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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.
4dde507f 144
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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
534 [AVR32] avr32
9863c90f 535 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
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536 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
537 [MIPS] MIPS
538 [PARISC] cr16
539 [S390] tod
540 [SH] SuperH
541 [SPARC64] tick
542 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
543
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544 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
545 [ARM,ARM64]
546 Format: <bool>
547 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
548 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
549 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
550 systems.
551
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552 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.fsl-a008585=
553 [ARM64]
554 Format: <bool>
555 Enable/disable the workaround of Freescale/NXP
556 erratum A-008585. This can be useful for KVM
557 guests, if the guest device tree doesn't show the
558 erratum. If unspecified, the workaround is
559 enabled based on the device tree.
560
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561 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
562 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
cd4d09ec 563 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
07983f0e 564 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
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565 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
566 ones should be.
567 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
568 or using the feature without checking anything
569 will still see it. This just prevents it from
570 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
571 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
572 some critical bits.
573
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574 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
575 [ARM,X86,KNL]
576 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
577 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
578 placement constraint by the physical address range of
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579 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
580 altogether. For more information, see
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581 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
582
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583 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
584 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
585 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
586 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
587 a hypervisor.
588 Default: yes
589
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590 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
591 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
e9da6e99 592 allocations, by default set to 256K.
c7909509 593
6cececfc 594 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
a25bd949 595 in an oops report.
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596 Range: 0 - 8192
597 Default: 64
598
1da177e4 599 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
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600 Format:
601 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
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602
603 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
604 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
605
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606 com90xx= [HW,NET]
607 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
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608 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
609
610 condev= [HW,S390] console device
611 conmode=
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613 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
614
615 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
616
617 ttyS<n>[,options]
f1a1c2dc 618 ttyUSB0[,options]
1da177e4 619 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
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620 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
621 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
622 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
623 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
624
e52347bd 625 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
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626 information. See
627 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
628 alternative.
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630 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
631 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
bd94c407 632 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
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633 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
634 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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635 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
636 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
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637 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
638 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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639 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
640 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
641 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
642 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
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643 the h/w is not re-initialized.
644
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645 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
646 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
1da177e4 647
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648 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
649 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
650 console=brl,ttyS0
651 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
652
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653 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
654 seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
655 disables the blank timer.
656
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657 coredump_filter=
658 [KNL] Change the default value for
659 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
660 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
661
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662 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
663 disable the cpuidle sub-system
664
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665 cpu_init_udelay=N
666 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
667 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
668 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
669 Default: 10000
670
1da177e4 671 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
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672 Format:
673 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
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675 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
676 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
677 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
678 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
679 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
680 is selected automatically. Check
681 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
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683 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
684 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
685 in the running system. The syntax of range is
686 start-[end] where start and end are both
687 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
6f21e646 688 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
fb391599 689
adbc742b 690 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
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691 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
692 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
693 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
694 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
695 available.
696 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
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697 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
698 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
699 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
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700 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
701 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
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702 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
703 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
704 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
705 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
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706 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
707 for second kernel instead.
708 0: to disable low allocation.
adbc742b 709 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
55a20ee7 710 or memory reserved is below 4G.
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712 cryptomgr.notests
713 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
714
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715 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
716 Format: <dma>
717
718 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
719 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
a9913044 720
a9913044 721 dasd= [HW,NET]
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722 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
723
724 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
725 (one device per port)
726 Format: <port#>,<type>
727 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
728
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729 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
730 time. See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for
29e36c9f 731 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
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733 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
734
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735 debug_locks_verbose=
736 [KNL] verbose self-tests
737 Format=<0|1>
738 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
739 self-tests.
740 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
741 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
742 only useful to kernel developers.
743
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744 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
745
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746 no_debug_objects
747 [KNL] Disable object debugging
748
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749 debug_guardpage_minorder=
750 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
751 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
752 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
753 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
754 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
755 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
756 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
757 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
758 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
759 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
760 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
761 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
762 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
763 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
764 bypassed) which are not detectable by
765 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
766 tracking down these problems.
767
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768 debug_pagealloc=
769 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
770 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
771 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
772 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
773 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
774 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
775 on: enable the feature
776
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777 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
778
2d27a966 779 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
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780 Format: <area>[,<node>]
781 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
782
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784 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
785 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
786 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
787 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
788 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
789 if not specified.
55ff9780 790
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791 dhash_entries= [KNL]
792 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
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794 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
795 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
796 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
797 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
798 miss to occur.
799
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800 disable= [IPV6]
801 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
802
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803 disable_radix [PPC]
804 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
805
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806 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
807 Format: <int>
808 The number of initial APIC ID for the
809 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
810 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
811 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
812 causing system reset or hang due to sending
813 INIT from AP to BSP.
814
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815 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
816 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
817 to workaround buggy firmware.
818
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819 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
820 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
821
95ffa243 822 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
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823 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
824 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
0cb55ad2 825 entry later. This parameter disables that.
95ffa243 826
093af8d7 827 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
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828 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
829 memory out of your available memory pool based on
830 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
831 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
832
6cececfc 833 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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834 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
835 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
836
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837 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
838
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839 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
840 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
841
842 dma_debug_entries=<number>
843 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
844 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
845 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
846 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
847 architectural default is too low.
848
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849 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
850 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
851 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
852 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
853 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
854 driver later using sysfs.
855
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856 drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
857 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
858 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
859 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
860 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
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861 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
862 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
863 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
864 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
865 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
866 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
867 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
868 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
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869 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
870 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
871 data set with no connector name will be used for
872 any connectors not explicitly specified.
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874 dscc4.setup= [NET]
875
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876 dump_apple_properties [X86]
877 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
878 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
879 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
880
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881 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
882 module.dyndbg[="val"]
883 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
884 Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for details.
885
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886 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
887 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
888 information about the feature.
889
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890 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
891 in some Intel CPUs.
892
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893 module.async_probe [KNL]
894 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
895
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896 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
897 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
898 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
899 which are not unmapped.
900
0cb55ad2 901 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
0d3c673e 902
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903 When used with no options, the early console is
904 determined by the stdout-path property in device
905 tree's chosen node.
906
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907 cdns,<addr>[,options]
908 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
909 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
910 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
911 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
912 configured.
6fa62fc4 913
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914 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
915 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1917ac76 916 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
6e63be3f 917 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
ca782f16 918 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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919 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
920 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
16290246 921 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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922 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
923 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
924 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
925 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
ca782f16 926 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
0cb55ad2 927
0d3c673e 928 pl011,<addr>
3b78fae7 929 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
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930 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
931 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
932 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
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933 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
934 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
935 the device registers.
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937 meson,<addr>
938 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
939 port at the specified address. The serial port must
940 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
941 supported.
942
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943 msm_serial,<addr>
944 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
945 port at the specified address. The serial port
946 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
947 yet supported.
948
949 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
950 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
951 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
952 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
953 yet supported.
954
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955 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
956
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957 s3c2410,<addr>
958 s3c2412,<addr>
959 s3c2440,<addr>
960 s3c6400,<addr>
961 s5pv210,<addr>
962 exynos4210,<addr>
963 Use early console provided by serial driver available
964 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
965 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
966 serial port must already be setup and configured.
967 Options are not yet supported.
968
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969 lpuart,<addr>
970 lpuart32,<addr>
971 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
972 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
973 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
974 port must already be setup and configured.
975
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976 armada3700_uart,<addr>
977 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
978 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
979 address. The serial port must already be setup
980 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
981
7913ad1a 982 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k]
1da177e4 983 earlyprintk=vga
72548e83 984 earlyprintk=efi
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]
1da177e4 991
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992 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
993 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
994 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
995
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997 takes over.
998
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999 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1000 be used at a time.
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1002 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1003 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1004 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1005 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1006 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1007 You can find the port for a given device in
1008 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1009 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
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1010
1011 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1012 very good.
1013
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1014 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1015 the real console.
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1017 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1018
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1019 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1020 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1021 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1022 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1023 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1024 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1025 default: on.
1026
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1027 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1028 ekgdboc=kbd
1029
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1031 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1032
1da177e4 1033 edd= [EDD]
8c4dd606 1034 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1da177e4 1035
d2f7cbe7 1036 efi= [EFI]
fed6cefe 1037 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
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1038 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1039 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1040 default.
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1041 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1042 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1043 firmware implementations.
5ae3683c 1044 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
fed6cefe 1045 debug: enable misc debug output
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1047 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1048 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1049 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1050 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1051 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1052
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1053 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1054 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1055 updating original EFI memory map.
1056 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1057 from ss to ss+nn.
1058 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1059 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1060 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1061 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1062
1063 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1064 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1065 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1066 doesn't support it.
1067
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1068 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1069 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1070 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1071 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1072 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1073
1074
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1075 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1076 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1077
cd4f0ef7 1078 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1da177e4 1079 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
71f77055 1080 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
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1081
1082 elevator= [IOSCHED]
17a9e7bb 1083 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
395cf969 1084 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
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1085 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1086
d3bf3795 1087 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
a9913044 1088 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
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1089 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1090 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
aac04b32 1091 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
1da177e4 1092
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1093 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1094 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1095 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1096 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1097
ca1eda2d 1098 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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1099 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1100 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1101 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1102 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1103
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1104 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1105 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1106 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1107 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1108 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1109 Default value is 0.
1110 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1111
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1112 erst_disable [ACPI]
1113 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1114 support.
1115
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1116 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1117 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1118 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1119
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1120 evm= [EVM]
1121 Format: { "fix" }
1122 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1123 current integrity status.
1124
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1125 failslab=
1126 fail_page_alloc=
1127 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1128 General fault injection mechanism.
1129 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
395cf969 1130 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
de1ba09b 1131
1da177e4 1132 floppy= [HW]
31c00fc1 1133 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1da177e4 1134
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AC
1135 force_pal_cache_flush
1136 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1137 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1138 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1139 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1140
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CB
1141 forcepae [X86-32]
1142 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1143 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1144 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1145 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1146 and may cause unknown problems.
1147
d9e54076 1148 ftrace=[tracer]
2af15d6a 1149 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
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PZ
1150 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1151 boot debugging.
1152
cecbca96 1153 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
2af15d6a 1154 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
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FW
1155 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1156 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1157 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1158 oops.
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SR
1159
1160 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1161 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1162 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1163 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1164 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
16290246 1165 tracing directory.
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SR
1166
1167 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1168 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1169 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1170 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1171 tracing directory.
d9e54076 1172
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SA
1173 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1174 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1175 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1176 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1177 that can be changed at run time by the
1178 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1179
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1180 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1181 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1182 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1183 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1184 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1185
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LT
1186 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1187 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1188 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1189 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1190 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
1191
1192 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1193
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YL
1194 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1195 Format: off | on
1196 default: on
1197
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1198 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1199 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1200 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1201 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1202 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1203
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1204 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1205 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1206 android emulator
1207
1da177e4 1208 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
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DB
1209 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1210 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1211 GPT to be used instead.
1da177e4 1212
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AL
1213 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1214 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1215 Format: 0 | 1
1216 Default: 0
1217 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1218 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1219 Format: 0 | 1
1220 Default: 0
1221 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1222 Format: 0 | 1
1223 Default: 0
1224 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1225 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1226 Default: 1024
1227 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1228 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1229 Default: 1024
1230
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BJZ
1231 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1232 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1233 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1234
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1235 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1236 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1237 backtraces on all cpus.
1238 Format: <integer>
1239
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LT
1240 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1241 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
16290246 1242 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
a9913044 1243 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
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LT
1244
1245 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1246
1247 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1248 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1249
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HY
1250 hest_disable [ACPI]
1251 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1252 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1253 logic will be disabled.
1254
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LT
1255 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1256 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1257 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1258 size on bigger boxes.
1259
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TG
1260 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1261 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1262 Default: "on"
1263
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LT
1264 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1265 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1266
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RD
1267 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1268
1269 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1270 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1271 verbose }
1272 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1273 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1274 VIA, nVidia)
1275 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1276
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1277 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1278 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1279
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1280 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1281 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
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1282 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1283 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1284 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1285 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
27ec26ec 1286 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
6902aa84 1287
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HB
1288 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1289 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
431429ff
HB
1290 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1291 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1292 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
cef7125d 1293
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JH
1294 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1295 hardware thread id mappings.
1296 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1297
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FDN
1298 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1299 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1300 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1301 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1302 the real console.
1303
3a853fb9 1304 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
7954763b
JN
1305 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1306 registered from board initialization code.
3a853fb9
JN
1307 Format:
1308 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1309
36d95739 1310 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
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SCP
1311 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1312 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1313 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1314 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1da177e4 1315 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
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ML
1316 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1317 keyboard and cannot control its state
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LT
1318 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1319 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
945ef0d4 1320 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
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JK
1321 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1322 for the AUX port
1da177e4 1323 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
e55a3366 1324 controller
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LT
1325 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1326 controllers
24775d65 1327 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
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MPS
1328 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1329 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1330 transitions, or never reset
1331 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1332 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1333 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1334 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1335 architectures force reset to be always executed
1da177e4 1336 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
148e9a71 1337 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
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LT
1338
1339 i810= [HW,DRM]
1340
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DT
1341 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1342 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1343 hardware.
1da177e4
LT
1344 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1345 does not match list of supported models.
1346 i8k.power_status
1347 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1348 (disabled by default)
1349 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1350 capability is set.
1351
4dca20ef 1352 i915.invert_brightness=
7bd90909
CE
1353 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1354 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
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CE
1355 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1356 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1357 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1358 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1359 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1360 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1361 value switches the backlight off.
1362 -1 -- never invert brightness
1363 0 -- machine default
1364 1 -- force brightness inversion
7bd90909 1365
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1366 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1367 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1368
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DF
1369 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1370 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
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1371 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1372 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1c10e938 1373 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1da177e4 1374
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MR
1375 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1376 Format: <int>
1377 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1378 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1379 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1380 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1381 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1382 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1383 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1384 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1385 was 0x3.
1386
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1387 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1388 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1389
f039b754 1390 idle= [X86]
69fb3676 1391 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
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RD
1392 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1393 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1394 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1395 Not recommended.
ada9cfdd 1396 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
c1e3b377 1397 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
ada9cfdd 1398 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
a9913044 1399
503943e0
MR
1400 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1401 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1402 Default: strict
1403
1404 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1405 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1406 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1407 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1408 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1409 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1410 encoding mode.
1411
1412 Available settings are as follows:
1413 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1414 supported by the FPU
1415 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1416 by the FPU
1417 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1418 by the FPU
1419 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1420 supported by the FPU
1421
1422 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1423 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1424 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1425 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1426 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1427 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1428 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1429 MIPS64 CPUs.
1430
1431 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1432 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1433 except where unsupported by hardware.
1434
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IM
1435 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1436 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1437 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
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YZ
1438 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1439 could change it dynamically, usually by
1440 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
79290822 1441
d977d56c
KK
1442 ignore_rlimit_data
1443 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1444 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1445 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1446
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LT
1447 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1448 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1449
2fe5d6de 1450 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2faa6ef3 1451 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
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MZ
1452 default: "enforce"
1453
07f6a794
MZ
1454 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1455 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1456 owned by uid=0.
1457
d68a6fe9
MZ
1458 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1459 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1460 measurements, instead of host native format.
1461
3323eec9 1462 ima_hash= [IMA]
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MZ
1463 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1464 | sha512 | ... }
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MZ
1465 default: "sha1"
1466
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MZ
1467 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1468 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1469
24fd03c8
MZ
1470 ima_policy= [IMA]
1471 The builtin measurement policy to load during IMA
1472 setup. Specyfing "tcb" as the value, measures all
1473 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1474 opened with the read mode bit set by either the
1475 effective uid (euid=0) or uid=0.
1476 Format: "tcb"
1477
1478 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
5789ba3b
EP
1479 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1480 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1481 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1482 opened for read by uid=0.
1483
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RS
1484 ima_template= [IMA]
1485 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
8265a2f8 1486 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
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RS
1487 Default: "ima-ng"
1488
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RS
1489 ima_template_fmt=
1490 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1491 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1492
3bcced39
DK
1493 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1494 Format: <min_file_size>
1495 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1496 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1497
1498 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1499 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1500 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1501
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DK
1502 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1503 Format: <bufsize>
1504 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1505
1506 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1507 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1508 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1509
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LT
1510 init= [KNL]
1511 Format: <full_path>
1512 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1513 process.
1514
1515 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1516 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1517 startup.
1518
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PB
1519 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1520 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1521 modules and initcalls.
1522
1da177e4
LT
1523 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1524
acd547b2
DH
1525 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1526 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1527 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1528 override in debugfs after boot.
1529
1da177e4
LT
1530 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1531 Format: <irq>
1532
6bb2ff84
FY
1533 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1534
d726d8d7
MZ
1535 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1536 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1537 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1538 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1539
ba395927 1540 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
0cd5c3c8
KM
1541 on
1542 Enable intel iommu driver.
ba395927
KA
1543 off
1544 Disable intel iommu driver.
1545 igfx_off [Default Off]
1546 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1547 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1548 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1549 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1550 DMA.
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KA
1551 forcedac [x86_64]
1552 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
16290246 1553 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
7d3b03ce 1554 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
16290246
RD
1555 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1556 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
7d3b03ce 1557 then look in the higher range.
5e0d2a6f 1558 strict [Default Off]
1559 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1560 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1561 to batching them for performance.
6dd9a7c7
YS
1562 sp_off [Default Off]
1563 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1564 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1565 not be supported.
c83b2f20
DW
1566 ecs_off [Default Off]
1567 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1568 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1569 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1570 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1571 on hardware which claims to support them.
2e92c7ad
MI
1572
1573 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1574 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
22c6bbe4 1575 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
2e92c7ad 1576
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DB
1577 intel_pstate= [X86]
1578 disable
1579 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1580 scaling driver for the supported processors
001c76f0
RW
1581 passive
1582 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1583 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1584 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1585 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1586 feature.
aa4ea34d
EZ
1587 force
1588 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1589 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1590 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1591 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1592 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1593 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1594 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1595 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
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DB
1596 no_hwp
1597 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1598 if available.
d64c3b0b
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1599 hwp_only
1600 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1601 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
9522a2ff 1602 support_acpi_ppc
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1603 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1604 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1605 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1606 then this feature is turned on by default.
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1607 per_cpu_perf_limits
1608 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1609 cpufreq sysfs interface
6be26498 1610
d1423d56 1611 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
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1612 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1613 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1614 nosid disable Source ID checking
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1615 no_x2apic_optout
1616 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
b7d20631 1617 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
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1619 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1620 strict regions from userspace.
1621 relaxed
1622
1623 iommu= [x86]
1624 off
1625 force
1626 noforce
1627 biomerge
1628 panic
1629 nopanic
1630 merge
1631 nomerge
1632 forcesac
1633 soft
bcb71abe 1634 pt [x86, IA-64]
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1635 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1636 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
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1638
1639 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1640 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1641 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1642
6cececfc 1643 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
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1644 0x80
1645 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1646 0xed
1647 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
b02aae9c 1648 udelay
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1649 Simple two microseconds delay
1650 none
1651 No delay
b02aae9c 1652
1da177e4 1653 ip= [IP_PNP]
dc7a0816 1654 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 1655
fbf19803 1656 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2d13e6ca 1657 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
fbf19803 1658
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1659 irqfixup [HW]
1660 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1661 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1662 firmware running.
1663
1664 irqpoll [HW]
1665 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1666 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1667 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1668 firmware running.
1669
1da177e4 1670 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
a9913044 1671 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
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1672
1673 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
2d13e6ca 1674 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
b225d44e 1675
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1676 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
1677 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
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1678 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
1679 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
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1680 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1681 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1682
1683 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
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1684 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
1685 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
1686 suboptimal load balancer performance.
1da177e4 1687
a9913044 1688 iucv= [HW,NET]
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1690 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1691 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1692 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1693 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1694 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1695 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1696
1697 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1698 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1699 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1700 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1701 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1702 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1703
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1704 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1705 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1706 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1707 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1708 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1709 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1710
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1711 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1712 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
1713
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1714 nokaslr [KNL]
1715 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1716 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1717 Layout Randomization).
24f2e027 1718
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1719 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1720
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1721 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1722 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1723 This parameter
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1724 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1725 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1726 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1727 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1728 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1729 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1730 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
675217fd 1731 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
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1732 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1733 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1734 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1735 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1736 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1737 zone if it does not.
1738
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1739 Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1740 you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1741 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1742 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1743 for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1744 so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1745 time.
ed7ed365 1746
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1747 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1748 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1749 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1750 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1751 optional and is the number seconds in between
1752 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1753 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1754 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1755 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1756 the kernel debugger.
1757
84c08fd6 1758 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
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1759 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1760 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
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1761 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1762 keyboard only format: kbd
1763 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1764 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1765 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1766 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
6cdf6e06 1767
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1768 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1769 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1770
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1771 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1772 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1773 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1774
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1775 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1776 Valid arguments: on, off
1777 Default: on
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1778 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1779 the default is off.
04f70336 1780
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1781 kmemcheck= [X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode
1782 Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2
1783 kmemcheck=0 (disabled)
1784 kmemcheck=1 (enabled)
1785 kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode)
1786 Default: 2 (one-shot mode)
1787
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1788 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1789 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1790
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1791 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1792 KVM MMU at runtime.
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1793 Default is 0 (off)
1794
fef07aae 1795 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
8475f94a 1796 Default is 1 (enabled)
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1797
1798 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1799 for all guests.
16290246 1800 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
fef07aae 1801
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1802 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1803 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1804 Default is 1 (enabled)
1805
1806 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1807 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1808 Default is 0 (disabled)
1809
1810 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1811 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1812 Default is 1 (enabled)
1813
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1814 kvm-intel.nested=
1815 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1816 Default is 0 (disabled)
1817
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1818 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1819 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1820 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1821 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1822
1823 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1824 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1825 Default is 1 (enabled)
1826
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1827 l2cr= [PPC]
1828
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1829 l3cr= [PPC]
1830
cd4f0ef7 1831 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
a9913044 1832 disabled it.
1da177e4 1833
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1834 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1835 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1836 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1837
6cececfc 1838 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
ada9cfdd 1839 in C2 power state.
e585bef8 1840
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1841 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1842 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1843 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1844 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
16290246 1845 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
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1846 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1847 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
16290246 1848
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1849 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1850 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
1851 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
fcb71f6f 1852
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1853 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1854 when set.
1855 Format: <int>
1856
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1857 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
1858 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
4c44f309 1859 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
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1860 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
1861 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
1862 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1863 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1864 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1865
1866 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1867 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
1868 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1869 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
1870 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1871 host link and device attached to it.
1872
1873 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
1874 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1875 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1876 The following configurations can be forced.
1877
1878 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1879 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1880
1881 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1882
1883 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1884 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
1885 allowed.
1886
1887 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
1888
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1889 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
1890
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1891 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
1892 and both resets.
1893
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1894 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
1895 hot-unplug link recovery
1896
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1897 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
1898
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1899 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
1900
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1901 * disable: Disable this device.
1902
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1903 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
1904 the same attribute, the last one is used.
1905
95f72d1e 1906 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
7c4be253 1907
1da177e4 1908 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
31c00fc1 1909 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 1910
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1911 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
1912 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 1913
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1914 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
1915 Format: <integer>
1916
1917 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
1918 Format: <integer>
1919
1920 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
1921 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 1922
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1923 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
1924 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
1925 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
1926 number of online CPUs.
1927
1928 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
1929 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
1930
1931 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
1932 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
1933
1934 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
1935 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
1936 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
1937
1938 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
1939 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
1940 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
1941 mode during the locktorture test.
1942
1943 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
1944 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
1945 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
1946
1947 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
1948 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
1949
1950 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
1951 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
1952 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
1953 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
1954 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
1955 transition abruptly to and from idle.
1956
1957 locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
1958 Start locktorture running at boot time.
1959
1960 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
1961 Specify the locking implementation to test.
1962
1963 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
1964 Enable additional printk() statements.
1965
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1966 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
1967 Format: <irq>
1968
1969 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
1970 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
1971 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
1972 loglevels are defined as follows:
1973
1974 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
1975 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
1976 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
1977 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
1978 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
1979 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
1980 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
1981 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
1982
c756d08a 1983 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
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1984 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
1985 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
1986 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
1987 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
1988 that allows to increase the default size depending on
1989 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
1da177e4 1990
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1991 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
1992 This may be used to provide more screen space for
1993 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
1994 kernel boot problems.
1995
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1996 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
1997 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
1998 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
1999 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2000 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2001 attached printers to be reset. Using
2002 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2003 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2004 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2005 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2006 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2007 port specification list means that device IDs
2008 from each port should be examined, to see if
2009 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2010 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2011 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2012
2013 lpj=n [KNL]
2014 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2015 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2016 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2017 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2018 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2019 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2020 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2021 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2022 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2023 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2024 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2025 hardware.
2026
2027 ltpc= [NET]
2028 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2029
16290246 2030 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
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2031 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2032 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
1da177e4 2033
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2034 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2035 yeeloong laptop.
2036 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2037
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2038 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2039 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
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2040
2041 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
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2042 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2043 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2044 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2045 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2046 only takes effect during system bootup.
2047 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2048 which also disables the IO APIC.
1da177e4 2049
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2050 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2051 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2052 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2053 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2054 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2055 /dev/loop-control interface.
2b2c3750 2056
cd4f0ef7 2057 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
1da177e4 2058
71cced6e 2059 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
909dd324 2060
1da177e4 2061 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
e52347bd 2062 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
a9913044 2063
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2064 mdacon= [MDA]
2065 Format: <first>,<last>
2066 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
a9913044 2067
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2068 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2069 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2070 to see the whole system memory or for test.
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2071 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2072 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2073 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2074 belonging to unused RAM.
1da177e4 2075
cd4f0ef7 2076 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
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2077 memory.
2078
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2079 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2080 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2081 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2082
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2083 memhp_default_state=online/offline
2084 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2085 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2086 set according to the
2087 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2088 option.
2089 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2090
6cececfc 2091 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
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2092 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2093 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2094 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2095 option description.
2096
2097 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
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2098 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2099 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
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2100
2101 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2102 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
277cba1d 2103 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
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2104
2105 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2106 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
277cba1d 2107 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
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2108 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2109 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2110 or
2111 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
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2113 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2114 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2115 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2116 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2117 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2118
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2119 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2120 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2121 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2122 Setting this option will scan the memory
2123 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2124 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2125 from using the memory being corrupted.
2126 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2127 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2128 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2129 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2130
2131 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2132 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2133 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2134 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2135 corruption in more or less memory.
2136
2137 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2138 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2139 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2140 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2141
e4b0db72 2142 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
c64df707 2143 Format: <integer>
c64df707 2144 default : 0 <disable>
9e5f6cf5
AH
2145 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2146 performed. Each pass selects another test
2147 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2148 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2149 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2150 regions that are detected.
c64df707 2151
406e7938
RW
2152 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2153 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2154 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2155 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2156 See Documentation/power/states.txt.
2157
1da177e4
LT
2158 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2159 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
2160
8f36881b
AS
2161 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2162 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2163 platforms.
2164
e6c4dc6c
WT
2165 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2166 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2167 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2168 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2169
1da177e4
LT
2170 mga= [HW,DRM]
2171
1c207f95
RD
2172 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2173 physical address is ignored.
2174
39f45d7b
MP
2175 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2176 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2177 Default: "0tb"
2178 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2179 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2180 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2181 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2182 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2183 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2184 unconfigured.
2185 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2186 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2187 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2188 VGA shield.
2189 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2190 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2191 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2192 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2193 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2194 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2195
6b74ab97
MG
2196 mminit_loglevel=
2197 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2198 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2199 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2200 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2201 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2202 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2203
106a4ee2
RR
2204 module.sig_enforce
2205 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2206 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2a039be7 2207 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
106a4ee2
RR
2208 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2209
be7de5f9
PB
2210 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2211 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2212
1da177e4
LT
2213 mousedev.tap_time=
2214 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2215 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2216 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2217 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2218 Format: <msecs>
2219 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2220 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2221 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2222 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2223
6cececfc 2224 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
0cb55ad2
RD
2225 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2226 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2227 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2228 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2229 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2230 is specified, the administrator must be careful
2231 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2232 is not too small.
2233
39fa104d 2234 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to enable the effects
c5320926
TC
2235 of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details.
2236
1da177e4
LT
2237 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2238 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2239
a9913044
RD
2240 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2241 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
1da177e4
LT
2242
2243 mtdparts= [MTD]
c8facbb6 2244 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
1da177e4 2245
4e89a2d8
WS
2246 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2247 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2248 at a time.
2249
5988af23
RH
2250 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2251
2252 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2253
2254 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2255 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2256 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2257 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2258 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2259
9db829f4
BD
2260 mtdset= [ARM]
2261 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2262
2263 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2264
1da177e4 2265 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
a9913044
RD
2266 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2267 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
1da177e4 2268
0cb55ad2 2269 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
19f59460 2270 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
0cb55ad2
RD
2271 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2272
2273 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2274 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2275 Default is 1.
2276 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2277 using up MTRRs.
2278
2279 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2280 Format: <integer>
2281 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2282 Default : 1
2283 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2284 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2285
1da177e4
LT
2286 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2287
1da177e4
LT
2288 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2289 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2290 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2291 something different and driver-specific.
a9913044
RD
2292 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2293 file if at all.
2294
58401572
KPO
2295 nf_conntrack.acct=
2296 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2297 0 to disable accounting
2298 1 to enable accounting
d70a011d 2299 Default value is 0.
58401572 2300
306a0753 2301 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
dc7a0816 2302 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2303
2304 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
dc7a0816 2305 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 2306
306a0753
CL
2307 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2308 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2309
5405fc44
TM
2310 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2311 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2312 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2313 requests.
2314
a72b4422
TM
2315 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2316 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2317 channel should listen.
2318
e571cbf1
TM
2319 nfs.cache_getent=
2320 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2321 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2322
2323 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2324 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2325 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2326
58df095b
TM
2327 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2328 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2329 entries.
2330
f43bf0be
TM
2331 nfs.enable_ino64=
2332 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2333 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2334 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2335 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2336 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2337
5405fc44
TM
2338 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2339 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2340 slots the client will assign to the callback
2341 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2342 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2343 a particular server.
2344
ef159e91
TM
2345 nfs.max_session_slots=
2346 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2347 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2348 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2349 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2350 Note that there is little point in setting this
2351 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2352
b064eca2 2353 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
074b1d12
TM
2354 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2355 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2356 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2357 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2358 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2359 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2360 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2361 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2362 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2363 back to using the idmapper.
2364 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
6f2ea7f2
CL
2365 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2366 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2367 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2368 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2369 UUID that is generated at system install time.
b064eca2 2370
db8ac8ba
WAA
2371 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2372 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2373 information in exchange_id requests.
2374 If zero, no implementation identification information
2375 will be sent.
2376 The default is to send the implementation identification
2377 information.
e52347bd 2378
f6de7a39
TM
2379 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2380 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2381 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2382 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2383 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2384 after the locks are lost.
2385 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2386 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2387 parameter to '1'.
2388 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2389 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
db8ac8ba 2390
bbf58bf3
TM
2391 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2392 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2393 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2394
2395 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2396 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2397 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2398 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2399
e9541ce8
BF
2400 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2401 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2402 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2403 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2404 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2405 migration from NFSv2/v3.
db8ac8ba 2406
18d98f6c
SB
2407 objlayoutdriver.osd_login_prog=
2408 [NFS] [OBJLAYOUT] sets the pathname to the program which
2409 is used to automatically discover and login into new
2410 osd-targets. Please see:
2411 Documentation/filesystems/pnfs.txt for more explanations
2412
1e1030dc 2413 nmi_debug= [KNL,AVR32,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
e7ba176b
HS
2414 when a NMI is triggered.
2415 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2416
6cececfc 2417 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
fef2c9bc 2418 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
195daf66 2419 Valid num: 0 or 1
334bb79c
PK
2420 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2421 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
0cb55ad2 2422 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
fef2c9bc 2423 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
334bb79c
PK
2424 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2425 please see 'nowatchdog'.
0cb55ad2
RD
2426 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2427 need the box quickly up again.
1da177e4 2428
bff38771
AV
2429 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2430 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2431 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2432 waits 4 seconds.
2433
cd4f0ef7 2434 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
1da177e4
LT
2435 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2436 is present.
2437
0cb55ad2
RD
2438 no_console_suspend
2439 [HW] Never suspend the console
2440 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2441 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2442 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2443 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2444 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2445 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2446 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
134620f7
YZ
2447 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2448 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2449 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2450 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2451 turn on/off it dynamically.
0cb55ad2 2452
c1aee215
CL
2453 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2454 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2455 but will impact performance.
3395ee05 2456
a9913044
RD
2457 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2458
1da177e4
LT
2459 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2460 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2461
5091faa4
MG
2462 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2463
1da177e4
LT
2464 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2465 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2466
2467 nocache [ARM]
a9913044 2468
0cb55ad2
RD
2469 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2470
163ecdff
SN
2471 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2472
6902aa84
PM
2473 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2474
b2e0a54a 2475 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
8b2cb7a8 2476
1da177e4
LT
2477 noexec [IA-64]
2478
6cececfc 2479 noexec [X86]
f5a1b191 2480 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
1da177e4 2481 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
f5a1b191
JS
2482 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2483
52b6179a
PA
2484 nosmap [X86]
2485 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2486 even if it is supported by processor.
2487
de5397ad 2488 nosmep [X86]
52b6179a 2489 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
de5397ad
FY
2490 even if it is supported by processor.
2491
f5a1b191
JS
2492 noexec32 [X86-64]
2493 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2494 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2495 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2496 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2497 read implies executable mappings
1da177e4 2498
fab43ef4 2499 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
6902aa84 2500
cd4f0ef7 2501 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
4f886511
CE
2502 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2503 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
1da177e4 2504
0ddab1d2
TK
2505 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2506
52c48c51
SS
2507 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2508 Equivalent to smt=1.
2509
0c752a93
SS
2510 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2511 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2512 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2513
b6f42a4a
FY
2514 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2515 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2516 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2517 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2518 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2519 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2520
2521 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2522 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2523 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2524 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2525 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2526 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2527 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2528
01a24d2b
PZ
2529 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2530 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2531 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
a9913044 2532
1f29fae2
SH
2533 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2534 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2535 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2536
1da177e4
LT
2537 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2538 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2539 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2540 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2541 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2542 real-time systems.
2543
a6e15a39
KC
2544 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2545
79bf2bb3
TG
2546 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2547 Valid arguments: on, off
2548 Default: on
2549
c5bfece2 2550 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT]
2d13e6ca 2551 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
c5bfece2 2552 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
a831881b 2553 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
0453b435
FW
2554 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2555 the range to maintain the timekeeping.
d1e43fa5
FW
2556 The CPUs in this range must also be included in the
2557 rcu_nocbs= set.
a831881b 2558
eeee7853
PM
2559 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2560
cd4f0ef7 2561 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
1da177e4
LT
2562 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2563
6cececfc 2564 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
8542b200
ZA
2565 broken timer IRQ sources.
2566
1da177e4
LT
2567 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2568
2569 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2570 initial RAM disk.
2571
03ea8155
WH
2572 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2573 remapping.
d1423d56 2574 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
03ea8155 2575
1da177e4
LT
2576 nointroute [IA-64]
2577
d12a72b8
AL
2578 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2579
16290246 2580 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
0aa366f3 2581
9cf4c4fc
JK
2582 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2583
fd10cde9
GN
2584 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2585 fault handling.
2586
80e9a4f2
AM
2587 no-vmw-sched-clock
2588 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2589 clock and use the default one.
2590
d910f5c1
GC
2591 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2592 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2593 behaviour
2594
cd4f0ef7 2595 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
1da177e4 2596
cd4f0ef7 2597 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
ad62ca2b 2598
1da177e4 2599 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
f15eea66 2600 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
1da177e4 2601
312f1f01
H
2602 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2603
13696e0a 2604 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
abe37e5a 2605
83d7384f
AS
2606 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2607 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2608
bda62633
DZ
2609 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2610 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2611 irq.
2612
02608bef
DY
2613 nomodule Disable module load
2614
016ddd9b
JK
2615 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2616 pagetables) support.
2617
0cb55ad2
RD
2618 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2619 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2620
bbff2168 2621 noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
959b4fdf 2622
cd4f0ef7 2623 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
b7fb4af0
JF
2624 with UP alternatives
2625
7a5091d5
PA
2626 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2627 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2628 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2629 available to user space applications.
49d859d7 2630
a9913044
RD
2631 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2632 space.
2633
1da177e4
LT
2634 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2635 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2636 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2637
2638 nosbagart [IA-64]
2639
cd4f0ef7 2640 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
4f886511 2641
61ec7567
LB
2642 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2643 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
1da177e4 2644
97842216
DJ
2645 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2646
1da177e4
LT
2647 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2648
cd4f0ef7 2649 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
1da177e4 2650
195daf66
UO
2651 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2652 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
58687acb 2653
1da177e4 2654 nowb [ARM]
a9913044 2655
2b2fd87a
WH
2656 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2657
f78cff48
FY
2658 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2659 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2660 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2661 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2662 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2663 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2664 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2665 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2666 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2667 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2668 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2669 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2670 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2671
16290246 2672 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
a6c75b86
FY
2673 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2674 SAL PALO.
2675
2b633e3f
YL
2676 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2677 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
7c142bfe
BH
2678 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2679 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2680 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2681 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2682 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2683 hot plugging.
2b633e3f 2684
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RD
2685 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2686
1a687c2e
MG
2687 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2688 Allowed values are enable and disable
2689
f0c0b2b8
KH
2690 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
2691 one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
2692 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2693 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2694
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RD
2695 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2696 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2697 info.
2698
3ef0e1f8
AS
2699 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2700 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2701 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2702 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2703 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2704 interrupts *may* be lost!
2705
15ac7afe
TL
2706 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2707 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2708 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2709 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2710
1da177e4
LT
2711 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2712 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2713
7e4e0bd5
RR
2714 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2715 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2716 userland or if you want common events.
8d7ff4f2
RR
2717 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2718 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
7e4e0bd5
RR
2719 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2720 CPU specific event set.
159a80b2
RR
2721 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2722 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2723 for generic hr timer mode)
1dcdb5a9 2724
44a4dcf7
RD
2725 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2726 process, but there is a small probability of
2727 deadlocking the machine.
d404ab0a
OH
2728 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2729 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2730
bcfde334
RD
2731 OSS [HW,OSS]
2732 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2733
48c96a36
JK
2734 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2735 Storage of the information about who allocated
2736 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2737 we can turn it on.
2738 on: enable the feature
2739
8823b1db
LA
2740 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2741 poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2742 off: turn off poisoning
2743 on: turn on poisoning
2744
44a4dcf7 2745 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4302fbc8
HD
2746 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2747 timeout = 0: wait forever
2748 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
1da177e4
LT
2749 Format: <timeout>
2750
9e3961a0
PB
2751 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
2752 on a WARN().
2753
f06e5153
MH
2754 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2755 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2756 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2757 succeeds in any situation.
2758 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2759 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2760 kernel more unstable.
2761
1da177e4
LT
2762 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2763 connected to, default is 0.
2764 Format: <parport#>
2765 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2766 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
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RD
2767 Format: <mode>
2768
2769 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2770 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2771 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2772 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2773 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2774 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2775 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2776 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2777 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2778 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2779 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2780 are specified on the command line, starting
2781 with parport0.
2782
2783 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2784 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2785 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2786 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2787 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2788 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
1da177e4
LT
2789 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2790
dd287796
AM
2791 pause_on_oops=
2792 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2793 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
2794 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2795
1da177e4
LT
2796 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
2797
2798 pcd. [PARIDE]
2799 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
31c00fc1 2800 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 2801
a9913044 2802 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
1cc0ca26
BH
2803 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2804 changes anything
c0115606 2805 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
cd4f0ef7 2806 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
a9913044
RD
2807 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2808 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
cd4f0ef7 2809 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
a9913044
RD
2810 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2811 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2812 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
afd8c084
BP
2813 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2814 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
2815 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
2816 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2817 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
2818 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
2819 bus number. The config space is then accessed
2820 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
2821 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
2822 on the configuration access mechanisms.
7f785763
RD
2823 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2824 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2825 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
32a2eea7
JG
2826 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2827 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
6cececfc 2828 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
61be6d66 2829 Configuration
12983077
AH
2830 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2831 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2832 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
309e57df
MW
2833 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
2834 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2835 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
a9322f64
SA
2836 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
2837 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
2838 should never be necessary.
9197979b
SA
2839 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
2840 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
2841 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
2842 when the system masks IRQs.
41b9eb26
SA
2843 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
2844 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
2845 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
2846 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
cd4f0ef7 2847 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
a9913044
RD
2848 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
2849 on several machines and they hang the machine
2850 when used, but on other computers it's the only
2851 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
2852 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
2853 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
2854 motherboard.
c0115606 2855 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
a9913044
RD
2856 Use with caution as certain devices share
2857 address decoders between ROMs and other
2858 resources.
c0115606 2859 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
bb71ad88
GH
2860 expansion ROMs that do not already have
2861 BIOS assigned address ranges.
7bd1c365
MH
2862 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
2863 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
c0115606 2864 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
a9913044
RD
2865 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
2866 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
2867 this way.
c0115606 2868 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
a9913044
RD
2869 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
2870 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
2871 F0000h-100000h range.
c0115606 2872 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
a9913044
RD
2873 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
2874 secondary buses and you want to tell it
2875 explicitly which ones they are.
c0115606 2876 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
a9913044
RD
2877 numbers ourselves, overriding
2878 whatever the firmware may have done.
c0115606 2879 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
a9913044
RD
2880 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
2881 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
2882 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
2883 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
2884 IRQ routing is enabled.
c0115606 2885 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 2886 or for PCI scanning.
7bc5e3f2
BH
2887 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
2888 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
2889 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
2890 please report a bug.
2891 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
2892 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
a9913044
RD
2893 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
2894 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
2895 so this option is a temporary workaround
2896 for broken drivers that don't call it.
13a6ddb0
YL
2897 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
2898 handle more pci cards
0637a70a
AK
2899 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
2900 This might help on some broken boards which
2901 machine check when some devices' config space
2902 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
2903 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
6b4b78fe
MD
2904 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
2905 This sorting is done to get a device
2906 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
2907 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
fa238712
YW
2908 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
2909 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
2910 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
2911 supported by all devices below the root complex.
2912 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
2913 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
2914 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
2915 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
2916 or bus can support) for best performance.
2917 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
2918 every device is guaranteed to support. This
2919 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
2920 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
2921 reduced performance. This also guarantees
2922 that hot-added devices will work.
4516a618
AN
2923 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2924 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
2925 The default value is 256 bytes.
2926 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2927 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
2928 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
32a9a682
YS
2929 resource_alignment=
2930 Format:
2931 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
644a544f
KMEE
2932 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
2933 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
32a9a682
YS
2934 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
2935 aligned memory resources.
2936 If <order of align> is not specified,
2937 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
2938 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
2939 windows need to be expanded.
8b078c60
MK
2940 To specify the alignment for several
2941 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
2942 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
2943 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
43c16408
AP
2944 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
2945 end-to-end CRC checking).
2946 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
2947 the default.
2948 off: Turn ECRC off
2949 on: Turn ECRC on.
8c8803c5
YW
2950 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2951 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
2952 Default size is 256 bytes.
2953 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2954 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
2955 Default size is 2 megabytes.
e16b4660
KB
2956 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
2957 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
2958 Default is 1.
b55438fd
YL
2959 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
2960 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
2961 accommodate resources required by all child
2962 devices.
2963 off: Turn realloc off
2964 on: Turn realloc on
2965 realloc same as realloc=on
6748dcc2 2966 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
284f5f9d
BH
2967 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
2968 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
2969 port.
6b4b78fe 2970
e5665a45
CE
2971 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
2972 Management.
2973 off Disable ASPM.
2974 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
2975 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
2976
7570a333
MT
2977 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
2978 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
2979 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
2980
79dd9182 2981 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
28eb5f27
RW
2982 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
2983 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
2984 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
2985 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
2986 unconditionally.
79dd9182
RW
2987 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
2988 ports driver.
2989
9d26d3a8
MW
2990 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
2991 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
2992 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
2993
c7f48656 2994 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
c39fae14 2995 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
28eb5f27 2996 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
c7f48656 2997
1da177e4
LT
2998 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
2999
39ac5ba5
TB
3000 pd_ignore_unused
3001 [PM]
3002 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3003 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3004 for debug and development, but should not be
3005 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3006
1da177e4 3007 pd. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3008 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3009
3010 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3011 boot time.
3012 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3013 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3014
f58dc01b 3015 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
e933a73f
TH
3016 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3017 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3018 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3019 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3020 and performance comparison.
fa8a7094 3021
1da177e4 3022 pf. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3023 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3024
3025 pg. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3026 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3027
3028 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
71cced6e 3029 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3030
3031 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3032 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3033 See also Documentation/parport.txt.
3034
16290246 3035 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
de32a243
TG
3036 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3037 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3038
96242116
BH
3039 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3040 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3041 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3042 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3043 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3044 possible settings and some assignment information.
97ef062b 3045
1da177e4
LT
3046 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3047 { off }
3048
3049 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3050 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3051
3052 pnp_reserve_irq=
3053 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3054
3055 pnp_reserve_dma=
3056 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3057
3058 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
a9913044 3059 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
1da177e4
LT
3060
3061 pnp_reserve_mem=
a9913044
RD
3062 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3063 autoconfiguration.
1da177e4
LT
3064 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3065
4af94f39
RD
3066 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3067 Default is 21.
3068 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3069 may be specified.
3070 Format: <port>,<port>....
3071
c3cbd075
BS
3072 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3073 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3074 platform machine description specific power_save
3075 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3076 execution priority.
3077
3eb5d588
AB
3078 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3079 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3080 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3081 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3082 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3083
45807a1d
IM
3084 print-fatal-signals=
3085 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
f84d49b2
NO
3086
3087 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3088 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3089 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3090 coredump - etc.
3091
3092 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3093 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3094
45807a1d
IM
3095 default: off.
3096
c22ab332
MG
3097 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3098 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3099 panics
3100 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3101 default: disabled
3102
750afe7b
BP
3103 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3104 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3105 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3106 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3107 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3108 Default: ratelimit
3109
e84845c4
RD
3110 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3111 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3112
0cb55ad2
RD
3113 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3114 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3115 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3116
3117 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3118 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3119 instead using the legacy FADT method
3120
1da177e4 3121 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
a9913044
RD
3122 Format: [schedule,]<number>
3123 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3124 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3125 statistical time based profiling.
b3da2a73
MG
3126 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3127 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
c0fe2e69 3128 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
1da177e4 3129
1da177e4
LT
3130 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3131 before loading.
31c00fc1 3132 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 3133
a9913044
RD
3134 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3135 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
1da177e4
LT
3136 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3137 per second.
a9913044
RD
3138 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3139 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
1da177e4
LT
3140 (0 = never).
3141 psmouse.resolution=
3142 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3143 psmouse.smartscroll=
a9913044 3144 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
1da177e4
LT
3145 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3146
dee28e72
MG
3147 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3148
1da177e4 3149 pt. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3150 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 3151
dc8c8587
KS
3152 pty.legacy_count=
3153 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3154 default number.
3155
7d2c502f 3156 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
a9913044 3157
1da177e4
LT
3158 r128= [HW,DRM]
3159
3160 raid= [HW,RAID]
e52347bd 3161 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
1da177e4 3162
1da177e4 3163 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
31c00fc1 3164 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 3165
4102adab 3166 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
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3167 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3168
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3169 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3170 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3171 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
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3172 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3173 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3174 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3175 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
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3176 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3177 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3178 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3179
4102adab 3180 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
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3181 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3182 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3183 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3184 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3185 This improves the real-time response for the
3186 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3187 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3188 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3189 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3190
4102adab 3191 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
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3192 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3193 process in one batch.
21a1ea9e 3194
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3195 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3196 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3197 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3198 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3199
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3200 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3201 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3202 RCU grace-period cleanup. This only has effect
3203 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP is set.
3204
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3205 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3206 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3207 RCU grace-period initialization. This only has
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3208 effect when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
3209 is set.
3210
3211 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3212 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3213 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3214 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3215 the rcu_node combining tree. This only has effect
3216 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT is set.
37745d28 3217
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3218 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3219 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3220 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3221 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3222 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
37745d28 3223
4102adab 3224 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
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3225 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3226 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3227 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3228 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3229 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3230 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
f885b7f2 3231
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3232 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3233 Set required age in jiffies for a
3234 given grace period before RCU starts
3235 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3236 rcu_note_context_switch().
3237
4102adab 3238 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
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3239 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3240 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3241 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3242 and maximum value is HZ.
3243
4102adab 3244 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
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3245 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3246 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3247 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3248
21871d7e 3249 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
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3250 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3251 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3252 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3253 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3254 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3255 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3256 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3257 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3258 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
21871d7e 3259
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3260 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3261 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3262 defaults to the square root of the number of
3263 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3264 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3265 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3266
4102adab 3267 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
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3268 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3269 batch limiting is disabled.
21a1ea9e 3270
4102adab 3271 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
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3272 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3273 batch limiting is re-enabled.
21a1ea9e 3274
4102adab 3275 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
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3276 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3277 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
d40011f6 3278
4102adab 3279 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
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3280 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3281 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3282 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3283 prove do nothing more than free memory.
d40011f6 3284
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3285 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3286 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3287 grace-period primitives.
3288
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3289 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3290 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3291 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3292 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3293 interference.
3294
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3295 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3296 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3297 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3298 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3299 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3300 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3301 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3302 a single reader.
3303
3304 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3305 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3306 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3307 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3308
3309 rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT]
3310 Start rcuperf running at boot time.
3311
3312 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3313 Shut the system down after performance tests
3314 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3315 testing.
3316
3317 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3318 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3319
3320 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3321 Enable additional printk() statements.
3322
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3323 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3324 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3325 callback-flood tests.
3326
3327 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3328 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3329 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3330 test.
3331
3332 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3333 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3334 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3335 disable callback-flood testing.
3336
3337 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3338 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3339 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3340
4102adab 3341 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
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3342 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3343 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3344
4102adab 3345 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
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3346 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3347 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3348
4102adab 3349 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
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3350 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3351 in seconds.
3352
3353 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3354 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3355 primitives, if available.
dabb8aa9 3356
4102adab 3357 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
21b05de4 3358 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
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3359
3360 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
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3361 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3362 update-side primitives, if available.
3363
3364 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3365 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3366 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3367 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3368 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3369 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3370 they are all non-zero.
dabb8aa9 3371
4102adab 3372 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
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3373 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3374
4102adab 3375 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
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3376 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3377 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3378 test, hence the "fake".
3379
4102adab 3380 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
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3381 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3382 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3383 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3384 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3385 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
dabb8aa9 3386
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3387 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3388 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3389
3390 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
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3391 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3392
4102adab 3393 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
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3394 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3395 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3396
4102adab 3397 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
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3398 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3399 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3400 during the rcutorture test.
3401
4102adab 3402 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
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3403 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3404 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3405
4102adab 3406 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
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3407 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3408 warnings, zero to disable.
3409
4102adab 3410 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
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3411 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3412
4102adab 3413 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
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3414 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3415
4102adab 3416 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
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3417 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3418 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3419 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3420 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3421
4102adab 3422 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
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3423 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3424 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3425 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3426
4102adab 3427 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
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3428 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3429
4102adab 3430 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
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3431 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3432
4102adab 3433 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
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3434 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3435 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3436
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3437 rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
3438 Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3439
4102adab 3440 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
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3441 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3442
4102adab 3443 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
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3444 Enable additional printk() statements.
3445
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3446 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3447 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3448
3449 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3450 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3451
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3452 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3453 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3454 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3455 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3456 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3457 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
79cfea02 3458 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 3459
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3460 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3461 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3462 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3463 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
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3464 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3465 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3466 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3467 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3468 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 3469
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3470 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3471 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3472 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
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3473 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3474 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3e42ec1a 3475
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3476 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3477 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3478 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3479 to zero.
3480
74860fee
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3481 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3482 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3483
3484 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3485 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3486
3487 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3488 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3489
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3490 rdinit= [KNL]
3491 Format: <full_path>
3492 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3493 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3494
1b3a5d02
RH
3495 reboot= [KNL]
3496 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3497 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3498 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3499 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3500 [[,]f[orce]
3501 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3502 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3503 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3504 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3505 to be used for rebooting.
1da177e4 3506
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3507 relax_domain_level=
3508 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
09c3bcce 3509 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
46b6d94e 3510
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3511 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3512
cd4f0ef7 3513 reservetop= [X86-32]
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ZA
3514 Format: nn[KMG]
3515 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3516 address space.
3517
9ea77bdb
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3518 reservelow= [X86]
3519 Format: nn[K]
3520 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3521 the bottom of the address space.
3522
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VG
3523 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3524 during initialization.
3525
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3526 resume= [SWSUSP]
3527 Specify the partition device for software suspend
2df83fa4
MB
3528 Format:
3529 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
1da177e4 3530
ecbd0da1
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3531 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3532 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3533 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3534 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3535 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3536
f126f733
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3537 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3538 read the resume files
3539
6f8d7022
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3540 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3541 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3542 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3543
f996fc96
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3544 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3545 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3546 present during boot.
3547 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
a6e15a39 3548 no Disable hibernation and resume.
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3549 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
3550 (that will set all pages holding image data
3551 during restoration read-only).
f996fc96 3552
0a7b35cb
MN
3553 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3554
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3555 rfkill.default_state=
3556 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3557 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3558 1 Unblocked.
3559
3560 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3561 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3562 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3563 blocked and the previous configuration.
3564 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3565 blocked and everything unblocked.
3566
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3567 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3568 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3569
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3570 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3571
d2aa1aca
KC
3572 rodata= [KNL]
3573 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3574 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3575
605df8af
HS
3576 rockchip.usb_uart
3577 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3578 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3579 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3580 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3581
1da177e4 3582 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
f2d34fd9 3583 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
1da177e4
LT
3584
3585 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3586 mount the root filesystem
3587
3588 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3589
3590 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3591
cc1ed754
PO
3592 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3593 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3594 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3595
5c71d618
RT
3596 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3597 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3598 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3599 managed by CMA.
3600
1da177e4
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3601 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3602
3603 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3604
c60d1ae4
GS
3605 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3606 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3607 strict
3608 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3609 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3610 which is faster.
3611
1da177e4
LT
3612 sa1100ir [NET]
3613 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3614
1da177e4 3615 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
a9913044 3616
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MT
3617 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3618
cb251765
MG
3619 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3620 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3621 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3622 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
f6630114 3623
5307c955
MG
3624 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3625 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3626 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3627 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3628 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3629 1 -- enable.
3630 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3631 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3632
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RD
3633 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3634 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3635 security module asking for security registration will be
3636 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3637 as if no module has been chosen.
3638
3639 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
1da177e4
LT
3640 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3641 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3642 0 -- disable.
3643 1 -- enable.
3644 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3645 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3646 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3647
c1c124e9
JJ
3648 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3649 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3650 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3651 0 -- disable.
3652 1 -- enable.
3653 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3654
cd4f0ef7 3655 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
1da177e4 3656
1da177e4
LT
3657 shapers= [NET]
3658 Maximal number of shapers.
a9913044 3659
1da177e4
LT
3660 simeth= [IA-64]
3661 simscsi=
a9913044 3662
1da177e4
LT
3663 slram= [HW,MTD]
3664
423c929c
JK
3665 slab_nomerge [MM]
3666 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3667 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
3668 allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable
3669 merging on their own.
3670 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3671
3df1cccd
DR
3672 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3673 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3674 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3675 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3676 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3677
f0630fff
CL
3678 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3679 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3680 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3681 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3682 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3683 last alloc / free. For more information see
3684 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
c1aee215
CL
3685
3686 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
3687 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3688 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3689 fragmentation. For more information see
3690 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
c1aee215
CL
3691
3692 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
3693 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3694 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3695 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3696 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3697 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3698 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
c1aee215
CL
3699 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3700
3701 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
24775d65 3702 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
f0630fff 3703 lower than slub_max_order.
c1aee215
CL
3704 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3705
3706 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
423c929c
JK
3707 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3708 See slab_nomerge for more information.
c1aee215 3709
1da177e4
LT
3710 smart2= [HW]
3711 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3712
d0d4f69b
BH
3713 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3714 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
3715 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
3716 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
3717 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
3718 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
3719 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3720 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3721 1: Fast pin select (default)
3722 2: ATC IRMode
3723
52c48c51
SS
3724 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
3725 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
3726 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
3727 actual hardware limit.
3728 Format: <integer>
3729 Default: -1 (no limit)
3730
9c44bc03
IM
3731 softlockup_panic=
3732 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
44a4dcf7 3733 Format: <integer>
9c44bc03 3734
ed235875
AT
3735 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3736 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3737 backtraces on all cpus.
3738 Format: <integer>
3739
1da177e4 3740 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
395cf969 3741 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
1da177e4 3742
1da177e4
LT
3743 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
3744 spia_fio_base=
3745 spia_pedr=
3746 spia_peddr=
3747
f38f1d2a
SR
3748 stacktrace [FTRACE]
3749 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
3750
762e1207
SR
3751 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
3752 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
3753 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
3754 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
3755 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
3756 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
3757 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
3758
1da177e4
LT
3759 sti= [PARISC,HW]
3760 Format: <num>
3761 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
3762 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
3763 as the initial boot-console.
3764 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3765
3766 sti_font= [HW]
3767 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3768
3769 stifb= [HW]
3770 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
3771
cbf11071
TM
3772 sunrpc.min_resvport=
3773 sunrpc.max_resvport=
3774 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3775 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
3776 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
3777 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
3778 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
3779 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
3780 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
3781 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
3782 maximum port values.
3783
ff3ac5c3
TM
3784 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
3785 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3786 Limit the number of requests that the server will
3787 process in parallel from a single connection.
3788 The default value is 0 (no limit).
3789
42a7fc4a
GB
3790 sunrpc.pool_mode=
3791 [NFS]
3792 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
3793 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
3794 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
3795 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
3796 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
3797 NFS server is running.
3798
3799 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
3800 automatically using heuristics
3801 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
3802 percpu one pool for each CPU
3803 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
3804 to global on non-NUMA machines)
3805
cbf11071
TM
3806 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
3807 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
3808 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3809 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
3810 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
3811 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
3812 improve throughput, but will also increase the
3813 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
3814
1d4a9c17
BN
3815 suspend.pm_test_delay=
3816 [SUSPEND]
3817 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
3818 mode before resuming the system (see
3819 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
3820 is set. Default value is 5.
3821
07555ac1 3822 swapaccount=[0|1]
a42c390c
MH
3823 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
3824 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
09c3bcce 3825 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
a42c390c 3826
91fec0f5 3827 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
fff5d992 3828 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
91fec0f5
JK
3829 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
3830 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
3831 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
fff5d992 3832 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
a9913044 3833
1da177e4
LT
3834 switches= [HW,M68k]
3835
e52eec13
AK
3836 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
3837 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
3838 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
3839 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
3840 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
3841 in older udev will not work anymore.
3842 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
3843 the kernel configuration.
3844
5d6f647f
IM
3845 sysrq_always_enabled
3846 [KNL]
3847 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
3848 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
3849 Useful for debugging.
3850
747029a5
FF
3851 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3852 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
3853 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
3854 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
3855 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
3856 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
3857
1da177e4
LT
3858 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
3859
acc82342 3860 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
77437fd4 3861 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
acc82342
SP
3862 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
3863 as the system sleep state during system startup with
3864 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
3865 The system is woken from this state using a
3866 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
77437fd4 3867
1da177e4
LT
3868 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3869 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
3870
f8707ec9
LB
3871 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
3872 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
3873 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
3874
c52a7419
LB
3875 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
3876 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
22a94d79 3877 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
c52a7419 3878
f5487145
LB
3879 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
3880 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
3881 critical and hot trip points.
3882
72b33ef8
LB
3883 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
3884 1: disable ACPI thermal control
3885
a70cdc52
LB
3886 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
3887 -1: disable all passive trip points
ada9cfdd
RD
3888 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
3889 value
a70cdc52 3890
730ff34d
LB
3891 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
3892 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
3893 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
3894 0: no polling (default)
3895
8d32a307
TG
3896 threadirqs [KNL]
3897 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
24775d65 3898 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
8d32a307 3899
2ca62b04
KRW
3900 tmem [KNL,XEN]
3901 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
3902
3903 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3904 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
3905 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
3906
3907 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3908 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
37d46e15
KRW
3909 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
3910 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
2ca62b04
KRW
3911
3912 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3913 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
3914 to the hypervisor.
3915
3916 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3917 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
3918 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
3919 kernel based on different criteria.
3920
2b1a61f0
HC
3921 topology= [S390]
3922 Format: {off | on}
3923 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
f65e51d7
SL
3924 topology information if the hardware supports this.
3925 The scheduler will make use of this information and
2b1a61f0 3926 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
c9af3fa9 3927 Default is on.
2b1a61f0 3928
2d73bae1
NA
3929 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
3930 Format: {off}
3931 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
3932 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
3933 LPAR.
3934
1da177e4
LT
3935 tp720= [HW,PS2]
3936
225a9be2
RA
3937 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
3938 Format: integer pcr id
3939 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
3940 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
3941 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
3942 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
3943 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
3944 are saved.
3945
9d612bef 3946 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
3e6fb8e9 3947 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
631595fb 3948
020e5f85
LZ
3949 trace_event=[event-list]
3950 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
d81749ea
BN
3951 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
3952 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
3953 also Documentation/trace/events.txt
020e5f85 3954
7bcfaf54
SR
3955 trace_options=[option-list]
3956 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
3957 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
3958 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
3959 to echo the option name into
3960
3961 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
3962
3963 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
3964 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
3965
3966 trace_options=stacktrace
3967
3968 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
3969 section.
3970
0daa2302
SRRH
3971 tp_printk[FTRACE]
3972 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
3973 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
3974 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
3975 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
3976 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
3977
3978 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
3979 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
3980 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
3981 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
3982
3983 ** CAUTION **
3984
3985 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
3986 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
3987 the system to live lock.
3988
de7edd31
SRRH
3989 traceoff_on_warning
3990 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
3991 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
3992 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
3993 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
3994
3995 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
3996 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
3997 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
3998
3999 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4000 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4001
fcf4d821
JK
4002 transparent_hugepage=
4003 [KNL]
4004 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4005 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4006 with respect to transparent hugepages.
4007 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
4008
d3b8f889 4009 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
395628ef
AK
4010 Format: <string>
4011 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
d3b8f889
JS
4012 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4013 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4014 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4015 virtualized environment.
e82b8e4e
VP
4016 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4017 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4018 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4019 can add overhead.
395628ef 4020
a9913044
RD
4021 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4022 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4023 Format:
4024 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
1da177e4
LT
4025 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
4026
b6935f8c 4027 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
e52347bd 4028 happen after console_init() and before a proper
b6935f8c
CK
4029 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4030 help "seeing" what's going on.
4031
f86dcc5a
ED
4032 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4033 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4034
5f8364b7
AS
4035 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4036 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4037 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4038 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4039 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4040 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4041 reported either.
4042
e3a61b0a 4043 unknown_nmi_panic
44a4dcf7 4044 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
e3a61b0a 4045
c4fc2342
CDH
4046 usbcore.authorized_default=
4047 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4048 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4049 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4050
b5e795f8
AS
4051 usbcore.autosuspend=
4052 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4053 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4054 is the time required before an idle device will be
4055 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
eaafbc3a 4056 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
b5e795f8 4057
fd7c519d
JK
4058 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4059 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4060
0290cc9f
AS
4061 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4062 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4063 (default = 65536).
4064
fd7c519d
JK
4065 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4066 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4067
4068 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4069 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
4070 scheme (default 0 = off).
4071
3f5eb8d5
AS
4072 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4073 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4074 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4075
fd7c519d
JK
4076 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4077 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4078 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4079
4080 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4081 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4082 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4083 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4084
40d58148
ON
4085 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4086
1da177e4
LT
4087 usbhid.mousepoll=
4088 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
a9913044 4089
d4f373e5
AS
4090 usb-storage.delay_use=
4091 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
19101954 4092 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
d4f373e5
AS
4093
4094 usb-storage.quirks=
4095 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4096 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4097 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4098 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4099 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4100 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4101 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
c838ea46
AS
4102 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4103 of sense data);
a0bb1081
AS
4104 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4105 bytes of sense data);
d4f373e5
AS
4106 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4107 device capacity by one sector);
5116901d
KR
4108 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4109 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4110 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4111 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
734016b0
HG
4112 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4113 command, uas only);
ee136af4
HG
4114 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4115 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
c838ea46
AS
4116 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4117 reported device capacity by one
4118 sector if the number is odd);
d4f373e5
AS
4119 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4120 device);
13630746
HG
4121 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4122 command, uas only);
d4f373e5
AS
4123 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4124 unlock ejectable media);
4125 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4126 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
21c13a4f
AS
4127 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4128 initial READ(10) command);
c838ea46
AS
4129 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4130 reported by the device);
eaa05dfc
NJ
4131 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4132 by default);
d4f373e5
AS
4133 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4134 bogus residue values);
4135 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4136 Logical Unit);
59307852
HG
4137 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4138 commands, uas only);
b6089f19 4139 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
d4f373e5
AS
4140 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4141 medium is write-protected).
050bc4e8
ON
4142 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4143 even if the device claims no cache)
d4f373e5
AS
4144 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4145
ac1667db
SB
4146 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4147 Format: <int>
4148 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4149 1 - undefined instruction events
4150 2 - system calls
4151 4 - invalid data aborts
4152 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4153 16 - SIGBUS faults
4154 Example: user_debug=31
4155
14315592
IC
4156 userpte=
4157 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4158
4159 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4160 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4161 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4162
6cececfc 4163 vdso= [X86,SH]
b0b49f26
AL
4164 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4165
4166 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
e6e5494c
IM
4167 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4168
b0b49f26
AL
4169 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4170 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4171 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4172
4173 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4174 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4175 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4176
4177 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4178 alias for vdso32=0.
4179
4180 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4181 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
af65d648 4182
d080d397
YI
4183 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4184 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4185
1da177e4
LT
4186 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4187 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4188
3afe6dab
AL
4189 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4190 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4191 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4192 level and then send out the event to user space through
4193 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4194 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4195 brightness level.
2843768b 4196 default: 1
3afe6dab 4197
81a054ce
PM
4198 virtio_mmio.device=
4199 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4200
4201 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4202 where:
4203 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4204 like K, M and G)
4205 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4206 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4207 request_irq())
4208 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4209 example:
4210 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4211
4212 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4213
cd4f0ef7 4214 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
954a8b81 4215 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
a9913044 4216 Documentation/svga.txt.
1da177e4
LT
4217 Use vga=ask for menu.
4218 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4219 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4220
a9913044 4221 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
1da177e4
LT
4222 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4223 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4224 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4225 mapped kernel RAM.
4226
585c3047
PO
4227 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4228 Format: <command>
1da177e4 4229
585c3047
PO
4230 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4231 Format: <command>
4232
4233 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4234 Format: <command>
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4236 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4237 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4238 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4239 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4240 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4241 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4242 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4243
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4244 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4245 emulated reasonably safely.
3ae36655 4246
2e57ae05 4247 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
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4248 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4249 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4250 better than they would in emulation mode.
4251 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4252
4253 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4254 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4255 might break your system.
4256
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4257 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4258 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4259 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4260
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4261 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4262 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4263 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4264 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4265
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4266 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4267 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4268 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4269 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4270 ranging from 0-255.
4271
4272 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4273 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4274 Change the default green palette of the console.
4275 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4276 ranging from 0-255.
4277
4278 vt.default_red= [VT]
4279 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4280 Change the default red palette of the console.
4281 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4282 ranging from 0-255.
4283
4284 vt.default_utf8=
4285 [VT]
4286 Format=<0|1>
4287 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4288 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4289 newly opened terminals.
4290
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4291 vt.global_cursor_default=
4292 [VT]
4293 Format=<-1|0|1>
4294 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4295 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4296 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4297 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4298 cursors, 1 will display them.
4299
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4300 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4301 Default: 2 = green.
4302
4303 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4304 Default: 3 = cyan.
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4306 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4307 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4308 or other driver-specific files in the
4309 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
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4311 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4312 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4313 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4314 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4315 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4316 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4317 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4318 corresponding sysfs file.
4319
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4320 workqueue.disable_numa
4321 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4322 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4323 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4324 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4325 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4326 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4327 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4328
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4329 workqueue.power_efficient
4330 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4331 they show better performance thanks to cache
4332 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4333 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4334
4335 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4336 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4337 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4338 power usage at the cost of small performance
4339 overhead.
4340
4341 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4342 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4343
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4344 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4345 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4346 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4347 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
4348 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4349 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
4350 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4351 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4352 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4353 impacted.
4354
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4355 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4356 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4357 supporting x2apic.
4358
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4359 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4360 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
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4361 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4362 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
712b6aa8 4363 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
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4365 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4366 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4367 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4368 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4369 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4370 domains.
4371
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4372 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4373 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4374 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4375 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4376 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4377 nics -- unplug network devices
4378 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
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4379 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4380 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4381 the unplug protocol
c93a4dfb 4382 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
c1c5413a 4383
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4384 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4385 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4386 optimizations.
4387
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4388 xen_nopv [X86]
4389 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4390 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4391
1da177e4 4392 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
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4393 Format:
4394 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]