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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
9863c90f 534 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
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535 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
536 [MIPS] MIPS
537 [PARISC] cr16
538 [S390] tod
539 [SH] SuperH
540 [SPARC64] tick
541 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
542
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543 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
544 [ARM,ARM64]
545 Format: <bool>
546 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
547 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
548 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
549 systems.
550
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551 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
552 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
cd4d09ec 553 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
07983f0e 554 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
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555 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
556 ones should be.
557 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
558 or using the feature without checking anything
559 will still see it. This just prevents it from
560 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
561 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
562 some critical bits.
563
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564 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
565 [ARM,X86,KNL]
566 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
567 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
568 placement constraint by the physical address range of
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569 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
570 altogether. For more information, see
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571 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
572
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573 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
574 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
575 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
576 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
577 a hypervisor.
578 Default: yes
579
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580 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
581 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
e9da6e99 582 allocations, by default set to 256K.
c7909509 583
6cececfc 584 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
a25bd949 585 in an oops report.
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587 Default: 64
588
1da177e4 589 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
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590 Format:
591 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
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592
593 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
594 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
595
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596 com90xx= [HW,NET]
597 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
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598 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
599
600 condev= [HW,S390] console device
601 conmode=
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603 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
604
605 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
606
607 ttyS<n>[,options]
f1a1c2dc 608 ttyUSB0[,options]
1da177e4 609 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
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610 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
611 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
612 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
613 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
614
e52347bd 615 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
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616 information. See
617 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
618 alternative.
1da177e4 619
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620 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
621 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
bd94c407 622 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
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624 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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625 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
626 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
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627 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
628 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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629 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
630 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
631 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
632 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
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633 the h/w is not re-initialized.
634
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636 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
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638 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
639 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
640 console=brl,ttyS0
641 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
642
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643 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
644 seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
645 disables the blank timer.
646
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647 coredump_filter=
648 [KNL] Change the default value for
649 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
650 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
651
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652 coresight_cpu_debug.enable
653 [ARM,ARM64]
654 Format: <bool>
655 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
656 0: default value, disable debugging
657 1: enable debugging at boot time
658
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659 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
660 disable the cpuidle sub-system
661
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662 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
663 disable the cpufreq sub-system
664
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665 cpu_init_udelay=N
666 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
667 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
668 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
669 Default: 10000
670
1da177e4 671 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
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672 Format:
673 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
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675 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
676 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
677 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
678 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
679 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
680 is selected automatically. Check
681 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
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683 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
684 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
685 in the running system. The syntax of range is
686 start-[end] where start and end are both
687 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
6f21e646 688 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
fb391599 689
adbc742b 690 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
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691 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
692 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
693 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
694 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
695 available.
696 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
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697 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
698 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
699 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
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700 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
701 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
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702 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
703 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
704 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
705 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
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706 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
707 for second kernel instead.
708 0: to disable low allocation.
adbc742b 709 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
55a20ee7 710 or memory reserved is below 4G.
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712 cryptomgr.notests
713 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
714
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715 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
716 Format: <dma>
717
718 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
719 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
a9913044 720
a9913044 721 dasd= [HW,NET]
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722 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
723
724 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
725 (one device per port)
726 Format: <port#>,<type>
727 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
728
a648ec05 729 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
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730 time. See
731 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
29e36c9f 732 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
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734 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
735
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736 debug_locks_verbose=
737 [KNL] verbose self-tests
738 Format=<0|1>
739 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
740 self-tests.
741 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
742 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
743 only useful to kernel developers.
744
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745 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
746
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747 no_debug_objects
748 [KNL] Disable object debugging
749
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750 debug_guardpage_minorder=
751 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
752 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
753 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
754 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
755 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
756 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
757 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
758 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
759 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
760 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
761 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
762 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
763 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
764 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
765 bypassed) which are not detectable by
766 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
767 tracking down these problems.
768
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769 debug_pagealloc=
770 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
771 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
772 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
773 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
774 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
775 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
776 on: enable the feature
777
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778 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
779
2d27a966 780 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
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781 Format: <area>[,<node>]
782 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
783
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785 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
786 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
787 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
788 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
789 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
790 if not specified.
55ff9780 791
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792 dhash_entries= [KNL]
793 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
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795 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
796 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
797 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
798 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
799 miss to occur.
800
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801 disable= [IPV6]
802 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
803
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804 disable_radix [PPC]
805 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
806
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807 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
808 Format: <int>
809 The number of initial APIC ID for the
810 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
811 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
812 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
813 causing system reset or hang due to sending
814 INIT from AP to BSP.
815
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816 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
817 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
818 to workaround buggy firmware.
819
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820 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
821 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
822
95ffa243 823 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
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824 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
825 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
0cb55ad2 826 entry later. This parameter disables that.
95ffa243 827
093af8d7 828 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
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829 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
830 memory out of your available memory pool based on
831 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
832 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
833
6cececfc 834 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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835 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
836 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
837
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838 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
839
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840 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
841 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
842
843 dma_debug_entries=<number>
844 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
845 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
846 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
847 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
848 architectural default is too low.
849
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850 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
851 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
852 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
853 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
854 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
855 driver later using sysfs.
856
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857 drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
858 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
859 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
860 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
861 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
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862 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
863 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
864 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
865 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
866 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
867 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
868 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
869 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
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870 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
871 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
872 data set with no connector name will be used for
873 any connectors not explicitly specified.
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875 dscc4.setup= [NET]
876
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877 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC]
878 Format: {"off" | "known"}
879 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
880 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
881 exists).
882 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
883 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
884 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
885
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886 dump_apple_properties [X86]
887 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
888 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
889 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
890
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891 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
892 module.dyndbg[="val"]
893 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
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894 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
895 for details.
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897 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
898 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
899 information about the feature.
900
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901 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
902 in some Intel CPUs.
903
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904 module.async_probe [KNL]
905 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
906
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907 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
908 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
909 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
910 which are not unmapped.
911
0cb55ad2 912 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
0d3c673e 913
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914 When used with no options, the early console is
915 determined by the stdout-path property in device
916 tree's chosen node.
917
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918 cdns,<addr>[,options]
919 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
920 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
921 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
922 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
923 configured.
6fa62fc4 924
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925 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
926 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1917ac76 927 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
6e63be3f 928 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
ca782f16 929 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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930 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
931 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
16290246 932 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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933 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
934 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
935 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
936 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
ca782f16 937 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
0cb55ad2 938
0d3c673e 939 pl011,<addr>
3b78fae7 940 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
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941 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
942 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
943 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
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944 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
945 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
946 the device registers.
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948 meson,<addr>
949 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
950 port at the specified address. The serial port must
951 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
952 supported.
953
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954 msm_serial,<addr>
955 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
956 port at the specified address. The serial port
957 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
958 yet supported.
959
960 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
961 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
962 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
963 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
964 yet supported.
965
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966 owl,<addr>
967 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
968 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
969 specified address. The serial port must already be
970 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
971
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972 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
973
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974 s3c2410,<addr>
975 s3c2412,<addr>
976 s3c2440,<addr>
977 s3c6400,<addr>
978 s5pv210,<addr>
979 exynos4210,<addr>
980 Use early console provided by serial driver available
981 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
982 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
983 serial port must already be setup and configured.
984 Options are not yet supported.
985
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986 lantiq,<addr>
987 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
988 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
989 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
990 yet supported.
991
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992 lpuart,<addr>
993 lpuart32,<addr>
994 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
995 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
996 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
997 port must already be setup and configured.
998
f7c864e7 999 ar3700_uart,<addr>
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1000 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1001 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1002 address. The serial port must already be setup
1003 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1004
89175cf7 1005 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k,S390]
1da177e4 1006 earlyprintk=vga
72548e83 1007 earlyprintk=efi
89175cf7 1008 earlyprintk=sclp
2482a92e 1009 earlyprintk=xen
1da177e4 1010 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
147ea091 1011 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
ea3acb19 1012 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
9780bc41 1013 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
c43088e3 1014 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1b5aeebf 1015 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
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1017 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1018 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1019 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1020
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1022 takes over.
1023
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1024 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1025 be used at a time.
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1027 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1028 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1029 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1030 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1031 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1032 You can find the port for a given device in
1033 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1034 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
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1035
1036 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1037 very good.
1038
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1039 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1040 the real console.
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1042 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1043
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1044 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1045
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1046 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1047 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1048 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1049 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1050 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1051 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1052 default: on.
1053
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1054 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1055 ekgdboc=kbd
1056
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1058 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1059
1da177e4 1060 edd= [EDD]
8c4dd606 1061 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1da177e4 1062
d2f7cbe7 1063 efi= [EFI]
fed6cefe 1064 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
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1065 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1066 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1067 default.
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1068 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1069 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1070 firmware implementations.
5ae3683c 1071 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
fed6cefe 1072 debug: enable misc debug output
d2f7cbe7 1073
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1074 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1075 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1076 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1077 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1078 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1079
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1080 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1081 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1082 updating original EFI memory map.
1083 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1084 from ss to ss+nn.
1085 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1086 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1087 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1088 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1089
1090 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1091 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1092 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1093 doesn't support it.
1094
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1095 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1096 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1097 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1098 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1099 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1100
1101
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1102 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1103 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1104
cd4f0ef7 1105 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1da177e4 1106 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
71f77055 1107 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1da177e4
LT
1108
1109 elevator= [IOSCHED]
17a9e7bb 1110 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
395cf969 1111 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
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1112 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1113
d3bf3795 1114 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
a9913044 1115 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
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1116 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1117 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
aac04b32 1118 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
1da177e4 1119
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1120 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1121 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1122 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1123 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1124
ca1eda2d 1125 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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RD
1126 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1127 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1128 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1129 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1130
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LT
1131 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1132 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1133 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1134 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1135 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1136 Default value is 0.
1137 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1138
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1139 erst_disable [ACPI]
1140 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1141 support.
1142
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LT
1143 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1144 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1145 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1146
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1147 evm= [EVM]
1148 Format: { "fix" }
1149 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1150 current integrity status.
1151
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AM
1152 failslab=
1153 fail_page_alloc=
1154 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1155 General fault injection mechanism.
1156 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
395cf969 1157 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
de1ba09b 1158
1da177e4 1159 floppy= [HW]
31c00fc1 1160 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1da177e4 1161
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AC
1162 force_pal_cache_flush
1163 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1164 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1165 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1166 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1167
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CB
1168 forcepae [X86-32]
1169 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1170 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1171 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1172 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1173 and may cause unknown problems.
1174
d9e54076 1175 ftrace=[tracer]
2af15d6a 1176 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
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1177 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1178 boot debugging.
1179
cecbca96 1180 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
2af15d6a 1181 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
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FW
1182 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1183 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1184 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1185 oops.
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SR
1186
1187 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1188 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1189 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1190 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1191 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
16290246 1192 tracing directory.
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SR
1193
1194 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1195 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1196 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1197 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1198 tracing directory.
d9e54076 1199
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1200 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1201 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1202 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1203 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1204 that can be changed at run time by the
1205 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1206
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NK
1207 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1208 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1209 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1210 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1211 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1212
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TB
1213 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1214 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1215 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1216 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1217 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1218
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LT
1219 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1220 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1221 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1222 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1223 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
1224
1225 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1226
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YL
1227 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1228 Format: off | on
1229 default: on
1230
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PO
1231 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1232 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1233 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1234 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1235 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1236
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1237 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1238 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1239 android emulator
1240
1da177e4 1241 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
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DB
1242 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1243 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1244 GPT to be used instead.
1da177e4 1245
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1246 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1247 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1248 Format: 0 | 1
1249 Default: 0
1250 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1251 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1252 Format: 0 | 1
1253 Default: 0
1254 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1255 Format: 0 | 1
1256 Default: 0
1257 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1258 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1259 Default: 1024
1260 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1261 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1262 Default: 1024
1263
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BJZ
1264 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1265 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1266 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1267
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JK
1268 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1269 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1270 backtraces on all cpus.
1271 Format: <integer>
1272
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LT
1273 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1274 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
16290246 1275 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
a9913044 1276 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
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LT
1277
1278 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1279
1280 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1281 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1282
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HY
1283 hest_disable [ACPI]
1284 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1285 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1286 logic will be disabled.
1287
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LT
1288 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1289 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1290 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1291 size on bigger boxes.
1292
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TG
1293 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1294 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1295 Default: "on"
1296
1da177e4
LT
1297 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1298 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1299
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RD
1300 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1301
1302 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1303 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1304 verbose }
1305 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1306 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1307 VIA, nVidia)
1308 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1309
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PB
1310 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1311 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1312
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AK
1313 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1314 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
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JT
1315 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1316 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1317 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1318 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
27ec26ec 1319 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
6902aa84 1320
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HB
1321 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1322 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
431429ff
HB
1323 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1324 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1325 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
cef7125d 1326
fdabf525
JH
1327 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1328 hardware thread id mappings.
1329 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1330
7bf69395
FDN
1331 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1332 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1333 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1334 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1335 the real console.
1336
3a853fb9 1337 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
7954763b
JN
1338 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1339 registered from board initialization code.
3a853fb9
JN
1340 Format:
1341 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1342
36d95739 1343 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
e1443d28
SCP
1344 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1345 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1346 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1347 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1da177e4 1348 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
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ML
1349 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1350 keyboard and cannot control its state
1da177e4
LT
1351 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1352 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
945ef0d4 1353 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
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JK
1354 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1355 for the AUX port
1da177e4 1356 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
e55a3366 1357 controller
1da177e4
LT
1358 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1359 controllers
24775d65 1360 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
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MPS
1361 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1362 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1363 transitions, or never reset
1364 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1365 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1366 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1367 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1368 architectures force reset to be always executed
1da177e4 1369 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
148e9a71 1370 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1da177e4
LT
1371
1372 i810= [HW,DRM]
1373
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DT
1374 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1375 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1376 hardware.
1da177e4
LT
1377 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1378 does not match list of supported models.
1379 i8k.power_status
1380 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1381 (disabled by default)
1382 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1383 capability is set.
1384
4dca20ef 1385 i915.invert_brightness=
7bd90909
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1386 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1387 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
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CE
1388 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1389 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1390 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1391 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1392 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1393 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1394 value switches the backlight off.
1395 -1 -- never invert brightness
1396 0 -- machine default
1397 1 -- force brightness inversion
7bd90909 1398
1da177e4
LT
1399 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1400 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1401
0af80c04
DF
1402 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1403 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
075affcb
BZ
1404 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1405 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1c10e938 1406 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1da177e4 1407
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MR
1408 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1409 Format: <int>
1410 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1411 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1412 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1413 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1414 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1415 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1416 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1417 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1418 was 0x3.
1419
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RD
1420 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1421 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1422
f039b754 1423 idle= [X86]
69fb3676 1424 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
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RD
1425 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1426 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1427 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1428 Not recommended.
ada9cfdd 1429 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
c1e3b377 1430 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
ada9cfdd 1431 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
a9913044 1432
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MR
1433 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1434 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1435 Default: strict
1436
1437 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1438 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1439 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1440 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1441 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1442 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1443 encoding mode.
1444
1445 Available settings are as follows:
1446 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1447 supported by the FPU
1448 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1449 by the FPU
1450 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1451 by the FPU
1452 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1453 supported by the FPU
1454
1455 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1456 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1457 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1458 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1459 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1460 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1461 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1462 MIPS64 CPUs.
1463
1464 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1465 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1466 except where unsupported by hardware.
1467
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IM
1468 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1469 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1470 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
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YZ
1471 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1472 could change it dynamically, usually by
1473 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
79290822 1474
d977d56c
KK
1475 ignore_rlimit_data
1476 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1477 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1478 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1479
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1480 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1481 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1482
2fe5d6de 1483 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2faa6ef3 1484 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
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MZ
1485 default: "enforce"
1486
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MZ
1487 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1488 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1489 owned by uid=0.
1490
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MZ
1491 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1492 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1493 measurements, instead of host native format.
1494
3323eec9 1495 ima_hash= [IMA]
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MZ
1496 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1497 | sha512 | ... }
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MZ
1498 default: "sha1"
1499
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MZ
1500 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1501 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1502
24fd03c8 1503 ima_policy= [IMA]
33ce9549 1504 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
503ceaef 1505 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot"
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MZ
1506
1507 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1508 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1509 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1510 uid=0.
1511
1512 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1513 all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent
1514 of ima_appraise_tcb.)
24fd03c8 1515
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MZ
1516 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1517 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1518 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
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MZ
1519
1520 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
5789ba3b
EP
1521 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1522 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1523 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1524 opened for read by uid=0.
1525
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RS
1526 ima_template= [IMA]
1527 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
8265a2f8 1528 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
9b9d4ce5
RS
1529 Default: "ima-ng"
1530
c2426d2a
RS
1531 ima_template_fmt=
1532 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1533 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1534
3bcced39
DK
1535 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1536 Format: <min_file_size>
1537 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1538 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1539
1540 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1541 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1542 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1543
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DK
1544 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1545 Format: <bufsize>
1546 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1547
1548 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1549 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1550 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1551
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LT
1552 init= [KNL]
1553 Format: <full_path>
1554 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1555 process.
1556
1557 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1558 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1559 startup.
1560
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PB
1561 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1562 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1563 modules and initcalls.
1564
1da177e4
LT
1565 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1566
acd547b2
DH
1567 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1568 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1569 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1570 override in debugfs after boot.
1571
1da177e4
LT
1572 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1573 Format: <irq>
1574
6bb2ff84
FY
1575 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1576
d726d8d7
MZ
1577 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1578 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1579 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1580 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1581
ba395927 1582 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
0cd5c3c8
KM
1583 on
1584 Enable intel iommu driver.
ba395927
KA
1585 off
1586 Disable intel iommu driver.
1587 igfx_off [Default Off]
1588 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1589 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1590 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1591 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1592 DMA.
7d3b03ce
KA
1593 forcedac [x86_64]
1594 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
16290246 1595 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
7d3b03ce 1596 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
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RD
1597 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1598 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
7d3b03ce 1599 then look in the higher range.
5e0d2a6f 1600 strict [Default Off]
1601 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1602 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1603 to batching them for performance.
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1604 sp_off [Default Off]
1605 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1606 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1607 not be supported.
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1608 ecs_off [Default Off]
1609 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1610 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1611 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1612 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1613 on hardware which claims to support them.
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1614 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1615 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1616 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1617 could harm performance of some high-throughput
1618 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1619 mapping is enabled.
1620 Note that using this option lowers the security
1621 provided by tboot because it makes the system
1622 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
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1623
1624 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1625 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
22c6bbe4 1626 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
2e92c7ad 1627
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1628 intel_pstate= [X86]
1629 disable
1630 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1631 scaling driver for the supported processors
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1632 passive
1633 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1634 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1635 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1636 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1637 feature.
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1638 force
1639 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1640 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1641 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1642 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1643 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1644 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1645 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1646 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
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1647 no_hwp
1648 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1649 if available.
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1650 hwp_only
1651 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1652 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
9522a2ff 1653 support_acpi_ppc
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1654 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1655 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1656 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1657 then this feature is turned on by default.
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1658 per_cpu_perf_limits
1659 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1660 cpufreq sysfs interface
6be26498 1661
d1423d56 1662 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
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1663 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1664 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1665 nosid disable Source ID checking
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1666 no_x2apic_optout
1667 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
b7d20631 1668 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
d1423d56 1669
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1670 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1671 strict regions from userspace.
1672 relaxed
1673
1674 iommu= [x86]
1675 off
1676 force
1677 noforce
1678 biomerge
1679 panic
1680 nopanic
1681 merge
1682 nomerge
1683 forcesac
1684 soft
bcb71abe 1685 pt [x86, IA-64]
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1686 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1687 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
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1689 iommu.passthrough=
1690 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1691 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1692 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1693 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1694 unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
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1695
1696 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1697 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1698 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1699
6cececfc 1700 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
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1701 0x80
1702 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1703 0xed
1704 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
b02aae9c 1705 udelay
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1706 Simple two microseconds delay
1707 none
1708 No delay
b02aae9c 1709
1da177e4 1710 ip= [IP_PNP]
dc7a0816 1711 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 1712
fbf19803 1713 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2d13e6ca 1714 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
fbf19803 1715
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1716 irqfixup [HW]
1717 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1718 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1719 firmware running.
1720
1721 irqpoll [HW]
1722 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1723 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1724 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1725 firmware running.
1726
1da177e4 1727 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
a9913044 1728 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
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1729
1730 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
2d13e6ca 1731 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
b225d44e 1732
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1733 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
1734 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
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1735 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
1736 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
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1737 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1738 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1739
1740 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
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1741 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
1742 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
1743 suboptimal load balancer performance.
1da177e4 1744
a9913044 1745 iucv= [HW,NET]
1da177e4 1746
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1747 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1748 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1749 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1750 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1751 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1752 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1753
1754 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1755 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1756 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1757 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1758 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1759 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1760
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1761 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1762 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1763 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1764 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1765 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1766 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1767
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1768 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1769 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
1770
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1771 nokaslr [KNL]
1772 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1773 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1774 Layout Randomization).
24f2e027 1775
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1776 kasan_multi_shot
1777 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1778 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1779 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1780 invalid access.
1781
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1782 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1783
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1784 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1785 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1786 This parameter
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1787 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1788 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1789 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1790 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1791 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1792 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1793 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
675217fd 1794 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
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1795 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1796 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1797 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1798 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1799 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1800 zone if it does not.
1801
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1802 Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1803 you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1804 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1805 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1806 for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1807 so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1808 time.
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1810 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1811 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1812 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1813 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1814 optional and is the number seconds in between
1815 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1816 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1817 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1818 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1819 the kernel debugger.
1820
84c08fd6 1821 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
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1822 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1823 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
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1824 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1825 keyboard only format: kbd
1826 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1827 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1828 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1829 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
6cdf6e06 1830
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1831 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1832 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1833
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1834 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1835 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1836 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1837
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1838 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1839 Valid arguments: on, off
1840 Default: on
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1841 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1842 the default is off.
04f70336 1843
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1844 kmemcheck= [X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode
1845 Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2
1846 kmemcheck=0 (disabled)
1847 kmemcheck=1 (enabled)
1848 kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode)
1849 Default: 2 (one-shot mode)
1850
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1851 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1852 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1853
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1854 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1855 KVM MMU at runtime.
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1856 Default is 0 (off)
1857
fef07aae 1858 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
8475f94a 1859 Default is 1 (enabled)
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1860
1861 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1862 for all guests.
16290246 1863 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
fef07aae 1864
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1865 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1866 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1867 Default is 1 (enabled)
1868
1869 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1870 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1871 Default is 0 (disabled)
1872
1873 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1874 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1875 Default is 1 (enabled)
1876
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1877 kvm-intel.nested=
1878 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1879 Default is 0 (disabled)
1880
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1881 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1882 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1883 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1884 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1885
1886 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1887 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1888 Default is 1 (enabled)
1889
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1890 l2cr= [PPC]
1891
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1892 l3cr= [PPC]
1893
cd4f0ef7 1894 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
a9913044 1895 disabled it.
1da177e4 1896
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1897 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1898 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1899 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1900
6cececfc 1901 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
ada9cfdd 1902 in C2 power state.
e585bef8 1903
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1904 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1905 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1906 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1907 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
16290246 1908 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
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1909 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1910 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
16290246 1911
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1912 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1913 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
1914 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
fcb71f6f 1915
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1916 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1917 when set.
1918 Format: <int>
1919
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1920 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
1921 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
4c44f309 1922 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
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1923 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
1924 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
1925 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1926 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1927 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1928
1929 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1930 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
1931 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1932 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
1933 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1934 host link and device attached to it.
1935
1936 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
1937 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1938 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1939 The following configurations can be forced.
1940
1941 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1942 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1943
1944 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1945
1946 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1947 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
1948 allowed.
1949
1950 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
1951
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1952 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
1953
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1954 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
1955 and both resets.
1956
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1957 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
1958 hot-unplug link recovery
1959
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1960 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
1961
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1962 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
1963
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1964 * disable: Disable this device.
1965
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1966 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
1967 the same attribute, the last one is used.
1968
95f72d1e 1969 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
7c4be253 1970
1da177e4 1971 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
31c00fc1 1972 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 1973
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1974 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
1975 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 1976
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1977 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
1978 Format: <integer>
1979
1980 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
1981 Format: <integer>
1982
1983 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
1984 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 1985
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1986 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
1987 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
1988 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
1989 number of online CPUs.
1990
1991 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
1992 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
1993
1994 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
1995 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
1996
1997 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
1998 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
1999 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2000
2001 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2002 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2003 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2004 mode during the locktorture test.
2005
2006 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2007 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2008 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2009
2010 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2011 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2012
2013 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2014 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2015 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2016 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2017 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2018 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2019
2020 locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
2021 Start locktorture running at boot time.
2022
2023 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2024 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2025
2026 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2027 Enable additional printk() statements.
2028
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2029 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2030 Format: <irq>
2031
2032 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2033 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2034 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2035 loglevels are defined as follows:
2036
2037 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2038 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2039 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2040 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2041 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2042 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2043 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2044 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2045
c756d08a 2046 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
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2047 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2048 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2049 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2050 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2051 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2052 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
1da177e4 2053
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2054 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2055 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2056 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2057 kernel boot problems.
2058
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2059 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2060 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2061 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2062 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2063 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2064 attached printers to be reset. Using
2065 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2066 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2067 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2068 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2069 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2070 port specification list means that device IDs
2071 from each port should be examined, to see if
2072 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2073 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2074 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2075
2076 lpj=n [KNL]
2077 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2078 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2079 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2080 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2081 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2082 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2083 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2084 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2085 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2086 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2087 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2088 hardware.
2089
2090 ltpc= [NET]
2091 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2092
16290246 2093 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
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2094 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2095 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
1da177e4 2096
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2097 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2098 yeeloong laptop.
2099 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2100
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2101 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2102 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
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2103
2104 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
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2105 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2106 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2107 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2108 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2109 only takes effect during system bootup.
2110 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2111 which also disables the IO APIC.
1da177e4 2112
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2113 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2114 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2115 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2116 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2117 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2118 /dev/loop-control interface.
2b2c3750 2119
cd4f0ef7 2120 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
1da177e4 2121
71cced6e 2122 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
909dd324 2123
1da177e4 2124 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
e52347bd 2125 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
a9913044 2126
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2127 mdacon= [MDA]
2128 Format: <first>,<last>
2129 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
a9913044 2130
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2131 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2132 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2133 to see the whole system memory or for test.
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2134 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2135 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2136 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2137 belonging to unused RAM.
1da177e4 2138
cd4f0ef7 2139 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
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2140 memory.
2141
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2142 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2143 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2144 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2145
86dd995d
VK
2146 memhp_default_state=online/offline
2147 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2148 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2149 set according to the
2150 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2151 option.
2152 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2153
6cececfc 2154 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
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LT
2155 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2156 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2157 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2158 option description.
2159
2160 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
277cba1d
RD
2161 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2162 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
8fcc9bc3
BH
2163 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2164 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2165 Multiple different regions can be specified,
2166 comma delimited.
2167 Example:
2168 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
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LT
2169
2170 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2171 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
277cba1d 2172 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
1da177e4
LT
2173
2174 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2175 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
277cba1d 2176 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
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PM
2177 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2178 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2179 or
2180 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
8fcc9bc3
BH
2181 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2182 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2183 will be eaten.
1da177e4 2184
ec776ef6
CH
2185 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2186 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2187 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2188 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2189 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2190
9f077871
JF
2191 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2192 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2193 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2194 Setting this option will scan the memory
2195 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2196 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2197 from using the memory being corrupted.
2198 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2199 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2200 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2201 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2202
2203 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2204 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2205 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2206 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2207 corruption in more or less memory.
2208
2209 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2210 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2211 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2212 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2213
e4b0db72 2214 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
c64df707 2215 Format: <integer>
c64df707 2216 default : 0 <disable>
9e5f6cf5
AH
2217 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2218 performed. Each pass selects another test
2219 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2220 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2221 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2222 regions that are detected.
c64df707 2223
406e7938
RW
2224 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2225 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2226 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2227 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2228 See Documentation/power/states.txt.
2229
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LT
2230 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2231 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
2232
8f36881b
AS
2233 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2234 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2235 platforms.
2236
e6c4dc6c
WT
2237 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2238 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2239 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2240 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2241
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LT
2242 mga= [HW,DRM]
2243
1c207f95
RD
2244 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2245 physical address is ignored.
2246
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MP
2247 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2248 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2249 Default: "0tb"
2250 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2251 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2252 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2253 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2254 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2255 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2256 unconfigured.
2257 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2258 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2259 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2260 VGA shield.
2261 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2262 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2263 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2264 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2265 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2266 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2267
6b74ab97
MG
2268 mminit_loglevel=
2269 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2270 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2271 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2272 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2273 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2274 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2275
106a4ee2
RR
2276 module.sig_enforce
2277 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2278 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2a039be7 2279 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
106a4ee2
RR
2280 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2281
be7de5f9
PB
2282 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2283 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2284
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LT
2285 mousedev.tap_time=
2286 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2287 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2288 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2289 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2290 Format: <msecs>
2291 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2292 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2293 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2294 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2295
6cececfc 2296 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
0cb55ad2
RD
2297 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2298 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2299 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2300 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2301 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2302 is specified, the administrator must be careful
2303 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2304 is not too small.
2305
39fa104d 2306 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to enable the effects
c5320926
TC
2307 of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details.
2308
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LT
2309 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2310 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2311
a9913044
RD
2312 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2313 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
1da177e4
LT
2314
2315 mtdparts= [MTD]
c8facbb6 2316 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
1da177e4 2317
4e89a2d8
WS
2318 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2319 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2320 at a time.
2321
5988af23
RH
2322 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2323
2324 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2325
2326 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2327 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2328 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2329 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2330 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2331
9db829f4
BD
2332 mtdset= [ARM]
2333 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2334
2335 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2336
1da177e4 2337 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
a9913044
RD
2338 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2339 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
1da177e4 2340
0cb55ad2 2341 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
19f59460 2342 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
0cb55ad2
RD
2343 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2344
2345 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2346 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2347 Default is 1.
2348 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2349 using up MTRRs.
2350
2351 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2352 Format: <integer>
2353 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2354 Default : 1
2355 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2356 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2357
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LT
2358 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2359
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LT
2360 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2361 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2362 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2363 something different and driver-specific.
a9913044
RD
2364 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2365 file if at all.
2366
58401572
KPO
2367 nf_conntrack.acct=
2368 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2369 0 to disable accounting
2370 1 to enable accounting
d70a011d 2371 Default value is 0.
58401572 2372
306a0753 2373 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
dc7a0816 2374 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
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LT
2375
2376 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
dc7a0816 2377 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 2378
306a0753
CL
2379 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2380 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2381
5405fc44
TM
2382 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2383 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2384 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2385 requests.
2386
a72b4422
TM
2387 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2388 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2389 channel should listen.
2390
e571cbf1
TM
2391 nfs.cache_getent=
2392 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2393 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2394
2395 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2396 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2397 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2398
58df095b
TM
2399 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2400 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2401 entries.
2402
f43bf0be
TM
2403 nfs.enable_ino64=
2404 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2405 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2406 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2407 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2408 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2409
5405fc44
TM
2410 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2411 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2412 slots the client will assign to the callback
2413 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2414 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2415 a particular server.
2416
ef159e91
TM
2417 nfs.max_session_slots=
2418 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2419 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2420 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2421 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2422 Note that there is little point in setting this
2423 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2424
b064eca2 2425 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
074b1d12
TM
2426 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2427 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2428 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2429 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2430 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2431 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2432 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2433 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2434 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2435 back to using the idmapper.
2436 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
6f2ea7f2
CL
2437 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2438 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2439 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2440 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2441 UUID that is generated at system install time.
b064eca2 2442
db8ac8ba
WAA
2443 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2444 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2445 information in exchange_id requests.
2446 If zero, no implementation identification information
2447 will be sent.
2448 The default is to send the implementation identification
2449 information.
e52347bd 2450
f6de7a39
TM
2451 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2452 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2453 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2454 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2455 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2456 after the locks are lost.
2457 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2458 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2459 parameter to '1'.
2460 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2461 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
db8ac8ba 2462
bbf58bf3
TM
2463 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2464 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2465 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2466
2467 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2468 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2469 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2470 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2471
e9541ce8
BF
2472 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2473 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2474 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2475 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2476 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2477 migration from NFSv2/v3.
db8ac8ba 2478
c0c74acb 2479 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
e7ba176b
HS
2480 when a NMI is triggered.
2481 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2482
6cececfc 2483 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
fef2c9bc 2484 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
195daf66 2485 Valid num: 0 or 1
334bb79c
PK
2486 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2487 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
0cb55ad2 2488 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
fef2c9bc 2489 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
334bb79c
PK
2490 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2491 please see 'nowatchdog'.
0cb55ad2
RD
2492 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2493 need the box quickly up again.
1da177e4 2494
bff38771
AV
2495 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2496 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2497 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2498 waits 4 seconds.
2499
cd4f0ef7 2500 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
1da177e4
LT
2501 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2502 is present.
2503
0cb55ad2
RD
2504 no_console_suspend
2505 [HW] Never suspend the console
2506 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2507 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2508 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2509 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2510 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2511 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2512 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
134620f7
YZ
2513 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2514 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2515 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2516 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2517 turn on/off it dynamically.
0cb55ad2 2518
c1aee215
CL
2519 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2520 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2521 but will impact performance.
3395ee05 2522
a9913044
RD
2523 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2524
1da177e4
LT
2525 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2526 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2527
5091faa4
MG
2528 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2529
1da177e4
LT
2530 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2531 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2532
2533 nocache [ARM]
a9913044 2534
0cb55ad2
RD
2535 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2536
163ecdff
SN
2537 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2538
6902aa84
PM
2539 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2540
b2e0a54a 2541 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
8b2cb7a8 2542
1da177e4
LT
2543 noexec [IA-64]
2544
6cececfc 2545 noexec [X86]
f5a1b191 2546 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
1da177e4 2547 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
f5a1b191
JS
2548 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2549
52b6179a
PA
2550 nosmap [X86]
2551 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2552 even if it is supported by processor.
2553
de5397ad 2554 nosmep [X86]
52b6179a 2555 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
de5397ad
FY
2556 even if it is supported by processor.
2557
f5a1b191
JS
2558 noexec32 [X86-64]
2559 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2560 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2561 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2562 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2563 read implies executable mappings
1da177e4 2564
fab43ef4 2565 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
6902aa84 2566
cd4f0ef7 2567 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
4f886511
CE
2568 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2569 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
1da177e4 2570
0ddab1d2
TK
2571 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2572
52c48c51
SS
2573 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2574 Equivalent to smt=1.
2575
0c752a93
SS
2576 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2577 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2578 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2579
b6f42a4a
FY
2580 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2581 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2582 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2583 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2584 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2585 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2586
2587 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2588 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2589 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2590 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2591 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2592 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2593 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2594
01a24d2b
PZ
2595 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2596 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2597 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
a9913044 2598
1f29fae2
SH
2599 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2600 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2601 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2602
1da177e4
LT
2603 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2604 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2605 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2606 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2607 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2608 real-time systems.
2609
a6e15a39
KC
2610 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2611
79bf2bb3
TG
2612 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2613 Valid arguments: on, off
2614 Default: on
2615
c5bfece2 2616 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT]
2d13e6ca 2617 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
c5bfece2 2618 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
a831881b 2619 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
0453b435
FW
2620 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2621 the range to maintain the timekeeping.
d1e43fa5
FW
2622 The CPUs in this range must also be included in the
2623 rcu_nocbs= set.
a831881b 2624
eeee7853
PM
2625 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2626
cd4f0ef7 2627 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
1da177e4
LT
2628 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2629
6cececfc 2630 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
8542b200
ZA
2631 broken timer IRQ sources.
2632
1da177e4
LT
2633 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2634
2635 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2636 initial RAM disk.
2637
03ea8155
WH
2638 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2639 remapping.
d1423d56 2640 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
03ea8155 2641
1da177e4
LT
2642 nointroute [IA-64]
2643
d12a72b8
AL
2644 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2645
16290246 2646 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
0aa366f3 2647
9cf4c4fc
JK
2648 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2649
fd10cde9
GN
2650 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2651 fault handling.
2652
80e9a4f2
AM
2653 no-vmw-sched-clock
2654 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2655 clock and use the default one.
2656
d910f5c1
GC
2657 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2658 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2659 behaviour
2660
cd4f0ef7 2661 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
1da177e4 2662
cd4f0ef7 2663 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
ad62ca2b 2664
1da177e4 2665 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
f15eea66 2666 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
1da177e4 2667
312f1f01
H
2668 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2669
13696e0a 2670 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
abe37e5a 2671
83d7384f
AS
2672 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2673 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2674
bda62633
DZ
2675 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2676 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2677 irq.
2678
02608bef
DY
2679 nomodule Disable module load
2680
016ddd9b
JK
2681 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2682 pagetables) support.
2683
0cb55ad2
RD
2684 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2685 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2686
bbff2168 2687 noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
959b4fdf 2688
cd4f0ef7 2689 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
b7fb4af0
JF
2690 with UP alternatives
2691
7a5091d5
PA
2692 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2693 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2694 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2695 available to user space applications.
49d859d7 2696
a9913044
RD
2697 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2698 space.
2699
1da177e4
LT
2700 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2701 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2702 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2703
2704 nosbagart [IA-64]
2705
cd4f0ef7 2706 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
4f886511 2707
61ec7567
LB
2708 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2709 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
1da177e4 2710
97842216
DJ
2711 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2712
1da177e4
LT
2713 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2714
cd4f0ef7 2715 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
1da177e4 2716
195daf66
UO
2717 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2718 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
58687acb 2719
1da177e4 2720 nowb [ARM]
a9913044 2721
2b2fd87a
WH
2722 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2723
f78cff48
FY
2724 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2725 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2726 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2727 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2728 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2729 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2730 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2731 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2732 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2733 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2734 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2735 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2736 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2737
16290246 2738 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
a6c75b86
FY
2739 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2740 SAL PALO.
2741
2b633e3f
YL
2742 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2743 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
7c142bfe
BH
2744 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2745 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2746 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2747 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2748 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2749 hot plugging.
2b633e3f 2750
0cb55ad2
RD
2751 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2752
1a687c2e
MG
2753 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2754 Allowed values are enable and disable
2755
f0c0b2b8
KH
2756 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
2757 one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
2758 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2759 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2760
7c4be253
RD
2761 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2762 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2763 info.
2764
3ef0e1f8
AS
2765 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2766 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2767 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2768 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2769 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2770 interrupts *may* be lost!
2771
15ac7afe
TL
2772 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2773 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2774 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2775 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2776
1da177e4
LT
2777 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2778 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2779
7e4e0bd5
RR
2780 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2781 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2782 userland or if you want common events.
8d7ff4f2
RR
2783 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2784 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
7e4e0bd5
RR
2785 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2786 CPU specific event set.
159a80b2
RR
2787 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2788 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2789 for generic hr timer mode)
1dcdb5a9 2790
44a4dcf7
RD
2791 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2792 process, but there is a small probability of
2793 deadlocking the machine.
d404ab0a
OH
2794 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2795 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2796
bcfde334
RD
2797 OSS [HW,OSS]
2798 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2799
48c96a36
JK
2800 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2801 Storage of the information about who allocated
2802 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2803 we can turn it on.
2804 on: enable the feature
2805
8823b1db
LA
2806 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2807 poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2808 off: turn off poisoning
2809 on: turn on poisoning
2810
44a4dcf7 2811 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4302fbc8
HD
2812 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2813 timeout = 0: wait forever
2814 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
1da177e4
LT
2815 Format: <timeout>
2816
9e3961a0
PB
2817 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
2818 on a WARN().
2819
f06e5153
MH
2820 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2821 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2822 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2823 succeeds in any situation.
2824 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2825 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2826 kernel more unstable.
2827
1da177e4
LT
2828 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2829 connected to, default is 0.
2830 Format: <parport#>
2831 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2832 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
a9913044
RD
2833 Format: <mode>
2834
2835 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2836 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2837 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2838 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2839 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2840 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2841 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2842 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2843 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2844 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2845 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2846 are specified on the command line, starting
2847 with parport0.
2848
2849 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2850 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2851 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2852 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2853 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2854 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
1da177e4
LT
2855 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2856
dd287796
AM
2857 pause_on_oops=
2858 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2859 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
2860 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2861
1da177e4
LT
2862 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
2863
2864 pcd. [PARIDE]
2865 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
31c00fc1 2866 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 2867
a9913044 2868 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
1cc0ca26
BH
2869 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2870 changes anything
c0115606 2871 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
cd4f0ef7 2872 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
a9913044
RD
2873 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2874 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
cd4f0ef7 2875 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
a9913044
RD
2876 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2877 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2878 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
afd8c084
BP
2879 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2880 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
2881 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
2882 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2883 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
2884 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
2885 bus number. The config space is then accessed
2886 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
2887 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
2888 on the configuration access mechanisms.
7f785763
RD
2889 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2890 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2891 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
32a2eea7
JG
2892 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2893 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
6cececfc 2894 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
61be6d66 2895 Configuration
12983077
AH
2896 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2897 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2898 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
309e57df
MW
2899 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
2900 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2901 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
a9322f64
SA
2902 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
2903 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
2904 should never be necessary.
9197979b
SA
2905 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
2906 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
2907 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
2908 when the system masks IRQs.
41b9eb26
SA
2909 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
2910 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
2911 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
2912 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
cd4f0ef7 2913 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
a9913044
RD
2914 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
2915 on several machines and they hang the machine
2916 when used, but on other computers it's the only
2917 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
2918 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
2919 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
2920 motherboard.
c0115606 2921 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
a9913044
RD
2922 Use with caution as certain devices share
2923 address decoders between ROMs and other
2924 resources.
c0115606 2925 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
bb71ad88
GH
2926 expansion ROMs that do not already have
2927 BIOS assigned address ranges.
7bd1c365
MH
2928 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
2929 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
c0115606 2930 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
a9913044
RD
2931 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
2932 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
2933 this way.
c0115606 2934 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
a9913044
RD
2935 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
2936 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
2937 F0000h-100000h range.
c0115606 2938 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
a9913044
RD
2939 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
2940 secondary buses and you want to tell it
2941 explicitly which ones they are.
c0115606 2942 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
a9913044
RD
2943 numbers ourselves, overriding
2944 whatever the firmware may have done.
c0115606 2945 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
a9913044
RD
2946 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
2947 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
2948 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
2949 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
2950 IRQ routing is enabled.
c0115606 2951 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 2952 or for PCI scanning.
7bc5e3f2
BH
2953 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
2954 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
2955 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
2956 please report a bug.
2957 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
2958 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
a9913044
RD
2959 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
2960 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
2961 so this option is a temporary workaround
2962 for broken drivers that don't call it.
13a6ddb0
YL
2963 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
2964 handle more pci cards
0637a70a
AK
2965 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
2966 This might help on some broken boards which
2967 machine check when some devices' config space
2968 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
2969 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
6b4b78fe
MD
2970 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
2971 This sorting is done to get a device
2972 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
2973 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
fa238712
YW
2974 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
2975 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
2976 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
2977 supported by all devices below the root complex.
2978 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
2979 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
2980 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
2981 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
2982 or bus can support) for best performance.
2983 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
2984 every device is guaranteed to support. This
2985 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
2986 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
2987 reduced performance. This also guarantees
2988 that hot-added devices will work.
4516a618
AN
2989 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2990 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
2991 The default value is 256 bytes.
2992 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2993 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
2994 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
32a9a682
YS
2995 resource_alignment=
2996 Format:
2997 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
644a544f
KMEE
2998 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
2999 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
32a9a682
YS
3000 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3001 aligned memory resources.
3002 If <order of align> is not specified,
3003 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3004 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3005 windows need to be expanded.
8b078c60
MK
3006 To specify the alignment for several
3007 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3008 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3009 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
43c16408
AP
3010 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3011 end-to-end CRC checking).
3012 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3013 the default.
3014 off: Turn ECRC off
3015 on: Turn ECRC on.
8c8803c5
YW
3016 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3017 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3018 Default size is 256 bytes.
3019 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3020 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3021 Default size is 2 megabytes.
e16b4660
KB
3022 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3023 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3024 Default is 1.
b55438fd
YL
3025 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3026 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3027 accommodate resources required by all child
3028 devices.
3029 off: Turn realloc off
3030 on: Turn realloc on
3031 realloc same as realloc=on
6748dcc2 3032 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
284f5f9d
BH
3033 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3034 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3035 port.
6b4b78fe 3036
e5665a45
CE
3037 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3038 Management.
3039 off Disable ASPM.
3040 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3041 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3042
7570a333
MT
3043 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
3044 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
3045 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
3046
79dd9182 3047 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
28eb5f27
RW
3048 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
3049 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
3050 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
3051 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
3052 unconditionally.
79dd9182
RW
3053 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
3054 ports driver.
3055
9d26d3a8
MW
3056 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3057 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3058 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3059
c7f48656 3060 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
c39fae14 3061 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
28eb5f27 3062 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
c7f48656 3063
1da177e4
LT
3064 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3065
39ac5ba5
TB
3066 pd_ignore_unused
3067 [PM]
3068 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3069 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3070 for debug and development, but should not be
3071 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3072
1da177e4 3073 pd. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3074 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3075
3076 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3077 boot time.
3078 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3079 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3080
f58dc01b 3081 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
e933a73f
TH
3082 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3083 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3084 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3085 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3086 and performance comparison.
fa8a7094 3087
1da177e4 3088 pf. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3089 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3090
3091 pg. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3092 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3093
3094 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
71cced6e 3095 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3096
3097 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3098 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3099 See also Documentation/parport.txt.
3100
16290246 3101 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
de32a243
TG
3102 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3103 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3104
96242116
BH
3105 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3106 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3107 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3108 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3109 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3110 possible settings and some assignment information.
97ef062b 3111
1da177e4
LT
3112 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3113 { off }
3114
3115 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3116 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3117
3118 pnp_reserve_irq=
3119 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3120
3121 pnp_reserve_dma=
3122 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3123
3124 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
a9913044 3125 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
1da177e4
LT
3126
3127 pnp_reserve_mem=
a9913044
RD
3128 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3129 autoconfiguration.
1da177e4
LT
3130 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3131
4af94f39
RD
3132 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3133 Default is 21.
3134 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3135 may be specified.
3136 Format: <port>,<port>....
3137
c3cbd075
BS
3138 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3139 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3140 platform machine description specific power_save
3141 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3142 execution priority.
3143
3eb5d588
AB
3144 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3145 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3146 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3147 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3148 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3149
45807a1d
IM
3150 print-fatal-signals=
3151 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
f84d49b2
NO
3152
3153 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3154 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3155 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3156 coredump - etc.
3157
3158 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3159 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3160
45807a1d
IM
3161 default: off.
3162
c22ab332
MG
3163 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3164 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3165 panics
3166 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3167 default: disabled
3168
750afe7b
BP
3169 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3170 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3171 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3172 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3173 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3174 Default: ratelimit
3175
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3176 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3177 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3178
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3179 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3180 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3181 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3182
3183 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3184 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3185 instead using the legacy FADT method
3186
1da177e4 3187 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
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3188 Format: [schedule,]<number>
3189 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3190 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3191 statistical time based profiling.
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3192 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3193 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
c0fe2e69 3194 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
1da177e4 3195
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3196 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3197 before loading.
31c00fc1 3198 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 3199
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3200 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3201 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
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3202 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3203 per second.
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3204 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3205 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
1da177e4
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3206 (0 = never).
3207 psmouse.resolution=
3208 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3209 psmouse.smartscroll=
a9913044 3210 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
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3211 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3212
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3213 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3214
1da177e4 3215 pt. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3216 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 3217
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3218 pty.legacy_count=
3219 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3220 default number.
3221
7d2c502f 3222 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
a9913044 3223
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3224 r128= [HW,DRM]
3225
3226 raid= [HW,RAID]
e52347bd 3227 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
1da177e4 3228
1da177e4 3229 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
31c00fc1 3230 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 3231
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3232 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
3233
3234 cec_disable [X86]
3235 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3236 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3237
4102adab 3238 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
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3239 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3240
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3241 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3242 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3243 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
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3244 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3245 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3246 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3247 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
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3248 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3249 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3250 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3251
4102adab 3252 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
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3253 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3254 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3255 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3256 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3257 This improves the real-time response for the
3258 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3259 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3260 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3261 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3262
4102adab 3263 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
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3264 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3265 process in one batch.
21a1ea9e 3266
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3267 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3268 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3269 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3270 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3271
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3272 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3273 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 3274 RCU grace-period cleanup.
0f41c0dd 3275
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3276 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3277 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 3278 RCU grace-period initialization.
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3279
3280 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3281 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3282 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3283 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
90040c9e 3284 the rcu_node combining tree.
37745d28 3285
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3286 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3287 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3288 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3289 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3290 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
37745d28 3291
4102adab 3292 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
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3293 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3294 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3295 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3296 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3297 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3298 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
f885b7f2 3299
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3300 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3301 Set required age in jiffies for a
3302 given grace period before RCU starts
3303 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3304 rcu_note_context_switch().
3305
4102adab 3306 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
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3307 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3308 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3309 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3310 and maximum value is HZ.
3311
4102adab 3312 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
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3313 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3314 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3315 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3316
21871d7e 3317 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
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3318 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3319 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3320 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3321 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3322 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3323 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3324 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3325 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3326 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
21871d7e 3327
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3328 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3329 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3330 defaults to the square root of the number of
3331 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3332 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3333 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3334
4102adab 3335 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
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3336 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3337 batch limiting is disabled.
21a1ea9e 3338
4102adab 3339 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
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3340 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3341 batch limiting is re-enabled.
21a1ea9e 3342
4102adab 3343 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3344 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3345 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
d40011f6 3346
4102adab 3347 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3348 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3349 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3350 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3351 prove do nothing more than free memory.
d40011f6 3352
e3c50dfb
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3353 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3354 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3355 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3356 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3357 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3358 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3359
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3360 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3361 Measure performance of asynchronous
3362 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3363
3364 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3365 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3366 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
3367 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3368 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3369 previously posted callbacks to drain.
3370
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3371 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3372 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3373 grace-period primitives.
3374
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3375 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3376 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3377 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3378 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3379 interference.
3380
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3381 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3382 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3383 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3384 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3385 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3386 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3387 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3388 a single reader.
3389
3390 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3391 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3392 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3393 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3394
3395 rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT]
3396 Start rcuperf running at boot time.
3397
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3398 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3399 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3400
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3401 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3402 Shut the system down after performance tests
3403 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3404 testing.
3405
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3406 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3407 Enable additional printk() statements.
3408
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3409 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3410 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3411 in microseconds. The default of zero says
3412 no holdoff.
3413
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3414 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3415 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3416 callback-flood tests.
3417
3418 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3419 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3420 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3421 test.
3422
3423 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3424 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3425 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3426 disable callback-flood testing.
3427
3428 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3429 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3430 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3431
4102adab 3432 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
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3433 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3434 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3435
4102adab 3436 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
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3437 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3438 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3439
4102adab 3440 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
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3441 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3442 in seconds.
3443
3444 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3445 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3446 primitives, if available.
dabb8aa9 3447
4102adab 3448 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
21b05de4 3449 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
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3450
3451 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
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PM
3452 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3453 update-side primitives, if available.
3454
3455 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3456 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3457 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3458 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3459 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3460 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3461 they are all non-zero.
dabb8aa9 3462
4102adab 3463 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
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PM
3464 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3465
4102adab 3466 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
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PM
3467 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3468 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3469 test, hence the "fake".
3470
4102adab 3471 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
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PM
3472 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3473 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3474 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3475 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3476 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
dabb8aa9 3477
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PM
3478 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3479 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3480
3481 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
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3482 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3483
4102adab 3484 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
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3485 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3486 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3487
4102adab 3488 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
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PM
3489 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3490 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3491 during the rcutorture test.
3492
4102adab 3493 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
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PM
3494 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3495 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3496
4102adab 3497 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
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PM
3498 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3499 warnings, zero to disable.
3500
4102adab 3501 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
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3502 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3503
4102adab 3504 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
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3505 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3506
4102adab 3507 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
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3508 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3509 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3510 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3511 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3512
4102adab 3513 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
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3514 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3515 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3516 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3517
4102adab 3518 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
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3519 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3520
4102adab 3521 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
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3522 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3523
4102adab 3524 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
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3525 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3526 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3527
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3528 rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
3529 Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3530
4102adab 3531 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
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3532 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3533
4102adab 3534 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
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3535 Enable additional printk() statements.
3536
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3537 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3538 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3539
3540 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3541 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3542
4102adab
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3543 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3544 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3545 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3546 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3547 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3548 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
79cfea02 3549 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 3550
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3551 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3552 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3553 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3554 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
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3555 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3556 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3557 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3558 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3559 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 3560
3e42ec1a
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3561 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3562 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3563 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
79cfea02
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3564 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3565 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3e42ec1a 3566
52db30ab
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3567 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3568 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3569 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3570 to zero.
3571
74860fee
PK
3572 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3573 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3574
3575 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3576 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3577
3578 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3579 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3580
ffdfc409
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3581 rdinit= [KNL]
3582 Format: <full_path>
3583 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3584 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3585
1b3a5d02
RH
3586 reboot= [KNL]
3587 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3588 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3589 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3590 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3591 [[,]f[orce]
3592 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3593 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3594 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3595 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3596 to be used for rebooting.
1da177e4 3597
46b6d94e
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3598 relax_domain_level=
3599 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
09c3bcce 3600 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
46b6d94e 3601
1da177e4
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3602 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3603
cd4f0ef7 3604 reservetop= [X86-32]
461a9aff
ZA
3605 Format: nn[KMG]
3606 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3607 address space.
3608
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3609 reservelow= [X86]
3610 Format: nn[K]
3611 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3612 the bottom of the address space.
3613
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VG
3614 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3615 during initialization.
3616
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3617 resume= [SWSUSP]
3618 Specify the partition device for software suspend
2df83fa4
MB
3619 Format:
3620 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
1da177e4 3621
ecbd0da1
RW
3622 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3623 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3624 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3625 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3626 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3627
f126f733
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3628 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3629 read the resume files
3630
6f8d7022
BS
3631 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3632 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3633 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3634
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3635 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3636 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3637 present during boot.
3638 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
a6e15a39 3639 no Disable hibernation and resume.
4c0b6c10
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3640 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
3641 (that will set all pages holding image data
3642 during restoration read-only).
f996fc96 3643
0a7b35cb
MN
3644 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3645
0efbb786
AC
3646 rfkill.default_state=
3647 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3648 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3649 1 Unblocked.
3650
3651 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3652 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3653 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3654 blocked and the previous configuration.
3655 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3656 blocked and everything unblocked.
3657
1da177e4
LT
3658 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3659 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3660
e16fd002
GA
3661 ring3mwait=disable
3662 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
3663 CPUs.
3664
1da177e4
LT
3665 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3666
d2aa1aca
KC
3667 rodata= [KNL]
3668 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3669 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3670
605df8af
HS
3671 rockchip.usb_uart
3672 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3673 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3674 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3675 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3676
1da177e4 3677 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
f2d34fd9 3678 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
1da177e4
LT
3679
3680 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3681 mount the root filesystem
3682
3683 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3684
3685 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3686
cc1ed754
PO
3687 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3688 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3689 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3690
5c71d618
RT
3691 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3692 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3693 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3694 managed by CMA.
3695
1da177e4
LT
3696 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3697
3698 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3699
c60d1ae4
GS
3700 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3701 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3702 strict
3703 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3704 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3705 which is faster.
3706
1da177e4
LT
3707 sa1100ir [NET]
3708 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3709
1da177e4 3710 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
a9913044 3711
f6630114
MT
3712 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3713
cb251765
MG
3714 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3715 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3716 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3717 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
f6630114 3718
5307c955
MG
3719 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3720 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3721 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3722 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3723 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3724 1 -- enable.
3725 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3726 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3727
0cb55ad2
RD
3728 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3729 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3730 security module asking for security registration will be
3731 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3732 as if no module has been chosen.
3733
3734 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
1da177e4
LT
3735 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3736 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3737 0 -- disable.
3738 1 -- enable.
3739 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3740 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3741 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3742
c1c124e9
JJ
3743 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3744 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3745 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3746 0 -- disable.
3747 1 -- enable.
3748 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3749
cd4f0ef7 3750 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
1da177e4 3751
1da177e4
LT
3752 shapers= [NET]
3753 Maximal number of shapers.
a9913044 3754
1da177e4
LT
3755 simeth= [IA-64]
3756 simscsi=
a9913044 3757
1da177e4
LT
3758 slram= [HW,MTD]
3759
423c929c
JK
3760 slab_nomerge [MM]
3761 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3762 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
7660a6fd
KC
3763 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
3764 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
3765 layout control by attackers can usually be
3766 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
3767 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
3768 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
3769 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
3770 own.
423c929c
JK
3771 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3772
3df1cccd
DR
3773 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3774 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3775 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3776 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3777 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3778
f0630fff
CL
3779 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3780 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3781 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3782 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3783 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3784 last alloc / free. For more information see
3785 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
c1aee215 3786
1663f26d
TH
3787 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
3788 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
3789 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
3790 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
3791 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
3792 directories and files being created under
3793 /sys/kernel/slub.
3794
c1aee215 3795 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
3796 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3797 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3798 fragmentation. For more information see
3799 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
c1aee215
CL
3800
3801 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
3802 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3803 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3804 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3805 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3806 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3807 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
c1aee215
CL
3808 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3809
3810 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
24775d65 3811 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
f0630fff 3812 lower than slub_max_order.
c1aee215
CL
3813 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3814
3815 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
423c929c
JK
3816 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3817 See slab_nomerge for more information.
c1aee215 3818
1da177e4
LT
3819 smart2= [HW]
3820 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3821
d0d4f69b
BH
3822 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3823 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
3824 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
3825 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
3826 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
3827 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
3828 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3829 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3830 1: Fast pin select (default)
3831 2: ATC IRMode
3832
52c48c51
SS
3833 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
3834 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
3835 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
3836 actual hardware limit.
3837 Format: <integer>
3838 Default: -1 (no limit)
3839
9c44bc03
IM
3840 softlockup_panic=
3841 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
44a4dcf7 3842 Format: <integer>
9c44bc03 3843
ed235875
AT
3844 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3845 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3846 backtraces on all cpus.
3847 Format: <integer>
3848
1da177e4 3849 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
395cf969 3850 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
1da177e4 3851
1da177e4
LT
3852 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
3853 spia_fio_base=
3854 spia_pedr=
3855 spia_peddr=
3856
c350c008
PM
3857 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
3858 Specifies how frequently to check for
3859 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
3860 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
3861 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
3862 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
3863 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
3864 are ignored.
3865
22607d66
PM
3866 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
3867 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
3868 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
3869 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
3870 grace period will be considered for automatic
3871 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
3872 expediting.
3873
1be7107f
HD
3874 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
3875 override the default stack gap protection. The value
3876 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
3877 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
3878 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
3879 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
3880
f38f1d2a
SR
3881 stacktrace [FTRACE]
3882 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
3883
762e1207
SR
3884 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
3885 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
3886 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
3887 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
3888 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
3889 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
3890 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
3891
1da177e4
LT
3892 sti= [PARISC,HW]
3893 Format: <num>
3894 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
3895 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
3896 as the initial boot-console.
3897 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3898
3899 sti_font= [HW]
3900 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3901
3902 stifb= [HW]
3903 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
3904
cbf11071
TM
3905 sunrpc.min_resvport=
3906 sunrpc.max_resvport=
3907 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3908 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
3909 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
3910 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
3911 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
3912 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
3913 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
3914 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
3915 maximum port values.
3916
ff3ac5c3
TM
3917 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
3918 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3919 Limit the number of requests that the server will
3920 process in parallel from a single connection.
3921 The default value is 0 (no limit).
3922
42a7fc4a
GB
3923 sunrpc.pool_mode=
3924 [NFS]
3925 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
3926 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
3927 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
3928 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
3929 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
3930 NFS server is running.
3931
3932 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
3933 automatically using heuristics
3934 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
3935 percpu one pool for each CPU
3936 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
3937 to global on non-NUMA machines)
3938
cbf11071
TM
3939 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
3940 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
3941 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3942 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
3943 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
3944 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
3945 improve throughput, but will also increase the
3946 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
3947
1d4a9c17
BN
3948 suspend.pm_test_delay=
3949 [SUSPEND]
3950 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
3951 mode before resuming the system (see
3952 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
3953 is set. Default value is 5.
3954
07555ac1 3955 swapaccount=[0|1]
a42c390c
MH
3956 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
3957 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
09c3bcce 3958 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
a42c390c 3959
91fec0f5 3960 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
fff5d992 3961 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
91fec0f5
JK
3962 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
3963 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
3964 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
fff5d992 3965 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
a9913044 3966
1da177e4
LT
3967 switches= [HW,M68k]
3968
e52eec13
AK
3969 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
3970 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
3971 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
3972 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
3973 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
3974 in older udev will not work anymore.
3975 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
3976 the kernel configuration.
3977
5d6f647f
IM
3978 sysrq_always_enabled
3979 [KNL]
3980 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
3981 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
3982 Useful for debugging.
3983
747029a5
FF
3984 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3985 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
3986 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
3987 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
3988 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
3989 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
3990
1da177e4
LT
3991 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
3992
acc82342 3993 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
77437fd4 3994 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
acc82342
SP
3995 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
3996 as the system sleep state during system startup with
3997 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
3998 The system is woken from this state using a
3999 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
77437fd4 4000
1da177e4
LT
4001 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4002 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4003
f8707ec9
LB
4004 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
4005 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4006 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4007
c52a7419
LB
4008 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
4009 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
22a94d79 4010 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
c52a7419 4011
f5487145
LB
4012 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
4013 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4014 critical and hot trip points.
4015
72b33ef8
LB
4016 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
4017 1: disable ACPI thermal control
4018
a70cdc52
LB
4019 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
4020 -1: disable all passive trip points
ada9cfdd
RD
4021 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4022 value
a70cdc52 4023
730ff34d
LB
4024 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
4025 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4026 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4027 0: no polling (default)
4028
8d32a307
TG
4029 threadirqs [KNL]
4030 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
24775d65 4031 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
8d32a307 4032
2ca62b04
KRW
4033 tmem [KNL,XEN]
4034 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4035
4036 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4037 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4038 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4039
4040 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4041 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
37d46e15
KRW
4042 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4043 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
2ca62b04
KRW
4044
4045 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4046 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4047 to the hypervisor.
4048
4049 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4050 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4051 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4052 kernel based on different criteria.
4053
2b1a61f0
HC
4054 topology= [S390]
4055 Format: {off | on}
4056 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
f65e51d7
SL
4057 topology information if the hardware supports this.
4058 The scheduler will make use of this information and
2b1a61f0 4059 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
c9af3fa9 4060 Default is on.
2b1a61f0 4061
2d73bae1
NA
4062 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4063 Format: {off}
4064 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4065 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4066 LPAR.
4067
1da177e4
LT
4068 tp720= [HW,PS2]
4069
225a9be2
RA
4070 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4071 Format: integer pcr id
4072 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4073 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4074 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4075 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4076 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4077 are saved.
4078
9d612bef 4079 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
3e6fb8e9 4080 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
631595fb 4081
020e5f85
LZ
4082 trace_event=[event-list]
4083 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
d81749ea
BN
4084 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4085 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4086 also Documentation/trace/events.txt
020e5f85 4087
7bcfaf54
SR
4088 trace_options=[option-list]
4089 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4090 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4091 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4092 to echo the option name into
4093
4094 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4095
4096 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4097 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4098
4099 trace_options=stacktrace
4100
4101 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
4102 section.
4103
0daa2302
SRRH
4104 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4105 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4106 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4107 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4108 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4109 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4110
4111 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4112 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4113 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4114 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4115
4116 ** CAUTION **
4117
4118 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4119 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4120 the system to live lock.
4121
de7edd31
SRRH
4122 traceoff_on_warning
4123 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4124 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4125 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4126 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4127
4128 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4129 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4130 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4131
4132 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4133 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4134
fcf4d821
JK
4135 transparent_hugepage=
4136 [KNL]
4137 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4138 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4139 with respect to transparent hugepages.
4140 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
4141
d3b8f889 4142 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
395628ef
AK
4143 Format: <string>
4144 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
d3b8f889
JS
4145 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4146 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4147 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4148 virtualized environment.
e82b8e4e
VP
4149 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4150 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4151 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4152 can add overhead.
395628ef 4153
a9913044
RD
4154 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4155 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4156 Format:
4157 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
1da177e4
LT
4158 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
4159
b6935f8c 4160 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
e52347bd 4161 happen after console_init() and before a proper
b6935f8c
CK
4162 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4163 help "seeing" what's going on.
4164
f86dcc5a
ED
4165 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4166 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4167
5f8364b7
AS
4168 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4169 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4170 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4171 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4172 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4173 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4174 reported either.
4175
e3a61b0a 4176 unknown_nmi_panic
44a4dcf7 4177 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
e3a61b0a 4178
c4fc2342
CDH
4179 usbcore.authorized_default=
4180 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4181 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4182 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4183
b5e795f8
AS
4184 usbcore.autosuspend=
4185 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4186 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4187 is the time required before an idle device will be
4188 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
eaafbc3a 4189 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
b5e795f8 4190
fd7c519d
JK
4191 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4192 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4193
0290cc9f
AS
4194 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4195 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4196 (default = 65536).
4197
fd7c519d
JK
4198 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4199 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4200
4201 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4202 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
4203 scheme (default 0 = off).
4204
3f5eb8d5
AS
4205 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4206 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4207 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4208
fd7c519d
JK
4209 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4210 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4211 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4212
4213 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4214 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4215 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4216 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4217
40d58148
ON
4218 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4219
1da177e4
LT
4220 usbhid.mousepoll=
4221 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
a9913044 4222
933bfe4d
TJ
4223 usbhid.jspoll=
4224 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4225
d4f373e5
AS
4226 usb-storage.delay_use=
4227 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
19101954 4228 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
d4f373e5
AS
4229
4230 usb-storage.quirks=
4231 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4232 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4233 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4234 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4235 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4236 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4237 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
c838ea46
AS
4238 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4239 of sense data);
a0bb1081
AS
4240 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4241 bytes of sense data);
d4f373e5
AS
4242 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4243 device capacity by one sector);
5116901d
KR
4244 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4245 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4246 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4247 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
734016b0
HG
4248 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4249 command, uas only);
ee136af4
HG
4250 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4251 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
c838ea46
AS
4252 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4253 reported device capacity by one
4254 sector if the number is odd);
d4f373e5
AS
4255 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4256 device);
13630746
HG
4257 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4258 command, uas only);
d4f373e5
AS
4259 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4260 unlock ejectable media);
4261 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4262 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
21c13a4f
AS
4263 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4264 initial READ(10) command);
c838ea46
AS
4265 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4266 reported by the device);
eaa05dfc
NJ
4267 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4268 by default);
d4f373e5
AS
4269 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4270 bogus residue values);
4271 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4272 Logical Unit);
59307852
HG
4273 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4274 commands, uas only);
b6089f19 4275 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
d4f373e5
AS
4276 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4277 medium is write-protected).
050bc4e8
ON
4278 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4279 even if the device claims no cache)
d4f373e5
AS
4280 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4281
ac1667db
SB
4282 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4283 Format: <int>
4284 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4285 1 - undefined instruction events
4286 2 - system calls
4287 4 - invalid data aborts
4288 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4289 16 - SIGBUS faults
4290 Example: user_debug=31
4291
14315592
IC
4292 userpte=
4293 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4294
4295 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4296 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4297 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4298
6cececfc 4299 vdso= [X86,SH]
b0b49f26
AL
4300 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4301
4302 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
e6e5494c
IM
4303 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4304
b0b49f26
AL
4305 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4306 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4307 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4308
4309 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4310 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4311 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4312
4313 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4314 alias for vdso32=0.
4315
4316 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4317 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
af65d648 4318
d080d397
YI
4319 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4320 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4321
1da177e4
LT
4322 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4323 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4324
3afe6dab
AL
4325 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4326 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4327 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4328 level and then send out the event to user space through
4329 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4330 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4331 brightness level.
2843768b 4332 default: 1
3afe6dab 4333
81a054ce
PM
4334 virtio_mmio.device=
4335 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4336
4337 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4338 where:
4339 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4340 like K, M and G)
4341 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4342 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4343 request_irq())
4344 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4345 example:
4346 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4347
4348 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4349
cd4f0ef7 4350 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
954a8b81 4351 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
a9913044 4352 Documentation/svga.txt.
1da177e4
LT
4353 Use vga=ask for menu.
4354 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4355 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4356
a9913044 4357 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
1da177e4
LT
4358 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4359 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4360 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4361 mapped kernel RAM.
4362
585c3047
PO
4363 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4364 Format: <command>
1da177e4 4365
585c3047
PO
4366 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4367 Format: <command>
4368
4369 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4370 Format: <command>
a9913044 4371
3ae36655
AL
4372 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4373 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4374 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4375 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4376 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4377 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4378 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4379
2e57ae05
AL
4380 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4381 emulated reasonably safely.
3ae36655 4382
2e57ae05 4383 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
3ae36655
AL
4384 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4385 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4386 better than they would in emulation mode.
4387 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4388
4389 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4390 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4391 might break your system.
4392
3855ae1c
CL
4393 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4394 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4395 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4396
9ea9a886
CL
4397 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4398 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4399 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4400 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4401
0cb55ad2
RD
4402 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4403 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4404 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4405 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4406 ranging from 0-255.
4407
4408 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4409 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4410 Change the default green palette of the console.
4411 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4412 ranging from 0-255.
4413
4414 vt.default_red= [VT]
4415 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4416 Change the default red palette of the console.
4417 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4418 ranging from 0-255.
4419
4420 vt.default_utf8=
4421 [VT]
4422 Format=<0|1>
4423 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4424 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4425 newly opened terminals.
4426
f6c06b68
MG
4427 vt.global_cursor_default=
4428 [VT]
4429 Format=<-1|0|1>
4430 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4431 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4432 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4433 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4434 cursors, 1 will display them.
4435
3855ae1c
CL
4436 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4437 Default: 2 = green.
4438
4439 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4440 Default: 3 = cyan.
4441
4724ba57
RD
4442 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4443 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4444 or other driver-specific files in the
4445 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
1da177e4 4446
82607adc
TH
4447 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4448 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4449 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4450 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4451 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4452 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4453 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4454 corresponding sysfs file.
4455
d55262c4
TH
4456 workqueue.disable_numa
4457 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4458 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4459 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4460 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4461 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4462 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4463 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4464
cee22a15
VK
4465 workqueue.power_efficient
4466 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4467 they show better performance thanks to cache
4468 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4469 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4470
4471 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4472 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4473 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4474 power usage at the cost of small performance
4475 overhead.
4476
4477 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4478 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4479
f303fccb
TH
4480 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4481 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4482 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4483 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
4484 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4485 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
4486 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4487 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4488 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4489 impacted.
4490
0cb55ad2
RD
4491 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4492 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4493 supporting x2apic.
4494
712b6aa8
KS
4495 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4496 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
bb24c471
JP
4497 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4498 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
712b6aa8 4499 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
bb24c471 4500
c70727a5
JG
4501 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4502 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4503 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4504 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4505 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4506 domains.
4507
c1c5413a
SS
4508 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4509 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4510 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4511 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4512 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4513 nics -- unplug network devices
4514 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
1dc7ce99
IC
4515 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4516 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4517 the unplug protocol
c93a4dfb 4518 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
c1c5413a 4519
15a3eac0
KRW
4520 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4521 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4522 optimizations.
4523
8d693b91
KRW
4524 xen_nopv [X86]
4525 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4526 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4527
1da177e4 4528 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
a9913044
RD
4529 Format:
4530 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]