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b10d79f7 1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
03d926f8 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
6a1f5471 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
e58d154b 4 copy_dsdt }
1da177e4 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6a1f5471 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
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7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
1da177e4 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
237889bf 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
aa2110cb 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
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13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14 are available
1da177e4 15
395cf969 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
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18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
19 Format: <int>
20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21 1,0: use 1st APIC table
4e381a4f 22 default: 0
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24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
25 acpi_backlight=vendor
26 acpi_backlight=video
27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
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31 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
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37 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41 This option is useful for developers to identify the
42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
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45 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
1da177e4 47 Format: <int>
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48 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
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55 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
56 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
57 debug layers and levels.
a0d84a92 58
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59 Enable processor driver info messages:
60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
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63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64 object while interpreting AML:
65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
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66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69 Some values produce so much output that the system is
70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71 if you need to capture more output.
f989106c 72
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73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
74 { strict | lax | no }
75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79 can interfere with legacy drivers.
80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87 no further checks are performed.
88
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89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92 size limitation.
93
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94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95 ACPI will balance active IRQs
96 default in APIC mode
97
98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100 default in PIC mode
101
102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106 use by PCI
107 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
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109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113 the GPE dispatcher.
114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115 GPE floodings.
116 Format: <int>
117 Support masking of GPEs numbered from 0x00 to 0x7f.
118
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119 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
120 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
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121 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
122 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
123 auto-serialization feature.
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124 This feature is enabled by default.
125 This option allows to turn off the feature.
22b5afce 126
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127 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
128 kernels.
129
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130 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
131 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
132 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
133 installed automatically and they will appear under
134 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
135 This option turns off this feature.
136 Note that specifying this option does not affect
137 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
138 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
0cb55ad2 139
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140 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
141 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
142 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
143 second kernel for kdump.
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145 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
146 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
147
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148 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
149 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
150 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
151 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
152 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
153
0cb55ad2 154 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
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155 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
156 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
741d8128 157 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
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158 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
159 strings
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160 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
161 strings
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162 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
163
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164 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
165 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
166 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
167 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
168 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
169 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
170 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
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171 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
172 care about the state of the feature group strings which
173 should be controlled by the OSPM.
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174 Examples:
175 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
176 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
177 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
178
179 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
180 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
181 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
182 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
183 multiple times through kernel command line is also
184 meaningless.
185 Examples:
186 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
187 FALSE.
188
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189 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
190 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
191 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
192 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
193 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
194 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
195 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
196 there are quirks related to this string. This command
197 is useful when one want to control the state of the
198 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
199 the OSPM features.
200 Examples:
201 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
202 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
203 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
204 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
205 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
206 equivalent to
207 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
208 and
209 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
210 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
211
6cececfc 212 acpi_pm_good [X86]
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213 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
214 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
215 and always returns good values.
216
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217 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
218 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
219
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220 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
221 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
222 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
223
224 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
225 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
c3b0795c 226 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable }
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227 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
228 s3_bios and s3_mode.
229 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
230 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
231 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
232 used during resume from hibernation.
233 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
234 control method, with respect to putting devices into
235 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
236 of _PTS is used by default).
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237 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
238 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
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239 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
240 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
241 but some broken systems don't work without it).
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242
243 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
244 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
245 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
246
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247 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
248 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
249
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250 agp= [AGP]
251 { off | try_unsupported }
252 off: disable AGP support
253 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
254 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
255
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256 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
257 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
258
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259 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
260 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
261 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
262 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
263
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264 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
265 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
266 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
267 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
268 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
269 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
270 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
271
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272 32: only for 32-bit processes
273 64: only for 64-bit processes
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274 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
275 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
276
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277 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
278 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
279 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
280 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
281 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
282 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
283
89e0b9a3 284 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
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285 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
286 Possible values are:
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287 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
288 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
289 flushed before they will be reused, which
290 is a lot of faster
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291 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
292 the system
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293 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
294 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
295 allowed anymore to lift isolation
296 requirements as needed. This option
297 does not override iommu=pt
afa9fdc2 298
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299 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
300 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
301 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
302 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
303 IOMMU initialization.
304
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305 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
306 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
307 remapping modes:
308 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
309 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
310 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
311 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
312 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
313
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314 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
315 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
316 Format: <a>,<b>
395cf969 317 See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt
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318
319 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
320 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
321 connected to one of 16 gameports
322 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
323
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324 apc= [HW,SPARC]
325 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
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326 Format: noidle
327 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
328 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
329 APC and your system crashes randomly.
330
ca1eda2d 331 apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
c8facbb6 332 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
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333 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
334 Change the amount of debugging information output
335 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
a9913044 336
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337 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
338 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
339 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
340 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
341 backup of CPU 0
342 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
343 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
344 shot down by NMI
345
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346 autoconf= [IPV6]
347 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
348
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349 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
350 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
351 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
352 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
353 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
354 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
355 apic=verbose is specified.
356 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
357
1da177e4 358 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
71f77055 359 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
1da177e4 360
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361 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
362 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
363
364 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
365
366 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
367
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368 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
369 EzKey and similar keyboards
370
371 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
372
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373 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
374 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
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375
376 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
377 keyboards
378
379 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
380 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
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381
382 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
383 Use software keyboard repeat
1da177e4 384
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385 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
386 Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
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387 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
388 until the next reboot
389 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
390 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
391 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
392 storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
393 RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
394 auditd.
a106fb0c 395 Default: unset
f3411cb2 396
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397 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
398 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
399 Default: 64
400
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401 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
402 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
403 Format: { "0" | "1" }
404 0 - Disable the BAU.
405 1 - Enable the BAU.
406 unset - Disable the BAU.
407
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408 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
409 Format: <io>,<mode>
a9913044 410
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411 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
412 Format: <io>,<mode>
413 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
414
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415 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
416 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
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417 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
418 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
419
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420 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
421 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
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422 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
423 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
424
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425 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
426 embedded devices based on command line input.
427 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
428
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429 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
430 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
431 no delay (0).
432 Format: integer
433
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434 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
435
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436 bert_disable [ACPI]
437 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
438
1da177e4 439 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
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440 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
441 kernel args too.
1da177e4 442 bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
395cf969 443 bttv.tuner=
1da177e4 444
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445 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
446 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
447 at a time.
448
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449 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
450
cd4f0ef7 451 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
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452 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
453 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
454 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
455 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
456 This option provides an override for these situations.
457
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458 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
459 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
460 trust validation.
32c4741c 461 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
ffb70f61 462
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463 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
464 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
465 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
466 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
467 others).
468
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469 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
470 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
1da177e4 471
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472 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
473 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
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474 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
475 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
476 a single hierarchy
477 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
478 subsystem
479 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
480 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
481 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
8bab8dde 482
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483 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
484 Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
485 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
486 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
487
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488 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
489 Format: <string>
490 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
04823c83 491 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
f7e1cb6e 492
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493 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
494 Format: { "0" | "1" }
495 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
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496 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
497 any implied execute protection).
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498 1 -- check protection requested by application.
499 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
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500 Value can be changed at runtime via
501 /selinux/checkreqprot.
502
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503 cio_ignore= [S390]
504 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
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505 clk_ignore_unused
506 [CLK]
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507 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
508 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
509 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
510 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
511 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
512 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
513 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
514 platform with proper driver support. For more
515 information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
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cd4f0ef7 517 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
734efb46 518 [Deprecated]
3f6dee9b 519 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
734efb46 520 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
3f6dee9b 521 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
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522 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
523
592913ec 524 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
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525 Format: <string>
526 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
527 with the name specified.
528 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
529 the platform:
530 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
531 [ACPI] acpi_pm
532 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
533 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
9863c90f 534 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
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535 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
536 [MIPS] MIPS
537 [PARISC] cr16
538 [S390] tod
539 [SH] SuperH
540 [SPARC64] tick
541 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
542
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543 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
544 [ARM,ARM64]
545 Format: <bool>
546 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
547 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
548 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
549 systems.
550
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551 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
552 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
cd4d09ec 553 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
07983f0e 554 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
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555 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
556 ones should be.
557 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
558 or using the feature without checking anything
559 will still see it. This just prevents it from
560 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
561 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
562 some critical bits.
563
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564 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
565 [ARM,X86,KNL]
566 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
567 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
568 placement constraint by the physical address range of
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569 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
570 altogether. For more information, see
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571 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
572
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573 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
574 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
575 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
576 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
577 a hypervisor.
578 Default: yes
579
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580 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
581 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
e9da6e99 582 allocations, by default set to 256K.
c7909509 583
6cececfc 584 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
a25bd949 585 in an oops report.
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586 Range: 0 - 8192
587 Default: 64
588
1da177e4 589 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
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590 Format:
591 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
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592
593 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
594 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
595
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596 com90xx= [HW,NET]
597 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
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598 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
599
600 condev= [HW,S390] console device
601 conmode=
a9913044 602
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603 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
604
605 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
606
607 ttyS<n>[,options]
f1a1c2dc 608 ttyUSB0[,options]
1da177e4 609 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
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610 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
611 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
612 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
613 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
614
e52347bd 615 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
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616 information. See
617 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
618 alternative.
1da177e4 619
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620 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
621 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
bd94c407 622 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
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624 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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626 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
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627 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
628 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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629 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
630 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
631 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
632 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
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633 the h/w is not re-initialized.
634
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635 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
636 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
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638 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
639 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
640 console=brl,ttyS0
641 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
642
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643 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
644 seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
645 disables the blank timer.
646
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647 coredump_filter=
648 [KNL] Change the default value for
649 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
650 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
651
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652 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
653 disable the cpuidle sub-system
654
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655 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
656 disable the cpufreq sub-system
657
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658 cpu_init_udelay=N
659 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
660 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
661 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
662 Default: 10000
663
1da177e4 664 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
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666 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
1da177e4 667
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668 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
669 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
670 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
671 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
672 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
673 is selected automatically. Check
674 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
dc009d92 675
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676 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
677 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
678 in the running system. The syntax of range is
679 start-[end] where start and end are both
680 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
6f21e646 681 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
fb391599 682
adbc742b 683 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
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684 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
685 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
686 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
687 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
688 available.
689 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
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690 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
691 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
692 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
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693 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
694 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
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695 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
696 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
697 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
698 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
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699 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
700 for second kernel instead.
701 0: to disable low allocation.
adbc742b 702 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
55a20ee7 703 or memory reserved is below 4G.
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705 cryptomgr.notests
706 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
707
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708 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
709 Format: <dma>
710
711 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
712 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
a9913044 713
a9913044 714 dasd= [HW,NET]
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716
717 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
718 (one device per port)
719 Format: <port#>,<type>
720 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
721
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722 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
723 time. See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for
29e36c9f 724 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
a648ec05 725
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727
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728 debug_locks_verbose=
729 [KNL] verbose self-tests
730 Format=<0|1>
731 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
732 self-tests.
733 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
734 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
735 only useful to kernel developers.
736
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737 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
738
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739 no_debug_objects
740 [KNL] Disable object debugging
741
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742 debug_guardpage_minorder=
743 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
744 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
745 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
746 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
747 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
748 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
749 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
750 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
751 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
752 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
753 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
754 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
755 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
756 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
757 bypassed) which are not detectable by
758 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
759 tracking down these problems.
760
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761 debug_pagealloc=
762 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
763 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
764 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
765 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
766 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
767 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
768 on: enable the feature
769
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770 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
771
2d27a966 772 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
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773 Format: <area>[,<node>]
774 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
775
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777 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
778 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
779 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
780 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
781 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
782 if not specified.
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785 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
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787 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
788 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
789 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
790 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
791 miss to occur.
792
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793 disable= [IPV6]
794 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
795
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796 disable_radix [PPC]
797 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
798
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799 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
800 Format: <int>
801 The number of initial APIC ID for the
802 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
803 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
804 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
805 causing system reset or hang due to sending
806 INIT from AP to BSP.
807
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808 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
809 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
810 to workaround buggy firmware.
811
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812 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
813 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
814
95ffa243 815 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
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816 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
817 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
0cb55ad2 818 entry later. This parameter disables that.
95ffa243 819
093af8d7 820 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
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821 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
822 memory out of your available memory pool based on
823 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
824 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
825
6cececfc 826 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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827 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
828 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
829
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830 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
831
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832 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
833 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
834
835 dma_debug_entries=<number>
836 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
837 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
838 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
839 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
840 architectural default is too low.
841
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842 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
843 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
844 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
845 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
846 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
847 driver later using sysfs.
848
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849 drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
850 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
851 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
852 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
853 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
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854 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
855 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
856 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
857 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
858 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
859 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
860 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
861 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
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862 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
863 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
864 data set with no connector name will be used for
865 any connectors not explicitly specified.
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867 dscc4.setup= [NET]
868
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869 dump_apple_properties [X86]
870 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
871 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
872 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
873
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874 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
875 module.dyndbg[="val"]
876 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
877 Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for details.
878
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879 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
880 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
881 information about the feature.
882
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883 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
884 in some Intel CPUs.
885
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886 module.async_probe [KNL]
887 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
888
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889 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
890 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
891 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
892 which are not unmapped.
893
0cb55ad2 894 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
0d3c673e 895
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896 When used with no options, the early console is
897 determined by the stdout-path property in device
898 tree's chosen node.
899
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900 cdns,<addr>[,options]
901 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
902 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
903 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
904 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
905 configured.
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907 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
908 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1917ac76 909 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
6e63be3f 910 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
ca782f16 911 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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912 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
913 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
16290246 914 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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915 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
916 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
917 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
918 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
ca782f16 919 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
0cb55ad2 920
0d3c673e 921 pl011,<addr>
3b78fae7 922 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
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923 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
924 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
925 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
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926 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
927 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
928 the device registers.
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930 meson,<addr>
931 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
932 port at the specified address. The serial port must
933 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
934 supported.
935
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936 msm_serial,<addr>
937 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
938 port at the specified address. The serial port
939 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
940 yet supported.
941
942 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
943 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
944 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
945 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
946 yet supported.
947
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948 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
949
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950 s3c2410,<addr>
951 s3c2412,<addr>
952 s3c2440,<addr>
953 s3c6400,<addr>
954 s5pv210,<addr>
955 exynos4210,<addr>
956 Use early console provided by serial driver available
957 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
958 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
959 serial port must already be setup and configured.
960 Options are not yet supported.
961
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962 lantiq,<addr>
963 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
964 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
965 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
966 yet supported.
967
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968 lpuart,<addr>
969 lpuart32,<addr>
970 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
971 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
972 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
973 port must already be setup and configured.
974
f7c864e7 975 ar3700_uart,<addr>
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976 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
977 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
978 address. The serial port must already be setup
979 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
980
89175cf7 981 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k,S390]
1da177e4 982 earlyprintk=vga
72548e83 983 earlyprintk=efi
89175cf7 984 earlyprintk=sclp
2482a92e 985 earlyprintk=xen
1da177e4 986 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
147ea091 987 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
ea3acb19 988 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
9780bc41 989 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
c43088e3 990 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1b5aeebf 991 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
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993 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
994 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
995 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
996
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998 takes over.
999
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1000 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1001 be used at a time.
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1003 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1004 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1005 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1006 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1007 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1008 You can find the port for a given device in
1009 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1010 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
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1011
1012 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1013 very good.
1014
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1015 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1016 the real console.
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1018 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1019
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1020 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1021
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1022 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1023 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1024 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1025 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1026 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1027 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1028 default: on.
1029
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1030 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1031 ekgdboc=kbd
1032
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1034 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1035
1da177e4 1036 edd= [EDD]
8c4dd606 1037 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1da177e4 1038
d2f7cbe7 1039 efi= [EFI]
fed6cefe 1040 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
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1041 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1042 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1043 default.
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1044 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1045 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1046 firmware implementations.
5ae3683c 1047 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
fed6cefe 1048 debug: enable misc debug output
d2f7cbe7 1049
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1050 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1051 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1052 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1053 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1054 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1055
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1056 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1057 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1058 updating original EFI memory map.
1059 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1060 from ss to ss+nn.
1061 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1062 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1063 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1064 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1065
1066 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1067 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1068 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1069 doesn't support it.
1070
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1071 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1072 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1073 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1074 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1075 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1076
1077
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1078 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1079 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1080
cd4f0ef7 1081 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1da177e4 1082 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
71f77055 1083 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
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1084
1085 elevator= [IOSCHED]
17a9e7bb 1086 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
395cf969 1087 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
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1088 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1089
d3bf3795 1090 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
a9913044 1091 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
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1092 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1093 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
aac04b32 1094 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
1da177e4 1095
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1096 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1097 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1098 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1099 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1100
ca1eda2d 1101 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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1102 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1103 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1104 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1105 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1106
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1107 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1108 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1109 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1110 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1111 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1112 Default value is 0.
1113 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1114
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1115 erst_disable [ACPI]
1116 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1117 support.
1118
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1119 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1120 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1121 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1122
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1123 evm= [EVM]
1124 Format: { "fix" }
1125 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1126 current integrity status.
1127
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1128 failslab=
1129 fail_page_alloc=
1130 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1131 General fault injection mechanism.
1132 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
395cf969 1133 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
de1ba09b 1134
1da177e4 1135 floppy= [HW]
31c00fc1 1136 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1da177e4 1137
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AC
1138 force_pal_cache_flush
1139 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1140 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1141 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1142 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1143
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CB
1144 forcepae [X86-32]
1145 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1146 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1147 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1148 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1149 and may cause unknown problems.
1150
d9e54076 1151 ftrace=[tracer]
2af15d6a 1152 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
d9e54076
PZ
1153 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1154 boot debugging.
1155
cecbca96 1156 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
2af15d6a 1157 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
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FW
1158 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1159 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1160 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1161 oops.
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SR
1162
1163 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1164 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1165 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1166 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1167 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
16290246 1168 tracing directory.
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SR
1169
1170 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1171 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1172 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1173 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1174 tracing directory.
d9e54076 1175
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1176 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1177 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1178 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1179 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1180 that can be changed at run time by the
1181 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1182
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1183 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1184 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1185 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1186 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1187 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1188
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TB
1189 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1190 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1191 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1192 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1193 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1194
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LT
1195 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1196 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1197 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1198 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1199 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
1200
1201 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1202
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YL
1203 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1204 Format: off | on
1205 default: on
1206
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PO
1207 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1208 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1209 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1210 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1211 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1212
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TG
1213 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1214 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1215 android emulator
1216
1da177e4 1217 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
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1218 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1219 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1220 GPT to be used instead.
1da177e4 1221
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1222 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1223 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1224 Format: 0 | 1
1225 Default: 0
1226 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1227 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1228 Format: 0 | 1
1229 Default: 0
1230 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1231 Format: 0 | 1
1232 Default: 0
1233 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1234 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1235 Default: 1024
1236 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1237 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1238 Default: 1024
1239
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BJZ
1240 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1241 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1242 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1243
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JK
1244 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1245 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1246 backtraces on all cpus.
1247 Format: <integer>
1248
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LT
1249 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1250 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
16290246 1251 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
a9913044 1252 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
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1253
1254 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1255
1256 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1257 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1258
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HY
1259 hest_disable [ACPI]
1260 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1261 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1262 logic will be disabled.
1263
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LT
1264 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1265 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1266 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1267 size on bigger boxes.
1268
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TG
1269 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1270 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1271 Default: "on"
1272
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LT
1273 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1274 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1275
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1276 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1277
1278 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1279 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1280 verbose }
1281 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1282 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1283 VIA, nVidia)
1284 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1285
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1286 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1287 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1288
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AK
1289 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1290 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
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1291 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1292 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1293 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1294 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
27ec26ec 1295 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
6902aa84 1296
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1297 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1298 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
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HB
1299 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1300 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1301 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
cef7125d 1302
fdabf525
JH
1303 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1304 hardware thread id mappings.
1305 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1306
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FDN
1307 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1308 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1309 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1310 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1311 the real console.
1312
3a853fb9 1313 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
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JN
1314 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1315 registered from board initialization code.
3a853fb9
JN
1316 Format:
1317 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1318
36d95739 1319 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
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SCP
1320 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1321 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1322 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1323 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1da177e4 1324 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
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ML
1325 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1326 keyboard and cannot control its state
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LT
1327 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1328 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
945ef0d4 1329 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
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JK
1330 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1331 for the AUX port
1da177e4 1332 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
e55a3366 1333 controller
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LT
1334 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1335 controllers
24775d65 1336 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
930e1924
MPS
1337 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1338 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1339 transitions, or never reset
1340 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1341 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1342 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1343 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1344 architectures force reset to be always executed
1da177e4 1345 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
148e9a71 1346 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
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LT
1347
1348 i810= [HW,DRM]
1349
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DT
1350 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1351 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1352 hardware.
1da177e4
LT
1353 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1354 does not match list of supported models.
1355 i8k.power_status
1356 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1357 (disabled by default)
1358 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1359 capability is set.
1360
4dca20ef 1361 i915.invert_brightness=
7bd90909
CE
1362 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1363 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
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CE
1364 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1365 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1366 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1367 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1368 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1369 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1370 value switches the backlight off.
1371 -1 -- never invert brightness
1372 0 -- machine default
1373 1 -- force brightness inversion
7bd90909 1374
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LT
1375 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1376 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1377
0af80c04
DF
1378 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1379 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
075affcb
BZ
1380 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1381 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1c10e938 1382 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1da177e4 1383
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MR
1384 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1385 Format: <int>
1386 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1387 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1388 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1389 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1390 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1391 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1392 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1393 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1394 was 0x3.
1395
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RD
1396 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1397 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1398
f039b754 1399 idle= [X86]
69fb3676 1400 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
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RD
1401 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1402 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1403 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1404 Not recommended.
ada9cfdd 1405 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
c1e3b377 1406 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
ada9cfdd 1407 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
a9913044 1408
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MR
1409 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1410 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1411 Default: strict
1412
1413 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1414 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1415 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1416 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1417 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1418 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1419 encoding mode.
1420
1421 Available settings are as follows:
1422 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1423 supported by the FPU
1424 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1425 by the FPU
1426 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1427 by the FPU
1428 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1429 supported by the FPU
1430
1431 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1432 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1433 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1434 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1435 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1436 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1437 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1438 MIPS64 CPUs.
1439
1440 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1441 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1442 except where unsupported by hardware.
1443
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IM
1444 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1445 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1446 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
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YZ
1447 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1448 could change it dynamically, usually by
1449 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
79290822 1450
d977d56c
KK
1451 ignore_rlimit_data
1452 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1453 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1454 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1455
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1456 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1457 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1458
2fe5d6de 1459 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2faa6ef3 1460 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
2fe5d6de
MZ
1461 default: "enforce"
1462
07f6a794
MZ
1463 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1464 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1465 owned by uid=0.
1466
d68a6fe9
MZ
1467 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1468 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1469 measurements, instead of host native format.
1470
3323eec9 1471 ima_hash= [IMA]
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MZ
1472 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1473 | sha512 | ... }
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MZ
1474 default: "sha1"
1475
e7a2ad7e
MZ
1476 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1477 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1478
24fd03c8 1479 ima_policy= [IMA]
33ce9549
MZ
1480 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1481 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb"
1482
1483 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1484 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1485 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1486 uid=0.
1487
1488 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1489 all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent
1490 of ima_appraise_tcb.)
24fd03c8
MZ
1491
1492 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
5789ba3b
EP
1493 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1494 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1495 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1496 opened for read by uid=0.
1497
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RS
1498 ima_template= [IMA]
1499 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
8265a2f8 1500 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
9b9d4ce5
RS
1501 Default: "ima-ng"
1502
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RS
1503 ima_template_fmt=
1504 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1505 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1506
3bcced39
DK
1507 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1508 Format: <min_file_size>
1509 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1510 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1511
1512 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1513 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1514 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1515
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DK
1516 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1517 Format: <bufsize>
1518 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1519
1520 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1521 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1522 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1523
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LT
1524 init= [KNL]
1525 Format: <full_path>
1526 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1527 process.
1528
1529 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1530 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1531 startup.
1532
7b0b73d7
PB
1533 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1534 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1535 modules and initcalls.
1536
1da177e4
LT
1537 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1538
acd547b2
DH
1539 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1540 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1541 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1542 override in debugfs after boot.
1543
1da177e4
LT
1544 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1545 Format: <irq>
1546
6bb2ff84
FY
1547 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1548
d726d8d7
MZ
1549 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1550 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1551 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1552 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1553
ba395927 1554 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
0cd5c3c8
KM
1555 on
1556 Enable intel iommu driver.
ba395927
KA
1557 off
1558 Disable intel iommu driver.
1559 igfx_off [Default Off]
1560 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1561 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1562 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1563 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1564 DMA.
7d3b03ce
KA
1565 forcedac [x86_64]
1566 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
16290246 1567 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
7d3b03ce 1568 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
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RD
1569 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1570 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
7d3b03ce 1571 then look in the higher range.
5e0d2a6f 1572 strict [Default Off]
1573 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1574 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1575 to batching them for performance.
6dd9a7c7
YS
1576 sp_off [Default Off]
1577 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1578 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1579 not be supported.
c83b2f20
DW
1580 ecs_off [Default Off]
1581 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1582 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1583 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1584 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1585 on hardware which claims to support them.
bfd20f1c
SL
1586 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1587 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1588 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1589 could harm performance of some high-throughput
1590 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1591 mapping is enabled.
1592 Note that using this option lowers the security
1593 provided by tboot because it makes the system
1594 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
2e92c7ad
MI
1595
1596 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1597 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
22c6bbe4 1598 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
2e92c7ad 1599
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1600 intel_pstate= [X86]
1601 disable
1602 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1603 scaling driver for the supported processors
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1604 passive
1605 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1606 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1607 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1608 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1609 feature.
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1610 force
1611 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1612 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1613 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1614 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1615 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1616 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1617 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1618 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
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1619 no_hwp
1620 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1621 if available.
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1622 hwp_only
1623 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1624 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
9522a2ff 1625 support_acpi_ppc
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1626 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1627 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1628 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1629 then this feature is turned on by default.
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1630 per_cpu_perf_limits
1631 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1632 cpufreq sysfs interface
6be26498 1633
d1423d56 1634 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
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1635 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1636 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1637 nosid disable Source ID checking
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1638 no_x2apic_optout
1639 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
b7d20631 1640 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
d1423d56 1641
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1642 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1643 strict regions from userspace.
1644 relaxed
1645
1646 iommu= [x86]
1647 off
1648 force
1649 noforce
1650 biomerge
1651 panic
1652 nopanic
1653 merge
1654 nomerge
1655 forcesac
1656 soft
bcb71abe 1657 pt [x86, IA-64]
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1658 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1659 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
bcb71abe 1660
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1661 iommu.passthrough=
1662 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1663 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1664 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1665 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1666 unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
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1667
1668 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1669 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1670 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1671
6cececfc 1672 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
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1673 0x80
1674 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1675 0xed
1676 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
b02aae9c 1677 udelay
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1678 Simple two microseconds delay
1679 none
1680 No delay
b02aae9c 1681
1da177e4 1682 ip= [IP_PNP]
dc7a0816 1683 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 1684
fbf19803 1685 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2d13e6ca 1686 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
fbf19803 1687
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1688 irqfixup [HW]
1689 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1690 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1691 firmware running.
1692
1693 irqpoll [HW]
1694 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1695 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1696 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1697 firmware running.
1698
1da177e4 1699 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
a9913044 1700 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
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1701
1702 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
2d13e6ca 1703 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
b225d44e 1704
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1705 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
1706 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
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1707 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
1708 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
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1709 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1710 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1711
1712 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
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1713 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
1714 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
1715 suboptimal load balancer performance.
1da177e4 1716
a9913044 1717 iucv= [HW,NET]
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1719 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1720 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1721 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1722 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1723 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1724 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1725
1726 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1727 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1728 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1729 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1730 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1731 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1732
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1733 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1734 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1735 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1736 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1737 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1738 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1739
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1740 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1741 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
1742
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1743 nokaslr [KNL]
1744 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1745 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1746 Layout Randomization).
24f2e027 1747
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1748 kasan_multi_shot
1749 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1750 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1751 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1752 invalid access.
1753
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1754 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1755
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1756 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1757 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1758 This parameter
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1759 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1760 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1761 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1762 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1763 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1764 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1765 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
675217fd 1766 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
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1767 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1768 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1769 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1770 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1771 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1772 zone if it does not.
1773
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1774 Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1775 you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1776 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1777 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1778 for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1779 so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1780 time.
ed7ed365 1781
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1782 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1783 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1784 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1785 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1786 optional and is the number seconds in between
1787 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1788 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1789 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1790 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1791 the kernel debugger.
1792
84c08fd6 1793 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
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1794 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1795 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
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1796 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1797 keyboard only format: kbd
1798 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1799 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1800 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1801 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
6cdf6e06 1802
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1803 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1804 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1805
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1806 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1807 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1808 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1809
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1810 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1811 Valid arguments: on, off
1812 Default: on
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1813 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1814 the default is off.
04f70336 1815
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1816 kmemcheck= [X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode
1817 Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2
1818 kmemcheck=0 (disabled)
1819 kmemcheck=1 (enabled)
1820 kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode)
1821 Default: 2 (one-shot mode)
1822
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1823 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1824 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1825
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1826 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1827 KVM MMU at runtime.
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1828 Default is 0 (off)
1829
fef07aae 1830 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
8475f94a 1831 Default is 1 (enabled)
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1832
1833 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1834 for all guests.
16290246 1835 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
fef07aae 1836
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1837 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1838 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1839 Default is 1 (enabled)
1840
1841 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1842 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1843 Default is 0 (disabled)
1844
1845 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1846 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1847 Default is 1 (enabled)
1848
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1849 kvm-intel.nested=
1850 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1851 Default is 0 (disabled)
1852
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1853 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1854 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1855 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1856 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1857
1858 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1859 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1860 Default is 1 (enabled)
1861
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1862 l2cr= [PPC]
1863
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1864 l3cr= [PPC]
1865
cd4f0ef7 1866 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
a9913044 1867 disabled it.
1da177e4 1868
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1869 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1870 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1871 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1872
6cececfc 1873 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
ada9cfdd 1874 in C2 power state.
e585bef8 1875
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1876 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1877 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1878 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1879 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
16290246 1880 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
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1881 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1882 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
16290246 1883
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1884 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1885 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
1886 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
fcb71f6f 1887
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1888 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1889 when set.
1890 Format: <int>
1891
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1892 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
1893 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
4c44f309 1894 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
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1895 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
1896 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
1897 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1898 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1899 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1900
1901 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1902 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
1903 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1904 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
1905 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1906 host link and device attached to it.
1907
1908 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
1909 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1910 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1911 The following configurations can be forced.
1912
1913 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1914 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1915
1916 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1917
1918 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1919 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
1920 allowed.
1921
1922 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
1923
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1924 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
1925
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1926 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
1927 and both resets.
1928
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1929 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
1930 hot-unplug link recovery
1931
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1932 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
1933
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1934 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
1935
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1936 * disable: Disable this device.
1937
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1938 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
1939 the same attribute, the last one is used.
1940
95f72d1e 1941 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
7c4be253 1942
1da177e4 1943 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
31c00fc1 1944 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 1945
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1946 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
1947 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 1948
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1949 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
1950 Format: <integer>
1951
1952 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
1953 Format: <integer>
1954
1955 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
1956 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 1957
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1958 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
1959 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
1960 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
1961 number of online CPUs.
1962
1963 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
1964 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
1965
1966 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
1967 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
1968
1969 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
1970 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
1971 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
1972
1973 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
1974 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
1975 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
1976 mode during the locktorture test.
1977
1978 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
1979 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
1980 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
1981
1982 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
1983 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
1984
1985 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
1986 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
1987 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
1988 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
1989 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
1990 transition abruptly to and from idle.
1991
1992 locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
1993 Start locktorture running at boot time.
1994
1995 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
1996 Specify the locking implementation to test.
1997
1998 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
1999 Enable additional printk() statements.
2000
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2001 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2002 Format: <irq>
2003
2004 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2005 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2006 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2007 loglevels are defined as follows:
2008
2009 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2010 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2011 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2012 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2013 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2014 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2015 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2016 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2017
c756d08a 2018 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
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2019 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2020 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2021 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2022 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2023 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2024 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
1da177e4 2025
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2026 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2027 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2028 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2029 kernel boot problems.
2030
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2031 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2032 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2033 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2034 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2035 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2036 attached printers to be reset. Using
2037 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2038 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2039 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2040 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2041 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2042 port specification list means that device IDs
2043 from each port should be examined, to see if
2044 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2045 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2046 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2047
2048 lpj=n [KNL]
2049 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2050 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2051 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2052 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2053 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2054 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2055 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2056 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2057 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2058 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2059 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2060 hardware.
2061
2062 ltpc= [NET]
2063 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2064
16290246 2065 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
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2066 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2067 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
1da177e4 2068
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2069 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2070 yeeloong laptop.
2071 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2072
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2073 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2074 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
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2075
2076 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
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2077 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2078 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2079 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2080 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2081 only takes effect during system bootup.
2082 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2083 which also disables the IO APIC.
1da177e4 2084
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2085 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2086 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2087 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2088 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2089 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2090 /dev/loop-control interface.
2b2c3750 2091
cd4f0ef7 2092 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
1da177e4 2093
71cced6e 2094 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
909dd324 2095
1da177e4 2096 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
e52347bd 2097 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
a9913044 2098
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2099 mdacon= [MDA]
2100 Format: <first>,<last>
2101 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
a9913044 2102
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2103 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2104 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2105 to see the whole system memory or for test.
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2106 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2107 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2108 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2109 belonging to unused RAM.
1da177e4 2110
cd4f0ef7 2111 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
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2112 memory.
2113
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2114 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2115 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2116 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2117
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2118 memhp_default_state=online/offline
2119 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2120 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2121 set according to the
2122 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2123 option.
2124 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2125
6cececfc 2126 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
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2127 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2128 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2129 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2130 option description.
2131
2132 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
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2133 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2134 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
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2135
2136 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2137 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
277cba1d 2138 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
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2139
2140 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2141 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
277cba1d 2142 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
1312848e
PM
2143 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2144 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2145 or
2146 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
1da177e4 2147
ec776ef6
CH
2148 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2149 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2150 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2151 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2152 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2153
9f077871
JF
2154 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2155 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2156 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2157 Setting this option will scan the memory
2158 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2159 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2160 from using the memory being corrupted.
2161 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2162 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2163 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2164 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2165
2166 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2167 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2168 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2169 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2170 corruption in more or less memory.
2171
2172 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2173 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2174 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2175 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2176
e4b0db72 2177 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
c64df707 2178 Format: <integer>
c64df707 2179 default : 0 <disable>
9e5f6cf5
AH
2180 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2181 performed. Each pass selects another test
2182 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2183 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2184 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2185 regions that are detected.
c64df707 2186
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RW
2187 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2188 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2189 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2190 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2191 See Documentation/power/states.txt.
2192
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LT
2193 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2194 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
2195
8f36881b
AS
2196 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2197 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2198 platforms.
2199
e6c4dc6c
WT
2200 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2201 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2202 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2203 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2204
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LT
2205 mga= [HW,DRM]
2206
1c207f95
RD
2207 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2208 physical address is ignored.
2209
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MP
2210 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2211 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2212 Default: "0tb"
2213 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2214 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2215 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2216 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2217 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2218 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2219 unconfigured.
2220 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2221 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2222 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2223 VGA shield.
2224 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2225 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2226 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2227 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2228 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2229 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2230
6b74ab97
MG
2231 mminit_loglevel=
2232 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2233 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2234 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2235 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2236 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2237 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2238
106a4ee2
RR
2239 module.sig_enforce
2240 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2241 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2a039be7 2242 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
106a4ee2
RR
2243 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2244
be7de5f9
PB
2245 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2246 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2247
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LT
2248 mousedev.tap_time=
2249 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2250 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2251 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2252 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2253 Format: <msecs>
2254 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2255 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2256 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2257 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2258
6cececfc 2259 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
0cb55ad2
RD
2260 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2261 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2262 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2263 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2264 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2265 is specified, the administrator must be careful
2266 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2267 is not too small.
2268
39fa104d 2269 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to enable the effects
c5320926
TC
2270 of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details.
2271
1da177e4
LT
2272 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2273 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2274
a9913044
RD
2275 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2276 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
1da177e4
LT
2277
2278 mtdparts= [MTD]
c8facbb6 2279 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
1da177e4 2280
4e89a2d8
WS
2281 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2282 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2283 at a time.
2284
5988af23
RH
2285 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2286
2287 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2288
2289 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2290 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2291 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2292 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2293 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2294
9db829f4
BD
2295 mtdset= [ARM]
2296 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2297
2298 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2299
1da177e4 2300 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
a9913044
RD
2301 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2302 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
1da177e4 2303
0cb55ad2 2304 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
19f59460 2305 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
0cb55ad2
RD
2306 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2307
2308 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2309 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2310 Default is 1.
2311 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2312 using up MTRRs.
2313
2314 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2315 Format: <integer>
2316 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2317 Default : 1
2318 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2319 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2320
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LT
2321 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2322
1da177e4
LT
2323 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2324 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2325 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2326 something different and driver-specific.
a9913044
RD
2327 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2328 file if at all.
2329
58401572
KPO
2330 nf_conntrack.acct=
2331 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2332 0 to disable accounting
2333 1 to enable accounting
d70a011d 2334 Default value is 0.
58401572 2335
306a0753 2336 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
dc7a0816 2337 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2338
2339 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
dc7a0816 2340 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 2341
306a0753
CL
2342 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2343 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2344
5405fc44
TM
2345 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2346 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2347 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2348 requests.
2349
a72b4422
TM
2350 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2351 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2352 channel should listen.
2353
e571cbf1
TM
2354 nfs.cache_getent=
2355 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2356 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2357
2358 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2359 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2360 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2361
58df095b
TM
2362 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2363 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2364 entries.
2365
f43bf0be
TM
2366 nfs.enable_ino64=
2367 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2368 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2369 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2370 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2371 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2372
5405fc44
TM
2373 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2374 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2375 slots the client will assign to the callback
2376 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2377 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2378 a particular server.
2379
ef159e91
TM
2380 nfs.max_session_slots=
2381 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2382 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2383 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2384 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2385 Note that there is little point in setting this
2386 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2387
b064eca2 2388 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
074b1d12
TM
2389 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2390 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2391 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2392 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2393 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2394 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2395 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2396 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2397 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2398 back to using the idmapper.
2399 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
6f2ea7f2
CL
2400 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2401 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2402 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2403 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2404 UUID that is generated at system install time.
b064eca2 2405
db8ac8ba
WAA
2406 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2407 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2408 information in exchange_id requests.
2409 If zero, no implementation identification information
2410 will be sent.
2411 The default is to send the implementation identification
2412 information.
e52347bd 2413
f6de7a39
TM
2414 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2415 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2416 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2417 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2418 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2419 after the locks are lost.
2420 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2421 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2422 parameter to '1'.
2423 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2424 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
db8ac8ba 2425
bbf58bf3
TM
2426 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2427 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2428 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2429
2430 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2431 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2432 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2433 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2434
e9541ce8
BF
2435 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2436 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2437 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2438 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2439 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2440 migration from NFSv2/v3.
db8ac8ba 2441
c0c74acb 2442 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
e7ba176b
HS
2443 when a NMI is triggered.
2444 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2445
6cececfc 2446 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
fef2c9bc 2447 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
195daf66 2448 Valid num: 0 or 1
334bb79c
PK
2449 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2450 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
0cb55ad2 2451 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
fef2c9bc 2452 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
334bb79c
PK
2453 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2454 please see 'nowatchdog'.
0cb55ad2
RD
2455 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2456 need the box quickly up again.
1da177e4 2457
bff38771
AV
2458 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2459 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2460 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2461 waits 4 seconds.
2462
cd4f0ef7 2463 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
1da177e4
LT
2464 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2465 is present.
2466
0cb55ad2
RD
2467 no_console_suspend
2468 [HW] Never suspend the console
2469 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2470 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2471 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2472 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2473 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2474 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2475 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
134620f7
YZ
2476 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2477 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2478 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2479 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2480 turn on/off it dynamically.
0cb55ad2 2481
c1aee215
CL
2482 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2483 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2484 but will impact performance.
3395ee05 2485
a9913044
RD
2486 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2487
1da177e4
LT
2488 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2489 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2490
5091faa4
MG
2491 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2492
1da177e4
LT
2493 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2494 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2495
2496 nocache [ARM]
a9913044 2497
0cb55ad2
RD
2498 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2499
163ecdff
SN
2500 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2501
6902aa84
PM
2502 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2503
b2e0a54a 2504 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
8b2cb7a8 2505
1da177e4
LT
2506 noexec [IA-64]
2507
6cececfc 2508 noexec [X86]
f5a1b191 2509 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
1da177e4 2510 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
f5a1b191
JS
2511 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2512
52b6179a
PA
2513 nosmap [X86]
2514 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2515 even if it is supported by processor.
2516
de5397ad 2517 nosmep [X86]
52b6179a 2518 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
de5397ad
FY
2519 even if it is supported by processor.
2520
f5a1b191
JS
2521 noexec32 [X86-64]
2522 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2523 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2524 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2525 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2526 read implies executable mappings
1da177e4 2527
fab43ef4 2528 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
6902aa84 2529
cd4f0ef7 2530 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
4f886511
CE
2531 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2532 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
1da177e4 2533
0ddab1d2
TK
2534 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2535
52c48c51
SS
2536 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2537 Equivalent to smt=1.
2538
0c752a93
SS
2539 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2540 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2541 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2542
b6f42a4a
FY
2543 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2544 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2545 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2546 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2547 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2548 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2549
2550 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2551 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2552 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2553 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2554 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2555 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2556 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2557
01a24d2b
PZ
2558 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2559 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2560 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
a9913044 2561
1f29fae2
SH
2562 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2563 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2564 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2565
1da177e4
LT
2566 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2567 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2568 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2569 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2570 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2571 real-time systems.
2572
a6e15a39
KC
2573 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2574
79bf2bb3
TG
2575 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2576 Valid arguments: on, off
2577 Default: on
2578
c5bfece2 2579 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT]
2d13e6ca 2580 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
c5bfece2 2581 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
a831881b 2582 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
0453b435
FW
2583 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2584 the range to maintain the timekeeping.
d1e43fa5
FW
2585 The CPUs in this range must also be included in the
2586 rcu_nocbs= set.
a831881b 2587
eeee7853
PM
2588 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2589
cd4f0ef7 2590 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
1da177e4
LT
2591 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2592
6cececfc 2593 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
8542b200
ZA
2594 broken timer IRQ sources.
2595
1da177e4
LT
2596 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2597
2598 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2599 initial RAM disk.
2600
03ea8155
WH
2601 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2602 remapping.
d1423d56 2603 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
03ea8155 2604
1da177e4
LT
2605 nointroute [IA-64]
2606
d12a72b8
AL
2607 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2608
16290246 2609 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
0aa366f3 2610
9cf4c4fc
JK
2611 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2612
fd10cde9
GN
2613 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2614 fault handling.
2615
80e9a4f2
AM
2616 no-vmw-sched-clock
2617 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2618 clock and use the default one.
2619
d910f5c1
GC
2620 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2621 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2622 behaviour
2623
cd4f0ef7 2624 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
1da177e4 2625
cd4f0ef7 2626 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
ad62ca2b 2627
1da177e4 2628 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
f15eea66 2629 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
1da177e4 2630
312f1f01
H
2631 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2632
13696e0a 2633 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
abe37e5a 2634
83d7384f
AS
2635 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2636 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2637
bda62633
DZ
2638 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2639 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2640 irq.
2641
02608bef
DY
2642 nomodule Disable module load
2643
016ddd9b
JK
2644 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2645 pagetables) support.
2646
0cb55ad2
RD
2647 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2648 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2649
bbff2168 2650 noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
959b4fdf 2651
cd4f0ef7 2652 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
b7fb4af0
JF
2653 with UP alternatives
2654
7a5091d5
PA
2655 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2656 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2657 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2658 available to user space applications.
49d859d7 2659
a9913044
RD
2660 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2661 space.
2662
1da177e4
LT
2663 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2664 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2665 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2666
2667 nosbagart [IA-64]
2668
cd4f0ef7 2669 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
4f886511 2670
61ec7567
LB
2671 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2672 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
1da177e4 2673
97842216
DJ
2674 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2675
1da177e4
LT
2676 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2677
cd4f0ef7 2678 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
1da177e4 2679
195daf66
UO
2680 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2681 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
58687acb 2682
1da177e4 2683 nowb [ARM]
a9913044 2684
2b2fd87a
WH
2685 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2686
f78cff48
FY
2687 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2688 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2689 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2690 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2691 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2692 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2693 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2694 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2695 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2696 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2697 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2698 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2699 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2700
16290246 2701 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
a6c75b86
FY
2702 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2703 SAL PALO.
2704
2b633e3f
YL
2705 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2706 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
7c142bfe
BH
2707 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2708 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2709 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2710 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2711 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2712 hot plugging.
2b633e3f 2713
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RD
2714 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2715
1a687c2e
MG
2716 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2717 Allowed values are enable and disable
2718
f0c0b2b8
KH
2719 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
2720 one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
2721 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2722 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2723
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RD
2724 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2725 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2726 info.
2727
3ef0e1f8
AS
2728 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2729 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2730 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2731 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2732 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2733 interrupts *may* be lost!
2734
15ac7afe
TL
2735 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2736 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2737 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2738 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2739
1da177e4
LT
2740 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2741 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2742
7e4e0bd5
RR
2743 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2744 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2745 userland or if you want common events.
8d7ff4f2
RR
2746 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2747 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
7e4e0bd5
RR
2748 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2749 CPU specific event set.
159a80b2
RR
2750 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2751 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2752 for generic hr timer mode)
1dcdb5a9 2753
44a4dcf7
RD
2754 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2755 process, but there is a small probability of
2756 deadlocking the machine.
d404ab0a
OH
2757 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2758 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2759
bcfde334
RD
2760 OSS [HW,OSS]
2761 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2762
48c96a36
JK
2763 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2764 Storage of the information about who allocated
2765 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2766 we can turn it on.
2767 on: enable the feature
2768
8823b1db
LA
2769 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2770 poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2771 off: turn off poisoning
2772 on: turn on poisoning
2773
44a4dcf7 2774 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4302fbc8
HD
2775 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2776 timeout = 0: wait forever
2777 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
1da177e4
LT
2778 Format: <timeout>
2779
9e3961a0
PB
2780 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
2781 on a WARN().
2782
f06e5153
MH
2783 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2784 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2785 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2786 succeeds in any situation.
2787 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2788 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2789 kernel more unstable.
2790
1da177e4
LT
2791 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2792 connected to, default is 0.
2793 Format: <parport#>
2794 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2795 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
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RD
2796 Format: <mode>
2797
2798 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2799 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2800 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2801 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2802 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2803 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2804 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2805 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2806 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2807 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2808 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2809 are specified on the command line, starting
2810 with parport0.
2811
2812 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2813 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2814 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2815 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2816 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2817 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
1da177e4
LT
2818 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2819
dd287796
AM
2820 pause_on_oops=
2821 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2822 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
2823 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2824
1da177e4
LT
2825 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
2826
2827 pcd. [PARIDE]
2828 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
31c00fc1 2829 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 2830
a9913044 2831 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
1cc0ca26
BH
2832 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2833 changes anything
c0115606 2834 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
cd4f0ef7 2835 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
a9913044
RD
2836 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2837 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
cd4f0ef7 2838 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
a9913044
RD
2839 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2840 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2841 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
afd8c084
BP
2842 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2843 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
2844 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
2845 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2846 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
2847 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
2848 bus number. The config space is then accessed
2849 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
2850 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
2851 on the configuration access mechanisms.
7f785763
RD
2852 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2853 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2854 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
32a2eea7
JG
2855 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2856 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
6cececfc 2857 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
61be6d66 2858 Configuration
12983077
AH
2859 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2860 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2861 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
309e57df
MW
2862 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
2863 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2864 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
a9322f64
SA
2865 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
2866 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
2867 should never be necessary.
9197979b
SA
2868 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
2869 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
2870 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
2871 when the system masks IRQs.
41b9eb26
SA
2872 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
2873 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
2874 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
2875 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
cd4f0ef7 2876 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
a9913044
RD
2877 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
2878 on several machines and they hang the machine
2879 when used, but on other computers it's the only
2880 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
2881 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
2882 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
2883 motherboard.
c0115606 2884 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
a9913044
RD
2885 Use with caution as certain devices share
2886 address decoders between ROMs and other
2887 resources.
c0115606 2888 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
bb71ad88
GH
2889 expansion ROMs that do not already have
2890 BIOS assigned address ranges.
7bd1c365
MH
2891 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
2892 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
c0115606 2893 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
a9913044
RD
2894 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
2895 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
2896 this way.
c0115606 2897 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
a9913044
RD
2898 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
2899 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
2900 F0000h-100000h range.
c0115606 2901 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
a9913044
RD
2902 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
2903 secondary buses and you want to tell it
2904 explicitly which ones they are.
c0115606 2905 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
a9913044
RD
2906 numbers ourselves, overriding
2907 whatever the firmware may have done.
c0115606 2908 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
a9913044
RD
2909 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
2910 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
2911 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
2912 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
2913 IRQ routing is enabled.
c0115606 2914 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 2915 or for PCI scanning.
7bc5e3f2
BH
2916 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
2917 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
2918 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
2919 please report a bug.
2920 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
2921 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
a9913044
RD
2922 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
2923 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
2924 so this option is a temporary workaround
2925 for broken drivers that don't call it.
13a6ddb0
YL
2926 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
2927 handle more pci cards
0637a70a
AK
2928 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
2929 This might help on some broken boards which
2930 machine check when some devices' config space
2931 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
2932 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
6b4b78fe
MD
2933 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
2934 This sorting is done to get a device
2935 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
2936 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
fa238712
YW
2937 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
2938 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
2939 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
2940 supported by all devices below the root complex.
2941 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
2942 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
2943 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
2944 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
2945 or bus can support) for best performance.
2946 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
2947 every device is guaranteed to support. This
2948 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
2949 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
2950 reduced performance. This also guarantees
2951 that hot-added devices will work.
4516a618
AN
2952 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2953 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
2954 The default value is 256 bytes.
2955 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2956 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
2957 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
32a9a682
YS
2958 resource_alignment=
2959 Format:
2960 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
644a544f
KMEE
2961 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
2962 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
32a9a682
YS
2963 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
2964 aligned memory resources.
2965 If <order of align> is not specified,
2966 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
2967 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
2968 windows need to be expanded.
8b078c60
MK
2969 To specify the alignment for several
2970 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
2971 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
2972 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
43c16408
AP
2973 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
2974 end-to-end CRC checking).
2975 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
2976 the default.
2977 off: Turn ECRC off
2978 on: Turn ECRC on.
8c8803c5
YW
2979 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2980 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
2981 Default size is 256 bytes.
2982 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2983 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
2984 Default size is 2 megabytes.
e16b4660
KB
2985 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
2986 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
2987 Default is 1.
b55438fd
YL
2988 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
2989 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
2990 accommodate resources required by all child
2991 devices.
2992 off: Turn realloc off
2993 on: Turn realloc on
2994 realloc same as realloc=on
6748dcc2 2995 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
284f5f9d
BH
2996 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
2997 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
2998 port.
6b4b78fe 2999
e5665a45
CE
3000 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3001 Management.
3002 off Disable ASPM.
3003 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3004 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3005
7570a333
MT
3006 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
3007 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
3008 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
3009
79dd9182 3010 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
28eb5f27
RW
3011 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
3012 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
3013 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
3014 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
3015 unconditionally.
79dd9182
RW
3016 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
3017 ports driver.
3018
9d26d3a8
MW
3019 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3020 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3021 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3022
c7f48656 3023 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
c39fae14 3024 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
28eb5f27 3025 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
c7f48656 3026
1da177e4
LT
3027 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3028
39ac5ba5
TB
3029 pd_ignore_unused
3030 [PM]
3031 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3032 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3033 for debug and development, but should not be
3034 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3035
1da177e4 3036 pd. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3037 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3038
3039 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3040 boot time.
3041 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3042 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3043
f58dc01b 3044 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
e933a73f
TH
3045 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3046 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3047 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3048 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3049 and performance comparison.
fa8a7094 3050
1da177e4 3051 pf. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3052 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3053
3054 pg. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3055 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3056
3057 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
71cced6e 3058 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3059
3060 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3061 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3062 See also Documentation/parport.txt.
3063
16290246 3064 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
de32a243
TG
3065 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3066 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3067
96242116
BH
3068 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3069 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3070 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3071 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3072 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3073 possible settings and some assignment information.
97ef062b 3074
1da177e4
LT
3075 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3076 { off }
3077
3078 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3079 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3080
3081 pnp_reserve_irq=
3082 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3083
3084 pnp_reserve_dma=
3085 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3086
3087 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
a9913044 3088 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
1da177e4
LT
3089
3090 pnp_reserve_mem=
a9913044
RD
3091 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3092 autoconfiguration.
1da177e4
LT
3093 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3094
4af94f39
RD
3095 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3096 Default is 21.
3097 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3098 may be specified.
3099 Format: <port>,<port>....
3100
c3cbd075
BS
3101 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3102 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3103 platform machine description specific power_save
3104 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3105 execution priority.
3106
3eb5d588
AB
3107 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3108 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3109 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3110 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3111 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3112
45807a1d
IM
3113 print-fatal-signals=
3114 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
f84d49b2
NO
3115
3116 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3117 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3118 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3119 coredump - etc.
3120
3121 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3122 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3123
45807a1d
IM
3124 default: off.
3125
c22ab332
MG
3126 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3127 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3128 panics
3129 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3130 default: disabled
3131
750afe7b
BP
3132 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3133 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3134 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3135 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3136 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3137 Default: ratelimit
3138
e84845c4
RD
3139 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3140 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3141
0cb55ad2
RD
3142 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3143 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3144 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3145
3146 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3147 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3148 instead using the legacy FADT method
3149
1da177e4 3150 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
a9913044
RD
3151 Format: [schedule,]<number>
3152 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3153 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3154 statistical time based profiling.
b3da2a73
MG
3155 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3156 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
c0fe2e69 3157 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
1da177e4 3158
1da177e4
LT
3159 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3160 before loading.
31c00fc1 3161 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 3162
a9913044
RD
3163 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3164 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
1da177e4
LT
3165 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3166 per second.
a9913044
RD
3167 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3168 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
1da177e4
LT
3169 (0 = never).
3170 psmouse.resolution=
3171 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3172 psmouse.smartscroll=
a9913044 3173 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
1da177e4
LT
3174 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3175
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MG
3176 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3177
1da177e4 3178 pt. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3179 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 3180
dc8c8587
KS
3181 pty.legacy_count=
3182 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3183 default number.
3184
7d2c502f 3185 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
a9913044 3186
1da177e4
LT
3187 r128= [HW,DRM]
3188
3189 raid= [HW,RAID]
e52347bd 3190 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
1da177e4 3191
1da177e4 3192 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
31c00fc1 3193 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 3194
011d8261
BP
3195 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
3196
3197 cec_disable [X86]
3198 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3199 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3200
4102adab 3201 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
2d13e6ca
NC
3202 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3203
3fbfbf7a
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3204 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3205 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3206 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
a4889858
PM
3207 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3208 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3209 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3210 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
3fbfbf7a
PM
3211 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3212 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3213 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3214
4102adab 3215 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
3fbfbf7a
PM
3216 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3217 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3218 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3219 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3220 This improves the real-time response for the
3221 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3222 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3223 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3224 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3225
4102adab 3226 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
3227 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3228 process in one batch.
21a1ea9e 3229
a3dc2948
PM
3230 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3231 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3232 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3233 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3234
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PM
3235 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3236 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3237 RCU grace-period cleanup. This only has effect
3238 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP is set.
3239
37745d28
PM
3240 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3241 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3242 RCU grace-period initialization. This only has
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PM
3243 effect when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
3244 is set.
3245
3246 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3247 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3248 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3249 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3250 the rcu_node combining tree. This only has effect
3251 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT is set.
37745d28 3252
7fa27001
PM
3253 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3254 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3255 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3256 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3257 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
37745d28 3258
4102adab 3259 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
ee968ac6
PM
3260 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3261 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3262 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3263 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3264 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3265 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
f885b7f2 3266
4a81e832
PM
3267 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3268 Set required age in jiffies for a
3269 given grace period before RCU starts
3270 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3271 rcu_note_context_switch().
3272
4102adab 3273 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3274 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3275 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3276 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3277 and maximum value is HZ.
3278
4102adab 3279 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3280 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3281 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3282 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3283
21871d7e 3284 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
d2af1ad7
PM
3285 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3286 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3287 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3288 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3289 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3290 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3291 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3292 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3293 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
21871d7e 3294
fbce7497
PM
3295 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3296 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3297 defaults to the square root of the number of
3298 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3299 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3300 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3301
4102adab 3302 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
3303 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3304 batch limiting is disabled.
21a1ea9e 3305
4102adab 3306 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
24aaef8d
RD
3307 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3308 batch limiting is re-enabled.
21a1ea9e 3309
4102adab 3310 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3311 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3312 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
d40011f6 3313
4102adab 3314 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3315 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3316 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3317 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3318 prove do nothing more than free memory.
d40011f6 3319
e3c50dfb
PM
3320 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3321 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3322 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3323 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3324 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3325 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3326
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PM
3327 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3328 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3329 grace-period primitives.
3330
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PM
3331 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3332 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3333 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3334 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3335 interference.
3336
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PM
3337 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3338 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3339 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3340 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3341 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3342 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3343 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3344 a single reader.
3345
3346 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3347 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3348 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3349 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3350
3351 rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT]
3352 Start rcuperf running at boot time.
3353
3354 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3355 Shut the system down after performance tests
3356 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3357 testing.
3358
3359 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3360 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3361
3362 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3363 Enable additional printk() statements.
3364
38706bc5
PM
3365 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3366 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3367 callback-flood tests.
3368
3369 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3370 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3371 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3372 test.
3373
3374 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3375 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3376 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3377 disable callback-flood testing.
3378
3379 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3380 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3381 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3382
4102adab 3383 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3384 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3385 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3386
4102adab 3387 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3388 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3389 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3390
4102adab 3391 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3392 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3393 in seconds.
3394
3395 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3396 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3397 primitives, if available.
dabb8aa9 3398
4102adab 3399 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
21b05de4 3400 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4102adab
PM
3401
3402 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3403 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3404 update-side primitives, if available.
3405
3406 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3407 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3408 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3409 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3410 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3411 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3412 they are all non-zero.
dabb8aa9 3413
4102adab 3414 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3415 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3416
4102adab 3417 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3418 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3419 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3420 test, hence the "fake".
3421
4102adab 3422 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3838cc18
PM
3423 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3424 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3425 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3426 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3427 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
dabb8aa9 3428
4102adab
PM
3429 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3430 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3431
3432 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3433 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3434
4102adab 3435 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3436 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3437 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3438
4102adab 3439 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3440 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3441 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3442 during the rcutorture test.
3443
4102adab 3444 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3445 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3446 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3447
4102adab 3448 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3449 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3450 warnings, zero to disable.
3451
4102adab 3452 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3453 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3454
4102adab 3455 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3456 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3457
4102adab 3458 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3459 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3460 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3461 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3462 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3463
4102adab 3464 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3465 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3466 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3467 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3468
4102adab 3469 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3470 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3471
4102adab 3472 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3473 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3474
4102adab 3475 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3476 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3477 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3478
21b05de4
PM
3479 rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
3480 Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3481
4102adab 3482 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3483 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3484
4102adab 3485 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3486 Enable additional printk() statements.
3487
5a9be7c6
PM
3488 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3489 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3490
3491 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3492 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3493
4102adab
PM
3494 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3495 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3496 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3497 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3498 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3499 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
79cfea02 3500 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 3501
5a9be7c6
PM
3502 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3503 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3504 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3505 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
79cfea02
PM
3506 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3507 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3508 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3509 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3510 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 3511
3e42ec1a
PM
3512 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3513 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3514 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
79cfea02
PM
3515 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3516 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3e42ec1a 3517
52db30ab
PM
3518 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3519 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3520 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3521 to zero.
3522
74860fee
PK
3523 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3524 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3525
3526 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3527 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3528
3529 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3530 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3531
ffdfc409
OJ
3532 rdinit= [KNL]
3533 Format: <full_path>
3534 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3535 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3536
1b3a5d02
RH
3537 reboot= [KNL]
3538 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3539 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3540 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3541 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3542 [[,]f[orce]
3543 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3544 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3545 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3546 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3547 to be used for rebooting.
1da177e4 3548
46b6d94e
PJ
3549 relax_domain_level=
3550 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
09c3bcce 3551 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
46b6d94e 3552
1da177e4
LT
3553 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3554
cd4f0ef7 3555 reservetop= [X86-32]
461a9aff
ZA
3556 Format: nn[KMG]
3557 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3558 address space.
3559
9ea77bdb
PA
3560 reservelow= [X86]
3561 Format: nn[K]
3562 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3563 the bottom of the address space.
3564
7e96287d
VG
3565 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3566 during initialization.
3567
a9913044
RD
3568 resume= [SWSUSP]
3569 Specify the partition device for software suspend
2df83fa4
MB
3570 Format:
3571 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
1da177e4 3572
ecbd0da1
RW
3573 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3574 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3575 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3576 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3577 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3578
f126f733
BS
3579 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3580 read the resume files
3581
6f8d7022
BS
3582 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3583 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3584 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3585
f996fc96
BS
3586 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3587 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3588 present during boot.
3589 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
a6e15a39 3590 no Disable hibernation and resume.
4c0b6c10
RW
3591 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
3592 (that will set all pages holding image data
3593 during restoration read-only).
f996fc96 3594
0a7b35cb
MN
3595 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3596
0efbb786
AC
3597 rfkill.default_state=
3598 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3599 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3600 1 Unblocked.
3601
3602 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3603 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3604 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3605 blocked and the previous configuration.
3606 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3607 blocked and everything unblocked.
3608
1da177e4
LT
3609 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3610 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3611
e16fd002
GA
3612 ring3mwait=disable
3613 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
3614 CPUs.
3615
1da177e4
LT
3616 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3617
d2aa1aca
KC
3618 rodata= [KNL]
3619 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3620 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3621
605df8af
HS
3622 rockchip.usb_uart
3623 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3624 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3625 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3626 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3627
1da177e4 3628 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
f2d34fd9 3629 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
1da177e4
LT
3630
3631 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3632 mount the root filesystem
3633
3634 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3635
3636 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3637
cc1ed754
PO
3638 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3639 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3640 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3641
5c71d618
RT
3642 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3643 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3644 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3645 managed by CMA.
3646
1da177e4
LT
3647 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3648
3649 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3650
c60d1ae4
GS
3651 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3652 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3653 strict
3654 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3655 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3656 which is faster.
3657
1da177e4
LT
3658 sa1100ir [NET]
3659 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3660
1da177e4 3661 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
a9913044 3662
f6630114
MT
3663 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3664
cb251765
MG
3665 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3666 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3667 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3668 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
f6630114 3669
5307c955
MG
3670 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3671 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3672 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3673 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3674 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3675 1 -- enable.
3676 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3677 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3678
0cb55ad2
RD
3679 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3680 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3681 security module asking for security registration will be
3682 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3683 as if no module has been chosen.
3684
3685 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
1da177e4
LT
3686 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3687 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3688 0 -- disable.
3689 1 -- enable.
3690 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3691 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3692 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3693
c1c124e9
JJ
3694 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3695 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3696 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3697 0 -- disable.
3698 1 -- enable.
3699 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3700
cd4f0ef7 3701 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
1da177e4 3702
1da177e4
LT
3703 shapers= [NET]
3704 Maximal number of shapers.
a9913044 3705
1da177e4
LT
3706 simeth= [IA-64]
3707 simscsi=
a9913044 3708
1da177e4
LT
3709 slram= [HW,MTD]
3710
423c929c
JK
3711 slab_nomerge [MM]
3712 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3713 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
3714 allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable
3715 merging on their own.
3716 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3717
3df1cccd
DR
3718 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3719 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3720 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3721 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3722 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3723
f0630fff
CL
3724 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3725 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3726 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3727 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3728 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3729 last alloc / free. For more information see
3730 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
c1aee215 3731
1663f26d
TH
3732 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
3733 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
3734 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
3735 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
3736 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
3737 directories and files being created under
3738 /sys/kernel/slub.
3739
c1aee215 3740 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
3741 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3742 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3743 fragmentation. For more information see
3744 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
c1aee215
CL
3745
3746 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
3747 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3748 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3749 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3750 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3751 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3752 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
c1aee215
CL
3753 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3754
3755 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
24775d65 3756 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
f0630fff 3757 lower than slub_max_order.
c1aee215
CL
3758 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3759
3760 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
423c929c
JK
3761 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3762 See slab_nomerge for more information.
c1aee215 3763
1da177e4
LT
3764 smart2= [HW]
3765 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3766
d0d4f69b
BH
3767 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3768 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
3769 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
3770 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
3771 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
3772 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
3773 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3774 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3775 1: Fast pin select (default)
3776 2: ATC IRMode
3777
52c48c51
SS
3778 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
3779 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
3780 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
3781 actual hardware limit.
3782 Format: <integer>
3783 Default: -1 (no limit)
3784
9c44bc03
IM
3785 softlockup_panic=
3786 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
44a4dcf7 3787 Format: <integer>
9c44bc03 3788
ed235875
AT
3789 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3790 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3791 backtraces on all cpus.
3792 Format: <integer>
3793
1da177e4 3794 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
395cf969 3795 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
1da177e4 3796
1da177e4
LT
3797 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
3798 spia_fio_base=
3799 spia_pedr=
3800 spia_peddr=
3801
22607d66
PM
3802 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
3803 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
3804 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
3805 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
3806 grace period will be considered for automatic
3807 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
3808 expediting.
3809
f38f1d2a
SR
3810 stacktrace [FTRACE]
3811 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
3812
762e1207
SR
3813 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
3814 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
3815 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
3816 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
3817 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
3818 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
3819 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
3820
1da177e4
LT
3821 sti= [PARISC,HW]
3822 Format: <num>
3823 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
3824 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
3825 as the initial boot-console.
3826 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3827
3828 sti_font= [HW]
3829 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3830
3831 stifb= [HW]
3832 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
3833
cbf11071
TM
3834 sunrpc.min_resvport=
3835 sunrpc.max_resvport=
3836 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3837 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
3838 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
3839 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
3840 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
3841 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
3842 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
3843 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
3844 maximum port values.
3845
ff3ac5c3
TM
3846 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
3847 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3848 Limit the number of requests that the server will
3849 process in parallel from a single connection.
3850 The default value is 0 (no limit).
3851
42a7fc4a
GB
3852 sunrpc.pool_mode=
3853 [NFS]
3854 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
3855 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
3856 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
3857 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
3858 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
3859 NFS server is running.
3860
3861 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
3862 automatically using heuristics
3863 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
3864 percpu one pool for each CPU
3865 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
3866 to global on non-NUMA machines)
3867
cbf11071
TM
3868 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
3869 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
3870 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3871 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
3872 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
3873 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
3874 improve throughput, but will also increase the
3875 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
3876
1d4a9c17
BN
3877 suspend.pm_test_delay=
3878 [SUSPEND]
3879 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
3880 mode before resuming the system (see
3881 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
3882 is set. Default value is 5.
3883
07555ac1 3884 swapaccount=[0|1]
a42c390c
MH
3885 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
3886 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
09c3bcce 3887 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
a42c390c 3888
91fec0f5 3889 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
fff5d992 3890 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
91fec0f5
JK
3891 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
3892 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
3893 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
fff5d992 3894 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
a9913044 3895
1da177e4
LT
3896 switches= [HW,M68k]
3897
e52eec13
AK
3898 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
3899 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
3900 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
3901 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
3902 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
3903 in older udev will not work anymore.
3904 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
3905 the kernel configuration.
3906
5d6f647f
IM
3907 sysrq_always_enabled
3908 [KNL]
3909 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
3910 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
3911 Useful for debugging.
3912
747029a5
FF
3913 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3914 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
3915 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
3916 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
3917 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
3918 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
3919
1da177e4
LT
3920 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
3921
acc82342 3922 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
77437fd4 3923 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
acc82342
SP
3924 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
3925 as the system sleep state during system startup with
3926 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
3927 The system is woken from this state using a
3928 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
77437fd4 3929
1da177e4
LT
3930 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3931 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
3932
f8707ec9
LB
3933 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
3934 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
3935 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
3936
c52a7419
LB
3937 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
3938 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
22a94d79 3939 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
c52a7419 3940
f5487145
LB
3941 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
3942 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
3943 critical and hot trip points.
3944
72b33ef8
LB
3945 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
3946 1: disable ACPI thermal control
3947
a70cdc52
LB
3948 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
3949 -1: disable all passive trip points
ada9cfdd
RD
3950 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
3951 value
a70cdc52 3952
730ff34d
LB
3953 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
3954 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
3955 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
3956 0: no polling (default)
3957
8d32a307
TG
3958 threadirqs [KNL]
3959 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
24775d65 3960 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
8d32a307 3961
2ca62b04
KRW
3962 tmem [KNL,XEN]
3963 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
3964
3965 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3966 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
3967 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
3968
3969 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3970 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
37d46e15
KRW
3971 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
3972 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
2ca62b04
KRW
3973
3974 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3975 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
3976 to the hypervisor.
3977
3978 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3979 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
3980 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
3981 kernel based on different criteria.
3982
2b1a61f0
HC
3983 topology= [S390]
3984 Format: {off | on}
3985 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
f65e51d7
SL
3986 topology information if the hardware supports this.
3987 The scheduler will make use of this information and
2b1a61f0 3988 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
c9af3fa9 3989 Default is on.
2b1a61f0 3990
2d73bae1
NA
3991 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
3992 Format: {off}
3993 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
3994 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
3995 LPAR.
3996
1da177e4
LT
3997 tp720= [HW,PS2]
3998
225a9be2
RA
3999 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4000 Format: integer pcr id
4001 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4002 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4003 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4004 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4005 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4006 are saved.
4007
9d612bef 4008 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
3e6fb8e9 4009 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
631595fb 4010
020e5f85
LZ
4011 trace_event=[event-list]
4012 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
d81749ea
BN
4013 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4014 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4015 also Documentation/trace/events.txt
020e5f85 4016
7bcfaf54
SR
4017 trace_options=[option-list]
4018 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4019 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4020 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4021 to echo the option name into
4022
4023 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4024
4025 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4026 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4027
4028 trace_options=stacktrace
4029
4030 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
4031 section.
4032
0daa2302
SRRH
4033 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4034 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4035 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4036 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4037 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4038 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4039
4040 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4041 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4042 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4043 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4044
4045 ** CAUTION **
4046
4047 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4048 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4049 the system to live lock.
4050
de7edd31
SRRH
4051 traceoff_on_warning
4052 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4053 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4054 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4055 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4056
4057 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4058 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4059 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4060
4061 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4062 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4063
fcf4d821
JK
4064 transparent_hugepage=
4065 [KNL]
4066 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4067 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4068 with respect to transparent hugepages.
4069 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
4070
d3b8f889 4071 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
395628ef
AK
4072 Format: <string>
4073 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
d3b8f889
JS
4074 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4075 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4076 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4077 virtualized environment.
e82b8e4e
VP
4078 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4079 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4080 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4081 can add overhead.
395628ef 4082
a9913044
RD
4083 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4084 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4085 Format:
4086 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
1da177e4
LT
4087 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
4088
b6935f8c 4089 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
e52347bd 4090 happen after console_init() and before a proper
b6935f8c
CK
4091 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4092 help "seeing" what's going on.
4093
f86dcc5a
ED
4094 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4095 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4096
5f8364b7
AS
4097 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4098 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4099 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4100 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4101 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4102 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4103 reported either.
4104
e3a61b0a 4105 unknown_nmi_panic
44a4dcf7 4106 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
e3a61b0a 4107
c4fc2342
CDH
4108 usbcore.authorized_default=
4109 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4110 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4111 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4112
b5e795f8
AS
4113 usbcore.autosuspend=
4114 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4115 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4116 is the time required before an idle device will be
4117 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
eaafbc3a 4118 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
b5e795f8 4119
fd7c519d
JK
4120 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4121 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4122
0290cc9f
AS
4123 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4124 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4125 (default = 65536).
4126
fd7c519d
JK
4127 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4128 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4129
4130 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4131 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
4132 scheme (default 0 = off).
4133
3f5eb8d5
AS
4134 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4135 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4136 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4137
fd7c519d
JK
4138 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4139 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4140 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4141
4142 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4143 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4144 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4145 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4146
40d58148
ON
4147 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4148
1da177e4
LT
4149 usbhid.mousepoll=
4150 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
a9913044 4151
933bfe4d
TJ
4152 usbhid.jspoll=
4153 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4154
d4f373e5
AS
4155 usb-storage.delay_use=
4156 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
19101954 4157 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
d4f373e5
AS
4158
4159 usb-storage.quirks=
4160 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4161 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4162 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4163 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4164 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4165 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4166 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
c838ea46
AS
4167 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4168 of sense data);
a0bb1081
AS
4169 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4170 bytes of sense data);
d4f373e5
AS
4171 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4172 device capacity by one sector);
5116901d
KR
4173 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4174 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4175 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4176 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
734016b0
HG
4177 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4178 command, uas only);
ee136af4
HG
4179 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4180 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
c838ea46
AS
4181 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4182 reported device capacity by one
4183 sector if the number is odd);
d4f373e5
AS
4184 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4185 device);
13630746
HG
4186 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4187 command, uas only);
d4f373e5
AS
4188 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4189 unlock ejectable media);
4190 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4191 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
21c13a4f
AS
4192 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4193 initial READ(10) command);
c838ea46
AS
4194 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4195 reported by the device);
eaa05dfc
NJ
4196 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4197 by default);
d4f373e5
AS
4198 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4199 bogus residue values);
4200 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4201 Logical Unit);
59307852
HG
4202 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4203 commands, uas only);
b6089f19 4204 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
d4f373e5
AS
4205 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4206 medium is write-protected).
050bc4e8
ON
4207 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4208 even if the device claims no cache)
d4f373e5
AS
4209 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4210
ac1667db
SB
4211 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4212 Format: <int>
4213 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4214 1 - undefined instruction events
4215 2 - system calls
4216 4 - invalid data aborts
4217 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4218 16 - SIGBUS faults
4219 Example: user_debug=31
4220
14315592
IC
4221 userpte=
4222 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4223
4224 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4225 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4226 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4227
6cececfc 4228 vdso= [X86,SH]
b0b49f26
AL
4229 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4230
4231 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
e6e5494c
IM
4232 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4233
b0b49f26
AL
4234 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4235 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4236 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4237
4238 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4239 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4240 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4241
4242 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4243 alias for vdso32=0.
4244
4245 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4246 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
af65d648 4247
d080d397
YI
4248 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4249 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4250
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4251 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4252 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4253
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4254 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4255 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4256 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4257 level and then send out the event to user space through
4258 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4259 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4260 brightness level.
2843768b 4261 default: 1
3afe6dab 4262
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PM
4263 virtio_mmio.device=
4264 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4265
4266 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4267 where:
4268 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4269 like K, M and G)
4270 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4271 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4272 request_irq())
4273 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4274 example:
4275 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4276
4277 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4278
cd4f0ef7 4279 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
954a8b81 4280 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
a9913044 4281 Documentation/svga.txt.
1da177e4
LT
4282 Use vga=ask for menu.
4283 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4284 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4285
a9913044 4286 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
1da177e4
LT
4287 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4288 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4289 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4290 mapped kernel RAM.
4291
585c3047
PO
4292 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4293 Format: <command>
1da177e4 4294
585c3047
PO
4295 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4296 Format: <command>
4297
4298 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4299 Format: <command>
a9913044 4300
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AL
4301 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4302 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4303 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4304 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4305 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4306 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4307 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4308
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AL
4309 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4310 emulated reasonably safely.
3ae36655 4311
2e57ae05 4312 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
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AL
4313 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4314 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4315 better than they would in emulation mode.
4316 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4317
4318 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4319 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4320 might break your system.
4321
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CL
4322 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4323 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4324 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4325
9ea9a886
CL
4326 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4327 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4328 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4329 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4330
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RD
4331 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4332 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4333 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4334 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4335 ranging from 0-255.
4336
4337 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4338 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4339 Change the default green palette of the console.
4340 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4341 ranging from 0-255.
4342
4343 vt.default_red= [VT]
4344 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4345 Change the default red palette of the console.
4346 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4347 ranging from 0-255.
4348
4349 vt.default_utf8=
4350 [VT]
4351 Format=<0|1>
4352 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4353 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4354 newly opened terminals.
4355
f6c06b68
MG
4356 vt.global_cursor_default=
4357 [VT]
4358 Format=<-1|0|1>
4359 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4360 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4361 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4362 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4363 cursors, 1 will display them.
4364
3855ae1c
CL
4365 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4366 Default: 2 = green.
4367
4368 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4369 Default: 3 = cyan.
4370
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RD
4371 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4372 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4373 or other driver-specific files in the
4374 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
1da177e4 4375
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TH
4376 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4377 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4378 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4379 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4380 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4381 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4382 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4383 corresponding sysfs file.
4384
d55262c4
TH
4385 workqueue.disable_numa
4386 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4387 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4388 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4389 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4390 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4391 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4392 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4393
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VK
4394 workqueue.power_efficient
4395 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4396 they show better performance thanks to cache
4397 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4398 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4399
4400 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4401 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4402 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4403 power usage at the cost of small performance
4404 overhead.
4405
4406 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4407 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4408
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TH
4409 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4410 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4411 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4412 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
4413 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4414 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
4415 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4416 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4417 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4418 impacted.
4419
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4420 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4421 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4422 supporting x2apic.
4423
712b6aa8
KS
4424 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4425 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
bb24c471
JP
4426 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4427 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
712b6aa8 4428 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
bb24c471 4429
c70727a5
JG
4430 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4431 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4432 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4433 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4434 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4435 domains.
4436
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SS
4437 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4438 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4439 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4440 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4441 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4442 nics -- unplug network devices
4443 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
1dc7ce99
IC
4444 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4445 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4446 the unplug protocol
c93a4dfb 4447 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
c1c5413a 4448
15a3eac0
KRW
4449 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4450 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4451 optimizations.
4452
8d693b91
KRW
4453 xen_nopv [X86]
4454 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4455 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4456
1da177e4 4457 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
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RD
4458 Format:
4459 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]