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b10d79f7 1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
03d926f8 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
6a1f5471 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
e58d154b 4 copy_dsdt }
1da177e4 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6a1f5471 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
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7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
1da177e4 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
237889bf 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
aa2110cb 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
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13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14 are available
1da177e4 15
395cf969 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
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18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
19 Format: <int>
20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21 1,0: use 1st APIC table
4e381a4f 22 default: 0
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24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
25 acpi_backlight=vendor
26 acpi_backlight=video
27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
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31 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
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37 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41 This option is useful for developers to identify the
42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
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45 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
1da177e4 47 Format: <int>
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48 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
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55 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
56 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
57 debug layers and levels.
a0d84a92 58
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59 Enable processor driver info messages:
60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
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63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64 object while interpreting AML:
65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
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66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69 Some values produce so much output that the system is
70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71 if you need to capture more output.
f989106c 72
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73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
74 { strict | lax | no }
75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79 can interfere with legacy drivers.
80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87 no further checks are performed.
88
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89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92 size limitation.
93
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94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95 ACPI will balance active IRQs
96 default in APIC mode
97
98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100 default in PIC mode
101
102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106 use by PCI
107 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
6dddd7a7 109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
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110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
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112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113 the GPE dispatcher.
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114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115 GPE floodings.
116 Format: <int>
9c4aa1ee 117
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118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
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120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122 auto-serialization feature.
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123 This feature is enabled by default.
124 This option allows to turn off the feature.
22b5afce 125
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126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
127 kernels.
128
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129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132 installed automatically and they will appear under
133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134 This option turns off this feature.
135 Note that specifying this option does not affect
136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
0cb55ad2 138
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139 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
140 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
141 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
142 second kernel for kdump.
4dde507f 143
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144 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
145 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
146
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147 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
148 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
149 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
150 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
151 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
152
0cb55ad2 153 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
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154 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
155 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
741d8128 156 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
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157 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
158 strings
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159 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
160 strings
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161 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
162
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163 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
164 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
165 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
166 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
167 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
168 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
169 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
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170 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
171 care about the state of the feature group strings which
172 should be controlled by the OSPM.
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173 Examples:
174 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
175 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
176 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
177
178 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
179 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
180 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
181 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
182 multiple times through kernel command line is also
183 meaningless.
184 Examples:
185 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
186 FALSE.
187
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188 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
189 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
190 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
191 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
192 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
193 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
194 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
195 there are quirks related to this string. This command
196 is useful when one want to control the state of the
197 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
198 the OSPM features.
199 Examples:
200 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
201 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
202 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
203 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
204 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
205 equivalent to
206 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
207 and
208 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
209 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
210
6cececfc 211 acpi_pm_good [X86]
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212 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
213 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
214 and always returns good values.
215
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216 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
217 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
218
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219 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
220 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
221 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
222
223 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
224 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
57044031 225 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
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226 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
227 s3_bios and s3_mode.
228 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
229 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
230 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
231 used during resume from hibernation.
232 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
233 control method, with respect to putting devices into
234 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
235 of _PTS is used by default).
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236 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
237 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
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238 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
239 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
240 but some broken systems don't work without it).
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241 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
242 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
243 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
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244
245 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
246 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
247 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
248
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249 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
250 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
251
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252 agp= [AGP]
253 { off | try_unsupported }
254 off: disable AGP support
255 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
256 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
257
bcfde334 258 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
1ca2c806 259 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
bcfde334 260
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261 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
262 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
263 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
264 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
265
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266 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
267 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
268 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
269 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
270 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
271 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
272 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
273
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274 32: only for 32-bit processes
275 64: only for 64-bit processes
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276 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
277 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
278
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279 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
280 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
281 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
282 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
283 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
284 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
285
89e0b9a3 286 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
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287 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
288 Possible values are:
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289 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
290 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
291 flushed before they will be reused, which
292 is a lot of faster
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293 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
294 the system
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295 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
296 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
297 allowed anymore to lift isolation
298 requirements as needed. This option
299 does not override iommu=pt
afa9fdc2 300
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301 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
302 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
303 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
304 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
305 IOMMU initialization.
306
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307 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
308 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
309 remapping modes:
310 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
311 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
312 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
313 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
314 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
315
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316 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
317 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
318 Format: <a>,<b>
1752118d 319 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
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320
321 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
322 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
323 connected to one of 16 gameports
324 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
325
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326 apc= [HW,SPARC]
327 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
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328 Format: noidle
329 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
330 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
331 APC and your system crashes randomly.
332
64e05d11 333 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
c8facbb6 334 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
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335 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
336 Change the amount of debugging information output
337 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
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338 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
339 driver name.
340 Format: apic=driver_name
341 Examples: apic=bigsmp
a9913044 342
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343 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
344 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
345 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
346 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
347 backup of CPU 0
348 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
349 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
350 shot down by NMI
351
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352 autoconf= [IPV6]
353 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
354
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355 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
356 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
357 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
358 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
359 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
360 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
361 apic=verbose is specified.
362 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
363
1da177e4 364 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
71f77055 365 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
1da177e4 366
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367 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
368 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
369
370 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
371
372 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
373
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374 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
375 EzKey and similar keyboards
376
377 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
378
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379 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
380 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
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381
382 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
383 keyboards
384
385 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
386 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
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387
388 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
389 Use software keyboard repeat
1da177e4 390
a106fb0c 391 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
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392 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
393 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
394 enabled until the next reboot
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395 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
396 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
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397 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
398 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
399 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
400 userspace auditd.
a106fb0c 401 Default: unset
f3411cb2 402
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403 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
404 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
405 Default: 64
406
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407 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
408 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
409 Format: { "0" | "1" }
410 0 - Disable the BAU.
411 1 - Enable the BAU.
412 unset - Disable the BAU.
413
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414 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
415 Format: <io>,<mode>
a9913044 416
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417 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
418 Format: <io>,<mode>
419 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
420
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421 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
422 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
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423 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
424 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
425
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426 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
427 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
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428 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
429 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
430
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431 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
432 embedded devices based on command line input.
433 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
434
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435 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
436 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
437 no delay (0).
438 Format: integer
439
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440 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
441
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442 bert_disable [ACPI]
443 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
444
1da177e4 445 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
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446 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
447 kernel args too.
a405ed85 448 bttv.pll= See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
395cf969 449 bttv.tuner=
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451 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
452 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
453 at a time.
454
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455 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
456
cd4f0ef7 457 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
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458 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
459 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
460 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
461 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
462 This option provides an override for these situations.
463
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464 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
465 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
466 trust validation.
32c4741c 467 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
ffb70f61 468
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469 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
470 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
471 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
472 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
473 others).
474
6dddd7a7 475 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
14ff56bb 476 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
1da177e4 477
6dddd7a7 478 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
8bab8dde 479 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
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480 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
481 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
482 a single hierarchy
483 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
484 subsystem
485 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
486 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
487 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
8bab8dde 488
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489 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
490 Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
491 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
492 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
493
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494 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
495 Format: <string>
496 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
04823c83 497 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
f7e1cb6e 498
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499 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
500 Format: { "0" | "1" }
501 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
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502 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
503 any implied execute protection).
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504 1 -- check protection requested by application.
505 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
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506 Value can be changed at runtime via
507 /selinux/checkreqprot.
508
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509 cio_ignore= [S390]
510 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
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511 clk_ignore_unused
512 [CLK]
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513 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
514 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
515 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
516 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
517 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
518 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
519 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
520 platform with proper driver support. For more
18bcaa4e 521 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
661ca0da 522
cd4f0ef7 523 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
734efb46 524 [Deprecated]
3f6dee9b 525 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
734efb46 526 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
3f6dee9b 527 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
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528 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
529
592913ec 530 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
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531 Format: <string>
532 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
533 with the name specified.
534 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
535 the platform:
536 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
537 [ACPI] acpi_pm
538 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
539 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
9863c90f 540 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
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541 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
542 [MIPS] MIPS
543 [PARISC] cr16
544 [S390] tod
545 [SH] SuperH
546 [SPARC64] tick
547 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
548
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549 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
550 [ARM,ARM64]
551 Format: <bool>
552 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
553 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
554 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
555 systems.
556
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557 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
558 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
cd4d09ec 559 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
07983f0e 560 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
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561 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
562 ones should be.
563 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
564 or using the feature without checking anything
565 will still see it. This just prevents it from
566 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
567 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
568 some critical bits.
569
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570 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
571 [ARM,X86,KNL]
572 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
573 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
574 placement constraint by the physical address range of
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575 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
576 altogether. For more information, see
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577 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
578
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579 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
580 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
581 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
582 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
583 a hypervisor.
584 Default: yes
585
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586 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
587 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
e9da6e99 588 allocations, by default set to 256K.
c7909509 589
1da177e4 590 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
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591 Format:
592 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
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593
594 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
595 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
596
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597 com90xx= [HW,NET]
598 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
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599 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
600
601 condev= [HW,S390] console device
602 conmode=
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604 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
605
606 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
607
608 ttyS<n>[,options]
f1a1c2dc 609 ttyUSB0[,options]
1da177e4 610 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
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611 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
612 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
613 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
614 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
615
e52347bd 616 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
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617 information. See
618 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
619 alternative.
1da177e4 620
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621 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
622 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
bd94c407 623 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
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624 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
625 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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626 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
627 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
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628 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
629 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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630 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
631 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
632 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
633 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
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634 the h/w is not re-initialized.
635
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636 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
637 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
1da177e4 638
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639 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
640 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
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641 console=brl,ttyS0
642 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
643
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644 console_msg_format=
645 [KNL] Change console messages format
646 default
647 By default we print messages on consoles in
648 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
649 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
650 `printk_time' param).
651 syslog
652 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
653 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
654 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
655 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
656 from /proc/kmsg.
657
f324edc8 658 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
ac0a314c 659 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
6dddd7a7 660 Defaults to 0.
f324edc8 661
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662 coredump_filter=
663 [KNL] Change the default value for
664 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
665 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
666
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667 coresight_cpu_debug.enable
668 [ARM,ARM64]
669 Format: <bool>
670 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
671 0: default value, disable debugging
672 1: enable debugging at boot time
673
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674 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
675 disable the cpuidle sub-system
676
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677 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
678 disable the cpufreq sub-system
679
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680 cpu_init_udelay=N
681 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
682 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
683 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
684 Default: 10000
685
1da177e4 686 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
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687 Format:
688 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
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690 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
691 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
692 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
693 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
694 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
695 is selected automatically. Check
696 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
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698 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
699 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
700 in the running system. The syntax of range is
701 start-[end] where start and end are both
702 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
6f21e646 703 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
fb391599 704
adbc742b 705 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
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706 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
707 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
708 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
709 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
710 available.
711 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
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712 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
713 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
714 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
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715 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
716 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
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717 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
718 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
719 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
720 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
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721 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
722 for second kernel instead.
723 0: to disable low allocation.
adbc742b 724 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
55a20ee7 725 or memory reserved is below 4G.
c729de8f 726
9e5c9fe4 727 cryptomgr.notests
6dddd7a7 728 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
9e5c9fe4 729
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730 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
731 Format: <dma>
732
733 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
734 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
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a9913044 736 dasd= [HW,NET]
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737 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
738
739 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
740 (one device per port)
741 Format: <port#>,<type>
1752118d 742 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4 743
6dddd7a7 744 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
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745 time. See
746 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
29e36c9f 747 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
a648ec05 748
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749 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
750
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751 debug_boot_weak_hash
752 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
753 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
754 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are
755 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
756 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
757 insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
758
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759 debug_locks_verbose=
760 [KNL] verbose self-tests
761 Format=<0|1>
762 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
763 self-tests.
764 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
765 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
766 only useful to kernel developers.
767
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768 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
769
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770 no_debug_objects
771 [KNL] Disable object debugging
772
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773 debug_guardpage_minorder=
774 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
775 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
776 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
777 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
778 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
779 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
780 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
781 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
782 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
783 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
784 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
785 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
786 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
787 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
788 bypassed) which are not detectable by
789 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
790 tracking down these problems.
791
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792 debug_pagealloc=
793 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
794 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
795 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
796 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
797 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
798 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
799 on: enable the feature
800
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801 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
802
2d27a966 803 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
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804 Format: <area>[,<node>]
805 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
806
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807 default_hugepagesz=
808 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
809 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
810 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
811 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
812 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
813 if not specified.
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815 dhash_entries= [KNL]
816 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
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818 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
819 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
820 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
821 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
822 miss to occur.
823
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824 disable= [IPV6]
825 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
826
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827 hardened_usercopy=
828 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
829 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
830 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
831 from reading or writing beyond known memory
832 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
833 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
834 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
835 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
836 off Disable hardened usercopy checks.
837
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838 disable_radix [PPC]
839 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
840
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841 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
842 Format: <int>
843 The number of initial APIC ID for the
844 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
845 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
846 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
847 causing system reset or hang due to sending
848 INIT from AP to BSP.
849
6dddd7a7 850 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
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851 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
852 to workaround buggy firmware.
853
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854 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
855 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
856
95ffa243 857 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
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858 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
859 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
0cb55ad2 860 entry later. This parameter disables that.
95ffa243 861
093af8d7 862 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
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863 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
864 memory out of your available memory pool based on
865 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
866 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
867
6cececfc 868 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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869 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
870 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
871
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872 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
873
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874 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
875 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
876
877 dma_debug_entries=<number>
878 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
879 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
880 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
881 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
882 architectural default is too low.
883
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884 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
885 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
886 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
887 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
888 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
889 driver later using sysfs.
890
53fd40a9 891 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
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892 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
893 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
894 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
895 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
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896 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
897 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
898 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
899 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
900 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
901 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
902 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
903 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
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904 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
905 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
906 data set with no connector name will be used for
907 any connectors not explicitly specified.
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909 dscc4.setup= [NET]
910
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911 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC]
912 Format: {"off" | "known"}
913 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
914 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
915 exists).
916 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
917 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
918 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
919
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920 dump_apple_properties [X86]
921 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
922 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
923 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
924
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925 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
926 module.dyndbg[="val"]
927 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
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929 for details.
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931 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
932 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
933 information about the feature.
934
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935 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
936 in some Intel CPUs.
937
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938 module.async_probe [KNL]
939 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
940
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941 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
942 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
943 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
944 which are not unmapped.
945
0cb55ad2 946 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
0d3c673e 947
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948 [ARM64] The early console is determined by the
949 stdout-path property in device tree's chosen node,
950 or determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
951
952 [X86] When used with no options the early console is
953 determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
5664f764 954
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955 cdns,<addr>[,options]
956 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
957 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
958 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
959 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
960 configured.
6fa62fc4 961
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962 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
963 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1917ac76 964 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
6e63be3f 965 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
ca782f16 966 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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967 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
968 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
16290246 969 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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971 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
972 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
973 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
ca782f16 974 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
0cb55ad2 975
0d3c673e 976 pl011,<addr>
3b78fae7 977 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
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978 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
979 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
980 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
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981 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
982 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
983 the device registers.
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985 meson,<addr>
986 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
987 port at the specified address. The serial port must
988 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
989 supported.
990
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991 msm_serial,<addr>
992 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
993 port at the specified address. The serial port
994 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
995 yet supported.
996
997 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
998 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
999 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1000 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1001 yet supported.
1002
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1003 owl,<addr>
1004 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1005 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1006 specified address. The serial port must already be
1007 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1008
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1009 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1010
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1011 s3c2410,<addr>
1012 s3c2412,<addr>
1013 s3c2440,<addr>
1014 s3c6400,<addr>
1015 s5pv210,<addr>
1016 exynos4210,<addr>
1017 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1018 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1019 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1020 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1021 Options are not yet supported.
1022
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1024 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1025 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1026 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1027 yet supported.
1028
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1029 lpuart,<addr>
1030 lpuart32,<addr>
1031 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1032 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1033 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1034 port must already be setup and configured.
1035
f7c864e7 1036 ar3700_uart,<addr>
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1037 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1038 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1039 address. The serial port must already be setup
1040 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1041
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1042 qcom_geni,<addr>
1043 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1044 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1045 specified address. The serial port must already be
1046 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1047
4ba66a97 1048 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1da177e4 1049 earlyprintk=vga
72548e83 1050 earlyprintk=efi
89175cf7 1051 earlyprintk=sclp
2482a92e 1052 earlyprintk=xen
1da177e4 1053 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
147ea091 1054 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
ea3acb19 1055 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
9780bc41 1056 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
c43088e3 1057 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1b5aeebf 1058 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1da177e4 1059
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1060 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1061 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1062 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1063
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1066
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1067 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1068 be used at a time.
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1070 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1071 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1072 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1073 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1074 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1075 You can find the port for a given device in
1076 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1077 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
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1078
1079 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1080 very good.
1081
72548e83
MF
1082 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1083 the real console.
1da177e4 1084
2482a92e
KRW
1085 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1086
89175cf7
HC
1087 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1088
c700f013
CG
1089 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1090 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1091 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1092 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1093 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1094 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1095 default: on.
1096
9731191f
JW
1097 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1098 ekgdboc=kbd
1099
25985edc 1100 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
9731191f
JW
1101 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1102
1da177e4 1103 edd= [EDD]
8c4dd606 1104 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1da177e4 1105
d2f7cbe7 1106 efi= [EFI]
fed6cefe 1107 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
d2f7cbe7
BP
1108 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1109 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1110 default.
5a17dae4
MF
1111 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1112 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1113 firmware implementations.
5ae3683c 1114 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
fed6cefe 1115 debug: enable misc debug output
d2f7cbe7 1116
8c58bf3e
RW
1117 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1118 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1119 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1120 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1121 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1122
0f96a99d
TI
1123 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1124 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1125 updating original EFI memory map.
1126 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1127 from ss to ss+nn.
1128 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1129 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1130 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1131 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1132
1133 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1134 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1135 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1136 doesn't support it.
1137
475fb4e8
OP
1138 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1139 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1140 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1141 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1142 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1143
1144
1da177e4
LT
1145 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1146 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1147
cd4f0ef7 1148 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1da177e4 1149 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
71f77055 1150 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1da177e4
LT
1151
1152 elevator= [IOSCHED]
17a9e7bb 1153 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
395cf969 1154 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
a9913044
RD
1155 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1156
d3bf3795 1157 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
a9913044 1158 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
d3bf3795
MH
1159 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1160 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
aac04b32 1161 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
1da177e4 1162
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RD
1163 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1164 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1165 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1166 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1167
ca1eda2d 1168 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
0cb55ad2
RD
1169 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1170 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1171 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1172 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1173
1da177e4
LT
1174 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1175 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1176 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1177 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1178 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1179 Default value is 0.
1180 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1181
a08f82d0
HY
1182 erst_disable [ACPI]
1183 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1184 support.
1185
1da177e4
LT
1186 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1187 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1188 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1189
7102ebcd
MZ
1190 evm= [EVM]
1191 Format: { "fix" }
1192 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1193 current integrity status.
1194
de1ba09b
AM
1195 failslab=
1196 fail_page_alloc=
1197 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1198 General fault injection mechanism.
1199 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
395cf969 1200 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
de1ba09b 1201
1da177e4 1202 floppy= [HW]
31c00fc1 1203 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1da177e4 1204
f13ae30e
AC
1205 force_pal_cache_flush
1206 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1207 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1208 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1209 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1210
6dddd7a7 1211 forcepae [X86-32]
69f2366c
CB
1212 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1213 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1214 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1215 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1216 and may cause unknown problems.
1217
d9e54076 1218 ftrace=[tracer]
2af15d6a 1219 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
d9e54076
PZ
1220 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1221 boot debugging.
1222
cecbca96 1223 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
2af15d6a 1224 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
cecbca96
FW
1225 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1226 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1227 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1228 oops.
2af15d6a
SR
1229
1230 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1231 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1232 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1233 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1234 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
16290246 1235 tracing directory.
2af15d6a
SR
1236
1237 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1238 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1239 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1240 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1241 tracing directory.
d9e54076 1242
369bc18f
SA
1243 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1244 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1245 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1246 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1247 that can be changed at run time by the
1248 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1249
0d7d9a16
NK
1250 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1251 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1252 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1253 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1254 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1255
65a50c65
TB
1256 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1257 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1258 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1259 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1260 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1261
1da177e4
LT
1262 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1263 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1264 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1265 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1752118d 1266 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4
LT
1267
1268 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1269
6dddd7a7 1270 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
aaf23042
YL
1271 Format: off | on
1272 default: on
1273
2521f2c2
PO
1274 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1275 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1276 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1277 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1278 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1279
47512cfd
TG
1280 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1281 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1282 android emulator
1283
1da177e4 1284 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
6c5de79b
DB
1285 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1286 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1287 GPT to be used instead.
1da177e4 1288
6cec9b07
AL
1289 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1290 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1291 Format: 0 | 1
1292 Default: 0
1293 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1294 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1295 Format: 0 | 1
1296 Default: 0
1297 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1298 Format: 0 | 1
1299 Default: 0
1300 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1301 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1302 Default: 1024
1303 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1304 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1305 Default: 1024
1306
0f98dd1b
BJZ
1307 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1308 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1309 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1310
55537871
JK
1311 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1312 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1313 backtraces on all cpus.
1314 Format: <integer>
1315
1da177e4
LT
1316 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1317 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
16290246 1318 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
a9913044 1319 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1da177e4
LT
1320
1321 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1322
1323 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1324 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1325
ea8c071c
HY
1326 hest_disable [ACPI]
1327 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1328 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1329 logic will be disabled.
1330
1da177e4
LT
1331 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1332 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1333 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1334 size on bigger boxes.
1335
54cdfdb4
TG
1336 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1337 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1338 Default: "on"
1339
1da177e4
LT
1340 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1341 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1342
0cb55ad2
RD
1343 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1344
1345 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1346 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1347 verbose }
1348 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1349 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1350 VIA, nVidia)
1351 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1352
3d035f58
PB
1353 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1354 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1355
b4718e62
AK
1356 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1357 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
0d9ea754
JT
1358 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1359 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1360 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1361 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
27ec26ec 1362 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
6902aa84 1363
a49d9c0a
OS
1364 hung_task_panic=
1365 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1366 Format: <integer>
cef7125d 1367
a49d9c0a
OS
1368 A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a
1369 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1370 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1371 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1372 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1373
6dddd7a7
TB
1374 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1375 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1376 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1377 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1378 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
7bf69395
FDN
1379 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1380 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1381 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1382 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1383 the real console.
1384
6dddd7a7
TB
1385 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1386 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1387 registered from board initialization code.
1388 Format:
1389 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
3a853fb9 1390
36d95739 1391 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
e1443d28
SCP
1392 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1393 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1394 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1395 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1da177e4 1396 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
84eb8d06
ML
1397 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1398 keyboard and cannot control its state
1da177e4
LT
1399 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1400 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
945ef0d4 1401 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
75d08c78
JK
1402 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1403 for the AUX port
1da177e4 1404 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
e55a3366 1405 controller
1da177e4
LT
1406 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1407 controllers
24775d65 1408 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
930e1924
MPS
1409 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1410 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1411 transitions, or never reset
1412 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1413 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1414 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1415 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1416 architectures force reset to be always executed
1da177e4 1417 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
6dddd7a7 1418 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1da177e4
LT
1419
1420 i810= [HW,DRM]
1421
e70c9d5e
DT
1422 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1423 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1424 hardware.
1da177e4
LT
1425 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1426 does not match list of supported models.
1427 i8k.power_status
1428 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1429 (disabled by default)
1430 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1431 capability is set.
1432
4dca20ef 1433 i915.invert_brightness=
7bd90909
CE
1434 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1435 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
4dca20ef
CE
1436 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1437 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1438 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1439 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1440 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1441 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1442 value switches the backlight off.
1443 -1 -- never invert brightness
1444 0 -- machine default
1445 1 -- force brightness inversion
7bd90909 1446
1da177e4
LT
1447 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1448 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1449
0af80c04
DF
1450 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1451 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
075affcb
BZ
1452 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1453 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1c10e938 1454 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1da177e4 1455
0f8b7f5d
MR
1456 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1457 Format: <int>
1458 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1459 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1460 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1461 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1462 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1463 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1464 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1465 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1466 was 0x3.
1467
0cb55ad2
RD
1468 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1469 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1470
f039b754 1471 idle= [X86]
69fb3676 1472 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
ada9cfdd
RD
1473 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1474 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1475 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1476 Not recommended.
ada9cfdd 1477 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
c1e3b377 1478 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
ada9cfdd 1479 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
a9913044 1480
503943e0
MR
1481 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1482 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1483 Default: strict
1484
1485 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1486 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1487 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1488 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1489 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1490 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1491 encoding mode.
1492
1493 Available settings are as follows:
1494 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1495 supported by the FPU
1496 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1497 by the FPU
1498 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1499 by the FPU
1500 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1501 supported by the FPU
1502
1503 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1504 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1505 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1506 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1507 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1508 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1509 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1510 MIPS64 CPUs.
1511
1512 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1513 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1514 except where unsupported by hardware.
1515
79290822
IM
1516 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1517 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1518 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
0eca6b7c
YZ
1519 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1520 could change it dynamically, usually by
1521 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
79290822 1522
d977d56c
KK
1523 ignore_rlimit_data
1524 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1525 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1526 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1527
1da177e4
LT
1528 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1529 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1530
2fe5d6de 1531 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2faa6ef3 1532 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
2fe5d6de
MZ
1533 default: "enforce"
1534
07f6a794
MZ
1535 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1536 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1537 owned by uid=0.
1538
d68a6fe9
MZ
1539 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1540 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1541 measurements, instead of host native format.
1542
3323eec9 1543 ima_hash= [IMA]
e7a2ad7e
MZ
1544 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1545 | sha512 | ... }
3323eec9
MZ
1546 default: "sha1"
1547
e7a2ad7e
MZ
1548 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1549 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1550
24fd03c8 1551 ima_policy= [IMA]
33ce9549 1552 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
9e67028e
MZ
1553 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1554 fail_securely"
33ce9549
MZ
1555
1556 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1557 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1558 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1559 uid=0.
1560
1561 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1562 all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent
1563 of ima_appraise_tcb.)
24fd03c8 1564
503ceaef
MZ
1565 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1566 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1567 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
24fd03c8 1568
9e67028e
MZ
1569 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1570 verification failure also on privileged mounted
1571 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1572 flag.
1573
24fd03c8 1574 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
5789ba3b
EP
1575 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1576 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1577 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1578 opened for read by uid=0.
1579
6dddd7a7 1580 ima_template= [IMA]
9b9d4ce5 1581 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
8265a2f8 1582 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
9b9d4ce5
RS
1583 Default: "ima-ng"
1584
c2426d2a 1585 ima_template_fmt=
6dddd7a7 1586 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
c2426d2a
RS
1587 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1588
3bcced39
DK
1589 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1590 Format: <min_file_size>
1591 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1592 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1593
1594 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1595 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1596 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1597
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1598 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1599 Format: <bufsize>
1600 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1601
1602 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1603 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1604 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1605
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1606 init= [KNL]
1607 Format: <full_path>
1608 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1609 process.
1610
1611 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1612 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1613 startup.
1614
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1615 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1616 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1617 modules and initcalls.
1618
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1619 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1620
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1621 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1622 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1623 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1624 override in debugfs after boot.
1625
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1626 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1627 Format: <irq>
1628
6dddd7a7 1629 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
6bb2ff84 1630
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1631 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1632 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1633 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1634 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1635
ba395927 1636 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
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1637 on
1638 Enable intel iommu driver.
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1639 off
1640 Disable intel iommu driver.
1641 igfx_off [Default Off]
1642 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1643 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1644 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1645 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1646 DMA.
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1647 forcedac [x86_64]
1648 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
16290246 1649 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
7d3b03ce 1650 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
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1651 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1652 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
7d3b03ce 1653 then look in the higher range.
5e0d2a6f 1654 strict [Default Off]
1655 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1656 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1657 to batching them for performance.
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1658 sp_off [Default Off]
1659 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1660 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1661 not be supported.
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1662 ecs_off [Default Off]
1663 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1664 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1665 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1666 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1667 on hardware which claims to support them.
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1668 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1669 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1670 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1671 could harm performance of some high-throughput
1672 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1673 mapping is enabled.
1674 Note that using this option lowers the security
1675 provided by tboot because it makes the system
1676 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
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1677
1678 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1679 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
22c6bbe4 1680 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
2e92c7ad 1681
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1682 intel_pstate= [X86]
1683 disable
1684 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1685 scaling driver for the supported processors
1686 passive
1687 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1688 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1689 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1690 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1691 feature.
1692 force
1693 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1694 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1695 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1696 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1697 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1698 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1699 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1700 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1701 no_hwp
1702 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1703 if available.
1704 hwp_only
1705 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1706 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1707 support_acpi_ppc
1708 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1709 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1710 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1711 then this feature is turned on by default.
1712 per_cpu_perf_limits
1713 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1714 cpufreq sysfs interface
6be26498 1715
d1423d56 1716 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
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1717 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1718 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1719 nosid disable Source ID checking
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1720 no_x2apic_optout
1721 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
b7d20631 1722 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
d1423d56 1723
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1724 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1725 strict regions from userspace.
1726 relaxed
1727
1728 iommu= [x86]
1729 off
1730 force
1731 noforce
1732 biomerge
1733 panic
1734 nopanic
1735 merge
1736 nomerge
0cb55ad2 1737 soft
bcb71abe 1738 pt [x86, IA-64]
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1739 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1740 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
bcb71abe 1741
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1742 iommu.passthrough=
1743 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1744 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1745 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1746 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1747 unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
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1748
1749 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1750 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1751 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1752
6cececfc 1753 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
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1754 0x80
1755 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1756 0xed
1757 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
b02aae9c 1758 udelay
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1759 Simple two microseconds delay
1760 none
1761 No delay
b02aae9c 1762
1da177e4 1763 ip= [IP_PNP]
dc7a0816 1764 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 1765
fbf19803 1766 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2d13e6ca 1767 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
fbf19803 1768
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1769 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1770 [ARM, ARM64]
1771 Format: <bool>
1772 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1773 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1774 exposed by the device tree is too small.
1775
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1776 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
1777 [ARM, ARM64]
1778 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
1779 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
1780 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
1781 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
1782 LPIs.
1783
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1784 irqfixup [HW]
1785 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1786 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1787 firmware running.
1788
1789 irqpoll [HW]
1790 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1791 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1792 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1793 firmware running.
1794
1da177e4 1795 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
a9913044 1796 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1da177e4 1797
d94d1053 1798 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
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1799 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1800 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
1801
1802 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1803 specified in the flag list (default: domain):
1804
1805 nohz
1806 Disable the tick when a single task runs.
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1807
1808 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
1809 need to affine to housekeeping through the global
1810 workqueue's affinity configured via the
1811 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
1812 by using the 'domain' flag described below.
1813
1814 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
1815 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
1816 be configured manually after bootup.
1817
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1818 domain
1819 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1820 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1821 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1822 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1823 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1824 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1825 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1826 move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1827
1828 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1829 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1830 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1831 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1832
1833 The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
b225d44e 1834
1da177e4 1835
1da177e4 1836
a9913044 1837 iucv= [HW,NET]
1da177e4 1838
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1839 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1840 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1841 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1842 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1843 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1844 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1845
1846 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1847 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1848 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1849 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1850 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1851 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1852
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1853 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1854 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1855 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1856 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1857 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1858 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1859
1da177e4 1860 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1752118d 1861 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
1da177e4 1862
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1863 nokaslr [KNL]
1864 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1865 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1866 Layout Randomization).
24f2e027 1867
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1868 kasan_multi_shot
1869 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1870 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1871 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1872 invalid access.
1873
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1874 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1875
342332e6 1876 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
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1877 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
1878 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
1879 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested
1880 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
1881 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for
1882 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the
1883 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
1884 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
1885 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
1886
1887 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
1888 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
1889 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
1890 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
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1891 zone if it does not.
1892
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1893 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
1894 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
1895 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror"
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1896 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1897 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
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1898 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
1899 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
ed7ed365 1900
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1901 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1902 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1903 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1904 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1905 optional and is the number seconds in between
1906 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1907 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1908 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1909 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1910 the kernel debugger.
1911
84c08fd6 1912 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
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1913 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1914 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
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1915 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1916 keyboard only format: kbd
1917 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1918 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1919 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1920 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
6cdf6e06 1921
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1922 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1923 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1924
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1925 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1926 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1927 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1928
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1929 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1930 Valid arguments: on, off
1931 Default: on
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1932 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1933 the default is off.
04f70336 1934
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1935 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1936 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1937
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1938 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
1939 Default is false (don't support).
1940
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1941 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1942 KVM MMU at runtime.
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1943 Default is 0 (off)
1944
fef07aae 1945 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
8475f94a 1946 Default is 1 (enabled)
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1947
1948 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1949 for all guests.
16290246 1950 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
fef07aae 1951
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1952 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
1953 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
1954 system registers
1955
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1956 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
1957 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
1958 system registers
1959
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1960 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
1961 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
1962 system registers
1963
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1964 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
1965 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
1966 LPIs.
1967
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1968 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1969 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1970 Default is 1 (enabled)
1971
1972 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1973 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1974 Default is 0 (disabled)
1975
1976 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1977 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1978 Default is 1 (enabled)
1979
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1980 kvm-intel.nested=
1981 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1982 Default is 0 (disabled)
1983
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1984 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1985 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1986 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1987 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1988
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1989 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
1990 CVE-2018-3620.
1991
1992 Valid arguments: never, cond, always
1993
1994 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
1995 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
1996 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
1997 never: Disables the mitigation
1998
1999 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2000
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2001 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2002 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2003 Default is 1 (enabled)
2004
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2005 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2006 affected CPUs
2007
2008 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2009 enabled and cannot be disabled.
2010
2011 full
2012 Provides all available mitigations for the
2013 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2014 enables all mitigations in the
2015 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2016
2017 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2018 sysfs interface is still possible after
2019 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2020 when the first VM is started in a
2021 potentially insecure configuration,
2022 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2023
2024 full,force
2025 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2026 flush runtime control. Implies the
2027 'nosmt=force' command line option.
2028 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2029
2030 flush
2031 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2032 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2033 L1D flush.
2034
2035 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2036 sysfs interface is still possible after
2037 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2038 when the first VM is started in a
2039 potentially insecure configuration,
2040 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2041
2042 flush,nosmt
2043
2044 Disables SMT and enables the default
2045 hypervisor mitigation.
2046
2047 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2048 sysfs interface is still possible after
2049 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2050 when the first VM is started in a
2051 potentially insecure configuration,
2052 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2053
2054 flush,nowarn
2055 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2056 warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2057 insecure configuration.
2058
2059 off
2060 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2061 emit any warnings.
2062
2063 Default is 'flush'.
2064
2065 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/l1tf.rst
2066
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2067 l2cr= [PPC]
2068
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2069 l3cr= [PPC]
2070
cd4f0ef7 2071 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
a9913044 2072 disabled it.
1da177e4 2073
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2074 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
2075 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2076 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2077
6cececfc 2078 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
ada9cfdd 2079 in C2 power state.
e585bef8 2080
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2081 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
2082 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2083 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2084 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
16290246 2085 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
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2086 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2087 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
16290246 2088
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2089 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2090 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
2091 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
fcb71f6f 2092
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2093 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2094 when set.
2095 Format: <int>
2096
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2097 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
2098 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
4c44f309 2099 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
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2100 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
2101 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
2102 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2103 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2104 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2105
2106 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2107 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
2108 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2109 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
2110 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2111 host link and device attached to it.
2112
2113 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
2114 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2115 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2116 The following configurations can be forced.
2117
2118 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2119 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2120
2121 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2122
2123 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2124 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2125 allowed.
2126
2127 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2128
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2129 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2130
05944bdf 2131 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
6dddd7a7 2132 and both resets.
05944bdf 2133
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2134 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2135 hot-unplug link recovery
2136
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2137 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2138
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2139 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2140
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2141 * disable: Disable this device.
2142
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2143 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2144 the same attribute, the last one is used.
2145
95f72d1e 2146 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
7c4be253 2147
1da177e4 2148 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
31c00fc1 2149 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 2150
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2151 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2152 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 2153
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2154 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2155 Format: <integer>
2156
2157 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2158 Format: <integer>
2159
2160 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2161 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 2162
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2163 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2164 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2165 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2166 number of online CPUs.
2167
2168 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2169 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2170
2171 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2172 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2173
2174 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2175 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2176 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2177
2178 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2179 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2180 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2181 mode during the locktorture test.
2182
2183 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2184 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2185 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2186
2187 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2188 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2189
2190 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2191 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2192 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2193 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2194 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2195 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2196
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2197 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2198 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2199
2200 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2201 Enable additional printk() statements.
2202
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2203 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2204 Format: <irq>
2205
2206 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2207 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2208 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2209 loglevels are defined as follows:
2210
2211 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2212 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2213 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2214 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2215 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2216 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2217 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2218 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2219
c756d08a 2220 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
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2221 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2222 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2223 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2224 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2225 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2226 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
1da177e4 2227
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2228 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2229 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2230 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2231 kernel boot problems.
2232
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2233 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2234 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2235 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2236 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2237 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2238 attached printers to be reset. Using
2239 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2240 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2241 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2242 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2243 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2244 port specification list means that device IDs
2245 from each port should be examined, to see if
2246 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2247 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2248 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2249
2250 lpj=n [KNL]
2251 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2252 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2253 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2254 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2255 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2256 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2257 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2258 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2259 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2260 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2261 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2262 hardware.
2263
2264 ltpc= [NET]
2265 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2266
16290246 2267 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
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2268 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2269 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
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2271 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2272 yeeloong laptop.
2273 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2274
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2275 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2276 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
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2277
2278 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
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2279 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2280 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2281 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2282 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2283 only takes effect during system bootup.
2284 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2285 which also disables the IO APIC.
1da177e4 2286
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2287 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2288 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2289 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2290 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2291 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2292 /dev/loop-control interface.
2b2c3750 2293
cd4f0ef7 2294 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
1da177e4 2295
71cced6e 2296 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
909dd324 2297
1da177e4 2298 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
e52347bd 2299 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
a9913044 2300
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2301 mdacon= [MDA]
2302 Format: <first>,<last>
2303 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
a9913044 2304
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2305 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2306 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2307 to see the whole system memory or for test.
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2308 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2309 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2310 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2311 belonging to unused RAM.
1da177e4 2312
cd4f0ef7 2313 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
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2314 memory.
2315
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2316 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2317 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2318 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2319
6dddd7a7 2320 memhp_default_state=online/offline
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2321 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2322 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2323 set according to the
2324 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2325 option.
2326 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2327
6cececfc 2328 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
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2329 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2330 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2331 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2332 option description.
2333
2334 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
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2335 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2336 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
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BH
2337 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2338 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2339 Multiple different regions can be specified,
2340 comma delimited.
2341 Example:
2342 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
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2343
2344 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2345 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
277cba1d 2346 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
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2347
2348 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2349 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
277cba1d 2350 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
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2351 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2352 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2353 or
2354 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
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BH
2355 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2356 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2357 will be eaten.
1da177e4 2358
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CH
2359 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2360 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2361 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2362 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2363 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2364
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JS
2365 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2366 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2367 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2368 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2369 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2370 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2371 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2372 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2373
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2374 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2375 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2376 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2377 Setting this option will scan the memory
2378 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2379 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2380 from using the memory being corrupted.
2381 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2382 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2383 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2384 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2385
2386 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2387 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2388 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2389 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2390 corruption in more or less memory.
2391
2392 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2393 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2394 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2395 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2396
e4b0db72 2397 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
c64df707 2398 Format: <integer>
c64df707 2399 default : 0 <disable>
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AH
2400 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2401 performed. Each pass selects another test
2402 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2403 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2404 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2405 regions that are detected.
c64df707 2406
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2407 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2408 Valid arguments: on, off
2409 Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2410 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2411 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2412 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
2413 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
2414
2415 Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
2416 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2417
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2418 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2419 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2420 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2421 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
58e7cb9e 2422 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
406e7938 2423
1da177e4 2424 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
a405ed85 2425 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
1da177e4 2426
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2427 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2428 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2429 platforms.
2430
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2431 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2432 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2433 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2434 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2435
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2436 mga= [HW,DRM]
2437
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2438 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2439 physical address is ignored.
2440
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2441 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2442 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2443 Default: "0tb"
2444 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2445 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2446 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2447 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2448 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2449 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2450 unconfigured.
2451 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2452 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2453 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2454 VGA shield.
2455 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2456 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2457 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2458 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2459 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2460 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2461
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2462 mminit_loglevel=
2463 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2464 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2465 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2466 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2467 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2468 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2469
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2470 module.sig_enforce
2471 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2472 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2a039be7 2473 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
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RR
2474 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2475
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PB
2476 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2477 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2478
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2479 mousedev.tap_time=
2480 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2481 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2482 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2483 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2484 Format: <msecs>
2485 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2486 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2487 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2488 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2489
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2490 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2491 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2492 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
2493 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
2494 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is
2495 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
2496 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its
2497 own is specified, the administrator must be careful
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2498 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2499 is not too small.
2500
f70029bb
MH
2501 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2502 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2503 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2504 allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2505 allocations. Use with caution!
c5320926 2506
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LT
2507 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2508 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2509
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2510 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2511 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
1da177e4
LT
2512
2513 mtdparts= [MTD]
c8facbb6 2514 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
1da177e4 2515
4e89a2d8
WS
2516 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2517 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2518 at a time.
2519
5988af23
RH
2520 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2521
2522 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2523
2524 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2525 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2526 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2527 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2528 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2529
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BD
2530 mtdset= [ARM]
2531 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2532
2533 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2534
1da177e4 2535 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
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2536 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2537 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
1da177e4 2538
0cb55ad2 2539 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
19f59460 2540 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
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RD
2541 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2542
2543 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2544 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2545 Default is 1.
2546 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2547 using up MTRRs.
2548
2549 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2550 Format: <integer>
2551 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2552 Default : 1
2553 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2554 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2555
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LT
2556 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2557
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LT
2558 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2559 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2560 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2561 something different and driver-specific.
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RD
2562 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2563 file if at all.
2564
58401572
KPO
2565 nf_conntrack.acct=
2566 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2567 0 to disable accounting
2568 1 to enable accounting
d70a011d 2569 Default value is 0.
58401572 2570
306a0753 2571 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
dc7a0816 2572 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
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LT
2573
2574 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
dc7a0816 2575 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 2576
306a0753
CL
2577 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2578 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2579
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TM
2580 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2581 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2582 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2583 requests.
2584
a72b4422
TM
2585 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2586 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2587 channel should listen.
2588
e571cbf1
TM
2589 nfs.cache_getent=
2590 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2591 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2592
2593 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2594 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2595 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2596
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TM
2597 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2598 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2599 entries.
2600
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TM
2601 nfs.enable_ino64=
2602 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2603 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2604 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2605 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2606 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2607
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TM
2608 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2609 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2610 slots the client will assign to the callback
2611 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2612 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2613 a particular server.
2614
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TM
2615 nfs.max_session_slots=
2616 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2617 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2618 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2619 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2620 Note that there is little point in setting this
2621 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2622
b064eca2 2623 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
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TM
2624 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2625 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2626 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2627 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2628 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2629 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2630 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2631 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2632 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2633 back to using the idmapper.
2634 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
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CL
2635 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2636 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2637 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2638 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2639 UUID that is generated at system install time.
b064eca2 2640
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WAA
2641 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2642 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2643 information in exchange_id requests.
2644 If zero, no implementation identification information
2645 will be sent.
2646 The default is to send the implementation identification
2647 information.
e52347bd 2648
f6de7a39
TM
2649 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2650 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2651 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2652 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2653 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2654 after the locks are lost.
2655 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2656 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2657 parameter to '1'.
2658 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2659 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
db8ac8ba 2660
bbf58bf3
TM
2661 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2662 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2663 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2664
2665 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2666 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2667 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2668 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2669
e9541ce8
BF
2670 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2671 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2672 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2673 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2674 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2675 migration from NFSv2/v3.
db8ac8ba 2676
c0c74acb 2677 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
e7ba176b
HS
2678 when a NMI is triggered.
2679 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2680
6cececfc 2681 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
fef2c9bc 2682 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
195daf66 2683 Valid num: 0 or 1
334bb79c
PK
2684 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2685 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
0cb55ad2 2686 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
fef2c9bc 2687 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
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PK
2688 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2689 please see 'nowatchdog'.
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RD
2690 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2691 need the box quickly up again.
1da177e4 2692
d22881dc
SW
2693 These settings can be accessed at runtime via
2694 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
2695
bff38771
AV
2696 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2697 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2698 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2699 waits 4 seconds.
2700
cd4f0ef7 2701 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
1da177e4
LT
2702 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2703 is present.
2704
372fddf7
KS
2705 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
2706 kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
2707
0cb55ad2
RD
2708 no_console_suspend
2709 [HW] Never suspend the console
2710 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2711 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2712 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2713 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2714 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2715 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2716 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
134620f7
YZ
2717 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2718 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2719 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2720 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2721 turn on/off it dynamically.
0cb55ad2 2722
c1aee215
CL
2723 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2724 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2725 but will impact performance.
3395ee05 2726
a9913044
RD
2727 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2728
686140a1
VG
2729 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2730 (CPU alternatives feature).
2731
1da177e4
LT
2732 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2733 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2734
5091faa4
MG
2735 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2736
1da177e4
LT
2737 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2738 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2739
2740 nocache [ARM]
a9913044 2741
0cb55ad2
RD
2742 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2743
163ecdff
SN
2744 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2745
6902aa84
PM
2746 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2747
b2e0a54a 2748 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
8b2cb7a8 2749
1da177e4
LT
2750 noexec [IA-64]
2751
6cececfc 2752 noexec [X86]
f5a1b191 2753 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
1da177e4 2754 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
f5a1b191
JS
2755 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2756
52b6179a
PA
2757 nosmap [X86]
2758 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2759 even if it is supported by processor.
2760
de5397ad 2761 nosmep [X86]
52b6179a 2762 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
de5397ad
FY
2763 even if it is supported by processor.
2764
f5a1b191
JS
2765 noexec32 [X86-64]
2766 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2767 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2768 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2769 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2770 read implies executable mappings
1da177e4 2771
fab43ef4 2772 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
6902aa84 2773
cd4f0ef7 2774 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
4f886511
CE
2775 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2776 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
1da177e4 2777
0ddab1d2
TK
2778 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2779
52c48c51
SS
2780 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2781 Equivalent to smt=1.
2782
05736e4a 2783 [KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
506a66f3
TG
2784 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
2785 via the sysfs control file.
05736e4a 2786
da285121
DW
2787 nospectre_v2 [X86] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2
2788 (indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may
2789 allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent
2790 to spectre_v2=off.
2791
24f7fc83
KRW
2792 nospec_store_bypass_disable
2793 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
2794
0c752a93
SS
2795 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2796 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2797 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2798
b6f42a4a
FY
2799 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2800 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2801 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2802 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2803 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2804 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2805
2806 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2807 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2808 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2809 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2810 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2811 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2812 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2813
01a24d2b
PZ
2814 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2815 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2816 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
a9913044 2817
1f29fae2
SH
2818 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2819 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2820 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2821
1da177e4
LT
2822 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2823 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2824 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2825 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2826 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2827 real-time systems.
2828
a6e15a39
KC
2829 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2830
79bf2bb3
TG
2831 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2832 Valid arguments: on, off
2833 Default: on
2834
d94d1053 2835 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
2d13e6ca 2836 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
c5bfece2 2837 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
a831881b 2838 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
0453b435 2839 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
f99bcb2c
PM
2840 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
2841 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
2842 just as if they had also been called out in the
2843 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
a831881b 2844
eeee7853
PM
2845 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2846
cd4f0ef7 2847 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
1da177e4
LT
2848 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2849
6cececfc 2850 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
8542b200
ZA
2851 broken timer IRQ sources.
2852
1da177e4
LT
2853 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2854
2855 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2856 initial RAM disk.
2857
03ea8155
WH
2858 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2859 remapping.
d1423d56 2860 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
03ea8155 2861
1da177e4
LT
2862 nointroute [IA-64]
2863
d12a72b8
AL
2864 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2865
16290246 2866 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
0aa366f3 2867
9cf4c4fc
JK
2868 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2869
fd10cde9
GN
2870 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2871 fault handling.
2872
80e9a4f2
AM
2873 no-vmw-sched-clock
2874 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2875 clock and use the default one.
2876
6dddd7a7 2877 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
d910f5c1
GC
2878 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2879 behaviour
2880
cd4f0ef7 2881 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
1da177e4 2882
cd4f0ef7 2883 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
ad62ca2b 2884
1da177e4 2885 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
f15eea66 2886 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
1da177e4 2887
312f1f01
H
2888 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2889
13696e0a 2890 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
abe37e5a 2891
83d7384f
AS
2892 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2893 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2894
bda62633
DZ
2895 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2896 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2897 irq.
2898
02608bef
DY
2899 nomodule Disable module load
2900
016ddd9b
JK
2901 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2902 pagetables) support.
2903
0790c9aa
AL
2904 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
2905
0cb55ad2
RD
2906 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2907 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2908
cd4f0ef7 2909 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
b7fb4af0
JF
2910 with UP alternatives
2911
7a5091d5
PA
2912 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2913 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2914 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2915 available to user space applications.
49d859d7 2916
a9913044
RD
2917 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2918 space.
2919
1da177e4
LT
2920 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2921 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2922 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2923
2924 nosbagart [IA-64]
2925
cd4f0ef7 2926 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
4f886511 2927
61ec7567
LB
2928 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2929 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
1da177e4 2930
97842216
DJ
2931 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2932
1da177e4
LT
2933 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2934
195daf66 2935 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
6dddd7a7 2936 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
58687acb 2937
1da177e4 2938 nowb [ARM]
a9913044 2939
2b2fd87a
WH
2940 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2941
f78cff48
FY
2942 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2943 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2944 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2945 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2946 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2947 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2948 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2949 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2950 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2951 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2952 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2953 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2954 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2955
6dddd7a7 2956 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
35b55ef2
NC
2957 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
2958 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
2959 without interruptions, before HW switches it.
2960 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
2961 parameter's value.
2962 Format: integer between 1 and 255
2963 Default: 255
2964
16290246 2965 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
a6c75b86
FY
2966 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2967 SAL PALO.
2968
2b633e3f
YL
2969 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2970 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
7c142bfe
BH
2971 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2972 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2973 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2974 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2975 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2976 hot plugging.
2b633e3f 2977
0cb55ad2
RD
2978 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2979
1a687c2e
MG
2980 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2981 Allowed values are enable and disable
2982
f0c0b2b8 2983 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
c9bff3ee 2984 'node', 'default' can be specified
f0c0b2b8
KH
2985 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2986 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2987
7c4be253
RD
2988 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2989 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2990 info.
2991
3ef0e1f8
AS
2992 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2993 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2994 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2995 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2996 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2997 interrupts *may* be lost!
2998
15ac7afe
TL
2999 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3000 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3001 For example, to override I2C bus2:
3002 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3003
1da177e4
LT
3004 oprofile.timer= [HW]
3005 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
3006
7e4e0bd5
RR
3007 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
3008 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
3009 userland or if you want common events.
8d7ff4f2
RR
3010 Format: { arch_perfmon }
3011 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
7e4e0bd5
RR
3012 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
3013 CPU specific event set.
159a80b2
RR
3014 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
3015 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
3016 for generic hr timer mode)
1dcdb5a9 3017
44a4dcf7
RD
3018 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3019 process, but there is a small probability of
3020 deadlocking the machine.
d404ab0a
OH
3021 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3022 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3023
48c96a36
JK
3024 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3025 Storage of the information about who allocated
3026 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3027 we can turn it on.
3028 on: enable the feature
3029
8823b1db
LA
3030 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3031 poisoning on the buddy allocator.
3032 off: turn off poisoning
3033 on: turn on poisoning
3034
44a4dcf7 3035 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4302fbc8
HD
3036 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3037 timeout = 0: wait forever
3038 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
1da177e4
LT
3039 Format: <timeout>
3040
9e3961a0
PB
3041 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
3042 on a WARN().
3043
f06e5153
MH
3044 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3045 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3046 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3047 succeeds in any situation.
3048 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3049 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3050 kernel more unstable.
3051
1da177e4
LT
3052 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3053 connected to, default is 0.
3054 Format: <parport#>
3055 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3056 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
a9913044
RD
3057 Format: <mode>
3058
3059 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3060 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3061 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3062 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3063 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3064 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3065 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3066 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3067 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3068 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3069 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3070 are specified on the command line, starting
3071 with parport0.
3072
3073 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
3074 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3075 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3076 computer where firmware has no options for setting
3077 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3078 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
1da177e4
LT
3079 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3080
dd287796
AM
3081 pause_on_oops=
3082 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3083 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
3084 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3085
1da177e4
LT
3086 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
3087
3088 pcd. [PARIDE]
3089 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
31c00fc1 3090 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 3091
07d8d7e5
LG
3092 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3093
3094 Some options herein operate on a specific device
3095 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3096 specified in one of the following formats:
3097
45db3370 3098 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
07d8d7e5
LG
3099 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3100
3101 Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3102 bus/device/function address which may change
3103 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3104 firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3105 by other kernel parameters. If the
3106 domain is left unspecified, it is
45db3370
LG
3107 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3108 to a device through multiple device/function
3109 addresses can be specified after the base
3110 address (this is more robust against
3111 renumbering issues). The second format
07d8d7e5
LG
3112 selects devices using IDs from the
3113 configuration space which may match multiple
3114 devices in the system.
3115
11eb0e0e 3116 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel
6dddd7a7 3117 changes anything
c0115606 3118 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
cd4f0ef7 3119 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
a9913044
RD
3120 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3121 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
cd4f0ef7 3122 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
a9913044
RD
3123 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3124 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3125 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
afd8c084
BP
3126 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3127 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3128 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3129 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3130 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3131 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3132 bus number. The config space is then accessed
3133 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3134 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3135 on the configuration access mechanisms.
7f785763
RD
3136 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3137 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3138 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
32a2eea7
JG
3139 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3140 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
6cececfc 3141 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
61be6d66 3142 Configuration
12983077
AH
3143 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3144 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3145 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
309e57df
MW
3146 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3147 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3148 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
a9322f64
SA
3149 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3150 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3151 should never be necessary.
9197979b
SA
3152 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3153 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3154 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3155 when the system masks IRQs.
41b9eb26
SA
3156 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3157 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3158 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3159 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
cd4f0ef7 3160 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
a9913044
RD
3161 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3162 on several machines and they hang the machine
3163 when used, but on other computers it's the only
3164 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3165 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3166 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3167 motherboard.
c0115606 3168 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
a9913044
RD
3169 Use with caution as certain devices share
3170 address decoders between ROMs and other
3171 resources.
c0115606 3172 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
bb71ad88
GH
3173 expansion ROMs that do not already have
3174 BIOS assigned address ranges.
7bd1c365
MH
3175 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
3176 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
c0115606 3177 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
a9913044
RD
3178 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3179 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3180 this way.
c0115606 3181 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
a9913044
RD
3182 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3183 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3184 F0000h-100000h range.
c0115606 3185 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
a9913044
RD
3186 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3187 secondary buses and you want to tell it
3188 explicitly which ones they are.
c0115606 3189 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
a9913044
RD
3190 numbers ourselves, overriding
3191 whatever the firmware may have done.
c0115606 3192 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
a9913044
RD
3193 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3194 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3195 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3196 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3197 IRQ routing is enabled.
c0115606 3198 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 3199 or for PCI scanning.
7bc5e3f2
BH
3200 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3201 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3202 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
3203 please report a bug.
3204 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
6dddd7a7 3205 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
a9913044
RD
3206 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3207 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3208 so this option is a temporary workaround
3209 for broken drivers that don't call it.
13a6ddb0
YL
3210 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3211 handle more pci cards
0637a70a
AK
3212 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3213 This might help on some broken boards which
3214 machine check when some devices' config space
3215 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3216 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
6b4b78fe
MD
3217 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3218 This sorting is done to get a device
3219 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3220 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
fa238712
YW
3221 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3222 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3223 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3224 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3225 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3226 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3227 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3228 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3229 or bus can support) for best performance.
3230 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3231 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3232 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3233 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3234 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3235 that hot-added devices will work.
4516a618
AN
3236 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3237 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3238 The default value is 256 bytes.
3239 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3240 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3241 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
32a9a682
YS
3242 resource_alignment=
3243 Format:
07d8d7e5 3244 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
32a9a682 3245 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
07d8d7e5
LG
3246 aligned memory resources. How to
3247 specify the device is described above.
32a9a682
YS
3248 If <order of align> is not specified,
3249 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3250 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3251 windows need to be expanded.
8b078c60
MK
3252 To specify the alignment for several
3253 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3254 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3255 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
43c16408
AP
3256 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3257 end-to-end CRC checking).
3258 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3259 the default.
3260 off: Turn ECRC off
3261 on: Turn ECRC on.
8c8803c5
YW
3262 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3263 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3264 Default size is 256 bytes.
3265 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3266 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3267 Default size is 2 megabytes.
e16b4660
KB
3268 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3269 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3270 Default is 1.
b55438fd
YL
3271 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3272 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3273 accommodate resources required by all child
3274 devices.
3275 off: Turn realloc off
3276 on: Turn realloc on
3277 realloc same as realloc=on
6748dcc2 3278 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
cef74409
GK
3279 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3280 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
284f5f9d
BH
3281 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3282 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3283 port.
f32ab754
UCCB
3284 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3285 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3286 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3287 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3288 conflict with unreported devices), so this
3289 taints the kernel.
aaca43fd
LG
3290 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
3291 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
3292 specified above) separated by semicolons.
3293 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
3294 redirect capabilities forced off which will
3295 allow P2P traffic between devices through
3296 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
3297 this removes isolation between devices and
3298 may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
6b4b78fe 3299
e5665a45
CE
3300 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3301 Management.
3302 off Disable ASPM.
3303 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3304 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3305
4c0fd764
BH
3306 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3307 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3308 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3309 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform
3310 also tries to use these services.
3311 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3312 hotplug).
79dd9182 3313
9d26d3a8
MW
3314 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3315 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3316 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3317
c7f48656 3318 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
c39fae14 3319 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
28eb5f27 3320 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
c7f48656 3321
1da177e4
LT
3322 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3323
39ac5ba5
TB
3324 pd_ignore_unused
3325 [PM]
3326 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3327 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3328 for debug and development, but should not be
3329 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3330
1da177e4 3331 pd. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3332 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3333
3334 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3335 boot time.
3336 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3337 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3338
f58dc01b 3339 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
e933a73f
TH
3340 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3341 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3342 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3343 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3344 and performance comparison.
fa8a7094 3345
1da177e4 3346 pf. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3347 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3348
3349 pg. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3350 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3351
3352 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
71cced6e 3353 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3354
3355 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3356 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3ba9b1b8 3357 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
1da177e4 3358
16290246 3359 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
de32a243
TG
3360 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3361 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3362
96242116
BH
3363 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3364 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3365 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3366 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3367 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3368 possible settings and some assignment information.
97ef062b 3369
1da177e4
LT
3370 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3371 { off }
3372
3373 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3374 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3375
3376 pnp_reserve_irq=
3377 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3378
3379 pnp_reserve_dma=
3380 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3381
3382 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
a9913044 3383 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
1da177e4
LT
3384
3385 pnp_reserve_mem=
a9913044
RD
3386 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3387 autoconfiguration.
1da177e4
LT
3388 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3389
4af94f39
RD
3390 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3391 Default is 21.
3392 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3393 may be specified.
3394 Format: <port>,<port>....
3395
c3cbd075
BS
3396 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3397 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3398 platform machine description specific power_save
3399 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3400 execution priority.
3401
3eb5d588
AB
3402 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3403 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3404 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3405 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3406 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3407
07fd1761
CB
3408 ppc_tm= [PPC]
3409 Format: {"off"}
3410 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3411
45807a1d
IM
3412 print-fatal-signals=
3413 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
f84d49b2
NO
3414
3415 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3416 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3417 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3418 coredump - etc.
3419
3420 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3421 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3422
45807a1d
IM
3423 default: off.
3424
c22ab332
MG
3425 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3426 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3427 panics
3428 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3429 default: disabled
3430
750afe7b
BP
3431 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3432 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3433 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3434 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3435 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3436 Default: ratelimit
3437
e84845c4
RD
3438 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3439 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3440
0cb55ad2
RD
3441 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3442 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3443 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3444
3445 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3446 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3447 instead using the legacy FADT method
3448
1da177e4 3449 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
e7e61fc0
RD
3450 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3451 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3452 [defaults to kernel profiling]
a9913044 3453 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
b3da2a73
MG
3454 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3455 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
c0fe2e69 3456 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
e7e61fc0
RD
3457 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3458 statistical time based profiling.
1da177e4 3459
1da177e4
LT
3460 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3461 before loading.
31c00fc1 3462 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 3463
a9913044
RD
3464 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3465 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
1da177e4
LT
3466 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3467 per second.
a9913044
RD
3468 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3469 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
1da177e4
LT
3470 (0 = never).
3471 psmouse.resolution=
3472 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3473 psmouse.smartscroll=
a9913044 3474 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
1da177e4
LT
3475 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3476
dee28e72
MG
3477 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3478
1da177e4 3479 pt. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3480 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 3481
01c9b17b
DH
3482 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3483 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
3484 removes hardening, but improves performance of
3485 system calls and interrupts.
3486
3487 on - unconditionally enable
3488 off - unconditionally disable
3489 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3490 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3491
3492 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3493
3494 nopti [X86_64]
3495 Equivalent to pti=off
41f4c20b 3496
dc8c8587
KS
3497 pty.legacy_count=
3498 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3499 default number.
3500
7d2c502f 3501 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
a9913044 3502
1da177e4
LT
3503 r128= [HW,DRM]
3504
3505 raid= [HW,RAID]
e52347bd 3506 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
1da177e4 3507
1da177e4 3508 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
31c00fc1 3509 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 3510
011d8261
BP
3511 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
3512
3513 cec_disable [X86]
3514 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3515 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3516
4102adab 3517 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
2d13e6ca
NC
3518 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3519
3fbfbf7a
PM
3520 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3521 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3522 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
a4889858
PM
3523 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3524 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3525 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3526 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
3fbfbf7a
PM
3527 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3528 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3529 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3530
4102adab 3531 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
3fbfbf7a
PM
3532 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3533 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3534 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3535 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3536 This improves the real-time response for the
3537 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3538 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3539 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3540 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3541
4102adab 3542 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
3543 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3544 process in one batch.
21a1ea9e 3545
a3dc2948
PM
3546 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3547 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3548 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3549 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3550
0f41c0dd
PM
3551 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3552 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 3553 RCU grace-period cleanup.
0f41c0dd 3554
37745d28
PM
3555 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3556 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 3557 RCU grace-period initialization.
0f41c0dd
PM
3558
3559 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3560 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3561 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3562 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
90040c9e 3563 the rcu_node combining tree.
37745d28 3564
7fa27001
PM
3565 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3566 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3567 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3568 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3569 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
37745d28 3570
4102adab 3571 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
ee968ac6
PM
3572 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3573 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3574 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3575 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3576 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3577 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
f885b7f2 3578
4a81e832
PM
3579 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3580 Set required age in jiffies for a
3581 given grace period before RCU starts
3582 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3583 rcu_note_context_switch().
3584
4102adab 3585 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3586 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3587 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3588 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3589 and maximum value is HZ.
3590
4102adab 3591 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3592 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3593 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3594 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3595
21871d7e 3596 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
d2af1ad7
PM
3597 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3598 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3599 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3600 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3601 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3602 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3603 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3604 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3605 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
21871d7e 3606
fbce7497
PM
3607 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3608 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3609 defaults to the square root of the number of
3610 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3611 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3612 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3613
4102adab 3614 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
3615 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3616 batch limiting is disabled.
21a1ea9e 3617
4102adab 3618 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
24aaef8d
RD
3619 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3620 batch limiting is re-enabled.
21a1ea9e 3621
4102adab 3622 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3623 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3624 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
d40011f6 3625
4102adab 3626 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3627 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3628 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3629 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3630 prove do nothing more than free memory.
d40011f6 3631
e3c50dfb
PM
3632 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3633 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3634 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3635 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3636 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3637 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3638
881ed593
PM
3639 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3640 Measure performance of asynchronous
3641 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3642
3643 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3644 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3645 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
3646 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3647 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3648 previously posted callbacks to drain.
3649
bdea9e34
PM
3650 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3651 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3652 grace-period primitives.
3653
df37e66b
PM
3654 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3655 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3656 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3657 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3658 interference.
3659
bdea9e34
PM
3660 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3661 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3662 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3663 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3664 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3665 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3666 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3667 a single reader.
3668
3669 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3670 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3671 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3672 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3673
820687a7
PM
3674 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3675 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3676
bdea9e34
PM
3677 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3678 Shut the system down after performance tests
3679 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3680 testing.
3681
bdea9e34
PM
3682 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3683 Enable additional printk() statements.
3684
820687a7
PM
3685 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3686 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3687 in microseconds. The default of zero says
3688 no holdoff.
3689
38706bc5
PM
3690 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3691 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3692 callback-flood tests.
3693
3694 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3695 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3696 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3697 test.
3698
3699 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3700 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3701 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3702 disable callback-flood testing.
3703
3704 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3705 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3706 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3707
4102adab 3708 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3709 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3710 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3711
4102adab 3712 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3713 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3714 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3715
4102adab 3716 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3717 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3718 in seconds.
3719
3720 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3721 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3722 primitives, if available.
dabb8aa9 3723
4102adab 3724 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
21b05de4 3725 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4102adab
PM
3726
3727 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3728 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3729 update-side primitives, if available.
3730
3731 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3732 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3733 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3734 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3735 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3736 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3737 they are all non-zero.
dabb8aa9 3738
4102adab 3739 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3740 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3741
4102adab 3742 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3743 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3744 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3745 test, hence the "fake".
3746
4102adab 3747 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3838cc18
PM
3748 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3749 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3750 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3751 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3752 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
dabb8aa9 3753
4102adab
PM
3754 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3755 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3756
3757 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3758 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3759
4102adab 3760 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
028be12b
PM
3761 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
3762 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
dabb8aa9 3763
4102adab 3764 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3765 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3766 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3767 during the rcutorture test.
3768
4102adab 3769 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3770 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3771 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3772
4102adab 3773 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3774 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3775 warnings, zero to disable.
3776
4102adab 3777 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3778 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3779
2b1516e5
PM
3780 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
3781 Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
3782
4102adab 3783 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3784 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3785
4102adab 3786 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3787 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3788 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3789 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3790 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3791
4102adab 3792 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3793 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3794 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3795 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3796
4102adab 3797 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3798 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3799
4102adab 3800 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3801 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3802
4102adab 3803 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3804 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3805 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3806
4102adab 3807 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3808 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3809
4102adab 3810 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3811 Enable additional printk() statements.
3812
5a9be7c6
PM
3813 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3814 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3815
3816 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3817 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3818
4102adab
PM
3819 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3820 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3821 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3822 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3823 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3824 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
79cfea02 3825 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 3826
5a9be7c6
PM
3827 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3828 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3829 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3830 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
79cfea02
PM
3831 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3832 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3833 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3834 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3835 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 3836
3e42ec1a
PM
3837 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3838 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3839 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
79cfea02
PM
3840 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3841 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3e42ec1a 3842
52db30ab
PM
3843 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3844 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3845 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3846 to zero.
3847
74860fee
PK
3848 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3849 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3850
3851 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3852 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3853
3854 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3855 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3856
ffdfc409
OJ
3857 rdinit= [KNL]
3858 Format: <full_path>
3859 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3860 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3861
1d9807fc
TL
3862 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
3863 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
31516de3
FY
3864 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
3865 mba.
1d9807fc
TL
3866 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
3867 rdt=cmt,!mba
3868
1b3a5d02
RH
3869 reboot= [KNL]
3870 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3871 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3872 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3873 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3874 [[,]f[orce]
3875 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3876 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3877 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3878 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3879 to be used for rebooting.
1da177e4 3880
46b6d94e
PJ
3881 relax_domain_level=
3882 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
09c3bcce 3883 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
46b6d94e 3884
ffd2e8df
BH
3885 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
3886 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
3887 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
3888 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
3889 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
1da177e4 3890
cd4f0ef7 3891 reservetop= [X86-32]
461a9aff
ZA
3892 Format: nn[KMG]
3893 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3894 address space.
3895
9ea77bdb
PA
3896 reservelow= [X86]
3897 Format: nn[K]
3898 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3899 the bottom of the address space.
3900
7e96287d
VG
3901 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3902 during initialization.
3903
a9913044
RD
3904 resume= [SWSUSP]
3905 Specify the partition device for software suspend
2df83fa4
MB
3906 Format:
3907 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
1da177e4 3908
ecbd0da1
RW
3909 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3910 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3911 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3912 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3913 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3914
f126f733
BS
3915 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3916 read the resume files
3917
6f8d7022
BS
3918 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3919 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3920 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3921
f996fc96
BS
3922 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3923 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3924 present during boot.
3925 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
a6e15a39 3926 no Disable hibernation and resume.
4c0b6c10
RW
3927 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
3928 (that will set all pages holding image data
3929 during restoration read-only).
f996fc96 3930
0a7b35cb
MN
3931 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3932
0efbb786
AC
3933 rfkill.default_state=
3934 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3935 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3936 1 Unblocked.
3937
3938 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3939 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3940 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3941 blocked and the previous configuration.
3942 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3943 blocked and everything unblocked.
3944
1da177e4
LT
3945 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3946 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3947
e16fd002
GA
3948 ring3mwait=disable
3949 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
3950 CPUs.
3951
1da177e4
LT
3952 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3953
d2aa1aca
KC
3954 rodata= [KNL]
3955 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3956 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3957
605df8af
HS
3958 rockchip.usb_uart
3959 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3960 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3961 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3962 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3963
1da177e4 3964 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
f2d34fd9 3965 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
1da177e4
LT
3966
3967 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3968 mount the root filesystem
3969
3970 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3971
3972 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3973
cc1ed754
PO
3974 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3975 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3976 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3977
5c71d618
RT
3978 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3979 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3980 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3981 managed by CMA.
3982
1da177e4
LT
3983 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3984
3985 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3986
c60d1ae4
GS
3987 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3988 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3989 strict
3990 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3991 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3992 which is faster.
3993
1da177e4
LT
3994 sa1100ir [NET]
3995 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3996
1da177e4 3997 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
a9913044 3998
f6630114
MT
3999 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
4000
cb251765
MG
4001 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
4002 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
4003 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
4004 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
f6630114 4005
5307c955
MG
4006 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
4007 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
4008 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
4009 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4010 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
4011 1 -- enable.
4012 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
4013 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
4014
0cb55ad2
RD
4015 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
4016 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
4017 security module asking for security registration will be
4018 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
4019 as if no module has been chosen.
4020
4021 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
1da177e4
LT
4022 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4023 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
4024 0 -- disable.
4025 1 -- enable.
4026 Default value is set via kernel config option.
4027 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
4028 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
4029
c1c124e9
JJ
4030 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
4031 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4032 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
4033 0 -- disable.
4034 1 -- enable.
4035 Default value is set via kernel config option.
4036
cd4f0ef7 4037 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
1da177e4 4038
1da177e4
LT
4039 shapers= [NET]
4040 Maximal number of shapers.
a9913044 4041
1da177e4
LT
4042 simeth= [IA-64]
4043 simscsi=
a9913044 4044
1da177e4
LT
4045 slram= [HW,MTD]
4046
423c929c
JK
4047 slab_nomerge [MM]
4048 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
4049 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
7660a6fd
KC
4050 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
4051 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
4052 layout control by attackers can usually be
4053 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
4054 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
4055 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
4056 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
4057 own.
ad56b738 4058 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
423c929c 4059
3df1cccd
DR
4060 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
4061 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4062 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4063 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
4064 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
4065
f0630fff
CL
4066 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
4067 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
4068 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
4069 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
4070 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
4071 last alloc / free. For more information see
ad56b738 4072 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215 4073
1663f26d
TH
4074 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
4075 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
4076 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
4077 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
4078 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
4079 directories and files being created under
4080 /sys/kernel/slub.
4081
c1aee215 4082 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
4083 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4084 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4085 fragmentation. For more information see
ad56b738 4086 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
4087
4088 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
4089 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
4090 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
4091 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
4092 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
4093 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
4094 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
ad56b738 4095 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
4096
4097 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
24775d65 4098 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
f0630fff 4099 lower than slub_max_order.
ad56b738 4100 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
4101
4102 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
423c929c
JK
4103 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
4104 See slab_nomerge for more information.
c1aee215 4105
1da177e4
LT
4106 smart2= [HW]
4107 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
4108
d0d4f69b
BH
4109 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
4110 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
4111 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
4112 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
4113 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
4114 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
4115 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
4116 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
4117 1: Fast pin select (default)
4118 2: ATC IRMode
4119
52c48c51
SS
4120 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4121 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4122 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4123 actual hardware limit.
4124 Format: <integer>
4125 Default: -1 (no limit)
4126
9c44bc03
IM
4127 softlockup_panic=
4128 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
44a4dcf7 4129 Format: <integer>
9c44bc03 4130
3ce62385
BP
4131 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
4132 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
4133 is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
4134 which is the respective build-time switch to that
4135 functionality.
4136
ed235875
AT
4137 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4138 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4139 backtraces on all cpus.
4140 Format: <integer>
4141
1da177e4 4142 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
395cf969 4143 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
1da177e4 4144
da285121
DW
4145 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4146 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
4147
4148 on - unconditionally enable
4149 off - unconditionally disable
4150 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4151 vulnerable
4152
4153 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4154 mitigation method at run time according to the
4155 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4156 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4157 compiler with which the kernel was built.
4158
4159 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4160
4161 retpoline - replace indirect branches
4162 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4163 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4164
4165 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4166 spectre_v2=auto.
4167
24f7fc83
KRW
4168 spec_store_bypass_disable=
4169 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
4170 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
4171
4172 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
4173 a common industry wide performance optimization known
4174 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
4175 to the same memory location may not be observed by
4176 later loads during speculative execution. The idea
4177 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
4178 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
4179 end of a particular speculation execution window.
4180
4181 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4182 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
4183 example to read memory to which the attacker does not
4184 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
4185
4186 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
4187 Bypass optimization is used.
4188
6b4c1360
ME
4189 On x86 the options are:
4190
f21b53b2
KC
4191 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
4192 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
4193 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
4194 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
4195 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
4196 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
4197 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
4198 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
4199 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
4200 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
4201 for a process by default. The state of the control
4202 is inherited on fork.
4203 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
4204 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
24f7fc83 4205
f21b53b2
KC
4206 Default mitigations:
4207 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4208
6b4c1360
ME
4209 On powerpc the options are:
4210
4211 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
4212 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
4213 perform a software flush on kernel entry and
4214 exit.
4215 off - No action.
4216
4217 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4218 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
4219
1da177e4
LT
4220 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
4221 spia_fio_base=
4222 spia_pedr=
4223 spia_peddr=
4224
c350c008
PM
4225 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4226 Specifies how frequently to check for
4227 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4228 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4229 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4230 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4231 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
4232 are ignored.
4233
22607d66
PM
4234 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4235 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4236 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4237 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4238 grace period will be considered for automatic
4239 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
4240 expediting.
4241
a43ae4df
MZ
4242 ssbd= [ARM64,HW]
4243 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
4244
4245 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
4246 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
4247 firmware based mitigation, this parameter
4248 indicates how the mitigation should be used:
4249
4250 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for
4251 for both kernel and userspace
4252 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
4253 for both kernel and userspace
4254 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the
4255 kernel, and offer a prctl interface
4256 to allow userspace to register its
4257 interest in being mitigated too.
4258
1be7107f
HD
4259 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
4260 override the default stack gap protection. The value
4261 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4262 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4263 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4264 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4265
f38f1d2a
SR
4266 stacktrace [FTRACE]
4267 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4268
762e1207
SR
4269 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4270 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4271 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4272 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4273 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4274 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4275 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4276
1da177e4
LT
4277 sti= [PARISC,HW]
4278 Format: <num>
4279 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4280 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4281 as the initial boot-console.
4282 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4283
4284 sti_font= [HW]
4285 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4286
4287 stifb= [HW]
4288 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4289
cbf11071
TM
4290 sunrpc.min_resvport=
4291 sunrpc.max_resvport=
4292 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4293 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4294 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4295 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4296 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4297 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4298 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4299 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4300 maximum port values.
4301
ff3ac5c3
TM
4302 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4303 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4304 Limit the number of requests that the server will
4305 process in parallel from a single connection.
4306 The default value is 0 (no limit).
4307
42a7fc4a
GB
4308 sunrpc.pool_mode=
4309 [NFS]
4310 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4311 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
4312 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4313 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4314 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4315 NFS server is running.
4316
4317 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
4318 automatically using heuristics
4319 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
4320 percpu one pool for each CPU
4321 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4322 to global on non-NUMA machines)
4323
cbf11071
TM
4324 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4325 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4326 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4327 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4328 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4329 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4330 improve throughput, but will also increase the
4331 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4332
1d4a9c17
BN
4333 suspend.pm_test_delay=
4334 [SUSPEND]
4335 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4336 mode before resuming the system (see
4337 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4338 is set. Default value is 5.
4339
07555ac1 4340 swapaccount=[0|1]
a42c390c
MH
4341 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4342 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
09c3bcce 4343 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
a42c390c 4344
91fec0f5 4345 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
fff5d992 4346 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
91fec0f5
JK
4347 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4348 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4349 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
fff5d992 4350 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
a9913044 4351
1da177e4
LT
4352 switches= [HW,M68k]
4353
e52eec13
AK
4354 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4355 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4356 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4357 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4358 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4359 in older udev will not work anymore.
4360 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4361 the kernel configuration.
4362
5d6f647f
IM
4363 sysrq_always_enabled
4364 [KNL]
4365 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4366 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4367 Useful for debugging.
4368
747029a5
FF
4369 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4370 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4371 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4372 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4373 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4374 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4375
1da177e4
LT
4376 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
4377
acc82342 4378 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
77437fd4 4379 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
acc82342
SP
4380 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4381 as the system sleep state during system startup with
4382 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4383 The system is woken from this state using a
4384 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
77437fd4 4385
1da177e4
LT
4386 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4387 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4388
f8707ec9
LB
4389 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
4390 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4391 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4392
c52a7419
LB
4393 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
4394 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
22a94d79 4395 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
c52a7419 4396
f5487145
LB
4397 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
4398 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4399 critical and hot trip points.
4400
72b33ef8
LB
4401 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
4402 1: disable ACPI thermal control
4403
a70cdc52
LB
4404 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
4405 -1: disable all passive trip points
ada9cfdd
RD
4406 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4407 value
a70cdc52 4408
730ff34d
LB
4409 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
4410 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4411 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4412 0: no polling (default)
4413
8d32a307
TG
4414 threadirqs [KNL]
4415 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
24775d65 4416 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
8d32a307 4417
2ca62b04
KRW
4418 tmem [KNL,XEN]
4419 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4420
4421 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4422 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4423 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4424
4425 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4426 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
37d46e15
KRW
4427 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4428 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
2ca62b04
KRW
4429
4430 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4431 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4432 to the hypervisor.
4433
4434 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4435 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4436 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4437 kernel based on different criteria.
4438
2b1a61f0
HC
4439 topology= [S390]
4440 Format: {off | on}
4441 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
f65e51d7
SL
4442 topology information if the hardware supports this.
4443 The scheduler will make use of this information and
2b1a61f0 4444 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
c9af3fa9 4445 Default is on.
2b1a61f0 4446
2d73bae1
NA
4447 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4448 Format: {off}
4449 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4450 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4451 LPAR.
4452
1da177e4
LT
4453 tp720= [HW,PS2]
4454
225a9be2
RA
4455 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4456 Format: integer pcr id
4457 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4458 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4459 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4460 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4461 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4462 are saved.
4463
9d612bef 4464 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
3e6fb8e9 4465 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
631595fb 4466
020e5f85
LZ
4467 trace_event=[event-list]
4468 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
d81749ea
BN
4469 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4470 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
5fb94e9c 4471 also Documentation/trace/events.rst
020e5f85 4472
7bcfaf54
SR
4473 trace_options=[option-list]
4474 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4475 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4476 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4477 to echo the option name into
4478
4479 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4480
4481 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4482 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4483
4484 trace_options=stacktrace
4485
5fb94e9c 4486 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
7bcfaf54
SR
4487 section.
4488
0daa2302
SRRH
4489 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4490 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4491 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4492 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4493 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4494 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4495
4496 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4497 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4498 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4499 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4500
4501 ** CAUTION **
4502
4503 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4504 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4505 the system to live lock.
4506
de7edd31
SRRH
4507 traceoff_on_warning
4508 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4509 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4510 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4511 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4512
4513 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4514 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4515 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4516
4517 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4518 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4519
fcf4d821
JK
4520 transparent_hugepage=
4521 [KNL]
4522 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4523 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4524 with respect to transparent hugepages.
45c9a74f
MR
4525 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
4526 for more details.
fcf4d821 4527
d3b8f889 4528 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
395628ef
AK
4529 Format: <string>
4530 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
d3b8f889
JS
4531 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4532 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4533 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4534 virtualized environment.
e82b8e4e
VP
4535 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4536 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4537 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4538 can add overhead.
6be53520
DL
4539 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4540 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4541 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
395628ef 4542
a9913044
RD
4543 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4544 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4545 Format:
4546 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
1752118d 4547 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4 4548
b6935f8c 4549 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
e52347bd 4550 happen after console_init() and before a proper
b6935f8c
CK
4551 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4552 help "seeing" what's going on.
4553
f86dcc5a
ED
4554 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4555 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4556
5f8364b7
AS
4557 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4558 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4559 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4560 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4561 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4562 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4563 reported either.
4564
e3a61b0a 4565 unknown_nmi_panic
44a4dcf7 4566 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
e3a61b0a 4567
c4fc2342
CDH
4568 usbcore.authorized_default=
4569 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4570 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4571 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4572
b5e795f8
AS
4573 usbcore.autosuspend=
4574 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4575 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4576 is the time required before an idle device will be
4577 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
eaafbc3a 4578 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
b5e795f8 4579
fd7c519d
JK
4580 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4581 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4582
0290cc9f
AS
4583 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4584 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4585 (default = 65536).
4586
fd7c519d
JK
4587 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4588 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4589
4590 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4591 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
4592 scheme (default 0 = off).
4593
3f5eb8d5
AS
4594 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4595 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4596 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4597
fd7c519d
JK
4598 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4599 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4600 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4601
4602 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4603 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
6dddd7a7 4604 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
fd7c519d
JK
4605 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4606
40d58148
ON
4607 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4608
027bd6ca
KHF
4609 usbcore.quirks=
4610 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
4611 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
4612 commas. Each entry has the form
4613 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
4614 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
4615 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
4616 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
4617 the following meanings:
4618 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
4619 descriptors must not be fetched using
4620 a 255-byte read);
4621 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
4622 correctly so reset it instead);
4623 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
4624 Set-Interface requests);
4625 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
4626 handle its Configuration or Interface
4627 strings);
4628 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
4629 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
4630 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
4631 more interface descriptions than the
4632 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
4633 talking to these interfaces);
4634 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
4635 during initialization, after we read
4636 the device descriptor);
4637 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
4638 high speed and super speed interrupt
4639 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
4640 require the interval in microframes (1
4641 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
4642 calculated as interval = 2 ^
4643 (bInterval-1).
4644 Devices with this quirk report their
4645 bInterval as the result of this
4646 calculation instead of the exponent
4647 variable used in the calculation);
4648 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
4649 handle device_qualifier descriptor
4650 requests);
4651 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
4652 generates spurious wakeup, ignore
4653 remote wakeup capability);
4654 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
4655 Power Management);
4656 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
4657 (Device reports its bInterval as linear
4658 frames instead of the USB 2.0
4659 calculation);
4660 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
4661 to be disconnected before suspend to
4d8d5a39
KHF
4662 prevent spurious wakeup);
4663 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
4664 pause after every control message);
027bd6ca
KHF
4665 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
4666
1da177e4
LT
4667 usbhid.mousepoll=
4668 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
a9913044 4669
933bfe4d
TJ
4670 usbhid.jspoll=
4671 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4672
2ddc8e2d
FA
4673 usbhid.kbpoll=
4674 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
4675
d4f373e5
AS
4676 usb-storage.delay_use=
4677 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
19101954 4678 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
d4f373e5
AS
4679
4680 usb-storage.quirks=
4681 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4682 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4683 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4684 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4685 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4686 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4687 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
c838ea46
AS
4688 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4689 of sense data);
a0bb1081
AS
4690 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4691 bytes of sense data);
d4f373e5
AS
4692 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4693 device capacity by one sector);
5116901d
KR
4694 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4695 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4696 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4697 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
734016b0
HG
4698 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4699 command, uas only);
ee136af4
HG
4700 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4701 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
c838ea46
AS
4702 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4703 reported device capacity by one
4704 sector if the number is odd);
d4f373e5
AS
4705 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4706 device);
13630746
HG
4707 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4708 command, uas only);
d4f373e5
AS
4709 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4710 unlock ejectable media);
4711 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4712 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
21c13a4f
AS
4713 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4714 initial READ(10) command);
c838ea46
AS
4715 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4716 reported by the device);
eaa05dfc
NJ
4717 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4718 by default);
d4f373e5
AS
4719 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4720 bogus residue values);
4721 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4722 Logical Unit);
59307852
HG
4723 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4724 commands, uas only);
b6089f19 4725 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
d4f373e5
AS
4726 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4727 medium is write-protected).
050bc4e8
ON
4728 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4729 even if the device claims no cache)
d4f373e5
AS
4730 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4731
ac1667db
SB
4732 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4733 Format: <int>
4734 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4735 1 - undefined instruction events
4736 2 - system calls
4737 4 - invalid data aborts
4738 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4739 16 - SIGBUS faults
4740 Example: user_debug=31
4741
14315592
IC
4742 userpte=
4743 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4744
4745 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4746 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4747 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4748
6cececfc 4749 vdso= [X86,SH]
b0b49f26
AL
4750 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4751
4752 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
e6e5494c
IM
4753 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4754
b0b49f26
AL
4755 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4756 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4757 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4758
4759 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4760 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4761 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4762
4763 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4764 alias for vdso32=0.
4765
4766 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4767 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
af65d648 4768
d080d397
YI
4769 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4770 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4771
1da177e4
LT
4772 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4773 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4774
3afe6dab
AL
4775 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4776 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4777 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4778 level and then send out the event to user space through
4779 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4780 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4781 brightness level.
2843768b 4782 default: 1
3afe6dab 4783
81a054ce
PM
4784 virtio_mmio.device=
4785 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4786
4787 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4788 where:
4789 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4790 like K, M and G)
4791 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4792 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4793 request_irq())
4794 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4795 example:
4796 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4797
4798 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4799
cd4f0ef7 4800 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
954a8b81 4801 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
a9913044 4802 Documentation/svga.txt.
1da177e4
LT
4803 Use vga=ask for menu.
4804 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4805 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4806
a9913044 4807 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
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4808 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4809 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4810 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4811 mapped kernel RAM.
4812
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4813 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390]
4814 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
4815 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
4816
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4817 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4818 Format: <command>
1da177e4 4819
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4820 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4821 Format: <command>
4822
4823 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4824 Format: <command>
a9913044 4825
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4826 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4827 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4828 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4829 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4830 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4831 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4832 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4833
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4834 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4835 emulated reasonably safely.
3ae36655 4836
2e57ae05 4837 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
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4838 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4839 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4840 better than they would in emulation mode.
4841 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4842
4843 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4844 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4845 might break your system.
4846
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4847 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4848 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4849 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4850
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4851 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4852 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4853 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4854 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4855
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4856 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4857 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4858 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4859 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4860 ranging from 0-255.
4861
4862 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4863 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4864 Change the default green palette of the console.
4865 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4866 ranging from 0-255.
4867
4868 vt.default_red= [VT]
4869 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4870 Change the default red palette of the console.
4871 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4872 ranging from 0-255.
4873
4874 vt.default_utf8=
4875 [VT]
4876 Format=<0|1>
4877 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4878 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4879 newly opened terminals.
4880
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4881 vt.global_cursor_default=
4882 [VT]
4883 Format=<-1|0|1>
4884 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4885 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4886 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4887 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4888 cursors, 1 will display them.
4889
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4890 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4891 Default: 2 = green.
4892
4893 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4894 Default: 3 = cyan.
4895
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4896 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4897 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4898 or other driver-specific files in the
4899 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
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4901 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4902 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4903 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4904 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4905 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4906 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4907 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4908 corresponding sysfs file.
4909
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4910 workqueue.disable_numa
4911 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4912 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4913 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4914 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4915 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4916 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4917 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4918
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4919 workqueue.power_efficient
4920 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4921 they show better performance thanks to cache
4922 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4923 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4924
4925 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4926 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4927 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4928 power usage at the cost of small performance
4929 overhead.
4930
4931 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4932 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4933
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4934 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4935 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4936 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4937 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
4938 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4939 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
4940 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4941 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4942 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4943 impacted.
4944
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4945 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4946 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4947 supporting x2apic.
4948
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4949 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4950 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
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4951 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4952 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
712b6aa8 4953 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
bb24c471 4954
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4955 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4956 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4957 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4958 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4959 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4960 domains.
4961
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4962 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4963 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4964 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4965 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4966 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4967 nics -- unplug network devices
4968 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
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IC
4969 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4970 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4971 the unplug protocol
c93a4dfb 4972 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
c1c5413a 4973
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KRW
4974 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4975 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4976 optimizations.
4977
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KRW
4978 xen_nopv [X86]
4979 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4980 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4981
1da177e4 4982 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
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4983 Format:
4984 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
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4985
4986 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL]
4987 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
4988 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
4989 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.