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b10d79f7 1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
03d926f8 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
6a1f5471 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
e58d154b 4 copy_dsdt }
1da177e4 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6a1f5471 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
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7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
1da177e4 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
237889bf 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
aa2110cb 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
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13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14 are available
1da177e4 15
395cf969 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
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18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
19 Format: <int>
20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21 1,0: use 1st APIC table
4e381a4f 22 default: 0
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24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
25 acpi_backlight=vendor
26 acpi_backlight=video
27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
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31 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
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37 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41 This option is useful for developers to identify the
42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
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45 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
1da177e4 47 Format: <int>
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48 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
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55 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
56 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
57 debug layers and levels.
a0d84a92 58
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59 Enable processor driver info messages:
60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
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63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64 object while interpreting AML:
65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
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66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69 Some values produce so much output that the system is
70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71 if you need to capture more output.
f989106c 72
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73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
74 { strict | lax | no }
75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79 can interfere with legacy drivers.
80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87 no further checks are performed.
88
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89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92 size limitation.
93
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94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95 ACPI will balance active IRQs
96 default in APIC mode
97
98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100 default in PIC mode
101
102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106 use by PCI
107 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
6dddd7a7 109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
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110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
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112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113 the GPE dispatcher.
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114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115 GPE floodings.
116 Format: <int>
9c4aa1ee 117
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118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
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120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122 auto-serialization feature.
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123 This feature is enabled by default.
124 This option allows to turn off the feature.
22b5afce 125
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126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
127 kernels.
128
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129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132 installed automatically and they will appear under
133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134 This option turns off this feature.
135 Note that specifying this option does not affect
136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
0cb55ad2 138
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139 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
140 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
141 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
142 second kernel for kdump.
4dde507f 143
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144 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
145 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
146
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147 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
148 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
149 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
150 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
151 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
152
0cb55ad2 153 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
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154 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
155 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
741d8128 156 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
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157 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
158 strings
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159 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
160 strings
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161 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
162
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163 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
164 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
165 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
166 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
167 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
168 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
169 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
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170 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
171 care about the state of the feature group strings which
172 should be controlled by the OSPM.
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173 Examples:
174 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
175 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
176 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
177
178 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
179 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
180 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
181 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
182 multiple times through kernel command line is also
183 meaningless.
184 Examples:
185 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
186 FALSE.
187
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188 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
189 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
190 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
191 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
192 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
193 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
194 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
195 there are quirks related to this string. This command
196 is useful when one want to control the state of the
197 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
198 the OSPM features.
199 Examples:
200 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
201 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
202 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
203 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
204 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
205 equivalent to
206 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
207 and
208 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
209 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
210
6cececfc 211 acpi_pm_good [X86]
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212 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
213 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
214 and always returns good values.
215
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216 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
217 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
218
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219 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
220 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
221 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
222
223 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
224 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
57044031 225 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
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226 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
227 s3_bios and s3_mode.
228 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
229 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
230 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
231 used during resume from hibernation.
232 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
233 control method, with respect to putting devices into
234 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
235 of _PTS is used by default).
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236 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
237 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
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238 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
239 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
240 but some broken systems don't work without it).
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241 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
242 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
243 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
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244
245 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
246 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
247 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
248
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249 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
250 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
251
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252 agp= [AGP]
253 { off | try_unsupported }
254 off: disable AGP support
255 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
256 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
257
bcfde334 258 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
1ca2c806 259 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
bcfde334 260
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261 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
262 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
263 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
264 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
265
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266 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
267 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
268 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
269 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
270 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
271 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
272 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
273
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274 32: only for 32-bit processes
275 64: only for 64-bit processes
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276 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
277 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
278
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279 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
280 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
281 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
282 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
283 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
284 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
285
89e0b9a3 286 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
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287 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
288 Possible values are:
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289 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
290 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
291 flushed before they will be reused, which
292 is a lot of faster
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293 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
294 the system
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295 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
296 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
297 allowed anymore to lift isolation
298 requirements as needed. This option
299 does not override iommu=pt
afa9fdc2 300
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301 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
302 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
303 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
304 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
305 IOMMU initialization.
306
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307 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
308 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
309 remapping modes:
310 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
311 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
312 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
313 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
314 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
315
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316 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
317 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
318 Format: <a>,<b>
1752118d 319 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
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320
321 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
322 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
323 connected to one of 16 gameports
324 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
325
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326 apc= [HW,SPARC]
327 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
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328 Format: noidle
329 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
330 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
331 APC and your system crashes randomly.
332
64e05d11 333 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
806654a9 334 Change the output verbosity while booting
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335 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
336 Change the amount of debugging information output
337 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
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338 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
339 driver name.
340 Format: apic=driver_name
341 Examples: apic=bigsmp
a9913044 342
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343 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
344 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
345 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
346 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
347 backup of CPU 0
348 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
349 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
350 shot down by NMI
351
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352 autoconf= [IPV6]
353 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
354
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355 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
356 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
357 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
358 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
359 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
360 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
361 apic=verbose is specified.
362 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
363
1da177e4 364 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
71f77055 365 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
1da177e4 366
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367 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
368 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
369
370 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
371
372 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
373
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374 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
375 EzKey and similar keyboards
376
377 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
378
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379 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
380 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
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381
382 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
383 keyboards
384
385 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
386 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
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387
388 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
389 Use software keyboard repeat
1da177e4 390
a106fb0c 391 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
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392 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
393 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
394 enabled until the next reboot
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395 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
396 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
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397 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
398 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
399 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
400 userspace auditd.
a106fb0c 401 Default: unset
f3411cb2 402
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403 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
404 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
405 Default: 64
406
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407 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
408 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
409 Format: { "0" | "1" }
410 0 - Disable the BAU.
411 1 - Enable the BAU.
412 unset - Disable the BAU.
413
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414 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
415 Format: <io>,<mode>
a9913044 416
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417 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
418 Format: <io>,<mode>
419 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
420
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421 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
422 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
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423 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
424 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
425
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426 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
427 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
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428 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
429 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
430
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431 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
432 embedded devices based on command line input.
433 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
434
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435 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
436 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
437 no delay (0).
438 Format: integer
439
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440 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
441
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442 bert_disable [ACPI]
443 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
444
1da177e4 445 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
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446 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
447 kernel args too.
a405ed85 448 bttv.pll= See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
395cf969 449 bttv.tuner=
1da177e4 450
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451 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
452 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
453 at a time.
454
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455 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
456
cd4f0ef7 457 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
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458 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
459 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
460 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
461 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
462 This option provides an override for these situations.
463
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464 carrier_timeout=
465 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
466 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
467 it waits 120 seconds.
468
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469 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
470 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
471 trust validation.
32c4741c 472 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
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474 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
475 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
476 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
477 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
478 others).
479
6dddd7a7 480 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
14ff56bb 481 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
1da177e4 482
6dddd7a7 483 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
8bab8dde 484 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
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485 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
486 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
487 a single hierarchy
488 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
489 subsystem
490 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
491 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
492 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
8bab8dde 493
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494 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
495 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
496 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
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497 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
498 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
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499 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
500 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
501 all v1 hierarchies.
1619b6d4 502
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503 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
504 Format: <string>
505 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
04823c83 506 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
f7e1cb6e 507
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508 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
509 Format: { "0" | "1" }
510 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
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511 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
512 any implied execute protection).
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513 1 -- check protection requested by application.
514 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
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515 Value can be changed at runtime via
516 /selinux/checkreqprot.
517
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518 cio_ignore= [S390]
519 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
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520 clk_ignore_unused
521 [CLK]
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522 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
523 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
524 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
525 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
526 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
527 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
528 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
529 platform with proper driver support. For more
18bcaa4e 530 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
661ca0da 531
cd4f0ef7 532 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
734efb46 533 [Deprecated]
3f6dee9b 534 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
734efb46 535 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
3f6dee9b 536 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
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537 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
538
592913ec 539 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
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540 Format: <string>
541 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
542 with the name specified.
543 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
544 the platform:
545 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
546 [ACPI] acpi_pm
547 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
548 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
9863c90f 549 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
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550 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
551 [MIPS] MIPS
552 [PARISC] cr16
553 [S390] tod
554 [SH] SuperH
555 [SPARC64] tick
556 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
557
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558 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
559 [ARM,ARM64]
560 Format: <bool>
561 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
562 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
563 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
564 systems.
565
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566 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
567 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
cd4d09ec 568 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
07983f0e 569 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
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570 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
571 ones should be.
572 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
573 or using the feature without checking anything
574 will still see it. This just prevents it from
575 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
576 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
577 some critical bits.
578
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579 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
580 [ARM,X86,KNL]
581 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
582 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
583 placement constraint by the physical address range of
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584 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
585 altogether. For more information, see
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586 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
587
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588 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
589 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
590 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
591 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
592 a hypervisor.
593 Default: yes
594
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595 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
596 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
e9da6e99 597 allocations, by default set to 256K.
c7909509 598
1da177e4 599 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
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600 Format:
601 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
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602
603 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
604 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
605
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606 com90xx= [HW,NET]
607 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
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608 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
609
610 condev= [HW,S390] console device
611 conmode=
a9913044 612
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613 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
614
615 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
616
617 ttyS<n>[,options]
f1a1c2dc 618 ttyUSB0[,options]
1da177e4 619 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
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620 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
621 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
622 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
623 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
624
e52347bd 625 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
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626 information. See
627 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
628 alternative.
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630 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
631 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
bd94c407 632 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
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633 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
634 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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635 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
636 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
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637 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
638 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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639 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
640 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
641 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
642 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
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643 the h/w is not re-initialized.
644
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645 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
646 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
1da177e4 647
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648 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
649 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
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650 console=brl,ttyS0
651 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
652
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653 console_msg_format=
654 [KNL] Change console messages format
655 default
656 By default we print messages on consoles in
657 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
658 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
659 `printk_time' param).
660 syslog
661 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
662 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
663 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
664 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
665 from /proc/kmsg.
666
f324edc8 667 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
ac0a314c 668 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
6dddd7a7 669 Defaults to 0.
f324edc8 670
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671 coredump_filter=
672 [KNL] Change the default value for
673 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
674 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
675
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676 coresight_cpu_debug.enable
677 [ARM,ARM64]
678 Format: <bool>
679 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
680 0: default value, disable debugging
681 1: enable debugging at boot time
682
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683 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
684 disable the cpuidle sub-system
685
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686 cpuidle.governor=
687 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
688
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689 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
690 disable the cpufreq sub-system
691
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692 cpu_init_udelay=N
693 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
694 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
695 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
696 Default: 10000
697
1da177e4 698 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
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699 Format:
700 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
1da177e4 701
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702 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
703 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
704 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
705 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
706 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
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707 is selected automatically.
708 [KNL, x86_64] select a region under 4G first, and
709 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
710 hasn't been specified.
711 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
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713 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
714 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
715 in the running system. The syntax of range is
716 start-[end] where start and end are both
717 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
6f21e646 718 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
fb391599 719
adbc742b 720 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
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721 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
722 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
723 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
724 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
725 available.
726 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
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727 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
728 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
729 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
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730 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
731 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
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732 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
733 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
734 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
735 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
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736 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
737 for second kernel instead.
738 0: to disable low allocation.
adbc742b 739 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
55a20ee7 740 or memory reserved is below 4G.
c729de8f 741
9e5c9fe4 742 cryptomgr.notests
6dddd7a7 743 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
9e5c9fe4 744
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745 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
746 Format: <dma>
747
748 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
749 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
a9913044 750
a9913044 751 dasd= [HW,NET]
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752 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
753
754 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
755 (one device per port)
756 Format: <port#>,<type>
1752118d 757 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4 758
6dddd7a7 759 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
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760 time. See
761 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
29e36c9f 762 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
a648ec05 763
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764 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
765
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766 debug_boot_weak_hash
767 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
768 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
769 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are
770 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
771 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
772 insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
773
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774 debug_locks_verbose=
775 [KNL] verbose self-tests
776 Format=<0|1>
777 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
778 self-tests.
779 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
780 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
781 only useful to kernel developers.
782
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783 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
784
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785 no_debug_objects
786 [KNL] Disable object debugging
787
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788 debug_guardpage_minorder=
789 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
790 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
791 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
792 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
793 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
794 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
795 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
796 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
797 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
798 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
799 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
800 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
801 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
802 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
803 bypassed) which are not detectable by
804 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
805 tracking down these problems.
806
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807 debug_pagealloc=
808 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
809 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
810 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
811 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
812 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
813 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
814 on: enable the feature
815
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816 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
817
2d27a966 818 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
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819 Format: <area>[,<node>]
820 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
821
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823 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
824 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
825 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
826 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
827 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
828 if not specified.
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830 deferred_probe_timeout=
831 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
832 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
833 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
834 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
835 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
836 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
837 retrying.
838
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839 dhash_entries= [KNL]
840 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
a9913044 841
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842 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
843 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
844 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
845 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
846 miss to occur.
847
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848 disable= [IPV6]
849 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
850
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851 hardened_usercopy=
852 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
853 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
854 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
855 from reading or writing beyond known memory
856 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
857 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
858 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
859 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
860 off Disable hardened usercopy checks.
861
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862 disable_radix [PPC]
863 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
864
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865 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
866 Format: <int>
867 The number of initial APIC ID for the
868 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
869 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
870 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
871 causing system reset or hang due to sending
872 INIT from AP to BSP.
873
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874 perf_v4_pmi= [X86,INTEL]
875 Format: <bool>
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876 Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature.
877 The feature only exists starting from
878 Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer).
879
6dddd7a7 880 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
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881 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
882 to workaround buggy firmware.
883
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884 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
885 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
886
95ffa243 887 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
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888 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
889 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
0cb55ad2 890 entry later. This parameter disables that.
95ffa243 891
093af8d7 892 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
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893 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
894 memory out of your available memory pool based on
895 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
896 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
897
6cececfc 898 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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899 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
900 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
901
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902 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
903
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904 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
905 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
906
907 dma_debug_entries=<number>
908 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
909 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
910 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
911 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
912 architectural default is too low.
913
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914 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
915 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
916 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
917 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
918 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
919 driver later using sysfs.
920
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921 driver_async_probe= [KNL]
922 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
923 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
924
53fd40a9 925 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
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926 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
927 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
928 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
929 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
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930 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
931 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
932 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
933 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
934 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
935 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
936 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
937 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
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938 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
939 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
940 data set with no connector name will be used for
941 any connectors not explicitly specified.
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943 dscc4.setup= [NET]
944
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945 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC]
946 Format: {"off" | "known"}
947 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
948 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
949 exists).
950 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
951 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
952 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
953
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954 dump_apple_properties [X86]
955 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
956 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
957 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
958
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959 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
960 module.dyndbg[="val"]
961 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
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963 for details.
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965 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
966 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
967 information about the feature.
968
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969 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
970 in some Intel CPUs.
971
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972 module.async_probe [KNL]
973 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
974
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975 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
976 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
977 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
978 which are not unmapped.
979
0cb55ad2 980 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
0d3c673e 981
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982 [ARM64] The early console is determined by the
983 stdout-path property in device tree's chosen node,
984 or determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
985
986 [X86] When used with no options the early console is
987 determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
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989 cdns,<addr>[,options]
990 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
991 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
992 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
993 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
994 configured.
6fa62fc4 995
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996 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
997 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1917ac76 998 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
6e63be3f 999 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
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1001 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1002 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
16290246 1003 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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1004 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1005 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1006 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1007 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
ca782f16 1008 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
0cb55ad2 1009
0d3c673e 1010 pl011,<addr>
3b78fae7 1011 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
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1012 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1013 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1014 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
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1015 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1016 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1017 the device registers.
0d3c673e 1018
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1019 meson,<addr>
1020 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1021 port at the specified address. The serial port must
1022 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1023 supported.
1024
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1025 msm_serial,<addr>
1026 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1027 port at the specified address. The serial port
1028 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1029 yet supported.
1030
1031 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1032 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1033 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1034 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1035 yet supported.
1036
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1037 owl,<addr>
1038 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1039 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1040 specified address. The serial port must already be
1041 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1042
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1043 rda,<addr>
1044 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1045 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1046 specified address. The serial port must already be
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1047 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1048
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1049 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1050
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1051 s3c2410,<addr>
1052 s3c2412,<addr>
1053 s3c2440,<addr>
1054 s3c6400,<addr>
1055 s5pv210,<addr>
1056 exynos4210,<addr>
1057 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1058 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1059 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1060 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1061 Options are not yet supported.
1062
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1063 lantiq,<addr>
1064 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1065 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1066 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1067 yet supported.
1068
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1069 lpuart,<addr>
1070 lpuart32,<addr>
1071 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1072 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1073 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1074 port must already be setup and configured.
1075
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1077 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1078 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1079 address. The serial port must already be setup
1080 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1081
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KR
1082 qcom_geni,<addr>
1083 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1084 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1085 specified address. The serial port must already be
1086 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1087
69c1f396
AB
1088 efifb,[options]
1089 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1090 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1091 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1092 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1093 mapped with the correct attributes.
1094
4ba66a97 1095 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1da177e4 1096 earlyprintk=vga
89175cf7 1097 earlyprintk=sclp
2482a92e 1098 earlyprintk=xen
1da177e4 1099 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
147ea091 1100 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
ea3acb19 1101 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
9780bc41 1102 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
d2266bbf 1103 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1b5aeebf 1104 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1da177e4 1105
147ea091
DH
1106 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1107 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1108 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1109
a9913044 1110 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1da177e4
LT
1111 takes over.
1112
72548e83
MF
1113 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1114 be used at a time.
1da177e4 1115
147ea091
DH
1116 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1117 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1118 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1119 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1120 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1121 You can find the port for a given device in
1122 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1123 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1da177e4
LT
1124
1125 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1126 very good.
1127
72548e83
MF
1128 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1129 the real console.
1da177e4 1130
2482a92e
KRW
1131 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1132
89175cf7
HC
1133 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1134
d2266bbf
FT
1135 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1136 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1137 UART class.
1138
c700f013
CG
1139 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1140 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1141 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1142 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1143 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1144 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1145 default: on.
1146
9731191f
JW
1147 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1148 ekgdboc=kbd
1149
25985edc 1150 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
9731191f
JW
1151 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1152
1da177e4 1153 edd= [EDD]
8c4dd606 1154 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1da177e4 1155
d2f7cbe7 1156 efi= [EFI]
fed6cefe 1157 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
d2f7cbe7
BP
1158 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1159 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1160 default.
5a17dae4
MF
1161 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1162 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1163 firmware implementations.
5ae3683c 1164 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
fed6cefe 1165 debug: enable misc debug output
d2f7cbe7 1166
8c58bf3e
RW
1167 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1168 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1169 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1170 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1171 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1172
0f96a99d
TI
1173 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1174 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1175 updating original EFI memory map.
1176 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1177 from ss to ss+nn.
1178 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1179 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1180 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1181 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1182
1183 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1184 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1185 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1186 doesn't support it.
1187
475fb4e8
OP
1188 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1189 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1190 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1191 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1192 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1193
1194
1da177e4
LT
1195 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1196 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1197
cd4f0ef7 1198 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1da177e4 1199 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
71f77055 1200 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1da177e4
LT
1201
1202 elevator= [IOSCHED]
31dcbbef
OS
1203 Format: { "mq-deadline" | "kyber" | "bfq" }
1204 See Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt,
1205 Documentation/block/kyber-iosched.txt and
1206 Documentation/block/bfq-iosched.txt for details.
a9913044 1207
d3bf3795 1208 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
a9913044 1209 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
d3bf3795
MH
1210 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1211 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
aac04b32 1212 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
1da177e4 1213
0cb55ad2
RD
1214 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1215 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1216 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1217 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1218
ca1eda2d 1219 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
0cb55ad2
RD
1220 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1221 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1222 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1223 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1224
1da177e4
LT
1225 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1226 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1227 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1228 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1229 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1230 Default value is 0.
1231 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1232
a08f82d0
HY
1233 erst_disable [ACPI]
1234 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1235 support.
1236
1da177e4
LT
1237 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1238 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1239 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1240
7102ebcd
MZ
1241 evm= [EVM]
1242 Format: { "fix" }
1243 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1244 current integrity status.
1245
de1ba09b
AM
1246 failslab=
1247 fail_page_alloc=
1248 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1249 General fault injection mechanism.
1250 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
395cf969 1251 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
de1ba09b 1252
1da177e4 1253 floppy= [HW]
31c00fc1 1254 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1da177e4 1255
f13ae30e
AC
1256 force_pal_cache_flush
1257 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1258 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1259 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1260 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1261
6dddd7a7 1262 forcepae [X86-32]
69f2366c
CB
1263 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1264 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1265 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1266 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1267 and may cause unknown problems.
1268
d9e54076 1269 ftrace=[tracer]
2af15d6a 1270 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
d9e54076
PZ
1271 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1272 boot debugging.
1273
cecbca96 1274 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
2af15d6a 1275 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
cecbca96
FW
1276 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1277 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1278 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1279 oops.
2af15d6a
SR
1280
1281 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1282 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1283 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1284 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1285 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
16290246 1286 tracing directory.
2af15d6a
SR
1287
1288 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1289 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1290 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1291 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1292 tracing directory.
d9e54076 1293
369bc18f
SA
1294 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1295 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1296 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1297 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1298 that can be changed at run time by the
1299 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1300
0d7d9a16
NK
1301 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1302 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1303 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1304 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1305 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1306
65a50c65
TB
1307 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1308 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1309 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1310 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1311 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1312
1da177e4
LT
1313 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1314 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1315 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1316 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1752118d 1317 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4
LT
1318
1319 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1320
6dddd7a7 1321 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
aaf23042
YL
1322 Format: off | on
1323 default: on
1324
2521f2c2
PO
1325 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1326 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1327 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1328 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1329 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1330
47512cfd
TG
1331 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1332 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1333 android emulator
1334
1da177e4 1335 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
6c5de79b
DB
1336 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1337 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1338 GPT to be used instead.
1da177e4 1339
6cec9b07
AL
1340 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1341 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1342 Format: 0 | 1
1343 Default: 0
1344 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1345 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1346 Format: 0 | 1
1347 Default: 0
1348 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1349 Format: 0 | 1
1350 Default: 0
1351 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1352 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1353 Default: 1024
1354 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1355 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1356 Default: 1024
1357
0f98dd1b
BJZ
1358 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1359 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1360 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1361
55537871
JK
1362 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1363 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1364 backtraces on all cpus.
1365 Format: <integer>
1366
1da177e4
LT
1367 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1368 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
16290246 1369 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
a9913044 1370 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1da177e4
LT
1371
1372 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1373
1374 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1375 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1376
ea8c071c
HY
1377 hest_disable [ACPI]
1378 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1379 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1380 logic will be disabled.
1381
1da177e4
LT
1382 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1383 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1384 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1385 size on bigger boxes.
1386
54cdfdb4
TG
1387 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1388 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1389 Default: "on"
1390
1da177e4
LT
1391 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1392 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1393
0cb55ad2
RD
1394 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1395
1396 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1397 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1398 verbose }
1399 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1400 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1401 VIA, nVidia)
1402 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1403
3d035f58
PB
1404 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1405 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1406
b4718e62
AK
1407 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1408 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
0d9ea754
JT
1409 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1410 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1411 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1412 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
27ec26ec 1413 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
6902aa84 1414
a49d9c0a
OS
1415 hung_task_panic=
1416 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1417 Format: <integer>
cef7125d 1418
a49d9c0a
OS
1419 A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a
1420 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1421 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1422 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1423 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1424
6dddd7a7
TB
1425 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1426 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1427 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1428 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1429 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
3a025de6
YS
1430
1431 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1432 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1433 guest on lock contention.
1434
7bf69395
FDN
1435 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1436 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1437 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1438 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1439 the real console.
1440
6dddd7a7
TB
1441 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1442 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1443 registered from board initialization code.
1444 Format:
1445 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
3a853fb9 1446
36d95739 1447 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
e1443d28
SCP
1448 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1449 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1450 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1451 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1da177e4 1452 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
84eb8d06
ML
1453 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1454 keyboard and cannot control its state
1da177e4
LT
1455 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1456 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
945ef0d4 1457 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
75d08c78
JK
1458 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1459 for the AUX port
1da177e4 1460 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
e55a3366 1461 controller
1da177e4
LT
1462 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1463 controllers
24775d65 1464 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
930e1924
MPS
1465 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1466 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1467 transitions, or never reset
1468 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1469 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1470 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1471 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1472 architectures force reset to be always executed
1da177e4 1473 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
6dddd7a7 1474 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1da177e4
LT
1475
1476 i810= [HW,DRM]
1477
e70c9d5e
DT
1478 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1479 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1480 hardware.
1da177e4
LT
1481 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1482 does not match list of supported models.
1483 i8k.power_status
1484 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1485 (disabled by default)
1486 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1487 capability is set.
1488
4dca20ef 1489 i915.invert_brightness=
7bd90909
CE
1490 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1491 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
4dca20ef
CE
1492 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1493 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1494 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1495 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1496 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1497 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1498 value switches the backlight off.
1499 -1 -- never invert brightness
1500 0 -- machine default
1501 1 -- force brightness inversion
7bd90909 1502
1da177e4
LT
1503 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1504 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1505
0af80c04
DF
1506 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1507 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
075affcb
BZ
1508 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1509 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1c10e938 1510 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1da177e4 1511
0f8b7f5d
MR
1512 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1513 Format: <int>
1514 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1515 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1516 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1517 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1518 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1519 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1520 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1521 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1522 was 0x3.
1523
0cb55ad2
RD
1524 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1525 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1526
f039b754 1527 idle= [X86]
69fb3676 1528 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
ada9cfdd
RD
1529 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1530 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1531 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1532 Not recommended.
ada9cfdd 1533 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
c1e3b377 1534 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
ada9cfdd 1535 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
a9913044 1536
503943e0
MR
1537 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1538 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1539 Default: strict
1540
1541 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1542 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1543 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1544 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1545 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1546 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1547 encoding mode.
1548
1549 Available settings are as follows:
1550 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1551 supported by the FPU
1552 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1553 by the FPU
1554 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1555 by the FPU
1556 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1557 supported by the FPU
1558
1559 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1560 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1561 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1562 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1563 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1564 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1565 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1566 MIPS64 CPUs.
1567
1568 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1569 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1570 except where unsupported by hardware.
1571
79290822
IM
1572 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1573 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1574 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
0eca6b7c
YZ
1575 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1576 could change it dynamically, usually by
1577 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
79290822 1578
d977d56c
KK
1579 ignore_rlimit_data
1580 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1581 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1582 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1583
1da177e4
LT
1584 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1585 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1586
2fe5d6de 1587 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2faa6ef3 1588 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
2fe5d6de
MZ
1589 default: "enforce"
1590
41475a3e 1591 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
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1592 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1593 owned by uid=0.
1594
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1595 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1596 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1597 measurements, instead of host native format.
1598
3323eec9 1599 ima_hash= [IMA]
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1600 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1601 | sha512 | ... }
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1602 default: "sha1"
1603
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1604 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1605 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1606
24fd03c8 1607 ima_policy= [IMA]
33ce9549 1608 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
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1609 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1610 fail_securely"
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1611
1612 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1613 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1614 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1615 uid=0.
1616
1617 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
41475a3e 1618 all files owned by root.
24fd03c8 1619
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1620 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1621 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1622 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
24fd03c8 1623
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1624 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1625 verification failure also on privileged mounted
1626 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1627 flag.
1628
24fd03c8 1629 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
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1630 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1631 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1632 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1633 opened for read by uid=0.
1634
6dddd7a7 1635 ima_template= [IMA]
9b9d4ce5 1636 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
8265a2f8 1637 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
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1638 Default: "ima-ng"
1639
c2426d2a 1640 ima_template_fmt=
6dddd7a7 1641 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
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1642 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1643
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1644 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1645 Format: <min_file_size>
1646 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1647 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1648
1649 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1650 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1651 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1652
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1653 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1654 Format: <bufsize>
1655 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1656
1657 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1658 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1659 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1660
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1661 init= [KNL]
1662 Format: <full_path>
1663 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1664 process.
1665
1666 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1667 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1668 startup.
1669
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1670 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1671 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1672 modules and initcalls.
1673
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1674 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1675
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1676 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1677 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1678 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1679 override in debugfs after boot.
1680
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1681 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1682 Format: <irq>
1683
6dddd7a7 1684 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
6bb2ff84 1685
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1686 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1687 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1688 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1689 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1690
ba395927 1691 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
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1692 on
1693 Enable intel iommu driver.
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1694 off
1695 Disable intel iommu driver.
1696 igfx_off [Default Off]
1697 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1698 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1699 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1700 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1701 DMA.
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1702 forcedac [x86_64]
1703 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
16290246 1704 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
7d3b03ce 1705 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
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1706 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1707 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
7d3b03ce 1708 then look in the higher range.
5e0d2a6f 1709 strict [Default Off]
1710 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1711 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1712 to batching them for performance.
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1713 sp_off [Default Off]
1714 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1715 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1716 not be supported.
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1717 sm_on [Default Off]
1718 By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the
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1719 hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable
1720 mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode
8950dcd8 1721 will be used on hardware which claims to support it.
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1722 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1723 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1724 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1725 could harm performance of some high-throughput
1726 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1727 mapping is enabled.
1728 Note that using this option lowers the security
1729 provided by tboot because it makes the system
1730 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
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1731
1732 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1733 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
22c6bbe4 1734 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
2e92c7ad 1735
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1736 intel_pstate= [X86]
1737 disable
1738 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1739 scaling driver for the supported processors
1740 passive
1741 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1742 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1743 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1744 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1745 feature.
1746 force
1747 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1748 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1749 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1750 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1751 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1752 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1753 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1754 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1755 no_hwp
1756 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1757 if available.
1758 hwp_only
1759 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1760 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1761 support_acpi_ppc
1762 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1763 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1764 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1765 then this feature is turned on by default.
1766 per_cpu_perf_limits
1767 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1768 cpufreq sysfs interface
6be26498 1769
d1423d56 1770 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
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1771 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1772 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1773 nosid disable Source ID checking
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1774 no_x2apic_optout
1775 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
b7d20631 1776 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
d1423d56 1777
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1778 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1779 strict regions from userspace.
1780 relaxed
1781
1782 iommu= [x86]
1783 off
1784 force
1785 noforce
1786 biomerge
1787 panic
1788 nopanic
1789 merge
1790 nomerge
0cb55ad2 1791 soft
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1792 pt [x86]
1793 nopt [x86]
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1794 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1795 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
bcb71abe 1796
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1797 iommu.strict= [ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
1798 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1799 0 - Lazy mode.
1800 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
1801 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
1802 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
1803 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
1804 the relevant IOMMU driver.
1805 1 - Strict mode (default).
1806 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
1807 synchronously.
1808
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1809 iommu.passthrough=
1810 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1811 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1812 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1813 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
9d723b4c 1814 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
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1815
1816 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1817 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1818 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1819
6cececfc 1820 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
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1821 0x80
1822 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1823 0xed
1824 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
b02aae9c 1825 udelay
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1826 Simple two microseconds delay
1827 none
1828 No delay
b02aae9c 1829
1da177e4 1830 ip= [IP_PNP]
dc7a0816 1831 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 1832
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1833 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
1834 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
1835
fbf19803 1836 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2d13e6ca 1837 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
fbf19803 1838
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1839 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1840 [ARM, ARM64]
1841 Format: <bool>
1842 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1843 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1844 exposed by the device tree is too small.
1845
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1846 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
1847 [ARM, ARM64]
1848 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
1849 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
1850 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
1851 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
1852 LPIs.
1853
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1854 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
1855 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
1856 requires the kernel to be built with
1857 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
1858
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1859 irqfixup [HW]
1860 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1861 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1862 firmware running.
1863
1864 irqpoll [HW]
1865 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1866 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1867 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1868 firmware running.
1869
1da177e4 1870 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
a9913044 1871 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1da177e4 1872
d94d1053 1873 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
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1874 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1875 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
1876
1877 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1878 specified in the flag list (default: domain):
1879
1880 nohz
1881 Disable the tick when a single task runs.
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1882
1883 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
1884 need to affine to housekeeping through the global
1885 workqueue's affinity configured via the
1886 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
1887 by using the 'domain' flag described below.
1888
1889 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
1890 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
1891 be configured manually after bootup.
1892
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1893 domain
1894 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1895 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1896 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1897 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1898 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1899 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1900 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1901 move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1902
1903 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1904 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1905 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1906 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1907
1908 The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
b225d44e 1909
1da177e4 1910
1da177e4 1911
a9913044 1912 iucv= [HW,NET]
1da177e4 1913
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1914 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1915 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1916 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1917 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1918 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1919 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1920
1921 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1922 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1923 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1924 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1925 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1926 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1927
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1928 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1929 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1930 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1931 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1932 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1933 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1934
1da177e4 1935 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1752118d 1936 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
1da177e4 1937
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1938 nokaslr [KNL]
1939 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1940 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1941 Layout Randomization).
24f2e027 1942
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1943 kasan_multi_shot
1944 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1945 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1946 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1947 invalid access.
1948
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1949 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1950
342332e6 1951 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
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1952 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
1953 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
1954 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested
1955 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
1956 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for
1957 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the
1958 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
1959 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
1960 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
1961
1962 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
1963 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
1964 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
1965 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
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1966 zone if it does not.
1967
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1968 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
1969 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
1970 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror"
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1971 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1972 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
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1973 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
1974 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
ed7ed365 1975
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1976 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1977 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1978 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1979 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1980 optional and is the number seconds in between
1981 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1982 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1983 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1984 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1985 the kernel debugger.
1986
84c08fd6 1987 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
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1988 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1989 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
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1990 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1991 keyboard only format: kbd
1992 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1993 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1994 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1995 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
6cdf6e06 1996
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1997 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1998 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1999
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2000 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
2001 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2002 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2003
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2004 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2005 Valid arguments: on, off
2006 Default: on
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2007 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2008 the default is off.
04f70336 2009
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2010 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2011 and kernel address spaces.
2012 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2013 0: force disabled
2014 1: force enabled
2015
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2016 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2017 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2018
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2019 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2020 Default is false (don't support).
2021
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2022 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
2023 KVM MMU at runtime.
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2024 Default is 0 (off)
2025
fef07aae 2026 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
8475f94a 2027 Default is 1 (enabled)
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2028
2029 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2030 for all guests.
16290246 2031 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
fef07aae 2032
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2033 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2034 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2035 system registers
2036
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2037 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2038 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2039 system registers
2040
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2041 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2042 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2043 system registers
2044
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2045 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2046 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2047 LPIs.
2048
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2049 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2050 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2051 Default is 1 (enabled)
2052
2053 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2054 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
2055 Default is 0 (disabled)
2056
2057 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2058 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2059 Default is 1 (enabled)
2060
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2061 kvm-intel.nested=
2062 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2063 Default is 0 (disabled)
2064
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2065 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2066 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2067 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2068 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2069
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2070 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2071 CVE-2018-3620.
2072
2073 Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2074
2075 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2076 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2077 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2078 never: Disables the mitigation
2079
2080 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2081
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2082 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2083 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2084 Default is 1 (enabled)
2085
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2086 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2087 affected CPUs
2088
2089 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2090 enabled and cannot be disabled.
2091
2092 full
2093 Provides all available mitigations for the
2094 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2095 enables all mitigations in the
2096 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2097
2098 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2099 sysfs interface is still possible after
2100 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2101 when the first VM is started in a
2102 potentially insecure configuration,
2103 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2104
2105 full,force
2106 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2107 flush runtime control. Implies the
2108 'nosmt=force' command line option.
2109 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2110
2111 flush
2112 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2113 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2114 L1D flush.
2115
2116 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2117 sysfs interface is still possible after
2118 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2119 when the first VM is started in a
2120 potentially insecure configuration,
2121 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2122
2123 flush,nosmt
2124
2125 Disables SMT and enables the default
2126 hypervisor mitigation.
2127
2128 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2129 sysfs interface is still possible after
2130 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2131 when the first VM is started in a
2132 potentially insecure configuration,
2133 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2134
2135 flush,nowarn
2136 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2137 warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2138 insecure configuration.
2139
2140 off
2141 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2142 emit any warnings.
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2143 It also drops the swap size and available
2144 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2145 bare metal.
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2146
2147 Default is 'flush'.
2148
65fd4cb6 2149 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
d90a7a0e 2150
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2151 l2cr= [PPC]
2152
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2153 l3cr= [PPC]
2154
cd4f0ef7 2155 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
a9913044 2156 disabled it.
1da177e4 2157
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2158 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
2159 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2160 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2161
6cececfc 2162 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
ada9cfdd 2163 in C2 power state.
e585bef8 2164
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FC
2165 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
2166 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2167 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2168 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
16290246 2169 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
fcb71f6f
FC
2170 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2171 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
16290246 2172
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MP
2173 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2174 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
2175 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
fcb71f6f 2176
78e70c23
DJ
2177 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2178 when set.
2179 Format: <int>
2180
33267325
TH
2181 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
2182 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
4c44f309 2183 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
33267325
TH
2184 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
2185 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
2186 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2187 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2188 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2189
2190 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2191 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
2192 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2193 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
2194 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2195 host link and device attached to it.
2196
2197 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
2198 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2199 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2200 The following configurations can be forced.
2201
2202 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2203 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2204
2205 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2206
2207 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2208 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2209 allowed.
2210
2211 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2212
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MP
2213 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2214
05944bdf 2215 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
6dddd7a7 2216 and both resets.
05944bdf 2217
ca6d43b0
DW
2218 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2219 hot-unplug link recovery
2220
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TH
2221 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2222
966fbe19
VP
2223 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2224
b8bd6dc3
RJ
2225 * disable: Disable this device.
2226
33267325
TH
2227 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2228 the same attribute, the last one is used.
2229
95f72d1e 2230 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
7c4be253 2231
1da177e4 2232 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
31c00fc1 2233 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 2234
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RD
2235 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2236 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 2237
a6b25b67
RD
2238 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2239 Format: <integer>
2240
2241 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2242 Format: <integer>
2243
2244 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2245 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 2246
ec4518aa
PM
2247 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2248 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2249 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2250 number of online CPUs.
2251
2252 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2253 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2254
2255 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2256 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2257
2258 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2259 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2260 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2261
2262 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2263 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2264 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2265 mode during the locktorture test.
2266
2267 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2268 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2269 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2270
2271 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2272 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2273
2274 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2275 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2276 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2277 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2278 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2279 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2280
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PM
2281 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2282 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2283
2284 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2285 Enable additional printk() statements.
2286
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LT
2287 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2288 Format: <irq>
2289
2290 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2291 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2292 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2293 loglevels are defined as follows:
2294
2295 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2296 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2297 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2298 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2299 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2300 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2301 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2302 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2303
c756d08a 2304 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
23b2899f
LR
2305 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2306 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2307 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2308 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2309 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2310 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
1da177e4 2311
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RD
2312 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2313 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2314 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2315 kernel boot problems.
2316
1da177e4
LT
2317 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2318 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2319 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2320 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2321 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2322 attached printers to be reset. Using
2323 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2324 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2325 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2326 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2327 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2328 port specification list means that device IDs
2329 from each port should be examined, to see if
2330 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2331 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2332 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2333
2334 lpj=n [KNL]
2335 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2336 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2337 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2338 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2339 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2340 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2341 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2342 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2343 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2344 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2345 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2346 hardware.
2347
2348 ltpc= [NET]
2349 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2350
9b8c7c14
KC
2351 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2352
79f7865d
KC
2353 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2354 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
89a9684e 2355 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
79f7865d 2356
16290246 2357 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
a9913044
RD
2358 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2359 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
1da177e4 2360
3209e70e
WZ
2361 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2362 yeeloong laptop.
2363 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2364
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RD
2365 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2366 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
1da177e4
LT
2367
2368 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
7c142bfe
BH
2369 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2370 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2371 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2372 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2373 only takes effect during system bootup.
2374 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2375 which also disables the IO APIC.
1da177e4 2376
d134b00b
KS
2377 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2378 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2379 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2380 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2381 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2382 /dev/loop-control interface.
2b2c3750 2383
cd4f0ef7 2384 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
1da177e4 2385
71cced6e 2386 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
909dd324 2387
1da177e4 2388 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
e52347bd 2389 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
a9913044 2390
1da177e4
LT
2391 mdacon= [MDA]
2392 Format: <first>,<last>
2393 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
a9913044 2394
bc124170
TG
2395 mds= [X86,INTEL]
2396 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2397 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2398
2399 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2400 internal buffers which can forward information to a
2401 disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2402
2403 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2404 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2405 attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2406 not have direct access.
2407
2408 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2409 options are:
2410
d71eb0ce
JP
2411 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2412 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2413 SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2414 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
bc124170
TG
2415
2416 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2417 mds=full.
2418
5999bbe7
TG
2419 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2420
1da177e4
LT
2421 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2422 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2423 to see the whole system memory or for test.
fbb97d87
WC
2424 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2425 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2426 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2427 belonging to unused RAM.
1da177e4 2428
cd4f0ef7 2429 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
1da177e4
LT
2430 memory.
2431
6902aa84
PM
2432 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2433 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2434 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2435
6dddd7a7 2436 memhp_default_state=online/offline
86dd995d
VK
2437 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2438 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2439 set according to the
2440 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2441 option.
2442 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2443
6cececfc 2444 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
1da177e4
LT
2445 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2446 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2447 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2448 option description.
2449
2450 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
277cba1d
RD
2451 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2452 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
8fcc9bc3
BH
2453 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2454 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2455 Multiple different regions can be specified,
2456 comma delimited.
2457 Example:
2458 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
1da177e4
LT
2459
2460 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2461 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
277cba1d 2462 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
1da177e4
LT
2463
2464 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2465 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
277cba1d 2466 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
1312848e
PM
2467 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2468 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2469 or
2470 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
8fcc9bc3
BH
2471 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2472 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2473 will be eaten.
1da177e4 2474
ec776ef6
CH
2475 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2476 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2477 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2478 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2479 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2480
ef61f8a3
JS
2481 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2482 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2483 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2484 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2485 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2486 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2487 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2488 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2489
9f077871
JF
2490 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2491 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2492 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2493 Setting this option will scan the memory
2494 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2495 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2496 from using the memory being corrupted.
2497 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2498 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2499 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2500 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2501
2502 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2503 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2504 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2505 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2506 corruption in more or less memory.
2507
2508 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2509 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2510 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2511 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2512
d90fe2ac 2513 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest
c64df707 2514 Format: <integer>
c64df707 2515 default : 0 <disable>
9e5f6cf5
AH
2516 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2517 performed. Each pass selects another test
2518 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2519 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2520 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2521 regions that are detected.
c64df707 2522
c262f3b9
TL
2523 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2524 Valid arguments: on, off
2525 Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2526 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2527 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2528 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
2529 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
2530
2531 Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
2532 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2533
406e7938
RW
2534 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2535 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2536 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2537 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
58e7cb9e 2538 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
406e7938 2539
1da177e4 2540 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
a405ed85 2541 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
1da177e4 2542
8f36881b
AS
2543 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2544 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2545 platforms.
2546
e6c4dc6c
WT
2547 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2548 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2549 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2550 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2551
1da177e4
LT
2552 mga= [HW,DRM]
2553
1c207f95
RD
2554 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2555 physical address is ignored.
2556
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MP
2557 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2558 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2559 Default: "0tb"
2560 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2561 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2562 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2563 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2564 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2565 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2566 unconfigured.
2567 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2568 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2569 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2570 VGA shield.
2571 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2572 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2573 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2574 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2575 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2576 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2577
98af8452 2578 mitigations=
a111b7c0
JP
2579 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
2580 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated,
d68be4c4
JP
2581 arch-independent options, each of which is an
2582 aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
98af8452
JP
2583
2584 off
2585 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This
2586 improves system performance, but it may also
2587 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
782e69ef 2588 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
a111b7c0 2589 kpti=0 [ARM64]
782e69ef 2590 nospectre_v1 [PPC]
0336e04a 2591 nobp=0 [S390]
a111b7c0 2592 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
d68be4c4 2593 spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
782e69ef 2594 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
a111b7c0 2595 ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
d68be4c4 2596 l1tf=off [X86]
5c14068f 2597 mds=off [X86]
98af8452
JP
2598
2599 auto (default)
2600 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
2601 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for
2602 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
2603 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
2604 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
d68be4c4 2605 Equivalent to: (default behavior)
98af8452
JP
2606
2607 auto,nosmt
2608 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
2609 if needed. This is for users who always want to
2610 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
d68be4c4 2611 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
5c14068f 2612 mds=full,nosmt [X86]
98af8452 2613
6b74ab97
MG
2614 mminit_loglevel=
2615 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2616 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2617 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2618 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2619 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2620 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2621
106a4ee2
RR
2622 module.sig_enforce
2623 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2624 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2a039be7 2625 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
106a4ee2
RR
2626 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2627
be7de5f9
PB
2628 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2629 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2630
1da177e4
LT
2631 mousedev.tap_time=
2632 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2633 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2634 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2635 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2636 Format: <msecs>
2637 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2638 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2639 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2640 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2641
a5c6d650
DR
2642 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2643 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2644 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
2645 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
2646 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is
2647 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
2648 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its
2649 own is specified, the administrator must be careful
0cb55ad2
RD
2650 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2651 is not too small.
2652
f70029bb
MH
2653 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2654 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2655 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2656 allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2657 allocations. Use with caution!
c5320926 2658
1da177e4
LT
2659 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2660 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2661
a9913044
RD
2662 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2663 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
1da177e4
LT
2664
2665 mtdparts= [MTD]
c8facbb6 2666 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
1da177e4 2667
4e89a2d8
WS
2668 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2669 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2670 at a time.
2671
5988af23
RH
2672 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2673
2674 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2675
2676 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2677 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2678 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2679 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2680 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2681
9db829f4
BD
2682 mtdset= [ARM]
2683 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2684
2685 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2686
1da177e4 2687 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
a9913044
RD
2688 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2689 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
1da177e4 2690
0cb55ad2 2691 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
19f59460 2692 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
0cb55ad2
RD
2693 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2694
2695 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2696 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2697 Default is 1.
2698 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2699 using up MTRRs.
2700
2701 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2702 Format: <integer>
2703 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2704 Default : 1
2705 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2706 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2707
1da177e4
LT
2708 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2709
1da177e4
LT
2710 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2711 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2712 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2713 something different and driver-specific.
a9913044
RD
2714 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2715 file if at all.
2716
58401572
KPO
2717 nf_conntrack.acct=
2718 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2719 0 to disable accounting
2720 1 to enable accounting
d70a011d 2721 Default value is 0.
58401572 2722
306a0753 2723 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
dc7a0816 2724 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2725
2726 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
dc7a0816 2727 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 2728
306a0753
CL
2729 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2730 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2731
5405fc44
TM
2732 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2733 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2734 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2735 requests.
2736
a72b4422
TM
2737 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2738 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2739 channel should listen.
2740
e571cbf1
TM
2741 nfs.cache_getent=
2742 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2743 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2744
2745 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2746 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2747 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2748
58df095b
TM
2749 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2750 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2751 entries.
2752
f43bf0be
TM
2753 nfs.enable_ino64=
2754 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2755 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2756 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2757 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2758 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2759
5405fc44
TM
2760 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2761 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2762 slots the client will assign to the callback
2763 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2764 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2765 a particular server.
2766
ef159e91
TM
2767 nfs.max_session_slots=
2768 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2769 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2770 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2771 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2772 Note that there is little point in setting this
2773 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2774
b064eca2 2775 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
074b1d12
TM
2776 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2777 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2778 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2779 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2780 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2781 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2782 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2783 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2784 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2785 back to using the idmapper.
2786 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
6f2ea7f2
CL
2787 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2788 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2789 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2790 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2791 UUID that is generated at system install time.
b064eca2 2792
db8ac8ba
WAA
2793 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2794 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2795 information in exchange_id requests.
2796 If zero, no implementation identification information
2797 will be sent.
2798 The default is to send the implementation identification
2799 information.
e52347bd 2800
f6de7a39
TM
2801 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2802 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2803 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2804 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2805 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2806 after the locks are lost.
2807 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2808 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2809 parameter to '1'.
2810 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2811 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
db8ac8ba 2812
bbf58bf3
TM
2813 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2814 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2815 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2816
2817 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2818 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2819 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2820 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2821
e9541ce8
BF
2822 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2823 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2824 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2825 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2826 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2827 migration from NFSv2/v3.
db8ac8ba 2828
c0c74acb 2829 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
e7ba176b
HS
2830 when a NMI is triggered.
2831 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2832
6cececfc 2833 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
fef2c9bc 2834 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
195daf66 2835 Valid num: 0 or 1
334bb79c
PK
2836 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2837 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
0cb55ad2 2838 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
fef2c9bc 2839 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
334bb79c
PK
2840 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2841 please see 'nowatchdog'.
0cb55ad2
RD
2842 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2843 need the box quickly up again.
1da177e4 2844
d22881dc
SW
2845 These settings can be accessed at runtime via
2846 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
2847
bff38771
AV
2848 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2849 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2850 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2851 waits 4 seconds.
2852
cd4f0ef7 2853 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
1da177e4
LT
2854 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2855 is present.
2856
372fddf7
KS
2857 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
2858 kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
2859
0cb55ad2
RD
2860 no_console_suspend
2861 [HW] Never suspend the console
2862 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2863 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2864 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2865 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2866 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2867 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2868 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
134620f7
YZ
2869 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2870 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2871 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2872 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2873 turn on/off it dynamically.
0cb55ad2 2874
c1aee215
CL
2875 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2876 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2877 but will impact performance.
3395ee05 2878
a9913044
RD
2879 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2880
686140a1
VG
2881 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2882 (CPU alternatives feature).
2883
1da177e4
LT
2884 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2885 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2886
5091faa4
MG
2887 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2888
1da177e4
LT
2889 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2890 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2891
2892 nocache [ARM]
a9913044 2893
0cb55ad2
RD
2894 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2895
163ecdff
SN
2896 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2897
6902aa84
PM
2898 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2899
b2e0a54a 2900 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
8b2cb7a8 2901
1da177e4
LT
2902 noexec [IA-64]
2903
6cececfc 2904 noexec [X86]
f5a1b191 2905 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
1da177e4 2906 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
f5a1b191
JS
2907 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2908
de78a9c4 2909 nosmap [X86,PPC]
52b6179a
PA
2910 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2911 even if it is supported by processor.
2912
0fb1c25a 2913 nosmep [X86,PPC]
52b6179a 2914 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
de5397ad
FY
2915 even if it is supported by processor.
2916
f5a1b191
JS
2917 noexec32 [X86-64]
2918 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2919 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2920 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2921 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2922 read implies executable mappings
1da177e4 2923
fab43ef4 2924 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
6902aa84 2925
cd4f0ef7 2926 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
4f886511
CE
2927 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2928 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
1da177e4 2929
0ddab1d2
TK
2930 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2931
52c48c51
SS
2932 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2933 Equivalent to smt=1.
2934
05736e4a 2935 [KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
506a66f3
TG
2936 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
2937 via the sysfs control file.
5e2d059b 2938
26cb1f36
DC
2939 nospectre_v1 [PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 (bounds
2940 check bypass). With this option data leaks are possible
2941 in the system.
05736e4a 2942
e5ce5e72
JL
2943 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
2944 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
2945 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
2946 option.
da285121 2947
24f7fc83
KRW
2948 nospec_store_bypass_disable
2949 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
2950
0c752a93
SS
2951 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2952 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2953 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2954
b6f42a4a
FY
2955 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2956 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2957 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2958 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2959 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2960 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2961
2962 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2963 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2964 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2965 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2966 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2967 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2968 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2969
01a24d2b
PZ
2970 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2971 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2972 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
a9913044 2973
1f29fae2
SH
2974 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2975 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2976 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2977
1da177e4
LT
2978 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2979 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2980 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2981 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2982 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2983 real-time systems.
2984
a6e15a39
KC
2985 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2986
79bf2bb3
TG
2987 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2988 Valid arguments: on, off
2989 Default: on
2990
d94d1053 2991 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
2d13e6ca 2992 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
c5bfece2 2993 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
a831881b 2994 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
0453b435 2995 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
f99bcb2c
PM
2996 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
2997 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
2998 just as if they had also been called out in the
2999 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
a831881b 3000
eeee7853
PM
3001 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3002
cd4f0ef7 3003 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
1da177e4
LT
3004 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3005
6cececfc 3006 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
8542b200
ZA
3007 broken timer IRQ sources.
3008
1da177e4
LT
3009 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3010
3011 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3012 initial RAM disk.
3013
03ea8155
WH
3014 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3015 remapping.
d1423d56 3016 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
03ea8155 3017
1da177e4
LT
3018 nointroute [IA-64]
3019
d12a72b8
AL
3020 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3021
16290246 3022 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
0aa366f3 3023
9cf4c4fc
JK
3024 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3025
fd10cde9
GN
3026 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3027 fault handling.
3028
80e9a4f2
AM
3029 no-vmw-sched-clock
3030 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3031 clock and use the default one.
3032
6dddd7a7 3033 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
d910f5c1
GC
3034 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
3035 behaviour
3036
cd4f0ef7 3037 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
1da177e4 3038
cd4f0ef7 3039 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
ad62ca2b 3040
1da177e4 3041 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
f15eea66 3042 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
1da177e4 3043
312f1f01
H
3044 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3045
13696e0a 3046 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
abe37e5a 3047
83d7384f
AS
3048 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3049 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3050
bda62633
DZ
3051 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3052 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3053 irq.
3054
02608bef
DY
3055 nomodule Disable module load
3056
016ddd9b
JK
3057 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3058 pagetables) support.
3059
0790c9aa
AL
3060 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3061
0cb55ad2
RD
3062 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
3063 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3064
cd4f0ef7 3065 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
b7fb4af0
JF
3066 with UP alternatives
3067
7a5091d5
PA
3068 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3069 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3070 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3071 available to user space applications.
49d859d7 3072
a9913044
RD
3073 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3074 space.
3075
1da177e4
LT
3076 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
3077 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3078 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3079
3080 nosbagart [IA-64]
3081
cd4f0ef7 3082 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
4f886511 3083
61ec7567
LB
3084 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3085 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
1da177e4 3086
97842216
DJ
3087 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3088
1da177e4
LT
3089 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3090
195daf66 3091 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
6dddd7a7 3092 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
58687acb 3093
1da177e4 3094 nowb [ARM]
a9913044 3095
2b2fd87a
WH
3096 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3097
f78cff48
FY
3098 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3099 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3100 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3101 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3102 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3103 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3104 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3105 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3106 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3107 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3108 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3109 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3110 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3111
6dddd7a7 3112 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
35b55ef2
NC
3113 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3114 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3115 without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3116 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3117 parameter's value.
3118 Format: integer between 1 and 255
3119 Default: 255
3120
16290246 3121 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
a6c75b86
FY
3122 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3123 SAL PALO.
3124
2b633e3f
YL
3125 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
3126 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
7c142bfe
BH
3127 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3128 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3129 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3130 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3131 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3132 hot plugging.
2b633e3f 3133
0cb55ad2
RD
3134 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3135
1a687c2e
MG
3136 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
3137 Allowed values are enable and disable
3138
f0c0b2b8 3139 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
c9bff3ee 3140 'node', 'default' can be specified
f0c0b2b8
KH
3141 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3142 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
3143
7c4be253
RD
3144 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3145 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
3146 info.
3147
3ef0e1f8
AS
3148 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3149 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3150 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3151 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
3152 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3153 interrupts *may* be lost!
3154
15ac7afe
TL
3155 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3156 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3157 For example, to override I2C bus2:
3158 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3159
1da177e4
LT
3160 oprofile.timer= [HW]
3161 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
3162
7e4e0bd5
RR
3163 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
3164 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
3165 userland or if you want common events.
8d7ff4f2
RR
3166 Format: { arch_perfmon }
3167 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
7e4e0bd5
RR
3168 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
3169 CPU specific event set.
159a80b2
RR
3170 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
3171 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
3172 for generic hr timer mode)
1dcdb5a9 3173
44a4dcf7
RD
3174 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3175 process, but there is a small probability of
3176 deadlocking the machine.
d404ab0a
OH
3177 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3178 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3179
e900a918
DW
3180 page_alloc.shuffle=
3181 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3182 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3183 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3184 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3185 cache, and this parameter can be used to
3186 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3187 can be read from sysfs at:
3188 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3189
48c96a36
JK
3190 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3191 Storage of the information about who allocated
3192 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3193 we can turn it on.
3194 on: enable the feature
3195
8823b1db 3196 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
8c9a134c
KC
3197 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3198 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3199 off: turn off poisoning (default)
8823b1db
LA
3200 on: turn on poisoning
3201
44a4dcf7 3202 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4302fbc8
HD
3203 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3204 timeout = 0: wait forever
3205 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
1da177e4
LT
3206 Format: <timeout>
3207
d999bd93
FT
3208 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3209 User can chose combination of the following bits:
3210 bit 0: print all tasks info
3211 bit 1: print system memory info
3212 bit 2: print timer info
3213 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3214 bit 4: print ftrace buffer
de6da1e8 3215 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
d999bd93 3216
9e3961a0
PB
3217 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
3218 on a WARN().
3219
f06e5153
MH
3220 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3221 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3222 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3223 succeeds in any situation.
3224 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3225 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3226 kernel more unstable.
3227
1da177e4
LT
3228 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3229 connected to, default is 0.
3230 Format: <parport#>
3231 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3232 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
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RD
3233 Format: <mode>
3234
3235 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3236 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3237 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3238 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3239 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3240 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3241 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3242 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3243 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3244 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3245 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3246 are specified on the command line, starting
3247 with parport0.
3248
3249 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
3250 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3251 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3252 computer where firmware has no options for setting
3253 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3254 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
1da177e4
LT
3255 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3256
dd287796
AM
3257 pause_on_oops=
3258 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3259 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
3260 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3261
1da177e4
LT
3262 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
3263
3264 pcd. [PARIDE]
3265 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
31c00fc1 3266 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 3267
07d8d7e5
LG
3268 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3269
3270 Some options herein operate on a specific device
3271 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3272 specified in one of the following formats:
3273
45db3370 3274 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
07d8d7e5
LG
3275 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3276
3277 Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3278 bus/device/function address which may change
3279 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3280 firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3281 by other kernel parameters. If the
3282 domain is left unspecified, it is
45db3370
LG
3283 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3284 to a device through multiple device/function
3285 addresses can be specified after the base
3286 address (this is more robust against
3287 renumbering issues). The second format
07d8d7e5
LG
3288 selects devices using IDs from the
3289 configuration space which may match multiple
3290 devices in the system.
3291
11eb0e0e 3292 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel
6dddd7a7 3293 changes anything
c0115606 3294 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
cd4f0ef7 3295 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
a9913044
RD
3296 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3297 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
cd4f0ef7 3298 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
a9913044
RD
3299 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3300 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3301 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
afd8c084
BP
3302 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3303 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3304 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3305 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3306 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3307 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3308 bus number. The config space is then accessed
3309 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3310 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3311 on the configuration access mechanisms.
7f785763
RD
3312 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3313 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3314 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
32a2eea7
JG
3315 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3316 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
6cececfc 3317 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
61be6d66 3318 Configuration
12983077
AH
3319 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3320 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3321 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
309e57df
MW
3322 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3323 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3324 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
a9322f64
SA
3325 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3326 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3327 should never be necessary.
9197979b
SA
3328 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3329 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3330 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3331 when the system masks IRQs.
41b9eb26
SA
3332 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3333 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3334 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3335 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
cd4f0ef7 3336 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
a9913044
RD
3337 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3338 on several machines and they hang the machine
3339 when used, but on other computers it's the only
3340 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3341 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3342 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3343 motherboard.
c0115606 3344 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
a9913044
RD
3345 Use with caution as certain devices share
3346 address decoders between ROMs and other
3347 resources.
c0115606 3348 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
bb71ad88
GH
3349 expansion ROMs that do not already have
3350 BIOS assigned address ranges.
7bd1c365
MH
3351 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
3352 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
c0115606 3353 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
a9913044
RD
3354 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3355 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3356 this way.
c0115606 3357 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
a9913044
RD
3358 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3359 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3360 F0000h-100000h range.
c0115606 3361 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
a9913044
RD
3362 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3363 secondary buses and you want to tell it
3364 explicitly which ones they are.
c0115606 3365 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
a9913044
RD
3366 numbers ourselves, overriding
3367 whatever the firmware may have done.
c0115606 3368 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
a9913044
RD
3369 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3370 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3371 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3372 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3373 IRQ routing is enabled.
c0115606 3374 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 3375 or for PCI scanning.
7bc5e3f2
BH
3376 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3377 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3378 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
3379 please report a bug.
3380 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
6dddd7a7 3381 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
a9913044
RD
3382 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3383 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3384 so this option is a temporary workaround
3385 for broken drivers that don't call it.
13a6ddb0
YL
3386 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3387 handle more pci cards
0637a70a
AK
3388 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3389 This might help on some broken boards which
3390 machine check when some devices' config space
3391 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3392 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
6b4b78fe
MD
3393 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3394 This sorting is done to get a device
3395 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3396 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
fa238712
YW
3397 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3398 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3399 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3400 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3401 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3402 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3403 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3404 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3405 or bus can support) for best performance.
3406 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3407 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3408 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3409 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3410 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3411 that hot-added devices will work.
4516a618
AN
3412 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3413 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3414 The default value is 256 bytes.
3415 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3416 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3417 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
32a9a682
YS
3418 resource_alignment=
3419 Format:
07d8d7e5 3420 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
32a9a682 3421 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
07d8d7e5
LG
3422 aligned memory resources. How to
3423 specify the device is described above.
32a9a682
YS
3424 If <order of align> is not specified,
3425 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3426 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3427 windows need to be expanded.
8b078c60
MK
3428 To specify the alignment for several
3429 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3430 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3431 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
43c16408
AP
3432 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3433 end-to-end CRC checking).
3434 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3435 the default.
3436 off: Turn ECRC off
3437 on: Turn ECRC on.
8c8803c5
YW
3438 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3439 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3440 Default size is 256 bytes.
3441 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3442 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3443 Default size is 2 megabytes.
e16b4660
KB
3444 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3445 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3446 Default is 1.
b55438fd
YL
3447 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3448 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3449 accommodate resources required by all child
3450 devices.
3451 off: Turn realloc off
3452 on: Turn realloc on
3453 realloc same as realloc=on
6748dcc2 3454 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
cef74409
GK
3455 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3456 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
284f5f9d
BH
3457 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3458 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3459 port.
f32ab754
UCCB
3460 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3461 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3462 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3463 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3464 conflict with unreported devices), so this
3465 taints the kernel.
aaca43fd
LG
3466 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
3467 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
3468 specified above) separated by semicolons.
3469 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
3470 redirect capabilities forced off which will
3471 allow P2P traffic between devices through
3472 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
3473 this removes isolation between devices and
3474 may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
fbfe07d4 3475 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
56271303 3476 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
6b4b78fe 3477
e5665a45
CE
3478 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3479 Management.
3480 off Disable ASPM.
3481 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3482 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3483
4c0fd764
BH
3484 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3485 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3486 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3487 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform
3488 also tries to use these services.
3489 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3490 hotplug).
79dd9182 3491
9d26d3a8
MW
3492 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3493 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3494 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3495
c7f48656 3496 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
c39fae14 3497 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
28eb5f27 3498 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
c7f48656 3499
1da177e4
LT
3500 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3501
39ac5ba5
TB
3502 pd_ignore_unused
3503 [PM]
3504 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3505 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3506 for debug and development, but should not be
3507 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3508
1da177e4 3509 pd. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3510 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3511
3512 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3513 boot time.
3514 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3515 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3516
f58dc01b 3517 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
e933a73f
TH
3518 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3519 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3520 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3521 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3522 and performance comparison.
fa8a7094 3523
1da177e4 3524 pf. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3525 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3526
3527 pg. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3528 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3529
3530 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
71cced6e 3531 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3532
3533 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3534 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3ba9b1b8 3535 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
1da177e4 3536
16290246 3537 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
de32a243
TG
3538 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3539 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3540
96242116
BH
3541 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3542 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3543 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3544 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3545 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3546 possible settings and some assignment information.
97ef062b 3547
1da177e4
LT
3548 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3549 { off }
3550
3551 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3552 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3553
3554 pnp_reserve_irq=
3555 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3556
3557 pnp_reserve_dma=
3558 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3559
3560 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
a9913044 3561 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
1da177e4
LT
3562
3563 pnp_reserve_mem=
a9913044
RD
3564 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3565 autoconfiguration.
1da177e4
LT
3566 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3567
4af94f39
RD
3568 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3569 Default is 21.
3570 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3571 may be specified.
3572 Format: <port>,<port>....
3573
c3cbd075
BS
3574 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3575 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3576 platform machine description specific power_save
3577 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3578 execution priority.
3579
3eb5d588
AB
3580 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3581 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3582 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3583 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3584 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3585
07fd1761
CB
3586 ppc_tm= [PPC]
3587 Format: {"off"}
3588 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3589
45807a1d
IM
3590 print-fatal-signals=
3591 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
f84d49b2
NO
3592
3593 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3594 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3595 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3596 coredump - etc.
3597
3598 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3599 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3600
45807a1d
IM
3601 default: off.
3602
c22ab332
MG
3603 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3604 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3605 panics
3606 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3607 default: disabled
3608
750afe7b
BP
3609 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3610 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3611 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3612 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3613 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3614 Default: ratelimit
3615
e84845c4
RD
3616 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3617 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3618
0cb55ad2
RD
3619 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3620 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3621 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3622
3623 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3624 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3625 instead using the legacy FADT method
3626
1da177e4 3627 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
e7e61fc0
RD
3628 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3629 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3630 [defaults to kernel profiling]
a9913044 3631 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
b3da2a73
MG
3632 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3633 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
c0fe2e69 3634 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
e7e61fc0
RD
3635 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3636 statistical time based profiling.
1da177e4 3637
1da177e4
LT
3638 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3639 before loading.
31c00fc1 3640 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 3641
e0c27447
JW
3642 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
3643 tracking.
3644 Format: <bool>
3645
a9913044
RD
3646 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3647 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
1da177e4
LT
3648 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3649 per second.
a9913044
RD
3650 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3651 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
1da177e4
LT
3652 (0 = never).
3653 psmouse.resolution=
3654 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3655 psmouse.smartscroll=
a9913044 3656 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
1da177e4
LT
3657 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3658
dee28e72
MG
3659 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3660
1da177e4 3661 pt. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3662 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 3663
01c9b17b
DH
3664 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3665 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
3666 removes hardening, but improves performance of
3667 system calls and interrupts.
3668
3669 on - unconditionally enable
3670 off - unconditionally disable
3671 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3672 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3673
3674 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3675
3676 nopti [X86_64]
3677 Equivalent to pti=off
41f4c20b 3678
dc8c8587
KS
3679 pty.legacy_count=
3680 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3681 default number.
3682
7d2c502f 3683 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
a9913044 3684
1da177e4
LT
3685 r128= [HW,DRM]
3686
3687 raid= [HW,RAID]
e52347bd 3688 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
1da177e4 3689
1da177e4 3690 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
31c00fc1 3691 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 3692
9b254366
KC
3693 random.trust_cpu={on,off}
3694 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
3695 CPU's random number generator (if available) to
3696 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
3697 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
3698
011d8261
BP
3699 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
3700
3701 cec_disable [X86]
3702 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3703 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3704
4102adab 3705 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
da8739f2
PM
3706 The argument is a cpu list, as described above,
3707 except that the string "all" can be used to
3708 specify every CPU on the system.
2d13e6ca 3709
3fbfbf7a
PM
3710 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3711 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
77095901
PM
3712 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be
3713 offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that
3714 purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and
3715 "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number.
3716 This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs,
3717 which can be useful for HPC and real-time
3718 workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency
3719 for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3fbfbf7a 3720
4102adab 3721 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
3fbfbf7a
PM
3722 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3723 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3724 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3725 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3726 This improves the real-time response for the
3727 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3728 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3729 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3730 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3731
4102adab 3732 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
3733 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3734 process in one batch.
21a1ea9e 3735
a3dc2948
PM
3736 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3737 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3738 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3739 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3740
0f41c0dd
PM
3741 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3742 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 3743 RCU grace-period cleanup.
0f41c0dd 3744
37745d28
PM
3745 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3746 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 3747 RCU grace-period initialization.
0f41c0dd
PM
3748
3749 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3750 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3751 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3752 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
90040c9e 3753 the rcu_node combining tree.
37745d28 3754
7fa27001
PM
3755 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3756 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3757 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3758 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3759 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
37745d28 3760
4102adab 3761 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
ee968ac6
PM
3762 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3763 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3764 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3765 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3766 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3767 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
f885b7f2 3768
4102adab 3769 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3770 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3771 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3772 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3773 and maximum value is HZ.
3774
4102adab 3775 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3776 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3777 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3778 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3779
1a4762b9
PM
3780 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3781 Set required age in jiffies for a
3782 given grace period before RCU starts
3783 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3784 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
3785 If not specified, the kernel will calculate
3786 a value based on the most recent settings
3787 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
3788 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
3789 This calculated value may be viewed in
3790 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set
3791 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
3792 overwritten.
3793
21871d7e 3794 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
d2af1ad7
PM
3795 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3796 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3797 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3798 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3799 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3800 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3801 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3802 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3803 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
21871d7e 3804
fbce7497
PM
3805 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3806 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3807 defaults to the square root of the number of
3808 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3809 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3810 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3811
4102adab 3812 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
3813 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3814 batch limiting is disabled.
21a1ea9e 3815
4102adab 3816 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
24aaef8d
RD
3817 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3818 batch limiting is re-enabled.
21a1ea9e 3819
4102adab 3820 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3821 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3822 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
d40011f6 3823
4102adab 3824 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3825 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3826 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3827 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3828 prove do nothing more than free memory.
d40011f6 3829
e3c50dfb
PM
3830 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3831 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3832 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3833 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3834 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3835 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3836
2ccaff10
PM
3837 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
3838 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
3839 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
3840 why a new grace period has not yet started.
3841
881ed593
PM
3842 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3843 Measure performance of asynchronous
3844 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3845
3846 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3847 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3848 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
3849 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3850 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3851 previously posted callbacks to drain.
3852
bdea9e34
PM
3853 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3854 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3855 grace-period primitives.
3856
df37e66b
PM
3857 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3858 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3859 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3860 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3861 interference.
3862
bdea9e34
PM
3863 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3864 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3865 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3866 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3867 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3868 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3869 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3870 a single reader.
3871
3872 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3873 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3874 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3875 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3876
820687a7
PM
3877 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3878 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3879
bdea9e34
PM
3880 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3881 Shut the system down after performance tests
3882 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3883 testing.
3884
bdea9e34
PM
3885 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3886 Enable additional printk() statements.
3887
820687a7
PM
3888 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3889 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3890 in microseconds. The default of zero says
3891 no holdoff.
3892
4102adab 3893 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3894 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3895 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3896
4102adab 3897 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3898 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3899 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3900
4102adab 3901 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3902 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3903 in seconds.
3904
ed8f6fb2
PM
3905 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
3906 Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
3907 for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
3908
3909 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
3910 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
3911 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
3912
3913 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
3914 Number of seconds to wait between successive
3915 forward-progress tests.
3916
3917 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
3918 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
3919 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
3920 testing.
3921
21b05de4
PM
3922 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3923 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3924 primitives, if available.
dabb8aa9 3925
4102adab 3926 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
21b05de4 3927 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4102adab
PM
3928
3929 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3930 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3931 update-side primitives, if available.
3932
3933 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3934 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3935 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3936 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3937 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3938 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3939 they are all non-zero.
dabb8aa9 3940
4102adab 3941 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3942 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3943
4102adab 3944 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3945 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3946 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3947 test, hence the "fake".
3948
4102adab 3949 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3838cc18
PM
3950 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3951 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3952 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3953 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3954 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
dabb8aa9 3955
4102adab
PM
3956 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3957 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3958
3959 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3960 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3961
4102adab 3962 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
028be12b
PM
3963 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
3964 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
dabb8aa9 3965
4102adab 3966 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3967 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3968 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3969 during the rcutorture test.
3970
4102adab 3971 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3972 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3973 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3974
4102adab 3975 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3976 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3977 warnings, zero to disable.
3978
4102adab 3979 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3980 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3981
2b1516e5
PM
3982 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
3983 Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
3984
4102adab 3985 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3986 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3987
4102adab 3988 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3989 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3990 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3991 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3992 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3993
4102adab 3994 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3995 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3996 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3997 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3998
4102adab 3999 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4000 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
4001
4102adab 4002 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4003 Interval (s) between each boost test.
4004
4102adab 4005 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4006 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
4007 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
4008
4102adab 4009 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4010 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4011
4102adab 4012 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4013 Enable additional printk() statements.
4014
5a9be7c6
PM
4015 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
4016 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4017
4018 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4019 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4020
4102adab
PM
4021 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
4022 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
4023 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
4024 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
4025 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
4026 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
79cfea02 4027 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 4028
5a9be7c6
PM
4029 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
4030 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
4031 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
4032 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
79cfea02
PM
4033 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
4034 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
4035 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
4036 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
4037 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 4038
3e42ec1a
PM
4039 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
4040 Once boot has completed (that is, after
4041 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
79cfea02
PM
4042 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
4043 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3e42ec1a 4044
52db30ab
PM
4045 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4046 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
4047 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
4048 to zero.
4049
74860fee
PK
4050 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
4051 Run the RCU early boot self tests
4052
ffdfc409
OJ
4053 rdinit= [KNL]
4054 Format: <full_path>
4055 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
4056 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
4057
1d9807fc
TL
4058 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
4059 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
31516de3
FY
4060 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
4061 mba.
1d9807fc
TL
4062 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
4063 rdt=cmt,!mba
4064
1b3a5d02
RH
4065 reboot= [KNL]
4066 Format (x86 or x86_64):
4067 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
4068 [[,]s[mp]#### \
4069 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
4070 [[,]f[orce]
b287a25a
AK
4071 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
4072 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
4073 reboot only),
1b3a5d02
RH
4074 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
4075 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
4076 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
4077 to be used for rebooting.
1da177e4 4078
46b6d94e
PJ
4079 relax_domain_level=
4080 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
09c3bcce 4081 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
46b6d94e 4082
ffd2e8df
BH
4083 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
4084 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
4085 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
4086 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
4087 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
1da177e4 4088
cd4f0ef7 4089 reservetop= [X86-32]
461a9aff
ZA
4090 Format: nn[KMG]
4091 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
4092 address space.
4093
9ea77bdb
PA
4094 reservelow= [X86]
4095 Format: nn[K]
4096 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
4097 the bottom of the address space.
4098
7e96287d
VG
4099 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
4100 during initialization.
4101
a9913044
RD
4102 resume= [SWSUSP]
4103 Specify the partition device for software suspend
2df83fa4
MB
4104 Format:
4105 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
1da177e4 4106
ecbd0da1
RW
4107 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
4108 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
4109 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
4110 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
4111 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
4112
f126f733
BS
4113 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4114 read the resume files
4115
6f8d7022
BS
4116 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
4117 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4118 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4119
f996fc96
BS
4120 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
4121 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
4122 present during boot.
4123 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
a6e15a39 4124 no Disable hibernation and resume.
4c0b6c10
RW
4125 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
4126 (that will set all pages holding image data
4127 during restoration read-only).
f996fc96 4128
0a7b35cb
MN
4129 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
4130
0efbb786
AC
4131 rfkill.default_state=
4132 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
4133 etc. communication is blocked by default.
4134 1 Unblocked.
4135
4136 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
4137 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
4138 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4139 blocked and the previous configuration.
4140 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4141 blocked and everything unblocked.
4142
1da177e4
LT
4143 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4144 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
4145
e16fd002
GA
4146 ring3mwait=disable
4147 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
4148 CPUs.
4149
1da177e4
LT
4150 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
4151
d2aa1aca
KC
4152 rodata= [KNL]
4153 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
4154 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
4155
605df8af
HS
4156 rockchip.usb_uart
4157 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
4158 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
4159 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
4160 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
4161
1da177e4 4162 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
f2d34fd9 4163 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
1da177e4
LT
4164
4165 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4166 mount the root filesystem
4167
4168 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
4169
4170 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
4171
cc1ed754
PO
4172 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
4173 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4174 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4175
5c71d618
RT
4176 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
4177 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
4178 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
4179 managed by CMA.
4180
1da177e4
LT
4181 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
4182
4183 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
4184
c60d1ae4
GS
4185 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
4186 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
4187 strict
4188 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
4189 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
4190 which is faster.
4191
1da177e4
LT
4192 sa1100ir [NET]
4193 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
4194
1da177e4 4195 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
a9913044 4196
f6630114
MT
4197 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
4198
cb251765
MG
4199 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
4200 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
4201 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
4202 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
f6630114 4203
5307c955
MG
4204 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
4205 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
4206 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
4207 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4208 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
4209 1 -- enable.
4210 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
4211 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
4212
89a9684e
KC
4213 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
4214 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
4215 "lsm=" parameter.
0cb55ad2
RD
4216
4217 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
1da177e4
LT
4218 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4219 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
4220 0 -- disable.
4221 1 -- enable.
4222 Default value is set via kernel config option.
4223 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
4224 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
4225
c1c124e9
JJ
4226 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
4227 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4228 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
4229 0 -- disable.
4230 1 -- enable.
4231 Default value is set via kernel config option.
4232
cd4f0ef7 4233 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
1da177e4 4234
1da177e4
LT
4235 shapers= [NET]
4236 Maximal number of shapers.
a9913044 4237
1da177e4
LT
4238 simeth= [IA-64]
4239 simscsi=
a9913044 4240
1da177e4
LT
4241 slram= [HW,MTD]
4242
423c929c
JK
4243 slab_nomerge [MM]
4244 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
4245 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
7660a6fd
KC
4246 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
4247 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
4248 layout control by attackers can usually be
4249 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
4250 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
4251 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
4252 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
4253 own.
ad56b738 4254 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
423c929c 4255
3df1cccd
DR
4256 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
4257 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4258 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4259 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
4260 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
4261
f0630fff
CL
4262 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
4263 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
4264 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
4265 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
4266 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
4267 last alloc / free. For more information see
ad56b738 4268 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215 4269
1663f26d
TH
4270 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
4271 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
4272 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
4273 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
4274 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
4275 directories and files being created under
4276 /sys/kernel/slub.
4277
c1aee215 4278 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
4279 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4280 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4281 fragmentation. For more information see
ad56b738 4282 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
4283
4284 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
4285 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
4286 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
4287 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
4288 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
4289 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
4290 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
ad56b738 4291 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
4292
4293 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
24775d65 4294 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
f0630fff 4295 lower than slub_max_order.
ad56b738 4296 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
4297
4298 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
423c929c
JK
4299 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
4300 See slab_nomerge for more information.
c1aee215 4301
1da177e4
LT
4302 smart2= [HW]
4303 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
4304
d0d4f69b
BH
4305 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
4306 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
4307 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
4308 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
4309 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
4310 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
4311 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
4312 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
4313 1: Fast pin select (default)
4314 2: ATC IRMode
4315
52c48c51
SS
4316 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4317 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4318 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4319 actual hardware limit.
4320 Format: <integer>
4321 Default: -1 (no limit)
4322
9c44bc03
IM
4323 softlockup_panic=
4324 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
44a4dcf7 4325 Format: <integer>
9c44bc03 4326
3ce62385
BP
4327 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
4328 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
4329 is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
4330 which is the respective build-time switch to that
4331 functionality.
4332
ed235875
AT
4333 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4334 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4335 backtraces on all cpus.
4336 Format: <integer>
4337
1da177e4 4338 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
395cf969 4339 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
1da177e4 4340
da285121
DW
4341 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4342 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
fa1202ef
TG
4343 The default operation protects the kernel from
4344 user space attacks.
da285121 4345
fa1202ef
TG
4346 on - unconditionally enable, implies
4347 spectre_v2_user=on
4348 off - unconditionally disable, implies
4349 spectre_v2_user=off
da285121
DW
4350 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4351 vulnerable
4352
4353 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4354 mitigation method at run time according to the
4355 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4356 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4357 compiler with which the kernel was built.
4358
fa1202ef
TG
4359 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
4360 against user space to user space task attacks.
4361
4362 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
4363 the user space protections.
4364
da285121
DW
4365 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4366
4367 retpoline - replace indirect branches
4368 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4369 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4370
4371 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4372 spectre_v2=auto.
4373
fa1202ef
TG
4374 spectre_v2_user=
4375 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4376 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
4377 user space tasks
4378
4379 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
4380 enforced by spectre_v2=on
4381
4382 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
4383 enforced by spectre_v2=off
4384
7cc765a6
TG
4385 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
4386 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
4387 per thread. The mitigation control state
4388 is inherited on fork.
4389
55a97402
TG
4390 prctl,ibpb
4391 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
4392 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4393 always when switching between different user
4394 space processes.
4395
6b3e64c2
TG
4396 seccomp
4397 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
4398 threads will enable the mitigation unless
4399 they explicitly opt out.
4400
55a97402
TG
4401 seccomp,ibpb
4402 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
4403 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4404 always when switching between different
4405 user space processes.
4406
fa1202ef
TG
4407 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
4408 the available CPU features and vulnerability.
6b3e64c2
TG
4409
4410 Default mitigation:
4411 If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
fa1202ef
TG
4412
4413 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4414 spectre_v2_user=auto.
4415
24f7fc83
KRW
4416 spec_store_bypass_disable=
4417 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
4418 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
4419
4420 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
4421 a common industry wide performance optimization known
4422 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
4423 to the same memory location may not be observed by
4424 later loads during speculative execution. The idea
4425 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
4426 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
4427 end of a particular speculation execution window.
4428
4429 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4430 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
4431 example to read memory to which the attacker does not
4432 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
4433
4434 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
4435 Bypass optimization is used.
4436
6b4c1360
ME
4437 On x86 the options are:
4438
f21b53b2
KC
4439 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
4440 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
4441 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
4442 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
4443 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
4444 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
4445 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
4446 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
4447 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
4448 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
4449 for a process by default. The state of the control
4450 is inherited on fork.
4451 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
4452 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
24f7fc83 4453
f21b53b2
KC
4454 Default mitigations:
4455 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4456
6b4c1360
ME
4457 On powerpc the options are:
4458
4459 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
4460 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
4461 perform a software flush on kernel entry and
4462 exit.
4463 off - No action.
4464
4465 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4466 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
4467
1da177e4
LT
4468 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
4469 spia_fio_base=
4470 spia_pedr=
4471 spia_peddr=
4472
c350c008
PM
4473 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4474 Specifies how frequently to check for
4475 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4476 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4477 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4478 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4479 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
4480 are ignored.
4481
22607d66
PM
4482 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4483 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4484 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4485 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4486 grace period will be considered for automatic
4487 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
4488 expediting.
4489
a43ae4df
MZ
4490 ssbd= [ARM64,HW]
4491 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
4492
4493 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
4494 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
4495 firmware based mitigation, this parameter
4496 indicates how the mitigation should be used:
4497
4498 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for
4499 for both kernel and userspace
4500 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
4501 for both kernel and userspace
4502 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the
4503 kernel, and offer a prctl interface
4504 to allow userspace to register its
4505 interest in being mitigated too.
4506
1be7107f
HD
4507 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
4508 override the default stack gap protection. The value
4509 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4510 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4511 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4512 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4513
f38f1d2a
SR
4514 stacktrace [FTRACE]
4515 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4516
762e1207
SR
4517 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4518 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4519 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4520 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4521 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4522 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4523 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4524
1da177e4
LT
4525 sti= [PARISC,HW]
4526 Format: <num>
4527 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4528 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4529 as the initial boot-console.
4530 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4531
4532 sti_font= [HW]
4533 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4534
4535 stifb= [HW]
4536 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4537
cbf11071
TM
4538 sunrpc.min_resvport=
4539 sunrpc.max_resvport=
4540 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4541 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4542 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4543 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4544 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4545 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4546 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4547 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4548 maximum port values.
4549
ff3ac5c3
TM
4550 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4551 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4552 Limit the number of requests that the server will
4553 process in parallel from a single connection.
4554 The default value is 0 (no limit).
4555
42a7fc4a
GB
4556 sunrpc.pool_mode=
4557 [NFS]
4558 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4559 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
4560 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4561 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4562 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4563 NFS server is running.
4564
4565 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
4566 automatically using heuristics
4567 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
4568 percpu one pool for each CPU
4569 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4570 to global on non-NUMA machines)
4571
cbf11071
TM
4572 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4573 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4574 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4575 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4576 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4577 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4578 improve throughput, but will also increase the
4579 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4580
1d4a9c17
BN
4581 suspend.pm_test_delay=
4582 [SUSPEND]
4583 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4584 mode before resuming the system (see
4585 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4586 is set. Default value is 5.
4587
07555ac1 4588 swapaccount=[0|1]
a42c390c
MH
4589 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4590 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
09c3bcce 4591 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
a42c390c 4592
91fec0f5 4593 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
fff5d992 4594 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
91fec0f5
JK
4595 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4596 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4597 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
fff5d992 4598 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
a9913044 4599
1da177e4
LT
4600 switches= [HW,M68k]
4601
e52eec13
AK
4602 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4603 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4604 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4605 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4606 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4607 in older udev will not work anymore.
4608 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4609 the kernel configuration.
4610
5d6f647f
IM
4611 sysrq_always_enabled
4612 [KNL]
4613 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4614 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4615 Useful for debugging.
4616
747029a5
FF
4617 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4618 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4619 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4620 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4621 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4622 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4623
1da177e4
LT
4624 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
4625
acc82342 4626 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
77437fd4 4627 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
acc82342
SP
4628 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4629 as the system sleep state during system startup with
4630 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4631 The system is woken from this state using a
4632 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
77437fd4 4633
1da177e4
LT
4634 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4635 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4636
f8707ec9
LB
4637 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
4638 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4639 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4640
c52a7419
LB
4641 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
4642 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
22a94d79 4643 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
c52a7419 4644
f5487145
LB
4645 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
4646 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4647 critical and hot trip points.
4648
72b33ef8
LB
4649 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
4650 1: disable ACPI thermal control
4651
a70cdc52
LB
4652 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
4653 -1: disable all passive trip points
ada9cfdd
RD
4654 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4655 value
a70cdc52 4656
730ff34d
LB
4657 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
4658 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4659 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4660 0: no polling (default)
4661
8d32a307
TG
4662 threadirqs [KNL]
4663 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
24775d65 4664 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
8d32a307 4665
2ca62b04
KRW
4666 tmem [KNL,XEN]
4667 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4668
4669 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4670 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4671 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4672
4673 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4674 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
37d46e15
KRW
4675 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4676 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
2ca62b04
KRW
4677
4678 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4679 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4680 to the hypervisor.
4681
4682 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4683 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4684 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4685 kernel based on different criteria.
4686
2b1a61f0
HC
4687 topology= [S390]
4688 Format: {off | on}
4689 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
f65e51d7
SL
4690 topology information if the hardware supports this.
4691 The scheduler will make use of this information and
2b1a61f0 4692 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
c9af3fa9 4693 Default is on.
2b1a61f0 4694
2d73bae1
NA
4695 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4696 Format: {off}
4697 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4698 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4699 LPAR.
4700
1da177e4
LT
4701 tp720= [HW,PS2]
4702
225a9be2
RA
4703 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4704 Format: integer pcr id
4705 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4706 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4707 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4708 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4709 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4710 are saved.
4711
9d612bef 4712 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
3e6fb8e9 4713 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
631595fb 4714
020e5f85
LZ
4715 trace_event=[event-list]
4716 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
d81749ea
BN
4717 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4718 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
5fb94e9c 4719 also Documentation/trace/events.rst
020e5f85 4720
7bcfaf54
SR
4721 trace_options=[option-list]
4722 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4723 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4724 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4725 to echo the option name into
4726
4727 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4728
4729 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4730 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4731
4732 trace_options=stacktrace
4733
5fb94e9c 4734 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
7bcfaf54
SR
4735 section.
4736
0daa2302
SRRH
4737 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4738 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4739 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4740 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4741 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4742 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4743
4744 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4745 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4746 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4747 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4748
4749 ** CAUTION **
4750
4751 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4752 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4753 the system to live lock.
4754
de7edd31
SRRH
4755 traceoff_on_warning
4756 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4757 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4758 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4759 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4760
4761 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4762 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4763 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4764
4765 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4766 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4767
fcf4d821
JK
4768 transparent_hugepage=
4769 [KNL]
4770 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4771 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4772 with respect to transparent hugepages.
45c9a74f
MR
4773 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
4774 for more details.
fcf4d821 4775
d3b8f889 4776 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
395628ef
AK
4777 Format: <string>
4778 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
d3b8f889
JS
4779 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4780 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4781 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4782 virtualized environment.
e82b8e4e
VP
4783 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4784 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4785 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4786 can add overhead.
6be53520
DL
4787 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4788 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4789 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
0f0b7e1c
JL
4790 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
4791 in situations with strict latency requirements (where
4792 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
4793 acceptable).
395628ef 4794
a9913044
RD
4795 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4796 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4797 Format:
4798 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
1752118d 4799 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4 4800
b6935f8c 4801 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
e52347bd 4802 happen after console_init() and before a proper
b6935f8c
CK
4803 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4804 help "seeing" what's going on.
4805
f86dcc5a
ED
4806 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4807 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4808
5f8364b7
AS
4809 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4810 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4811 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4812 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4813 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4814 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4815 reported either.
4816
e3a61b0a 4817 unknown_nmi_panic
44a4dcf7 4818 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
e3a61b0a 4819
c4fc2342
CDH
4820 usbcore.authorized_default=
4821 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4822 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
7bae0432
DT
4823 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
4824 if device connected to internal port)
c4fc2342 4825
b5e795f8
AS
4826 usbcore.autosuspend=
4827 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4828 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4829 is the time required before an idle device will be
4830 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
eaafbc3a 4831 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
b5e795f8 4832
fd7c519d
JK
4833 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4834 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4835
0290cc9f
AS
4836 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4837 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4838 (default = 65536).
4839
fd7c519d
JK
4840 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4841 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4842
4843 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4844 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
bd0e6c96
ZT
4845 scheme, applies only to low and full-speed devices
4846 (default 0 = off).
fd7c519d 4847
3f5eb8d5
AS
4848 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4849 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4850 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4851
fd7c519d
JK
4852 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4853 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4854 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4855
4856 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4857 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
6dddd7a7 4858 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
fd7c519d
JK
4859 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4860
40d58148
ON
4861 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4862
027bd6ca
KHF
4863 usbcore.quirks=
4864 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
4865 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
4866 commas. Each entry has the form
4867 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
4868 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
4869 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
4870 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
4871 the following meanings:
4872 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
4873 descriptors must not be fetched using
4874 a 255-byte read);
4875 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
4876 correctly so reset it instead);
4877 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
4878 Set-Interface requests);
4879 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
4880 handle its Configuration or Interface
4881 strings);
4882 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
4883 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
4884 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
4885 more interface descriptions than the
4886 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
4887 talking to these interfaces);
4888 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
4889 during initialization, after we read
4890 the device descriptor);
4891 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
4892 high speed and super speed interrupt
4893 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
4894 require the interval in microframes (1
4895 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
4896 calculated as interval = 2 ^
4897 (bInterval-1).
4898 Devices with this quirk report their
4899 bInterval as the result of this
4900 calculation instead of the exponent
4901 variable used in the calculation);
4902 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
4903 handle device_qualifier descriptor
4904 requests);
4905 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
4906 generates spurious wakeup, ignore
4907 remote wakeup capability);
4908 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
4909 Power Management);
4910 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
4911 (Device reports its bInterval as linear
4912 frames instead of the USB 2.0
4913 calculation);
4914 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
4915 to be disconnected before suspend to
4d8d5a39
KHF
4916 prevent spurious wakeup);
4917 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
4918 pause after every control message);
781f0766
KHF
4919 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
4920 delay after resetting its port);
027bd6ca
KHF
4921 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
4922
1da177e4
LT
4923 usbhid.mousepoll=
4924 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
a9913044 4925
933bfe4d
TJ
4926 usbhid.jspoll=
4927 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4928
2ddc8e2d
FA
4929 usbhid.kbpoll=
4930 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
4931
d4f373e5
AS
4932 usb-storage.delay_use=
4933 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
19101954 4934 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
d4f373e5
AS
4935
4936 usb-storage.quirks=
4937 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4938 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4939 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4940 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4941 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4942 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4943 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
c838ea46
AS
4944 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4945 of sense data);
a0bb1081
AS
4946 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4947 bytes of sense data);
d4f373e5
AS
4948 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4949 device capacity by one sector);
5116901d
KR
4950 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4951 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4952 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4953 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
734016b0
HG
4954 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4955 command, uas only);
ee136af4
HG
4956 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4957 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
c838ea46
AS
4958 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4959 reported device capacity by one
4960 sector if the number is odd);
d4f373e5
AS
4961 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4962 device);
13630746
HG
4963 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4964 command, uas only);
d4f373e5
AS
4965 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4966 unlock ejectable media);
4967 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4968 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
21c13a4f
AS
4969 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4970 initial READ(10) command);
c838ea46
AS
4971 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4972 reported by the device);
eaa05dfc
NJ
4973 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4974 by default);
d4f373e5
AS
4975 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4976 bogus residue values);
4977 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4978 Logical Unit);
59307852
HG
4979 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4980 commands, uas only);
b6089f19 4981 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
d4f373e5
AS
4982 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4983 medium is write-protected).
050bc4e8
ON
4984 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4985 even if the device claims no cache)
d4f373e5
AS
4986 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4987
ac1667db
SB
4988 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4989 Format: <int>
4990 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4991 1 - undefined instruction events
4992 2 - system calls
4993 4 - invalid data aborts
4994 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4995 16 - SIGBUS faults
4996 Example: user_debug=31
4997
14315592
IC
4998 userpte=
4999 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
5000
5001 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
5002 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
5003 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
5004
6cececfc 5005 vdso= [X86,SH]
b0b49f26
AL
5006 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
5007
5008 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
e6e5494c
IM
5009 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
5010
b0b49f26
AL
5011 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
5012 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
5013 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
5014
5015 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
5016 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
5017 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
5018
5019 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
5020 alias for vdso32=0.
5021
5022 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
5023 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
af65d648 5024
d080d397
YI
5025 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
5026 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
5027
1da177e4
LT
5028 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
5029 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
5030
3afe6dab
AL
5031 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
5032 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
5033 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
5034 level and then send out the event to user space through
5035 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
5036 will only send out the event without touching backlight
5037 brightness level.
2843768b 5038 default: 1
3afe6dab 5039
81a054ce
PM
5040 virtio_mmio.device=
5041 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
5042
5043 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
5044 where:
5045 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
5046 like K, M and G)
5047 <baseaddr> := physical base address
5048 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
5049 request_irq())
5050 <id> := (optional) platform device id
5051 example:
5052 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
5053
5054 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
5055
cd4f0ef7 5056 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
954a8b81 5057 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
a9913044 5058 Documentation/svga.txt.
1da177e4
LT
5059 Use vga=ask for menu.
5060 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
5061 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
5062
f682a97a
AD
5063 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
5064 May slow down system boot speed, especially when
5065 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
5066 All options are enabled by default, and this
5067 interface is meant to allow for selectively
5068 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
5069 debugging features.
5070
5071 Available options are:
5072 P Enable page structure init time poisoning
5073 - Disable all of the above options
5074
a9913044 5075 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
1da177e4
LT
5076 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
5077 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
5078 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
5079 mapped kernel RAM.
5080
3f429842
HC
5081 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390]
5082 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
5083 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
5084
585c3047
PO
5085 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
5086 Format: <command>
1da177e4 5087
585c3047
PO
5088 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
5089 Format: <command>
5090
5091 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
5092 Format: <command>
a9913044 5093
3ae36655
AL
5094 vsyscall= [X86-64]
5095 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
5096 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
5097 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
5098 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
5099 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
5100 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
5101
2e57ae05
AL
5102 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5103 emulated reasonably safely.
3ae36655 5104
2e57ae05 5105 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
3ae36655
AL
5106 This is a little bit faster than trapping
5107 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
5108 better than they would in emulation mode.
5109 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
5110
5111 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
5112 them quite hard to use for exploits but
5113 might break your system.
5114
3855ae1c
CL
5115 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
5116 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
5117 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
5118
9ea9a886
CL
5119 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
5120 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
5121 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
5122 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
5123
0cb55ad2
RD
5124 vt.default_blu= [VT]
5125 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
5126 Change the default blue palette of the console.
5127 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5128 ranging from 0-255.
5129
5130 vt.default_grn= [VT]
5131 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
5132 Change the default green palette of the console.
5133 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5134 ranging from 0-255.
5135
5136 vt.default_red= [VT]
5137 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
5138 Change the default red palette of the console.
5139 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5140 ranging from 0-255.
5141
5142 vt.default_utf8=
5143 [VT]
5144 Format=<0|1>
5145 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
5146 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
5147 newly opened terminals.
5148
f6c06b68
MG
5149 vt.global_cursor_default=
5150 [VT]
5151 Format=<-1|0|1>
5152 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
5153 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
5154 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
5155 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
5156 cursors, 1 will display them.
5157
3855ae1c
CL
5158 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
5159 Default: 2 = green.
5160
5161 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
5162 Default: 3 = cyan.
5163
4724ba57
RD
5164 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
5165 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
5166 or other driver-specific files in the
5167 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
1da177e4 5168
11295055
LO
5169 watchdog_thresh=
5170 [KNL]
5171 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
5172 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
5173 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
5174 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
5175 seconds.
5176
82607adc
TH
5177 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
5178 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
5179 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
5180 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
5181 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
5182 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
5183 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
5184 corresponding sysfs file.
5185
d55262c4
TH
5186 workqueue.disable_numa
5187 By default, all work items queued to unbound
5188 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
5189 issued on, which results in better behavior in
5190 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
5191 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
5192 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
5193 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
5194
cee22a15
VK
5195 workqueue.power_efficient
5196 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
5197 they show better performance thanks to cache
5198 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
5199 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
5200
5201 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
5202 were observed to contribute significantly to power
5203 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
5204 power usage at the cost of small performance
5205 overhead.
5206
5207 The default value of this parameter is determined by
5208 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
5209
f303fccb
TH
5210 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
5211 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
5212 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
5213 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
5214 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
5215 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
5216 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
5217 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
5218 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
5219 impacted.
5220
0cb55ad2
RD
5221 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
5222 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
5223 supporting x2apic.
5224
712b6aa8
KS
5225 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
5226 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
bb24c471
JP
5227 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
5228 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
712b6aa8 5229 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
bb24c471 5230
c70727a5
JG
5231 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
5232 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
5233 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
5234 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
5235 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
5236 domains.
5237
c1c5413a
SS
5238 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
5239 Unplug Xen emulated devices
5240 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
5241 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
5242 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
5243 nics -- unplug network devices
5244 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
1dc7ce99
IC
5245 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
5246 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
5247 the unplug protocol
c93a4dfb 5248 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
c1c5413a 5249
15a3eac0
KRW
5250 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
5251 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
5252 optimizations.
5253
8d693b91
KRW
5254 xen_nopv [X86]
5255 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
5256 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
5257
197ecb38
MMG
5258 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN]
5259 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
5260 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
5261 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
5262 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
5263
2ec16bc0
RT
5264 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN]
5265 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
5266 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
5267 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
5268 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
5269 more timer interrupts.
5270
1da177e4 5271 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
a9913044
RD
5272 Format:
5273 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
c0addc9a
LT
5274
5275 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL]
5276 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
5277 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
5278 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.