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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
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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 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
465 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
466 trust validation.
32c4741c 467 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
ffb70f61 468
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469 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
470 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
471 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
472 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
473 others).
474
6dddd7a7 475 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
14ff56bb 476 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
1da177e4 477
6dddd7a7 478 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
8bab8dde 479 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
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480 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
481 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
482 a single hierarchy
483 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
484 subsystem
485 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
486 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
487 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
8bab8dde 488
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489 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
490 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
491 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
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492 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
493 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
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494 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
495 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
496 all v1 hierarchies.
1619b6d4 497
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498 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
499 Format: <string>
500 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
04823c83 501 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
f7e1cb6e 502
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503 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
504 Format: { "0" | "1" }
505 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
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506 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
507 any implied execute protection).
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508 1 -- check protection requested by application.
509 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
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510 Value can be changed at runtime via
511 /selinux/checkreqprot.
512
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513 cio_ignore= [S390]
514 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
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515 clk_ignore_unused
516 [CLK]
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517 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
518 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
519 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
520 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
521 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
522 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
523 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
524 platform with proper driver support. For more
18bcaa4e 525 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
661ca0da 526
cd4f0ef7 527 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
734efb46 528 [Deprecated]
3f6dee9b 529 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
734efb46 530 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
3f6dee9b 531 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
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532 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
533
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535 Format: <string>
536 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
537 with the name specified.
538 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
539 the platform:
540 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
541 [ACPI] acpi_pm
542 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
543 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
9863c90f 544 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
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545 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
546 [MIPS] MIPS
547 [PARISC] cr16
548 [S390] tod
549 [SH] SuperH
550 [SPARC64] tick
551 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
552
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553 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
554 [ARM,ARM64]
555 Format: <bool>
556 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
557 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
558 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
559 systems.
560
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561 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
562 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
cd4d09ec 563 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
07983f0e 564 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
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565 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
566 ones should be.
567 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
568 or using the feature without checking anything
569 will still see it. This just prevents it from
570 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
571 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
572 some critical bits.
573
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574 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
575 [ARM,X86,KNL]
576 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
577 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
578 placement constraint by the physical address range of
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579 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
580 altogether. For more information, see
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581 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
582
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583 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
584 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
585 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
586 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
587 a hypervisor.
588 Default: yes
589
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590 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
591 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
e9da6e99 592 allocations, by default set to 256K.
c7909509 593
1da177e4 594 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
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595 Format:
596 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
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597
598 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
599 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
600
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601 com90xx= [HW,NET]
602 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
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603 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
604
605 condev= [HW,S390] console device
606 conmode=
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608 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
609
610 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
611
612 ttyS<n>[,options]
f1a1c2dc 613 ttyUSB0[,options]
1da177e4 614 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
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615 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
616 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
617 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
618 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
619
e52347bd 620 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
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621 information. See
622 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
623 alternative.
1da177e4 624
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625 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
626 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
bd94c407 627 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
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628 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
629 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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630 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
631 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
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632 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
633 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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634 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
635 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
636 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
637 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
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638 the h/w is not re-initialized.
639
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640 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
641 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
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643 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
644 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
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645 console=brl,ttyS0
646 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
647
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648 console_msg_format=
649 [KNL] Change console messages format
650 default
651 By default we print messages on consoles in
652 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
653 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
654 `printk_time' param).
655 syslog
656 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
657 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
658 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
659 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
660 from /proc/kmsg.
661
f324edc8 662 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
ac0a314c 663 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
6dddd7a7 664 Defaults to 0.
f324edc8 665
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666 coredump_filter=
667 [KNL] Change the default value for
668 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
669 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
670
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671 coresight_cpu_debug.enable
672 [ARM,ARM64]
673 Format: <bool>
674 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
675 0: default value, disable debugging
676 1: enable debugging at boot time
677
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678 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
679 disable the cpuidle sub-system
680
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681 cpuidle.governor=
682 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
683
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684 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
685 disable the cpufreq sub-system
686
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687 cpu_init_udelay=N
688 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
689 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
690 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
691 Default: 10000
692
1da177e4 693 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
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694 Format:
695 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
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697 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
698 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
699 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
700 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
701 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
702 is selected automatically. Check
703 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
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705 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
706 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
707 in the running system. The syntax of range is
708 start-[end] where start and end are both
709 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
6f21e646 710 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
fb391599 711
adbc742b 712 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
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713 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
714 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
715 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
716 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
717 available.
718 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
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719 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
720 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
721 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
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722 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
723 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
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724 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
725 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
726 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
727 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
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728 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
729 for second kernel instead.
730 0: to disable low allocation.
adbc742b 731 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
55a20ee7 732 or memory reserved is below 4G.
c729de8f 733
9e5c9fe4 734 cryptomgr.notests
6dddd7a7 735 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
9e5c9fe4 736
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737 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
738 Format: <dma>
739
740 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
741 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
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a9913044 743 dasd= [HW,NET]
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744 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
745
746 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
747 (one device per port)
748 Format: <port#>,<type>
1752118d 749 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4 750
6dddd7a7 751 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
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752 time. See
753 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
29e36c9f 754 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
a648ec05 755
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756 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
757
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758 debug_boot_weak_hash
759 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
760 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
761 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are
762 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
763 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
764 insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
765
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766 debug_locks_verbose=
767 [KNL] verbose self-tests
768 Format=<0|1>
769 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
770 self-tests.
771 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
772 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
773 only useful to kernel developers.
774
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775 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
776
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777 no_debug_objects
778 [KNL] Disable object debugging
779
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780 debug_guardpage_minorder=
781 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
782 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
783 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
784 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
785 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
786 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
787 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
788 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
789 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
790 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
791 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
792 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
793 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
794 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
795 bypassed) which are not detectable by
796 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
797 tracking down these problems.
798
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799 debug_pagealloc=
800 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
801 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
802 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
803 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
804 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
805 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
806 on: enable the feature
807
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808 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
809
2d27a966 810 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
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811 Format: <area>[,<node>]
812 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
813
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815 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
816 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
817 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
818 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
819 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
820 if not specified.
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822 deferred_probe_timeout=
823 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
824 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
825 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
826 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
827 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
828 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
829 retrying.
830
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831 dhash_entries= [KNL]
832 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
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834 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
835 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
836 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
837 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
838 miss to occur.
839
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840 disable= [IPV6]
841 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
842
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843 hardened_usercopy=
844 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
845 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
846 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
847 from reading or writing beyond known memory
848 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
849 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
850 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
851 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
852 off Disable hardened usercopy checks.
853
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854 disable_radix [PPC]
855 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
856
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857 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
858 Format: <int>
859 The number of initial APIC ID for the
860 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
861 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
862 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
863 causing system reset or hang due to sending
864 INIT from AP to BSP.
865
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866 perf_v4_pmi= [X86,INTEL]
867 Format: <bool>
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868 Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature.
869 The feature only exists starting from
870 Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer).
871
6dddd7a7 872 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
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873 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
874 to workaround buggy firmware.
875
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876 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
877 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
878
95ffa243 879 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
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880 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
881 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
0cb55ad2 882 entry later. This parameter disables that.
95ffa243 883
093af8d7 884 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
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885 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
886 memory out of your available memory pool based on
887 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
888 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
889
6cececfc 890 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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891 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
892 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
893
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894 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
895
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896 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
897 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
898
899 dma_debug_entries=<number>
900 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
901 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
902 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
903 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
904 architectural default is too low.
905
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906 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
907 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
908 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
909 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
910 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
911 driver later using sysfs.
912
53fd40a9 913 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
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914 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
915 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
916 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
917 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
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918 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
919 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
920 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
921 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
922 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
923 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
924 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
925 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
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926 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
927 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
928 data set with no connector name will be used for
929 any connectors not explicitly specified.
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931 dscc4.setup= [NET]
932
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933 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC]
934 Format: {"off" | "known"}
935 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
936 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
937 exists).
938 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
939 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
940 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
941
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942 dump_apple_properties [X86]
943 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
944 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
945 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
946
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947 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
948 module.dyndbg[="val"]
949 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
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950 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
951 for details.
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953 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
954 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
955 information about the feature.
956
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957 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
958 in some Intel CPUs.
959
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960 module.async_probe [KNL]
961 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
962
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963 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
964 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
965 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
966 which are not unmapped.
967
0cb55ad2 968 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
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970 [ARM64] The early console is determined by the
971 stdout-path property in device tree's chosen node,
972 or determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
973
974 [X86] When used with no options the early console is
975 determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
5664f764 976
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977 cdns,<addr>[,options]
978 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
979 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
980 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
981 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
982 configured.
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984 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
985 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1917ac76 986 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
6e63be3f 987 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
ca782f16 988 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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989 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
990 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
16290246 991 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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992 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
993 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
994 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
995 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
ca782f16 996 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
0cb55ad2 997
0d3c673e 998 pl011,<addr>
3b78fae7 999 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
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1000 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1001 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1002 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
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1003 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1004 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1005 the device registers.
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1007 meson,<addr>
1008 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1009 port at the specified address. The serial port must
1010 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1011 supported.
1012
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1013 msm_serial,<addr>
1014 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1015 port at the specified address. The serial port
1016 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1017 yet supported.
1018
1019 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1020 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1021 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1022 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1023 yet supported.
1024
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1025 owl,<addr>
1026 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1027 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1028 specified address. The serial port must already be
1029 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1030
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1031 rda,<addr>
1032 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1033 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1034 specified address. The serial port must already be
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1035 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1036
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1037 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1038
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1039 s3c2410,<addr>
1040 s3c2412,<addr>
1041 s3c2440,<addr>
1042 s3c6400,<addr>
1043 s5pv210,<addr>
1044 exynos4210,<addr>
1045 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1046 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1047 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1048 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1049 Options are not yet supported.
1050
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1051 lantiq,<addr>
1052 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1053 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1054 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1055 yet supported.
1056
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1057 lpuart,<addr>
1058 lpuart32,<addr>
1059 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1060 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1061 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1062 port must already be setup and configured.
1063
f7c864e7 1064 ar3700_uart,<addr>
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1065 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1066 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1067 address. The serial port must already be setup
1068 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1069
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1070 qcom_geni,<addr>
1071 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1072 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1073 specified address. The serial port must already be
1074 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1075
4ba66a97 1076 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1da177e4 1077 earlyprintk=vga
72548e83 1078 earlyprintk=efi
89175cf7 1079 earlyprintk=sclp
2482a92e 1080 earlyprintk=xen
1da177e4 1081 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
147ea091 1082 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
ea3acb19 1083 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
9780bc41 1084 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
d2266bbf 1085 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1b5aeebf 1086 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1da177e4 1087
147ea091
DH
1088 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1089 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1090 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1091
a9913044 1092 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1da177e4
LT
1093 takes over.
1094
72548e83
MF
1095 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1096 be used at a time.
1da177e4 1097
147ea091
DH
1098 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1099 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1100 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1101 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1102 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1103 You can find the port for a given device in
1104 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1105 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1da177e4
LT
1106
1107 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1108 very good.
1109
72548e83
MF
1110 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1111 the real console.
1da177e4 1112
2482a92e
KRW
1113 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1114
89175cf7
HC
1115 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1116
d2266bbf
FT
1117 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1118 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1119 UART class.
1120
c700f013
CG
1121 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1122 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1123 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1124 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1125 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1126 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1127 default: on.
1128
9731191f
JW
1129 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1130 ekgdboc=kbd
1131
25985edc 1132 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
9731191f
JW
1133 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1134
1da177e4 1135 edd= [EDD]
8c4dd606 1136 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1da177e4 1137
d2f7cbe7 1138 efi= [EFI]
fed6cefe 1139 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
d2f7cbe7
BP
1140 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1141 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1142 default.
5a17dae4
MF
1143 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1144 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1145 firmware implementations.
5ae3683c 1146 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
fed6cefe 1147 debug: enable misc debug output
d2f7cbe7 1148
8c58bf3e
RW
1149 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1150 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1151 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1152 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1153 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1154
0f96a99d
TI
1155 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1156 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1157 updating original EFI memory map.
1158 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1159 from ss to ss+nn.
1160 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1161 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1162 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1163 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1164
1165 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1166 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1167 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1168 doesn't support it.
1169
475fb4e8
OP
1170 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1171 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1172 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1173 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1174 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1175
1176
1da177e4
LT
1177 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1178 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1179
cd4f0ef7 1180 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1da177e4 1181 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
71f77055 1182 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1da177e4
LT
1183
1184 elevator= [IOSCHED]
31dcbbef
OS
1185 Format: { "mq-deadline" | "kyber" | "bfq" }
1186 See Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt,
1187 Documentation/block/kyber-iosched.txt and
1188 Documentation/block/bfq-iosched.txt for details.
a9913044 1189
d3bf3795 1190 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
a9913044 1191 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
d3bf3795
MH
1192 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1193 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
aac04b32 1194 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
1da177e4 1195
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RD
1196 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1197 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1198 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1199 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1200
ca1eda2d 1201 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
0cb55ad2
RD
1202 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1203 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1204 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1205 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1206
1da177e4
LT
1207 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1208 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1209 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1210 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1211 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1212 Default value is 0.
1213 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1214
a08f82d0
HY
1215 erst_disable [ACPI]
1216 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1217 support.
1218
1da177e4
LT
1219 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1220 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1221 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1222
7102ebcd
MZ
1223 evm= [EVM]
1224 Format: { "fix" }
1225 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1226 current integrity status.
1227
de1ba09b
AM
1228 failslab=
1229 fail_page_alloc=
1230 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1231 General fault injection mechanism.
1232 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
395cf969 1233 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
de1ba09b 1234
1da177e4 1235 floppy= [HW]
31c00fc1 1236 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1da177e4 1237
f13ae30e
AC
1238 force_pal_cache_flush
1239 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1240 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1241 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1242 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1243
6dddd7a7 1244 forcepae [X86-32]
69f2366c
CB
1245 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1246 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1247 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1248 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1249 and may cause unknown problems.
1250
d9e54076 1251 ftrace=[tracer]
2af15d6a 1252 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
d9e54076
PZ
1253 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1254 boot debugging.
1255
cecbca96 1256 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
2af15d6a 1257 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
cecbca96
FW
1258 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1259 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1260 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1261 oops.
2af15d6a
SR
1262
1263 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1264 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1265 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1266 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1267 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
16290246 1268 tracing directory.
2af15d6a
SR
1269
1270 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1271 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1272 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1273 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1274 tracing directory.
d9e54076 1275
369bc18f
SA
1276 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1277 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1278 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1279 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1280 that can be changed at run time by the
1281 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1282
0d7d9a16
NK
1283 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1284 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1285 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1286 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1287 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1288
65a50c65
TB
1289 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1290 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1291 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1292 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1293 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1294
1da177e4
LT
1295 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1296 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1297 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1298 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1752118d 1299 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4
LT
1300
1301 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1302
6dddd7a7 1303 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
aaf23042
YL
1304 Format: off | on
1305 default: on
1306
2521f2c2
PO
1307 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1308 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1309 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1310 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1311 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1312
47512cfd
TG
1313 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1314 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1315 android emulator
1316
1da177e4 1317 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
6c5de79b
DB
1318 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1319 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1320 GPT to be used instead.
1da177e4 1321
6cec9b07
AL
1322 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1323 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1324 Format: 0 | 1
1325 Default: 0
1326 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1327 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1328 Format: 0 | 1
1329 Default: 0
1330 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1331 Format: 0 | 1
1332 Default: 0
1333 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1334 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1335 Default: 1024
1336 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1337 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1338 Default: 1024
1339
0f98dd1b
BJZ
1340 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1341 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1342 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1343
55537871
JK
1344 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1345 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1346 backtraces on all cpus.
1347 Format: <integer>
1348
1da177e4
LT
1349 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1350 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
16290246 1351 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
a9913044 1352 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1da177e4
LT
1353
1354 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1355
1356 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1357 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1358
ea8c071c
HY
1359 hest_disable [ACPI]
1360 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1361 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1362 logic will be disabled.
1363
1da177e4
LT
1364 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1365 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1366 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1367 size on bigger boxes.
1368
54cdfdb4
TG
1369 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1370 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1371 Default: "on"
1372
1da177e4
LT
1373 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1374 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1375
0cb55ad2
RD
1376 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1377
1378 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1379 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1380 verbose }
1381 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1382 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1383 VIA, nVidia)
1384 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1385
3d035f58
PB
1386 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1387 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1388
b4718e62
AK
1389 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1390 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
0d9ea754
JT
1391 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1392 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1393 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1394 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
27ec26ec 1395 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
6902aa84 1396
a49d9c0a
OS
1397 hung_task_panic=
1398 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1399 Format: <integer>
cef7125d 1400
a49d9c0a
OS
1401 A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a
1402 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1403 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1404 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1405 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1406
6dddd7a7
TB
1407 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1408 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1409 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1410 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1411 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
3a025de6
YS
1412
1413 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1414 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1415 guest on lock contention.
1416
7bf69395
FDN
1417 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1418 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1419 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1420 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1421 the real console.
1422
6dddd7a7
TB
1423 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1424 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1425 registered from board initialization code.
1426 Format:
1427 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
3a853fb9 1428
36d95739 1429 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
e1443d28
SCP
1430 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1431 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1432 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1433 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1da177e4 1434 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
84eb8d06
ML
1435 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1436 keyboard and cannot control its state
1da177e4
LT
1437 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1438 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
945ef0d4 1439 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
75d08c78
JK
1440 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1441 for the AUX port
1da177e4 1442 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
e55a3366 1443 controller
1da177e4
LT
1444 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1445 controllers
24775d65 1446 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
930e1924
MPS
1447 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1448 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1449 transitions, or never reset
1450 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1451 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1452 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1453 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1454 architectures force reset to be always executed
1da177e4 1455 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
6dddd7a7 1456 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1da177e4
LT
1457
1458 i810= [HW,DRM]
1459
e70c9d5e
DT
1460 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1461 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1462 hardware.
1da177e4
LT
1463 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1464 does not match list of supported models.
1465 i8k.power_status
1466 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1467 (disabled by default)
1468 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1469 capability is set.
1470
4dca20ef 1471 i915.invert_brightness=
7bd90909
CE
1472 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1473 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
4dca20ef
CE
1474 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1475 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1476 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1477 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1478 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1479 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1480 value switches the backlight off.
1481 -1 -- never invert brightness
1482 0 -- machine default
1483 1 -- force brightness inversion
7bd90909 1484
1da177e4
LT
1485 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1486 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1487
0af80c04
DF
1488 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1489 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
075affcb
BZ
1490 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1491 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1c10e938 1492 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1da177e4 1493
0f8b7f5d
MR
1494 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1495 Format: <int>
1496 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1497 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1498 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1499 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1500 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1501 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1502 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1503 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1504 was 0x3.
1505
0cb55ad2
RD
1506 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1507 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1508
f039b754 1509 idle= [X86]
69fb3676 1510 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
ada9cfdd
RD
1511 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1512 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1513 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1514 Not recommended.
ada9cfdd 1515 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
c1e3b377 1516 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
ada9cfdd 1517 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
a9913044 1518
503943e0
MR
1519 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1520 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1521 Default: strict
1522
1523 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1524 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1525 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1526 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1527 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1528 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1529 encoding mode.
1530
1531 Available settings are as follows:
1532 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1533 supported by the FPU
1534 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1535 by the FPU
1536 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1537 by the FPU
1538 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1539 supported by the FPU
1540
1541 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1542 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1543 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1544 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1545 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1546 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1547 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1548 MIPS64 CPUs.
1549
1550 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1551 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1552 except where unsupported by hardware.
1553
79290822
IM
1554 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1555 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1556 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
0eca6b7c
YZ
1557 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1558 could change it dynamically, usually by
1559 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
79290822 1560
d977d56c
KK
1561 ignore_rlimit_data
1562 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1563 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1564 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1565
1da177e4
LT
1566 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1567 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1568
2fe5d6de 1569 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2faa6ef3 1570 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
2fe5d6de
MZ
1571 default: "enforce"
1572
07f6a794
MZ
1573 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1574 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1575 owned by uid=0.
1576
d68a6fe9
MZ
1577 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1578 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1579 measurements, instead of host native format.
1580
3323eec9 1581 ima_hash= [IMA]
e7a2ad7e
MZ
1582 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1583 | sha512 | ... }
3323eec9
MZ
1584 default: "sha1"
1585
e7a2ad7e
MZ
1586 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1587 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1588
24fd03c8 1589 ima_policy= [IMA]
33ce9549 1590 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
9e67028e
MZ
1591 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1592 fail_securely"
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1593
1594 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1595 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1596 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1597 uid=0.
1598
1599 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1600 all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent
1601 of ima_appraise_tcb.)
24fd03c8 1602
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1603 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1604 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1605 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
24fd03c8 1606
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1607 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1608 verification failure also on privileged mounted
1609 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1610 flag.
1611
24fd03c8 1612 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
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1613 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1614 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1615 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1616 opened for read by uid=0.
1617
6dddd7a7 1618 ima_template= [IMA]
9b9d4ce5 1619 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
8265a2f8 1620 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
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1621 Default: "ima-ng"
1622
c2426d2a 1623 ima_template_fmt=
6dddd7a7 1624 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
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1625 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1626
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1627 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1628 Format: <min_file_size>
1629 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1630 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1631
1632 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1633 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1634 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1635
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1636 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1637 Format: <bufsize>
1638 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1639
1640 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1641 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1642 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1643
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1644 init= [KNL]
1645 Format: <full_path>
1646 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1647 process.
1648
1649 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1650 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1651 startup.
1652
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1653 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1654 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1655 modules and initcalls.
1656
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1657 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1658
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1659 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1660 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1661 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1662 override in debugfs after boot.
1663
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1664 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1665 Format: <irq>
1666
6dddd7a7 1667 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
6bb2ff84 1668
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1669 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1670 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1671 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1672 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1673
ba395927 1674 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
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1675 on
1676 Enable intel iommu driver.
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1677 off
1678 Disable intel iommu driver.
1679 igfx_off [Default Off]
1680 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1681 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1682 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1683 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1684 DMA.
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1685 forcedac [x86_64]
1686 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
16290246 1687 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
7d3b03ce 1688 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
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1689 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1690 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
7d3b03ce 1691 then look in the higher range.
5e0d2a6f 1692 strict [Default Off]
1693 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1694 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1695 to batching them for performance.
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1696 sp_off [Default Off]
1697 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1698 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1699 not be supported.
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1700 sm_off [Default Off]
1701 By default, scalable mode will be supported if the
1702 hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable
1703 mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode
1704 will not be used even on hardware which claims to support
1705 it.
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1706 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1707 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1708 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1709 could harm performance of some high-throughput
1710 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1711 mapping is enabled.
1712 Note that using this option lowers the security
1713 provided by tboot because it makes the system
1714 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
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1715
1716 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1717 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
22c6bbe4 1718 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
2e92c7ad 1719
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1720 intel_pstate= [X86]
1721 disable
1722 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1723 scaling driver for the supported processors
1724 passive
1725 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1726 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1727 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1728 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1729 feature.
1730 force
1731 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1732 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1733 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1734 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1735 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1736 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1737 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1738 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1739 no_hwp
1740 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1741 if available.
1742 hwp_only
1743 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1744 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1745 support_acpi_ppc
1746 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1747 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1748 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1749 then this feature is turned on by default.
1750 per_cpu_perf_limits
1751 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1752 cpufreq sysfs interface
6be26498 1753
d1423d56 1754 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
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1755 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1756 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1757 nosid disable Source ID checking
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1758 no_x2apic_optout
1759 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
b7d20631 1760 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
d1423d56 1761
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1762 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1763 strict regions from userspace.
1764 relaxed
1765
1766 iommu= [x86]
1767 off
1768 force
1769 noforce
1770 biomerge
1771 panic
1772 nopanic
1773 merge
1774 nomerge
0cb55ad2 1775 soft
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1776 pt [x86]
1777 nopt [x86]
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1778 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1779 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
bcb71abe 1780
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1781 iommu.strict= [ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
1782 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1783 0 - Lazy mode.
1784 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
1785 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
1786 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
1787 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
1788 the relevant IOMMU driver.
1789 1 - Strict mode (default).
1790 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
1791 synchronously.
1792
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1793 iommu.passthrough=
1794 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1795 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1796 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1797 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
9d723b4c 1798 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
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1799
1800 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1801 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1802 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1803
6cececfc 1804 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
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1805 0x80
1806 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1807 0xed
1808 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
b02aae9c 1809 udelay
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1810 Simple two microseconds delay
1811 none
1812 No delay
b02aae9c 1813
1da177e4 1814 ip= [IP_PNP]
dc7a0816 1815 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 1816
fbf19803 1817 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2d13e6ca 1818 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
fbf19803 1819
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1820 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1821 [ARM, ARM64]
1822 Format: <bool>
1823 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1824 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1825 exposed by the device tree is too small.
1826
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1827 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
1828 [ARM, ARM64]
1829 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
1830 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
1831 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
1832 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
1833 LPIs.
1834
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1835 irqfixup [HW]
1836 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1837 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1838 firmware running.
1839
1840 irqpoll [HW]
1841 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1842 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1843 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1844 firmware running.
1845
1da177e4 1846 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
a9913044 1847 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1da177e4 1848
d94d1053 1849 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
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1850 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1851 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
1852
1853 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1854 specified in the flag list (default: domain):
1855
1856 nohz
1857 Disable the tick when a single task runs.
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1858
1859 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
1860 need to affine to housekeeping through the global
1861 workqueue's affinity configured via the
1862 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
1863 by using the 'domain' flag described below.
1864
1865 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
1866 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
1867 be configured manually after bootup.
1868
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1869 domain
1870 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1871 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1872 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1873 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1874 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1875 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1876 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1877 move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1878
1879 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1880 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1881 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1882 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1883
1884 The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
b225d44e 1885
1da177e4 1886
1da177e4 1887
a9913044 1888 iucv= [HW,NET]
1da177e4 1889
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1890 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1891 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1892 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1893 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1894 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1895 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1896
1897 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1898 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1899 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1900 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1901 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1902 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1903
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1904 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1905 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1906 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1907 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1908 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1909 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1910
1da177e4 1911 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1752118d 1912 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
1da177e4 1913
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1914 nokaslr [KNL]
1915 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1916 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1917 Layout Randomization).
24f2e027 1918
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1919 kasan_multi_shot
1920 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1921 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1922 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1923 invalid access.
1924
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1925 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1926
342332e6 1927 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
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1928 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
1929 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
1930 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested
1931 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
1932 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for
1933 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the
1934 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
1935 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
1936 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
1937
1938 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
1939 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
1940 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
1941 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
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1942 zone if it does not.
1943
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1944 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
1945 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
1946 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror"
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1947 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1948 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
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1949 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
1950 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
ed7ed365 1951
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1952 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1953 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1954 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1955 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1956 optional and is the number seconds in between
1957 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1958 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1959 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1960 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1961 the kernel debugger.
1962
84c08fd6 1963 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
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1964 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1965 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
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1966 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1967 keyboard only format: kbd
1968 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1969 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1970 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1971 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
6cdf6e06 1972
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1973 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1974 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1975
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1976 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1977 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1978 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1979
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1980 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1981 Valid arguments: on, off
1982 Default: on
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1983 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1984 the default is off.
04f70336 1985
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1986 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1987 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1988
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1989 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
1990 Default is false (don't support).
1991
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1992 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1993 KVM MMU at runtime.
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1994 Default is 0 (off)
1995
fef07aae 1996 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
8475f94a 1997 Default is 1 (enabled)
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1998
1999 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2000 for all guests.
16290246 2001 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
fef07aae 2002
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2003 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2004 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2005 system registers
2006
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2007 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2008 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2009 system registers
2010
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2011 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2012 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2013 system registers
2014
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2015 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2016 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2017 LPIs.
2018
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2019 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2020 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2021 Default is 1 (enabled)
2022
2023 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2024 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
2025 Default is 0 (disabled)
2026
2027 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2028 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2029 Default is 1 (enabled)
2030
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2031 kvm-intel.nested=
2032 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2033 Default is 0 (disabled)
2034
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2035 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2036 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2037 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2038 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2039
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2040 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2041 CVE-2018-3620.
2042
2043 Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2044
2045 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2046 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2047 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2048 never: Disables the mitigation
2049
2050 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2051
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2052 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2053 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2054 Default is 1 (enabled)
2055
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2056 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2057 affected CPUs
2058
2059 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2060 enabled and cannot be disabled.
2061
2062 full
2063 Provides all available mitigations for the
2064 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2065 enables all mitigations in the
2066 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2067
2068 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2069 sysfs interface is still possible after
2070 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2071 when the first VM is started in a
2072 potentially insecure configuration,
2073 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2074
2075 full,force
2076 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2077 flush runtime control. Implies the
2078 'nosmt=force' command line option.
2079 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2080
2081 flush
2082 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2083 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2084 L1D flush.
2085
2086 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2087 sysfs interface is still possible after
2088 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2089 when the first VM is started in a
2090 potentially insecure configuration,
2091 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2092
2093 flush,nosmt
2094
2095 Disables SMT and enables the default
2096 hypervisor mitigation.
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 flush,nowarn
2106 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2107 warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2108 insecure configuration.
2109
2110 off
2111 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2112 emit any warnings.
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2113 It also drops the swap size and available
2114 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2115 bare metal.
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2116
2117 Default is 'flush'.
2118
2119 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/l1tf.rst
2120
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2121 l2cr= [PPC]
2122
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2123 l3cr= [PPC]
2124
cd4f0ef7 2125 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
a9913044 2126 disabled it.
1da177e4 2127
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2128 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
2129 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2130 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2131
6cececfc 2132 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
ada9cfdd 2133 in C2 power state.
e585bef8 2134
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2135 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
2136 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2137 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2138 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
16290246 2139 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
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2140 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2141 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
16290246 2142
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2143 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2144 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
2145 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
fcb71f6f 2146
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2147 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2148 when set.
2149 Format: <int>
2150
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2151 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
2152 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
4c44f309 2153 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
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2154 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
2155 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
2156 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2157 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2158 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2159
2160 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2161 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
2162 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2163 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
2164 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2165 host link and device attached to it.
2166
2167 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
2168 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2169 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2170 The following configurations can be forced.
2171
2172 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2173 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2174
2175 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2176
2177 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2178 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2179 allowed.
2180
2181 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2182
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2183 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2184
05944bdf 2185 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
6dddd7a7 2186 and both resets.
05944bdf 2187
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2188 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2189 hot-unplug link recovery
2190
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2191 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2192
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VP
2193 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2194
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RJ
2195 * disable: Disable this device.
2196
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TH
2197 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2198 the same attribute, the last one is used.
2199
95f72d1e 2200 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
7c4be253 2201
1da177e4 2202 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
31c00fc1 2203 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 2204
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2205 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2206 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 2207
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2208 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2209 Format: <integer>
2210
2211 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2212 Format: <integer>
2213
2214 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2215 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 2216
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2217 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2218 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2219 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2220 number of online CPUs.
2221
2222 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2223 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2224
2225 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2226 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2227
2228 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2229 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2230 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2231
2232 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2233 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2234 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2235 mode during the locktorture test.
2236
2237 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2238 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2239 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2240
2241 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2242 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2243
2244 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2245 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2246 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2247 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2248 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2249 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2250
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2251 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2252 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2253
2254 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2255 Enable additional printk() statements.
2256
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2257 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2258 Format: <irq>
2259
2260 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2261 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2262 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2263 loglevels are defined as follows:
2264
2265 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2266 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2267 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2268 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2269 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2270 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2271 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2272 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2273
c756d08a 2274 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
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2275 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2276 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2277 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2278 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2279 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2280 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
1da177e4 2281
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2282 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2283 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2284 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2285 kernel boot problems.
2286
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2287 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2288 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2289 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2290 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2291 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2292 attached printers to be reset. Using
2293 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2294 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2295 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2296 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2297 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2298 port specification list means that device IDs
2299 from each port should be examined, to see if
2300 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2301 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2302 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2303
2304 lpj=n [KNL]
2305 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2306 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2307 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2308 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2309 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2310 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2311 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2312 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2313 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2314 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2315 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2316 hardware.
2317
2318 ltpc= [NET]
2319 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2320
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2321 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2322
16290246 2323 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
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2324 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2325 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
1da177e4 2326
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2327 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2328 yeeloong laptop.
2329 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2330
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2331 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2332 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
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2333
2334 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
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BH
2335 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2336 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2337 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2338 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2339 only takes effect during system bootup.
2340 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2341 which also disables the IO APIC.
1da177e4 2342
d134b00b
KS
2343 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2344 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2345 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2346 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2347 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2348 /dev/loop-control interface.
2b2c3750 2349
cd4f0ef7 2350 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
1da177e4 2351
71cced6e 2352 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
909dd324 2353
1da177e4 2354 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
e52347bd 2355 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
a9913044 2356
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LT
2357 mdacon= [MDA]
2358 Format: <first>,<last>
2359 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
a9913044 2360
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LT
2361 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2362 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2363 to see the whole system memory or for test.
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WC
2364 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2365 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2366 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2367 belonging to unused RAM.
1da177e4 2368
cd4f0ef7 2369 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
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2370 memory.
2371
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2372 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2373 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2374 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2375
6dddd7a7 2376 memhp_default_state=online/offline
86dd995d
VK
2377 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2378 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2379 set according to the
2380 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2381 option.
2382 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2383
6cececfc 2384 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
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LT
2385 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2386 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2387 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2388 option description.
2389
2390 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
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2391 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2392 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
8fcc9bc3
BH
2393 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2394 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2395 Multiple different regions can be specified,
2396 comma delimited.
2397 Example:
2398 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
1da177e4
LT
2399
2400 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2401 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
277cba1d 2402 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
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LT
2403
2404 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2405 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
277cba1d 2406 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
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2407 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2408 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2409 or
2410 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
8fcc9bc3
BH
2411 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2412 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2413 will be eaten.
1da177e4 2414
ec776ef6
CH
2415 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2416 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2417 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2418 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2419 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2420
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JS
2421 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2422 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2423 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2424 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2425 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2426 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2427 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2428 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2429
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JF
2430 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2431 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2432 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2433 Setting this option will scan the memory
2434 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2435 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2436 from using the memory being corrupted.
2437 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2438 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2439 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2440 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2441
2442 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2443 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2444 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2445 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2446 corruption in more or less memory.
2447
2448 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2449 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2450 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2451 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2452
d90fe2ac 2453 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest
c64df707 2454 Format: <integer>
c64df707 2455 default : 0 <disable>
9e5f6cf5
AH
2456 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2457 performed. Each pass selects another test
2458 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2459 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2460 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2461 regions that are detected.
c64df707 2462
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TL
2463 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2464 Valid arguments: on, off
2465 Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2466 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2467 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2468 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
2469 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
2470
2471 Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
2472 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2473
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RW
2474 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2475 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2476 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2477 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
58e7cb9e 2478 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
406e7938 2479
1da177e4 2480 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
a405ed85 2481 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
1da177e4 2482
8f36881b
AS
2483 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2484 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2485 platforms.
2486
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WT
2487 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2488 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2489 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2490 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2491
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LT
2492 mga= [HW,DRM]
2493
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2494 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2495 physical address is ignored.
2496
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MP
2497 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2498 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2499 Default: "0tb"
2500 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2501 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2502 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2503 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2504 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2505 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2506 unconfigured.
2507 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2508 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2509 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2510 VGA shield.
2511 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2512 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2513 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2514 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2515 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2516 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2517
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MG
2518 mminit_loglevel=
2519 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2520 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2521 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2522 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2523 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2524 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2525
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RR
2526 module.sig_enforce
2527 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2528 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2a039be7 2529 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
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RR
2530 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2531
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PB
2532 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2533 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2534
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2535 mousedev.tap_time=
2536 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2537 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2538 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2539 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2540 Format: <msecs>
2541 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2542 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2543 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2544 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2545
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DR
2546 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2547 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2548 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
2549 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
2550 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is
2551 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
2552 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its
2553 own is specified, the administrator must be careful
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RD
2554 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2555 is not too small.
2556
f70029bb
MH
2557 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2558 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2559 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2560 allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2561 allocations. Use with caution!
c5320926 2562
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LT
2563 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2564 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2565
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RD
2566 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2567 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
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LT
2568
2569 mtdparts= [MTD]
c8facbb6 2570 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
1da177e4 2571
4e89a2d8
WS
2572 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2573 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2574 at a time.
2575
5988af23
RH
2576 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2577
2578 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2579
2580 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2581 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2582 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2583 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2584 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2585
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BD
2586 mtdset= [ARM]
2587 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2588
2589 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2590
1da177e4 2591 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
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RD
2592 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2593 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
1da177e4 2594
0cb55ad2 2595 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
19f59460 2596 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
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RD
2597 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2598
2599 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2600 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2601 Default is 1.
2602 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2603 using up MTRRs.
2604
2605 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2606 Format: <integer>
2607 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2608 Default : 1
2609 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2610 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2611
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LT
2612 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2613
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LT
2614 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2615 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2616 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2617 something different and driver-specific.
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RD
2618 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2619 file if at all.
2620
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KPO
2621 nf_conntrack.acct=
2622 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2623 0 to disable accounting
2624 1 to enable accounting
d70a011d 2625 Default value is 0.
58401572 2626
306a0753 2627 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
dc7a0816 2628 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
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LT
2629
2630 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
dc7a0816 2631 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 2632
306a0753
CL
2633 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2634 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2635
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TM
2636 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2637 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2638 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2639 requests.
2640
a72b4422
TM
2641 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2642 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2643 channel should listen.
2644
e571cbf1
TM
2645 nfs.cache_getent=
2646 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2647 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2648
2649 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2650 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2651 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2652
58df095b
TM
2653 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2654 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2655 entries.
2656
f43bf0be
TM
2657 nfs.enable_ino64=
2658 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2659 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2660 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2661 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2662 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2663
5405fc44
TM
2664 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2665 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2666 slots the client will assign to the callback
2667 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2668 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2669 a particular server.
2670
ef159e91
TM
2671 nfs.max_session_slots=
2672 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2673 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2674 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2675 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2676 Note that there is little point in setting this
2677 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2678
b064eca2 2679 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
074b1d12
TM
2680 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2681 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2682 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2683 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2684 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2685 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2686 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2687 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2688 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2689 back to using the idmapper.
2690 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
6f2ea7f2
CL
2691 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2692 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2693 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2694 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2695 UUID that is generated at system install time.
b064eca2 2696
db8ac8ba
WAA
2697 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2698 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2699 information in exchange_id requests.
2700 If zero, no implementation identification information
2701 will be sent.
2702 The default is to send the implementation identification
2703 information.
e52347bd 2704
f6de7a39
TM
2705 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2706 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2707 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2708 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2709 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2710 after the locks are lost.
2711 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2712 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2713 parameter to '1'.
2714 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2715 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
db8ac8ba 2716
bbf58bf3
TM
2717 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2718 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2719 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2720
2721 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2722 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2723 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2724 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2725
e9541ce8
BF
2726 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2727 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2728 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2729 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2730 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2731 migration from NFSv2/v3.
db8ac8ba 2732
c0c74acb 2733 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
e7ba176b
HS
2734 when a NMI is triggered.
2735 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2736
6cececfc 2737 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
fef2c9bc 2738 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
195daf66 2739 Valid num: 0 or 1
334bb79c
PK
2740 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2741 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
0cb55ad2 2742 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
fef2c9bc 2743 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
334bb79c
PK
2744 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2745 please see 'nowatchdog'.
0cb55ad2
RD
2746 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2747 need the box quickly up again.
1da177e4 2748
d22881dc
SW
2749 These settings can be accessed at runtime via
2750 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
2751
bff38771
AV
2752 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2753 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2754 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2755 waits 4 seconds.
2756
cd4f0ef7 2757 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
1da177e4
LT
2758 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2759 is present.
2760
372fddf7
KS
2761 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
2762 kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
2763
0cb55ad2
RD
2764 no_console_suspend
2765 [HW] Never suspend the console
2766 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2767 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2768 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2769 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2770 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2771 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2772 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
134620f7
YZ
2773 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2774 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2775 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2776 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2777 turn on/off it dynamically.
0cb55ad2 2778
c1aee215
CL
2779 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2780 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2781 but will impact performance.
3395ee05 2782
a9913044
RD
2783 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2784
686140a1
VG
2785 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2786 (CPU alternatives feature).
2787
1da177e4
LT
2788 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2789 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2790
5091faa4
MG
2791 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2792
1da177e4
LT
2793 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2794 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2795
2796 nocache [ARM]
a9913044 2797
0cb55ad2
RD
2798 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2799
163ecdff
SN
2800 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2801
6902aa84
PM
2802 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2803
b2e0a54a 2804 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
8b2cb7a8 2805
1da177e4
LT
2806 noexec [IA-64]
2807
6cececfc 2808 noexec [X86]
f5a1b191 2809 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
1da177e4 2810 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
f5a1b191
JS
2811 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2812
52b6179a
PA
2813 nosmap [X86]
2814 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2815 even if it is supported by processor.
2816
de5397ad 2817 nosmep [X86]
52b6179a 2818 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
de5397ad
FY
2819 even if it is supported by processor.
2820
f5a1b191
JS
2821 noexec32 [X86-64]
2822 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2823 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2824 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2825 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2826 read implies executable mappings
1da177e4 2827
fab43ef4 2828 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
6902aa84 2829
cd4f0ef7 2830 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
4f886511
CE
2831 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2832 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
1da177e4 2833
0ddab1d2
TK
2834 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2835
52c48c51
SS
2836 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2837 Equivalent to smt=1.
2838
05736e4a 2839 [KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
506a66f3
TG
2840 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
2841 via the sysfs control file.
5e2d059b 2842
26cb1f36
DC
2843 nospectre_v1 [PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 (bounds
2844 check bypass). With this option data leaks are possible
2845 in the system.
05736e4a 2846
e59f5bd7 2847 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2
da285121
DW
2848 (indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may
2849 allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent
2850 to spectre_v2=off.
2851
24f7fc83
KRW
2852 nospec_store_bypass_disable
2853 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
2854
0c752a93
SS
2855 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2856 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2857 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2858
b6f42a4a
FY
2859 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2860 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2861 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2862 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2863 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2864 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2865
2866 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2867 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2868 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2869 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2870 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2871 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2872 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2873
01a24d2b
PZ
2874 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2875 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2876 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
a9913044 2877
1f29fae2
SH
2878 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2879 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2880 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2881
1da177e4
LT
2882 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2883 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2884 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2885 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2886 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2887 real-time systems.
2888
a6e15a39
KC
2889 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2890
79bf2bb3
TG
2891 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2892 Valid arguments: on, off
2893 Default: on
2894
d94d1053 2895 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
2d13e6ca 2896 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
c5bfece2 2897 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
a831881b 2898 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
0453b435 2899 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
f99bcb2c
PM
2900 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
2901 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
2902 just as if they had also been called out in the
2903 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
a831881b 2904
eeee7853
PM
2905 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2906
cd4f0ef7 2907 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
1da177e4
LT
2908 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2909
6cececfc 2910 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
8542b200
ZA
2911 broken timer IRQ sources.
2912
1da177e4
LT
2913 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2914
2915 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2916 initial RAM disk.
2917
03ea8155
WH
2918 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2919 remapping.
d1423d56 2920 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
03ea8155 2921
1da177e4
LT
2922 nointroute [IA-64]
2923
d12a72b8
AL
2924 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2925
16290246 2926 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
0aa366f3 2927
9cf4c4fc
JK
2928 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2929
fd10cde9
GN
2930 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2931 fault handling.
2932
80e9a4f2
AM
2933 no-vmw-sched-clock
2934 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2935 clock and use the default one.
2936
6dddd7a7 2937 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
d910f5c1
GC
2938 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2939 behaviour
2940
cd4f0ef7 2941 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
1da177e4 2942
cd4f0ef7 2943 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
ad62ca2b 2944
1da177e4 2945 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
f15eea66 2946 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
1da177e4 2947
312f1f01
H
2948 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2949
13696e0a 2950 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
abe37e5a 2951
83d7384f
AS
2952 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2953 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2954
bda62633
DZ
2955 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2956 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2957 irq.
2958
02608bef
DY
2959 nomodule Disable module load
2960
016ddd9b
JK
2961 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2962 pagetables) support.
2963
0790c9aa
AL
2964 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
2965
0cb55ad2
RD
2966 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2967 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2968
cd4f0ef7 2969 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
b7fb4af0
JF
2970 with UP alternatives
2971
7a5091d5
PA
2972 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2973 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2974 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2975 available to user space applications.
49d859d7 2976
a9913044
RD
2977 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2978 space.
2979
1da177e4
LT
2980 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2981 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2982 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2983
2984 nosbagart [IA-64]
2985
cd4f0ef7 2986 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
4f886511 2987
61ec7567
LB
2988 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2989 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
1da177e4 2990
97842216
DJ
2991 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2992
1da177e4
LT
2993 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2994
195daf66 2995 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
6dddd7a7 2996 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
58687acb 2997
1da177e4 2998 nowb [ARM]
a9913044 2999
2b2fd87a
WH
3000 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3001
f78cff48
FY
3002 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3003 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3004 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3005 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3006 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3007 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3008 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3009 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3010 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3011 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3012 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3013 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3014 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3015
6dddd7a7 3016 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
35b55ef2
NC
3017 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3018 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3019 without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3020 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3021 parameter's value.
3022 Format: integer between 1 and 255
3023 Default: 255
3024
16290246 3025 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
a6c75b86
FY
3026 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3027 SAL PALO.
3028
2b633e3f
YL
3029 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
3030 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
7c142bfe
BH
3031 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3032 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3033 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3034 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3035 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3036 hot plugging.
2b633e3f 3037
0cb55ad2
RD
3038 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3039
1a687c2e
MG
3040 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
3041 Allowed values are enable and disable
3042
f0c0b2b8 3043 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
c9bff3ee 3044 'node', 'default' can be specified
f0c0b2b8
KH
3045 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3046 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
3047
7c4be253
RD
3048 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3049 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
3050 info.
3051
3ef0e1f8
AS
3052 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3053 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3054 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3055 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
3056 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3057 interrupts *may* be lost!
3058
15ac7afe
TL
3059 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3060 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3061 For example, to override I2C bus2:
3062 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3063
1da177e4
LT
3064 oprofile.timer= [HW]
3065 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
3066
7e4e0bd5
RR
3067 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
3068 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
3069 userland or if you want common events.
8d7ff4f2
RR
3070 Format: { arch_perfmon }
3071 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
7e4e0bd5
RR
3072 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
3073 CPU specific event set.
159a80b2
RR
3074 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
3075 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
3076 for generic hr timer mode)
1dcdb5a9 3077
44a4dcf7
RD
3078 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3079 process, but there is a small probability of
3080 deadlocking the machine.
d404ab0a
OH
3081 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3082 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3083
48c96a36
JK
3084 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3085 Storage of the information about who allocated
3086 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3087 we can turn it on.
3088 on: enable the feature
3089
8823b1db 3090 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
8c9a134c
KC
3091 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3092 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3093 off: turn off poisoning (default)
8823b1db
LA
3094 on: turn on poisoning
3095
44a4dcf7 3096 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4302fbc8
HD
3097 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3098 timeout = 0: wait forever
3099 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
1da177e4
LT
3100 Format: <timeout>
3101
d999bd93
FT
3102 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3103 User can chose combination of the following bits:
3104 bit 0: print all tasks info
3105 bit 1: print system memory info
3106 bit 2: print timer info
3107 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3108 bit 4: print ftrace buffer
3109
9e3961a0
PB
3110 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
3111 on a WARN().
3112
f06e5153
MH
3113 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3114 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3115 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3116 succeeds in any situation.
3117 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3118 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3119 kernel more unstable.
3120
1da177e4
LT
3121 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3122 connected to, default is 0.
3123 Format: <parport#>
3124 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3125 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
a9913044
RD
3126 Format: <mode>
3127
3128 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3129 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3130 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3131 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3132 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3133 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3134 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3135 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3136 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3137 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3138 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3139 are specified on the command line, starting
3140 with parport0.
3141
3142 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
3143 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3144 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3145 computer where firmware has no options for setting
3146 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3147 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
1da177e4
LT
3148 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3149
dd287796
AM
3150 pause_on_oops=
3151 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3152 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
3153 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3154
1da177e4
LT
3155 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
3156
3157 pcd. [PARIDE]
3158 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
31c00fc1 3159 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 3160
07d8d7e5
LG
3161 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3162
3163 Some options herein operate on a specific device
3164 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3165 specified in one of the following formats:
3166
45db3370 3167 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
07d8d7e5
LG
3168 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3169
3170 Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3171 bus/device/function address which may change
3172 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3173 firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3174 by other kernel parameters. If the
3175 domain is left unspecified, it is
45db3370
LG
3176 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3177 to a device through multiple device/function
3178 addresses can be specified after the base
3179 address (this is more robust against
3180 renumbering issues). The second format
07d8d7e5
LG
3181 selects devices using IDs from the
3182 configuration space which may match multiple
3183 devices in the system.
3184
11eb0e0e 3185 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel
6dddd7a7 3186 changes anything
c0115606 3187 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
cd4f0ef7 3188 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
a9913044
RD
3189 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3190 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
cd4f0ef7 3191 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
a9913044
RD
3192 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3193 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3194 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
afd8c084
BP
3195 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3196 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3197 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3198 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3199 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3200 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3201 bus number. The config space is then accessed
3202 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3203 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3204 on the configuration access mechanisms.
7f785763
RD
3205 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3206 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3207 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
32a2eea7
JG
3208 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3209 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
6cececfc 3210 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
61be6d66 3211 Configuration
12983077
AH
3212 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3213 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3214 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
309e57df
MW
3215 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3216 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3217 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
a9322f64
SA
3218 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3219 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3220 should never be necessary.
9197979b
SA
3221 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3222 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3223 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3224 when the system masks IRQs.
41b9eb26
SA
3225 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3226 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3227 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3228 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
cd4f0ef7 3229 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
a9913044
RD
3230 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3231 on several machines and they hang the machine
3232 when used, but on other computers it's the only
3233 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3234 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3235 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3236 motherboard.
c0115606 3237 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
a9913044
RD
3238 Use with caution as certain devices share
3239 address decoders between ROMs and other
3240 resources.
c0115606 3241 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
bb71ad88
GH
3242 expansion ROMs that do not already have
3243 BIOS assigned address ranges.
7bd1c365
MH
3244 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
3245 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
c0115606 3246 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
a9913044
RD
3247 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3248 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3249 this way.
c0115606 3250 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
a9913044
RD
3251 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3252 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3253 F0000h-100000h range.
c0115606 3254 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
a9913044
RD
3255 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3256 secondary buses and you want to tell it
3257 explicitly which ones they are.
c0115606 3258 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
a9913044
RD
3259 numbers ourselves, overriding
3260 whatever the firmware may have done.
c0115606 3261 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
a9913044
RD
3262 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3263 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3264 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3265 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3266 IRQ routing is enabled.
c0115606 3267 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 3268 or for PCI scanning.
7bc5e3f2
BH
3269 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3270 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3271 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
3272 please report a bug.
3273 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
6dddd7a7 3274 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
a9913044
RD
3275 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3276 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3277 so this option is a temporary workaround
3278 for broken drivers that don't call it.
13a6ddb0
YL
3279 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3280 handle more pci cards
0637a70a
AK
3281 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3282 This might help on some broken boards which
3283 machine check when some devices' config space
3284 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3285 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
6b4b78fe
MD
3286 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3287 This sorting is done to get a device
3288 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3289 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
fa238712
YW
3290 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3291 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3292 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3293 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3294 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3295 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3296 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3297 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3298 or bus can support) for best performance.
3299 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3300 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3301 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3302 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3303 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3304 that hot-added devices will work.
4516a618
AN
3305 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3306 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3307 The default value is 256 bytes.
3308 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3309 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3310 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
32a9a682
YS
3311 resource_alignment=
3312 Format:
07d8d7e5 3313 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
32a9a682 3314 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
07d8d7e5
LG
3315 aligned memory resources. How to
3316 specify the device is described above.
32a9a682
YS
3317 If <order of align> is not specified,
3318 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3319 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3320 windows need to be expanded.
8b078c60
MK
3321 To specify the alignment for several
3322 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3323 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3324 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
43c16408
AP
3325 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3326 end-to-end CRC checking).
3327 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3328 the default.
3329 off: Turn ECRC off
3330 on: Turn ECRC on.
8c8803c5
YW
3331 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3332 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3333 Default size is 256 bytes.
3334 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3335 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3336 Default size is 2 megabytes.
e16b4660
KB
3337 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3338 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3339 Default is 1.
b55438fd
YL
3340 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3341 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3342 accommodate resources required by all child
3343 devices.
3344 off: Turn realloc off
3345 on: Turn realloc on
3346 realloc same as realloc=on
6748dcc2 3347 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
cef74409
GK
3348 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3349 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
284f5f9d
BH
3350 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3351 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3352 port.
f32ab754
UCCB
3353 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3354 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3355 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3356 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3357 conflict with unreported devices), so this
3358 taints the kernel.
aaca43fd
LG
3359 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
3360 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
3361 specified above) separated by semicolons.
3362 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
3363 redirect capabilities forced off which will
3364 allow P2P traffic between devices through
3365 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
3366 this removes isolation between devices and
3367 may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
6b4b78fe 3368
e5665a45
CE
3369 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3370 Management.
3371 off Disable ASPM.
3372 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3373 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3374
4c0fd764
BH
3375 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3376 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3377 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3378 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform
3379 also tries to use these services.
3380 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3381 hotplug).
79dd9182 3382
9d26d3a8
MW
3383 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3384 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3385 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3386
c7f48656 3387 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
c39fae14 3388 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
28eb5f27 3389 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
c7f48656 3390
1da177e4
LT
3391 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3392
39ac5ba5
TB
3393 pd_ignore_unused
3394 [PM]
3395 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3396 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3397 for debug and development, but should not be
3398 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3399
1da177e4 3400 pd. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3401 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3402
3403 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3404 boot time.
3405 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3406 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3407
f58dc01b 3408 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
e933a73f
TH
3409 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3410 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3411 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3412 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3413 and performance comparison.
fa8a7094 3414
1da177e4 3415 pf. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3416 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3417
3418 pg. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3419 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3420
3421 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
71cced6e 3422 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3423
3424 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3425 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3ba9b1b8 3426 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
1da177e4 3427
16290246 3428 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
de32a243
TG
3429 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3430 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3431
96242116
BH
3432 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3433 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3434 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3435 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3436 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3437 possible settings and some assignment information.
97ef062b 3438
1da177e4
LT
3439 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3440 { off }
3441
3442 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3443 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3444
3445 pnp_reserve_irq=
3446 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3447
3448 pnp_reserve_dma=
3449 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3450
3451 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
a9913044 3452 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
1da177e4
LT
3453
3454 pnp_reserve_mem=
a9913044
RD
3455 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3456 autoconfiguration.
1da177e4
LT
3457 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3458
4af94f39
RD
3459 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3460 Default is 21.
3461 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3462 may be specified.
3463 Format: <port>,<port>....
3464
c3cbd075
BS
3465 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3466 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3467 platform machine description specific power_save
3468 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3469 execution priority.
3470
3eb5d588
AB
3471 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3472 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3473 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3474 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3475 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3476
07fd1761
CB
3477 ppc_tm= [PPC]
3478 Format: {"off"}
3479 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3480
45807a1d
IM
3481 print-fatal-signals=
3482 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
f84d49b2
NO
3483
3484 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3485 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3486 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3487 coredump - etc.
3488
3489 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3490 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3491
45807a1d
IM
3492 default: off.
3493
c22ab332
MG
3494 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3495 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3496 panics
3497 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3498 default: disabled
3499
750afe7b
BP
3500 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3501 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3502 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3503 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3504 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3505 Default: ratelimit
3506
e84845c4
RD
3507 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3508 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3509
0cb55ad2
RD
3510 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3511 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3512 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3513
3514 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3515 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3516 instead using the legacy FADT method
3517
1da177e4 3518 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
e7e61fc0
RD
3519 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3520 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3521 [defaults to kernel profiling]
a9913044 3522 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
b3da2a73
MG
3523 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3524 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
c0fe2e69 3525 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
e7e61fc0
RD
3526 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3527 statistical time based profiling.
1da177e4 3528
1da177e4
LT
3529 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3530 before loading.
31c00fc1 3531 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 3532
e0c27447
JW
3533 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
3534 tracking.
3535 Format: <bool>
3536
a9913044
RD
3537 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3538 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
1da177e4
LT
3539 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3540 per second.
a9913044
RD
3541 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3542 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
1da177e4
LT
3543 (0 = never).
3544 psmouse.resolution=
3545 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3546 psmouse.smartscroll=
a9913044 3547 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
1da177e4
LT
3548 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3549
dee28e72
MG
3550 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3551
1da177e4 3552 pt. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3553 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 3554
01c9b17b
DH
3555 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3556 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
3557 removes hardening, but improves performance of
3558 system calls and interrupts.
3559
3560 on - unconditionally enable
3561 off - unconditionally disable
3562 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3563 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3564
3565 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3566
3567 nopti [X86_64]
3568 Equivalent to pti=off
41f4c20b 3569
dc8c8587
KS
3570 pty.legacy_count=
3571 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3572 default number.
3573
7d2c502f 3574 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
a9913044 3575
1da177e4
LT
3576 r128= [HW,DRM]
3577
3578 raid= [HW,RAID]
e52347bd 3579 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
1da177e4 3580
1da177e4 3581 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
31c00fc1 3582 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 3583
9b254366
KC
3584 random.trust_cpu={on,off}
3585 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
3586 CPU's random number generator (if available) to
3587 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
3588 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
3589
011d8261
BP
3590 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
3591
3592 cec_disable [X86]
3593 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3594 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3595
4102adab 3596 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
2d13e6ca
NC
3597 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3598
3fbfbf7a
PM
3599 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3600 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
77095901
PM
3601 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be
3602 offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that
3603 purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and
3604 "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number.
3605 This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs,
3606 which can be useful for HPC and real-time
3607 workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency
3608 for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3fbfbf7a 3609
4102adab 3610 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
3fbfbf7a
PM
3611 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3612 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3613 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3614 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3615 This improves the real-time response for the
3616 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3617 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3618 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3619 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3620
4102adab 3621 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
3622 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3623 process in one batch.
21a1ea9e 3624
a3dc2948
PM
3625 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3626 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3627 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3628 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3629
0f41c0dd
PM
3630 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3631 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 3632 RCU grace-period cleanup.
0f41c0dd 3633
37745d28
PM
3634 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3635 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 3636 RCU grace-period initialization.
0f41c0dd
PM
3637
3638 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3639 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3640 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3641 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
90040c9e 3642 the rcu_node combining tree.
37745d28 3643
7fa27001
PM
3644 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3645 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3646 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3647 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3648 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
37745d28 3649
4102adab 3650 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
ee968ac6
PM
3651 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3652 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3653 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3654 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3655 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3656 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
f885b7f2 3657
4a81e832
PM
3658 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3659 Set required age in jiffies for a
3660 given grace period before RCU starts
3661 soliciting quiescent-state help from
c06aed0e
PM
3662 rcu_note_context_switch(). If not specified, the
3663 kernel will calculate a value based on the most
3664 recent settings of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
3665 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
3666 This calculated value may be viewed in
3667 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to
3668 set rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be
3669 cheerfully overwritten.
4a81e832 3670
4102adab 3671 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3672 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3673 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3674 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3675 and maximum value is HZ.
3676
4102adab 3677 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3678 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3679 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3680 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3681
21871d7e 3682 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
d2af1ad7
PM
3683 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3684 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3685 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3686 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3687 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3688 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3689 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3690 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3691 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
21871d7e 3692
fbce7497
PM
3693 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3694 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3695 defaults to the square root of the number of
3696 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3697 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3698 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3699
4102adab 3700 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
3701 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3702 batch limiting is disabled.
21a1ea9e 3703
4102adab 3704 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
24aaef8d
RD
3705 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3706 batch limiting is re-enabled.
21a1ea9e 3707
4102adab 3708 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3709 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3710 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
d40011f6 3711
4102adab 3712 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3713 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3714 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3715 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3716 prove do nothing more than free memory.
d40011f6 3717
e3c50dfb
PM
3718 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3719 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3720 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3721 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3722 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3723 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3724
881ed593
PM
3725 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3726 Measure performance of asynchronous
3727 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3728
3729 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3730 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3731 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
3732 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3733 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3734 previously posted callbacks to drain.
3735
bdea9e34
PM
3736 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3737 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3738 grace-period primitives.
3739
df37e66b
PM
3740 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3741 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3742 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3743 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3744 interference.
3745
bdea9e34
PM
3746 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3747 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3748 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3749 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3750 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3751 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3752 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3753 a single reader.
3754
3755 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3756 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3757 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3758 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3759
820687a7
PM
3760 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3761 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3762
bdea9e34
PM
3763 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3764 Shut the system down after performance tests
3765 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3766 testing.
3767
bdea9e34
PM
3768 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3769 Enable additional printk() statements.
3770
820687a7
PM
3771 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3772 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3773 in microseconds. The default of zero says
3774 no holdoff.
3775
4102adab 3776 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3777 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3778 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3779
4102adab 3780 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3781 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3782 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3783
4102adab 3784 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3785 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3786 in seconds.
3787
ed8f6fb2
PM
3788 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
3789 Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
3790 for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
3791
3792 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
3793 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
3794 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
3795
3796 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
3797 Number of seconds to wait between successive
3798 forward-progress tests.
3799
3800 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
3801 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
3802 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
3803 testing.
3804
21b05de4
PM
3805 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3806 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3807 primitives, if available.
dabb8aa9 3808
4102adab 3809 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
21b05de4 3810 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4102adab
PM
3811
3812 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3813 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3814 update-side primitives, if available.
3815
3816 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3817 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3818 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3819 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3820 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3821 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3822 they are all non-zero.
dabb8aa9 3823
4102adab 3824 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3825 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3826
4102adab 3827 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3828 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3829 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3830 test, hence the "fake".
3831
4102adab 3832 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3838cc18
PM
3833 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3834 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3835 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3836 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3837 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
dabb8aa9 3838
4102adab
PM
3839 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3840 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3841
3842 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3843 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3844
4102adab 3845 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
028be12b
PM
3846 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
3847 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
dabb8aa9 3848
4102adab 3849 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3850 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3851 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3852 during the rcutorture test.
3853
4102adab 3854 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3855 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3856 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3857
4102adab 3858 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3859 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3860 warnings, zero to disable.
3861
4102adab 3862 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3863 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3864
2b1516e5
PM
3865 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
3866 Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
3867
4102adab 3868 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3869 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3870
4102adab 3871 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3872 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3873 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3874 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3875 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3876
4102adab 3877 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3878 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3879 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3880 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3881
4102adab 3882 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3883 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3884
4102adab 3885 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3886 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3887
4102adab 3888 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3889 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3890 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3891
4102adab 3892 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3893 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3894
4102adab 3895 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3896 Enable additional printk() statements.
3897
5a9be7c6
PM
3898 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3899 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3900
3901 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3902 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3903
4102adab
PM
3904 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3905 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3906 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3907 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3908 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3909 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
79cfea02 3910 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 3911
5a9be7c6
PM
3912 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3913 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3914 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3915 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
79cfea02
PM
3916 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3917 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3918 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3919 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3920 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 3921
3e42ec1a
PM
3922 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3923 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3924 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
79cfea02
PM
3925 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3926 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3e42ec1a 3927
52db30ab
PM
3928 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3929 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3930 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3931 to zero.
3932
74860fee
PK
3933 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3934 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3935
ffdfc409
OJ
3936 rdinit= [KNL]
3937 Format: <full_path>
3938 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3939 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3940
1d9807fc
TL
3941 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
3942 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
31516de3
FY
3943 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
3944 mba.
1d9807fc
TL
3945 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
3946 rdt=cmt,!mba
3947
1b3a5d02
RH
3948 reboot= [KNL]
3949 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3950 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3951 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3952 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3953 [[,]f[orce]
3954 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3955 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3956 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3957 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3958 to be used for rebooting.
1da177e4 3959
46b6d94e
PJ
3960 relax_domain_level=
3961 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
09c3bcce 3962 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
46b6d94e 3963
ffd2e8df
BH
3964 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
3965 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
3966 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
3967 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
3968 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
1da177e4 3969
cd4f0ef7 3970 reservetop= [X86-32]
461a9aff
ZA
3971 Format: nn[KMG]
3972 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3973 address space.
3974
9ea77bdb
PA
3975 reservelow= [X86]
3976 Format: nn[K]
3977 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3978 the bottom of the address space.
3979
7e96287d
VG
3980 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3981 during initialization.
3982
a9913044
RD
3983 resume= [SWSUSP]
3984 Specify the partition device for software suspend
2df83fa4
MB
3985 Format:
3986 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
1da177e4 3987
ecbd0da1
RW
3988 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3989 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3990 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3991 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3992 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3993
f126f733
BS
3994 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3995 read the resume files
3996
6f8d7022
BS
3997 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3998 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3999 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4000
f996fc96
BS
4001 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
4002 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
4003 present during boot.
4004 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
a6e15a39 4005 no Disable hibernation and resume.
4c0b6c10
RW
4006 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
4007 (that will set all pages holding image data
4008 during restoration read-only).
f996fc96 4009
0a7b35cb
MN
4010 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
4011
0efbb786
AC
4012 rfkill.default_state=
4013 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
4014 etc. communication is blocked by default.
4015 1 Unblocked.
4016
4017 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
4018 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
4019 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4020 blocked and the previous configuration.
4021 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4022 blocked and everything unblocked.
4023
1da177e4
LT
4024 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4025 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
4026
e16fd002
GA
4027 ring3mwait=disable
4028 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
4029 CPUs.
4030
1da177e4
LT
4031 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
4032
d2aa1aca
KC
4033 rodata= [KNL]
4034 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
4035 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
4036
605df8af
HS
4037 rockchip.usb_uart
4038 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
4039 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
4040 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
4041 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
4042
1da177e4 4043 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
f2d34fd9 4044 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
1da177e4
LT
4045
4046 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4047 mount the root filesystem
4048
4049 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
4050
4051 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
4052
cc1ed754
PO
4053 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
4054 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4055 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4056
5c71d618
RT
4057 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
4058 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
4059 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
4060 managed by CMA.
4061
1da177e4
LT
4062 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
4063
4064 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
4065
c60d1ae4
GS
4066 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
4067 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
4068 strict
4069 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
4070 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
4071 which is faster.
4072
1da177e4
LT
4073 sa1100ir [NET]
4074 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
4075
1da177e4 4076 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
a9913044 4077
f6630114
MT
4078 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
4079
cb251765
MG
4080 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
4081 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
4082 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
4083 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
f6630114 4084
5307c955
MG
4085 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
4086 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
4087 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
4088 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4089 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
4090 1 -- enable.
4091 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
4092 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
4093
0cb55ad2
RD
4094 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
4095 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
4096 security module asking for security registration will be
4097 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
4098 as if no module has been chosen.
4099
4100 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
1da177e4
LT
4101 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4102 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
4103 0 -- disable.
4104 1 -- enable.
4105 Default value is set via kernel config option.
4106 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
4107 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
4108
c1c124e9
JJ
4109 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
4110 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4111 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
4112 0 -- disable.
4113 1 -- enable.
4114 Default value is set via kernel config option.
4115
cd4f0ef7 4116 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
1da177e4 4117
1da177e4
LT
4118 shapers= [NET]
4119 Maximal number of shapers.
a9913044 4120
1da177e4
LT
4121 simeth= [IA-64]
4122 simscsi=
a9913044 4123
1da177e4
LT
4124 slram= [HW,MTD]
4125
423c929c
JK
4126 slab_nomerge [MM]
4127 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
4128 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
7660a6fd
KC
4129 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
4130 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
4131 layout control by attackers can usually be
4132 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
4133 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
4134 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
4135 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
4136 own.
ad56b738 4137 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
423c929c 4138
3df1cccd
DR
4139 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
4140 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4141 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4142 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
4143 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
4144
f0630fff
CL
4145 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
4146 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
4147 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
4148 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
4149 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
4150 last alloc / free. For more information see
ad56b738 4151 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215 4152
1663f26d
TH
4153 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
4154 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
4155 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
4156 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
4157 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
4158 directories and files being created under
4159 /sys/kernel/slub.
4160
c1aee215 4161 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
4162 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4163 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4164 fragmentation. For more information see
ad56b738 4165 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
4166
4167 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
4168 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
4169 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
4170 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
4171 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
4172 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
4173 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
ad56b738 4174 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
4175
4176 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
24775d65 4177 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
f0630fff 4178 lower than slub_max_order.
ad56b738 4179 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
4180
4181 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
423c929c
JK
4182 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
4183 See slab_nomerge for more information.
c1aee215 4184
1da177e4
LT
4185 smart2= [HW]
4186 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
4187
d0d4f69b
BH
4188 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
4189 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
4190 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
4191 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
4192 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
4193 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
4194 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
4195 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
4196 1: Fast pin select (default)
4197 2: ATC IRMode
4198
52c48c51
SS
4199 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4200 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4201 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4202 actual hardware limit.
4203 Format: <integer>
4204 Default: -1 (no limit)
4205
9c44bc03
IM
4206 softlockup_panic=
4207 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
44a4dcf7 4208 Format: <integer>
9c44bc03 4209
3ce62385
BP
4210 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
4211 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
4212 is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
4213 which is the respective build-time switch to that
4214 functionality.
4215
ed235875
AT
4216 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4217 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4218 backtraces on all cpus.
4219 Format: <integer>
4220
1da177e4 4221 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
395cf969 4222 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
1da177e4 4223
da285121
DW
4224 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4225 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
fa1202ef
TG
4226 The default operation protects the kernel from
4227 user space attacks.
da285121 4228
fa1202ef
TG
4229 on - unconditionally enable, implies
4230 spectre_v2_user=on
4231 off - unconditionally disable, implies
4232 spectre_v2_user=off
da285121
DW
4233 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4234 vulnerable
4235
4236 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4237 mitigation method at run time according to the
4238 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4239 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4240 compiler with which the kernel was built.
4241
fa1202ef
TG
4242 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
4243 against user space to user space task attacks.
4244
4245 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
4246 the user space protections.
4247
da285121
DW
4248 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4249
4250 retpoline - replace indirect branches
4251 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4252 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4253
4254 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4255 spectre_v2=auto.
4256
fa1202ef
TG
4257 spectre_v2_user=
4258 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4259 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
4260 user space tasks
4261
4262 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
4263 enforced by spectre_v2=on
4264
4265 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
4266 enforced by spectre_v2=off
4267
7cc765a6
TG
4268 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
4269 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
4270 per thread. The mitigation control state
4271 is inherited on fork.
4272
55a97402
TG
4273 prctl,ibpb
4274 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
4275 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4276 always when switching between different user
4277 space processes.
4278
6b3e64c2
TG
4279 seccomp
4280 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
4281 threads will enable the mitigation unless
4282 they explicitly opt out.
4283
55a97402
TG
4284 seccomp,ibpb
4285 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
4286 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4287 always when switching between different
4288 user space processes.
4289
fa1202ef
TG
4290 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
4291 the available CPU features and vulnerability.
6b3e64c2
TG
4292
4293 Default mitigation:
4294 If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
fa1202ef
TG
4295
4296 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4297 spectre_v2_user=auto.
4298
24f7fc83
KRW
4299 spec_store_bypass_disable=
4300 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
4301 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
4302
4303 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
4304 a common industry wide performance optimization known
4305 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
4306 to the same memory location may not be observed by
4307 later loads during speculative execution. The idea
4308 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
4309 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
4310 end of a particular speculation execution window.
4311
4312 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4313 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
4314 example to read memory to which the attacker does not
4315 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
4316
4317 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
4318 Bypass optimization is used.
4319
6b4c1360
ME
4320 On x86 the options are:
4321
f21b53b2
KC
4322 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
4323 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
4324 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
4325 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
4326 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
4327 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
4328 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
4329 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
4330 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
4331 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
4332 for a process by default. The state of the control
4333 is inherited on fork.
4334 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
4335 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
24f7fc83 4336
f21b53b2
KC
4337 Default mitigations:
4338 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4339
6b4c1360
ME
4340 On powerpc the options are:
4341
4342 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
4343 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
4344 perform a software flush on kernel entry and
4345 exit.
4346 off - No action.
4347
4348 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4349 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
4350
1da177e4
LT
4351 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
4352 spia_fio_base=
4353 spia_pedr=
4354 spia_peddr=
4355
c350c008
PM
4356 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4357 Specifies how frequently to check for
4358 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4359 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4360 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4361 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4362 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
4363 are ignored.
4364
22607d66
PM
4365 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4366 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4367 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4368 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4369 grace period will be considered for automatic
4370 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
4371 expediting.
4372
a43ae4df
MZ
4373 ssbd= [ARM64,HW]
4374 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
4375
4376 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
4377 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
4378 firmware based mitigation, this parameter
4379 indicates how the mitigation should be used:
4380
4381 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for
4382 for both kernel and userspace
4383 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
4384 for both kernel and userspace
4385 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the
4386 kernel, and offer a prctl interface
4387 to allow userspace to register its
4388 interest in being mitigated too.
4389
1be7107f
HD
4390 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
4391 override the default stack gap protection. The value
4392 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4393 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4394 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4395 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4396
f38f1d2a
SR
4397 stacktrace [FTRACE]
4398 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4399
762e1207
SR
4400 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4401 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4402 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4403 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4404 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4405 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4406 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4407
1da177e4
LT
4408 sti= [PARISC,HW]
4409 Format: <num>
4410 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4411 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4412 as the initial boot-console.
4413 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4414
4415 sti_font= [HW]
4416 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4417
4418 stifb= [HW]
4419 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4420
cbf11071
TM
4421 sunrpc.min_resvport=
4422 sunrpc.max_resvport=
4423 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4424 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4425 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4426 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4427 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4428 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4429 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4430 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4431 maximum port values.
4432
ff3ac5c3
TM
4433 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4434 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4435 Limit the number of requests that the server will
4436 process in parallel from a single connection.
4437 The default value is 0 (no limit).
4438
42a7fc4a
GB
4439 sunrpc.pool_mode=
4440 [NFS]
4441 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4442 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
4443 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4444 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4445 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4446 NFS server is running.
4447
4448 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
4449 automatically using heuristics
4450 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
4451 percpu one pool for each CPU
4452 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4453 to global on non-NUMA machines)
4454
cbf11071
TM
4455 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4456 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4457 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4458 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4459 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4460 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4461 improve throughput, but will also increase the
4462 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4463
1d4a9c17
BN
4464 suspend.pm_test_delay=
4465 [SUSPEND]
4466 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4467 mode before resuming the system (see
4468 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4469 is set. Default value is 5.
4470
07555ac1 4471 swapaccount=[0|1]
a42c390c
MH
4472 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4473 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
09c3bcce 4474 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
a42c390c 4475
91fec0f5 4476 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
fff5d992 4477 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
91fec0f5
JK
4478 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4479 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4480 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
fff5d992 4481 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
a9913044 4482
1da177e4
LT
4483 switches= [HW,M68k]
4484
e52eec13
AK
4485 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4486 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4487 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4488 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4489 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4490 in older udev will not work anymore.
4491 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4492 the kernel configuration.
4493
5d6f647f
IM
4494 sysrq_always_enabled
4495 [KNL]
4496 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4497 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4498 Useful for debugging.
4499
747029a5
FF
4500 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4501 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4502 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4503 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4504 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4505 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4506
1da177e4
LT
4507 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
4508
acc82342 4509 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
77437fd4 4510 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
acc82342
SP
4511 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4512 as the system sleep state during system startup with
4513 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4514 The system is woken from this state using a
4515 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
77437fd4 4516
1da177e4
LT
4517 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4518 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4519
f8707ec9
LB
4520 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
4521 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4522 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4523
c52a7419
LB
4524 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
4525 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
22a94d79 4526 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
c52a7419 4527
f5487145
LB
4528 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
4529 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4530 critical and hot trip points.
4531
72b33ef8
LB
4532 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
4533 1: disable ACPI thermal control
4534
a70cdc52
LB
4535 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
4536 -1: disable all passive trip points
ada9cfdd
RD
4537 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4538 value
a70cdc52 4539
730ff34d
LB
4540 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
4541 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4542 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4543 0: no polling (default)
4544
8d32a307
TG
4545 threadirqs [KNL]
4546 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
24775d65 4547 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
8d32a307 4548
2ca62b04
KRW
4549 tmem [KNL,XEN]
4550 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4551
4552 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4553 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4554 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4555
4556 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4557 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
37d46e15
KRW
4558 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4559 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
2ca62b04
KRW
4560
4561 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4562 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4563 to the hypervisor.
4564
4565 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4566 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4567 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4568 kernel based on different criteria.
4569
2b1a61f0
HC
4570 topology= [S390]
4571 Format: {off | on}
4572 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
f65e51d7
SL
4573 topology information if the hardware supports this.
4574 The scheduler will make use of this information and
2b1a61f0 4575 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
c9af3fa9 4576 Default is on.
2b1a61f0 4577
2d73bae1
NA
4578 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4579 Format: {off}
4580 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4581 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4582 LPAR.
4583
1da177e4
LT
4584 tp720= [HW,PS2]
4585
225a9be2
RA
4586 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4587 Format: integer pcr id
4588 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4589 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4590 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4591 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4592 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4593 are saved.
4594
9d612bef 4595 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
3e6fb8e9 4596 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
631595fb 4597
020e5f85
LZ
4598 trace_event=[event-list]
4599 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
d81749ea
BN
4600 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4601 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
5fb94e9c 4602 also Documentation/trace/events.rst
020e5f85 4603
7bcfaf54
SR
4604 trace_options=[option-list]
4605 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4606 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4607 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4608 to echo the option name into
4609
4610 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4611
4612 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4613 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4614
4615 trace_options=stacktrace
4616
5fb94e9c 4617 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
7bcfaf54
SR
4618 section.
4619
0daa2302
SRRH
4620 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4621 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4622 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4623 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4624 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4625 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4626
4627 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4628 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4629 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4630 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4631
4632 ** CAUTION **
4633
4634 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4635 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4636 the system to live lock.
4637
de7edd31
SRRH
4638 traceoff_on_warning
4639 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4640 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4641 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4642 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4643
4644 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4645 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4646 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4647
4648 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4649 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4650
fcf4d821
JK
4651 transparent_hugepage=
4652 [KNL]
4653 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4654 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4655 with respect to transparent hugepages.
45c9a74f
MR
4656 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
4657 for more details.
fcf4d821 4658
d3b8f889 4659 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
395628ef
AK
4660 Format: <string>
4661 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
d3b8f889
JS
4662 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4663 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4664 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4665 virtualized environment.
e82b8e4e
VP
4666 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4667 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4668 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4669 can add overhead.
6be53520
DL
4670 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4671 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4672 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
395628ef 4673
a9913044
RD
4674 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4675 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4676 Format:
4677 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
1752118d 4678 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4 4679
b6935f8c 4680 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
e52347bd 4681 happen after console_init() and before a proper
b6935f8c
CK
4682 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4683 help "seeing" what's going on.
4684
f86dcc5a
ED
4685 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4686 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4687
5f8364b7
AS
4688 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4689 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4690 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4691 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4692 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4693 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4694 reported either.
4695
e3a61b0a 4696 unknown_nmi_panic
44a4dcf7 4697 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
e3a61b0a 4698
c4fc2342
CDH
4699 usbcore.authorized_default=
4700 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4701 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4702 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4703
b5e795f8
AS
4704 usbcore.autosuspend=
4705 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4706 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4707 is the time required before an idle device will be
4708 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
eaafbc3a 4709 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
b5e795f8 4710
fd7c519d
JK
4711 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4712 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4713
0290cc9f
AS
4714 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4715 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4716 (default = 65536).
4717
fd7c519d
JK
4718 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4719 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4720
4721 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4722 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
bd0e6c96
ZT
4723 scheme, applies only to low and full-speed devices
4724 (default 0 = off).
fd7c519d 4725
3f5eb8d5
AS
4726 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4727 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4728 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4729
fd7c519d
JK
4730 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4731 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4732 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4733
4734 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4735 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
6dddd7a7 4736 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
fd7c519d
JK
4737 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4738
40d58148
ON
4739 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4740
027bd6ca
KHF
4741 usbcore.quirks=
4742 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
4743 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
4744 commas. Each entry has the form
4745 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
4746 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
4747 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
4748 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
4749 the following meanings:
4750 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
4751 descriptors must not be fetched using
4752 a 255-byte read);
4753 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
4754 correctly so reset it instead);
4755 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
4756 Set-Interface requests);
4757 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
4758 handle its Configuration or Interface
4759 strings);
4760 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
4761 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
4762 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
4763 more interface descriptions than the
4764 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
4765 talking to these interfaces);
4766 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
4767 during initialization, after we read
4768 the device descriptor);
4769 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
4770 high speed and super speed interrupt
4771 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
4772 require the interval in microframes (1
4773 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
4774 calculated as interval = 2 ^
4775 (bInterval-1).
4776 Devices with this quirk report their
4777 bInterval as the result of this
4778 calculation instead of the exponent
4779 variable used in the calculation);
4780 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
4781 handle device_qualifier descriptor
4782 requests);
4783 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
4784 generates spurious wakeup, ignore
4785 remote wakeup capability);
4786 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
4787 Power Management);
4788 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
4789 (Device reports its bInterval as linear
4790 frames instead of the USB 2.0
4791 calculation);
4792 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
4793 to be disconnected before suspend to
4d8d5a39
KHF
4794 prevent spurious wakeup);
4795 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
4796 pause after every control message);
781f0766
KHF
4797 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
4798 delay after resetting its port);
027bd6ca
KHF
4799 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
4800
1da177e4
LT
4801 usbhid.mousepoll=
4802 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
a9913044 4803
933bfe4d
TJ
4804 usbhid.jspoll=
4805 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4806
2ddc8e2d
FA
4807 usbhid.kbpoll=
4808 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
4809
d4f373e5
AS
4810 usb-storage.delay_use=
4811 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
19101954 4812 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
d4f373e5
AS
4813
4814 usb-storage.quirks=
4815 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4816 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4817 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4818 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4819 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4820 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4821 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
c838ea46
AS
4822 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4823 of sense data);
a0bb1081
AS
4824 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4825 bytes of sense data);
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AS
4826 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4827 device capacity by one sector);
5116901d
KR
4828 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4829 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4830 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4831 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
734016b0
HG
4832 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4833 command, uas only);
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HG
4834 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4835 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
c838ea46
AS
4836 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4837 reported device capacity by one
4838 sector if the number is odd);
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AS
4839 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4840 device);
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HG
4841 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4842 command, uas only);
d4f373e5
AS
4843 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4844 unlock ejectable media);
4845 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4846 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
21c13a4f
AS
4847 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4848 initial READ(10) command);
c838ea46
AS
4849 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4850 reported by the device);
eaa05dfc
NJ
4851 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4852 by default);
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AS
4853 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4854 bogus residue values);
4855 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4856 Logical Unit);
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HG
4857 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4858 commands, uas only);
b6089f19 4859 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
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AS
4860 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4861 medium is write-protected).
050bc4e8
ON
4862 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4863 even if the device claims no cache)
d4f373e5
AS
4864 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4865
ac1667db
SB
4866 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4867 Format: <int>
4868 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4869 1 - undefined instruction events
4870 2 - system calls
4871 4 - invalid data aborts
4872 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4873 16 - SIGBUS faults
4874 Example: user_debug=31
4875
14315592
IC
4876 userpte=
4877 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4878
4879 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4880 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4881 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4882
6cececfc 4883 vdso= [X86,SH]
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AL
4884 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4885
4886 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
e6e5494c
IM
4887 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4888
b0b49f26
AL
4889 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4890 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4891 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4892
4893 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4894 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4895 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4896
4897 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4898 alias for vdso32=0.
4899
4900 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4901 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
af65d648 4902
d080d397
YI
4903 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4904 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4905
1da177e4
LT
4906 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4907 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4908
3afe6dab
AL
4909 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4910 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4911 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4912 level and then send out the event to user space through
4913 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4914 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4915 brightness level.
2843768b 4916 default: 1
3afe6dab 4917
81a054ce
PM
4918 virtio_mmio.device=
4919 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4920
4921 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4922 where:
4923 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4924 like K, M and G)
4925 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4926 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4927 request_irq())
4928 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4929 example:
4930 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4931
4932 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4933
cd4f0ef7 4934 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
954a8b81 4935 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
a9913044 4936 Documentation/svga.txt.
1da177e4
LT
4937 Use vga=ask for menu.
4938 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4939 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4940
f682a97a
AD
4941 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
4942 May slow down system boot speed, especially when
4943 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
4944 All options are enabled by default, and this
4945 interface is meant to allow for selectively
4946 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
4947 debugging features.
4948
4949 Available options are:
4950 P Enable page structure init time poisoning
4951 - Disable all of the above options
4952
a9913044 4953 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
1da177e4
LT
4954 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4955 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4956 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4957 mapped kernel RAM.
4958
3f429842
HC
4959 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390]
4960 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
4961 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
4962
585c3047
PO
4963 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4964 Format: <command>
1da177e4 4965
585c3047
PO
4966 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4967 Format: <command>
4968
4969 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4970 Format: <command>
a9913044 4971
3ae36655
AL
4972 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4973 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4974 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4975 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4976 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4977 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4978 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4979
2e57ae05
AL
4980 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4981 emulated reasonably safely.
3ae36655 4982
2e57ae05 4983 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
3ae36655
AL
4984 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4985 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4986 better than they would in emulation mode.
4987 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4988
4989 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4990 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4991 might break your system.
4992
3855ae1c
CL
4993 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4994 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4995 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4996
9ea9a886
CL
4997 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4998 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4999 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
5000 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
5001
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RD
5002 vt.default_blu= [VT]
5003 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
5004 Change the default blue palette of the console.
5005 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5006 ranging from 0-255.
5007
5008 vt.default_grn= [VT]
5009 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
5010 Change the default green palette of the console.
5011 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5012 ranging from 0-255.
5013
5014 vt.default_red= [VT]
5015 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
5016 Change the default red palette of the console.
5017 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5018 ranging from 0-255.
5019
5020 vt.default_utf8=
5021 [VT]
5022 Format=<0|1>
5023 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
5024 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
5025 newly opened terminals.
5026
f6c06b68
MG
5027 vt.global_cursor_default=
5028 [VT]
5029 Format=<-1|0|1>
5030 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
5031 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
5032 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
5033 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
5034 cursors, 1 will display them.
5035
3855ae1c
CL
5036 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
5037 Default: 2 = green.
5038
5039 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
5040 Default: 3 = cyan.
5041
4724ba57
RD
5042 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
5043 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
5044 or other driver-specific files in the
5045 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
1da177e4 5046
82607adc
TH
5047 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
5048 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
5049 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
5050 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
5051 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
5052 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
5053 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
5054 corresponding sysfs file.
5055
d55262c4
TH
5056 workqueue.disable_numa
5057 By default, all work items queued to unbound
5058 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
5059 issued on, which results in better behavior in
5060 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
5061 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
5062 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
5063 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
5064
cee22a15
VK
5065 workqueue.power_efficient
5066 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
5067 they show better performance thanks to cache
5068 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
5069 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
5070
5071 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
5072 were observed to contribute significantly to power
5073 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
5074 power usage at the cost of small performance
5075 overhead.
5076
5077 The default value of this parameter is determined by
5078 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
5079
f303fccb
TH
5080 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
5081 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
5082 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
5083 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
5084 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
5085 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
5086 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
5087 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
5088 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
5089 impacted.
5090
0cb55ad2
RD
5091 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
5092 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
5093 supporting x2apic.
5094
712b6aa8
KS
5095 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
5096 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
bb24c471
JP
5097 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
5098 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
712b6aa8 5099 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
bb24c471 5100
c70727a5
JG
5101 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
5102 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
5103 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
5104 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
5105 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
5106 domains.
5107
c1c5413a
SS
5108 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
5109 Unplug Xen emulated devices
5110 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
5111 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
5112 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
5113 nics -- unplug network devices
5114 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
1dc7ce99
IC
5115 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
5116 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
5117 the unplug protocol
c93a4dfb 5118 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
c1c5413a 5119
15a3eac0
KRW
5120 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
5121 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
5122 optimizations.
5123
8d693b91
KRW
5124 xen_nopv [X86]
5125 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
5126 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
5127
197ecb38
MMG
5128 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN]
5129 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
5130 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
5131 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
5132 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
5133
1da177e4 5134 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
a9913044
RD
5135 Format:
5136 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
c0addc9a
LT
5137
5138 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL]
5139 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
5140 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
5141 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.