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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>
1752118d 317 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
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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
64e05d11 331 apic= [APIC,X86] 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.
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336 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
337 driver name.
338 Format: apic=driver_name
339 Examples: apic=bigsmp
a9913044 340
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341 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
342 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
343 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
344 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
345 backup of CPU 0
346 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
347 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
348 shot down by NMI
349
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350 autoconf= [IPV6]
351 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
352
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353 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
354 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
355 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
356 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
357 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
358 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
359 apic=verbose is specified.
360 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
361
1da177e4 362 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
71f77055 363 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
1da177e4 364
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365 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
366 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
367
368 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
369
370 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
371
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372 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
373 EzKey and similar keyboards
374
375 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
376
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377 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
378 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
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379
380 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
381 keyboards
382
383 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
384 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
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385
386 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
387 Use software keyboard repeat
1da177e4 388
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389 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
390 Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
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391 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
392 until the next reboot
393 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
394 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
395 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
396 storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
397 RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
398 auditd.
a106fb0c 399 Default: unset
f3411cb2 400
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401 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
402 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
403 Default: 64
404
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405 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
406 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
407 Format: { "0" | "1" }
408 0 - Disable the BAU.
409 1 - Enable the BAU.
410 unset - Disable the BAU.
411
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412 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
413 Format: <io>,<mode>
a9913044 414
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415 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
416 Format: <io>,<mode>
417 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
418
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419 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
420 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
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421 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
422 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
423
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424 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
425 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
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426 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
427 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
428
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429 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
430 embedded devices based on command line input.
431 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
432
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433 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
434 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
435 no delay (0).
436 Format: integer
437
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438 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
439
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440 bert_disable [ACPI]
441 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
442
1da177e4 443 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
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444 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
445 kernel args too.
a405ed85 446 bttv.pll= See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
395cf969 447 bttv.tuner=
1da177e4 448
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449 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
450 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
451 at a time.
452
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453 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
454
cd4f0ef7 455 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
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456 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
457 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
458 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
459 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
460 This option provides an override for these situations.
461
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462 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
463 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
464 trust validation.
32c4741c 465 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
ffb70f61 466
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467 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
468 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
469 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
470 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
471 others).
472
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473 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
474 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
1da177e4 475
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476 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
477 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
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478 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
479 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
480 a single hierarchy
481 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
482 subsystem
483 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
484 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
485 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
8bab8dde 486
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487 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
488 Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
489 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
490 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
491
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492 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
493 Format: <string>
494 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
04823c83 495 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
f7e1cb6e 496
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497 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
498 Format: { "0" | "1" }
499 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
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500 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
501 any implied execute protection).
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502 1 -- check protection requested by application.
503 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
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504 Value can be changed at runtime via
505 /selinux/checkreqprot.
506
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507 cio_ignore= [S390]
508 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
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509 clk_ignore_unused
510 [CLK]
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511 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
512 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
513 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
514 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
515 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
516 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
517 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
518 platform with proper driver support. For more
519 information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
661ca0da 520
cd4f0ef7 521 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
734efb46 522 [Deprecated]
3f6dee9b 523 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
734efb46 524 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
3f6dee9b 525 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
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526 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
527
592913ec 528 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
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529 Format: <string>
530 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
531 with the name specified.
532 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
533 the platform:
534 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
535 [ACPI] acpi_pm
536 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
537 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
9863c90f 538 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
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539 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
540 [MIPS] MIPS
541 [PARISC] cr16
542 [S390] tod
543 [SH] SuperH
544 [SPARC64] tick
545 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
546
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547 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
548 [ARM,ARM64]
549 Format: <bool>
550 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
551 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
552 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
553 systems.
554
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555 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
556 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
cd4d09ec 557 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
07983f0e 558 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
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559 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
560 ones should be.
561 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
562 or using the feature without checking anything
563 will still see it. This just prevents it from
564 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
565 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
566 some critical bits.
567
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568 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
569 [ARM,X86,KNL]
570 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
571 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
572 placement constraint by the physical address range of
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573 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
574 altogether. For more information, see
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575 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
576
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577 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
578 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
579 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
580 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
581 a hypervisor.
582 Default: yes
583
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584 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
585 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
e9da6e99 586 allocations, by default set to 256K.
c7909509 587
6cececfc 588 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
a25bd949 589 in an oops report.
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590 Range: 0 - 8192
591 Default: 64
592
1da177e4 593 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
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594 Format:
595 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
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596
597 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
598 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
599
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600 com90xx= [HW,NET]
601 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
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602 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
603
604 condev= [HW,S390] console device
605 conmode=
a9913044 606
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607 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
608
609 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
610
611 ttyS<n>[,options]
f1a1c2dc 612 ttyUSB0[,options]
1da177e4 613 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
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614 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
615 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
616 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
617 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
618
e52347bd 619 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
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620 information. See
621 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
622 alternative.
1da177e4 623
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624 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
625 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
bd94c407 626 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
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627 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
628 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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630 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
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631 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
632 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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633 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
634 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
635 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
636 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
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637 the h/w is not re-initialized.
638
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640 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
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642 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
643 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
644 console=brl,ttyS0
645 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
646
f324edc8 647 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
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648 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
649 Defaults to 0.
f324edc8 650
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651 coredump_filter=
652 [KNL] Change the default value for
653 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
654 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
655
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656 coresight_cpu_debug.enable
657 [ARM,ARM64]
658 Format: <bool>
659 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
660 0: default value, disable debugging
661 1: enable debugging at boot time
662
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663 cpufreq_driver= [X86] Allow only the named cpu frequency scaling driver
664 to register. Example: cpufreq_driver=powernow-k8
665 Format: { none | STRING }
666
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667 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
668 disable the cpuidle sub-system
669
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670 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
671 disable the cpufreq sub-system
672
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673 cpu_init_udelay=N
674 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
675 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
676 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
677 Default: 10000
678
1da177e4 679 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
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681 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
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683 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
684 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
685 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
686 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
687 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
688 is selected automatically. Check
689 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
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691 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
692 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
693 in the running system. The syntax of range is
694 start-[end] where start and end are both
695 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
6f21e646 696 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
fb391599 697
adbc742b 698 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
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699 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
700 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
701 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
702 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
703 available.
704 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
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705 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
706 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
707 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
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708 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
709 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
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710 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
711 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
712 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
713 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
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714 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
715 for second kernel instead.
716 0: to disable low allocation.
adbc742b 717 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
55a20ee7 718 or memory reserved is below 4G.
c729de8f 719
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720 cryptomgr.notests
721 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
722
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723 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
724 Format: <dma>
725
726 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
727 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
a9913044 728
a9913044 729 dasd= [HW,NET]
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730 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
731
732 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
733 (one device per port)
734 Format: <port#>,<type>
1752118d 735 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4 736
a648ec05 737 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
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738 time. See
739 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
29e36c9f 740 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
a648ec05 741
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742 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
743
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744 debug_locks_verbose=
745 [KNL] verbose self-tests
746 Format=<0|1>
747 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
748 self-tests.
749 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
750 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
751 only useful to kernel developers.
752
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753 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
754
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755 no_debug_objects
756 [KNL] Disable object debugging
757
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758 debug_guardpage_minorder=
759 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
760 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
761 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
762 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
763 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
764 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
765 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
766 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
767 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
768 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
769 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
770 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
771 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
772 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
773 bypassed) which are not detectable by
774 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
775 tracking down these problems.
776
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777 debug_pagealloc=
778 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
779 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
780 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
781 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
782 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
783 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
784 on: enable the feature
785
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786 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
787
2d27a966 788 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
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789 Format: <area>[,<node>]
790 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
791
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793 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
794 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
795 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
796 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
797 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
798 if not specified.
55ff9780 799
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800 dhash_entries= [KNL]
801 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
a9913044 802
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803 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
804 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
805 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
806 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
807 miss to occur.
808
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809 disable= [IPV6]
810 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
811
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812 disable_radix [PPC]
813 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
814
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815 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
816 Format: <int>
817 The number of initial APIC ID for the
818 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
819 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
820 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
821 causing system reset or hang due to sending
822 INIT from AP to BSP.
823
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824 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
825 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
826 to workaround buggy firmware.
827
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828 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
829 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
830
95ffa243 831 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
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832 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
833 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
0cb55ad2 834 entry later. This parameter disables that.
95ffa243 835
093af8d7 836 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
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837 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
838 memory out of your available memory pool based on
839 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
840 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
841
6cececfc 842 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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843 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
844 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
845
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846 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
847
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848 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
849 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
850
851 dma_debug_entries=<number>
852 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
853 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
854 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
855 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
856 architectural default is too low.
857
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858 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
859 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
860 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
861 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
862 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
863 driver later using sysfs.
864
53fd40a9 865 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
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866 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
867 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
868 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
869 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
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870 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
871 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
872 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
873 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
874 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
875 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
876 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
877 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
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878 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
879 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
880 data set with no connector name will be used for
881 any connectors not explicitly specified.
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883 dscc4.setup= [NET]
884
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885 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC]
886 Format: {"off" | "known"}
887 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
888 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
889 exists).
890 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
891 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
892 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
893
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894 dump_apple_properties [X86]
895 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
896 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
897 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
898
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899 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
900 module.dyndbg[="val"]
901 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
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902 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
903 for details.
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905 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
906 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
907 information about the feature.
908
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909 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
910 in some Intel CPUs.
911
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912 module.async_probe [KNL]
913 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
914
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915 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
916 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
917 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
918 which are not unmapped.
919
0cb55ad2 920 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
0d3c673e 921
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922 When used with no options, the early console is
923 determined by the stdout-path property in device
924 tree's chosen node.
925
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926 cdns,<addr>[,options]
927 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
928 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
929 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
930 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
931 configured.
6fa62fc4 932
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933 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
934 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1917ac76 935 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
6e63be3f 936 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
ca782f16 937 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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938 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
939 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
16290246 940 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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941 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
942 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
943 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
944 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
ca782f16 945 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
0cb55ad2 946
0d3c673e 947 pl011,<addr>
3b78fae7 948 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
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949 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
950 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
951 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
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952 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
953 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
954 the device registers.
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956 meson,<addr>
957 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
958 port at the specified address. The serial port must
959 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
960 supported.
961
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962 msm_serial,<addr>
963 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
964 port at the specified address. The serial port
965 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
966 yet supported.
967
968 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
969 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
970 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
971 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
972 yet supported.
973
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974 owl,<addr>
975 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
976 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
977 specified address. The serial port must already be
978 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
979
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980 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
981
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982 s3c2410,<addr>
983 s3c2412,<addr>
984 s3c2440,<addr>
985 s3c6400,<addr>
986 s5pv210,<addr>
987 exynos4210,<addr>
988 Use early console provided by serial driver available
989 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
990 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
991 serial port must already be setup and configured.
992 Options are not yet supported.
993
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994 lantiq,<addr>
995 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
996 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
997 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
998 yet supported.
999
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1000 lpuart,<addr>
1001 lpuart32,<addr>
1002 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1003 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1004 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1005 port must already be setup and configured.
1006
f7c864e7 1007 ar3700_uart,<addr>
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1008 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1009 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1010 address. The serial port must already be setup
1011 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1012
89175cf7 1013 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k,S390]
1da177e4 1014 earlyprintk=vga
72548e83 1015 earlyprintk=efi
89175cf7 1016 earlyprintk=sclp
2482a92e 1017 earlyprintk=xen
1da177e4 1018 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
147ea091 1019 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
ea3acb19 1020 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
9780bc41 1021 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
c43088e3 1022 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1b5aeebf 1023 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
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1025 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1026 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1027 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1028
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1030 takes over.
1031
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1032 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1033 be used at a time.
1da177e4 1034
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1035 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1036 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1037 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1038 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1039 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1040 You can find the port for a given device in
1041 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1042 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
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1043
1044 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1045 very good.
1046
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1047 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1048 the real console.
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1050 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1051
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1052 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1053
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1054 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1055 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1056 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1057 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1058 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1059 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1060 default: on.
1061
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1062 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1063 ekgdboc=kbd
1064
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1066 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1067
1da177e4 1068 edd= [EDD]
8c4dd606 1069 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1da177e4 1070
d2f7cbe7 1071 efi= [EFI]
fed6cefe 1072 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
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1073 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1074 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1075 default.
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1076 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1077 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1078 firmware implementations.
5ae3683c 1079 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
fed6cefe 1080 debug: enable misc debug output
d2f7cbe7 1081
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RW
1082 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1083 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1084 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1085 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1086 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1087
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TI
1088 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1089 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1090 updating original EFI memory map.
1091 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1092 from ss to ss+nn.
1093 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1094 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1095 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1096 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1097
1098 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1099 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1100 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1101 doesn't support it.
1102
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1103 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1104 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1105 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1106 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1107 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1108
1109
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1110 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1111 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1112
cd4f0ef7 1113 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1da177e4 1114 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
71f77055 1115 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1da177e4
LT
1116
1117 elevator= [IOSCHED]
17a9e7bb 1118 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
395cf969 1119 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
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RD
1120 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1121
d3bf3795 1122 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
a9913044 1123 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
d3bf3795
MH
1124 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1125 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
aac04b32 1126 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
1da177e4 1127
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RD
1128 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1129 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1130 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1131 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1132
ca1eda2d 1133 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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RD
1134 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1135 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1136 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1137 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1138
1da177e4
LT
1139 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1140 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1141 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1142 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1143 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1144 Default value is 0.
1145 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1146
a08f82d0
HY
1147 erst_disable [ACPI]
1148 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1149 support.
1150
1da177e4
LT
1151 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1152 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1153 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1154
7102ebcd
MZ
1155 evm= [EVM]
1156 Format: { "fix" }
1157 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1158 current integrity status.
1159
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AM
1160 failslab=
1161 fail_page_alloc=
1162 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1163 General fault injection mechanism.
1164 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
395cf969 1165 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
de1ba09b 1166
1da177e4 1167 floppy= [HW]
31c00fc1 1168 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1da177e4 1169
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AC
1170 force_pal_cache_flush
1171 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1172 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1173 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1174 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1175
69f2366c
CB
1176 forcepae [X86-32]
1177 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1178 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1179 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1180 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1181 and may cause unknown problems.
1182
d9e54076 1183 ftrace=[tracer]
2af15d6a 1184 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
d9e54076
PZ
1185 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1186 boot debugging.
1187
cecbca96 1188 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
2af15d6a 1189 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
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FW
1190 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1191 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1192 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1193 oops.
2af15d6a
SR
1194
1195 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1196 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1197 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1198 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1199 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
16290246 1200 tracing directory.
2af15d6a
SR
1201
1202 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1203 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1204 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1205 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1206 tracing directory.
d9e54076 1207
369bc18f
SA
1208 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1209 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1210 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1211 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1212 that can be changed at run time by the
1213 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1214
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NK
1215 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1216 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1217 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1218 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1219 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1220
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TB
1221 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1222 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1223 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1224 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1225 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1226
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LT
1227 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1228 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1229 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1230 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1752118d 1231 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4
LT
1232
1233 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1234
aaf23042
YL
1235 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1236 Format: off | on
1237 default: on
1238
2521f2c2
PO
1239 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1240 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1241 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1242 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1243 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1244
47512cfd
TG
1245 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1246 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1247 android emulator
1248
1da177e4 1249 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
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DB
1250 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1251 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1252 GPT to be used instead.
1da177e4 1253
6cec9b07
AL
1254 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1255 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1256 Format: 0 | 1
1257 Default: 0
1258 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1259 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1260 Format: 0 | 1
1261 Default: 0
1262 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1263 Format: 0 | 1
1264 Default: 0
1265 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1266 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1267 Default: 1024
1268 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1269 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1270 Default: 1024
1271
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BJZ
1272 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1273 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1274 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1275
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JK
1276 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1277 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1278 backtraces on all cpus.
1279 Format: <integer>
1280
1da177e4
LT
1281 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1282 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
16290246 1283 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
a9913044 1284 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1da177e4
LT
1285
1286 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1287
1288 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1289 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1290
ea8c071c
HY
1291 hest_disable [ACPI]
1292 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1293 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1294 logic will be disabled.
1295
1da177e4
LT
1296 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1297 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1298 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1299 size on bigger boxes.
1300
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TG
1301 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1302 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1303 Default: "on"
1304
1da177e4
LT
1305 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1306 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1307
0cb55ad2
RD
1308 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1309
1310 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1311 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1312 verbose }
1313 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1314 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1315 VIA, nVidia)
1316 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1317
3d035f58
PB
1318 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1319 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1320
b4718e62
AK
1321 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1322 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
0d9ea754
JT
1323 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1324 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1325 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1326 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
27ec26ec 1327 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
6902aa84 1328
555d61d6
HB
1329 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1330 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
431429ff
HB
1331 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1332 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1333 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
cef7125d 1334
fdabf525
JH
1335 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1336 hardware thread id mappings.
1337 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1338
7bf69395
FDN
1339 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1340 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1341 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1342 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1343 the real console.
1344
3a853fb9 1345 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
7954763b
JN
1346 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1347 registered from board initialization code.
3a853fb9
JN
1348 Format:
1349 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1350
36d95739 1351 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
e1443d28
SCP
1352 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1353 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1354 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1355 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1da177e4 1356 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
84eb8d06
ML
1357 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1358 keyboard and cannot control its state
1da177e4
LT
1359 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1360 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
945ef0d4 1361 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
75d08c78
JK
1362 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1363 for the AUX port
1da177e4 1364 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
e55a3366 1365 controller
1da177e4
LT
1366 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1367 controllers
24775d65 1368 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
930e1924
MPS
1369 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1370 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1371 transitions, or never reset
1372 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1373 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1374 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1375 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1376 architectures force reset to be always executed
1da177e4 1377 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
148e9a71 1378 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1da177e4
LT
1379
1380 i810= [HW,DRM]
1381
e70c9d5e
DT
1382 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1383 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1384 hardware.
1da177e4
LT
1385 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1386 does not match list of supported models.
1387 i8k.power_status
1388 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1389 (disabled by default)
1390 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1391 capability is set.
1392
4dca20ef 1393 i915.invert_brightness=
7bd90909
CE
1394 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1395 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
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CE
1396 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1397 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1398 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1399 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1400 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1401 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1402 value switches the backlight off.
1403 -1 -- never invert brightness
1404 0 -- machine default
1405 1 -- force brightness inversion
7bd90909 1406
1da177e4
LT
1407 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1408 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1409
0af80c04
DF
1410 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1411 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
075affcb
BZ
1412 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1413 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1c10e938 1414 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1da177e4 1415
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MR
1416 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1417 Format: <int>
1418 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1419 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1420 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1421 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1422 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1423 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1424 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1425 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1426 was 0x3.
1427
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RD
1428 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1429 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1430
f039b754 1431 idle= [X86]
69fb3676 1432 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
ada9cfdd
RD
1433 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1434 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1435 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1436 Not recommended.
ada9cfdd 1437 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
c1e3b377 1438 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
ada9cfdd 1439 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
a9913044 1440
503943e0
MR
1441 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1442 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1443 Default: strict
1444
1445 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1446 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1447 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1448 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1449 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1450 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1451 encoding mode.
1452
1453 Available settings are as follows:
1454 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1455 supported by the FPU
1456 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1457 by the FPU
1458 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1459 by the FPU
1460 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1461 supported by the FPU
1462
1463 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1464 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1465 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1466 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1467 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1468 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1469 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1470 MIPS64 CPUs.
1471
1472 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1473 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1474 except where unsupported by hardware.
1475
79290822
IM
1476 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1477 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1478 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
0eca6b7c
YZ
1479 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1480 could change it dynamically, usually by
1481 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
79290822 1482
d977d56c
KK
1483 ignore_rlimit_data
1484 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1485 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1486 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1487
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LT
1488 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1489 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1490
2fe5d6de 1491 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2faa6ef3 1492 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
2fe5d6de
MZ
1493 default: "enforce"
1494
07f6a794
MZ
1495 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1496 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1497 owned by uid=0.
1498
d68a6fe9
MZ
1499 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1500 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1501 measurements, instead of host native format.
1502
3323eec9 1503 ima_hash= [IMA]
e7a2ad7e
MZ
1504 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1505 | sha512 | ... }
3323eec9
MZ
1506 default: "sha1"
1507
e7a2ad7e
MZ
1508 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1509 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1510
24fd03c8 1511 ima_policy= [IMA]
33ce9549 1512 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
503ceaef 1513 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot"
33ce9549
MZ
1514
1515 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1516 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1517 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1518 uid=0.
1519
1520 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1521 all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent
1522 of ima_appraise_tcb.)
24fd03c8 1523
503ceaef
MZ
1524 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1525 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1526 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
24fd03c8
MZ
1527
1528 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
5789ba3b
EP
1529 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1530 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1531 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1532 opened for read by uid=0.
1533
9b9d4ce5
RS
1534 ima_template= [IMA]
1535 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
8265a2f8 1536 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
9b9d4ce5
RS
1537 Default: "ima-ng"
1538
c2426d2a
RS
1539 ima_template_fmt=
1540 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1541 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1542
3bcced39
DK
1543 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1544 Format: <min_file_size>
1545 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1546 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1547
1548 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1549 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1550 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1551
6edf7a89
DK
1552 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1553 Format: <bufsize>
1554 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1555
1556 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1557 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1558 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1559
1da177e4
LT
1560 init= [KNL]
1561 Format: <full_path>
1562 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1563 process.
1564
1565 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1566 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1567 startup.
1568
7b0b73d7
PB
1569 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1570 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1571 modules and initcalls.
1572
1da177e4
LT
1573 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1574
acd547b2
DH
1575 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1576 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1577 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1578 override in debugfs after boot.
1579
1da177e4
LT
1580 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1581 Format: <irq>
1582
6bb2ff84
FY
1583 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1584
d726d8d7
MZ
1585 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1586 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1587 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1588 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1589
ba395927 1590 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
0cd5c3c8
KM
1591 on
1592 Enable intel iommu driver.
ba395927
KA
1593 off
1594 Disable intel iommu driver.
1595 igfx_off [Default Off]
1596 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1597 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1598 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1599 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1600 DMA.
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1601 forcedac [x86_64]
1602 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
16290246 1603 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
7d3b03ce 1604 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
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1605 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1606 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
7d3b03ce 1607 then look in the higher range.
5e0d2a6f 1608 strict [Default Off]
1609 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1610 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1611 to batching them for performance.
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1612 sp_off [Default Off]
1613 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1614 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1615 not be supported.
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1616 ecs_off [Default Off]
1617 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1618 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1619 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1620 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1621 on hardware which claims to support them.
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1622 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1623 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1624 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1625 could harm performance of some high-throughput
1626 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1627 mapping is enabled.
1628 Note that using this option lowers the security
1629 provided by tboot because it makes the system
1630 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
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1631
1632 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1633 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
22c6bbe4 1634 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
2e92c7ad 1635
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1636 intel_pstate= [X86]
1637 disable
1638 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1639 scaling driver for the supported processors
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1640 passive
1641 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1642 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1643 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1644 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1645 feature.
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1646 force
1647 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1648 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1649 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1650 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1651 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1652 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1653 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1654 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
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1655 no_hwp
1656 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1657 if available.
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1658 hwp_only
1659 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1660 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
9522a2ff 1661 support_acpi_ppc
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1662 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1663 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1664 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1665 then this feature is turned on by default.
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1666 per_cpu_perf_limits
1667 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1668 cpufreq sysfs interface
6be26498 1669
d1423d56 1670 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
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1671 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1672 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1673 nosid disable Source ID checking
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1674 no_x2apic_optout
1675 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
b7d20631 1676 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
d1423d56 1677
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1678 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1679 strict regions from userspace.
1680 relaxed
1681
1682 iommu= [x86]
1683 off
1684 force
1685 noforce
1686 biomerge
1687 panic
1688 nopanic
1689 merge
1690 nomerge
1691 forcesac
1692 soft
bcb71abe 1693 pt [x86, IA-64]
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1694 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1695 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
bcb71abe 1696
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1697 iommu.passthrough=
1698 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1699 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1700 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1701 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1702 unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
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1703
1704 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1705 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1706 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1707
6cececfc 1708 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
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1709 0x80
1710 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1711 0xed
1712 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
b02aae9c 1713 udelay
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1714 Simple two microseconds delay
1715 none
1716 No delay
b02aae9c 1717
1da177e4 1718 ip= [IP_PNP]
dc7a0816 1719 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 1720
fbf19803 1721 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2d13e6ca 1722 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
fbf19803 1723
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1724 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1725 [ARM, ARM64]
1726 Format: <bool>
1727 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1728 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1729 exposed by the device tree is too small.
1730
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1731 irqfixup [HW]
1732 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1733 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1734 firmware running.
1735
1736 irqpoll [HW]
1737 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1738 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1739 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1740 firmware running.
1741
1da177e4 1742 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
a9913044 1743 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1da177e4 1744
d94d1053 1745 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
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1746 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1747 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
1748
1749 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1750 specified in the flag list (default: domain):
1751
1752 nohz
1753 Disable the tick when a single task runs.
1754 domain
1755 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1756 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1757 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1758 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1759 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1760 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1761 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1762 move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1763
1764 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1765 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1766 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1767 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1768
1769 The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
b225d44e 1770
1da177e4 1771
1da177e4 1772
a9913044 1773 iucv= [HW,NET]
1da177e4 1774
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1775 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1776 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1777 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1778 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1779 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1780 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1781
1782 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1783 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1784 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1785 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1786 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1787 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1788
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1789 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1790 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1791 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1792 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1793 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1794 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1795
1da177e4 1796 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1752118d 1797 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
1da177e4 1798
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1799 nokaslr [KNL]
1800 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1801 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1802 Layout Randomization).
24f2e027 1803
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1804 kasan_multi_shot
1805 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1806 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1807 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1808 invalid access.
1809
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1810 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1811
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1812 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1813 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1814 This parameter
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1815 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1816 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1817 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1818 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1819 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1820 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1821 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
675217fd 1822 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
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1823 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1824 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1825 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1826 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1827 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1828 zone if it does not.
1829
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1830 Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1831 you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1832 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1833 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1834 for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1835 so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1836 time.
ed7ed365 1837
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1838 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1839 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1840 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1841 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1842 optional and is the number seconds in between
1843 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1844 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1845 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1846 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1847 the kernel debugger.
1848
84c08fd6 1849 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
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1850 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1851 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
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1852 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1853 keyboard only format: kbd
1854 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1855 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1856 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1857 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
6cdf6e06 1858
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1859 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1860 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1861
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1862 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1863 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1864 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1865
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1866 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1867 Valid arguments: on, off
1868 Default: on
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1869 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1870 the default is off.
04f70336 1871
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1872 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1873 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1874
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1875 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1876 KVM MMU at runtime.
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1877 Default is 0 (off)
1878
fef07aae 1879 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
8475f94a 1880 Default is 1 (enabled)
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1881
1882 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1883 for all guests.
16290246 1884 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
fef07aae 1885
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1886 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
1887 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
1888 system registers
1889
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1890 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
1891 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
1892 system registers
1893
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1894 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
1895 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
1896 system registers
1897
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1898 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
1899 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
1900 LPIs.
1901
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1902 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1903 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1904 Default is 1 (enabled)
1905
1906 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1907 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1908 Default is 0 (disabled)
1909
1910 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1911 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1912 Default is 1 (enabled)
1913
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1914 kvm-intel.nested=
1915 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1916 Default is 0 (disabled)
1917
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1918 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1919 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1920 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1921 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1922
1923 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1924 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1925 Default is 1 (enabled)
1926
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1927 l2cr= [PPC]
1928
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1929 l3cr= [PPC]
1930
cd4f0ef7 1931 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
a9913044 1932 disabled it.
1da177e4 1933
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1934 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1935 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1936 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1937
6cececfc 1938 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
ada9cfdd 1939 in C2 power state.
e585bef8 1940
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1941 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1942 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1943 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1944 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
16290246 1945 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
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1946 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1947 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
16290246 1948
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1949 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1950 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
1951 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
fcb71f6f 1952
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1953 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1954 when set.
1955 Format: <int>
1956
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1957 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
1958 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
4c44f309 1959 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
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1960 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
1961 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
1962 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1963 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1964 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1965
1966 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1967 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
1968 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1969 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
1970 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1971 host link and device attached to it.
1972
1973 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
1974 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1975 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1976 The following configurations can be forced.
1977
1978 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1979 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1980
1981 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1982
1983 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1984 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
1985 allowed.
1986
1987 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
1988
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1989 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
1990
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1991 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
1992 and both resets.
1993
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1994 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
1995 hot-unplug link recovery
1996
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1997 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
1998
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1999 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2000
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2001 * disable: Disable this device.
2002
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2003 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2004 the same attribute, the last one is used.
2005
95f72d1e 2006 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
7c4be253 2007
1da177e4 2008 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
31c00fc1 2009 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 2010
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2011 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2012 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 2013
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2014 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2015 Format: <integer>
2016
2017 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2018 Format: <integer>
2019
2020 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2021 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 2022
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2023 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2024 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2025 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2026 number of online CPUs.
2027
2028 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2029 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2030
2031 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2032 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2033
2034 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2035 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2036 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2037
2038 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2039 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2040 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2041 mode during the locktorture test.
2042
2043 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2044 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2045 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2046
2047 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2048 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2049
2050 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2051 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2052 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2053 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2054 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2055 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2056
2057 locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
2058 Start locktorture running at boot time.
2059
2060 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2061 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2062
2063 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2064 Enable additional printk() statements.
2065
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2066 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2067 Format: <irq>
2068
2069 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2070 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2071 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2072 loglevels are defined as follows:
2073
2074 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2075 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2076 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2077 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2078 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2079 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2080 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2081 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2082
c756d08a 2083 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
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2084 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2085 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2086 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2087 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2088 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2089 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
1da177e4 2090
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2091 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2092 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2093 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2094 kernel boot problems.
2095
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2096 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2097 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2098 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2099 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2100 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2101 attached printers to be reset. Using
2102 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2103 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2104 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2105 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2106 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2107 port specification list means that device IDs
2108 from each port should be examined, to see if
2109 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2110 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2111 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2112
2113 lpj=n [KNL]
2114 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2115 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2116 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2117 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2118 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2119 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2120 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2121 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2122 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2123 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2124 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2125 hardware.
2126
2127 ltpc= [NET]
2128 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2129
16290246 2130 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
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2131 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2132 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
1da177e4 2133
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2134 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2135 yeeloong laptop.
2136 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2137
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2138 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2139 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
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2140
2141 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
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2142 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2143 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2144 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2145 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2146 only takes effect during system bootup.
2147 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2148 which also disables the IO APIC.
1da177e4 2149
d134b00b
KS
2150 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2151 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2152 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2153 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2154 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2155 /dev/loop-control interface.
2b2c3750 2156
cd4f0ef7 2157 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
1da177e4 2158
71cced6e 2159 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
909dd324 2160
1da177e4 2161 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
e52347bd 2162 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
a9913044 2163
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LT
2164 mdacon= [MDA]
2165 Format: <first>,<last>
2166 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
a9913044 2167
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LT
2168 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2169 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2170 to see the whole system memory or for test.
fbb97d87
WC
2171 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2172 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2173 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2174 belonging to unused RAM.
1da177e4 2175
cd4f0ef7 2176 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
1da177e4
LT
2177 memory.
2178
6902aa84
PM
2179 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2180 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2181 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2182
86dd995d
VK
2183 memhp_default_state=online/offline
2184 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2185 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2186 set according to the
2187 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2188 option.
2189 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2190
6cececfc 2191 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
1da177e4
LT
2192 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2193 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2194 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2195 option description.
2196
2197 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
277cba1d
RD
2198 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2199 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
8fcc9bc3
BH
2200 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2201 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2202 Multiple different regions can be specified,
2203 comma delimited.
2204 Example:
2205 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
1da177e4
LT
2206
2207 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2208 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
277cba1d 2209 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
1da177e4
LT
2210
2211 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2212 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
277cba1d 2213 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
1312848e
PM
2214 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2215 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2216 or
2217 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
8fcc9bc3
BH
2218 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2219 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2220 will be eaten.
1da177e4 2221
ec776ef6
CH
2222 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2223 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2224 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2225 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2226 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2227
9f077871
JF
2228 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2229 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2230 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2231 Setting this option will scan the memory
2232 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2233 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2234 from using the memory being corrupted.
2235 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2236 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2237 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2238 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2239
2240 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2241 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2242 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2243 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2244 corruption in more or less memory.
2245
2246 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2247 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2248 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2249 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2250
e4b0db72 2251 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
c64df707 2252 Format: <integer>
c64df707 2253 default : 0 <disable>
9e5f6cf5
AH
2254 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2255 performed. Each pass selects another test
2256 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2257 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2258 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2259 regions that are detected.
c64df707 2260
c262f3b9
TL
2261 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2262 Valid arguments: on, off
2263 Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2264 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2265 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2266 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
2267 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
2268
2269 Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
2270 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2271
406e7938
RW
2272 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2273 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2274 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2275 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
58e7cb9e 2276 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
406e7938 2277
1da177e4 2278 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
a405ed85 2279 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
1da177e4 2280
8f36881b
AS
2281 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2282 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2283 platforms.
2284
e6c4dc6c
WT
2285 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2286 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2287 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2288 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2289
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LT
2290 mga= [HW,DRM]
2291
1c207f95
RD
2292 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2293 physical address is ignored.
2294
39f45d7b
MP
2295 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2296 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2297 Default: "0tb"
2298 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2299 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2300 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2301 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2302 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2303 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2304 unconfigured.
2305 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2306 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2307 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2308 VGA shield.
2309 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2310 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2311 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2312 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2313 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2314 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2315
6b74ab97
MG
2316 mminit_loglevel=
2317 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2318 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2319 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2320 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2321 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2322 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2323
106a4ee2
RR
2324 module.sig_enforce
2325 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2326 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2a039be7 2327 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
106a4ee2
RR
2328 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2329
be7de5f9
PB
2330 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2331 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2332
1da177e4
LT
2333 mousedev.tap_time=
2334 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2335 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2336 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2337 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2338 Format: <msecs>
2339 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2340 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2341 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2342 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2343
6cececfc 2344 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
0cb55ad2
RD
2345 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2346 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2347 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2348 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2349 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2350 is specified, the administrator must be careful
2351 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2352 is not too small.
2353
f70029bb
MH
2354 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2355 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2356 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2357 allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2358 allocations. Use with caution!
c5320926 2359
1da177e4
LT
2360 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2361 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2362
a9913044
RD
2363 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2364 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
1da177e4
LT
2365
2366 mtdparts= [MTD]
c8facbb6 2367 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
1da177e4 2368
4e89a2d8
WS
2369 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2370 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2371 at a time.
2372
5988af23
RH
2373 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2374
2375 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2376
2377 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2378 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2379 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2380 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2381 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2382
9db829f4
BD
2383 mtdset= [ARM]
2384 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2385
2386 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2387
1da177e4 2388 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
a9913044
RD
2389 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2390 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
1da177e4 2391
0cb55ad2 2392 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
19f59460 2393 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
0cb55ad2
RD
2394 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2395
2396 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2397 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2398 Default is 1.
2399 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2400 using up MTRRs.
2401
2402 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2403 Format: <integer>
2404 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2405 Default : 1
2406 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2407 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2408
1da177e4
LT
2409 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2410
1da177e4
LT
2411 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2412 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2413 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2414 something different and driver-specific.
a9913044
RD
2415 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2416 file if at all.
2417
58401572
KPO
2418 nf_conntrack.acct=
2419 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2420 0 to disable accounting
2421 1 to enable accounting
d70a011d 2422 Default value is 0.
58401572 2423
306a0753 2424 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
dc7a0816 2425 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2426
2427 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
dc7a0816 2428 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 2429
306a0753
CL
2430 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2431 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2432
5405fc44
TM
2433 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2434 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2435 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2436 requests.
2437
a72b4422
TM
2438 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2439 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2440 channel should listen.
2441
e571cbf1
TM
2442 nfs.cache_getent=
2443 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2444 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2445
2446 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2447 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2448 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2449
58df095b
TM
2450 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2451 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2452 entries.
2453
f43bf0be
TM
2454 nfs.enable_ino64=
2455 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2456 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2457 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2458 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2459 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2460
5405fc44
TM
2461 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2462 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2463 slots the client will assign to the callback
2464 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2465 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2466 a particular server.
2467
ef159e91
TM
2468 nfs.max_session_slots=
2469 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2470 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2471 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2472 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2473 Note that there is little point in setting this
2474 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2475
b064eca2 2476 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
074b1d12
TM
2477 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2478 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2479 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2480 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2481 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2482 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2483 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2484 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2485 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2486 back to using the idmapper.
2487 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
6f2ea7f2
CL
2488 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2489 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2490 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2491 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2492 UUID that is generated at system install time.
b064eca2 2493
db8ac8ba
WAA
2494 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2495 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2496 information in exchange_id requests.
2497 If zero, no implementation identification information
2498 will be sent.
2499 The default is to send the implementation identification
2500 information.
e52347bd 2501
f6de7a39
TM
2502 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2503 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2504 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2505 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2506 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2507 after the locks are lost.
2508 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2509 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2510 parameter to '1'.
2511 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2512 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
db8ac8ba 2513
bbf58bf3
TM
2514 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2515 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2516 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2517
2518 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2519 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2520 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2521 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2522
e9541ce8
BF
2523 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2524 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2525 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2526 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2527 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2528 migration from NFSv2/v3.
db8ac8ba 2529
c0c74acb 2530 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
e7ba176b
HS
2531 when a NMI is triggered.
2532 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2533
6cececfc 2534 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
fef2c9bc 2535 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
195daf66 2536 Valid num: 0 or 1
334bb79c
PK
2537 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2538 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
0cb55ad2 2539 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
fef2c9bc 2540 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
334bb79c
PK
2541 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2542 please see 'nowatchdog'.
0cb55ad2
RD
2543 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2544 need the box quickly up again.
1da177e4 2545
bff38771
AV
2546 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2547 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2548 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2549 waits 4 seconds.
2550
cd4f0ef7 2551 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
1da177e4
LT
2552 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2553 is present.
2554
0cb55ad2
RD
2555 no_console_suspend
2556 [HW] Never suspend the console
2557 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2558 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2559 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2560 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2561 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2562 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2563 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
134620f7
YZ
2564 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2565 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2566 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2567 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2568 turn on/off it dynamically.
0cb55ad2 2569
c1aee215
CL
2570 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2571 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2572 but will impact performance.
3395ee05 2573
a9913044
RD
2574 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2575
686140a1
VG
2576 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2577 (CPU alternatives feature).
2578
1da177e4
LT
2579 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2580 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2581
5091faa4
MG
2582 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2583
1da177e4
LT
2584 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2585 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2586
2587 nocache [ARM]
a9913044 2588
0cb55ad2
RD
2589 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2590
163ecdff
SN
2591 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2592
6902aa84
PM
2593 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2594
b2e0a54a 2595 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
8b2cb7a8 2596
1da177e4
LT
2597 noexec [IA-64]
2598
6cececfc 2599 noexec [X86]
f5a1b191 2600 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
1da177e4 2601 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
f5a1b191
JS
2602 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2603
52b6179a
PA
2604 nosmap [X86]
2605 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2606 even if it is supported by processor.
2607
de5397ad 2608 nosmep [X86]
52b6179a 2609 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
de5397ad
FY
2610 even if it is supported by processor.
2611
f5a1b191
JS
2612 noexec32 [X86-64]
2613 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2614 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2615 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2616 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2617 read implies executable mappings
1da177e4 2618
fab43ef4 2619 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
6902aa84 2620
cd4f0ef7 2621 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
4f886511
CE
2622 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2623 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
1da177e4 2624
0ddab1d2
TK
2625 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2626
52c48c51
SS
2627 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2628 Equivalent to smt=1.
2629
da285121
DW
2630 nospectre_v2 [X86] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2
2631 (indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may
2632 allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent
2633 to spectre_v2=off.
2634
0c752a93
SS
2635 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2636 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2637 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2638
b6f42a4a
FY
2639 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2640 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2641 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2642 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2643 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2644 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2645
2646 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2647 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2648 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2649 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2650 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2651 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2652 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2653
01a24d2b
PZ
2654 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2655 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2656 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
a9913044 2657
1f29fae2
SH
2658 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2659 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2660 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2661
1da177e4
LT
2662 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2663 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2664 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2665 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2666 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2667 real-time systems.
2668
a6e15a39
KC
2669 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2670
79bf2bb3
TG
2671 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2672 Valid arguments: on, off
2673 Default: on
2674
d94d1053 2675 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
2d13e6ca 2676 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
c5bfece2 2677 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
a831881b 2678 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
0453b435 2679 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
f99bcb2c
PM
2680 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
2681 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
2682 just as if they had also been called out in the
2683 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
a831881b 2684
eeee7853
PM
2685 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2686
cd4f0ef7 2687 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
1da177e4
LT
2688 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2689
6cececfc 2690 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
8542b200
ZA
2691 broken timer IRQ sources.
2692
1da177e4
LT
2693 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2694
2695 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2696 initial RAM disk.
2697
03ea8155
WH
2698 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2699 remapping.
d1423d56 2700 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
03ea8155 2701
1da177e4
LT
2702 nointroute [IA-64]
2703
d12a72b8
AL
2704 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2705
16290246 2706 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
0aa366f3 2707
9cf4c4fc
JK
2708 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2709
fd10cde9
GN
2710 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2711 fault handling.
2712
80e9a4f2
AM
2713 no-vmw-sched-clock
2714 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2715 clock and use the default one.
2716
d910f5c1
GC
2717 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2718 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2719 behaviour
2720
cd4f0ef7 2721 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
1da177e4 2722
cd4f0ef7 2723 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
ad62ca2b 2724
1da177e4 2725 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
f15eea66 2726 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
1da177e4 2727
312f1f01
H
2728 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2729
13696e0a 2730 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
abe37e5a 2731
83d7384f
AS
2732 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2733 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2734
bda62633
DZ
2735 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2736 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2737 irq.
2738
02608bef
DY
2739 nomodule Disable module load
2740
016ddd9b
JK
2741 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2742 pagetables) support.
2743
0790c9aa
AL
2744 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
2745
0cb55ad2
RD
2746 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2747 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2748
cd4f0ef7 2749 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
b7fb4af0
JF
2750 with UP alternatives
2751
7a5091d5
PA
2752 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2753 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2754 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2755 available to user space applications.
49d859d7 2756
a9913044
RD
2757 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2758 space.
2759
1da177e4
LT
2760 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2761 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2762 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2763
2764 nosbagart [IA-64]
2765
cd4f0ef7 2766 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
4f886511 2767
61ec7567
LB
2768 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2769 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
1da177e4 2770
97842216
DJ
2771 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2772
1da177e4
LT
2773 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2774
cd4f0ef7 2775 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
1da177e4 2776
195daf66
UO
2777 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2778 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
58687acb 2779
1da177e4 2780 nowb [ARM]
a9913044 2781
2b2fd87a
WH
2782 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2783
f78cff48
FY
2784 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2785 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2786 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2787 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2788 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2789 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2790 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2791 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2792 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2793 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2794 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2795 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2796 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2797
35b55ef2
NC
2798 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
2799 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
2800 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
2801 without interruptions, before HW switches it.
2802 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
2803 parameter's value.
2804 Format: integer between 1 and 255
2805 Default: 255
2806
16290246 2807 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
a6c75b86
FY
2808 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2809 SAL PALO.
2810
2b633e3f
YL
2811 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2812 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
7c142bfe
BH
2813 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2814 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2815 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2816 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2817 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2818 hot plugging.
2b633e3f 2819
0cb55ad2
RD
2820 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2821
1a687c2e
MG
2822 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2823 Allowed values are enable and disable
2824
f0c0b2b8 2825 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
c9bff3ee 2826 'node', 'default' can be specified
f0c0b2b8
KH
2827 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2828 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2829
7c4be253
RD
2830 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2831 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2832 info.
2833
3ef0e1f8
AS
2834 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2835 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2836 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2837 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2838 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2839 interrupts *may* be lost!
2840
15ac7afe
TL
2841 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2842 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2843 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2844 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2845
1da177e4
LT
2846 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2847 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2848
7e4e0bd5
RR
2849 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2850 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2851 userland or if you want common events.
8d7ff4f2
RR
2852 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2853 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
7e4e0bd5
RR
2854 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2855 CPU specific event set.
159a80b2
RR
2856 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2857 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2858 for generic hr timer mode)
1dcdb5a9 2859
44a4dcf7
RD
2860 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2861 process, but there is a small probability of
2862 deadlocking the machine.
d404ab0a
OH
2863 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2864 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2865
bcfde334
RD
2866 OSS [HW,OSS]
2867 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2868
48c96a36
JK
2869 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2870 Storage of the information about who allocated
2871 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2872 we can turn it on.
2873 on: enable the feature
2874
8823b1db
LA
2875 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2876 poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2877 off: turn off poisoning
2878 on: turn on poisoning
2879
44a4dcf7 2880 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4302fbc8
HD
2881 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2882 timeout = 0: wait forever
2883 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
1da177e4
LT
2884 Format: <timeout>
2885
9e3961a0
PB
2886 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
2887 on a WARN().
2888
f06e5153
MH
2889 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2890 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2891 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2892 succeeds in any situation.
2893 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2894 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2895 kernel more unstable.
2896
1da177e4
LT
2897 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2898 connected to, default is 0.
2899 Format: <parport#>
2900 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2901 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
a9913044
RD
2902 Format: <mode>
2903
2904 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2905 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2906 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2907 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2908 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2909 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2910 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2911 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2912 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2913 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2914 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2915 are specified on the command line, starting
2916 with parport0.
2917
2918 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2919 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2920 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2921 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2922 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2923 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
1da177e4
LT
2924 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2925
dd287796
AM
2926 pause_on_oops=
2927 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2928 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
2929 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2930
1da177e4
LT
2931 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
2932
2933 pcd. [PARIDE]
2934 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
31c00fc1 2935 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 2936
a9913044 2937 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
1cc0ca26
BH
2938 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2939 changes anything
c0115606 2940 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
cd4f0ef7 2941 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
a9913044
RD
2942 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2943 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
cd4f0ef7 2944 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
a9913044
RD
2945 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2946 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2947 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
afd8c084
BP
2948 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2949 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
2950 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
2951 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2952 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
2953 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
2954 bus number. The config space is then accessed
2955 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
2956 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
2957 on the configuration access mechanisms.
7f785763
RD
2958 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2959 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2960 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
32a2eea7
JG
2961 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2962 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
6cececfc 2963 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
61be6d66 2964 Configuration
12983077
AH
2965 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2966 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2967 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
309e57df
MW
2968 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
2969 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2970 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
a9322f64
SA
2971 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
2972 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
2973 should never be necessary.
9197979b
SA
2974 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
2975 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
2976 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
2977 when the system masks IRQs.
41b9eb26
SA
2978 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
2979 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
2980 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
2981 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
cd4f0ef7 2982 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
a9913044
RD
2983 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
2984 on several machines and they hang the machine
2985 when used, but on other computers it's the only
2986 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
2987 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
2988 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
2989 motherboard.
c0115606 2990 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
a9913044
RD
2991 Use with caution as certain devices share
2992 address decoders between ROMs and other
2993 resources.
c0115606 2994 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
bb71ad88
GH
2995 expansion ROMs that do not already have
2996 BIOS assigned address ranges.
7bd1c365
MH
2997 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
2998 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
c0115606 2999 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
a9913044
RD
3000 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3001 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3002 this way.
c0115606 3003 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
a9913044
RD
3004 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3005 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3006 F0000h-100000h range.
c0115606 3007 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
a9913044
RD
3008 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3009 secondary buses and you want to tell it
3010 explicitly which ones they are.
c0115606 3011 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
a9913044
RD
3012 numbers ourselves, overriding
3013 whatever the firmware may have done.
c0115606 3014 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
a9913044
RD
3015 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3016 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3017 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3018 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3019 IRQ routing is enabled.
c0115606 3020 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 3021 or for PCI scanning.
7bc5e3f2
BH
3022 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3023 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3024 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
3025 please report a bug.
3026 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3027 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
a9913044
RD
3028 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3029 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3030 so this option is a temporary workaround
3031 for broken drivers that don't call it.
13a6ddb0
YL
3032 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3033 handle more pci cards
0637a70a
AK
3034 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3035 This might help on some broken boards which
3036 machine check when some devices' config space
3037 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3038 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
6b4b78fe
MD
3039 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3040 This sorting is done to get a device
3041 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3042 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
fa238712
YW
3043 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3044 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3045 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3046 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3047 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3048 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3049 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3050 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3051 or bus can support) for best performance.
3052 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3053 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3054 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3055 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3056 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3057 that hot-added devices will work.
4516a618
AN
3058 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3059 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3060 The default value is 256 bytes.
3061 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3062 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3063 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
32a9a682
YS
3064 resource_alignment=
3065 Format:
3066 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
644a544f
KMEE
3067 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
3068 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
32a9a682
YS
3069 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3070 aligned memory resources.
3071 If <order of align> is not specified,
3072 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3073 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3074 windows need to be expanded.
8b078c60
MK
3075 To specify the alignment for several
3076 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3077 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3078 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
43c16408
AP
3079 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3080 end-to-end CRC checking).
3081 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3082 the default.
3083 off: Turn ECRC off
3084 on: Turn ECRC on.
8c8803c5
YW
3085 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3086 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3087 Default size is 256 bytes.
3088 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3089 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3090 Default size is 2 megabytes.
e16b4660
KB
3091 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3092 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3093 Default is 1.
b55438fd
YL
3094 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3095 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3096 accommodate resources required by all child
3097 devices.
3098 off: Turn realloc off
3099 on: Turn realloc on
3100 realloc same as realloc=on
6748dcc2 3101 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
284f5f9d
BH
3102 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3103 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3104 port.
f32ab754
UCCB
3105 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3106 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3107 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3108 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3109 conflict with unreported devices), so this
3110 taints the kernel.
6b4b78fe 3111
e5665a45
CE
3112 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3113 Management.
3114 off Disable ASPM.
3115 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3116 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3117
7570a333
MT
3118 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
3119 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
3120 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
3121
79dd9182 3122 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
28eb5f27
RW
3123 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
3124 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
3125 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
3126 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
3127 unconditionally.
79dd9182
RW
3128 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
3129 ports driver.
3130
9d26d3a8
MW
3131 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3132 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3133 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3134
c7f48656 3135 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
c39fae14 3136 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
28eb5f27 3137 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
c7f48656 3138
1da177e4
LT
3139 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3140
39ac5ba5
TB
3141 pd_ignore_unused
3142 [PM]
3143 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3144 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3145 for debug and development, but should not be
3146 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3147
1da177e4 3148 pd. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3149 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3150
3151 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3152 boot time.
3153 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3154 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3155
f58dc01b 3156 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
e933a73f
TH
3157 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3158 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3159 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3160 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3161 and performance comparison.
fa8a7094 3162
1da177e4 3163 pf. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3164 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3165
3166 pg. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3167 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3168
3169 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
71cced6e 3170 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3171
3172 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3173 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3ba9b1b8 3174 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
1da177e4 3175
16290246 3176 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
de32a243
TG
3177 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3178 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3179
96242116
BH
3180 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3181 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3182 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3183 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3184 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3185 possible settings and some assignment information.
97ef062b 3186
1da177e4
LT
3187 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3188 { off }
3189
3190 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3191 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3192
3193 pnp_reserve_irq=
3194 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3195
3196 pnp_reserve_dma=
3197 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3198
3199 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
a9913044 3200 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
1da177e4
LT
3201
3202 pnp_reserve_mem=
a9913044
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3203 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3204 autoconfiguration.
1da177e4
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3205 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3206
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3207 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3208 Default is 21.
3209 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3210 may be specified.
3211 Format: <port>,<port>....
3212
c3cbd075
BS
3213 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3214 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3215 platform machine description specific power_save
3216 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3217 execution priority.
3218
3eb5d588
AB
3219 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3220 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3221 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3222 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3223 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3224
07fd1761
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3225 ppc_tm= [PPC]
3226 Format: {"off"}
3227 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3228
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IM
3229 print-fatal-signals=
3230 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
f84d49b2
NO
3231
3232 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3233 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3234 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3235 coredump - etc.
3236
3237 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3238 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3239
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IM
3240 default: off.
3241
c22ab332
MG
3242 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3243 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3244 panics
3245 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3246 default: disabled
3247
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3248 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3249 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3250 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3251 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3252 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3253 Default: ratelimit
3254
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3255 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3256 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3257
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3258 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3259 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3260 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3261
3262 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3263 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3264 instead using the legacy FADT method
3265
1da177e4 3266 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
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3267 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3268 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3269 [defaults to kernel profiling]
a9913044 3270 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
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MG
3271 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3272 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
c0fe2e69 3273 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
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3274 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3275 statistical time based profiling.
1da177e4 3276
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3277 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3278 before loading.
31c00fc1 3279 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 3280
a9913044
RD
3281 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3282 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
1da177e4
LT
3283 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3284 per second.
a9913044
RD
3285 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3286 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
1da177e4
LT
3287 (0 = never).
3288 psmouse.resolution=
3289 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3290 psmouse.smartscroll=
a9913044 3291 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
1da177e4
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3292 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3293
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3294 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3295
1da177e4 3296 pt. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3297 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 3298
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DH
3299 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3300 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
3301 removes hardening, but improves performance of
3302 system calls and interrupts.
3303
3304 on - unconditionally enable
3305 off - unconditionally disable
3306 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3307 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3308
3309 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3310
3311 nopti [X86_64]
3312 Equivalent to pti=off
41f4c20b 3313
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3314 pty.legacy_count=
3315 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3316 default number.
3317
7d2c502f 3318 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
a9913044 3319
1da177e4
LT
3320 r128= [HW,DRM]
3321
3322 raid= [HW,RAID]
e52347bd 3323 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
1da177e4 3324
1da177e4 3325 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
31c00fc1 3326 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 3327
011d8261
BP
3328 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
3329
3330 cec_disable [X86]
3331 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3332 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3333
4102adab 3334 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
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3335 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3336
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3337 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3338 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3339 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
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3340 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3341 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3342 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3343 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
3fbfbf7a
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3344 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3345 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3346 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3347
4102adab 3348 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
3fbfbf7a
PM
3349 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3350 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3351 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3352 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3353 This improves the real-time response for the
3354 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3355 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3356 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3357 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3358
4102adab 3359 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
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3360 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3361 process in one batch.
21a1ea9e 3362
a3dc2948
PM
3363 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3364 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3365 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3366 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3367
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3368 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3369 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 3370 RCU grace-period cleanup.
0f41c0dd 3371
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3372 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3373 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 3374 RCU grace-period initialization.
0f41c0dd
PM
3375
3376 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3377 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3378 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3379 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
90040c9e 3380 the rcu_node combining tree.
37745d28 3381
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3382 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3383 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3384 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3385 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3386 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
37745d28 3387
4102adab 3388 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
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3389 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3390 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3391 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3392 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3393 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3394 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
f885b7f2 3395
4a81e832
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3396 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3397 Set required age in jiffies for a
3398 given grace period before RCU starts
3399 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3400 rcu_note_context_switch().
3401
4102adab 3402 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
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3403 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3404 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3405 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3406 and maximum value is HZ.
3407
4102adab 3408 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3409 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3410 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3411 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3412
21871d7e 3413 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
d2af1ad7
PM
3414 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3415 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3416 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3417 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3418 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3419 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3420 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3421 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3422 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
21871d7e 3423
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3424 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3425 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3426 defaults to the square root of the number of
3427 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3428 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3429 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3430
4102adab 3431 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
3432 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3433 batch limiting is disabled.
21a1ea9e 3434
4102adab 3435 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
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3436 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3437 batch limiting is re-enabled.
21a1ea9e 3438
4102adab 3439 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3440 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3441 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
d40011f6 3442
4102adab 3443 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3444 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3445 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3446 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3447 prove do nothing more than free memory.
d40011f6 3448
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3449 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3450 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3451 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3452 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3453 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3454 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3455
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3456 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3457 Measure performance of asynchronous
3458 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3459
3460 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3461 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3462 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
3463 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3464 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3465 previously posted callbacks to drain.
3466
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3467 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3468 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3469 grace-period primitives.
3470
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3471 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3472 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3473 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3474 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3475 interference.
3476
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3477 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3478 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3479 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3480 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3481 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3482 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3483 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3484 a single reader.
3485
3486 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3487 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3488 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3489 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3490
3491 rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT]
3492 Start rcuperf running at boot time.
3493
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3494 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3495 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3496
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3497 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3498 Shut the system down after performance tests
3499 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3500 testing.
3501
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3502 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3503 Enable additional printk() statements.
3504
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3505 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3506 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3507 in microseconds. The default of zero says
3508 no holdoff.
3509
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3510 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3511 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3512 callback-flood tests.
3513
3514 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3515 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3516 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3517 test.
3518
3519 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3520 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3521 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3522 disable callback-flood testing.
3523
3524 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3525 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3526 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3527
4102adab 3528 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
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3529 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3530 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3531
4102adab 3532 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
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3533 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3534 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3535
4102adab 3536 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
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3537 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3538 in seconds.
3539
3540 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3541 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3542 primitives, if available.
dabb8aa9 3543
4102adab 3544 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
21b05de4 3545 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
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3546
3547 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
21b05de4
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3548 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3549 update-side primitives, if available.
3550
3551 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3552 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3553 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3554 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3555 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3556 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3557 they are all non-zero.
dabb8aa9 3558
4102adab 3559 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
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3560 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3561
4102adab 3562 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3563 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3564 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3565 test, hence the "fake".
3566
4102adab 3567 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
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PM
3568 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3569 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3570 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3571 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3572 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
dabb8aa9 3573
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3574 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3575 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3576
3577 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
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3578 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3579
4102adab 3580 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
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3581 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3582 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3583
4102adab 3584 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
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3585 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3586 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3587 during the rcutorture test.
3588
4102adab 3589 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3590 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3591 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3592
4102adab 3593 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
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3594 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3595 warnings, zero to disable.
3596
4102adab 3597 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
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3598 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3599
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3600 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
3601 Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
3602
4102adab 3603 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
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3604 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3605
4102adab 3606 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
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3607 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3608 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3609 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3610 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3611
4102adab 3612 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
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3613 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3614 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3615 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3616
4102adab 3617 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
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3618 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3619
4102adab 3620 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
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3621 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3622
4102adab 3623 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
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3624 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3625 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3626
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3627 rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
3628 Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3629
4102adab 3630 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
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3631 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3632
4102adab 3633 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
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3634 Enable additional printk() statements.
3635
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3636 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3637 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3638
3639 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3640 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3641
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3642 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3643 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3644 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3645 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3646 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3647 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
79cfea02 3648 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 3649
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3650 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3651 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3652 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3653 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
79cfea02
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3654 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3655 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3656 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3657 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3658 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 3659
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3660 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3661 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3662 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
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3663 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3664 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3e42ec1a 3665
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3666 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3667 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3668 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3669 to zero.
3670
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PK
3671 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3672 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3673
3674 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3675 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3676
3677 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3678 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3679
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3680 rdinit= [KNL]
3681 Format: <full_path>
3682 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3683 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3684
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3685 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
3686 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
86b59b6e
FY
3687 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
3688 mba.
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TL
3689 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
3690 rdt=cmt,!mba
3691
1b3a5d02
RH
3692 reboot= [KNL]
3693 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3694 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3695 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3696 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3697 [[,]f[orce]
3698 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3699 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3700 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3701 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3702 to be used for rebooting.
1da177e4 3703
46b6d94e
PJ
3704 relax_domain_level=
3705 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
09c3bcce 3706 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
46b6d94e 3707
1da177e4
LT
3708 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3709
cd4f0ef7 3710 reservetop= [X86-32]
461a9aff
ZA
3711 Format: nn[KMG]
3712 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3713 address space.
3714
9ea77bdb
PA
3715 reservelow= [X86]
3716 Format: nn[K]
3717 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3718 the bottom of the address space.
3719
7e96287d
VG
3720 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3721 during initialization.
3722
a9913044
RD
3723 resume= [SWSUSP]
3724 Specify the partition device for software suspend
2df83fa4
MB
3725 Format:
3726 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
1da177e4 3727
ecbd0da1
RW
3728 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3729 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3730 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3731 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3732 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3733
f126f733
BS
3734 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3735 read the resume files
3736
6f8d7022
BS
3737 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3738 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3739 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3740
f996fc96
BS
3741 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3742 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3743 present during boot.
3744 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
a6e15a39 3745 no Disable hibernation and resume.
4c0b6c10
RW
3746 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
3747 (that will set all pages holding image data
3748 during restoration read-only).
f996fc96 3749
0a7b35cb
MN
3750 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3751
0efbb786
AC
3752 rfkill.default_state=
3753 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3754 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3755 1 Unblocked.
3756
3757 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3758 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3759 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3760 blocked and the previous configuration.
3761 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3762 blocked and everything unblocked.
3763
1da177e4
LT
3764 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3765 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3766
e16fd002
GA
3767 ring3mwait=disable
3768 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
3769 CPUs.
3770
1da177e4
LT
3771 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3772
d2aa1aca
KC
3773 rodata= [KNL]
3774 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3775 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3776
605df8af
HS
3777 rockchip.usb_uart
3778 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3779 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3780 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3781 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3782
1da177e4 3783 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
f2d34fd9 3784 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
1da177e4
LT
3785
3786 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3787 mount the root filesystem
3788
3789 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3790
3791 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3792
cc1ed754
PO
3793 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3794 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3795 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3796
5c71d618
RT
3797 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3798 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3799 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3800 managed by CMA.
3801
1da177e4
LT
3802 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3803
3804 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3805
c60d1ae4
GS
3806 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3807 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3808 strict
3809 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3810 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3811 which is faster.
3812
1da177e4
LT
3813 sa1100ir [NET]
3814 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3815
1da177e4 3816 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
a9913044 3817
f6630114
MT
3818 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3819
cb251765
MG
3820 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3821 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3822 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3823 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
f6630114 3824
5307c955
MG
3825 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3826 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3827 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3828 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3829 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3830 1 -- enable.
3831 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3832 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3833
0cb55ad2
RD
3834 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3835 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3836 security module asking for security registration will be
3837 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3838 as if no module has been chosen.
3839
3840 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
1da177e4
LT
3841 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3842 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3843 0 -- disable.
3844 1 -- enable.
3845 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3846 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3847 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3848
c1c124e9
JJ
3849 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3850 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3851 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3852 0 -- disable.
3853 1 -- enable.
3854 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3855
cd4f0ef7 3856 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
1da177e4 3857
1da177e4
LT
3858 shapers= [NET]
3859 Maximal number of shapers.
a9913044 3860
1da177e4
LT
3861 simeth= [IA-64]
3862 simscsi=
a9913044 3863
1da177e4
LT
3864 slram= [HW,MTD]
3865
423c929c
JK
3866 slab_nomerge [MM]
3867 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3868 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
7660a6fd
KC
3869 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
3870 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
3871 layout control by attackers can usually be
3872 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
3873 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
3874 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
3875 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
3876 own.
423c929c
JK
3877 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3878
3df1cccd
DR
3879 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3880 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3881 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3882 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3883 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3884
f0630fff
CL
3885 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3886 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3887 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3888 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3889 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3890 last alloc / free. For more information see
3891 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
c1aee215 3892
1663f26d
TH
3893 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
3894 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
3895 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
3896 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
3897 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
3898 directories and files being created under
3899 /sys/kernel/slub.
3900
c1aee215 3901 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
3902 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3903 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3904 fragmentation. For more information see
3905 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
c1aee215
CL
3906
3907 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
3908 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3909 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3910 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3911 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3912 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3913 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
c1aee215
CL
3914 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3915
3916 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
24775d65 3917 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
f0630fff 3918 lower than slub_max_order.
c1aee215
CL
3919 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3920
3921 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
423c929c
JK
3922 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3923 See slab_nomerge for more information.
c1aee215 3924
1da177e4
LT
3925 smart2= [HW]
3926 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3927
d0d4f69b
BH
3928 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3929 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
3930 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
3931 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
3932 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
3933 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
3934 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3935 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3936 1: Fast pin select (default)
3937 2: ATC IRMode
3938
52c48c51
SS
3939 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
3940 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
3941 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
3942 actual hardware limit.
3943 Format: <integer>
3944 Default: -1 (no limit)
3945
9c44bc03
IM
3946 softlockup_panic=
3947 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
44a4dcf7 3948 Format: <integer>
9c44bc03 3949
3ce62385
BP
3950 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
3951 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
3952 is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
3953 which is the respective build-time switch to that
3954 functionality.
3955
ed235875
AT
3956 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3957 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3958 backtraces on all cpus.
3959 Format: <integer>
3960
1da177e4 3961 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
395cf969 3962 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
1da177e4 3963
da285121
DW
3964 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
3965 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
3966
3967 on - unconditionally enable
3968 off - unconditionally disable
3969 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3970 vulnerable
3971
3972 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
3973 mitigation method at run time according to the
3974 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
3975 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
3976 compiler with which the kernel was built.
3977
3978 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
3979
3980 retpoline - replace indirect branches
3981 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
3982 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk
3983
3984 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3985 spectre_v2=auto.
3986
1da177e4
LT
3987 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
3988 spia_fio_base=
3989 spia_pedr=
3990 spia_peddr=
3991
c350c008
PM
3992 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
3993 Specifies how frequently to check for
3994 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
3995 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
3996 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
3997 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
3998 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
3999 are ignored.
4000
22607d66
PM
4001 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4002 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4003 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4004 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4005 grace period will be considered for automatic
4006 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
4007 expediting.
4008
1be7107f
HD
4009 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
4010 override the default stack gap protection. The value
4011 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4012 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4013 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4014 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4015
f38f1d2a
SR
4016 stacktrace [FTRACE]
4017 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4018
762e1207
SR
4019 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4020 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4021 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4022 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4023 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4024 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4025 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4026
1da177e4
LT
4027 sti= [PARISC,HW]
4028 Format: <num>
4029 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4030 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4031 as the initial boot-console.
4032 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4033
4034 sti_font= [HW]
4035 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4036
4037 stifb= [HW]
4038 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4039
cbf11071
TM
4040 sunrpc.min_resvport=
4041 sunrpc.max_resvport=
4042 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4043 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4044 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4045 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4046 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4047 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4048 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4049 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4050 maximum port values.
4051
ff3ac5c3
TM
4052 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4053 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4054 Limit the number of requests that the server will
4055 process in parallel from a single connection.
4056 The default value is 0 (no limit).
4057
42a7fc4a
GB
4058 sunrpc.pool_mode=
4059 [NFS]
4060 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4061 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
4062 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4063 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4064 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4065 NFS server is running.
4066
4067 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
4068 automatically using heuristics
4069 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
4070 percpu one pool for each CPU
4071 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4072 to global on non-NUMA machines)
4073
cbf11071
TM
4074 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4075 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4076 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4077 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4078 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4079 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4080 improve throughput, but will also increase the
4081 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4082
1d4a9c17
BN
4083 suspend.pm_test_delay=
4084 [SUSPEND]
4085 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4086 mode before resuming the system (see
4087 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4088 is set. Default value is 5.
4089
07555ac1 4090 swapaccount=[0|1]
a42c390c
MH
4091 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4092 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
09c3bcce 4093 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
a42c390c 4094
91fec0f5 4095 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
fff5d992 4096 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
91fec0f5
JK
4097 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4098 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4099 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
fff5d992 4100 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
a9913044 4101
1da177e4
LT
4102 switches= [HW,M68k]
4103
e52eec13
AK
4104 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4105 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4106 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4107 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4108 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4109 in older udev will not work anymore.
4110 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4111 the kernel configuration.
4112
5d6f647f
IM
4113 sysrq_always_enabled
4114 [KNL]
4115 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4116 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4117 Useful for debugging.
4118
747029a5
FF
4119 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4120 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4121 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4122 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4123 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4124 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4125
1da177e4
LT
4126 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
4127
acc82342 4128 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
77437fd4 4129 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
acc82342
SP
4130 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4131 as the system sleep state during system startup with
4132 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4133 The system is woken from this state using a
4134 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
77437fd4 4135
1da177e4
LT
4136 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4137 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4138
f8707ec9
LB
4139 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
4140 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4141 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4142
c52a7419
LB
4143 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
4144 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
22a94d79 4145 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
c52a7419 4146
f5487145
LB
4147 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
4148 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4149 critical and hot trip points.
4150
72b33ef8
LB
4151 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
4152 1: disable ACPI thermal control
4153
a70cdc52
LB
4154 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
4155 -1: disable all passive trip points
ada9cfdd
RD
4156 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4157 value
a70cdc52 4158
730ff34d
LB
4159 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
4160 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4161 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4162 0: no polling (default)
4163
8d32a307
TG
4164 threadirqs [KNL]
4165 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
24775d65 4166 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
8d32a307 4167
2ca62b04
KRW
4168 tmem [KNL,XEN]
4169 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4170
4171 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4172 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4173 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4174
4175 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4176 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
37d46e15
KRW
4177 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4178 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
2ca62b04
KRW
4179
4180 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4181 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4182 to the hypervisor.
4183
4184 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4185 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4186 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4187 kernel based on different criteria.
4188
2b1a61f0
HC
4189 topology= [S390]
4190 Format: {off | on}
4191 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
f65e51d7
SL
4192 topology information if the hardware supports this.
4193 The scheduler will make use of this information and
2b1a61f0 4194 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
c9af3fa9 4195 Default is on.
2b1a61f0 4196
2d73bae1
NA
4197 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4198 Format: {off}
4199 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4200 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4201 LPAR.
4202
1da177e4
LT
4203 tp720= [HW,PS2]
4204
225a9be2
RA
4205 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4206 Format: integer pcr id
4207 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4208 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4209 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4210 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4211 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4212 are saved.
4213
9d612bef 4214 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
3e6fb8e9 4215 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
631595fb 4216
020e5f85
LZ
4217 trace_event=[event-list]
4218 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
d81749ea
BN
4219 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4220 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4221 also Documentation/trace/events.txt
020e5f85 4222
7bcfaf54
SR
4223 trace_options=[option-list]
4224 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4225 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4226 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4227 to echo the option name into
4228
4229 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4230
4231 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4232 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4233
4234 trace_options=stacktrace
4235
4236 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
4237 section.
4238
0daa2302
SRRH
4239 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4240 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4241 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4242 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4243 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4244 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4245
4246 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4247 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4248 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4249 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4250
4251 ** CAUTION **
4252
4253 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4254 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4255 the system to live lock.
4256
de7edd31
SRRH
4257 traceoff_on_warning
4258 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4259 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4260 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4261 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4262
4263 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4264 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4265 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4266
4267 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4268 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4269
fcf4d821
JK
4270 transparent_hugepage=
4271 [KNL]
4272 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4273 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4274 with respect to transparent hugepages.
4275 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
4276
d3b8f889 4277 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
395628ef
AK
4278 Format: <string>
4279 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
d3b8f889
JS
4280 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4281 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4282 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4283 virtualized environment.
e82b8e4e
VP
4284 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4285 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4286 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4287 can add overhead.
6be53520
DL
4288 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4289 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4290 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
395628ef 4291
a9913044
RD
4292 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4293 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4294 Format:
4295 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
1752118d 4296 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4 4297
b6935f8c 4298 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
e52347bd 4299 happen after console_init() and before a proper
b6935f8c
CK
4300 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4301 help "seeing" what's going on.
4302
f86dcc5a
ED
4303 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4304 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4305
5f8364b7
AS
4306 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4307 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4308 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4309 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4310 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4311 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4312 reported either.
4313
e3a61b0a 4314 unknown_nmi_panic
44a4dcf7 4315 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
e3a61b0a 4316
c4fc2342
CDH
4317 usbcore.authorized_default=
4318 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4319 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4320 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4321
b5e795f8
AS
4322 usbcore.autosuspend=
4323 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4324 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4325 is the time required before an idle device will be
4326 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
eaafbc3a 4327 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
b5e795f8 4328
fd7c519d
JK
4329 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4330 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4331
0290cc9f
AS
4332 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4333 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4334 (default = 65536).
4335
fd7c519d
JK
4336 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4337 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4338
4339 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4340 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
4341 scheme (default 0 = off).
4342
3f5eb8d5
AS
4343 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4344 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4345 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4346
fd7c519d
JK
4347 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4348 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4349 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4350
4351 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4352 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4353 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4354 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4355
40d58148
ON
4356 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4357
1da177e4
LT
4358 usbhid.mousepoll=
4359 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
a9913044 4360
933bfe4d
TJ
4361 usbhid.jspoll=
4362 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4363
d4f373e5
AS
4364 usb-storage.delay_use=
4365 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
19101954 4366 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
d4f373e5
AS
4367
4368 usb-storage.quirks=
4369 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4370 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4371 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4372 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4373 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4374 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4375 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
c838ea46
AS
4376 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4377 of sense data);
a0bb1081
AS
4378 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4379 bytes of sense data);
d4f373e5
AS
4380 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4381 device capacity by one sector);
5116901d
KR
4382 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4383 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4384 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4385 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
734016b0
HG
4386 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4387 command, uas only);
ee136af4
HG
4388 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4389 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
c838ea46
AS
4390 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4391 reported device capacity by one
4392 sector if the number is odd);
d4f373e5
AS
4393 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4394 device);
13630746
HG
4395 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4396 command, uas only);
d4f373e5
AS
4397 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4398 unlock ejectable media);
4399 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4400 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
21c13a4f
AS
4401 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4402 initial READ(10) command);
c838ea46
AS
4403 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4404 reported by the device);
eaa05dfc
NJ
4405 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4406 by default);
d4f373e5
AS
4407 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4408 bogus residue values);
4409 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4410 Logical Unit);
59307852
HG
4411 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4412 commands, uas only);
b6089f19 4413 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
d4f373e5
AS
4414 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4415 medium is write-protected).
050bc4e8
ON
4416 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4417 even if the device claims no cache)
d4f373e5
AS
4418 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4419
ac1667db
SB
4420 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4421 Format: <int>
4422 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4423 1 - undefined instruction events
4424 2 - system calls
4425 4 - invalid data aborts
4426 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4427 16 - SIGBUS faults
4428 Example: user_debug=31
4429
14315592
IC
4430 userpte=
4431 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4432
4433 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4434 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4435 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4436
6cececfc 4437 vdso= [X86,SH]
b0b49f26
AL
4438 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4439
4440 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
e6e5494c
IM
4441 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4442
b0b49f26
AL
4443 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4444 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4445 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4446
4447 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4448 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4449 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4450
4451 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4452 alias for vdso32=0.
4453
4454 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4455 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
af65d648 4456
d080d397
YI
4457 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4458 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4459
1da177e4
LT
4460 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4461 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4462
3afe6dab
AL
4463 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4464 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4465 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4466 level and then send out the event to user space through
4467 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4468 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4469 brightness level.
2843768b 4470 default: 1
3afe6dab 4471
81a054ce
PM
4472 virtio_mmio.device=
4473 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4474
4475 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4476 where:
4477 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4478 like K, M and G)
4479 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4480 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4481 request_irq())
4482 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4483 example:
4484 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4485
4486 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4487
cd4f0ef7 4488 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
954a8b81 4489 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
a9913044 4490 Documentation/svga.txt.
1da177e4
LT
4491 Use vga=ask for menu.
4492 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4493 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4494
a9913044 4495 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
1da177e4
LT
4496 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4497 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4498 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4499 mapped kernel RAM.
4500
3f429842
HC
4501 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390]
4502 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
4503 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
4504
585c3047
PO
4505 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4506 Format: <command>
1da177e4 4507
585c3047
PO
4508 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4509 Format: <command>
4510
4511 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4512 Format: <command>
a9913044 4513
3ae36655
AL
4514 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4515 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4516 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4517 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4518 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4519 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4520 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4521
2e57ae05
AL
4522 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4523 emulated reasonably safely.
3ae36655 4524
2e57ae05 4525 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
3ae36655
AL
4526 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4527 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4528 better than they would in emulation mode.
4529 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4530
4531 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4532 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4533 might break your system.
4534
3855ae1c
CL
4535 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4536 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4537 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4538
9ea9a886
CL
4539 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4540 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4541 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4542 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4543
0cb55ad2
RD
4544 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4545 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4546 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4547 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4548 ranging from 0-255.
4549
4550 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4551 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4552 Change the default green palette of the console.
4553 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4554 ranging from 0-255.
4555
4556 vt.default_red= [VT]
4557 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4558 Change the default red palette of the console.
4559 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4560 ranging from 0-255.
4561
4562 vt.default_utf8=
4563 [VT]
4564 Format=<0|1>
4565 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4566 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4567 newly opened terminals.
4568
f6c06b68
MG
4569 vt.global_cursor_default=
4570 [VT]
4571 Format=<-1|0|1>
4572 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4573 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4574 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4575 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4576 cursors, 1 will display them.
4577
3855ae1c
CL
4578 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4579 Default: 2 = green.
4580
4581 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4582 Default: 3 = cyan.
4583
4724ba57
RD
4584 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4585 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4586 or other driver-specific files in the
4587 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
1da177e4 4588
82607adc
TH
4589 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4590 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4591 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4592 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4593 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4594 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4595 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4596 corresponding sysfs file.
4597
d55262c4
TH
4598 workqueue.disable_numa
4599 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4600 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4601 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4602 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4603 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4604 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4605 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4606
cee22a15
VK
4607 workqueue.power_efficient
4608 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4609 they show better performance thanks to cache
4610 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4611 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4612
4613 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4614 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4615 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4616 power usage at the cost of small performance
4617 overhead.
4618
4619 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4620 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4621
f303fccb
TH
4622 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4623 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4624 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4625 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
4626 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4627 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
4628 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4629 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4630 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4631 impacted.
4632
0cb55ad2
RD
4633 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4634 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4635 supporting x2apic.
4636
712b6aa8
KS
4637 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4638 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
bb24c471
JP
4639 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4640 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
712b6aa8 4641 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
bb24c471 4642
c70727a5
JG
4643 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4644 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4645 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4646 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4647 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4648 domains.
4649
c1c5413a
SS
4650 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4651 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4652 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4653 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4654 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4655 nics -- unplug network devices
4656 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
1dc7ce99
IC
4657 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4658 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4659 the unplug protocol
c93a4dfb 4660 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
c1c5413a 4661
15a3eac0
KRW
4662 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4663 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4664 optimizations.
4665
8d693b91
KRW
4666 xen_nopv [X86]
4667 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4668 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4669
1da177e4 4670 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
a9913044
RD
4671 Format:
4672 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]