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b10d79f7 1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
03d926f8 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
6a1f5471 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
e58d154b 4 copy_dsdt }
1da177e4 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6a1f5471 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
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7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
1da177e4 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
237889bf 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
aa2110cb 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
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13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14 are available
1da177e4 15
395cf969 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
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18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
19 Format: <int>
20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21 1,0: use 1st APIC table
4e381a4f 22 default: 0
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24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
25 acpi_backlight=vendor
26 acpi_backlight=video
27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
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31 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
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37 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41 This option is useful for developers to identify the
42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
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45 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
1da177e4 47 Format: <int>
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48 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
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55 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
56 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
57 debug layers and levels.
a0d84a92 58
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59 Enable processor driver info messages:
60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
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63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64 object while interpreting AML:
65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
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66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69 Some values produce so much output that the system is
70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71 if you need to capture more output.
f989106c 72
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73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
74 { strict | lax | no }
75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79 can interfere with legacy drivers.
80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87 no further checks are performed.
88
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89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92 size limitation.
93
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94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95 ACPI will balance active IRQs
96 default in APIC mode
97
98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100 default in PIC mode
101
102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106 use by PCI
107 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
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109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113 the GPE dispatcher.
114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115 GPE floodings.
116 Format: <int>
117 Support masking of GPEs numbered from 0x00 to 0x7f.
118
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119 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
120 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
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121 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
122 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
123 auto-serialization feature.
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124 This feature is enabled by default.
125 This option allows to turn off the feature.
22b5afce 126
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127 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
128 kernels.
129
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130 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
131 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
132 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
133 installed automatically and they will appear under
134 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
135 This option turns off this feature.
136 Note that specifying this option does not affect
137 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
138 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
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140 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
141 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
142 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
143 second kernel for kdump.
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145 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
146 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
147
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148 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
149 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
150 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
151 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
152 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
153
0cb55ad2 154 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
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155 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
156 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
741d8128 157 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
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158 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
159 strings
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160 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
161 strings
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162 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
163
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164 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
165 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
166 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
167 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
168 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
169 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
170 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
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171 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
172 care about the state of the feature group strings which
173 should be controlled by the OSPM.
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174 Examples:
175 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
176 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
177 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
178
179 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
180 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
181 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
182 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
183 multiple times through kernel command line is also
184 meaningless.
185 Examples:
186 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
187 FALSE.
188
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189 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
190 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
191 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
192 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
193 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
194 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
195 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
196 there are quirks related to this string. This command
197 is useful when one want to control the state of the
198 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
199 the OSPM features.
200 Examples:
201 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
202 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
203 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
204 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
205 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
206 equivalent to
207 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
208 and
209 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
210 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
211
6cececfc 212 acpi_pm_good [X86]
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213 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
214 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
215 and always returns good values.
216
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217 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
218 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
219
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220 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
221 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
222 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
223
224 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
225 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
c3b0795c 226 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable }
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227 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
228 s3_bios and s3_mode.
229 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
230 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
231 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
232 used during resume from hibernation.
233 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
234 control method, with respect to putting devices into
235 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
236 of _PTS is used by default).
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237 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
238 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
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239 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
240 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
241 but some broken systems don't work without it).
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242
243 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
244 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
245 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
246
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247 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
248 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
249
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250 agp= [AGP]
251 { off | try_unsupported }
252 off: disable AGP support
253 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
254 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
255
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256 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
257 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
258
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259 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
260 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
261 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
262 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
263
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264 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
265 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
266 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
267 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
268 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
269 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
270 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
271
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272 32: only for 32-bit processes
273 64: only for 64-bit processes
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274 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
275 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
276
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277 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
278 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
279 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
280 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
281 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
282 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
283
89e0b9a3 284 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
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285 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
286 Possible values are:
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287 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
288 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
289 flushed before they will be reused, which
290 is a lot of faster
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291 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
292 the system
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293 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
294 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
295 allowed anymore to lift isolation
296 requirements as needed. This option
297 does not override iommu=pt
afa9fdc2 298
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299 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
300 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
301 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
302 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
303 IOMMU initialization.
304
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305 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
306 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
307 remapping modes:
308 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
309 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
310 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
311 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
312 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
313
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314 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
315 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
316 Format: <a>,<b>
395cf969 317 See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt
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318
319 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
320 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
321 connected to one of 16 gameports
322 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
323
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324 apc= [HW,SPARC]
325 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
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326 Format: noidle
327 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
328 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
329 APC and your system crashes randomly.
330
ca1eda2d 331 apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
c8facbb6 332 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
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333 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
334 Change the amount of debugging information output
335 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
a9913044 336
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337 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
338 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
339 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
340 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
341 backup of CPU 0
342 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
343 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
344 shot down by NMI
345
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346 autoconf= [IPV6]
347 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
348
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349 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
350 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
351 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
352 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
353 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
354 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
355 apic=verbose is specified.
356 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
357
1da177e4 358 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
71f77055 359 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
1da177e4 360
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361 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
362 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
363
364 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
365
366 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
367
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368 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
369 EzKey and similar keyboards
370
371 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
372
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373 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
374 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
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375
376 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
377 keyboards
378
379 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
380 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
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381
382 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
383 Use software keyboard repeat
1da177e4 384
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385 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
386 Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
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387 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
388 until the next reboot
389 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
390 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
391 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
392 storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
393 RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
394 auditd.
a106fb0c 395 Default: unset
f3411cb2 396
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397 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
398 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
399 Default: 64
400
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401 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
402 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
403 Format: { "0" | "1" }
404 0 - Disable the BAU.
405 1 - Enable the BAU.
406 unset - Disable the BAU.
407
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408 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
409 Format: <io>,<mode>
a9913044 410
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411 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
412 Format: <io>,<mode>
413 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
414
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415 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
416 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
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417 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
418 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
419
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420 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
421 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
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422 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
423 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
424
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425 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
426 embedded devices based on command line input.
427 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
428
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429 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
430 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
431 no delay (0).
432 Format: integer
433
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434 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
435
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436 bert_disable [ACPI]
437 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
438
1da177e4 439 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
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440 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
441 kernel args too.
1da177e4 442 bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
395cf969 443 bttv.tuner=
1da177e4 444
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445 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
446 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
447 at a time.
448
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449 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
450
cd4f0ef7 451 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
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452 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
453 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
454 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
455 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
456 This option provides an override for these situations.
457
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458 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
459 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
460 trust validation.
32c4741c 461 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
ffb70f61 462
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463 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
464 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
465 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
466 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
467 others).
468
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469 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
470 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
1da177e4 471
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472 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
473 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
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474 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
475 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
476 a single hierarchy
477 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
478 subsystem
479 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
480 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
481 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
8bab8dde 482
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483 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
484 Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
485 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
486 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
487
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488 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
489 Format: <string>
490 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
04823c83 491 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
f7e1cb6e 492
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493 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
494 Format: { "0" | "1" }
495 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
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496 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
497 any implied execute protection).
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498 1 -- check protection requested by application.
499 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
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500 Value can be changed at runtime via
501 /selinux/checkreqprot.
502
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503 cio_ignore= [S390]
504 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
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505 clk_ignore_unused
506 [CLK]
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507 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
508 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
509 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
510 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
511 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
512 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
513 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
514 platform with proper driver support. For more
515 information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
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cd4f0ef7 517 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
734efb46 518 [Deprecated]
3f6dee9b 519 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
734efb46 520 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
3f6dee9b 521 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
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522 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
523
592913ec 524 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
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525 Format: <string>
526 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
527 with the name specified.
528 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
529 the platform:
530 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
531 [ACPI] acpi_pm
532 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
533 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
9863c90f 534 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
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535 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
536 [MIPS] MIPS
537 [PARISC] cr16
538 [S390] tod
539 [SH] SuperH
540 [SPARC64] tick
541 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
542
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543 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
544 [ARM,ARM64]
545 Format: <bool>
546 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
547 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
548 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
549 systems.
550
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551 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
552 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
cd4d09ec 553 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
07983f0e 554 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
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555 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
556 ones should be.
557 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
558 or using the feature without checking anything
559 will still see it. This just prevents it from
560 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
561 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
562 some critical bits.
563
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564 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
565 [ARM,X86,KNL]
566 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
567 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
568 placement constraint by the physical address range of
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569 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
570 altogether. For more information, see
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571 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
572
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573 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
574 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
575 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
576 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
577 a hypervisor.
578 Default: yes
579
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580 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
581 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
e9da6e99 582 allocations, by default set to 256K.
c7909509 583
6cececfc 584 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
a25bd949 585 in an oops report.
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586 Range: 0 - 8192
587 Default: 64
588
1da177e4 589 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
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590 Format:
591 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
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592
593 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
594 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
595
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596 com90xx= [HW,NET]
597 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
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598 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
599
600 condev= [HW,S390] console device
601 conmode=
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603 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
604
605 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
606
607 ttyS<n>[,options]
f1a1c2dc 608 ttyUSB0[,options]
1da177e4 609 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
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610 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
611 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
612 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
613 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
614
e52347bd 615 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
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616 information. See
617 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
618 alternative.
1da177e4 619
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620 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
621 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
bd94c407 622 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
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624 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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625 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
626 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
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627 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
628 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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629 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
630 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
631 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
632 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
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633 the h/w is not re-initialized.
634
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636 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
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638 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
639 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
640 console=brl,ttyS0
641 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
642
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643 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
644 seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
645 disables the blank timer.
646
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647 coredump_filter=
648 [KNL] Change the default value for
649 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
650 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
651
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652 coresight_cpu_debug.enable
653 [ARM,ARM64]
654 Format: <bool>
655 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
656 0: default value, disable debugging
657 1: enable debugging at boot time
658
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659 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
660 disable the cpuidle sub-system
661
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662 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
663 disable the cpufreq sub-system
664
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665 cpu_init_udelay=N
666 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
667 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
668 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
669 Default: 10000
670
1da177e4 671 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
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672 Format:
673 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
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675 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
676 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
677 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
678 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
679 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
680 is selected automatically. Check
681 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
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683 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
684 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
685 in the running system. The syntax of range is
686 start-[end] where start and end are both
687 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
6f21e646 688 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
fb391599 689
adbc742b 690 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
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691 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
692 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
693 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
694 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
695 available.
696 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
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697 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
698 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
699 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
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700 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
701 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
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702 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
703 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
704 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
705 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
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706 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
707 for second kernel instead.
708 0: to disable low allocation.
adbc742b 709 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
55a20ee7 710 or memory reserved is below 4G.
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712 cryptomgr.notests
713 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
714
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715 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
716 Format: <dma>
717
718 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
719 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
a9913044 720
a9913044 721 dasd= [HW,NET]
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722 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
723
724 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
725 (one device per port)
726 Format: <port#>,<type>
727 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
728
a648ec05 729 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
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730 time. See
731 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
29e36c9f 732 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
a648ec05 733
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734 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
735
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736 debug_locks_verbose=
737 [KNL] verbose self-tests
738 Format=<0|1>
739 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
740 self-tests.
741 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
742 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
743 only useful to kernel developers.
744
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745 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
746
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747 no_debug_objects
748 [KNL] Disable object debugging
749
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750 debug_guardpage_minorder=
751 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
752 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
753 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
754 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
755 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
756 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
757 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
758 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
759 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
760 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
761 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
762 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
763 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
764 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
765 bypassed) which are not detectable by
766 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
767 tracking down these problems.
768
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769 debug_pagealloc=
770 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
771 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
772 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
773 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
774 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
775 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
776 on: enable the feature
777
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778 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
779
2d27a966 780 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
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781 Format: <area>[,<node>]
782 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
783
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785 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
786 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
787 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
788 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
789 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
790 if not specified.
55ff9780 791
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792 dhash_entries= [KNL]
793 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
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795 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
796 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
797 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
798 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
799 miss to occur.
800
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801 disable= [IPV6]
802 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
803
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804 disable_radix [PPC]
805 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
806
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807 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
808 Format: <int>
809 The number of initial APIC ID for the
810 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
811 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
812 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
813 causing system reset or hang due to sending
814 INIT from AP to BSP.
815
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816 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
817 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
818 to workaround buggy firmware.
819
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820 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
821 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
822
95ffa243 823 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
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824 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
825 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
0cb55ad2 826 entry later. This parameter disables that.
95ffa243 827
093af8d7 828 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
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829 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
830 memory out of your available memory pool based on
831 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
832 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
833
6cececfc 834 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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835 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
836 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
837
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838 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
839
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840 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
841 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
842
843 dma_debug_entries=<number>
844 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
845 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
846 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
847 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
848 architectural default is too low.
849
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850 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
851 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
852 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
853 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
854 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
855 driver later using sysfs.
856
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857 drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
858 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
859 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
860 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
861 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
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862 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
863 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
864 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
865 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
866 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
867 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
868 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
869 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
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870 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
871 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
872 data set with no connector name will be used for
873 any connectors not explicitly specified.
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875 dscc4.setup= [NET]
876
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877 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC]
878 Format: {"off" | "known"}
879 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
880 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
881 exists).
882 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
883 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
884 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
885
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886 dump_apple_properties [X86]
887 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
888 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
889 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
890
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891 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
892 module.dyndbg[="val"]
893 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
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894 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
895 for details.
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897 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
898 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
899 information about the feature.
900
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901 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
902 in some Intel CPUs.
903
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904 module.async_probe [KNL]
905 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
906
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907 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
908 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
909 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
910 which are not unmapped.
911
0cb55ad2 912 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
0d3c673e 913
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914 When used with no options, the early console is
915 determined by the stdout-path property in device
916 tree's chosen node.
917
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918 cdns,<addr>[,options]
919 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
920 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
921 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
922 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
923 configured.
6fa62fc4 924
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925 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
926 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1917ac76 927 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
6e63be3f 928 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
ca782f16 929 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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930 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
931 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
16290246 932 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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933 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
934 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
935 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
936 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
ca782f16 937 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
0cb55ad2 938
0d3c673e 939 pl011,<addr>
3b78fae7 940 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
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941 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
942 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
943 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
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944 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
945 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
946 the device registers.
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948 meson,<addr>
949 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
950 port at the specified address. The serial port must
951 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
952 supported.
953
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954 msm_serial,<addr>
955 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
956 port at the specified address. The serial port
957 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
958 yet supported.
959
960 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
961 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
962 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
963 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
964 yet supported.
965
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966 owl,<addr>
967 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
968 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
969 specified address. The serial port must already be
970 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
971
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972 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
973
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974 s3c2410,<addr>
975 s3c2412,<addr>
976 s3c2440,<addr>
977 s3c6400,<addr>
978 s5pv210,<addr>
979 exynos4210,<addr>
980 Use early console provided by serial driver available
981 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
982 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
983 serial port must already be setup and configured.
984 Options are not yet supported.
985
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986 lantiq,<addr>
987 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
988 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
989 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
990 yet supported.
991
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992 lpuart,<addr>
993 lpuart32,<addr>
994 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
995 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
996 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
997 port must already be setup and configured.
998
f7c864e7 999 ar3700_uart,<addr>
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1000 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1001 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1002 address. The serial port must already be setup
1003 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1004
89175cf7 1005 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k,S390]
1da177e4 1006 earlyprintk=vga
72548e83 1007 earlyprintk=efi
89175cf7 1008 earlyprintk=sclp
2482a92e 1009 earlyprintk=xen
1da177e4 1010 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
147ea091 1011 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
ea3acb19 1012 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
9780bc41 1013 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
ad2e60ff 1014 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1b5aeebf 1015 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1da177e4 1016
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1017 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1018 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1019 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1020
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1022 takes over.
1023
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1024 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1025 be used at a time.
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1027 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1028 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1029 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1030 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1031 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1032 You can find the port for a given device in
1033 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1034 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
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1035
1036 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1037 very good.
1038
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1039 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1040 the real console.
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1042 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1043
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1044 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1045
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1046 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1047 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1048 UART class.
1049
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1050 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1051 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1052 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1053 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1054 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1055 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1056 default: on.
1057
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1058 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1059 ekgdboc=kbd
1060
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1062 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1063
1da177e4 1064 edd= [EDD]
8c4dd606 1065 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1da177e4 1066
d2f7cbe7 1067 efi= [EFI]
fed6cefe 1068 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
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1069 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1070 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1071 default.
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1072 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1073 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1074 firmware implementations.
5ae3683c 1075 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
fed6cefe 1076 debug: enable misc debug output
d2f7cbe7 1077
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1078 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1079 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1080 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1081 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1082 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1083
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1084 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1085 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1086 updating original EFI memory map.
1087 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1088 from ss to ss+nn.
1089 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1090 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1091 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1092 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1093
1094 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1095 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1096 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1097 doesn't support it.
1098
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1099 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1100 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1101 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1102 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1103 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1104
1105
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1106 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1107 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1108
cd4f0ef7 1109 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1da177e4 1110 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
71f77055 1111 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1da177e4
LT
1112
1113 elevator= [IOSCHED]
17a9e7bb 1114 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
395cf969 1115 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
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1116 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1117
d3bf3795 1118 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
a9913044 1119 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
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1120 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1121 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
aac04b32 1122 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
1da177e4 1123
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1124 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1125 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1126 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1127 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1128
ca1eda2d 1129 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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RD
1130 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1131 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1132 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1133 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1134
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LT
1135 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1136 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1137 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1138 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1139 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1140 Default value is 0.
1141 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1142
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1143 erst_disable [ACPI]
1144 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1145 support.
1146
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LT
1147 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1148 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1149 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1150
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1151 evm= [EVM]
1152 Format: { "fix" }
1153 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1154 current integrity status.
1155
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AM
1156 failslab=
1157 fail_page_alloc=
1158 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1159 General fault injection mechanism.
1160 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
395cf969 1161 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
de1ba09b 1162
1da177e4 1163 floppy= [HW]
31c00fc1 1164 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1da177e4 1165
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AC
1166 force_pal_cache_flush
1167 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1168 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1169 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1170 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1171
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CB
1172 forcepae [X86-32]
1173 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1174 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1175 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1176 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1177 and may cause unknown problems.
1178
d9e54076 1179 ftrace=[tracer]
2af15d6a 1180 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
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1181 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1182 boot debugging.
1183
cecbca96 1184 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
2af15d6a 1185 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
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FW
1186 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1187 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1188 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1189 oops.
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SR
1190
1191 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1192 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1193 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1194 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1195 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
16290246 1196 tracing directory.
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SR
1197
1198 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1199 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1200 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1201 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1202 tracing directory.
d9e54076 1203
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SA
1204 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1205 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1206 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1207 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1208 that can be changed at run time by the
1209 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1210
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NK
1211 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1212 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1213 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1214 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1215 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1216
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TB
1217 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1218 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1219 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1220 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1221 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1222
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LT
1223 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1224 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1225 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1226 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1227 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
1228
1229 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1230
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YL
1231 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1232 Format: off | on
1233 default: on
1234
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PO
1235 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1236 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1237 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1238 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1239 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1240
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TG
1241 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1242 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1243 android emulator
1244
1da177e4 1245 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
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DB
1246 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1247 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1248 GPT to be used instead.
1da177e4 1249
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AL
1250 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1251 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1252 Format: 0 | 1
1253 Default: 0
1254 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1255 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1256 Format: 0 | 1
1257 Default: 0
1258 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1259 Format: 0 | 1
1260 Default: 0
1261 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1262 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1263 Default: 1024
1264 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1265 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1266 Default: 1024
1267
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BJZ
1268 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1269 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1270 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1271
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JK
1272 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1273 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1274 backtraces on all cpus.
1275 Format: <integer>
1276
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LT
1277 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1278 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
16290246 1279 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
a9913044 1280 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1da177e4
LT
1281
1282 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1283
1284 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1285 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1286
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HY
1287 hest_disable [ACPI]
1288 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1289 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1290 logic will be disabled.
1291
1da177e4
LT
1292 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1293 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1294 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1295 size on bigger boxes.
1296
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TG
1297 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1298 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1299 Default: "on"
1300
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LT
1301 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1302 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1303
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RD
1304 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1305
1306 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1307 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1308 verbose }
1309 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1310 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1311 VIA, nVidia)
1312 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1313
3d035f58
PB
1314 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1315 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1316
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AK
1317 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1318 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
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JT
1319 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1320 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1321 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1322 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
27ec26ec 1323 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
6902aa84 1324
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HB
1325 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1326 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
431429ff
HB
1327 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1328 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1329 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
cef7125d 1330
fdabf525
JH
1331 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1332 hardware thread id mappings.
1333 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1334
7bf69395
FDN
1335 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1336 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1337 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1338 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1339 the real console.
1340
3a853fb9 1341 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
7954763b
JN
1342 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1343 registered from board initialization code.
3a853fb9
JN
1344 Format:
1345 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1346
36d95739 1347 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
e1443d28
SCP
1348 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1349 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1350 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1351 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1da177e4 1352 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
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ML
1353 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1354 keyboard and cannot control its state
1da177e4
LT
1355 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1356 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
945ef0d4 1357 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
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JK
1358 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1359 for the AUX port
1da177e4 1360 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
e55a3366 1361 controller
1da177e4
LT
1362 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1363 controllers
24775d65 1364 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
930e1924
MPS
1365 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1366 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1367 transitions, or never reset
1368 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1369 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1370 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1371 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1372 architectures force reset to be always executed
1da177e4 1373 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
148e9a71 1374 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1da177e4
LT
1375
1376 i810= [HW,DRM]
1377
e70c9d5e
DT
1378 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1379 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1380 hardware.
1da177e4
LT
1381 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1382 does not match list of supported models.
1383 i8k.power_status
1384 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1385 (disabled by default)
1386 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1387 capability is set.
1388
4dca20ef 1389 i915.invert_brightness=
7bd90909
CE
1390 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1391 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
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CE
1392 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1393 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1394 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1395 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1396 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1397 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1398 value switches the backlight off.
1399 -1 -- never invert brightness
1400 0 -- machine default
1401 1 -- force brightness inversion
7bd90909 1402
1da177e4
LT
1403 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1404 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1405
0af80c04
DF
1406 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1407 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
075affcb
BZ
1408 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1409 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1c10e938 1410 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1da177e4 1411
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MR
1412 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1413 Format: <int>
1414 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1415 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1416 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1417 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1418 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1419 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1420 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1421 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1422 was 0x3.
1423
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RD
1424 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1425 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1426
f039b754 1427 idle= [X86]
69fb3676 1428 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
ada9cfdd
RD
1429 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1430 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1431 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1432 Not recommended.
ada9cfdd 1433 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
c1e3b377 1434 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
ada9cfdd 1435 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
a9913044 1436
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MR
1437 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1438 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1439 Default: strict
1440
1441 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1442 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1443 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1444 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1445 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1446 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1447 encoding mode.
1448
1449 Available settings are as follows:
1450 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1451 supported by the FPU
1452 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1453 by the FPU
1454 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1455 by the FPU
1456 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1457 supported by the FPU
1458
1459 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1460 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1461 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1462 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1463 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1464 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1465 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1466 MIPS64 CPUs.
1467
1468 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1469 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1470 except where unsupported by hardware.
1471
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IM
1472 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1473 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1474 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
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YZ
1475 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1476 could change it dynamically, usually by
1477 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
79290822 1478
d977d56c
KK
1479 ignore_rlimit_data
1480 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1481 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1482 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1483
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LT
1484 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1485 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1486
2fe5d6de 1487 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2faa6ef3 1488 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
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MZ
1489 default: "enforce"
1490
07f6a794
MZ
1491 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1492 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1493 owned by uid=0.
1494
d68a6fe9
MZ
1495 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1496 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1497 measurements, instead of host native format.
1498
3323eec9 1499 ima_hash= [IMA]
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MZ
1500 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1501 | sha512 | ... }
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MZ
1502 default: "sha1"
1503
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MZ
1504 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1505 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1506
24fd03c8 1507 ima_policy= [IMA]
33ce9549 1508 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
503ceaef 1509 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot"
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MZ
1510
1511 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1512 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1513 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1514 uid=0.
1515
1516 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1517 all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent
1518 of ima_appraise_tcb.)
24fd03c8 1519
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MZ
1520 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1521 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1522 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
24fd03c8
MZ
1523
1524 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
5789ba3b
EP
1525 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1526 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1527 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1528 opened for read by uid=0.
1529
9b9d4ce5
RS
1530 ima_template= [IMA]
1531 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
8265a2f8 1532 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
9b9d4ce5
RS
1533 Default: "ima-ng"
1534
c2426d2a
RS
1535 ima_template_fmt=
1536 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1537 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1538
3bcced39
DK
1539 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1540 Format: <min_file_size>
1541 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1542 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1543
1544 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1545 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1546 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1547
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DK
1548 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1549 Format: <bufsize>
1550 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1551
1552 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1553 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1554 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1555
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LT
1556 init= [KNL]
1557 Format: <full_path>
1558 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1559 process.
1560
1561 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1562 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1563 startup.
1564
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PB
1565 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1566 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1567 modules and initcalls.
1568
1da177e4
LT
1569 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1570
acd547b2
DH
1571 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1572 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1573 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1574 override in debugfs after boot.
1575
1da177e4
LT
1576 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1577 Format: <irq>
1578
6bb2ff84
FY
1579 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1580
d726d8d7
MZ
1581 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1582 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1583 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1584 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1585
ba395927 1586 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
0cd5c3c8
KM
1587 on
1588 Enable intel iommu driver.
ba395927
KA
1589 off
1590 Disable intel iommu driver.
1591 igfx_off [Default Off]
1592 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1593 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1594 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1595 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1596 DMA.
7d3b03ce
KA
1597 forcedac [x86_64]
1598 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
16290246 1599 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
7d3b03ce 1600 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
16290246
RD
1601 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1602 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
7d3b03ce 1603 then look in the higher range.
5e0d2a6f 1604 strict [Default Off]
1605 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1606 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1607 to batching them for performance.
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1608 sp_off [Default Off]
1609 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1610 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1611 not be supported.
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1612 ecs_off [Default Off]
1613 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1614 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1615 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1616 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1617 on hardware which claims to support them.
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1618 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1619 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1620 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1621 could harm performance of some high-throughput
1622 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1623 mapping is enabled.
1624 Note that using this option lowers the security
1625 provided by tboot because it makes the system
1626 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
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1627
1628 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1629 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
22c6bbe4 1630 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
2e92c7ad 1631
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1632 intel_pstate= [X86]
1633 disable
1634 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1635 scaling driver for the supported processors
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1636 passive
1637 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1638 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1639 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1640 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1641 feature.
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1642 force
1643 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1644 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1645 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1646 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1647 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1648 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1649 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1650 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
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1651 no_hwp
1652 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1653 if available.
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1654 hwp_only
1655 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1656 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
9522a2ff 1657 support_acpi_ppc
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1658 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1659 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1660 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1661 then this feature is turned on by default.
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1662 per_cpu_perf_limits
1663 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1664 cpufreq sysfs interface
6be26498 1665
d1423d56 1666 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
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1667 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1668 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1669 nosid disable Source ID checking
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1670 no_x2apic_optout
1671 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
b7d20631 1672 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
d1423d56 1673
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1674 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1675 strict regions from userspace.
1676 relaxed
1677
1678 iommu= [x86]
1679 off
1680 force
1681 noforce
1682 biomerge
1683 panic
1684 nopanic
1685 merge
1686 nomerge
1687 forcesac
1688 soft
bcb71abe 1689 pt [x86, IA-64]
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1690 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1691 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
bcb71abe 1692
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1693 iommu.passthrough=
1694 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1695 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1696 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1697 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1698 unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
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1699
1700 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1701 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1702 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1703
6cececfc 1704 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
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1705 0x80
1706 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1707 0xed
1708 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
b02aae9c 1709 udelay
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1710 Simple two microseconds delay
1711 none
1712 No delay
b02aae9c 1713
1da177e4 1714 ip= [IP_PNP]
dc7a0816 1715 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 1716
fbf19803 1717 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2d13e6ca 1718 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
fbf19803 1719
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1720 irqfixup [HW]
1721 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1722 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1723 firmware running.
1724
1725 irqpoll [HW]
1726 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1727 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1728 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1729 firmware running.
1730
1da177e4 1731 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
a9913044 1732 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
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1733
1734 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
2d13e6ca 1735 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
b225d44e 1736
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1737 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
1738 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
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1739 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
1740 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
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1741 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1742 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1743
1744 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
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1745 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
1746 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
1747 suboptimal load balancer performance.
1da177e4 1748
a9913044 1749 iucv= [HW,NET]
1da177e4 1750
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1751 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1752 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1753 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1754 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1755 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1756 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1757
1758 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1759 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1760 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1761 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1762 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1763 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1764
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1765 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1766 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1767 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1768 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1769 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1770 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1771
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1772 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1773 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
1774
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1775 nokaslr [KNL]
1776 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1777 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1778 Layout Randomization).
24f2e027 1779
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1780 kasan_multi_shot
1781 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1782 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1783 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1784 invalid access.
1785
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1786 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1787
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1788 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1789 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1790 This parameter
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1791 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1792 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1793 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1794 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1795 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1796 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1797 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
675217fd 1798 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
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1799 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1800 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1801 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1802 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1803 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1804 zone if it does not.
1805
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1806 Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1807 you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1808 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1809 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1810 for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1811 so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1812 time.
ed7ed365 1813
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1814 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1815 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1816 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1817 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1818 optional and is the number seconds in between
1819 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1820 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1821 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1822 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1823 the kernel debugger.
1824
84c08fd6 1825 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
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1826 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1827 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
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1828 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1829 keyboard only format: kbd
1830 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1831 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1832 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1833 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
6cdf6e06 1834
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1835 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1836 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1837
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1838 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1839 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1840 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1841
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1842 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1843 Valid arguments: on, off
1844 Default: on
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1845 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1846 the default is off.
04f70336 1847
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1848 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1849 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1850
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1851 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1852 KVM MMU at runtime.
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1853 Default is 0 (off)
1854
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1855 kvm.nx_huge_pages=
1856 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
1857 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
1858 force : Always deploy workaround.
1859 off : Never deploy workaround.
1860 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
1861 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
1862
1863 Default is 'auto'.
1864
1865 If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
1866 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
1867
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1868 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
1869 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
1870 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
1871 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
1872 minute. The default is 60.
1873
fef07aae 1874 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
8475f94a 1875 Default is 1 (enabled)
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1876
1877 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1878 for all guests.
16290246 1879 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
fef07aae 1880
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1881 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
1882 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
1883 system registers
1884
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1885 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
1886 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
1887 system registers
1888
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1889 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
1890 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
1891 system registers
1892
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1893 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1894 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1895 Default is 1 (enabled)
1896
1897 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1898 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1899 Default is 0 (disabled)
1900
1901 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1902 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1903 Default is 1 (enabled)
1904
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1905 kvm-intel.nested=
1906 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1907 Default is 0 (disabled)
1908
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1909 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1910 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1911 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1912 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1913
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1914 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
1915 CVE-2018-3620.
1916
1917 Valid arguments: never, cond, always
1918
1919 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
1920 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
1921 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
1922 never: Disables the mitigation
1923
1924 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
1925
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1926 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1927 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1928 Default is 1 (enabled)
1929
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1930 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
1931 affected CPUs
1932
1933 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
1934 enabled and cannot be disabled.
1935
1936 full
1937 Provides all available mitigations for the
1938 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
1939 enables all mitigations in the
1940 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
1941
1942 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
1943 sysfs interface is still possible after
1944 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
1945 when the first VM is started in a
1946 potentially insecure configuration,
1947 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
1948
1949 full,force
1950 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
1951 flush runtime control. Implies the
1952 'nosmt=force' command line option.
1953 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
1954
1955 flush
1956 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
1957 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
1958 L1D flush.
1959
1960 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
1961 sysfs interface is still possible after
1962 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
1963 when the first VM is started in a
1964 potentially insecure configuration,
1965 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
1966
1967 flush,nosmt
1968
1969 Disables SMT and enables the default
1970 hypervisor mitigation.
1971
1972 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
1973 sysfs interface is still possible after
1974 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
1975 when the first VM is started in a
1976 potentially insecure configuration,
1977 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
1978
1979 flush,nowarn
1980 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
1981 warn when a VM is started in a potentially
1982 insecure configuration.
1983
1984 off
1985 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
1986 emit any warnings.
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1987 It also drops the swap size and available
1988 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
1989 bare metal.
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1990
1991 Default is 'flush'.
1992
eb73e805 1993 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
fc083988 1994
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1995 l2cr= [PPC]
1996
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1997 l3cr= [PPC]
1998
cd4f0ef7 1999 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
a9913044 2000 disabled it.
1da177e4 2001
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2002 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
2003 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2004 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2005
6cececfc 2006 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
ada9cfdd 2007 in C2 power state.
e585bef8 2008
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2009 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
2010 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2011 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2012 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
16290246 2013 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
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2014 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2015 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
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2017 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2018 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
2019 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
fcb71f6f 2020
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2021 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2022 when set.
2023 Format: <int>
2024
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2025 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
2026 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
4c44f309 2027 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
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2028 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
2029 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
2030 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2031 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2032 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2033
2034 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2035 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
2036 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2037 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
2038 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2039 host link and device attached to it.
2040
2041 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
2042 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2043 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2044 The following configurations can be forced.
2045
2046 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2047 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2048
2049 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2050
2051 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2052 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2053 allowed.
2054
2055 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2056
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2057 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2058
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2059 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2060 and both resets.
2061
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2062 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2063 hot-unplug link recovery
2064
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2065 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2066
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2067 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2068
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2069 * disable: Disable this device.
2070
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2071 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2072 the same attribute, the last one is used.
2073
95f72d1e 2074 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
7c4be253 2075
1da177e4 2076 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
31c00fc1 2077 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 2078
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2079 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2080 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 2081
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2082 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2083 Format: <integer>
2084
2085 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2086 Format: <integer>
2087
2088 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2089 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 2090
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2091 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2092 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2093 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2094 number of online CPUs.
2095
2096 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2097 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2098
2099 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2100 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2101
2102 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2103 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2104 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2105
2106 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2107 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2108 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2109 mode during the locktorture test.
2110
2111 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2112 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2113 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2114
2115 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2116 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2117
2118 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2119 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2120 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2121 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2122 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2123 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2124
2125 locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
2126 Start locktorture running at boot time.
2127
2128 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2129 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2130
2131 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2132 Enable additional printk() statements.
2133
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2134 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2135 Format: <irq>
2136
2137 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2138 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2139 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2140 loglevels are defined as follows:
2141
2142 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2143 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2144 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2145 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2146 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2147 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2148 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2149 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2150
c756d08a 2151 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
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2152 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2153 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2154 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2155 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2156 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2157 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
1da177e4 2158
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2159 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2160 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2161 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2162 kernel boot problems.
2163
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2164 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2165 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2166 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2167 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2168 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2169 attached printers to be reset. Using
2170 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2171 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2172 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2173 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2174 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2175 port specification list means that device IDs
2176 from each port should be examined, to see if
2177 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2178 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2179 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2180
2181 lpj=n [KNL]
2182 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2183 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2184 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2185 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2186 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2187 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2188 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2189 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2190 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2191 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2192 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2193 hardware.
2194
2195 ltpc= [NET]
2196 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2197
16290246 2198 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
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2199 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2200 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
1da177e4 2201
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2202 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2203 yeeloong laptop.
2204 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2205
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2206 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2207 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
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2208
2209 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
7c142bfe
BH
2210 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2211 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2212 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2213 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2214 only takes effect during system bootup.
2215 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2216 which also disables the IO APIC.
1da177e4 2217
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2218 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2219 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2220 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2221 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2222 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2223 /dev/loop-control interface.
2b2c3750 2224
cd4f0ef7 2225 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
1da177e4 2226
71cced6e 2227 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
909dd324 2228
1da177e4 2229 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
e52347bd 2230 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
a9913044 2231
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2232 mdacon= [MDA]
2233 Format: <first>,<last>
2234 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
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TG
2236 mds= [X86,INTEL]
2237 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2238 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2239
2240 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2241 internal buffers which can forward information to a
2242 disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2243
2244 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2245 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2246 attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2247 not have direct access.
2248
2249 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2250 options are:
2251
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2252 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2253 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2254 SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2255 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
3e87b33f 2256
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2257 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
2258 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
2259 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
2260 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
2261 too.
2262
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2263 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2264 mds=full.
2265
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2266 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2267
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2268 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2269 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2270 to see the whole system memory or for test.
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WC
2271 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2272 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2273 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2274 belonging to unused RAM.
1da177e4 2275
cd4f0ef7 2276 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
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2277 memory.
2278
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2279 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2280 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2281 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2282
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2283 memhp_default_state=online/offline
2284 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2285 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2286 set according to the
2287 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2288 option.
2289 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2290
6cececfc 2291 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
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2292 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2293 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2294 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2295 option description.
2296
2297 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
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2298 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2299 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
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BH
2300 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2301 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2302 Multiple different regions can be specified,
2303 comma delimited.
2304 Example:
2305 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
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2306
2307 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2308 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
277cba1d 2309 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
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2310
2311 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2312 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
277cba1d 2313 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
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PM
2314 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2315 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2316 or
2317 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
8fcc9bc3
BH
2318 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2319 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2320 will be eaten.
1da177e4 2321
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CH
2322 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2323 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2324 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2325 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2326 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2327
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JF
2328 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2329 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2330 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2331 Setting this option will scan the memory
2332 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2333 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2334 from using the memory being corrupted.
2335 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2336 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2337 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2338 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2339
2340 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2341 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2342 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2343 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2344 corruption in more or less memory.
2345
2346 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2347 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2348 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2349 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2350
e4b0db72 2351 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
c64df707 2352 Format: <integer>
c64df707 2353 default : 0 <disable>
9e5f6cf5
AH
2354 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2355 performed. Each pass selects another test
2356 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2357 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2358 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2359 regions that are detected.
c64df707 2360
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2361 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2362 Valid arguments: on, off
2363 Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2364 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2365 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2366 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
2367 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
2368
2369 Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
2370 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2371
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RW
2372 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2373 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2374 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2375 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2376 See Documentation/power/states.txt.
2377
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LT
2378 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2379 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
2380
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AS
2381 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2382 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2383 platforms.
2384
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WT
2385 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2386 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2387 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2388 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2389
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LT
2390 mga= [HW,DRM]
2391
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RD
2392 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2393 physical address is ignored.
2394
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MP
2395 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2396 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2397 Default: "0tb"
2398 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2399 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2400 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2401 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2402 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2403 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2404 unconfigured.
2405 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2406 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2407 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2408 VGA shield.
2409 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2410 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2411 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2412 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2413 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2414 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2415
ed1dfe83 2416 mitigations=
5fff7a39
JP
2417 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
2418 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated,
275fdd26
JP
2419 arch-independent options, each of which is an
2420 aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
ed1dfe83
JP
2421
2422 off
2423 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This
2424 improves system performance, but it may also
2425 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
6c2eb441 2426 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
5fff7a39 2427 kpti=0 [ARM64]
6c2eb441 2428 nospectre_v1 [PPC]
91788fcb 2429 nobp=0 [S390]
ee524c14 2430 nospectre_v1 [X86]
5fff7a39 2431 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
275fdd26 2432 spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
6c2eb441 2433 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
5fff7a39 2434 ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
275fdd26 2435 l1tf=off [X86]
a9411900 2436 mds=off [X86]
a4f14d5a 2437 tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
bb16a6ba
PB
2438 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
2439
2440 Exceptions:
2441 This does not have any effect on
2442 kvm.nx_huge_pages when
2443 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
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JP
2444
2445 auto (default)
2446 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
2447 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for
2448 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
2449 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
2450 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
275fdd26 2451 Equivalent to: (default behavior)
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JP
2452
2453 auto,nosmt
2454 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
2455 if needed. This is for users who always want to
2456 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
275fdd26 2457 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
a9411900 2458 mds=full,nosmt [X86]
a4f14d5a 2459 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
ed1dfe83 2460
6b74ab97
MG
2461 mminit_loglevel=
2462 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2463 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2464 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2465 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2466 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2467 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2468
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RR
2469 module.sig_enforce
2470 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2471 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2a039be7 2472 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
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RR
2473 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2474
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PB
2475 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2476 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2477
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2478 mousedev.tap_time=
2479 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2480 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2481 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2482 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2483 Format: <msecs>
2484 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2485 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2486 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2487 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2488
6cececfc 2489 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
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RD
2490 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2491 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2492 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2493 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2494 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2495 is specified, the administrator must be careful
2496 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2497 is not too small.
2498
f70029bb
MH
2499 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2500 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2501 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2502 allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2503 allocations. Use with caution!
c5320926 2504
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LT
2505 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2506 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2507
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RD
2508 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2509 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
1da177e4
LT
2510
2511 mtdparts= [MTD]
c8facbb6 2512 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
1da177e4 2513
4e89a2d8
WS
2514 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2515 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2516 at a time.
2517
5988af23
RH
2518 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2519
2520 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2521
2522 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2523 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2524 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2525 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2526 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2527
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BD
2528 mtdset= [ARM]
2529 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2530
2531 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2532
1da177e4 2533 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
a9913044
RD
2534 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2535 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
1da177e4 2536
0cb55ad2 2537 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
19f59460 2538 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
0cb55ad2
RD
2539 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2540
2541 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2542 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2543 Default is 1.
2544 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2545 using up MTRRs.
2546
2547 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2548 Format: <integer>
2549 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2550 Default : 1
2551 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2552 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2553
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LT
2554 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2555
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LT
2556 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2557 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2558 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2559 something different and driver-specific.
a9913044
RD
2560 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2561 file if at all.
2562
58401572
KPO
2563 nf_conntrack.acct=
2564 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2565 0 to disable accounting
2566 1 to enable accounting
d70a011d 2567 Default value is 0.
58401572 2568
306a0753 2569 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
dc7a0816 2570 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
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LT
2571
2572 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
dc7a0816 2573 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 2574
306a0753
CL
2575 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2576 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2577
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TM
2578 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2579 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2580 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2581 requests.
2582
a72b4422
TM
2583 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2584 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2585 channel should listen.
2586
e571cbf1
TM
2587 nfs.cache_getent=
2588 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2589 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2590
2591 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2592 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2593 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2594
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TM
2595 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2596 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2597 entries.
2598
f43bf0be
TM
2599 nfs.enable_ino64=
2600 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2601 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2602 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2603 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2604 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2605
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TM
2606 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2607 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2608 slots the client will assign to the callback
2609 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2610 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2611 a particular server.
2612
ef159e91
TM
2613 nfs.max_session_slots=
2614 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2615 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2616 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2617 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2618 Note that there is little point in setting this
2619 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2620
b064eca2 2621 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
074b1d12
TM
2622 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2623 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2624 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2625 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2626 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2627 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2628 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2629 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2630 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2631 back to using the idmapper.
2632 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
6f2ea7f2
CL
2633 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2634 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2635 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2636 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2637 UUID that is generated at system install time.
b064eca2 2638
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WAA
2639 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2640 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2641 information in exchange_id requests.
2642 If zero, no implementation identification information
2643 will be sent.
2644 The default is to send the implementation identification
2645 information.
e52347bd 2646
f6de7a39
TM
2647 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2648 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2649 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2650 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2651 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2652 after the locks are lost.
2653 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2654 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2655 parameter to '1'.
2656 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2657 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
db8ac8ba 2658
bbf58bf3
TM
2659 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2660 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2661 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2662
2663 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2664 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2665 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2666 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2667
e9541ce8
BF
2668 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2669 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2670 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2671 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2672 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2673 migration from NFSv2/v3.
db8ac8ba 2674
c0c74acb 2675 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
e7ba176b
HS
2676 when a NMI is triggered.
2677 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2678
6cececfc 2679 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
fef2c9bc 2680 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
195daf66 2681 Valid num: 0 or 1
334bb79c
PK
2682 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2683 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
0cb55ad2 2684 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
fef2c9bc 2685 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
334bb79c
PK
2686 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2687 please see 'nowatchdog'.
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RD
2688 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2689 need the box quickly up again.
1da177e4 2690
bff38771
AV
2691 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2692 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2693 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2694 waits 4 seconds.
2695
cd4f0ef7 2696 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
1da177e4
LT
2697 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2698 is present.
2699
0cb55ad2
RD
2700 no_console_suspend
2701 [HW] Never suspend the console
2702 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2703 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2704 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2705 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2706 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2707 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2708 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
134620f7
YZ
2709 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2710 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2711 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2712 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2713 turn on/off it dynamically.
0cb55ad2 2714
c1aee215
CL
2715 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2716 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2717 but will impact performance.
3395ee05 2718
a9913044
RD
2719 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2720
b44533a0
VG
2721 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2722 (CPU alternatives feature).
2723
1da177e4
LT
2724 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2725 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2726
5091faa4
MG
2727 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2728
1da177e4
LT
2729 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2730 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2731
2732 nocache [ARM]
a9913044 2733
0cb55ad2
RD
2734 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2735
163ecdff
SN
2736 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2737
6902aa84
PM
2738 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2739
b2e0a54a 2740 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
8b2cb7a8 2741
1da177e4
LT
2742 noexec [IA-64]
2743
6cececfc 2744 noexec [X86]
f5a1b191 2745 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
1da177e4 2746 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
f5a1b191
JS
2747 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2748
52b6179a
PA
2749 nosmap [X86]
2750 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2751 even if it is supported by processor.
2752
de5397ad 2753 nosmep [X86]
52b6179a 2754 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
de5397ad
FY
2755 even if it is supported by processor.
2756
f5a1b191
JS
2757 noexec32 [X86-64]
2758 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2759 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2760 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2761 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2762 read implies executable mappings
1da177e4 2763
fab43ef4 2764 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
6902aa84 2765
cd4f0ef7 2766 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
4f886511
CE
2767 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2768 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
1da177e4 2769
0ddab1d2
TK
2770 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2771
52c48c51
SS
2772 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2773 Equivalent to smt=1.
2774
c5ac43ee 2775 [KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
f3e68ab4
TG
2776 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
2777 via the sysfs control file.
c5ac43ee 2778
ee524c14
JP
2779 nospectre_v1 [X66, PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
2780 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks
2781 are possible in the system.
0a5112f2 2782
02fd5d7f
JL
2783 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
2784 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
2785 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
2786 option.
dcd4311d 2787
65f747a6
KRW
2788 nospec_store_bypass_disable
2789 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
2790
0c752a93
SS
2791 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2792 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2793 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2794
b6f42a4a
FY
2795 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2796 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2797 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2798 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2799 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2800 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2801
2802 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2803 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2804 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2805 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2806 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2807 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2808 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2809
01a24d2b
PZ
2810 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2811 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2812 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
a9913044 2813
1f29fae2
SH
2814 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2815 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2816 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2817
1da177e4
LT
2818 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2819 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2820 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2821 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2822 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2823 real-time systems.
2824
a6e15a39
KC
2825 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2826
79bf2bb3
TG
2827 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2828 Valid arguments: on, off
2829 Default: on
2830
c5bfece2 2831 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT]
2d13e6ca 2832 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
c5bfece2 2833 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
a831881b 2834 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
0453b435 2835 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
f99bcb2c
PM
2836 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
2837 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
2838 just as if they had also been called out in the
2839 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
a831881b 2840
eeee7853
PM
2841 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2842
cd4f0ef7 2843 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
1da177e4
LT
2844 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2845
6cececfc 2846 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
8542b200
ZA
2847 broken timer IRQ sources.
2848
1da177e4
LT
2849 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2850
2851 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2852 initial RAM disk.
2853
03ea8155
WH
2854 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2855 remapping.
d1423d56 2856 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
03ea8155 2857
1da177e4
LT
2858 nointroute [IA-64]
2859
d12a72b8
AL
2860 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2861
16290246 2862 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
0aa366f3 2863
9cf4c4fc
JK
2864 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2865
fd10cde9
GN
2866 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2867 fault handling.
2868
80e9a4f2
AM
2869 no-vmw-sched-clock
2870 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2871 clock and use the default one.
2872
d910f5c1
GC
2873 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2874 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2875 behaviour
2876
cd4f0ef7 2877 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
1da177e4 2878
cd4f0ef7 2879 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
ad62ca2b 2880
1da177e4 2881 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
f15eea66 2882 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
1da177e4 2883
312f1f01
H
2884 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2885
13696e0a 2886 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
abe37e5a 2887
83d7384f
AS
2888 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2889 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2890
bda62633
DZ
2891 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2892 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2893 irq.
2894
02608bef
DY
2895 nomodule Disable module load
2896
016ddd9b
JK
2897 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2898 pagetables) support.
2899
0790c9aa
AL
2900 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
2901
0cb55ad2
RD
2902 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2903 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2904
cd4f0ef7 2905 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
b7fb4af0
JF
2906 with UP alternatives
2907
7a5091d5
PA
2908 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2909 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2910 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2911 available to user space applications.
49d859d7 2912
a9913044
RD
2913 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2914 space.
2915
1da177e4
LT
2916 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2917 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2918 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2919
2920 nosbagart [IA-64]
2921
cd4f0ef7 2922 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
4f886511 2923
61ec7567
LB
2924 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2925 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
1da177e4 2926
97842216
DJ
2927 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2928
1da177e4
LT
2929 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2930
cd4f0ef7 2931 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
1da177e4 2932
195daf66
UO
2933 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2934 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
58687acb 2935
1da177e4 2936 nowb [ARM]
a9913044 2937
2b2fd87a
WH
2938 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2939
f78cff48
FY
2940 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2941 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2942 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2943 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2944 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2945 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2946 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2947 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2948 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2949 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2950 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2951 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2952 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2953
35b55ef2
NC
2954 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
2955 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
2956 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
2957 without interruptions, before HW switches it.
2958 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
2959 parameter's value.
2960 Format: integer between 1 and 255
2961 Default: 255
2962
16290246 2963 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
a6c75b86
FY
2964 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2965 SAL PALO.
2966
2b633e3f
YL
2967 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2968 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
7c142bfe
BH
2969 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2970 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2971 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2972 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2973 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2974 hot plugging.
2b633e3f 2975
0cb55ad2
RD
2976 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2977
1a687c2e
MG
2978 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2979 Allowed values are enable and disable
2980
f0c0b2b8 2981 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
c9bff3ee 2982 'node', 'default' can be specified
f0c0b2b8
KH
2983 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2984 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2985
7c4be253
RD
2986 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2987 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2988 info.
2989
3ef0e1f8
AS
2990 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2991 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2992 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2993 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2994 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2995 interrupts *may* be lost!
2996
15ac7afe
TL
2997 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2998 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2999 For example, to override I2C bus2:
3000 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3001
1da177e4
LT
3002 oprofile.timer= [HW]
3003 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
3004
7e4e0bd5
RR
3005 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
3006 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
3007 userland or if you want common events.
8d7ff4f2
RR
3008 Format: { arch_perfmon }
3009 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
7e4e0bd5
RR
3010 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
3011 CPU specific event set.
159a80b2
RR
3012 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
3013 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
3014 for generic hr timer mode)
1dcdb5a9 3015
44a4dcf7
RD
3016 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3017 process, but there is a small probability of
3018 deadlocking the machine.
d404ab0a
OH
3019 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3020 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3021
bcfde334
RD
3022 OSS [HW,OSS]
3023 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
3024
48c96a36
JK
3025 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3026 Storage of the information about who allocated
3027 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3028 we can turn it on.
3029 on: enable the feature
3030
8823b1db
LA
3031 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3032 poisoning on the buddy allocator.
3033 off: turn off poisoning
3034 on: turn on poisoning
3035
44a4dcf7 3036 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4302fbc8
HD
3037 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3038 timeout = 0: wait forever
3039 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
1da177e4
LT
3040 Format: <timeout>
3041
9e3961a0
PB
3042 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
3043 on a WARN().
3044
f06e5153
MH
3045 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3046 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3047 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3048 succeeds in any situation.
3049 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3050 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3051 kernel more unstable.
3052
1da177e4
LT
3053 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3054 connected to, default is 0.
3055 Format: <parport#>
3056 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3057 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
a9913044
RD
3058 Format: <mode>
3059
3060 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3061 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3062 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3063 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3064 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3065 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3066 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3067 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3068 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3069 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3070 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3071 are specified on the command line, starting
3072 with parport0.
3073
3074 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
3075 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3076 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3077 computer where firmware has no options for setting
3078 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3079 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
1da177e4
LT
3080 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3081
dd287796
AM
3082 pause_on_oops=
3083 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3084 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
3085 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3086
1da177e4
LT
3087 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
3088
3089 pcd. [PARIDE]
3090 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
31c00fc1 3091 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 3092
a9913044 3093 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
1cc0ca26
BH
3094 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
3095 changes anything
c0115606 3096 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
cd4f0ef7 3097 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
a9913044
RD
3098 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3099 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
cd4f0ef7 3100 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
a9913044
RD
3101 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3102 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3103 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
afd8c084
BP
3104 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3105 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3106 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3107 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3108 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3109 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3110 bus number. The config space is then accessed
3111 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3112 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3113 on the configuration access mechanisms.
7f785763
RD
3114 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3115 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3116 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
32a2eea7
JG
3117 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3118 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
6cececfc 3119 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
61be6d66 3120 Configuration
12983077
AH
3121 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3122 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3123 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
309e57df
MW
3124 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3125 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3126 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
a9322f64
SA
3127 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3128 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3129 should never be necessary.
9197979b
SA
3130 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3131 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3132 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3133 when the system masks IRQs.
41b9eb26
SA
3134 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3135 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3136 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3137 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
cd4f0ef7 3138 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
a9913044
RD
3139 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3140 on several machines and they hang the machine
3141 when used, but on other computers it's the only
3142 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3143 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3144 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3145 motherboard.
c0115606 3146 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
a9913044
RD
3147 Use with caution as certain devices share
3148 address decoders between ROMs and other
3149 resources.
c0115606 3150 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
bb71ad88
GH
3151 expansion ROMs that do not already have
3152 BIOS assigned address ranges.
7bd1c365
MH
3153 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
3154 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
c0115606 3155 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
a9913044
RD
3156 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3157 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3158 this way.
c0115606 3159 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
a9913044
RD
3160 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3161 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3162 F0000h-100000h range.
c0115606 3163 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
a9913044
RD
3164 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3165 secondary buses and you want to tell it
3166 explicitly which ones they are.
c0115606 3167 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
a9913044
RD
3168 numbers ourselves, overriding
3169 whatever the firmware may have done.
c0115606 3170 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
a9913044
RD
3171 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3172 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3173 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3174 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3175 IRQ routing is enabled.
c0115606 3176 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 3177 or for PCI scanning.
7bc5e3f2
BH
3178 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3179 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3180 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
3181 please report a bug.
3182 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3183 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
a9913044
RD
3184 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3185 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3186 so this option is a temporary workaround
3187 for broken drivers that don't call it.
13a6ddb0
YL
3188 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3189 handle more pci cards
0637a70a
AK
3190 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3191 This might help on some broken boards which
3192 machine check when some devices' config space
3193 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3194 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
6b4b78fe
MD
3195 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3196 This sorting is done to get a device
3197 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3198 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
fa238712
YW
3199 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3200 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3201 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3202 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3203 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3204 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3205 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3206 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3207 or bus can support) for best performance.
3208 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3209 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3210 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3211 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3212 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3213 that hot-added devices will work.
4516a618
AN
3214 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3215 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3216 The default value is 256 bytes.
3217 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3218 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3219 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
32a9a682
YS
3220 resource_alignment=
3221 Format:
3222 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
644a544f
KMEE
3223 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
3224 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
32a9a682
YS
3225 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3226 aligned memory resources.
3227 If <order of align> is not specified,
3228 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3229 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3230 windows need to be expanded.
8b078c60
MK
3231 To specify the alignment for several
3232 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3233 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3234 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
43c16408
AP
3235 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3236 end-to-end CRC checking).
3237 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3238 the default.
3239 off: Turn ECRC off
3240 on: Turn ECRC on.
8c8803c5
YW
3241 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3242 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3243 Default size is 256 bytes.
3244 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3245 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3246 Default size is 2 megabytes.
e16b4660
KB
3247 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3248 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3249 Default is 1.
b55438fd
YL
3250 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3251 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3252 accommodate resources required by all child
3253 devices.
3254 off: Turn realloc off
3255 on: Turn realloc on
3256 realloc same as realloc=on
6748dcc2 3257 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
284f5f9d
BH
3258 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3259 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3260 port.
6b4b78fe 3261
e5665a45
CE
3262 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3263 Management.
3264 off Disable ASPM.
3265 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3266 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3267
7570a333
MT
3268 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
3269 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
3270 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
3271
79dd9182 3272 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
28eb5f27
RW
3273 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
3274 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
3275 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
3276 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
3277 unconditionally.
79dd9182
RW
3278 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
3279 ports driver.
3280
9d26d3a8
MW
3281 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3282 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3283 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3284
c7f48656 3285 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
c39fae14 3286 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
28eb5f27 3287 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
c7f48656 3288
1da177e4
LT
3289 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3290
39ac5ba5
TB
3291 pd_ignore_unused
3292 [PM]
3293 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3294 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3295 for debug and development, but should not be
3296 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3297
1da177e4 3298 pd. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3299 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3300
3301 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3302 boot time.
3303 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3304 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3305
f58dc01b 3306 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
e933a73f
TH
3307 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3308 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3309 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3310 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3311 and performance comparison.
fa8a7094 3312
1da177e4 3313 pf. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3314 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3315
3316 pg. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3317 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3318
3319 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
71cced6e 3320 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3321
3322 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3323 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3324 See also Documentation/parport.txt.
3325
16290246 3326 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
de32a243
TG
3327 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3328 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3329
96242116
BH
3330 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3331 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3332 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3333 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3334 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3335 possible settings and some assignment information.
97ef062b 3336
1da177e4
LT
3337 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3338 { off }
3339
3340 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3341 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3342
3343 pnp_reserve_irq=
3344 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3345
3346 pnp_reserve_dma=
3347 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3348
3349 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
a9913044 3350 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
1da177e4
LT
3351
3352 pnp_reserve_mem=
a9913044
RD
3353 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3354 autoconfiguration.
1da177e4
LT
3355 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3356
4af94f39
RD
3357 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3358 Default is 21.
3359 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3360 may be specified.
3361 Format: <port>,<port>....
3362
c3cbd075
BS
3363 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3364 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3365 platform machine description specific power_save
3366 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3367 execution priority.
3368
3eb5d588
AB
3369 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3370 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3371 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3372 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3373 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3374
45807a1d
IM
3375 print-fatal-signals=
3376 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
f84d49b2
NO
3377
3378 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3379 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3380 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3381 coredump - etc.
3382
3383 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3384 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3385
45807a1d
IM
3386 default: off.
3387
c22ab332
MG
3388 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3389 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3390 panics
3391 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3392 default: disabled
3393
750afe7b
BP
3394 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3395 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3396 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3397 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3398 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3399 Default: ratelimit
3400
e84845c4
RD
3401 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3402 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3403
0cb55ad2
RD
3404 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3405 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3406 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3407
3408 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3409 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3410 instead using the legacy FADT method
3411
1da177e4 3412 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
a9913044
RD
3413 Format: [schedule,]<number>
3414 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3415 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3416 statistical time based profiling.
b3da2a73
MG
3417 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3418 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
c0fe2e69 3419 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
1da177e4 3420
1da177e4
LT
3421 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3422 before loading.
31c00fc1 3423 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 3424
a9913044
RD
3425 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3426 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
1da177e4
LT
3427 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3428 per second.
a9913044
RD
3429 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3430 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
1da177e4
LT
3431 (0 = never).
3432 psmouse.resolution=
3433 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3434 psmouse.smartscroll=
a9913044 3435 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
1da177e4
LT
3436 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3437
dee28e72
MG
3438 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3439
1da177e4 3440 pt. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3441 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 3442
af17c652
DH
3443 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3444 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
3445 removes hardening, but improves performance of
3446 system calls and interrupts.
3447
3448 on - unconditionally enable
3449 off - unconditionally disable
3450 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3451 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3452
3453 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3454
3455 nopti [X86_64]
3456 Equivalent to pti=off
8a253340 3457
dc8c8587
KS
3458 pty.legacy_count=
3459 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3460 default number.
3461
7d2c502f 3462 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
a9913044 3463
1da177e4
LT
3464 r128= [HW,DRM]
3465
3466 raid= [HW,RAID]
e52347bd 3467 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
1da177e4 3468
1da177e4 3469 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
31c00fc1 3470 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 3471
011d8261
BP
3472 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
3473
3474 cec_disable [X86]
3475 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3476 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3477
4102adab 3478 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
2d13e6ca
NC
3479 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3480
3fbfbf7a
PM
3481 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3482 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3483 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
a4889858
PM
3484 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3485 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3486 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3487 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
3fbfbf7a
PM
3488 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3489 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3490 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3491
4102adab 3492 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
3fbfbf7a
PM
3493 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3494 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3495 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3496 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3497 This improves the real-time response for the
3498 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3499 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3500 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3501 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3502
4102adab 3503 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
3504 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3505 process in one batch.
21a1ea9e 3506
a3dc2948
PM
3507 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3508 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3509 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3510 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3511
0f41c0dd
PM
3512 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3513 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 3514 RCU grace-period cleanup.
0f41c0dd 3515
37745d28
PM
3516 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3517 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 3518 RCU grace-period initialization.
0f41c0dd
PM
3519
3520 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3521 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3522 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3523 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
90040c9e 3524 the rcu_node combining tree.
37745d28 3525
7fa27001
PM
3526 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3527 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3528 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3529 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3530 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
37745d28 3531
4102adab 3532 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
ee968ac6
PM
3533 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3534 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3535 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3536 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3537 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3538 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
f885b7f2 3539
4a81e832
PM
3540 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3541 Set required age in jiffies for a
3542 given grace period before RCU starts
3543 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3544 rcu_note_context_switch().
3545
4102adab 3546 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3547 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3548 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3549 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3550 and maximum value is HZ.
3551
4102adab 3552 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3553 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3554 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3555 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3556
21871d7e 3557 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
d2af1ad7
PM
3558 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3559 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3560 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3561 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3562 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3563 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3564 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3565 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3566 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
21871d7e 3567
fbce7497
PM
3568 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3569 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3570 defaults to the square root of the number of
3571 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3572 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3573 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3574
4102adab 3575 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
3576 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3577 batch limiting is disabled.
21a1ea9e 3578
4102adab 3579 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
24aaef8d
RD
3580 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3581 batch limiting is re-enabled.
21a1ea9e 3582
4102adab 3583 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3584 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3585 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
d40011f6 3586
4102adab 3587 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3588 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3589 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3590 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3591 prove do nothing more than free memory.
d40011f6 3592
e3c50dfb
PM
3593 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3594 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3595 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3596 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3597 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3598 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3599
881ed593
PM
3600 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3601 Measure performance of asynchronous
3602 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3603
3604 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3605 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3606 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
3607 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3608 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3609 previously posted callbacks to drain.
3610
bdea9e34
PM
3611 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3612 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3613 grace-period primitives.
3614
df37e66b
PM
3615 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3616 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3617 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3618 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3619 interference.
3620
bdea9e34
PM
3621 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3622 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3623 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3624 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3625 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3626 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3627 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3628 a single reader.
3629
3630 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3631 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3632 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3633 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3634
3635 rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT]
3636 Start rcuperf running at boot time.
3637
820687a7
PM
3638 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3639 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3640
bdea9e34
PM
3641 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3642 Shut the system down after performance tests
3643 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3644 testing.
3645
bdea9e34
PM
3646 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3647 Enable additional printk() statements.
3648
820687a7
PM
3649 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3650 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3651 in microseconds. The default of zero says
3652 no holdoff.
3653
38706bc5
PM
3654 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3655 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3656 callback-flood tests.
3657
3658 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3659 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3660 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3661 test.
3662
3663 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3664 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3665 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3666 disable callback-flood testing.
3667
3668 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3669 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3670 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3671
4102adab 3672 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3673 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3674 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3675
4102adab 3676 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3677 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3678 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3679
4102adab 3680 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3681 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3682 in seconds.
3683
3684 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3685 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3686 primitives, if available.
dabb8aa9 3687
4102adab 3688 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
21b05de4 3689 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4102adab
PM
3690
3691 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3692 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3693 update-side primitives, if available.
3694
3695 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3696 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3697 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3698 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3699 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3700 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3701 they are all non-zero.
dabb8aa9 3702
4102adab 3703 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3704 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3705
4102adab 3706 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3707 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3708 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3709 test, hence the "fake".
3710
4102adab 3711 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3838cc18
PM
3712 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3713 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3714 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3715 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3716 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
dabb8aa9 3717
4102adab
PM
3718 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3719 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3720
3721 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3722 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3723
4102adab 3724 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3725 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3726 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3727
4102adab 3728 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3729 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3730 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3731 during the rcutorture test.
3732
4102adab 3733 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3734 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3735 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3736
4102adab 3737 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3738 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3739 warnings, zero to disable.
3740
4102adab 3741 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3742 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3743
4102adab 3744 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3745 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3746
4102adab 3747 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3748 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3749 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3750 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3751 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3752
4102adab 3753 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3754 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3755 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3756 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3757
4102adab 3758 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3759 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3760
4102adab 3761 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3762 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3763
4102adab 3764 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3765 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3766 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3767
21b05de4
PM
3768 rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
3769 Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3770
4102adab 3771 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3772 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3773
4102adab 3774 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3775 Enable additional printk() statements.
3776
5a9be7c6
PM
3777 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3778 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3779
3780 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3781 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3782
4102adab
PM
3783 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3784 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3785 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3786 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3787 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3788 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
79cfea02 3789 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 3790
5a9be7c6
PM
3791 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3792 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3793 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3794 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
79cfea02
PM
3795 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3796 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3797 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3798 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3799 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 3800
3e42ec1a
PM
3801 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3802 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3803 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
79cfea02
PM
3804 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3805 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3e42ec1a 3806
52db30ab
PM
3807 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3808 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3809 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3810 to zero.
3811
74860fee
PK
3812 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3813 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3814
3815 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3816 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3817
3818 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3819 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3820
ffdfc409
OJ
3821 rdinit= [KNL]
3822 Format: <full_path>
3823 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3824 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3825
0bfaf1c8
TL
3826 rdrand= [X86]
3827 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
3828 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
3829 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
3830 support, specifically around the suspend/resume
3831 path).
3832
1d9807fc
TL
3833 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
3834 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
3835 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, mba.
3836 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
3837 rdt=cmt,!mba
3838
1b3a5d02
RH
3839 reboot= [KNL]
3840 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3841 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3842 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3843 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3844 [[,]f[orce]
3845 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3846 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3847 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3848 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3849 to be used for rebooting.
1da177e4 3850
46b6d94e
PJ
3851 relax_domain_level=
3852 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
09c3bcce 3853 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
46b6d94e 3854
1da177e4
LT
3855 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3856
cd4f0ef7 3857 reservetop= [X86-32]
461a9aff
ZA
3858 Format: nn[KMG]
3859 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3860 address space.
3861
9ea77bdb
PA
3862 reservelow= [X86]
3863 Format: nn[K]
3864 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3865 the bottom of the address space.
3866
7e96287d
VG
3867 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3868 during initialization.
3869
a9913044
RD
3870 resume= [SWSUSP]
3871 Specify the partition device for software suspend
2df83fa4
MB
3872 Format:
3873 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
1da177e4 3874
ecbd0da1
RW
3875 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3876 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3877 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3878 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3879 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3880
f126f733
BS
3881 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3882 read the resume files
3883
6f8d7022
BS
3884 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3885 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3886 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3887
f996fc96
BS
3888 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3889 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3890 present during boot.
3891 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
a6e15a39 3892 no Disable hibernation and resume.
4c0b6c10
RW
3893 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
3894 (that will set all pages holding image data
3895 during restoration read-only).
f996fc96 3896
0a7b35cb
MN
3897 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3898
0efbb786
AC
3899 rfkill.default_state=
3900 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3901 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3902 1 Unblocked.
3903
3904 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3905 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3906 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3907 blocked and the previous configuration.
3908 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3909 blocked and everything unblocked.
3910
1da177e4
LT
3911 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3912 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3913
e16fd002
GA
3914 ring3mwait=disable
3915 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
3916 CPUs.
3917
1da177e4
LT
3918 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3919
d2aa1aca
KC
3920 rodata= [KNL]
3921 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3922 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3923
605df8af
HS
3924 rockchip.usb_uart
3925 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3926 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3927 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3928 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3929
1da177e4 3930 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
f2d34fd9 3931 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
1da177e4
LT
3932
3933 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3934 mount the root filesystem
3935
3936 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3937
3938 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3939
cc1ed754
PO
3940 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3941 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3942 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3943
5c71d618
RT
3944 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3945 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3946 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3947 managed by CMA.
3948
1da177e4
LT
3949 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3950
3951 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3952
c60d1ae4
GS
3953 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3954 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3955 strict
3956 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3957 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3958 which is faster.
3959
1da177e4
LT
3960 sa1100ir [NET]
3961 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3962
1da177e4 3963 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
a9913044 3964
f6630114
MT
3965 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3966
cb251765
MG
3967 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3968 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3969 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3970 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
f6630114 3971
5307c955
MG
3972 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3973 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3974 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3975 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3976 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3977 1 -- enable.
3978 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3979 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3980
0cb55ad2
RD
3981 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3982 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3983 security module asking for security registration will be
3984 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3985 as if no module has been chosen.
3986
3987 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
1da177e4
LT
3988 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3989 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3990 0 -- disable.
3991 1 -- enable.
3992 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3993 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3994 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3995
c1c124e9
JJ
3996 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3997 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3998 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3999 0 -- disable.
4000 1 -- enable.
4001 Default value is set via kernel config option.
4002
cd4f0ef7 4003 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
1da177e4 4004
1da177e4
LT
4005 shapers= [NET]
4006 Maximal number of shapers.
a9913044 4007
1da177e4
LT
4008 simeth= [IA-64]
4009 simscsi=
a9913044 4010
1da177e4
LT
4011 slram= [HW,MTD]
4012
423c929c
JK
4013 slab_nomerge [MM]
4014 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
4015 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
7660a6fd
KC
4016 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
4017 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
4018 layout control by attackers can usually be
4019 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
4020 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
4021 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
4022 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
4023 own.
423c929c
JK
4024 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
4025
3df1cccd
DR
4026 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
4027 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4028 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4029 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
4030 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
4031
f0630fff
CL
4032 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
4033 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
4034 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
4035 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
4036 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
4037 last alloc / free. For more information see
4038 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
c1aee215 4039
1663f26d
TH
4040 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
4041 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
4042 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
4043 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
4044 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
4045 directories and files being created under
4046 /sys/kernel/slub.
4047
c1aee215 4048 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
4049 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4050 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4051 fragmentation. For more information see
4052 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
c1aee215
CL
4053
4054 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
4055 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
4056 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
4057 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
4058 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
4059 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
4060 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
c1aee215
CL
4061 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
4062
4063 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
24775d65 4064 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
f0630fff 4065 lower than slub_max_order.
c1aee215
CL
4066 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
4067
4068 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
423c929c
JK
4069 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
4070 See slab_nomerge for more information.
c1aee215 4071
1da177e4
LT
4072 smart2= [HW]
4073 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
4074
d0d4f69b
BH
4075 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
4076 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
4077 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
4078 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
4079 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
4080 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
4081 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
4082 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
4083 1: Fast pin select (default)
4084 2: ATC IRMode
4085
52c48c51
SS
4086 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4087 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4088 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4089 actual hardware limit.
4090 Format: <integer>
4091 Default: -1 (no limit)
4092
9c44bc03
IM
4093 softlockup_panic=
4094 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
44a4dcf7 4095 Format: <integer>
9c44bc03 4096
ed235875
AT
4097 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4098 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4099 backtraces on all cpus.
4100 Format: <integer>
4101
1da177e4 4102 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
395cf969 4103 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
1da177e4 4104
dcd4311d
DW
4105 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4106 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
90f293cc
TG
4107 The default operation protects the kernel from
4108 user space attacks.
dcd4311d 4109
90f293cc
TG
4110 on - unconditionally enable, implies
4111 spectre_v2_user=on
4112 off - unconditionally disable, implies
4113 spectre_v2_user=off
dcd4311d
DW
4114 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4115 vulnerable
4116
4117 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4118 mitigation method at run time according to the
4119 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4120 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4121 compiler with which the kernel was built.
4122
90f293cc
TG
4123 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
4124 against user space to user space task attacks.
4125
4126 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
4127 the user space protections.
4128
dcd4311d
DW
4129 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4130
4131 retpoline - replace indirect branches
4132 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4133 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4134
4135 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4136 spectre_v2=auto.
4137
90f293cc
TG
4138 spectre_v2_user=
4139 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4140 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
4141 user space tasks
4142
4143 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
4144 enforced by spectre_v2=on
4145
4146 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
4147 enforced by spectre_v2=off
4148
605b2828
TG
4149 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
4150 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
4151 per thread. The mitigation control state
4152 is inherited on fork.
4153
78085d7e
TG
4154 prctl,ibpb
4155 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
4156 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4157 always when switching between different user
4158 space processes.
4159
ca97dd00
TG
4160 seccomp
4161 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
4162 threads will enable the mitigation unless
4163 they explicitly opt out.
4164
78085d7e
TG
4165 seccomp,ibpb
4166 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
4167 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4168 always when switching between different
4169 user space processes.
4170
90f293cc
TG
4171 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
4172 the available CPU features and vulnerability.
ca97dd00
TG
4173
4174 Default mitigation:
4175 If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
90f293cc
TG
4176
4177 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4178 spectre_v2_user=auto.
4179
65f747a6
KRW
4180 spec_store_bypass_disable=
4181 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
4182 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
4183
4184 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
4185 a common industry wide performance optimization known
4186 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
4187 to the same memory location may not be observed by
4188 later loads during speculative execution. The idea
4189 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
4190 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
4191 end of a particular speculation execution window.
4192
4193 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4194 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
4195 example to read memory to which the attacker does not
4196 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
4197
4198 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
4199 Bypass optimization is used.
4200
0f18f44c
KC
4201 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
4202 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
4203 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
4204 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
4205 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
4206 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
4207 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
4208 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
4209 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
4210 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
4211 for a process by default. The state of the control
4212 is inherited on fork.
4213 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
4214 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
65f747a6
KRW
4215
4216 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4217 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
4218
0f18f44c
KC
4219 Default mitigations:
4220 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4221
1da177e4
LT
4222 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
4223 spia_fio_base=
4224 spia_pedr=
4225 spia_peddr=
4226
c350c008
PM
4227 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4228 Specifies how frequently to check for
4229 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4230 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4231 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4232 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4233 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
4234 are ignored.
4235
22607d66
PM
4236 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4237 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4238 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4239 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4240 grace period will be considered for automatic
4241 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
4242 expediting.
4243
45808ab2
MZ
4244 ssbd= [ARM64,HW]
4245 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
4246
4247 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
4248 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
4249 firmware based mitigation, this parameter
4250 indicates how the mitigation should be used:
4251
4252 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for
4253 for both kernel and userspace
4254 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
4255 for both kernel and userspace
4256 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the
4257 kernel, and offer a prctl interface
4258 to allow userspace to register its
4259 interest in being mitigated too.
4260
1be7107f
HD
4261 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
4262 override the default stack gap protection. The value
4263 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4264 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4265 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4266 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4267
f38f1d2a
SR
4268 stacktrace [FTRACE]
4269 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4270
762e1207
SR
4271 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4272 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4273 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4274 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4275 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4276 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4277 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4278
1da177e4
LT
4279 sti= [PARISC,HW]
4280 Format: <num>
4281 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4282 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4283 as the initial boot-console.
4284 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4285
4286 sti_font= [HW]
4287 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4288
4289 stifb= [HW]
4290 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4291
cbf11071
TM
4292 sunrpc.min_resvport=
4293 sunrpc.max_resvport=
4294 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4295 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4296 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4297 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4298 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4299 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4300 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4301 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4302 maximum port values.
4303
ff3ac5c3
TM
4304 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4305 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4306 Limit the number of requests that the server will
4307 process in parallel from a single connection.
4308 The default value is 0 (no limit).
4309
42a7fc4a
GB
4310 sunrpc.pool_mode=
4311 [NFS]
4312 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4313 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
4314 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4315 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4316 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4317 NFS server is running.
4318
4319 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
4320 automatically using heuristics
4321 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
4322 percpu one pool for each CPU
4323 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4324 to global on non-NUMA machines)
4325
cbf11071
TM
4326 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4327 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4328 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4329 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4330 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4331 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4332 improve throughput, but will also increase the
4333 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4334
1d4a9c17
BN
4335 suspend.pm_test_delay=
4336 [SUSPEND]
4337 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4338 mode before resuming the system (see
4339 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4340 is set. Default value is 5.
4341
07555ac1 4342 swapaccount=[0|1]
a42c390c
MH
4343 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4344 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
09c3bcce 4345 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
a42c390c 4346
91fec0f5 4347 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
fff5d992 4348 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
91fec0f5
JK
4349 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4350 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4351 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
fff5d992 4352 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
a9913044 4353
1da177e4
LT
4354 switches= [HW,M68k]
4355
e52eec13
AK
4356 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4357 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4358 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4359 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4360 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4361 in older udev will not work anymore.
4362 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4363 the kernel configuration.
4364
5d6f647f
IM
4365 sysrq_always_enabled
4366 [KNL]
4367 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4368 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4369 Useful for debugging.
4370
747029a5
FF
4371 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4372 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4373 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4374 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4375 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4376 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4377
1da177e4
LT
4378 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
4379
acc82342 4380 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
77437fd4 4381 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
acc82342
SP
4382 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4383 as the system sleep state during system startup with
4384 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4385 The system is woken from this state using a
4386 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
77437fd4 4387
1da177e4
LT
4388 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4389 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4390
f8707ec9
LB
4391 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
4392 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4393 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4394
c52a7419
LB
4395 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
4396 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
22a94d79 4397 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
c52a7419 4398
f5487145
LB
4399 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
4400 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4401 critical and hot trip points.
4402
72b33ef8
LB
4403 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
4404 1: disable ACPI thermal control
4405
a70cdc52
LB
4406 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
4407 -1: disable all passive trip points
ada9cfdd
RD
4408 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4409 value
a70cdc52 4410
730ff34d
LB
4411 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
4412 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4413 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4414 0: no polling (default)
4415
8d32a307
TG
4416 threadirqs [KNL]
4417 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
24775d65 4418 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
8d32a307 4419
2ca62b04
KRW
4420 tmem [KNL,XEN]
4421 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4422
4423 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4424 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4425 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4426
4427 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4428 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
37d46e15
KRW
4429 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4430 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
2ca62b04
KRW
4431
4432 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4433 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4434 to the hypervisor.
4435
4436 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4437 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4438 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4439 kernel based on different criteria.
4440
2b1a61f0
HC
4441 topology= [S390]
4442 Format: {off | on}
4443 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
f65e51d7
SL
4444 topology information if the hardware supports this.
4445 The scheduler will make use of this information and
2b1a61f0 4446 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
c9af3fa9 4447 Default is on.
2b1a61f0 4448
2d73bae1
NA
4449 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4450 Format: {off}
4451 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4452 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4453 LPAR.
4454
1da177e4
LT
4455 tp720= [HW,PS2]
4456
225a9be2
RA
4457 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4458 Format: integer pcr id
4459 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4460 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4461 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4462 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4463 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4464 are saved.
4465
9d612bef 4466 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
3e6fb8e9 4467 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
631595fb 4468
020e5f85
LZ
4469 trace_event=[event-list]
4470 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
d81749ea
BN
4471 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4472 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4473 also Documentation/trace/events.txt
020e5f85 4474
7bcfaf54
SR
4475 trace_options=[option-list]
4476 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4477 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4478 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4479 to echo the option name into
4480
4481 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4482
4483 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4484 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4485
4486 trace_options=stacktrace
4487
4488 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
4489 section.
4490
0daa2302
SRRH
4491 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4492 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4493 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4494 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4495 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4496 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4497
4498 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4499 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4500 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4501 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4502
4503 ** CAUTION **
4504
4505 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4506 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4507 the system to live lock.
4508
de7edd31
SRRH
4509 traceoff_on_warning
4510 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4511 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4512 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4513 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4514
4515 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4516 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4517 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4518
4519 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4520 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4521
fcf4d821
JK
4522 transparent_hugepage=
4523 [KNL]
4524 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4525 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4526 with respect to transparent hugepages.
4527 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
4528
d3b8f889 4529 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
395628ef
AK
4530 Format: <string>
4531 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
d3b8f889 4532 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4533 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4534 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4535 virtualized environment.
e82b8e4e
VP
4536 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4537 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4538 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4539 can add overhead.
395628ef 4540
4b708ea4
PG
4541 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
4542 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
4543 support TSX control.
4544
4545 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
4546
4547 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
4548 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
4549 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
4550 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
4551 so there may be unknown security risks associated
4552 with leaving it enabled.
4553
4554 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
4555 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
4556 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
4557 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
4558 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
4559 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
4560 deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
4561
8c99df21
PG
4562 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
4563 otherwise enable TSX on the system.
4564
4b708ea4
PG
4565 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
4566
4567 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
4568 for more details.
4569
a4f14d5a
PG
4570 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
4571 Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
4572
4573 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
4574 certain CPUs that support Transactional
4575 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
4576 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
4577 information to a disclosure gadget under certain
4578 conditions.
4579
4580 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4581 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
4582 access data to which the attacker does not have direct
4583 access.
4584
4585 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The
4586 options are:
4587
4588 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
4589 if TSX is enabled.
4590
4591 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
4592 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
4593 is not disabled because CPU is not
4594 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
4595 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
4596
d68d0c04
WL
4597 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
4598 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
4599 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
4600 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
4601
a4f14d5a
PG
4602 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4603 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected
4604 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
4605 required and doesn't provide any additional
4606 mitigation.
4607
4608 For details see:
4609 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
4610
a9913044
RD
4611 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4612 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4613 Format:
4614 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
1da177e4
LT
4615 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
4616
b6935f8c 4617 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
e52347bd 4618 happen after console_init() and before a proper
b6935f8c
CK
4619 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4620 help "seeing" what's going on.
4621
f86dcc5a
ED
4622 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4623 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4624
5f8364b7
AS
4625 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4626 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4627 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4628 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4629 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4630 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4631 reported either.
4632
e3a61b0a 4633 unknown_nmi_panic
44a4dcf7 4634 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
e3a61b0a 4635
c4fc2342
CDH
4636 usbcore.authorized_default=
4637 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4638 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4639 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4640
b5e795f8
AS
4641 usbcore.autosuspend=
4642 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4643 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4644 is the time required before an idle device will be
4645 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
eaafbc3a 4646 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
b5e795f8 4647
fd7c519d
JK
4648 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4649 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4650
0290cc9f
AS
4651 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4652 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4653 (default = 65536).
4654
fd7c519d
JK
4655 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4656 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4657
4658 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4659 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
4660 scheme (default 0 = off).
4661
3f5eb8d5
AS
4662 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4663 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4664 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4665
fd7c519d
JK
4666 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4667 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4668 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4669
4670 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4671 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4672 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4673 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4674
40d58148
ON
4675 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4676
1da177e4
LT
4677 usbhid.mousepoll=
4678 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
a9913044 4679
933bfe4d
TJ
4680 usbhid.jspoll=
4681 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4682
d4f373e5
AS
4683 usb-storage.delay_use=
4684 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
19101954 4685 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
d4f373e5
AS
4686
4687 usb-storage.quirks=
4688 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4689 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4690 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4691 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4692 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4693 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4694 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
c838ea46
AS
4695 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4696 of sense data);
a0bb1081
AS
4697 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4698 bytes of sense data);
d4f373e5
AS
4699 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4700 device capacity by one sector);
5116901d
KR
4701 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4702 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4703 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4704 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
734016b0
HG
4705 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4706 command, uas only);
ee136af4
HG
4707 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4708 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
c838ea46
AS
4709 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4710 reported device capacity by one
4711 sector if the number is odd);
d4f373e5
AS
4712 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4713 device);
13630746
HG
4714 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4715 command, uas only);
d4f373e5
AS
4716 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4717 unlock ejectable media);
4718 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4719 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
21c13a4f
AS
4720 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4721 initial READ(10) command);
c838ea46
AS
4722 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4723 reported by the device);
eaa05dfc
NJ
4724 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4725 by default);
d4f373e5
AS
4726 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4727 bogus residue values);
4728 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4729 Logical Unit);
59307852
HG
4730 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4731 commands, uas only);
b6089f19 4732 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
d4f373e5
AS
4733 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4734 medium is write-protected).
050bc4e8
ON
4735 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4736 even if the device claims no cache)
d4f373e5
AS
4737 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4738
ac1667db
SB
4739 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4740 Format: <int>
4741 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4742 1 - undefined instruction events
4743 2 - system calls
4744 4 - invalid data aborts
4745 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4746 16 - SIGBUS faults
4747 Example: user_debug=31
4748
14315592
IC
4749 userpte=
4750 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4751
4752 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4753 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4754 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4755
6cececfc 4756 vdso= [X86,SH]
b0b49f26
AL
4757 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4758
4759 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
e6e5494c
IM
4760 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4761
b0b49f26
AL
4762 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4763 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4764 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4765
4766 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4767 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4768 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4769
4770 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4771 alias for vdso32=0.
4772
4773 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4774 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
af65d648 4775
d080d397
YI
4776 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4777 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4778
1da177e4
LT
4779 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4780 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4781
3afe6dab
AL
4782 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4783 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4784 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4785 level and then send out the event to user space through
4786 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4787 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4788 brightness level.
2843768b 4789 default: 1
3afe6dab 4790
81a054ce
PM
4791 virtio_mmio.device=
4792 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4793
4794 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4795 where:
4796 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4797 like K, M and G)
4798 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4799 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4800 request_irq())
4801 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4802 example:
4803 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4804
4805 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4806
cd4f0ef7 4807 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
954a8b81 4808 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
a9913044 4809 Documentation/svga.txt.
1da177e4
LT
4810 Use vga=ask for menu.
4811 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4812 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4813
a9913044 4814 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
1da177e4
LT
4815 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4816 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4817 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4818 mapped kernel RAM.
4819
3f429842
HC
4820 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390]
4821 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
4822 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
4823
585c3047
PO
4824 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4825 Format: <command>
1da177e4 4826
585c3047
PO
4827 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4828 Format: <command>
4829
4830 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4831 Format: <command>
a9913044 4832
3ae36655
AL
4833 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4834 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4835 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4836 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4837 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4838 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4839 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4840
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4841 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4842 emulated reasonably safely.
3ae36655 4843
2e57ae05 4844 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
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4845 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4846 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4847 better than they would in emulation mode.
4848 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4849
4850 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4851 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4852 might break your system.
4853
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4854 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4855 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4856 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4857
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4858 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4859 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4860 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4861 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4862
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4863 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4864 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4865 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4866 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4867 ranging from 0-255.
4868
4869 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4870 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4871 Change the default green palette of the console.
4872 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4873 ranging from 0-255.
4874
4875 vt.default_red= [VT]
4876 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4877 Change the default red palette of the console.
4878 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4879 ranging from 0-255.
4880
4881 vt.default_utf8=
4882 [VT]
4883 Format=<0|1>
4884 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4885 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4886 newly opened terminals.
4887
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4888 vt.global_cursor_default=
4889 [VT]
4890 Format=<-1|0|1>
4891 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4892 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4893 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4894 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4895 cursors, 1 will display them.
4896
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4897 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4898 Default: 2 = green.
4899
4900 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4901 Default: 3 = cyan.
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4903 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4904 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4905 or other driver-specific files in the
4906 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
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4908 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4909 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4910 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4911 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4912 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4913 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4914 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4915 corresponding sysfs file.
4916
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4917 workqueue.disable_numa
4918 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4919 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4920 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4921 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4922 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4923 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4924 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4925
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4926 workqueue.power_efficient
4927 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4928 they show better performance thanks to cache
4929 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4930 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4931
4932 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4933 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4934 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4935 power usage at the cost of small performance
4936 overhead.
4937
4938 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4939 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4940
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4941 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4942 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4943 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4944 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
4945 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4946 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
4947 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4948 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4949 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4950 impacted.
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4952 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4953 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4954 supporting x2apic.
4955
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4956 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4957 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
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4958 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4959 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
712b6aa8 4960 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
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4962 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4963 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4964 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4965 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4966 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4967 domains.
4968
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4969 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4970 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4971 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4972 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4973 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4974 nics -- unplug network devices
4975 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
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4976 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4977 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4978 the unplug protocol
c93a4dfb 4979 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
c1c5413a 4980
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4981 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN]
4982 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
4983 panic() code such as dumping handler.
4984
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4985 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4986 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4987 optimizations.
4988
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4989 xen_nopv [X86]
4990 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4991 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4992
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4994 Format:
4995 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]