {off | on}
4700 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
f65e51d7
SL
4701 topology information if the hardware supports this.
4702 The scheduler will make use of this information and
2b1a61f0 4703 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
c9af3fa9 4704 Default is on.
2b1a61f0 4705
2d73bae1
NA
4706 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4707 Format: {off}
4708 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4709 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4710 LPAR.
4711
1da177e4
LT
4712 tp720= [HW,PS2]
4713
225a9be2
RA
4714 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4715 Format: integer pcr id
4716 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4717 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4718 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4719 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4720 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4721 are saved.
4722
9d612bef 4723 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
3e6fb8e9 4724 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
631595fb 4725
020e5f85
LZ
4726 trace_event=[event-list]
4727 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
d81749ea
BN
4728 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4729 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
5fb94e9c 4730 also Documentation/trace/events.rst
020e5f85 4731
7bcfaf54
SR
4732 trace_options=[option-list]
4733 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4734 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4735 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4736 to echo the option name into
4737
4738 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4739
4740 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4741 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4742
4743 trace_options=stacktrace
4744
5fb94e9c 4745 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
7bcfaf54
SR
4746 section.
4747
0daa2302
SRRH
4748 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4749 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4750 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4751 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4752 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4753 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4754
4755 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4756 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4757 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4758 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4759
4760 ** CAUTION **
4761
4762 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4763 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4764 the system to live lock.
4765
de7edd31
SRRH
4766 traceoff_on_warning
4767 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4768 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4769 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4770 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4771
4772 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4773 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4774 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4775
4776 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4777 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4778
fcf4d821
JK
4779 transparent_hugepage=
4780 [KNL]
4781 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4782 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4783 with respect to transparent hugepages.
45c9a74f
MR
4784 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
4785 for more details.
fcf4d821 4786
d3b8f889 4787 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
395628ef
AK
4788 Format: <string>
4789 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
d3b8f889
JS
4790 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4791 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4792 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4793 virtualized environment.
e82b8e4e
VP
4794 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4795 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4796 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4797 can add overhead.
6be53520
DL
4798 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4799 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4800 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
0f0b7e1c
JL
4801 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
4802 in situations with strict latency requirements (where
4803 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
4804 acceptable).
395628ef 4805
a9913044
RD
4806 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4807 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4808 Format:
4809 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
1752118d 4810 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4 4811
b6935f8c 4812 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
e52347bd 4813 happen after console_init() and before a proper
b6935f8c
CK
4814 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4815 help "seeing" what's going on.
4816
f86dcc5a
ED
4817 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4818 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4819
5f8364b7
AS
4820 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4821 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4822 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4823 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4824 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4825 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4826 reported either.
4827
e3a61b0a 4828 unknown_nmi_panic
44a4dcf7 4829 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
e3a61b0a 4830
c4fc2342
CDH
4831 usbcore.authorized_default=
4832 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4833 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
7bae0432
DT
4834 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
4835 if device connected to internal port)
c4fc2342 4836
b5e795f8
AS
4837 usbcore.autosuspend=
4838 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4839 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4840 is the time required before an idle device will be
4841 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
eaafbc3a 4842 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
b5e795f8 4843
fd7c519d
JK
4844 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4845 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4846
0290cc9f
AS
4847 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4848 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4849 (default = 65536).
4850
fd7c519d
JK
4851 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4852 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4853
4854 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4855 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
bd0e6c96
ZT
4856 scheme, applies only to low and full-speed devices
4857 (default 0 = off).
fd7c519d 4858
3f5eb8d5
AS
4859 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4860 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4861 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4862
fd7c519d
JK
4863 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4864 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4865 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4866
4867 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4868 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
6dddd7a7 4869 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
fd7c519d
JK
4870 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4871
40d58148
ON
4872 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4873
027bd6ca
KHF
4874 usbcore.quirks=
4875 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
4876 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
4877 commas. Each entry has the form
4878 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
4879 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
4880 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
4881 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
4882 the following meanings:
4883 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
4884 descriptors must not be fetched using
4885 a 255-byte read);
4886 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
4887 correctly so reset it instead);
4888 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
4889 Set-Interface requests);
4890 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
4891 handle its Configuration or Interface
4892 strings);
4893 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
4894 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
4895 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
4896 more interface descriptions than the
4897 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
4898 talking to these interfaces);
4899 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
4900 during initialization, after we read
4901 the device descriptor);
4902 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
4903 high speed and super speed interrupt
4904 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
4905 require the interval in microframes (1
4906 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
4907 calculated as interval = 2 ^
4908 (bInterval-1).
4909 Devices with this quirk report their
4910 bInterval as the result of this
4911 calculation instead of the exponent
4912 variable used in the calculation);
4913 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
4914 handle device_qualifier descriptor
4915 requests);
4916 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
4917 generates spurious wakeup, ignore
4918 remote wakeup capability);
4919 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
4920 Power Management);
4921 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
4922 (Device reports its bInterval as linear
4923 frames instead of the USB 2.0
4924 calculation);
4925 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
4926 to be disconnected before suspend to
4d8d5a39
KHF
4927 prevent spurious wakeup);
4928 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
4929 pause after every control message);
781f0766
KHF
4930 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
4931 delay after resetting its port);
027bd6ca
KHF
4932 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
4933
1da177e4
LT
4934 usbhid.mousepoll=
4935 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
a9913044 4936
933bfe4d
TJ
4937 usbhid.jspoll=
4938 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4939
2ddc8e2d
FA
4940 usbhid.kbpoll=
4941 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
4942
d4f373e5
AS
4943 usb-storage.delay_use=
4944 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
19101954 4945 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
d4f373e5
AS
4946
4947 usb-storage.quirks=
4948 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4949 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4950 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4951 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4952 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4953 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4954 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
c838ea46
AS
4955 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4956 of sense data);
a0bb1081
AS
4957 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4958 bytes of sense data);
d4f373e5
AS
4959 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4960 device capacity by one sector);
5116901d
KR
4961 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4962 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4963 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4964 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
734016b0
HG
4965 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4966 command, uas only);
ee136af4
HG
4967 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4968 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
c838ea46
AS
4969 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4970 reported device capacity by one
4971 sector if the number is odd);
d4f373e5
AS
4972 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4973 device);
13630746
HG
4974 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4975 command, uas only);
d4f373e5
AS
4976 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4977 unlock ejectable media);
4978 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4979 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
21c13a4f
AS
4980 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4981 initial READ(10) command);
c838ea46
AS
4982 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4983 reported by the device);
eaa05dfc
NJ
4984 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4985 by default);
d4f373e5
AS
4986 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4987 bogus residue values);
4988 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4989 Logical Unit);
59307852
HG
4990 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4991 commands, uas only);
b6089f19 4992 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
d4f373e5
AS
4993 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4994 medium is write-protected).
050bc4e8
ON
4995 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4996 even if the device claims no cache)
d4f373e5
AS
4997 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4998
ac1667db
SB
4999 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
5000 Format: <int>
5001 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
5002 1 - undefined instruction events
5003 2 - system calls
5004 4 - invalid data aborts
5005 8 - SIGSEGV faults
5006 16 - SIGBUS faults
5007 Example: user_debug=31
5008
14315592
IC
5009 userpte=
5010 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
5011
5012 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
5013 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
5014 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
5015
6cececfc 5016 vdso= [X86,SH]
b0b49f26
AL
5017 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
5018
5019 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
e6e5494c
IM
5020 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
5021
b0b49f26
AL
5022 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
5023 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
5024 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
5025
5026 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
5027 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
5028 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
5029
5030 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
5031 alias for vdso32=0.
5032
5033 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
5034 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
af65d648 5035
d080d397
YI
5036 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
5037 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
5038
1da177e4 5039 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
ab42b818 5040 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
1da177e4 5041
3afe6dab
AL
5042 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
5043 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
5044 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
5045 level and then send out the event to user space through
5046 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
5047 will only send out the event without touching backlight
5048 brightness level.
2843768b 5049 default: 1
3afe6dab 5050
81a054ce
PM
5051 virtio_mmio.device=
5052 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
5053
5054 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
5055 where:
5056 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
5057 like K, M and G)
5058 <baseaddr> := physical base address
5059 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
5060 request_irq())
5061 <id> := (optional) platform device id
5062 example:
5063 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
5064
5065 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
5066
cd4f0ef7 5067 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
cb1aaebe 5068 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
a9913044 5069 Documentation/svga.txt.
1da177e4
LT
5070 Use vga=ask for menu.
5071 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
5072 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
5073
f682a97a
AD
5074 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
5075 May slow down system boot speed, especially when
5076 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
5077 All options are enabled by default, and this
5078 interface is meant to allow for selectively
5079 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
5080 debugging features.
5081
5082 Available options are:
5083 P Enable page structure init time poisoning
5084 - Disable all of the above options
5085
a9913044 5086 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
1da177e4
LT
5087 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
5088 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
5089 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
5090 mapped kernel RAM.
5091
3f429842
HC
5092 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390]
5093 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
5094 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
5095
585c3047
PO
5096 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
5097 Format: <command>
1da177e4 5098
585c3047
PO
5099 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
5100 Format: <command>
5101
5102 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
5103 Format: <command>
a9913044 5104
3ae36655
AL
5105 vsyscall= [X86-64]
5106 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
5107 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
5108 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
5109 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
5110 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
5111 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
5112
2e57ae05 5113 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
bd49e16e
AL
5114 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall
5115 page is readable.
3ae36655 5116
bd49e16e
AL
5117 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5118 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall
5119 page is not readable.
3ae36655
AL
5120
5121 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
5122 them quite hard to use for exploits but
5123 might break your system.
5124
3855ae1c
CL
5125 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
5126 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
5127 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
5128
9ea9a886
CL
5129 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
5130 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
5131 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
5132 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
5133
0cb55ad2
RD
5134 vt.default_blu= [VT]
5135 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
5136 Change the default blue palette of the console.
5137 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5138 ranging from 0-255.
5139
5140 vt.default_grn= [VT]
5141 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
5142 Change the default green palette of the console.
5143 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5144 ranging from 0-255.
5145
5146 vt.default_red= [VT]
5147 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
5148 Change the default red palette of the console.
5149 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5150 ranging from 0-255.
5151
5152 vt.default_utf8=
5153 [VT]
5154 Format=<0|1>
5155 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
5156 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
5157 newly opened terminals.
5158
f6c06b68
MG
5159 vt.global_cursor_default=
5160 [VT]
5161 Format=<-1|0|1>
5162 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
5163 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
5164 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
5165 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
5166 cursors, 1 will display them.
5167
3855ae1c
CL
5168 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
5169 Default: 2 = green.
5170
5171 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
5172 Default: 3 = cyan.
5173
4724ba57 5174 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
cc2a2d19 5175 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
4724ba57
RD
5176 or other driver-specific files in the
5177 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
1da177e4 5178
11295055
LO
5179 watchdog_thresh=
5180 [KNL]
5181 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
5182 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
5183 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
5184 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
5185 seconds.
5186
82607adc
TH
5187 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
5188 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
5189 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
5190 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
5191 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
5192 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
5193 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
5194 corresponding sysfs file.
5195
d55262c4
TH
5196 workqueue.disable_numa
5197 By default, all work items queued to unbound
5198 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
5199 issued on, which results in better behavior in
5200 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
5201 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
5202 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
5203 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
5204
cee22a15
VK
5205 workqueue.power_efficient
5206 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
5207 they show better performance thanks to cache
5208 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
5209 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
5210
5211 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
5212 were observed to contribute significantly to power
5213 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
5214 power usage at the cost of small performance
5215 overhead.
5216
5217 The default value of this parameter is determined by
5218 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
5219
f303fccb
TH
5220 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
5221 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
5222 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
5223 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
5224 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
5225 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
5226 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
5227 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
5228 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
5229 impacted.
5230
0cb55ad2
RD
5231 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
5232 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
5233 supporting x2apic.
5234
712b6aa8
KS
5235 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
5236 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
bb24c471
JP
5237 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
5238 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
712b6aa8 5239 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
bb24c471 5240
c70727a5
JG
5241 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
5242 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
5243 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
5244 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
5245 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
5246 domains.
5247
c1c5413a
SS
5248 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
5249 Unplug Xen emulated devices
5250 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
5251 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
5252 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
5253 nics -- unplug network devices
5254 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
1dc7ce99
IC
5255 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
5256 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
5257 the unplug protocol
c93a4dfb 5258 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
c1c5413a 5259
15a3eac0
KRW
5260 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
5261 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
5262 optimizations.
5263
8d693b91
KRW
5264 xen_nopv [X86]
5265 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
5266 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
5267
197ecb38
MMG
5268 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN]
5269 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
5270 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
5271 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
5272 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
5273
2ec16bc0
RT
5274 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN]
5275 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
5276 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
5277 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
5278 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
5279 more timer interrupts.
5280
1da177e4 5281 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
a9913044
RD
5282 Format:
5283 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
c0addc9a 5284
ba45cff6
MN
5285 xive= [PPC]
5286 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
5287 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
5288 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
5289
5290 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
5291 controller on both pseries and powernv
5292 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
5293
c0addc9a
LT
5294 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL]
5295 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
5296 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
5297 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.